Unreal Engine 5 Niagara Particle waterfall Tutorial
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- A low cost CPU/GPU sim waterfall for the use in your games as background decoration for open world RPG's using Sprites with collision
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If people are struggling with collision for meshes and the particles are not interacting with the mesh make sure " collision " is added to the particle inside Niagara, also make sure your asset that you are using has a complex collision enabled to do that open up your asset tab by double " left " clicking it in the content browser once it opens in the details panel on the right scroll down until you see a setting named collision in there you will probably see " Project defaults " change this to Complex as simple especially if the mesh has multiple angles and shapes.
If anyone is still struggling with this I do have a discord you can reach me on and I will always take the time to help anyone but just remember I am human I am not a robot so be nice :) good luck with your projects and hit me up if you need help.
A huge thank you for this. No fluff, no 5 minute intro. Just condensed, easy to follow steps.
Glad it helped
A huge thankyou for this! I have been trying to get a decent waterfall in Unreal for the past 5 yrs without luck including buying assets - but this one video and a few hours, I have finally gotten a satisfactory result with this enormous waterfall with almost a MILLION particles!
glad I could help :) good luck with your project
This video is really cool, you're the best. Plain and simple.
I greatly appreciate the very kind and warming comment :) glad I could help in some way.
Great tutorial, got it working after reading your updated comment about collision. Thank you! Added a custom material in the render tab which resolved my transparency issue.
Glad you managed to sort it out thanks for the update good luck with your development hope it goes well please stay in touch and let me know :)
I am a bit poorly sick, so my apologize for the dead sounding voice and the lack of ability to think, there's a few settings I forgot to mention in this that you can change to make it look and appear slightly better such as size of particles and amount to spawn under the " spawn rate " adjusting these parameters will result in better looking water effects.
If for any reason you need extra help with this just let me know and if you would like to see more advanced and interesting effects using NIAGARA I can do that too just need a few days to recover I think :D
Have a play with the settings once you get it looking like what you see in the tutorial video to get the result you want! :)
Thanks for this! I hope you feel better.
@@itsAJ819 hot tea and rest but will keep doing my games and tutorials for you guys!
@@AMMediaGames is this ue5 only can I do it on UE4
@@repingers9777 if Niagara system looks the same for you in UE4 then yes it should work could be a slightly different layout in the settings though but will provide same or similar results :)
Thank you everyone who liked this video and commented I never expected it to get any where close to over 5k views let alone 6k appreciate you all ! :) thanks for the support.
Thank you for the tut , Straight to the point.
Most welcome thank you for watching it :)
The intense red text on the thumbnail proves that this video is helpful
I will make sure to use blue next time then :)
Hey good job! That's actually really cool.
Thank you appreciate the comment and feedback
Thank you sir, This is an amazing achievment!!!
:~) thank you for your kind words stay tuned for more Niagara tutorials
Thank you for the tutorial :3
You are most welcome
BaddddddAsss Thanks Brotha!
Great tutorial, thanks man!
Thank you sorry for the vocals was sick that week when i uploaded but glad it was good enough :)
@@AMMediaGames I made a waterfall with your tutorial which was really easy to follow. Thanks! Is there a way to also make splash effects like turbulence and ripples on the water below?
Excellent. I am linking to this in one of my videos.
Thank you, sorry I was really ill when i made this video so i struggled raising my voice but glad you found it useful :)
P.s I remember you were working on a 3D tour created in Unreal hope it's going well.
@@AMMediaGames it went okay! Hope you're feeling better these days.
Great tutorial, easy to follow, 1am me thanks you greatly
Thank you for the kind words appreciate it :)
@AMMediaGames performance impact is nothing to scoff at though... with a few in a scene, I went from 50fps to 10.
Although I'm not surprised considering the load
Would setting them to gpu ease it?
@@Keln02 it's the render bounds that affects performance if you have infinite bounds on the sprite render then it will impact performance as even when not looked at the GPU will still load it into Vram enabling limited bounds so it only renders the particles within view of the player will help massively. In testing I've not had any issues with FPS having lots of these in my scene all depends on many spawned particles you have the life of the particles and what material or texture you use also. yes set it to GPU rendered take the load from the CPU
Отличный туториал, спасибо. Только немного тихий)
Thank you for the feedback, I was sick when I made this video so I couldn't speak very well.
awesome ty
No problem at all hope you find it helpful in your projects 👍🏻
Awesome!! And now the question is how to like "interpolate" these particles to use its direction and than use the textures or generate, I don't actually what, but to use these paricles as a reference for "collision" and layer the more realistic effects above this.
When i get round to it i will do a tutorial on that but as you can read in my community posts my GPU died so just waiting for my new one for delivery then i will return to uploading tutorials as normal.
@@AMMediaGames Welp, an "electronics"...
Thank you so much for this tutorial, I've looking for this for so long. Can you make a tutorial about a proper water material for these particles and motion blur to achieve a better result?
Yes I can do that but bear in mind the more realistic water effect becomes the more costly it will be in performance so I wouldn't recommend using too many of the better looking versions in games they are okay for rendered cinematic scenes but in game could be quite performance costly, I will do a follow up tutorial on this for you and anyone else that needs it how to improve the look's of it etc. if you haven't already subscribed please consider doing so it helps me out a lot if you have already thank you :)
@@AMMediaGames Thanks brother, appreciate it. I'm working on a archviz project and I want to run it as a game so users can also walk in spaces but yeah, I know it's an expensive feature. any way, I'm looking forward for material tutorial. cheers.
@@KooroshGhotb No problem at all I will post on my community section tab when I have done the tutorial be interesting to see your project when it's done or close to finished good luck with it and I hope you achieve success in what you do ! :)
@@AMMediaGames Thank you so much. It is a concept project and still is a WIP after 5 months :D. but I promise, you will see it :)
@@KooroshGhotb I love seeing peoples work I was born in the 80's I will always love games and 3D content :D
W video
Wow insane bro, great job! I'm assuming you can make the particles finer for more detail right
Im doing a follow up tutorial on this on how to make it look more realistic and fluid like but this example in this video is a low cost to performance for games :)
@@AMMediaGames Hell yeah, water is fucking hard to work with
@@FatPasta I have quite an extensive tutorial list to get through then hey :D
@@AMMediaGames Waiting for the detailed water tutorial version ! Are you planning to do it soon? Thank for the great content !
@@romainfusilier8806 It's on my list but I am also developing 3 games and obviously IRL commitments too so I will get to it I've slowly been getting through tutorials and uploading them so keep an eye out for it once I've finished a few more things with my Sci-Fi game I will be back to uploading Tutorials :)
Ohhh wow… this is soo good… man … can u please share the waterfall u made pls? Very nice.
Which waterfall and thank you :)
The Niagara sample u made… it’s very good to be honest…
@@BCS_Official so you would like a copy of the particle effect from this video hope i understamd you correctly.. :) its relatively simple to make for yourself if you follow along to the video :)
This is a great tutorial with a great pace. Using 5.3 I have a couple of issues I can’t resolve. My waterfall looks great apart from it’s to transparent in my scene. With 5.3 what’s the best collision to set on a Quixel asset? In collision presets there’s a lot including WaterBodyCollision. Do you leave collision complexity on project default? Thanks for any help!
Please read the pinned comment :) also for the particle system and transparency in the texture for your sprite I would preferably need to see a screenshot as to determine the issue better so if you can join my discord channel there you can forward me relevant screenshots so i can take a look at what needs resolving.
Thankyou! will do! Noticed someone else had the same issue regarding transparency. Will join your channel 😊
Show Man.
what would you like to be shown? :)
@@AMMediaGames Here in Brazil show means very good. rsrsrs
@@Metal4gamer ar okay haha :D thanks for letting me know and thank you for the kind words :) I checked your channel keep up with the great work yourself!! :)
@@AMMediaGames Thank you Man.
I wish there was away to sell particle effects because they are fun to make.
You can sell them on Epic Marketplace, you place the effects you want to sell into a new project compile the project package it and upload to Epic marketplace as a seller :)
@@AMMediaGames I tried and got rejected 🫠
@@splendev3615 :( sorry to hear that you could always try Fiverr?
Hey man, amazing video. Do you think you could make a debrie dust particles tutorial, i wanted to add those when debris and rocks fall in the landscape
of course I can added to my list :) do you mean as the rock falls you want a particle effect of smaller pieces breaking off and falling away? or like dust left behind as it passes by...
@@AMMediaGames Both would be incredible, the second one is really interesting, but i was refering to as the rock falls a cloud of dusp apears to simulate the inpact (th-cam.com/video/qC5KtatMcUw/w-d-xo.html) like it shows in the demo at 7:46 min on the left side
@@AMMediaGames im using normal meshes as the rocks while simulating physics, so i was thinking of simply adding the smokes after
@@pedrorosa5782 If you could join my discord i can send you an example of what I think you want and you can let me know if it's close or not and then I can correct it and make the tutorial based on your feedback :)
@@pedrorosa5782 okay i watched the demo video I think I know what you mean now the effects you see in that video are chaos simulations involving fracture soi can show you how to do that it looks as if they used triggers and fracture simulations to achieve rocks crumbling and breaking away it looks also like they used Niagara for partlices falling from the stones on impact so yes i totally can show you how to add that in to your own games.
In terms of recording a movie sequence, the particles kick in from the start of the animation. Any way to have it running from the start? So far I have had to add a load of extra frames. Wondered if you know of an alternative solution?!
I'd need a little more info to offer correct advice on this.. i have a discord you can contact me on it will make it a little easier to troubleshoot suggestions.
if you turrn on the niagara fluids plugin you could do this with actual fluids and I would love to see you do something like that
Yes totally true problem with that method is the expensive cost to performance not everyone has a good enough computer to handle that level of processing and if you have multiple of these in your game its very low impact where as fluid sim particles are costly.
I already have fluid enabled and have used it so i will do a tutorial on that its just i wanted to show a cheaper solution that works well thats more accessible for a wider range of spec :)
@@AMMediaGames Is Niagara fluids plugin in UE4.27? Or what is comparable in UE4.27 for water flow? (Im looking how to do a shower/water jet effect that collides on Player. Your collision works, but the tiny dots dont look like water jets - long stream of water.) Can you recommend what to do? Ty
(I setup Niagara with long particles to look like water jets. But they spike thru my player before Colliding, and angling off.)
@@kenalpha3 You could use Ribbon render for a shower with the sprites and apply a water texture to the ribbon render I will have a look at showers and take a look at how i can replicate that.
@@AMMediaGames Ty for the "Ribbon" name to search (I thought it was called beam emitter). I'm from UE1/2, came back in 4.27, and still learning their new terminology.
So can you confirm that Niagara Fluids are 5x only? (Or was an experimental version released for 4.27?)
2) Yes for the shower jet Sys, I used 10x sprite spawn locations > Applied a water Material > it's semi transparent and has a curvature or something Node.
Hopefully Ribbon can make it look longer and better/flow around the body.
@@kenalpha3 never used 4 so not sure what features it has compared to 5 hope it helps let me know how you get on :)
looks realy amazing thank you for video tutorial , like and subscribe
Yes you can it's on my list of tutorials to do for you all so I will get round to doing it I have a lot of work to do, making games, tutorials, and working on some private projects etc.
but yes the in engine water effects can be used for a similar and more realistic look the only issue is the performance cost is far higher than the sprite based system that I used in this tutorial there is also a lot of 3rd party addons like Ninja Fluids I believe it's called but again depending on the specs of the system people are using it can be quite laggy.
Thanks for Subscribing I appreciate the support and welcome to the team : )
@@AMMediaGames thank you for your answer and help and for your amazing chanel
@@derakon4791 Appreciate the kind words and I am always here to help :) just give me a shout if you need me.
I cannot find the collision complexity option in the settings in 5.3
if you join my discord I can help you further :)
My particles are going through the collision object i did the "Complex Collision " but its still going through my objects. Some of the particles are colliding but others are just going through it
hi great tutorial, can we make this in horizontal way i mean i want to make a CFD on a montain with wind arrow is it possible, and can we make colors change wen particule touch mesh? thank you
you can achieve all of what you asked if you alter a few of the settings you can also change colour by velocity and on impact " collision " it's all in the settings inside the Niagara particle system. you can have particles spawn as shape mesh too so if you want them to be a specific shape you can also do that.
@@AMMediaGames thank you for the answer, i am new in unreal, so i will try it, thank you
@@AMMediaGames can we add arrows instead of particuls? or line thank you
@@AMMediaGames this is the model th-cam.com/video/Md_XTOzp7tk/w-d-xo.html thank you
This looks like a great tutorial, but the sound is way too quiet.
Please read the pinned post :)
The question is whether this particle can undergo accumulation and progressively increase.
and if it does not then the world will end ... tragic
Is there a way to make it look more like fluid flux and not the particles?
Yes at the cost of performance the process is called Particle rasterization / Metaballs
@@AMMediaGames I have checked it out, it looks a bit thick like mercury, can it be better more flowing like water?
Thank you! Excellent tutorial. I only have the problem that the particles are transparent, I followed everything step by step, but I can't find the fault: C
What version of Unreal Engine are you running? :) also what settings are you running in the engine, low, medium, high, ultra or cinematic?? :)
@@AMMediaGames
Thanks for answering!
I have version 5.1 and the epic configuration. :D
@@mavega3d can you send me two screenshots of the the issue and your particle settings to my email address or join the discord ? :)
@@AMMediaGames Ready! I already sent you the screenshots on discord, thank you very much!
@@mavega3d Thanks for doing that I've seen it and we will figure it out :)
hi, have you tried UE 5.3 3d liquid water hose ??? is it doable with it ?
Yes you could use that but the performance would be more demanding on GPU/CPU depending what you use for the simulation.
Can you make a quick example tutorial please?!!!
Hello, problem with collision solve for me " properties Sim Target from CPU to GPUCompute Sim" (sorry for my english)
Can change to gpu simulation.. :) Your English is better than some English people i know so dont worry lol 😆
KSI is that you?
lol
How do you make the waterfall bigger?
You adjust the shape location size inside the particle system settings
@@AMMediaGames Thank you very much for the tutorial and the help. wish you success.
I created multiple waterfalls and followed exaclty the steps but it still goes right through my meshes. The assets Im using comes from Quixel and does not have a "complex collision" box to tick. Im using Unreal Engine 5.1.
Open the asset by double clicking it in the content browser on the details panel on the right side if you scroll down you will see collision set to project default you can change collision there.
Is it the " Collision Presets"?
@@AMMediaGames
@@PutraMahawangsa so the asset is the mesh you are using so when you press ctrl and soacebar to ipen the content browser double click the asset in there when it opens inside the asset detail panel on the right side scroll down until you see collision settings then a small drop down box that says project default change that to complex as simple you should see a blue coloured collision mesh drawn over the model in the window.
OH I found it! It works! pretty confusing coz "Collision" has two tabs. One is when u click the mesh in details panel. Apparently, there is a 2nd step which is to click on the mesh again under "Static Mesh" tab wic will bring you to the correct "Collision" tab to edit. needs to be clearer next time :D
@@PutraMahawangsa glad for you have fun experimenting 😀
Do you know how restarize particles to look like water?
Create a particle system in the Content Browser by right-clicking in an empty space and selecting "Particle System" from the context menu.
Open the particle system by double-clicking on it.
In the Details panel, scroll down to the Rendering section and expand it.
Under the Rendering section, find the "Render" drop-down menu and select "TypeDataModule".
In the TypeDataModule section, find the "RenderMode" drop-down menu and select "TypeDataModule".
Under the TypeDataModule section, find the "RenderGeometry" drop-down menu and select "TypeDataModule".
In the TypeDataModule section, find the "RenderGeometry" drop-down menu and select "Sprite".
In the TypeDataModule section, find the "RenderSortMode" drop-down menu and select "ProjectedDistance".
Save the particle system.
Drag and drop the particle system into your level.
In the Details panel for the particle system, scroll down to the "Advanced" section and expand it.
Under the Advanced section, find the "SortingPolicy" drop-down menu and select "SortAlongAxis".
Under the SortingPolicy section, find the "SortAxis" drop-down menu and select the axis along which you want to sort the particles.
Play the level and the particles should be rasterized. You can adjust the size, shape, and behavior of the particles in the particle system's settings to achieve the desired effect.
Hope this helps :)
@@AMMediaGames Thanks I will test
Here is very quiet sound(
But video still useful, thanks!1:D
I was very ill when recording this was difficult to talk loudly :) but thanks for the feedback
@@AMMediaGames ow, best health you) I'll be waiting for new videos!1
ow.2 it was 4 month ago)
@@rofie_ipr Yes I am better now thank you :) and there's lots of new videos out for Unreal Engine and some for Blender too :)
1:07 cof won a subscriber here..lol.. stay zen.
I've been a bit ill lol and thank you for subbing appreciate it
@@AMMediaGames Glad to hear about your recovering !
@@zenmastera.i.4308 thanks you know how we get a bit run down over doing things in life so yes im mending well and back at making my games and tutorials for you guys! :)
Can I make a transparent waterfall by following this tutorial?
You can make whatever you like the only limit is your imagination.
@@AMMediaGames awesome! I'll give it a try.
@@bonv4787 No problem if you need any more help and you are subscribed to the channel there is a Discord server setup where you can post for help etc.
@@AMMediaGames thanks for letting me know :) I have subscribed to your channel!
Where we add the material?
You can add a material to Sprite Render just make sure you use a sprite compatible material as your water texture.
great tutorial but please stop coughing into the mic
Usually what happens when someone is sick/ill but still goes out their way spending their own time to record because someone asked for help with particles. :)
Can we add a material to this for it to look like water
You can try adding a material yes, you can also use fluid simulations enabled through plugins or this and a plane with a fluid material on it then use a Noise and Panner node to animate the water moving.
@@AMMediaGames Ohh man thats cool trying it now Thanks a lot
followed step by step and my collisions dont work! No idea why
Version of Unreal you are using?... also have you made sure the objects that you want the particles to collide with also have collision whether that be simple or complex etc? the particles will only collide with an object that has a collision enabled if for any reason the particles are not colliding then most cases it's down to there being no collision mesh around the " Rock/Wall/Stones" that are placed in the scene. also make sure collision is added in the particle system.
Maybe you know,can you tell me what to do if water is not rendered?
Its difficult to say as there are a few reasons but try looking at your bounds settings for the particles, theres Gpu sim, fixed bounds and dynamic bounds if you set it to fixed bounds just below are some size parameters adjust that to 100 x 100 x 100 , default is usually -100 x -100 x -100
@@AMMediaGames I'm sorry, I forgot to clarify.
I have a problem with water that's like a lake. The waterfall itself is rendering great. Not a single ohero is visible in the rendering.
@@user-bf7xz4ri7f in console type r.water.waterinfo.rendermethod 2
@@AMMediaGames Thank you so much, everything works, you are the best!!!
@@user-bf7xz4ri7f You are most welcome glad we fixed it good luck with your project! :)
I did the same as the vieo mine is without collision
make sure the objects you want it to collide with have collision if they have collision and you follow the steps it will work :)
@@AMMediaGames thank you very much for the answer, I will check it out :)
@@xgameplay. i have a discord channel so if you still struggle getting the collision to work i am happy to look into this further with you via screenshots or screen share :) let me know how you get on.
Can’t get collision to work with my mesh…particle go right through
In order to help you i need a little more information than that :)
What type of mesh are you using?
has it got collision enabled?
does the particle have collision enabled?
@@AMMediaGames a mega scans asset…yes on collision on both…if I add a sphere…the particles will go around the sphere and through the mega scans rock …
@@SuperMachead1 Have you opened up the asset and added collision for the megascan mesh? :) if you are not sure how to do that you can join the discord and I will screenshare for you so you can copy me if you do know how to do that then let me know how you get on.
@@AMMediaGames yes I added capsules….which really doesn’t follow the contour of the cliff face 🙁
Shouldn’t megascan assets come in with collision?
collition is not working
Make sure the mesh you are wanting the particles to collide with have collision set up :)
@@AMMediaGames i tried still issues
@@karthikuk09 in order to troubleshoot the issue i will need more details.
You can reach out to me on discord with screenshots so i can read the settings you are using 👌 👍🏻
@@AMMediaGames thnks bro,Discord id
@@karthikuk09 discord link is on my youtube main page in the " about " Tab
why UE5 doesnt have good water or fire simulation system, niagara is so bad
It does as of 5.4 latest version has a very good smoke, water and fire particle system.