Extra tip: If you like to enhance performance you can do so by converting the smoke clips from 4K (3840x2160) to HD (1920x1080) during the media encoder process.
Vincent, High value content is what comes to mind watching this video. Thanks to the TH-cam algorithm for bring this across my feed, and now I'm subscribed. Thanks for sharing.
just to add guys, the mp4 smoke fog overlays dont all have the best quality. mp4s are already compressed. so youre gonna wanna try to pick a fog overlay that doesnt look overly compressed in your viewport and play around with the opacity to get your desired look. so i think it is better to export it as a png sequence beforehand. also remember that the smoke overlays are at 23.976 fps so be sure to change your timeline fps to the same and export your render at the same fps. amazing tutorial! thank you!
Thank you Vincent! Making decent looking smoke and mist had been bothering me recently, and was looking into complicated work arounds with particles etc, but your example shows that simpler is often better. Great little valuable tutorial.
Really amazing tutorial! Thank you so much, I don't know why it took me this long to find your content. I know how much goes into creating these videos and the UE community really appreciates it!
awesome!! :) i'd watch complete toturial on making your cinematics. I really love to learn while making a project like this with awesome result. thank you for your work.
thanks for showing us this Vincent. I have been using the fog card technique for a while but the media player texture method is new to me. Depending on the performance it might be a better looking alternative to panning fog cards. The downside is that the actual look of the fog is pre-rendered and therefore baked down, unable to change the look on the fly. Another tool in the kit though :P
I agree, I come from a VFX background and Unreal Engine is a bit strange sometimes if you're used to regular VFX software :) But still I like it alot and Im sure Epic is listening!
the fog card's depth of field doesnt work correctly(especially on outline of static meshes). so i checked output velocity to apply dof blur, error occurs(depth fade node cannot use with it). do you know how to apply right dof blur when using depth fade node? sorry for my bad english.
you can use some kind of gradient texture and multiply it with the opacity texture. this is an important step i feel because some smoke goes off screen and creates a weird edge on the top or sides.
Fantastic tutorial. Great pace in general. i can understand you converting the h264 to a image sequence, as this is a delivery codec which would slow down the systen. But i also wonder how it would work if you would add a luma key on the the stock footage in any motion graphics app, then export it using a i-frame codec wirh alpha. like ProRes444 or cineform. These codecs only need hardrive speed and will not affect the gpu, like a h264 codec does. That would save quite a few steps in this process. but its great to see this version as well. looking forward to the next one. groetjes uit Holland 😃
Ive done something so that every time I try to redo the whole process, even with different overlays everything is always coming out really greyed out and not as emissive from my guess but I have no idea what ive done? It was working fine then I tried to replace the footage with a different overlay and ever since it just hasn't worked. any ideas?
Hey! Great tutorial! Im having an issue when I set my blend mode to translucent my texture turns to the checkerboard on my sphere and from there I cant get it to work in my environment. Any idea what could be causing this? TIA
Impressive! Thank you. One question. I have a substrate inside my scene, and the material nodes inside the editor differ from yours. Is there a way to make this work?
Sir, your bonus, at the end of this lesson, came in very handy. But there's a problem. When rendering with Ray tracing, the surface of the plane becomes opaque, how can I fix this?
Love the effect but man for some reason it’s crazy heavy on my project. Have a 3090 and when adding about 5 of these it started to bring thinks to a crawl. Is there a way to like bake this? So the media player isn’t constantly trying to render it?
Hmm I haven't looked into this, but what you could try is downsize the smoke files in encoder a bit. In this example we kept everything 4k, but im pretty sure 1920x1080 res would work fine aswell and will probably help speeding it up
Hold 3 on the keyboard in the node graph, it will create a 3 color constant, then just before your base color input or before your emission mix it in with a multiply node. Don't forget to make the 3 color constant a parameter ofcourse for material instance control
Extra tip: If you like to enhance performance you can do so by converting the smoke clips from 4K (3840x2160) to HD (1920x1080) during the media encoder process.
Thanks for this amazing tutorial. I come from C4D, is there a way to make this material double sided? Couldn't find the solution with a jpeg sequence.
i'm 1000th subscriber here. Congrat's...
Vincent,
High value content is what comes to mind watching this video. Thanks to the TH-cam algorithm for bring this across my feed, and now I'm subscribed. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much Bob! Im happy you enjoyed!
just to add guys, the mp4 smoke fog overlays dont all have the best quality. mp4s are already compressed. so youre gonna wanna try to pick a fog overlay that doesnt look overly compressed in your viewport and play around with the opacity to get your desired look. so i think it is better to export it as a png sequence beforehand. also remember that the smoke overlays are at 23.976 fps so be sure to change your timeline fps to the same and export your render at the same fps.
amazing tutorial! thank you!
Bro! One of the best tutorials I have seen in a long time! Vibe, To the point, Clear! Amazing 🙏💪🙏💪🙏💪🙏
Very kind and happy to hear Jakub! 😁Thanks!
Thank you Vincent! Making decent looking smoke and mist had been bothering me recently, and was looking into complicated work arounds with particles etc, but your example shows that simpler is often better. Great little valuable tutorial.
thanks a lot dude, it's really hard to find good tutorials that are not focused on games
congratulations Vincent, your content has a lot of quality
wow, the way you cut the fog with depth is awesome. thanks
Incredible and quality stuff!
Keep up the awesome work of these tutorials, I'll be waiting for more. And make uploading more frequent!
Thanks Abdullah! More is coming 👊😁
Thanks so much for this simplistic information. Greatly appreciated.🖥
Pure magic! Excellent tutorial in content and pace! Thanks so much.
Thank you!
Clear. Well explained. Straight to the point. Thx bru!
Thanks and no problem!
With this kind of quality content you will have a lot of subscribers. Good work!
Thank you Henri :) More to come soon!
Really amazing tutorial! Thank you so much, I don't know why it took me this long to find your content. I know how much goes into creating these videos and the UE community really appreciates it!
awesome!! :)
i'd watch complete toturial on making your cinematics. I really love to learn while making a project like this with awesome result.
thank you for your work.
Noted. I will see what I can do in the future!
Man, gorgeous!
Really nice high quality tutorial, im sharing this with everyone cuz u deserve more views mate, keep it up with the tutorials
Thank you so much!
This looks so real 🤩🤩🤩.
You are gem 💎…
Great tutorial, detailed 👏🏻👏🏻👌👌
This is beautiful! Nice explanation. You got a subscriber 😃
amazing tutorial and very nice way to explaining the content. thanks vincent boudewijn
Really enjoyed this UE lesson. Well paced and very informative. Look forward to more UE content. Subbed!
Thank you outtoplay!
What I needed! Amazing tutorial! Subscribed!
Huge help with lots of little take aways, thanks mate!
Thank you! Finally a decent explanation how to create these effects.
No problem R.G.I Movies :)
thanks for showing us this Vincent. I have been using the fog card technique for a while but the media player texture method is new to me. Depending on the performance it might be a better looking alternative to panning fog cards. The downside is that the actual look of the fog is pre-rendered and therefore baked down, unable to change the look on the fly. Another tool in the kit though :P
Thank you so much for sharing this technique. Very inciteful.
Great technique, thank you for sharing!
thank you for this Vincent! Such a clear explanation.
Thanks!!
Fantastic just what I needed for my animation
Amazing tutorial ! enjoyed the flow
Thank you. I'm happy you enjoyed!
This is awesome Thanks for sharing , didn't receive notification of your upload even though I subscribe to your channel and bell icon too
No problem. And youtube can be a bit buggy sometimes :(
this is an excellent yet painful tutorial. I hope these tools are streamlined in further updates down the road
I agree, I come from a VFX background and Unreal Engine is a bit strange sometimes if you're used to regular VFX software :) But still I like it alot and Im sure Epic is listening!
Thank you! That's very helpful and understandable
Hope to see more tutorials from you
Thank you Nikol! More is coming soon 😁👊
Awesome job! This will help me scene so much, wowsers!
Very good and clear tutorial, I'll going to try it tomorrow, thanks.
No problem Philippe :)
thank you so much dude you're a god
Thank you Alma and no problem! :)
Nice tutorial. Thank you.
Awesome tutorial and super helpful. Thank you!
No problem Kyle!
Great value !!!!! Thank you very much !!!
Thank you very much sir, excellent tutorial.
Mind blowing thanks man,i wohold to like wait for next tuts
great job man:)pls more tutorials about seqencer and cool efects:)
Amazing tutorial! Thank you so much! Very useful!!
amazing tutorial, thanks a lot!
Keep making such amazing videos !
Thank you Shashwat!
Great tutorial ! Really nice render !! Thank you for this ;)
T H A N K S!
I sign up!
amazing tut, congrats!
the fog card's depth of field doesnt work correctly(especially on outline of static meshes). so i checked output velocity to apply dof blur, error occurs(depth fade node cannot use with it). do you know how to apply right dof blur when using depth fade node?
sorry for my bad english.
Awesome tutorial! Hope u keep making more!
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks so much!
just subbed finally what I ve been looking for btw can you make stylised ghibli studio style clouds as well either way g8 easy to understand video
Great tutorial!
This is so amazing man
I'm still seeing a faint line where the plane touches the landscape. Is there a way to get rid of that?
You can try bringing the card more forward and increasing the depth fade or rotate your card to an angle
you can use some kind of gradient texture and multiply it with the opacity texture. this is an important step i feel because some smoke goes off screen and creates a weird edge on the top or sides.
Amazing.. thanks man.
this is exactly what I need!!! Thank you!
Really Good Tip! Thx!
Great stuff. Thanks
Life saving tip 👌👌👌
Fantastic tutorial. Great pace in general. i can understand you converting the h264 to a image sequence, as this is a delivery codec which would slow down the systen.
But i also wonder how it would work if you would add a luma key on the the stock footage in any motion graphics app, then export it using a i-frame codec wirh alpha. like ProRes444 or cineform. These codecs only need hardrive speed and will not affect the gpu, like a h264 codec does.
That would save quite a few steps in this process. but its great to see this version as well. looking forward to the next one.
groetjes uit Holland 😃
Hi Nam, I will take a look at the codecs you mentioned, seems interesting! Groetjes haha! :)
Ive done something so that every time I try to redo the whole process, even with different overlays everything is always coming out really greyed out and not as emissive from my guess but I have no idea what ive done? It was working fine then I tried to replace the footage with a different overlay and ever since it just hasn't worked. any ideas?
Nice Tutorial
Thank you! Good lesson, for some reason I had to enter billions of numbers in the "attenuation" parameter
pretty cool! thank you so much!!! :D
Hey no problem Nicky :)
This is fantastic! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
No problem! Glad you enjoyed!
This is amazing! Thank you
Thanks and no problem Cristiano!
Great tutorial! learned a lot！
Glad to hear! Thanks 人世界
Woow. Thank you. Keep it up
Hi! What's the workflow if you want multiple videos playing?
Really great and usefull ! Thanks !!
No problem Aurel! Happy you enjoyed!!
Thanks Vincent!
Hey! Great tutorial! Im having an issue when I set my blend mode to translucent my texture turns to the checkerboard on my sphere and from there I cant get it to work in my environment. Any idea what could be causing this? TIA
thank you browdy --- woo woo 💥
Thank you and keep going 👌
I will! Thank you Ben!
Amazing bro!
No problem bro!
when i add the smoke element media player texture the plain stays a plain what do
If I animate the camera, I can simply patent the plain to the camera it rotates wherever the camera rotates. Is that right?
Thank you for sharing .
Many thanks 👍
No problem paul!
Good Luck!!!
Impressive! Thank you.
One question. I have a substrate inside my scene, and the material nodes inside the editor differ from yours. Is there a way to make this work?
Hello, how do you get proper AOV's with clean alpha from UE5 renders?
Awesome tutorial. I created that fog texture you demonstrated at the end of the tutorial and it flickers. Any work around for that? Thank you!
Thanks a lot sir
Awesome! Thank you!
Amazing
WOW!
Muchas gracias bro 🦾
Np bro :)
good one!
Where did you find the background music???
Sir, your bonus, at the end of this lesson, came in very handy. But there's a problem. When rendering with Ray tracing, the surface of the plane becomes opaque, how can I fix this?
How to render media player? I can't see the smoke in rendered images..
Can u make a little update for version UE5.4?? The Nodes are not the sames... and its a little bit confusing for noobs as me. Thx!
Awesome.
So So So rhank you!!!!
Love the effect but man for some reason it’s crazy heavy on my project. Have a 3090 and when adding about 5 of these it started to bring thinks to a crawl. Is there a way to like bake this? So the media player isn’t constantly trying to render it?
Hmm I haven't looked into this, but what you could try is downsize the smoke files in encoder a bit. In this example we kept everything 4k, but im pretty sure 1920x1080 res would work fine aswell and will probably help speeding it up
Could you write or show how to change the color of the fog? Thank you
Hold 3 on the keyboard in the node graph, it will create a 3 color constant, then just before your base color input or before your emission mix it in with a multiply node. Don't forget to make the 3 color constant a parameter ofcourse for material instance control
Nice video the only thing i will complain about is the video being high res that things appear smaller on my 720p screen