Building advanced effects in Niagara | Unreal Engine
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ค. 2024
- In this demo, Chris Murphy covers the fundamentals of Niagara, Unreal Engine's new VFX system, and extends what begins as simple functionality into an advanced character disintegration effect. This presentation acts as a primer for new developers looking to create effects in Unreal Engine and provides a demonstration of the kind of advanced systems that developers can achieve in their own projects!
Please note that for this demonstration a simplified version of the character Crunch from Paragon has been used. However, developers looking to do this themselves can feel free to use any Single Material Skeletal Mesh.
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More videos like this please! 30 min explanations done by experts, much better than 1.5 hour long talks
What they should do is give those feature-film length talks internally or on a stream, then have someone re-record a 20 minute, concise summary afterwards.
@@secoif I think they should do those feature-film length talks as a pre-production meeting, and just get to the meat of it- practical stuff like this - no waffle.
Navhkrin agreed.
This times a million. but i think like others suggest just compress those live streams, and let us choose which one to watch.
Really depends on how much you want to learn
Glad to see my boy Crunch helping the community after his untimely demise
RIP Paragon I still get very sad thinking about how fucking miserable a company epic is for shutting down the only multiplayer game I’ve ever loved.
@@shiftyjim4138 I loved it until they changed the map. never got back into it after that :(
Yeah it was the only game I played regularly on my ps4. Every time I see Paragon assets I get reminded of what was and could have been :T
@@bruceleroy6551 Then why don't we make it something more. Kind of the point of the engine and the assets are free.
Chris Murphy is the best UE4 evangelist. He always makes to the point fast paced tutorials.
He needs to train the rest of the team, this is how you do it.
AGREE!
He also sounds cool while he does it! I was just looking through his old drone/render target video. Good stuff. :)
Please Epic, more tutorials like this. It is so hard to find Niagara tutorials online!
This is excellent in pace, length and content.
This sort of format is extremely useful to me and I'd bet other learning devs too
whats useful is a book not a video tshh waste of time
+1
Chris: That actually easy to do Me sweats nervously
Every uni lecture ever
@@thegiantguy Every guy explaining node structures that look like NY underground rail chart
your tutorials are honestly astonishing, and not just because you have possibly the calmest voice on planet earth. amazing delivery!
By far the most useful Niagra tutorial so far. The only way to start getting familiar with the nomenclature used in scratch pad is to see them in action.
Scratch Pad feels like it was the missing piece of Niagara before coming into Production Ready and I *really* wanted to try and represent why it's useful in this video. Glad that kinda came through!
chris murphy is excellent at explaining and his pacing is on point!
You had me at "Hello." Well done, really good vid. Nice and clear and well paced.
Awesome tutorial! It's so hard to get some clear information and insight on the Niagra system ,thanks a bunch! Keep em coming!
Wonderful video. I would love to see one each week. These are the things I wish Epic was releasing more. In depth tutorials about Niagra / Control Rig.
hey chris! hope you do more, you a great resource. Loved the one you did a while back
@@chronosschiron the last one he did on technical art was great
Love these tutorials and showing off the feature. Explained really nicely. Makes me excited to try out niagara
This was really good. The effect looks amazing
This is an awesome tutorial. Great educator. Keeping a good level of explanation yet not too slow pacing.
Chris Murphy is probably the best guide by now hes so calm and he makes stuff so clear
Awesome thanks Chris hope you do more of these, a Niagra concepts series maybe!
Really great video, cheers Chris
MORE MORE MORE. I would love to see a whole series on Unreal Learn.
Great pacing and very easy to follow. More of this sort of content please!
Awesome stuff! There's a lot to take in here, I think a lot of this is "easy" when you have someone telling you how to do it but I always having the nagging feeling that when trying to achieve something new myself I'm still going to struggle ... but all just practice I guess, this has definitely helped my understanding of some of the fundamentals of Niagara.
Really cool presentation. Learned a lot!
Gonna give this a go later today! Seems super fun and interesting to play with!
Damn I love this explainer. Thank you for taking the time to really make somthing this good!
Goddamnit, Chris. Why are you so good at this?
I really need to get back into UE, really fantastic work you people are doing!
I can't believe how cool it looks.
I saw it was Chris Murphy and i was like YES, This is going to be good!!!
THANK YOU CHRIS MURPHY FOR BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO ME
this is a treasure trove ! thank you
Chris, you're the MVP
this is overwhelming. i love it.
Stunning effect.. Gonna try this one
will be nice if you could show with an example with multiple Material Skeletal Mesh (head, body, hands and legs) ;O)
Excellent tutorial!
Amazing tutorial!!! Keep it up like this. :D
You are an EXCELLENT TEACHER!
Love it man, thank you very much.
I love it, Niagara VFX Tutorial Step by step.
So much useful information, thank you
This was amazing.
I like Chris tutorials >3 thanks
Very good Tutorial!
Wow. This is incredible. Now, I just need to understand… so much “WOW!"
Very cool, thanks!!
Excellent tutorial. I really hope they are working on a master Niagara class that we can take as an online course :)
wowww.. its amazing!:D
Amazing tutorial srsly, thanks 😁
Niagara component and sketchpad section is all clear but material implementation is super complicated for my level. I downloaded the character just for this purpose but I couldn't find the material worked on and tried to do stuff on parametered material file which is a beast of its own and failed miserably. Yet it is not a problem of this video since Chris is pure awesome.
Awesometastic. Raise your hand if you're finally starting to understand Niagara!
Really love the way Chris Murphy teach stuff always easy to understand. I hope that he has time to re-make game course from Udemy, it's has been out dated for a while since we are now in 4.25 and that course still in 4.14. What a pity for a great resource.
THANK YOU SO MUCH this is a life saver Could we please also get a similar video on the new chaos physics
Very Nice!
PLEASE DO MORE THANKS ♥
Its my first time seeing a USEFUL tutorial from the official UE4 that isn’t 2 hours long
Yazan Saoud he does another similar one for gdc 2019. It’s on an older version of the engine but it still works :)
we need more like this on Niagara..
That's great!
u are the best men thank you from Mèxico
Amazing tutorial, please create more for us.
In 4.26.1 I had to change in Initialize Particle>Sprite Attributes>Uniform instead of the default Unset, to get the same particles size, in case someone has the same problem.
Chris, explain blackhole theory to us.
Chris: "Oh, well that's reasonably straightforward."
Great stuff !
Please make more niagara tuts.
Thank you for covers the fundamentals of Niagara. Can you make tutorials about chaos destruction please ? Thank you.
Insane. That is insane.
I need to watch this 2 or 3 more times.
Thank you.
I miss Paragon :(
Why do we always have to get that one comment.
@@eth7928 because it's TRUE!!! Also that character hes using is a paragon guy..
Nooooooo paragon
@@AndrewBiggam They probably shut it down so they have the manpower to develop UE5.
At least everyone now gets all of the paragon assets for free :)
Will be cool in the new Unreal Tournament
super cool
Thank you 🙏 Wow!!
AWESOME tutorial. Please tell me that you have some kind of course or guide to work with Niagara, i would absolutely love to watch everything you create. Honestly, Niagara lacks of this kind of thing and i'm eager to know how to play with it
Outstanding tutorial! One of the best Niagara tutorials by far.
Question: While playing, if I move the pawn left or right, I am getting some heavy blurring on the attached particles. (The mesh itself is not blurring, only the particle system.) Moving the camera around the mesh doesnt cause the particles to blur - only moving the particle system itself?
Thanks for any tips
Wowwwww how UNREAL
Question, how would the material in Niagara be set up for characters who use multiple material slots? Most character use multiple material ID's for different parts of the mesh, but in the Niagara sprite renderer there is only one material slot.
Awesome
Please make more tutorials like this.
GREAT!
Very nice presented video and thanks for the super clear explanation and confortable pace . Got a picky question : Do you know , or anyone around here , how to make working translucent particles with translucent raytrace enabled ? Niagara sprites are supposed to be supported according to Unreal docs , but didn't find how or in what kind fo context , i mean , not expecting to use opaque sprites, right?
That is actually very straight forward! Yeah, sure xD
This is awesome. What I am wondering though, is how I can set one particle for every vertex of the mesh, and then create no more, and never destroy them. Basically just lock the existing particles to the vertices without needing to spawn more?
Awesome video. When I try implementing this myself, I seem to be running into an issue where I can not change the particle size. When I try modifying it in the sprite attributes the circles are always the same size. Is there something happening with the mesh reproduction sprite that is causing this?
Edit: Answering my own question, the sprite size is overridden in the update mesh reproduction sprite module. So I have to set it there
awesome
Just when I thought I was getting a hang of UE4 ! This engine is as deep as the ocean!!
This effect is very dope by the way! May try to remake it later. Does anyone know of any other good resources to learn the basics of niagra?
I know, i thought the same thing, UE4 is huge And takes a lot of years to learn, there is a channel called CGhow where a guy showcases some cool tutorials about Niagara , and focus on his basic tutorials first , then the other more advanced ones
CGHow is a good channel. There was a also a livestream on Niagara when it first came out in early access. Watch that too.
This is a bit overwhelming, but I'm guessing that is because I'm not coming from a Cascade background. If this was meant to be a 'ground up / beginner' tutorial, it might be too much. But for someone who is transitioning from Cascade, I'm guessing this is much more digestible. Either way, excited and impressed to see what the systems can do.
I tried to shoot for folks either coming from Cascade or with a little bit of a grounding in other packages particle tools. My apologies if I over shot it a little!
So cooooooool
Notes:
- Generate distance fields must be enabled in project settings for using DistanceToNearestSurface in a material (17:10)
Great tutorial! I have an issue where I applied the "Generate Mesh Distance Fields" and added the nodes to the main material. But I'm seeing no transparency when my model collides with another mesh.
Should collisions be enabled? Does it matter that I am using a skeleton model within the scene instead of a blueprint for the character?
Holy S#*+ that's cool! I can't even get the floor grid in Niagara's preview window to show up.
hey guys if u cannot see the particles add Sprite Renderer under the Render tab, and then assign a Material to the Sprite Rendering
Class
Thanks
I've been hearing people with your accent saying, "So," and I can't place the accent for the life of me. This is the 4th time in a tutorial (not you the 3 other times, yo), that "so" had that exact unusual for me pronunciation. So it's definitely a geolocated effect... where the heck did you grow up?
I'm trying this tomorrow!
I'm from Melbourne, Australia. Hopefully that clears up the mystery!
Excellent. Would really like to see UE tutorials have "click" waves so we can see what you are selecting. Otherwise, very hard to follow.
How do you pass in the material for your emitter as a user parameter? It seems like the fields in the sprite render module aren't configurable as to what their data source is? There's no "triangle" beside each field like there are on the other modules
Good tutor
WOW!!
God its soooo cool
CRUNCH BABY!!!. God I miss Paragon.
great tutorial. Is someone knows if there a way to sample morph target (blendshapes) with that technique?
Does anyone know where to find more good Niagara tutorials?