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Build Stunning Real-time VFX with Unreal Engine 5

By : Hrishikesh Andurlekar
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Book Image

Build Stunning Real-time VFX with Unreal Engine 5

5 (1)
By: Hrishikesh Andurlekar

Overview of this book

While no game would be complete without visual effects, the ever-evolving VFX industry churns out stellar digital environments that can make your games stand out from the crowd. Build Stunning Real-time VFX with Unreal Engine 5 is here to help you boost your creativity using Niagara to make jaw-dropping particle systems backed by the power of Unreal Engine 5—without a line of code. This handy guide for VFX artists takes you through the principles and concepts of designing particle systems and design workflows, along with the architecture of Niagara, Unreal Engine 5’s VFX system. Throughout the book, you’ll build a series of mini projects that will put your particle system knowledge to the test. As you advance, you’ll cover topics such as creating your own custom modules, debugging workflows, and controlling particles with blueprints, and conclude by working on two projects that will bring everything together into a neat package. By the end of this VFX book, you’ll have a deeper understanding of particle systems, improving your skills, portfolio, and the chances of being employed by studios using Unreal Engine 5.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Part 1: Introduction to Niagara and Particle Systems in Unreal Engine 5
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Part 2: Dive Deeper into Niagara for VFX

Local Modules and Versioning

Now that we are familiar with custom modules, we will learn about a different type of custom module called Local Modules. In this chapter, we will learn how to create these Local Modules (previously known as Scratch Pad modules). Local Modules are embedded in the particle system and do not exist as independent reusable assets (although you can copy and paste them and convert them to custom modules). We will also be introduced to a versioning system, which lets us manage different versions of the custom modules that we will create.

The topics we will cover in this chapter are as follows:

  • Exploring Local Modules
  • Publishing modules and versioning