Unreal 5 Niagara Advanced Niagara

Unreal 5 Niagara – Advanced Niagara, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 4.85, with 51 lectures, based on 15 reviews, and has 380 subscribers.

You will learn about Learn Advanced Techniques for working with Niagara Particles Setup Data Interfaces to read from Collisions, RVTs, Render Targets, SDFs, Mesh Distance Fields and more! Understand how we can process data into useful forms like Flowmaps and Collisions Avoidance Learn to build our own modules using Scratch Pad to further extend Niagaras abilities This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone looking to expand their abilities using Particle effects in Realtime and Games projects It is particularly useful for Anyone looking to expand their abilities using Particle effects in Realtime and Games projects.

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Summary

Title: Unreal 5 Niagara – Advanced Niagara

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 4.85

Number of Lectures: 51

Number of Published Lectures: 51

Number of Curriculum Items: 51

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 51

Original Price: $99.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Learn Advanced Techniques for working with Niagara Particles

Setup Data Interfaces to read from Collisions, RVTs, Render Targets, SDFs, Mesh Distance Fields and more!

Understand how we can process data into useful forms like Flowmaps and Collisions Avoidance

Learn to build our own modules using Scratch Pad to further extend Niagaras abilities

Who Should Attend

Anyone looking to expand their abilities using Particle effects in Realtime and Games projects

Target Audiences

Anyone looking to expand their abilities using Particle effects in Realtime and Games projects

Welcome back to part 2 of this Unreal Engine 5 Niagara Course – Advanced Niagara.  In this course we expand upon the topics we covered in Part 1 and start to utilise Data Interfaces to import data into Niagara from elsewhere in the engine. 

By sampling:

Runtime Virtual Textures,

Render Targets, Collisions,

Textures,

Mesh Vertices and UVs,

Splines,

Player Data,

Signed Distance Fields and

Mesh Distance Fields

we’re able to create very complex motions and interactions – fully expanding the Niagara Toolkit to create dynamic and interactive Systems. 

Over the course of 7.5 hours, all broken down into bite size 10-15 min videos, we cover everything mentioned above and more in this advanced deep dive into vfx and tech art. 

Each chapter contains many examples, full of handy comments, as well as a many corresponding video lectures that explains in full detail what is being done and why – so you’re learning both the techniques being used and building up a base of  background knowledge of first principal concepts, allowing you to build up your own effects in future.

With industry standard practices from my 15 year career, including 5 years of teaching Game Art at a Masters Degree level, this course will cover all various uses of Particle effects and Renderers – this course will fully equip you to add some Visual Effects life into your realtime scenes in Unreal Engine 5. 

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Course Files

Chapter 2: Rain Interactions

Lecture 1: One Large Rain System

Lecture 2: Spawn Rate By Volume

Lecture 3: In Line Spawn Calculations

Lecture 4: Attached To Player

Lecture 5: Collisions

Lecture 6: RVT Heightmap Data

Lecture 7: RVT Heightmap Kill Module

Lecture 8: GPU Cost Comparison

Lecture 9: Landscape Data Interface

Lecture 10: Render Target Setup

Lecture 11: Render Target Height Kill

Lecture 12: Rotate Render Target

Lecture 13: Quantised Sampling

Lecture 14: Spawn on Depth Buffer

Lecture 15: Rain Conclusion

Chapter 3: Advanced Sampling

Lecture 1: Flowmap from Terrain Height

Lecture 2: Align Particles to Z Height

Lecture 3: RVT Material

Lecture 4: Edge Detection

Lecture 5: Align to Landscape

Lecture 6: Spline Sampling

Lecture 7: Spline Position

Lecture 8: Final Position Binding

Lecture 9: Spline Conclusion

Lecture 10: Mesh Tangents

Lecture 11: Mesh Tangents and UVs

Lecture 12: Flow from Textures

Lecture 13: Textures SDFs

Chapter 4: Sign Distance Fields – SDFs

Lecture 1: SDF Intro

Lecture 2: SDF Shapes

Lecture 3: SDF Combine

Lecture 4: Wobbly Material

Lecture 5: Capture SDF Render Target

Lecture 6: SDF Niagara System

Lecture 7: Distance Field Avoidance

Lecture 8: Scratch Pad Distance Field Sample

Lecture 9: Sphere Trace Distance Field

Lecture 10: SDF Conculsion

Chapter 5: Mesh Distance Fields – MDFs

Lecture 1: MDF Introduction

Lecture 2: Custom Structs and Enums

Lecture 3: Spawn on Distance Field

Lecture 4: Projected Forces

Lecture 5: Finalise Initial MDF System

Lecture 6: MDF Setup Linear Force

Lecture 7: MDF Avoid Surfaces

Lecture 8: NPC Setup

Lecture 9: Player Avoidance

Lecture 10: Time Based State Machines

Lecture 11: Fade Over Time and Conclusion

Instructors

Thomas Harle
Realtime VFX Artist

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