Terrain Scan Shader 🔎 This material adapts to a... sphere mesh using Object Position and Radius making the scan effect seamlessly appear over other objects in your scene #gamedev #VFX #realtimeVFX #UnrealEngineshow more

A great way to cheaply fake lighting on particles... is using a sphere mask in world space. If you add a Vector3 to the Object Position node, it can be offset to any desired position #gamedev #VFX #realtimeVFX #UnrealEngine5 #UnrealEngineshow more

Using this Quantize shader will help limit the number... of discrete values from a full 0-1 range. Extremely useful when it comes to achieving a toon effect #realtimeVFX #UnrealEngine #gamedev #VFX #UE5show more

A handy way to cheaply fake lighting on particles... in UE5: Use a sphere mask in world space. Add a Vector3 to the Object Position node to offset it wherever you need #gamedev #VFX #realtimeVFX #UnrealEngine #UnrealEngine5show more

Fake volumetric smoke using a camera-facing mesh deformed in... world space, with an Unlit shader and no particles or SubUVs. Directional lighting faked with a dot product between a normalized direction and a normal map #gamedev #VFX #realtimeVFX #UnrealEngineshow more

Cheap Light Alternative💡 Using a modulate blend material you... can multiply screen colors and use depth masking to fake a light radius, make sure you clamp the result in a range above 1, Cheap and can work surprisingly well #gamedev #VFX #realtimeVFX #UnrealEngine5 #UnrealEngineshow more

Distorting UVs can be a great way to add... variation and achieve certain effects. For example, this shader pushes and pulls the UVs for a bulging or pinching effect. A quick way to add depth to panning textures #gamedev #realtimeVFX #UnrealEngine #indiegames #VFXshow more

🔥Burning Shell🔥 Enhance effects with depth and complexity! By... using Pre-skinned local pos instead of LocalPosition, you can attach to your mesh before any animation is applied. Full breakdown: #GameDev #VFX #RealTimeVFX #UnrealEngineshow more

Join us in this two-part series to discover how... to craft a gas giant using just UVs and noise! 🌌 First up, learn to generate spherical UVs and unlock endless creative possibilities #gamedev #VFX #realtimeVFX #UnrealEngineshow more

Traditional game dev warm-up for your brain from me... in Unreal Engine. Niagra with static mesh (simplified sphere) and distortion material (I call it space warp). Dynamic parameter to control refraction in material from particle system #gamedev #UnrealEngine #UE5show more

Add more variation to your panning textures by manipulating... the UVs for a bulging or pinching effect! This technique is a great way to add more volume and shape to panning textures! #realtimeVFX #UnrealEngine #gamedevshow more

You can smoothly mix gradients using Distance, Noise, and... Power nodes to create a dynamically controllable falloff with texture variation. Replace the Noise node with any texture sample for more customization #VFX #realtimeVFX #UnrealEngine #gamedev #UE5show more

🌊🌪️Created by Senior II VFX Artist, Gregory Oliveira da... Silva, this is a stylized water tornado material made in Unreal 5! It uses scrolling textures and cleverly applies Fresnel gradients to simulate anime-style lighting. #VFXFriday #VFX #realtimevfx #gamedevshow more

Yeet your slime using a pan! This idea struck... me many moons ago and I had to give it a try. Would you play as the dungeon lord wielding the pan? (each stir grants an attack bonus) #UE5 #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfxshow more

Crimson Desert has this surface shader.. It has a... transformative effect on the game visuals and it's seemingly applied to every object in the game. It doesn't look like tessellation, it appears to have artifacts from a screen-space effect. I believe they are using the height maps from every PBR material in the game to create some sort of screen space displacement mapping.show more

We can 3D scan even the hardest objects -... dark, low-contrast, and nearly featureless surfaces are no longer a challenge - all with full PBR material stack. Need this level of precision for your production? Let me know! #photogrammetry #photometryshow more

3D scans usually begin as triangle meshes, which are... great for capturing, viewing, and sharing real-world objects. For editing, animation, cleanup, or production workflows, quad-based topology can be much easier to work with. Our Quad-Mesh Retopology helps convert scan meshes into clean quad meshes, making your model easier to edit, optimize, and use across Blender, Maya, game engines, and other 3D workflows.show more

Want to make your objects shine? ✨ This material... creates a shine effect visible from any angle, scale or rotation while always facing the player without shifting with the camera! 📸 Nodes are intense so grab the pastebin in the comments! 💬 #UEFNTips #UE #materials #gamedevshow more

Tired of doing repetitive steps in your game over... and over again by hand? Unreal offers a way to script your own editor tools just using blueprints (no C++ required). Check out the video below 🔥👇 In this thread I'll explain how it was done #unrealEngine #gameDev #indieDevshow more