Build Stunning Real-time VFX with Unreal Engine 5: Start your journey into Unreal particle systems to create realistic visual effects using Niagara
About this ebook
- Explore how Niagara can make your games pop by creating stunning particle systems in Unreal Engine 5
- Level up your VFX skills and enhance your employability in a competitive market
- Build various particle system projects to reinforce your learning and put your new knowledge into practice
- Brush up your vector mathematics skills
- Access and create namespaces in Niagara
- Add a Niagara system to a Blueprint actor
- Create a particle system with dynamic inputs
- Publish a custom module for your team members to use
- Create Niagara Scratch modules
- Enable your particle emitters to communicate using event handlers
- Control Niagara systems using Blueprint public variables
This book is for visual effects artists transitioning to real-time virtual production workflow as well as beginners looking to learn Niagara for games and other real-time applications. Game programmers, 3D generalists, and game designers interested in adding VFX for their game and metaverse projects will also find this book useful. A basic understanding of Unreal Engine 5, blueprints, as well as layout, materials, and lighting in Unreal Engine is expected.
About the author
Hrishikesh Andurlekar is the founder of Tplusplus Interactive, an Unreal Authorized instructor, owner of a Unreal Authorized training center and a Mentor at Mastered UK. He has been a CG Supervisor at Prana Studios and Pixion. He has been working as a contractor/consultant in Unreal Engine for 6 years with leading companies including Reliance Jio Studios, Monk Studios, Prime Focus and True Telecom delivering Games, Simulations, Virtual Production Solutions and AR/VR experiences. He has trained companies around the world through Epic Games. More than 3200 hours of 1-2-1 training conducted for major companies like Technicolor, Yashraj studios, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, TCS, Aptech among others.
