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Visualize Audio FX and Sample Submixes in Niagara
Introduction In this post I will cover some techniques I found useful when developing Niagara FX that reacts to audio, I made one that you can check out here: Equalizer FX – Niagara UE5 This post will cover a more simple setup, showing how you can create a basic Visualize Audio FX that can be…
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Simple Billboard Baker Tool
Documentation & Dev Log Check out the project if you haven’t seen it yet:Simple Billboard Baker You can get the plugin from here:Simple Billboard Baker Tool – Unreal Engine The Tool Introduction I recently picked up again a Vines Roots Generator tool I worked on years ago, to finish developing some features and went down…
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Simple Billboard Baker Tool
Content Plugin A Simple Billboard Baker Tool for Unreal Engine packaged as a Content Plugin, that captures and bakes to textures the GBuffers Layers.The tool works by simply positioning the subject actors in front of the SceneCaptures cameras and using an Editor Utility Widget to adjust some settings and Bake the textures. The tool also…
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Perfectly Remapping a Cube to a Sphere
A perfectly rounded sphere, with clean and uniform topology. I’m sure every artist who works with 3D models needs something like this at some point.We all went down the route of subdividing a cube multiple times, but that doesn’t translate to a perfect sphere: A good workaround would be to reproject the geometry of the…
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Linear & Smooth Step – Material & Niagara Functions
Intro In this blog post, you will find a brief explanation of how these two functions work and their application, I will mainly show the setup of how they can be created as Material and Niagara functions in Unreal Engine. I started looking into this because I needed a Smooth Step Function to use in Niagara and I couldn’t find a built-in node…
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Gradient Visualizer Material Function
Similar to what I’ve done in Substance Designer to visualize the Smooth Stepping Curve Function I made. I created a Material Function in Unreal Engine to use as a tool to visualize sine waves or any gradient I use in my materials for various FXs. If you think this could be something useful, you can find…