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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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Create Content Plugin
Introduction Sometimes when working on a project you might be creating something useful that you want to use again in the future, creating a Content Plugin is an easy and clean way to do that, an alternative to just migrating the assets from project to project. This is a very simple step-by-step guide aimed at…
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2D SDF – Advanced Shapes
Material Function Library UE5 The last piece of my 2D SDF library.All of the advanced shapes you can see in this post are coming from Indigo’s Article (+ShaderToy), please check it out:2D distance functions I’ve only recreated them in Unreal’s Material Graph using nodes, it was a lot of fun and a great way to…
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2D SDF – Gradient/Flowmap and AA technique – Material Function Library
Introduction In this post, I’ll show you how you can create a gradient from a 2D SDF and how it can be used as a flowmap in the material to warp a texture or in Niagara to drive the location of particles! I’ve also added a bonus section about Anti Aliasing, something that I haven’t covered before.If you haven’t seen…
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2D SDF – Manipulate Space
Material Function Library UE5 wip – migrating content
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2D SDF – Manipulate Space – Material Function Library
Introduction This is the third part of a series of posts about 2D SDF, check out the first one where I show some simple shapes and explain the basics to visualize them, and the second one where I show different ways to combine them!I think it’s very useful and valuable knowledge for every Technical or Environment Artist, but really for anyone that…
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2D SDF – Combine Shapes
Material Function Library UE5 This is the Second Part of a 2D Sign Distance Field Material Function Library I created for Unreal Engine.SDFs can be used in various different ways, in this case, they are very powerful and useful when creating materials. Here you can see different ways shapes can be combined.Check out the blog…
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2D SDF – Combine Shapes – Material Function Library
Introduction This is the second part of a series of posts about 2D SDF, check out the first one where I show some simple shapes and explain the basics to visualize them!I think it’s very useful and valuable knowledge for every Technical or Environment Artist, but really for anyone that works with materials.In this post, I will…
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2D SDF – Basic Shapes and Visualization – Material Function Library
Introduction I’ve been working on a Material Function Library for 2D Sign Distance Field that contains shapes and relative merging and manipulating operations.I think it’s very useful and valuable knowledge for any Technical or Environment Artist, but really for anyone that works with materials. There will be a few posts about this topic, in this first one, I will…
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Copy To Points Randm Input
Introduction Here’s a very simple but quite useful tip for Houdini, let’s say you are working on a landscape and you want to scatter some random rocks on it, in this post I’ll show you how you can do that! To achieve this we need to give a unique ID attribute for each object you want to…