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Build Stunning Real-time VFX with Unreal Engine 5

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Product type Book
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801072410
Pages 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
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Author (1):
Hrishikesh Andurlekar Hrishikesh Andurlekar
Profile icon Hrishikesh Andurlekar

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to Niagara and Particle Systems in Unreal Engine 5
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Unreal Engine Particle System Frameworks 3. Chapter 2: Understanding Particle System Concepts 4. Chapter 3: Exploring Niagara Concepts and Architecture 5. Chapter 4: Building Our First Niagara System 6. Chapter 5: Diving into Emitter-System Overrides 7. Part 2: Dive Deeper into Niagara for VFX
8. Chapter 6: Exploring Dynamic Inputs 9. Chapter 7: Creating Custom Niagara Modules 10. Chapter 8: Local Modules and Versioning 11. Chapter 9: Events and Event Handlers 12. Chapter 10: Debugging Workflow in Niagara 13. Chapter 11: Controlling Niagara Particles Using Blueprints 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

What are Dynamic Inputs?

Niagara is designed to enable anybody to work with it regardless of their level of knowledge about it. Everything that we learned about Niagara in the previous chapters enables us to create relatively complex particle systems. However, it is pretty obvious that sooner or later, an artist will want more extensibility. This can be achieved by having property values that are not constant but are a result of some mathematical formula or function. Niagara provides a library of such formulas and functions, which we call Dynamic Inputs. Dynamic Inputs enable users to have infinite extensibility.

Dynamic Input can drive any value using different types of functions or graph logic. Dynamic Inputs can also be chained to create more complex particle effects than would be possible with just one Dynamic Input. It is advised to use Dynamic Inputs with existing modules whenever possible, rather than creating new modules to improve performance.

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