Creating Visual Effects with Niagara Fluids | Unreal Fest 2023

Looking to create realistic fire, water, and smoke in UE5? This session is for you!
Niagara Fluids enables artists to easily author complex volumetric simulations such as fire, water, and smoke in Unreal Engine 5. Newer work leverages compact and efficient Sparse Volume Textures for caching to make real-time playback possible. Rendering with Heterogeneous Volume realistically integrates these sparse volumetric assets into your scene while giving full control over environment lighting.
In this session, you’ll learn how to adapt this powerful new workflow to your cinematic pipeline.
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[@RedefineFX]

Awesome, thanks for the great tips.

[@MagiaJepaint]

Qué emoción! Visualizo un Futuro Próspero. 🧙‍♂

[@John-cz7fo]

Going to try these out

[@aestgav]

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

[@quintonconoly]

Nice

[@T1mothyTee]

What is more resource intensive? Using Niagra fluids system, or a VDB imported from emberGen?

[@importon]

You guys need to make optimization tools for fluids. for example if I have a vdb sequence I should be able to fade between 2 vdb "frames" easily kind of like how you can fade between frames of a flipbook for a frame interpolation effect.

[@jazznezzz]

Great updates! Is there a way to calculate the proper scale and position of a Heterogenous Volume so it aligns with a specific actor (that was used as a source for pyro sim in external DCC instead of Niagara Fluids)? Right now the pivot points/scale of the Heterogenous Volume seem arbitrarily calculated based on the input SVT texture. Or is there something I'm missing?

[@devonpenney272]

That'll be fixed in an upcoming release.

[@madghost999]

Amazing, UE is future and I have 3060Ti, is it good enough to play with Fluid?

[@T1mothyTee]

I cant see the static mesh option to add a mesh to emit from in the editor

[@FrostBite87]

Is there a community I could join to learn more about UE 5? or learn from others? I am Completely new to this and UE 5, but would like to get into these tools eventually once I got the fundamentals down.

[@nkthitiwat]

No on explain about Niagara Fluids like flooding on large area 😥

[@bi6ve6ek6]

@12:23 i dont have this option

[@luvs_2k4]

Please add support of nanite to Apple M1 chip also, if possible

[@Chocoronat]

Great work y'all, can we get AI voices, please

[@TeeTeeNet]

“You know”, not really yet, that’s why I’m watching this.

[@JustPablo5000]

Is that Fortnite music?

[@sarkamari]

"epic" stuff by Epic games.