Particle Effects in Godot 4.0 Beta

Godot 4.0 brings some cool new features for particles systems. In this video, I go over the basics of particles in Godot and break down some effects I made with Godot 4.0 Beta 7.
Most of the techniques, except for a few new features, should work in Godot 3.5 too. There are still a few bugs in how particles work in the beta. I personally ran into some issues related to scaling curves and trails.
This is the first more art focused tutorial and I hope you like it. I'm still working on more programming and mechanics focused videos and tutorials for 3.5.
I used Material Maker for the particle textures. This free tool is actually made using Godot Engine!
Check out the Material Maker website: www.materialmaker.org/
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:36 Particles Introduction
02:05 Fire Effect
04:47 Rain Effect
06:14 Black Hole Effect
07:36 Light Magic Timelapse
08:31 Conclusion

[@stesproject]

These particles effects are beautiful

[@Terminator85BS]

Insanely useful tutorial, SO much good info in just 10 minutes! I'm new to particles in Godot and this really jumpstarted my progress.

[@Steveplays28]

Thank you! The particles you made look amazing.

[@thegameissimple]

Very nice job! Fire is especially cool.

[@nesterpilgrim]

Thanks for the video! Wanted to check on Godot's particle effect capabilities and this was perfect.

[@hernanf1006]

This is some really advanced effect development, thanks for the tutorial!

[@sanyi9667]

your channel is nothing but quality information. I love it

[@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz__]

now THIS is a particle system tutorial. best I've seen yet.

[@vojtastruhar8950]

This is amazing. Great job!

[@andrewgrinn3435]

Thank you, I was stuck on the trail particle this helped me a lot.

[@andreamassa2176]

Thank you! Great tutorial

[@mch43856]

This is amazing tyy!

[@shyhrk]

What the hell those are so cool! I'm not a programmer nor game developer nor artist (yet), but damn, it was so cool, it making me hope that I can someday create such awesome (game and) particle effects!

[@digiross7199]

Beautiful shaders, i've been looking for some like these since switching to godot. I really hope the devs come out with the officially revamped asset store for top quality stuff like this.

[@DestusG]

Thanks for this

[@MansonMamaril]

more particle tutorials in the future pls... like recreating other game's vfx... :D

[@theshadowgamedev61]

Good content! Subbed!

[@cheesymcnuggets]

I've always been curious about how to make these kinds of 3D VFX, I've only ever made simple bullet collision particles. I guess the next level up from these VFX would be the VFX for a lightning gun that tracks your target, kinda like Winston's weapon in Overwatch, seemingly random lightning that finds a unique path from the muzzle of your gun to the target with every strike of lightning/emitted particle.

[@KekLuck]

this video is an absolute gem! Thank you so much for sharing

[@natgazer]

Cool!

[@terrylyn]

Really nice looking effects! I have troubles getting the trails working properly and aligning them as billboard. The settings are spread in a few places and undocumented, no idea which checkboxes should be enabled, maybe you could do a tutorial how are you achieving the effect?

[@anarkyworld]

Excellent, we needed a tutorial like this to improve our world.

[@snippyboons]

This is awesome, but could you export these scenes so we can take a look at them?

[@WeatbixZ]

Very cool but i feel like the black hole effect should be in reverse??

[@sephiroththephoenix]

Nice video! By the way, how do you do the Light Magic effect at 0:22? This one looks high quality.

[@GameDevCompass]

It's the particle effect from the timelapse near the end of the video.

[@BinaryBolias]

Reminds me of a weakened light spirit from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

[@v44n7]

particle creator in godot 4 seems so damn powerfull, does other engine has such a powerful tool too?

[@Telokis]

It's a bit frustrating because your showcasing is great, I really want to replicate some of those things and adapt them into my game but you go quite fast over the configurations so I can't really copy the config into my project. (And the engine has changed a bit since then). Specifically, I'm trying really hard to make some kind of 3D magic projectile for which I'd want particles to leave a trail exactly like you're doing for your black hole. But the result is awful when I try to do what you did. I'm probably missing some things that weren't shown in the video.

[@rumariomusic]

Looks great. I like your compact and short videos. But your video is too fast and incomplete and I can't follow. Since you don't publish source code, the video becomes useless. I'm subscribing in the hope that you'll consider it in the future.

[@GameDevCompass]

Thanks for the feedback! I've released the source code for the previous tutorial videos on GitHub. I didn't think it was necessary for this video since it's more of a showcase of the particle features and doesn't contain any coding. The idea was just to show what's possible, not so much a step by step guide. It's always a difficult balance for me to make the videos as short as possible, yet informative. I'll keep trying to improve on this!

[@telmotrooper]

@@GameDevCompass I would also appreciate if you could share the project on GitHub, I'm having a hard time trying to implement similar particles in my game. Did you read any particularly useful tutorial / documentation when you were figuring out particles in Godot?

[@Xackery]

@@GameDevCompass I second this. I downloaded Material Maker and used your quick glance at the end to replicate the fire. I also repeated all the steps for fire emission previewed at start, but the material step was lost in the quick overview. :/