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Mar 6, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Some video capture of testing new #Niagara features with combining with Landmass Fluidsim and Raymarched.



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Big shoutout to the Niagara and Physics teams @ Epic. Huge teams, but want to mention @shaunkime , Devon Penney for awesome engineering and support @SirWyeth, @mradfo21 for laying the groundwork in R&D and helping me out a ton

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