Thread by @Beyond_FX

🧠 Hey #VFX artists! Here are the best @UnrealEngine hacks you're not taking advantage of (but definitely should be!). 🧵

Up first: birds! 🐦🐦🐦

https://twitter.com/Beyond_FX/status/1539408865632174080

⏺️ How to fix UV Seams caused by math. [🧵2/17]

https://twitter.com/Beyond_FX/status/1567350581001584640

⏺️ How to use @UnrealEngine's Dot Product function to create desaturation controls. [🧵3/17]

https://twitter.com/Beyond_FX/status/1580377846325051393

⏺️ How to use an Alpha Threshold in @UnrealEngine to create a fade-out effect on your particles. [🧵4/17]

https://twitter.com/Beyond_FX/status/1572767695627485184

⏺️ One of our favorite #QuickTips: how to create velocity-aligned particles that point in the right direction without moving. [🧵5/17]

https://twitter.com/Beyond_FX/status/1582491772697030656

⏺️ How to keep your emissive look the same regardless of the environment's exposure level. [🧵6/17]

https://twitter.com/beyond_fx/status/1534354604888137728

⏺️ Spruce up and organize your Material graphs in @UnrealEngine with the 'Named Reroute Node.' [🧵7/17]

https://twitter.com/Beyond_FX/status/1536864313830514688

⏺️ Triggering your #Niagara VFX with a Blueprint. [🧵8/17]

https://twitter.com/Beyond_FX/status/1541964717203267588

⏺️ Niagara/@UnrealEngine lets you spawn different meshes with one Niagara emitter! [🧵9/17]

https://twitter.com/Beyond_FX/status/1547038139507769344

⏺️ Radial distortion effects done quick in @UnrealEngine! [🧵10/17]

https://twitter.com/Beyond_FX/status/1552111548298104834

⏺️ How to create evenly spaced sprite rotation in Niagara/@UnrealEngine. [🧵11/17]

https://twitter.com/Beyond_FX/status/1554648300896325635

⏺️ Add User Parameters to your effects in Niagara/@UnrealEngine to quickly make different versions of an effect. [🧵12/17]

https://twitter.com/Beyond_FX/status/1557185010112905216

⏺️ Here's a hack for constraining curl noise to one axis in Niagara/@UnrealEngine. [🧵13/17]

https://twitter.com/Beyond_FX/status/1559721687494565889

⏺️ Make your particles spawn more particles. Particle-ception in Niagara/@UnrealEngine! [🧵14/17]

https://twitter.com/Beyond_FX/status/1585028524561375237

⏺️ Did you know you can use a Dot Product in @UnrealEngine to select specific color channels at runtime? [🧵15/17]

https://twitter.com/Beyond_FX/status/1575304429741408257

⏺️ Here's how to use Curves as LUTs in @UnrealEngine! [🧵16/17]

https://twitter.com/Beyond_FX/status/1570259802277773314

🔁 Retweet if you found any of these #QuickTips helpful! We love sharing education with #VFX community, and we post new quick tips every week! [🧵17/17]

#VFX #VisualEffect #VisualEffects #GameDev #GameDevelopment