You're reading from Build Stunning Real-time VFX with Unreal Engine 5 Start your journey into Unreal particle systems to create realistic visual effects using Niagara

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801072410

Length 312 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Scratch

Tools

Unreal

Concepts

Game Design

Author (1):

Hrishikesh Andurlekar

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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 FREE CHAPTER

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

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The Niagara Editor

As with every asset type in Unreal, we need to double-click on the asset in the Content Browser to open the appropriate editor. This opens the Niagara Editor for that emitter, as shown in Figure 4.7.

Let us understand the various parts of the editor.

There are ten key areas in this editor:

Toolbar
The Preview panel
The Parameters panel
The System Overview panel
The Local Modules panel
The Selection panel
The Timeline panel
The Curves panel
The User Parameters panel
The Niagara Log panel

We will mostly be working with the Toolbar, the Preview panel, the System Overview panel, the Selection panel, and the Timeline panel at the beginning and use the other panels as we go into advanced topics throughout the book. Let us see a few of these panels in detail.

Figure 4.7: The Niagara Editor