Exploring Niagara Concepts and Architecture

Unreal Engine’s Niagara is a robust and versatile system for creating real-time visual effects. With its hybrid stack and node paradigm, it provides an intuitive and modular workflow for creating and manipulating particles, vector fields, and custom logic. The ability to expose variables to other parts of the engine makes it easy to integrate Niagara effects into your project, while stack groups allow for the organization and management of multiple effects within a single project. Whether you’re creating simple particle systems or complex fluid simulations, Niagara’s powerful features and flexibility make it a go-to choice for VFX artists and game developers alike.

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

• The Niagara architecture