Particle Effects

Foray into learning FX for video games

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imbueFX - Fire in UDK Live Class (November 30th, 2013)

This is by now pretty old, and in UDK, but there are a ton of good tips.

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I needed this so badly.

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Test!

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Textures and SubUVs

Digging into creating custom SubUV textures.  Here are two useful links I found!

Tiling

Contact Sheets

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Schlieren Optics

Demonstration of an optical technique that allows us to see small changes in the index of refraction in air. A point source of light is reflected from a conc...

Schlieren Optics

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Ryan Dziurgot

Surfing (Water) Reference

DoubleLeaf

Thomas Eley

Darin Walsh

Mr Fierce

Timothée Letourneux

Kevin Huynh

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How to import your own custom textures into UDK. Tutorial covers how to import a diffuse, a specular and a normal map textures.

This is for UDK, but it solved my problem in UE4.

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Some links to start off

Polycount

PS Textures Plugin

Unreal's Tutorials

UE4 Documentation

Fragoria FX Reel

Geoff Lester's Vector Fields

Max Script Vector Fields

Autodesk Area

Intro to Explosions

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November

This is going to be my little blog to keep track of my progress learning to use Unreal Engine, animation and particle effects for video games.  I'll put links to inspirational art and artists, documentation, etc. here as well as my own work.