Your complete course for learning Niagara in Unreal Engine 5

What you'll learn

Learn the basics of the Niagara Particle system, including industry standard best practices

Understand the role different modules have in controlling Particles, including Vectors and Forces

Learn the differences between the different Renderer Modules and how and when to use them

Learn more complex and advanced topics, such as Particle Collisions and the Particle Attribute Reader

Requirements

Some basic understanding of the Unreal Engine

Description

Welcome to my Unreal Engine 5 Niagara Course - Introduction to Niagara, here on Udemy. This course will take you from the basics of the Niagara UI and introductory template effects, to a good understanding of all the inbuilt Modules available to use, as well as covering more advanced concepts such as Collisions and the Attribute Reader. Over the course of 12 hours, all broken down into bite size 10-15 min videos, we cover everything from the UI, Modules, Vectors and Forces, Animation, Materials, Collisions, Data Interfaces and much much more. Each chapter contains many examples, full of handy comments, as well as a many corresponding video lectures that explains in full detail what is being done and why - so you're learning both the techniques being used and building up a base of background knowledge of first principal concepts, allowing you to build up your own effects in future. With industry standard practices from my 15 year career, including 5 years of teaching Game Art at a Masters Degree level, this course will cover all various uses of Particle effects and Renderers - this course will fully equip you to add some Visual Effects life into your realtime scenes in Unreal Engine 5.

Overview

Section 1: Source Files

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Introduction To Niagara

Lecture 2 Introduction to the Course

Lecture 3 Glossary

Lecture 4 Data Types

Lecture 5 Introduction to the UI

Lecture 6 Hanging Particulates 1

Lecture 7 Hanging Particulates 2

Lecture 8 Hanging Particulates 3

Lecture 9 Burst Mesh 1

Lecture 10 Burst Mesh 2

Lecture 11 User Parameters

Section 3: Module Breakdown

Lecture 12 Introduction to Modules

Lecture 13 Local Space

Lecture 14 Determinism

Lecture 15 Interpolated Spawning

Lecture 16 CPU vs GPU

Lecture 17 Persistent IDs

Lecture 18 System Properties

Lecture 19 Spawn Rate

Lecture 20 Spawn Burst

Lecture 21 Spawn Per Unit

Lecture 22 Spawn Per Frame, Spawn From Other Emitter

Lecture 23 Shape Sphere

Lecture 24 Shape Cylinder

Lecture 25 Shape Box, Plane

Lecture 26 Shape Torus, Disc, Cone

Lecture 27 Grid Spawn Location

Lecture 28 Jitter Position

Lecture 29 System Location

Lecture 30 Static Mesh Location

Lecture 31 Skeletal Mesh Location

Lecture 32 Initial Velocity

Lecture 33 Velocity Vortex, Inherit Velocity

Lecture 34 Force Introduction

Lecture 35 Linear, Gravity, Acceleration Forces

Lecture 36 Curl Noise

Lecture 37 Wind Force

Lecture 38 Aerodynamic Drag

Lecture 39 Point Attraction Force

Lecture 40 Line Attraction Force

Lecture 41 Spring Force

Lecture 42 Vortex Force

Lecture 43 Vector Noise Force

Lecture 44 Sprite Renderer - Sub UV

Lecture 45 Sprite Renderer - Cutouts

Lecture 46 Sprite Renderer - Alignment

Lecture 47 Sprite Renderer - Rotation Rate

Lecture 48 Sprite Renderer - Sorting

Lecture 49 Mesh Renderer - Setup

Lecture 50 Mesh Renderer - Initial Orientation

Lecture 51 Mesh Renderer - Update Orientation

Lecture 52 Mesh Renderer - Flight Orientation

Lecture 53 Mesh Renderer - Rolling Orientation

Lecture 54 Ribbon Renderer - Introduction

Lecture 0 Ribbon Renderer - Shape

Lecture 55 Ribbon Renderer - Spawn Trails

Lecture 56 Beam Renderer

Lecture 57 Decal Renderer

Lecture 58 Light Renderer

Lecture 59 Component Renderer

Lecture 60 Geo Cache Renderer

Lecture 61 Animation

Lecture 62 Particle Materials

Lecture 63 Auto Materials

Lecture 64 Conclusion

Section 4: Advanced Concepts

Lecture 65 CPU Collisions

Lecture 66 GPU Collisions

Lecture 0 Collision Data

Lecture 67 Location Events

Lecture 68 Death and Collision Events

Lecture 69 Location Reader

Lecture 70 Scratch Introduction

Lecture 0 Death Reader Introduction

Lecture 71 Death Scratch Module

Lecture 72 Get Has Collided

Lecture 73 Transfer Position Bugs

Lecture 74 Sampled Age At Collision

Lecture 0 Collision Overview

Lecture 75 Texture Sampling

Lecture 0 Mesh Data Interfaces

Lecture 76 Data Interfaces

Lecture 77 NPCs

Section 5: Worked Examples

Lecture 78 Snow Overview

Lecture 79 Snow Spawn

Lecture 0 Snow Update

Lecture 80 Snow Camera

Lecture 81 Snow World Height

Lecture 82 NDI - Multiply Many

Lecture 83 Mesh Leaves Overview

Lecture 84 Mesh Leaves Collisions

Lecture 85 Mesh Leaves Emitter

Lecture 86 Muzzle Flash Fire

Lecture 0 Muzzle Flash Additive

Lecture 0 Muzzle Flash Lit Smoke

Lecture 87 Muzzle Flash Smoke

Lecture 88 Campfire Flames

Lecture 89 Campfire Lights and Heat Haze

Lecture 90 Paper Burn Setup

Lecture 91 Paper Burn Particles

Anyone looking to learn about making use of Particle effects in Realtime and Games projects