Diving Into Niagara: Intelligent Particle Effects | Unreal Fest Online 2020

Hosted by Arran Langmead, this session digs into how you can start building more intelligent effects using Unreal Engine’s Niagara VFX system. Over the course of the presentation, Arran goes over six different example effects, demonstrating how they were made. The session also covers getting started with some of the new features of Niagara, including sampling the distance field, particle occlusion, and reading information from other particles. Great for: VFX artists making smoke and explosions, and technical artists interested in building new modules and simulations. Learn more at