Good Day Everyone!
Let the fun begin! 
FINAL RESULT:
https://youtu.be/RoMJQXcjtJM
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Hi Everyone! 
My first update for this challenge! I decided I would destroy a little house.
So I went on turbosquid to find a free 3D model that I could adapt to my needs for the challenge:
3D old Tudor House by lucifer1101
I jumped into maya to add backfaces, some glass to a few windows, open some shutters and split the parts for different materials.
And after a week I was finally able to simulate the destruction based on a tutorial: 
But since it is for realtime I reduced the amount of pieces and decided that a lot of flying pieces would be a particle Meshes KUH-BOOM 
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I will merge all static meshes together and export as an animation.
I am currently fidgeting with EmberGen to make the fire, explosion, dust and smoke flipbooks.
I will send updates in a few days!
Cheers! 
Hi Everyone!
Alright, so here is another update!
I have done done differents flip books from EmberGen for my PS in Unreal:
I will send updates soon on the materials done in Unreal.
Cheers!! 
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Good morning Everyone! 
Here are last updates for the challenge:
I have changed the animation a bit, so it explodes a little more but with less pieces. I am planning to add mesh particles for more pieces. Here is what it looks like in unreal:
I then worked on the textures. I used the following base materials I found on substance share:
- Old Planks by Game Textures
- Old painted planks by Allegorithmic
- Stucco by amaraklov
- Old Roof Tiles by tamu
- Glass Dirty by Allegorithmic
- Stone Pavement ground by micho510900
- Old_Brick_Wall by Artem Mykhailov
And here is the result:
I exported the static pieces and the animated pieces separately. They both use the same texture maps and I assembled them in a blueprint:
Here is the master material I recreated from what I saw in a live stream made by Nick Seavert 10 months ago, that I adapted to my needs:
- I added the possibility to use a second normal map (Derivative normal available as en export in EmberGen)
- create and enable a slow down in the flipping speed
- use different dimensions of flipbook (ex: 4x4 instead of 8x8)
- use time instead of only particle relative time.
- I added the possibility to change and control the color in the particle systems
- and a parameter to control the Fade Distance
I hope Andreas Glad won’t be mad for the normals 
And here is a Bashing of the PS with the static part to give an idea of what it will look like. I still have a lot of work to do on the timing, the consistency, the shockwave, the embers the smoke and the fire. But hey, I was eager to share it!
I will send update next week!
Cheers!
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Hello!
Here is my last update for the Challenge, I still have few thing to refine but it’s almost there!!
I used the Medieval Kingdom Content environment available on the Unreal Market to offer a context to the simulation. I chose the Map #5 and changed a corner to give the mood I needed. Here is what it looks like so far:
If you have any comments, feel free to share!
Cheers!!
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Good Day Yall!
Here is my final Update!!
I have worked on a burned texture for the house that would appear slowly after the explosion trigger :
I have aslo reworked the fire placement and created a variety of size for fire and for the debris smoke!
I have submitted my final product with the form, but I also added it to the first post in this thread. I have learned so much in this challenge, and it was a great opportunity to experiment with the new EmberGen software (that has AMAZING presets btw)!!!
I hope you enjoy what you see and feel free to comment!
Cheers! 
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