How to create Nasus Q effect? (Unreal Engine)

General Discussion
#1

Hi! This is my first time posting here, so if this is the wrong place I am sorry.

To the question at hand, VFX has always seemed cool to me but I haven’t really done any until now. I want to create something along the line of Nasus Q.

I followed the project L tutorial from CGHow but there were 2 main issues, first I can control the texture that well to perfectly have the highlights on the edges as it uses a stretched noise texture instead of something had painted. Second is that, after looking at the Nasus Q effect frame by frame, the effect pops up but the part connected to the staff stretches along with it.

So what i want is to create it using a mesh + some hand painted masks. I really have no idea how to make them move.

Sorry again if this is super obvious, as I really have only a very basic idea of how this works and only work with particles in Niagara before

#2

Are you looking to create the trail effect from just the swing, the impact when he hits something after using Q, or both?

#3

Sorry didn’t see this earlier was trying to figure out how things are done. Got to the conclusion making a trail was the way to go, but now i am stuck at the hit effect itself.

I wanted to try and do something along the lines of this Screenshot - 9df2d2ff77f8353b01b0c159ce4c8840 - Gyazo . And I am trying wrap my head around how this is done, cause i am not sure if i should use 2 emitters or just 1. Couldn’t find any good tutorials on it either as i am still too new to understand.