Also also, waterball :
Thumbnail :
22 Likes
wow this looks very refreshing! very well done!
1 Like
So, my laptop broke, so I had to wait a bit to get a new one.
Got a new one, so here’s the first thing I made to get back into it.
Inspired by the darkness spell in D&D
4 Likes
Made a little scene of exploding books to demonstrate player interaction using only Niagara.
BP is only used to record the position of the player, everything else is Niagara
15 Likes
That’s such a cool idea, I might want to borrow this idea to apply for something else at some point!
1 Like
Did a whole bunch of sketches testing the new GPU ribbons
12 Likes
Lightning sketch
4 Likes
Hologram sketch using GPU Ribbons
6 Likes
Trail sketch
8 Likes
My work got featured on 80 level
4 Likes
wow, they look fantastic! what’s new about them? is it just that now more of them can be generated, or are they also offering more features?
There’s 2 separate additions :
Ribbon renderer can be used with data from GPU Sim
Ribbon renderer can use the GPU to allocate and build mesh data (GPUInit option)
So essentially all features that were exclusive to GPU Sim (TextureSample etc…) are now available to ribbons.
It’s also a lot cheaper at larger particle count.
3 Likes
Hi Niels !
Do you mind sharing how you achieved this effect ? I’m hesitating between a ribbon setup or just a bunch of gpu particles 
.
1 Like
It’s a bunch of gpu particles 
1 Like
Good to know thanks
looks so nice! but doesn’t look like lightning tbh
1 Like
I get where you’re coming from, however
I think the best reference we have on what lightning really looks like on a human scale is these Tesla coil discharges. These come in two stages
1: What we would call feelers, fork of in a bunch of directions.
2 : Full Discharge, a shortest path has been found and now the lightning goes for a majority through that path.
On it’s own this looks boring, and not like it would do any damage in a game though.
Even though in real life it would.
So we’d want to spice it up a bit
Enter magical lightning (or the closest alternative) in popular media.
Sure it’s not actually really lightning, but it looks properly dangerous and it shares enough characteristics with lightning/
Lot’s of sparks, glowy centers, liquidy feeling.
So I went for something in between.
Obviously I also slowed it down a ton.
Hopefully you can see why I would make a lightning attack look the way I did.
3 Likes
sweet, thank you for the clarification and sorry for my ignorance 
1 Like
I didn’t work with the new ribbons yet. I was just wondering: What’s new/cool about them? Is there a feature which allowed you to do things which were not possible before?
The only latest thing I could find is this from the change log
In previous versions, there were two modules: Initialize Particle and Initialize Ribbon. The ribbon functionality has been merged into Initialize Particle.
Source: Unreal Engine 5.0 Release Notes | Unreal Engine 5.0 Documentation
Support for gpu compute sim, which means that anything that can be done on the gpu can now be done on ribbons as well.
For example texture reading, sdf collisions, large spawn numbers for relatively low cost etc…