Hi everyone,
I wanted to share an open-source plugin I put together for Unreal Engine: 
Niagara Destruction Driver
The Problem: Chaos Fracture tools are great for creating destructible geometry in the editor, but the chaos physics runtime can be too expensive on the CPU to drive a lot of cosmetic destruction of props in your scene.
The Solution: Niagara Destruction Driver turns CHAOS destructibles (Geometry Collection assets) into very performant GPU simulated destructible static meshes driven by Niagara particles.
SETUP + USAGE
getting started info in the github README.
Under the Hood
(can’t add architecture diagram since I’m a new user… but it’s up on github)
Under the hood the plugin uses a niagara system to simulate the physics of the fragments (bones) on the GPU, write their transforms to render targets, and finally a vertex shader to constrain the vertices of a specific fragment to its respective bone using the render targets.
Next Steps
- There’s a rough roadmap up on the github README.
- Hit me up on here or on twitter (@eanticev) if you’d like to contribute.
