[Question] Ground/Sand burrow effect help?

Technical & Engine Help
#1

Hi everyone, one simple question.

Currently, I am trying to make a realistic burrow up effect, like the one in this clip, at 1:47.Monster_Hunter_4

I had found so many tutorial on stylized ground slam / impact / burrow effect, but couldn’t find any good tutorial on this effect, except some advices about full flipbook solution. So, my question is, where can I find some good tutorial on sand-relate effect, or they use flipbook just like explosion?

Thank you for reading :smiley:

#2

I think until we have more computing power flipbooks are the go-to. Volumetrics and super high particle counts are hopefully coming sooner rather than later. If you find another way let us know.

#3

Yeah. Sadly there is no way to do this in real-time except baking everything down. I will keep looking for a better solution, in the meantime just stick with flipbook I guess…