MA Course Summary and Reflection

In this project a static Pirate cabin environment, a weather particle system, an explosion particle, custom world aligned materials and fluid simulation in bottles were created. In addition, a water system with 7 different features, a Pivot Painter asset, a dust material and a dynamic game environment were created. It was learned that most of the game art trick assets encountered tended to begin with either blueprints, external rigging and animation or materials. They then utilised other animation techniques if necessary, such as particle systems for VFX and animation blueprints for physics animation.


At the beginning, an experimental Pirate Cabin project was created to consider whether the animation techniques project was worth pursuing.
Weather Particle using Niagara Particle system Explosion VFX Using Niagara particle system. World Aligned Rain Material  Bottle Fluid Simulation


Finally, an environment was created showcasing the Water system with 7 modular features and Pivot Painter. The Seven modular features include Distance Field Flow, Vertex Paint flow, Distance field water foam, Waterfall/River variant, Gerstner Wave, Stencil Shader for boats and Render target ripples. However the environment was unable to showcase the stencil and render target ripples as they were not needed in the final game environment.

Here is the image showcasing Stencil shader:
Stencil Shader that can be used to mask boats on the water Render Target Ripples, which broke, due to issues with blueprint-material connections for the Render target. However, it wasn't necessary as it required having a character which isn't part of the Game environment research

Here is the Final Game Environment:

What Next?