Hey lovely person! 💘

Hope you're having a fine day!

My game just received its 300th review (96% positive)! Whoop-whoop!

Oatvercast shared this awesome WIP version of a wiggle cube on my discord. They also mentioned that it's based on this article. It's NOT a VAT or Alembic. It's spawning Niagara Particles in the vertices of a static mesh, using Pendulum Jiggle Physics, writing the new positions into a Render Target and then reconstruction the mesh. 

Stunning effect, and you can watch it be born step by step by looking at the thread in the RTVFX forum and see where it started and how it grew over time!

Absolutely mind-blowing water-wall effects. Make sure to also check out the other effects from the same creator! Look at this water shield…holy moly!

Wonderful clean build-up and colorful impact. What an awesome execution!

From the same creator as the Star Burst comes this butterfly effect and apart from the colors I really love the whole timing and "punch"! <3

It's not just the VFX which I like, but what caught my eye even more: They way they are presented. Because all VFX are frozen in time while the game camera presents them. Interesting!

It's rare to find drawing tutorials for VFX. Enjoy! The channel also offers other VFX related tutorials.

A nice introduction for using sin/cos for fun effects in shaders.

Getting rid of overlapping faces on the translucent material by writing into a custom depth buffer and then comparing the depth values.

And I stumbled across another creator also doing a hologram (also explaining how to render the translucent surface into the depth buffer to prevent the overlapping faces).

Jan Mróz shares again and again super cool tips about engine optimization. Super useful knowledge. I recommend following Jan.

Also, Ben Cloward started a whole Video Series about performance optimization for Unreal and Unity! Highly recommend!

Thanks for reading! Have a lovely day/night! 💘
Simon