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Technical Artist Summit: Build Your Own Particle System

Overview:

Shaders are most commonly used to define the appearance of model surfaces - but they can do a lot more! In this session, Ben will show how to construct a full-featured, performance-friendly particle system using only a node-based shader tool such as Unreal's Material Editor or Unity's Shader Graph. nnAttendees will learn how to make particles face the camera, move, rotate, and scale as well as control particle movement and rotation. They will learn how to control particle color and opacity, as well as how to fade out particles where they intersect with scene geometry. nnEven more features can be added to provide more control, or removed to increase performance. Artists can have full control over a particle system they build themselves and Ben will show them how in this session.

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