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4 FLICKER EFFECT WITH GOBO IN UE5

5 GOD RAYS FIRST ATTEMPT – BLENDER

6 GOD RAYS THIRD ATTEMPT – BLENDER

7 FLOATING DUST – BLENDER GEO NODES

8 DUST SECOND ATTEMPT

Floating Dust - Second attempt

DUST RENDER

DUST GEOMETRY NODES

LIGHTING

First attempt was too subtle so I adjusted the size, density and depth of field of the dust

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Floating Dust - Blender Geometry Nodes

DUST RENDER

DUST GEOMETRY NODES

LIGHTING

Nino (2023). Create Floating Dust in Blender! (Animated Geometry Nodes). [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if5IaP9KVfw [Accessed 22 Nov. 2024].

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God rays third attempt - Blender

PREVIOUS RESULT WITH MESH AND SHADER VOLUME ADJUSTED AS OUTLINED BELOW

THE ‘CAVE’ WAS PROCEDURALLY GENERATED AND PROVIDED MORE SURFACES FOR THE LIGHT TO SHINE THROUGH

ANIMATION AND LIGHT SETTINGS – I USED A SMALL BUT STRONG SPOTLIGHT WITH ‘SOFT FALLOFF’ DISABLED

In addition to the adjustments made below, I also tried using an emission shader volume which gave more control over the rays themselves, but lost some realism as the source of the light was not defined

God rays first attempt - Blender

ANIMATE VOLUME

POSITION CAMERA, SPOTLIGHT AND VOLUME

ANIMATE PLANE AND LIGHT EMISSION

The rays are not visible, possibly because the light needs to surround the object. I plan to adjust the mesh passing in front of the light and if that doesn’t work, I wlll adjust the shader volume

Phil Flock (2023). ANIMATED GOD RAYS in Blender – Volume Tutorial. [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM1163SVuTo.

Flicker effect with gobo - Unreal Engine 5

SILHOUETTE FOR GOBO

‘Male person silhouette’
By Glebstock
https://stock.adobe.com/ie/contributor/205707984/glebstock?load_type=author&prev_url=detail

set blueprint to multipy emission by time and add gobo to emission on spotlight ‘light function’ settings

adjust cine camera and output video using sequencer

Epic Developer Community. (2023). How to Make a Flickering Light Effect | Community tutorial. [online] Available at: https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/DlOe/unreal-engine-how-to-make-a-flickering-light-effect.

Blender caustic effect

SET SCENE AND CAMERA IN BLENDER

USE emission SHADER FOR CAUSTIC EFFECT

Cartesian Caramel (2022). Easy Caustics in Blender! [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j17dGVw3_gM.

Gobos in Unreal Engine

Source image from maya model

powerpoint to create image

photopea to add blur

import image to ue5 and add to emission light source

ANIMATE transforms with sequencer

USE cine camera to further adjust gobo animation and animate EMISSION

SAKII Senpai (2021). Unreal engine 5 tutorial for beginners : Lighting with gobos and moving shadows. [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5xFf95tAu0.

Animate lights and camera with Blender