Flythrough of some vfx for a Star Wars–inspired camp scene.

VFX Included

• Fractal / Branching Lightning
• Thruster Effect
• Interactive Electrical Structure
• Campfire
• Chain Simulation (Vines / Cables)
• Interactive Grass
• Hologram Effect
• Steam Effects
• Heat Distortion

A cabin-in-the-woods scene with a supernatural twist—magic circle, blood, webbing, and entities. Features custom snow deformation, a snow-fall tool, spline-based cables, vertex-animated boids, and blood decals.

VFX & Tools Included

• Landscape deformation shader (player-driven snow displacement)
• Snow Fall Tool (grid-based coverage, SDF mesh, slope-aware)
• Snow Displace Plane Shader + BP_Capture (scene capture, persistent displacement texture)
• Snow sparkle effect
• Web / Cable Blueprint (spline-based particles, static mesh export)
• Boids (butterfly meshes, vertex-animated textures)
• Blood stain / blood spill decal tool
• Fog, candles, tree sway, cloth simulation

Developed Volumetric Clouds using raymarching, allowing the player to fly through them. Generated using a Pseudo 3D noise texture and a raymarching shader, affected by sun position and time of day.

Also developed texture authoring tools to control cloud fade and position within a volume. WIP: oversimplified shadow system and banding reduction via bayer noise.

A Niagara-based chain/cable simulation using a chain link hierarchy so each link maintains position and orientation relative to its neighbors. Works with sprites, ribbons, and meshes. WIP: collision.

A butterfly flocking simulation using a boids algorithm. Boids are attracted to the player or a point of interest and avoid obstacles via distance fields. Uses a grid-based spatial system to avoid iterating over every boid.

Real-time deformable snow using vertex shaders to displace a tessellated mesh based on player movement. Also includes a procedural accumulation system at both material and mesh levels, using layered noise and displacement textures.

Procedural webbing with two implementations: a shader-based method using Worley/Voronoi noise, and a dynamic mesh system generating 3D cables that anchor to environments in cone or spherical distributions.

Wind simulation shaders for foliage and dynamic objects. Noise-based turbulence with multi-layered effects so different parts of an asset (trunk vs. leaves) respond uniquely to wind forces.

Blood spatter shader applied via decals with parameters for thickness, spread, and shine — randomized by position so no two instances look the same. Includes a particle drip effect and threshold-based stretch prevention on tight angles.

A weapon materialize shader built to explore alpha mask creation and manipulation in Unreal Engine's material editor.