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Category Special Effects

Thank you for joining us in the FX community. Below is a listing of information regarding the breakdowns of FX. This is not meant to be a tutorial per say but as a tool to gain more information on what foundation you have.

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Special Effects, also called FX, SFX, Visual Effects, VFX and Real-Time VFX are an essential part of gaming. The amount of immersion caused by that small puff of dust of the foot while running on a dusty area helps the player feel as they are actually moving the avatar in that virtual world. Someone being bunched in the mouth is much less dramatic then them spitting out a mouthful of blood and a few teeth. I could go on forever with how many options there are for us as artists to push the limits of immersion.

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Everything that is Real-Time VFX can be broken down into 3 major categories. These are: Particles, Shaders and Simulations.

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Particles

Particles can be broken down a large amount and it all depends on what game engine you may be using. Each individual term will define with either UDK/UE4 and/or UNITY.

1. Modules

1. Required
2. Type Data

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Simulations

Outside Links

• VFX for Games - Particle Effects (84MB zip) presentation delivered at SIGGRAPH 2012 by Crytek’s Sascha Herfort.
• VFX Artists subforum on Tech-Artists.Org
• imbueFX : VFX Training ($) training site for visual effects in games
• FX Artist resources?
• Inside DICE: Adapting the Battlefield visuals for Close Quarters combat
• Rendering Wounds in Left 4 Dead 2 by Alex Vlachos of Valve Software, at GDC 2010
• Faking Volumetric Effects in UDK by Stephen Jameson

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