Category:SpecialEffects
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.
Everything that is Real-Time VFX can be broken down into 3 major categories. These are: Particles, Shaders and Simulations.
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.
Simulations
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
Pages in category "SpecialEffects"
The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
