Archive translation. Specifications, services and availability reflect the original publication date in 2022. Verify current compatibility before production use.
In brief: Epic Games made FluidNinja VFX Tools available free during a marketplace promotion. Developed by Andras Ketzer, the fluid-simulation toolset supported Unreal Engine 4 and 5. Its regular price at the time was US$99.99.
What did FluidNinja VFX Tools include?
- Fluid simulation for fire, smoke, clouds, magical effects and vector fields
- Baking that made the resulting effects usable in Unreal Engine in real time
- Parameter-controlled real-time fluid simulation with density and velocity output
- A collection of sample VFX assets, including fire, plasma and explosions
- Getting-started material comprising two hours of tutorial video and a guide of more than 60 pages
- Further product information and the download were available from the Unreal Engine Marketplace.
Related free assets: On 11 July 2022, Digital Production also reported on more than 1,200 PBR textures available from LotPixel. Test performance, visual quality and compatibility on target hardware before production use.
FluidNinja VFX Tools 1.0 – Demo – Smoke Fire Particles [UE4]
FluidNinja LIVE 1.7 tutorial – new content
