Can I create some kind of flowing lava that chases you through a maze?

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Hi,

For my maze I want a stream of lava to go through the maze within a certain time. As an extra ‘race the clock’ effect. I’ve tried to look something like this up, but I can only find flowing water like rivers. Without a certain start point and timer. Can anyone help me in the right direction?
So the lava should start at the start and slowly fill up the entire maze, but not from underneath it. Hope this makes sense.

As an alternative I thought to have a flat lava mesh under the landscape and make the landscape lower in a certain path so the lava becomes visible. But this might be quite difficult in runtime.

I’m not that experienced so if there isn’t a relatively simple solution to do something like this in blueprints, let me know and I’ll skip it haha.

Thanks in advance!

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Have a look at Niagara - Fluid Simulation (but it requires UE 5.0). Here’s an article https://80.lv/articles/working-with-niagara-fluids-to-create-water-simulations/ - this maybe can be used to achieve your desired effect.

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niagara
or a lava mesh actor with shape anims

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This will get you there.

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