The last week I have been messing around with volumetric materials/particle emitters, but I can’t figure out how he did it like in the video. There isn’t really any information online about volumetric materials, only the basics and I haven’t been able to progress. I know how to make a spiral texture and so on, but not how to get this effect.
The author of this material mentions that ***the set-up is ***supposedly very easy, so I am a bit confused.
How about ultra-diffuse and faded lights (via an emissive material) inside the “arms” of the spiral galaxy. Use particle modules Initial Rotation, Velocity, Location, and Color Over Life (especially the Alpha feature of it) to determine where they’re at in the fog and shape them to a spiral. I don’t know how to do a spiral effect in materials yet. Have you tried using what you know about creating a spiral in a material? Another thing to look up for it, potentially, is blendables… with more than one particle system or between a particle system and a volume or other material.
I then use this material in a particle emitter and let it spawn one particle. This is what it looks like in the level using a directional light:
The volume is there, but it looks the same from every viewing angle, which is of course, the main problem.
Not sure how to progress. What I would need is an “extrusion”-like effect of the texture in the z-axis, so that its like a cylinder, if you know what I mean.
I see…lol…there’s a setting in the particle system Required module to change camera, isn’t there? Doesn’t it require non-uniform scale, and not always facing the camera on its flat material plane?
I think I understand the extrusion effect reference. Extrude, rather than stretch though its similar and can distort the image a ton, would be able to yield a more volumetric display of the fog so it can be modified to fit in a certain space and have certain form(s).
In the material graph of it, what’s it doing from Sine / Cosine over to the Append node? Are those sine and cosine functions over time or based on a different criterion?
