How Skrillex looks in UE4

[DennyR]

Hi,

I finally had a day off and well, unreal all the way

I figured I start a little project that can be finished in a day or less, so I started a little audio visualization … thing.

I picked Skrillex - Bangerang, not that Iam big fan of dubstep, but I had to use something that suited the art style I had in mind.

here it is:

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So if you ever asked yourself how dubstep looks in unreal engine 4… the answers is however the **** you want

[anonymous_user_923c79df]

Awesome!

[anonymous_user_a8f2264d1 (anonymous_user_a8f2264d)]

That looks fantastic!

[DennyR]

Thanks a bunch guys.

[BlackPixel]

Thanks for sharing, awesome concept

[kassane (Matheus)]

Fantastic! Nice job.

[PhenomHDV]

Very nice job!

[JoTay]

Haha, that is very cool stuff! Great work! Would love to be able to experience something like this in a VR headset w/ solid set of headphones on.

Any chance we could see another song in action? =)

Random side note, there are actually a few artists who have been using UE to create stage projections for their live shows, and might get a pretty good kick out of this.

[Benjam901]

Absolutely love it!

[anonymous_user_9d8139961 (anonymous_user_9d813996)]

Great work. I’ve been wanting to use UE4 in some artistic/abstract way. Im just starting to understand this fantastic tool, could you share a bit about how you did this? any pointer or direction helps

[anonymous_user_6c97248c]

Great work.

[DennyR]

Thanks alot guys

@JoTay;9955

Haha, that is very cool stuff! Great work! Would love to be able to experience something like this in a VR headset w/ solid set of headphones on.

Any chance we could see another song in action? =)

Random side note, there are actually a few artists who have been using UE to create stage projections for their live shows, and might get a pretty good kick out of this.

Big Thanks! And yes, maybe. I was actually not happy with this, because the visuals aren’t properly synched with the audio.
So I really want to do something like that again, probably make some GPU particles dance, But at the moment I am working on something more serious, so I don’t know when I will tackle this again.

@elTomkinson;11186

Great work. I’ve been wanting to use UE4 in some artistic/abstract way. Im just starting to understand this fantastic tool, could you share a bit about how you did this? any pointer or direction helps

Of course, here are some hints:
The Visuals are plain UE4(0 textures used). For the floor I just used a material with very low roughness + some SceneReflectionCaptureThings.
The Bars are just static meshes, that are scaled in Z direction based on the Spectrum/Volume values.

The Material on the Bars is simple as well. I have two ColorParameters that I just Lerp using a gradient mask. Then I multiply the top color with a floatParameter to make it glow(basically any color > 10 makes the material glow). Both ColorParameters and the MultiplierParameter are then used in Blueprints to change their values based on Spectrum Data.

For the music visualization I just used the pluging “AudioVisualization” (I believe) that comes with UE4, you just have to enable it first. Well that can give you spectrum and amplitude information you can plug into the bars(or whatever you want to use to visualize it). Check FFT spectrums on google to get further information on that.

Well, then I just put everything together in a blueprint and hooked up some custom timings to change visuals and not make it boring over the song duration.

[chiefGui]

Hey DennyR! Wonderful work, mate! Congratulations!

By the bye, you used C++ programming to listen and recognizes the basses, highers and lowers of the song, right? This effect is script-made instead of manual designing, right (2)? Seriously, what a sight for sore eyes technique!

[DennyR]

@chiefGui;11444

Hey DennyR! Wonderful work, mate! Congratulations!

Thanks!

@chiefGui;11444

…By the bye, you used C++ programming to listen and recognizes the basses, highers and lowers of the song, right?..

Yes, I used a plugin to get the frequency spectrum and passed the data to the according bars to visualize them, then I multiplied them by the amplitude(volume). But the data is not really good. With a bit more math and window functions for the FFT(to filter high and low frequencies), you can a a better result.

@chiefGui;11444

This effect is script-made instead of manual designing, right (2)? …

Yes, the whole thing is a blueprint, that just reads the frequency spectrum + amplitudes and updates every tick. I just hooked in a few custom events to start the particles and change the base color of the bars.

[ThankYou4Playing]

Very cool! At GDC, Notch, the man behind Minecraft, through this awesome party with lots of screens all over the place with cool effects playing to the music. What you’ve done here would have been right at home on one of those screens. Keep up the great creativity!

[anonymous_user_9d8139961 (anonymous_user_9d813996)]

@DennyR;11377

Of course, here are some hints:
The Visuals are plain UE4(0 textures used). For the floor I just used a material with very low roughness + some SceneReflectionCaptureThings.
The Bars are just static meshes, that are scaled in Z direction based on the Spectrum/Volume values.

The Material on the Bars is simple as well. I have two ColorParameters that I just Lerp using a gradient mask. Then I multiply the top color with a floatParameter to make it glow(basically any color > 10 makes the material glow). Both ColorParameters and the MultiplierParameter are then used in Blueprints to change their values based on Spectrum Data.

For the music visualization I just used the pluging “AudioVisualization” (I believe) that comes with UE4, you just have to enable it first. Well that can give you spectrum and amplitude information you can plug into the bars(or whatever you want to use to visualize it). Check FFT spectrums on google to get further information on that.

Well, then I just put everything together in a blueprint and hooked up some custom timings to change visuals and not make it boring over the song duration.

Thanks !! I’ll sure check this out.

[anonymous_user_bc993a5c]

This is a really cool use of the engine, bravo DennyR! And thanks for dropping the hints about how the system works, very nice! I want to try this plugin now.

[M_uL (MΛuL)]

Great stuff. I can see a huge Oculus dance party happening with this :D.

[anonymous_user_e61ecb23]

Yeah this is awesome work. Well done!

[anonymous_user_1b96058c]

@DennyR;11377

Thanks alot guys

For the music visualization I just used the pluging “AudioVisualization” (I believe) that comes with UE4, you just have to enable it first. Well that can give you spectrum and amplitude information you can plug into the bars(or whatever you want to use to visualize it). Check FFT spectrums on google to get further information on that.
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Where do I find this plugin? I’m coming up chumps on searches in docs etc.