JinraiMac - Ghost Trails - Afterimage effect

Ghost Trails is an unreal engine plugin that enables the easy creation of afterimages or as per the name "Ghost Trails" of a character in unreal engine.

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Ghost Trails can be added easily to animations to provide visual feedback to abilities or effects via the included AnimNotifies and can optionally include child meshes in the trail (attached clothing, weapons, etc).

Written in C++ it strives to be performant whilst still being easy to use and extendable in blueprint should you wish to add your own functionality.

Features:

  • Extendable GhostTrail class to create after image effects.

  • AnimNotifies to trigger ghost trail creation on a character animation.

  • 3 Example materials to get you started.

  • Example blueprint showing how to extend the functionality.