Metaballs FX

Andy_rst · March 11, 2016, 11:05am

Hi

I made Metaballs fx for UE4. Uses Procedural Mesh, written on C++ and can be controlled via BP. Two modes are supported: free flight and manual transform control.
If you are interested i will publish source code on git.

Hevedy · March 11, 2016, 11:17am

Yeah I would like to see how you made that, nice work man.

Andy_rst · March 11, 2016, 11:27am

Thanks. Will publish soon as possible.

Korcan · March 11, 2016, 12:04pm

So nice Publish for us please

Mr_SquarePeg · March 11, 2016, 12:24pm

Yes do it!

Luos · March 11, 2016, 12:25pm

Very awesome stuff Andy

How is the performance if I may ask?

Zarkopafilis · March 11, 2016, 12:26pm

Just do it. Listen to shia.

Andy_rst · March 11, 2016, 12:43pm

On my GTX970M working well =) 60 fps with 20 balls and grid size 48-64. The mb has not been tested on a different hardware.

anonymous_user_c94f194d · March 11, 2016, 2:00pm

Could you explain what and how you have done. Code is also interesting but some kind of introduction would be nice.

Luos · March 11, 2016, 2:00pm

sounds good to me.
Some people already started calling this “Indieballs” lol.

anonymous_user_2a09f2b7 · March 11, 2016, 2:27pm

Hi Andy_rst

In Unreal 3 (UDK) there is a feature that uses Nvidia Physics to simulate metaball particles that probably works similarly. And this feature is combined with the Cascade Particle Editor to use the GPU rendering system.

Now with the Unreal 4 I do not know if exists anything similar because I yet never tested it.

Andy_rst · March 17, 2016, 6:53am

Balls on Git now =)

I made Plugin for easy using and simply demo project.

Jambax · March 17, 2016, 9:51am

Nice work

Andy_rst · March 17, 2016, 10:33am

Thanks! My tribute to demoscene time =))

Tom_Looman · March 17, 2016, 2:26pm

Very nice work mate! Was researching this when UE4 first came out for some 3D water effects but never got around to building it - so this is quite interesting!

Andy_rst · March 17, 2016, 2:41pm

Thanks! I hope this will be useful you.

Hevedy · March 17, 2016, 3:02pm

Thanks you for this man, nice work, thanks for put public.

anonymous_user_858533281 · January 24, 2017, 6:50pm

Hi Everyone,

I’m super excited to use this metaball plugin, just wondering if it only works in UE Version 4.10?

I’ve got the latest version 4.14.3 and not having any luck.
If anyone has any other metaball plugins for tutorials please post them here.

Cheers

KnitterX · January 26, 2017, 12:03am

Does anyone know how to make this compatible with newer versions, like 4.14.3? I don’t really know a lot about plugins.

Quin7000 · June 13, 2017, 8:46am

To use the plugin in 4.14 you need to change the lines 53 and 54 in “Metaballs.cpp” from:


MetaBallsBoundBox->AttachParent = RootComponent;
CapsuleComp->AttachParent = RootComponent;

To:


MetaBallsBoundBox->SetupAttachment(RootComponent);
CapsuleComp->SetupAttachment(RootComponent);

After that you just have to recompile from Visual Studio and you’ll be able to use the “Metaballs” actor.
It works in 4.16 too.