Smoke trail

Hi all, I need your help

I need an animation in which a character is smoking so I need a trail of smoke. It is like making a trail and link it the bone, but what I have isn´t as a realistic smoke, I dont know how achieve it…

I don´t know if the trails particles support materials with textures. I followed the tutorials from epic and get the trail, but that doesn´t seems Smoke, the most I´ve got is what you see in the picture, on the other hand, I tried to mix for a test smoke test scene of epic, but I failed to display properly, so in the picture aren´t conected to the main node.

If you have any resources, assistance, book, video or anything that will help me I will be very grateful, thank you very much guys!

The picture of my test: http://puu.sh/cChzc/e6306de82d.jpg

You dont need the trail effect, you can just have a regular smoke particle effect for something like cig smoke.
Gpu particles with vector field come to mind.

Do you know where I can find more information about smoke, particle / material ? thank you! :3

Uhm, vector fields depend on the 3d app you are using, here is a video (with plugin) for 3dsmax: 3dsMax to UE4 Vector Fields - YouTube but if you google for maya, blender etc im sure you can find something cool.

In the example showcase map for particles you can find a few fire and smoke particle , these would be able to show you what you need.
random fire tutorial: UE4 - Making Fire - Screen Space GPU Particles - YouTube (I am sure you can find more if you google “Ue4 smoke particles”.

Most of these tutorials also learn you how to set the materials :slight_smile:

Ohhh! thank you :3

I also highly recommend you check out the video series created by Epic on how to make particles, best practices, and more. It’s a really fun tutorial created by Zak at Epic, see here:

Hope that helps! :slight_smile:

Thank you so much guys! you´re amazing! :3