【UE】 EasyRain/EasySnow

EasyRain

Documentation Link:

• Tutorial Video : https://youtu.be/40ajBeK3PeU
• Provided Demo Levels with Explanation
  • L_EasyRain_Showcase_DemoL_EasyRain_ExampleDemo

Features:

• Easily Art-Directable Rain
• Full control over the positioning and look of rainfall
• Includes two material functions for adding puddles and droplets/leaks to any models.
• Suitable for both Games/Realtime and Cinematics/Offline Rendering
• Disclaimer: Requires Mesh Distance Fields to be enabled in Project Settings. Solution and workaround shown in the documentation tutorial!

Number of Blueprints: 1

Network Replicated: No

Supported Development Platforms:

• Windows: Yes
• Mac: Not TestedSupported Unreal Engine versions5.3 – 5.5Supported target platformsWin32Windows

EasySnow

Features:

• Create realistic, fully dynamic, and customizeable snowfall effects in seconds.
• Suitable for both Games and Cinematics
• Built-in LOD system for improved performance, and gives you a plethora of controls to get exactly the result you have in mind.
• A selection of presets to get you started (i.e. Light Snow, Heavy Snow, Flurries, etc)
• Includes a World Snow Material Function to add and blend accumulated snowfall on your models.
• Full control over the look, movement, speed, patterns, and material of the snowflakes and snow material.
• Can place snow emitters locally, or snow can follow the position of the camera.
• Includes a Masking Blueprint to mask out unwanted snowy areas (World Snow Material Function), and supports Vertex Painting on models as a mask as well (blue channel)

Disclaimer:

Crashes reported for MacOS users.

Nanite Tessellation/Displacement only works on Windows/DirectX 12.

For Nanite Displacement to work, you need the following 2 console variables in your defaultEngine.ini file:

r.Nanite.AllowTessellation=1

r.Nanite.Tessellation=1

This product supports Lumen for Unreal Engine 5.0+

Number of Blueprints: 3

Number of Unique Materials and Material Instances: 4

Number of Textures: 13

Texture Resolutions: 4096x4096, 512x512, 128x128

Supported Development Platforms: Windows

Windows: Yes

Linux: Not Tested

Mac: Not Tested

Documentation: In Progress

Important/Additional Notes: Nanite Tessellation/Displacement only works on Windows/DirectX 12.

Supported Unreal Engine versions

5.3 – 5.5

Supported target platforms

Win32

Windows