Learn How To Create Electrocuting Lightning VFX With UE5's Niagara

If your project could use a striking electricity or lightning effect, Dinuka Devinda from Motion Dreams has you covered. In this comprehensive tutorial, you'll be guided through every step, from setting up a Skeletal Mesh for beam spawning and adding distortion with jitter to crafting realistic lightning beams that electrify your character.

Check out his other videos below and visit Motion Dreams' YouTube channel for more:

If you're looking to improve your VFX skills, we recommend checking out tips from Tuatara, whose tricks like faking lighting on particles, a breakdown of a raindrop shader, ways to add variation to panning textures, creative distortion effects, chromatic aberration, and more we shared before. 

Their Senior VFX Artist geodraws also recently discussed the role of math in VFX and has his own YouTube channel with various educational videos:

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