FluidNinja VFX Tools

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Welcome to NinjaTools 1.71 – a baking toolkit for Unreal Editor 4 & 5, designed to keep the whole process

of VFX creation inside Unreal, encouraging users to build their own library of effect assets.

For responsive (non-baked) real time fluid simulation, see NinjaLIVE

For standalone flipbook player, see NinjaPLAY

Tools

Fluid simulator with real-time view ports and preset management
Baking Tool saving density & velocity data to Flipbooks and Flipbook-Player-Materials
VolumeSmoke, VolumeCloud and VolumeFog setups to drive volumetrics with flipbooks (Ninja v1.5-1.6)
Niagara modules to sample the baked fluid data and drive GPU particle systems (Ninja v1.4)
Flowmap and VectorField creation tools
Blueprint functions for managing NiagaraSystems and RayMarching
Demo levels with 100+ use cases for stylized and realistic VFX

Input

Niagara and Cascade particles, Bitmaps and a Painter are providing initial conditions for the simulation

Output

Flipbooks, Flowmaps, VectorFields and ready-to-use Container Materials embedding baked data

Featuring

UE5 compatibility
Real time, parameter controlled fluid simulator with density and velocity output
Atlas map and image sequence baker, generating Texture assets and Vector Field data
Tiling, Looping baked data, ready to cover large areas
Material generator to automatically embed the baked assets
Niagara Modules to sample the baked data
Niagara Base Emitters / Systems and Blueprints to showcase various setups
A library of tutorial and sample VFX assets (fire, smoke, plasma, explosions)
Two hours of tutorial videos and 60+ pages of know-how / documentation in 3 PDFs