🌟 Welcome to The Oasis Tutorial Series – your ultimate guide to creating a custom Fortnite experience from start to finish! 🌟
In this four-part series, I'll walk you through the entire process of designing The Oasis, a relaxing Fortnite Island where players can enjoy music, mesmerizing visuals, and interactive features. Whether you've been working in UEFN for a while or are looking to take your skills to the next level, this tutorial series is designed for intermediate users with some basic UEFN experience and will give you the tools and techniques to bring your ideas to life.
🎬 This Video – Part 2: Visual Effects
In this second episode, we’ll focus on:
Creating stunning visual effects for your Fortnite Island, including floating 3D shapes and magical streaks using Niagara. You’ll learn how to build custom materials, set up particle systems, and prepare animations that sync with music.
🎓 Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this video, you'll be able to:
✅ Create your own custom visual effects for your Fortnite islands
✅ Explain the building blocks from which these effects are built
✅ Create specific Materials to be used with your visual effects
✅ Implement ways to animate various parameters of your visual effects
Chapters:
0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:01 Particles in UEFN
0:03:40 Creating the Random 3D Shapes
0:24:25 Creating the Magical Streaks
0:46:57 Recap & Conclusion
📖 The Full Series:
1️⃣ Part 1: Creating the Environment.
2️⃣ Part 2: Visual Effects – Learn to enhance your experience with eye-catching VFX (This video)
3️⃣ Part 3: Animation and Music Visualization – Create custom character animations and sync effects to music for dynamic immersion.
4️⃣ Part 4: Interactivity and User Interface – Add UI elements and interactive features to engage players.
🛠️ About the Experience:
Players can walk around or relax on benches around the tree, enjoying an original song created just for this island, Calm Down. With a simple UI, they can switch between the vocal and instrumental versions, while animations bring the environment to life in sync with the music.
🌐 Explore The Oasis
Check out the finished island in Fortnite and experience it for yourself! Here's the link: https://play.fn.gg/island/8770-5258-3723
📚 Helpful Resources
Looking to dive deeper? Here are links to the tutorial resources and documentation pages I mention in this video:
Learn more about Niagara: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/overview-of-niagara-effects-for-unreal-engine?application_version=5.5
Download the Tutorial Assets: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ewIAx7pRqvlg5QHJU27Og2eU6eB81qmw/view?usp=sharing
Take a look at the Motion Design Mode in the Unreal Editor: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/motion-design-quickstart-guide-in-unreal-engine
🎵 Stream "Calm Down"
The original song featured in The Oasis – Calm Down – will be available on all major streaming platforms starting December 23, 2024! Stay tuned for the release, and stream it here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/stephan7/calm-down
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Music: streambeats.com
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