UDK Tuturial Series: Unreal Cascade - Creating an MMO Ice Spell

Ryan Smith

Hey Guys,

I wasn't sure where to post a tutorial at. I remember seeing a Tutorials thread buy i couldn't find it.

Anyways I just finished this tutorial Series. It's 7 Parts long and goes over step by step on how i created my MMO Style Ice Effect. I realized during Post Production that I really didn't explain things that would have been explained in a Beginners Tutorial, so If yo don't know anything i suggest checking out 3DBuzz's stuff.

Here's the Intro for a preview

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTsMkgHYXAM[/ame]

Tutorial Difficulty : Intermediate
Requirements : Familiarity with the UDK and Unreal Cascade

Introduction
Part 1 - Master Material Setup
Part 2 - Ground Mist
Part 3 - Rising Mist
Part 4 - Ice Spike Material
Part 5 - Ice Spike Setup
Part 6 - Ice Chunks
Part 7 - Ground Runes

You can find the Complete .rar file below which includes all 8 videos and the project files...


http://www.virtuosicstudios.com/Ice_FX_Tutorial/IceEffectTutorial.rar


Enjoy guys :-)

nrek

Awesome Virtuosic, this was probably my fav of your mmo effects so it should be cool to watch how you did it. Thanks for taking the time to make this :thumbup:.

Dippndots

this looks awesome thanks for putting it together ill download it and try it out tonight

kodde

Thanks for sharing.

slipsius

awsome!!! perfect timing! we have an assignment due this week to create our own particle effects! thanks!

JasonLavoie

Great work man!

Can't wait to watch it all!

PixelMasher

cool man, i was wondering how you did the runes, now i'll soon know. thanks for sharing dude!

Xoliul

Great! Thanks for listening to my/our request and doing this man, will be trying it asap!

Ark

Cool stuff man and thx for the hard work.

Wheel

Much appreciated, it looks fantastic. Thanks for your time and for sharing.

Pedro Amorim

Thanks Virtuosic! Really cool of you to give away tutorials

Ryan Smith

No problem guys, it is my pleasure. After everything the polycount community has done for me I figured I'd try and give a little bit back. I hope that the tut isn't too hard to follow! I moved pretty fast and screen resolution wasn't the best. It'll be better next time I promise!

Lee3dee

Nice Ryan! You should post this on the udk documentation forums where I have been putting up my UDK tutorials

UDK Documentation section: http://forums.epicgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=371

mainframe

Awesome dude!!!

mathes

Very nice, going to work through this today.

Ryan Smith

Thanks again guys...

I'm just curious if anyone has tried doing this yet... It's my first serious tutorial and was actually looking for some comments as to what i can improve.

Thanks

slipsius

I just did it! I changed it up from what you had, but same principals. awsome tutorial!

might wanna remember what part you are working on though. haha! the first 3 parts you said "ok, ill see you in part 3" at the end of part 3. haha! good laugh. but no, the tutorial itself was goood! I had to play through a few parts a couple times though cause it went really fast. mainly the setting up the ice material.

question though. say i wanted to make the ice pop out in a circle. but not all over the place. say i wanted to do it in an o shape? nothing in the middle. is that possible?

also, if thats possible. is it possible to make them all point outwards? in a perfect circle?

Ryan Smith

Thanks slip

That's a good question, i know you could be able to make them appear in an O shape by using a Cylinder node and checking "Spawn on surface".. that would make sure that they spawned in the O shape you were looking for, you could just adjust the radius of the cylinder untill it was the way you wanted it. As for each of them pointing outwards, that's a different story... as of now i don't think there is any way to do that, but i'll tinker around with it and let you know.

butt_sahib

Thats real generous of you ryan. I know how much goes into a tutorial (fuck its what i have to do at work for the next 3 months atleast) and kudos to you for finishing it and giving it away!

Snipergen

*presses imaginary thanks button*

It's just fantastic when people do things like this. Will come in handy for alot of people.

3dskillet

man thanks a bunch !!!

I'll let you know when I have time to play around with this

AlanSMitchell

OMG thanks I saw the youtube video but I didn't see a link to this page.
^^ thank you.

jjguzzardo

Is there another place I can go to download this tutorial. The link appears to be dead

WilliamGS

Not trying to bump, but this looks like a great reference and the link has been dead for at least a month :-(

any news?

kaze369

is it possible for someone to re-upload the rar file. I would like to check out his tutorial.

Ro-Sham-Bo

Virtuosic is a good friend of mine from school, I'm sure he will see this thread and re-post a link. If not I'll yell at him on aim for you guys He is really busy though working at Digital extremes.

kaze369

Ro-Sham-Bo wrote: »

Virtuosic is a good friend of mine from school, I'm sure he will see this thread and re-post a link. If not I'll yell at him on aim for you guys He is really busy though working at Digital extremes.

thanks a lot!

K17020

Man I want to take a look at that tutorial really bad, its still not up yet

t3h m00kz

Please reupload, this looks promising.

kaze369

Ro-Sham-Bo wrote: »

Virtuosic is a good friend of mine from school, I'm sure he will see this thread and re-post a link. If not I'll yell at him on aim for you guys He is really busy though working at Digital extremes.

Any news on getting the files re-uploaded?

Gerasimimumu

Yes, already did this and thanks!!!! It is an awesome tut.

Gera

kaze369

Gerasimimumu wrote: »

Yes, already did this and thanks!!!! It is an awesome tut.

Gera

link is still not working:'(:(

def

I'd also like to see this tutorial if anyone has it stored locally.

crasong

Uber Necro bump, I apologise.

I've been searching high and low for this tutorial, and there's not a single link working anymore. Was just wondering if anyone still has a copy that they could share? Many thanks in advance!

Ark

I have it stored somewhere, i can host it if thats not a problem with Virtuosic?

kaze369

Ark wrote: »

I have it stored somewhere, i can host it if thats not a problem with Virtuosic?

if you could host it that would be really cool. I've been looking for this tutorial for a while.

crasong

Hey Ark, I PM'd Virtuosic and got the go ahead to get the tutorial rehosted!

Mucho thanks in advance!

Virtuosic wrote:

crasong wrote:

Hey Virtuosic,

Was wondering if it's okay for people to rehost your tutorial for others like myself to download?

If not then I understand.


Thanks!
Crasong

I was unaware that other people had my tutorial. (I was under the impression that it had been deleted permanently once my server went down) If they have it they are more than welcome to host it. Please let me know what the URL is once whoever hosts it has it up and running.

Thanks,

Ryan

Ark

I'll see if i can get it uploaded sometime today.

haiddasalami

Nice...always have room for UDK tutorials

kaze369

Awesome! Thanks a lot guys

Ryan Smith

WoW, i was totally unaware that people wanted this tutorial.

If it pleases the court i may just remake it for you guys in High Def and host it on youtube, and possibly make it a bit cleaner and quicker.

Until then, the old vids will have to do.

Phill

Looking forward to it.

Ark

Sorry about the holdup, managed to get it uploaded. DOWNLOAD HERE!

Visceral

Virtuosic wrote: »

WoW, i was totally unaware that people wanted this tutorial.

If it pleases the court i may just remake it for you guys in High Def and host it on youtube, and possibly make it a bit cleaner and quicker.

Until then, the old vids will have to do.

I have been looking for this one for a while :O man that would be awesome!

kaze369

Virtuosic wrote: »

WoW, i was totally unaware that people wanted this tutorial.

If it pleases the court i may just remake it for you guys in High Def and host it on youtube, and possibly make it a bit cleaner and quicker.

Until then, the old vids will have to do.

The court would be very pleased to see more material from such a distinguished person such as yourself.

crasong

Yusssssssssss

Very big thanks to Ark for reuploading this gem, and a belated thank you very much to Virtuosic for doing this tutorial! :):):):)

haiddasalami

Thanks to Ark for the upload and Virtuosic for doing this

brandoom

Virtuosic wrote: »

WoW, i was totally unaware that people wanted this tutorial.

If it pleases the court i may just remake it for you guys in High Def and host it on youtube, and possibly make it a bit cleaner and quicker.

Until then, the old vids will have to do.

i know a few people that would love for you to do this, myself included

Froyok

Ark wrote: »

Sorry about the holdup, managed to get it uploaded. DOWNLOAD HERE!

Unfortunately, the link is down today...
Can I ask a reupload by somebody here ?

Robbyh

the whole page is down..

Shadownami92

I could probably upload it to my box.net account if you want.