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Re: UE5.6 stylized portal shader help — Ratchet & Clank inspired
Small update / extra question: Thanks again for the suggestions. I looked at a few portal VFX tutorials, but most of them are more focused on Niagara particles or gameplay portals. What I’m still struggling with is mainly the material/shader structure itself. Right now, my biggest issue is that the portal still feels too… -
UE5.6 stylized portal shader help — Ratchet & Clank inspired
Hi! I’m a first-year game development student working on an Unreal Engine 5.6 project, and I’m trying to create a stylized portal shader inspired by Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart . My goal is to achieve: * a glowing outer ring, * animated radial lines/filaments, * a deep inner portal/tunnel look, * subtle movement so it… -
Re: UE5.6 stylized portal shader help — Ratchet & Clank inspired
Thanks! I checked the tutorial. It seems very useful for the Niagara/particle part of the portal, especially for the outer energy rays and the dynamic feeling. I think I’ll use it more as inspiration for an extra VFX layer around the portal, rather than rebuilding my whole effect from scratch. For now I’m going to first… -
Re: UE5.6 stylized portal shader help — Ratchet & Clank inspired
Thanks! That makes sense. For now I’m not trying to make a fully functional live portal to another level. I mainly want to fake the visual depth and make it look closer to the reference. My current setup is pretty simple: * one separate plane/material for the outer ring, * one plane/material for the inner core, * both are… -
Re: UE5.6 stylized portal shader help — Ratchet & Clank inspired
Well, using reverse-image-search on your reference, here's a video of the effect (at 8:50) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdD8zDbp2Qo&t=530s This uses a mask inside the "portal" to blend with a cubemap, or if you want to get more advanced and have a "live" view of the next level then you can render the next level to an… -
Re: UE5.6 stylized portal shader help — Ratchet & Clank inspired
Thanks, that makes sense! I’ll look into the parallax/cubemap approach for the inner portal. If it’s easier to explain with screenshots or a quick back-and-forth, would you be okay with adding me on Discord? I think it would be easier for me to show my current material graph and understand the steps that way. My Discord… -
Re: UE5.6 stylized portal shader help — Ratchet & Clank inspired
You'll want to add some parallax to whatever texture you use inside the portal. You can learn about how to do this by searching the web using a search like game vfx portal tutorial cubemap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmaNiz0o11A -
Re: UE5.6 stylized portal shader help — Ratchet & Clank inspired
Lots of youtube tutorials on this, search "game vfx portal tutorial" for example: https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/dBj6/unreal-engine-create-stunning-portal-effect-vfx-with-niagara-particles-complete-tutorial
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