Unreal Engine Tutorial - Complex State Machines in Niagara
Here's a complex Niagara system that is a much more stable and improved version of my previous 'Smart Crabs' project. It's available as a Tier 2 reward on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GhislainGir
It features player awareness, slope-based obstacle awareness and neighbor particle awareness.
A deep dive into how I build complex state machines in Niagara.
Quick demo.
Crabs unbury themselves from the ground, move around for a while, and bury themselves again to disappear.
Crabs are pushed by obstacles and flee from them for a while.
State machine debug view: In red unbury, green idle, blue move, pink flee, yellow bury.
Crabs flee away from each other, obstacles and the player.
Overview of the Niagara system. A lots of custom modules were created to handle the state machine. Niagara's Neighbor Grid 3D interface was used to make particles efficiently be aware of each other.