QbieShay: Sketch#46 Dragon Breath – Actual Time VFX

Yay first time collaborating!

I used to be impressed by this stunning drawing and determined to create a dragon’s breath for a fairy dragon!
Right here ‘s the inspiration: Magical orb by AlviaAlcedo on DeviantArt

Right here’s the ultimate end result

I received lots of people serving to me and supporting me by means of the creation of this impact. Shout-out to @Nibilli for serving to on a regular basis, @jasonkey for the suggestions and the solutions on the flames and smoke, @hadidjah for encouraging me to enhance the suggestions, the opposite college students of the VFXApprentice course for sitting it by means of with me and final however not least Harmonie for suggesting the ultimate colour palette! Thanks a lot!

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I labored on this for a full day and received thus far, however I’m not solely happy by the core flipbook for the hearth, of which I’ll put up extra progress photos later.

The primary half that I labored on had been the intense swirls. I’ve tried quite a lot of completely different meshes

And ultimately settled with some extra linear shapes:

As a result of the swirls had been rotating at all times in the identical path, i mirrored the mesh and made a second particle system with the mirrored mesh.

I attempted an elaborate texture and an even bigger mesh, but it surely had slightly an excessive amount of element:

Smoke is just not tremendous fascinating: only a billboard quad with colour over life, measurement over life, and a dissolve texture:

I attempted a distinct flipbook. Extra fire-y, however too noisy (because of Hadidjah for pointing that out)

Last flipbook is completed! Proud of this one. It isn’t good by itself, however works advantageous in 3D

Simplescreenrecorder-2021-09-15 17.38.25 GIF by qbieshay | Gfycat

Wow, I really like the colors on this! I believe it seems tremendous good and suits the supply creature! Is it potential you go extra in dept with the principle flame/cloud impact?

Good animation! What instrument do you utilize to attract the flipbooks?

Calling this one executed! Thanks so a lot to Harmonie for the brand new color palette, it actually kicked it to the following stage! That is probably the one impact I’m most happy with

@Filo I used krita!

@Arkeus the hearth is on a customized mesh and I exploit it in 2 particle programs, @jasonkey instructed to make yet one more common, smaller, with slower particles, and one with much less particles and greater and sooner flames. Let me know when you have different questions!

@QbieShay Are you able to please share the shader graph for this materials you used?

Sorry there isn’t any shader graph on the time I used to be utilizing an older model of Godot the place i most popular to put in writing my very own textual content shaders. So it’s a giant textual content blob. You will discover the shader in right here: Godot VFX Package by QbieShay (you’ll be able to skip the donation and simply get the recordsdata) however I don’t know the way helpful it will likely be for translating to a shader graph.

Truly you’ll be able to see the shader instantly right here: Spatial particle shader – Godot Shaders