FluidNinja LIVE

Fast, responsive Fluid Simulation for Character and Environment VFX: sea, rivers, clouds, smoke, fire, sand, snow and foliage. Drive all dynamic systems with fluidsim.

Welcome to NinjaLive 1.9.54.3: modular fluidsim for UE 5.1 - 5.4 that could be used for screen-space effects

and drive world-space systems: water bodies, volumes, niagara, foliage and landscape components.

Current Version 1.9.54.3 (5.4)

PLEASE NOTE: NINJA IS NOT A DRAG-N-DROP TOOL, LEARNING IT TAKES A WEEK.

Technical Details

Features

1. Robust: capable to track hundreds of objects and bones - including Metahuman skeletons
2. Large scale: local solver combined with global pattern generators - to render infinite fields of sand, water, fog
3. Cinematics: ready for rendering via Movie Render Queue, supports Sequencer
4. Volumetrics: custom, lit 3D Smoke volume included + driving native UE Fog and Clouds
5. Scalable: could be optimized for low-end hardware or run a 4k sim container
6. Simple-mode: track objects and draw trajectories without running fluidsim (eg. footsteps, wheeltracks)
7. Modular: could be added as ActorComponent / could drive other components (niagara, volumes)
8. Niagara: two-way data flow - drive particles using fluidsim / drive fluidsim using particles
9. Sim buffers (density, velocity, pressure) exposed to RenderTargets
10. Examples included (20+ tutorial levels, 10+ usecase levels)
11. Compiling and packaging is tested on Windows and Android devices
12. Important: NINJA IS NOT REPLICATED, MULTIPLAYER IS NOT SUPPORTED

Simulation Inputs

1. Niagara Particles (position, velocity)
2. StaticMeshes, PhysicsBodies (position, size and velocity)
3. Skeletal Meshes, Metahumans (bone position and velocity)
4. Textures and Materials (density, velocity)
5. SceneCaptureCamera and Streaming video
6. User gestures via mouse and touchscreen