The Importance of Procedural Textures

Procedural textures, created in tools like Substance Designer, Photoshop, or Krita, are essential for real-time VFX in Niagara, enabling efficient, high-quality, and dynamic effects. These textures—such as noise maps, flow maps, and grayscale masks—drive key properties like opacity, distortion, and emission, allowing for natural variation and optimized performance. By reusing and combining these textures in materials, artists can create versatile, visually stunning effects that scale seamlessly across projects while maintaining a consistent art style.

Texture Resources

UNREAL ENGINE 5