Particle System Opacity - Advanced Materials

Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

In this tutorial video for Unreal and Unity, we add opacity controls to our particle system so that the particles can fade in and out instead of popping when they spawn in and die.

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Here's last week's tutorial that shows how to add flipbook animated textures to the particles
youtu.be/IvMA_2DMDFo

Here's the playlist for all of the videos in the series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78XDi0TS4lGMPYs24UZQ3Ox_fU_xsgZS

Shader Book Recommendations
bencloward.com/resources_books.shtml

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Theme Music
Peace in the Circuitry - Glitch Hop
teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1526

Background Music
Speo - Reminiscent
youtube.com/watch?v=2NGPW61HBf4

#UnrealEngine #shadergraph #Unity

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