The niagara emitter
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There is one Niagara system that displayed the rock wakes around the shield.
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This system has multiple emitters that contribute to giving the final result.
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This Niagara's more details are here :
The materials
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The main shield material that gives the shield dome effect.
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The second material used id for the shock waves on the sphere itself, they have an opacity mask panning on it.
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The last material if used for the rock spikes and included in the Niagara system.
THE SHIELD DOME EFFECT
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This effect was made in the Niagara system in unreal engine 5.
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The entire rendering was taken from a level sequencer.
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The shield effect consists of a material applied to a sphere.
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The shock waves on the sphere are meshed and created in Houdini.
The meshes and textures
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One of the meshes used is the sphere while the other one is the spike rock mesh.
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The third mesh used is the shocks which are modeled in Houdini using procedural modeling.
SOME OTHER VARIATION IN THE DOME EFFECT
