This module explores advanced particle systems in Unreal Engine’s Cascade, focusing on sprite-based and GPU-based emitters. Learners will gain hands-on experience creating sprite emitters, configuring dynamic properties like lifetime, velocity, and size, and using curve editors to control value transitions. The module further delves into GPU sprite emitters, color manipulation, vector fields, and mesh-based particles. By the end of the module, learners will be equipped to build complex, high-performance particle effects that integrate physics, visuals, and directional influence.

This module explores specialized particle emitter types in Unreal Engine’s Cascade system, focusing on beam, ribbon, and anim trail emitters. Learners will gain hands-on experience building beam effects for real-time connections, designing ribbon-based trails for continuous particle paths, and integrating anim trail emitters with skeletal mesh animations. Additionally, the module covers visual enhancements like tangents, trail color transitions, and dynamic material adjustments, empowering learners to create expressive and physically reactive visual trails in a game environment.