Nick Mower, Author at techarthub

Creating an Impact Decal Material in Unreal Engine

Impact Decals are a great way to make your shots feel more powerful. Let’s make one!

Exploring techniques for dynamically changing audio playback speed in Unreal Engine.

A step-by-step guide to making your own bullet impact textures in Substance Designer.

How to create a particle-based Ring Pulse effect, one of the most versatile components in your VFX toolkit.

A closer look at Crunch, the public-domain compression library that can drastically reduce the size of your textures.

In this tutorial we use one of Unreal Engine’s default textures and some volumetric fog to create a 3D energy pulse effect.

An in-depth look at Unity’s available animation optimization methods with some practical examples thrown in.

A versatile grid shader is a vital part of any level designer’s toolkit. Here is an in-depth look at how I made mine.

The internet doesn’t really have a shortage of force field effect tutorials, but this one is special because its mine.

An exploration of three different ways to create a hexagonal sphere in Maya.