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Anim To Sprite and Niagara Systems
Anim To Sprite supports capturing NiagaraSystems partially.
Limitations
Input
NiagaraSystems for ATS need these conditions:
- Emitters need to be deterministic (fixed random seed)
- Emitters need to be CPU sim
- Materials should be opaque or masked, and its color is output to BaseColor
- NiagaraComponent needs to be attached to an Actor
- Engine-provided Notifies in AnimComposite does not work for this.
- ATS provides an alternative for this
Output
The same spec as those without NiagaraSystems.
It means:
- Sprites have Colors/Masks and Normals (no alpha/add blend)
- Lit
How to setup
NiagaraSystem and material
NiagaraSystem needs to be deterministic.
Please check "Determinism" in emitter properties.
Blendmode of materials for renderer needs to be Opaque or Masked.
BaseColor needs to be connected.
ActorBP and Capture
NiagaraOnly Actor
Attach NiagaraComponent to plain ActorBP.
Since it doesn't have Skeletal animation, the length of animation needs to be set explicitly.
Character-Attached
Attach NiagaraComponent to SkeletalMeshComponent then it will follow skeletal mesh animations.
If you don't want Niagara effect to be always shown, uncheck "Auto Activate" and set some ComponentTag.
Then use AnimNotify_ActivateNS to turn on and off it (in AnimComposite or AnimSequence).
