Hey Guys,

I wasn't sure where to post a tutorial at. I remember seeing a Tutorials thread buy i couldn't find it.

Anyways I just finished this tutorial Series. It's 7 Parts long and goes over step by step on how i created my MMO Style Ice Effect. I realized during Post Production that I really didn't explain things that would have been explained in a Beginners Tutorial, so If yo don't know anything i suggest checking out 3DBuzz's stuff.

Here's the Intro for a preview

You Tube

Tutorial Difficulty : Intermediate
Requirements : Familiarity with the UDK and Unreal Cascade

Introduction
Part 1 - Master Material Setup
Part 2 - Ground Mist
Part 3 - Rising Mist
Part 4 - Ice Spike Material
Part 5 - Ice Spike Setup
Part 6 - Ice Chunks
Part 7 - Ground Runes

You can find the Complete .rar file below which includes all 8 videos and the project files...


http://www.virtuosicstudios.com/Ice_...ctTutorial.rar


Enjoy guys :-)

Awesome Virtuosic, this was probably my fav of your mmo effects so it should be cool to watch how you did it. Thanks for taking the time to make this .

this looks awesome thanks for putting it together ill download it and try it out tonight

Thanks for sharing.

awsome!!! perfect timing! we have an assignment due this week to create our own particle effects! thanks!

Great work man!

Can't wait to watch it all!

cool man, i was wondering how you did the runes, now i'll soon know. thanks for sharing dude!

Great! Thanks for listening to my/our request and doing this man, will be trying it asap!

Cool stuff man and thx for the hard work.

Much appreciated, it looks fantastic. Thanks for your time and for sharing.

Thanks Virtuosic! Really cool of you to give away tutorials

No problem guys, it is my pleasure. After everything the polycount community has done for me I figured I'd try and give a little bit back. I hope that the tut isn't too hard to follow! I moved pretty fast and screen resolution wasn't the best. It'll be better next time I promise!

Nice Ryan! You should post this on the udk documentation forums where I have been putting up my UDK tutorials

UDK Documentation section: http://forums.epicgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=371

Awesome dude!!!

Very nice, going to work through this today.

Thanks again guys...

I'm just curious if anyone has tried doing this yet... It's my first serious tutorial and was actually looking for some comments as to what i can improve.

Thanks

I just did it! I changed it up from what you had, but same principals. awsome tutorial!

might wanna remember what part you are working on though. haha! the first 3 parts you said "ok, ill see you in part 3" at the end of part 3. haha! good laugh. but no, the tutorial itself was goood! I had to play through a few parts a couple times though cause it went really fast. mainly the setting up the ice material.

question though. say i wanted to make the ice pop out in a circle. but not all over the place. say i wanted to do it in an o shape? nothing in the middle. is that possible?

also, if thats possible. is it possible to make them all point outwards? in a perfect circle?

Thanks slip

That's a good question, i know you could be able to make them appear in an O shape by using a Cylinder node and checking "Spawn on surface".. that would make sure that they spawned in the O shape you were looking for, you could just adjust the radius of the cylinder untill it was the way you wanted it. As for each of them pointing outwards, that's a different story... as of now i don't think there is any way to do that, but i'll tinker around with it and let you know.

Thats real generous of you ryan. I know how much goes into a tutorial (fuck its what i have to do at work for the next 3 months atleast) and kudos to you for finishing it and giving it away!

*presses imaginary thanks button*

It's just fantastic when people do things like this. Will come in handy for alot of people.

man thanks a bunch !!!

I'll let you know when I have time to play around with this

OMG thanks I saw the youtube video but I didn't see a link to this page.
^^ thank you.

Is there another place I can go to download this tutorial. The link appears to be dead

Not trying to bump, but this looks like a great reference and the link has been dead for at least a month :-(

any news?

is it possible for someone to re-upload the rar file. I would like to check out his tutorial.