Mystic Portal 1 Create Spark Particles

To create the effect, you’ll work from the outside in. This determines how big the completed effect will be. This tutorial starts with the outside ring of the portal. You’ll learn how to create particles that loosely flow in one direction inside a large ring.

Creating the Niagara System

A Niagara System executes a state, or a visual effect (VFX). To create a Niagara System, you use an emitter to stack nodes and modules that define the Niagara particles and how they behave. To edit the emitter stack, you open the Niagara System editor (Niagara editor). Inside the Niagara editor, you can add and delete modules and define how the modules affect the particle effects.

You will create a Niagara System in the Content Browser to begin building your mystic portal. Place your visual effects (VFX) into a folder to easily find them while you’re working on your project.

Inside your VFX folder: