Unreal Engine Lightning Fast

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Lightning Fast
is a powerful combination of materials and blueprints that implement a wide range of realistic and stylized electricity effects. There are multiple ways of using the Lightning Fast in games and movies starting from lightning bolts in the background flashing lightning bolts during a storm through electric fences to the devastating lightning guns and spells. This system is designed in mind to achieve all those effects on high performance and AAA quality at the same time.

Supported effects:

flashes/bolts/strikes
beams/chains/splines
discharges/electrocute/volume/fences
trails/ribbons

Character skills:

lightning gun
lightning trail in the slow-motion run
lightning AoE
hit/electrocute reactions

The
Lightning-Fast Mesh
combined with
Lightning Fast Material
has some useful features and properties that are very important in VFX production.

can be used with spline meshes
can be scaled and keeps the proper shape
can be used in particle system
can be watched from every angle

Update 1.1

Added network replication
New ambient light in lightning bolts

Technical Details

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Features:

GPU friendly and optimized for all platforms
Wide range of high-quality effects
Two types o beam rendering (spline mesh/bi