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Niagara VFX Butterfly

Hello this is how I did the VFX for the butterflies on the VFX template scene post on which I will continue to update in the future.
I used 3 mask for each channel of the butterfly texture, blue fot the wave fot the wing to flap, red for the butterfly b&w texture and Green for the butterfly mask. Then I use a gradient texture for the color. For the mesh I tried to adapted to the butterfly form the most I could while still keeping it loppoly to avoid some overdraw.
What I struggle the most with was to make the flight of the butterfly smoothly but also irregular.The combination of the vortex force, curl noise and point attraction modules seem to do the work quite nice.
In the future I will probably add a texture to make the edges of the butterfly glow.
On the VFX I restricted the butterfly haight a bit so that it didn´t couse problem with the ground.
I had a lot of fun doing this and I hope you like it. I'm pretty new with this but if you have any question or suggestion please feel free to comment or DM me, Thank you!

Butterfly VFX

Butterfly VFX set up

Butterfly VFX set up

Butterfly material

Butterfly material

Star material

Star material

Butterfly Mesh

Butterfly Mesh

Butterfly color gradient

Butterfly color gradient

Butterfly Texture

Butterfly Texture