Unreal-5: Sword Slash Materials

(MUST Have at least Unreal 5.4!)
As a big fan of Medieval Fantasy, learning to make Slash trail VFX was one of the first things I tried learning when I moved to Unreal-5. Of course, I had no idea how difficult that task really was until I hit multiple walls trying to create them. And, further more realizing that there were different types and the implementation for them was also extremely difficult to understand at first. This product was designed to simplify that burden and provide base materials for sword slash effects that could easily be modified or adjusted to suit your needs. There are three types of materials in this pack. 1: Body based trails which are directly attached to your character which I have found to be most useful for punches and kicking. 2: Weapon based trails where the trail is generated by the weapon itself instead of the body. And, 3: Sword Slash Disk type trails which are created more like traditional VFX Niagara particles.

Each of these materials has their corresponding textures organized into files, and as a bonus help-tool I've also gone in and included a test character with dummy blueprints for each effect showing you how they work in case you want to reverse engineer and learn how they are applied yourself. This product is specifically just providing you with the materials I use for my own slash FX, but I felt he blueprints would be very useful as learning materials for you, so I included them anyway. It took me months to figure this stuff out even with help from my incredible community, so hopefully with everything organized and demonstrated for you here, it wont take you as long to get the hang of it, and you'll quickly be on your way to make your sword slashes "Kool" - Regardless, I wish you the best of luck, and as always hope you have a Fantastic Day :)

Body Sword Trail Tutorial:

Weapon Based Trail Tutorial:

Sword Slash Disks Tutorial:

Updating To New Unreal Version Tutorial & Glitch Fixing:

 
---Commercial License Variant---
- Modified Default 3rd Person Blueprint (Sword Slash Combo INCLUDED)
- Custom Sword Trail Controller Blueprint (Weapon Mesh/Textures Included)
- Character FBX File (Sword INCLUDED)
- Original (Maya-File) Rig INCLUDED
     - 1 Slash Demo Timeline Animation (Frame 0 is "Rest Pose")
- The Complete UE5 Project File
     - Cloth Physics Mesh Paint Information
     - 3D Models
          Hair Mesh
          Face Mesh
          Eyes Mesh
          Eye Brows Mesh
          Eye Lashes Mesh
          Tongue Mesh
          Teeth Mesh
          Body Mesh
          Armor Mesh
          Sword Mesh
     - Number of characters: 1
     - Vertex counts of characters: 119,906
     - Vertex counts of weapons: Sword (1191), Sheath(195)
     - Animations (32)
          a_fallLoop
          A_idle
          A_jump
          A_land
          A_powerWalk0F
          A_powerWalk1FR
          A_powerWalk2R
          A_powerWalk3BR
          A_powerWalk4B
          A_powerWalk5BL
          A_powerWalk6R
          A_powerWalk7FL
          A_run0F
          A_run1FR
          Eye Lashes Mesh
          A_run2R
          A_run3BR
          A_run4B
          A_run5BL
          A_run6L
          A_run7FL
          A_slash9
          A_slash10
          A_slash11
          A_walk0F
          A_walk1FR
          A_walk2R
          A_walk3BR
          A_walk4B
          A_walk5BL
          A_walk6L
          A_walk7FL
          A_SweepKickL
     - Animation Montages (4)
          AM_slash9
          AM_slash10
          AM_slash11
          AM_sweepKickL
     - Number of Materials and Material Instances: 18 (Custom) 7 (Baked)
          -Slash Materials-
          M_bodyTrail
          M_slashF
          M_fireSlash
          -Character Materials-
          M_bodyLeotard
          M_dressArmor
          M_eyes
          M_face
          M_hairR
          M_lashesBrows
          M_teethTongue
          MF_body
          MF_CustMatScratchDirtBase
          MF_detal
          MF_dirt
          MF_Leotard
          MI_bodyLeotard
          MI_dressArmor
          M_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_M_eyes_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423
          M_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_M_face_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423
          M_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_M_hairR_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423
          M_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_M_lashesBrows_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423
          M_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_M_teethTongue_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423
          M_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_MI_bodyLeotard_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423
          M_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_MI_dressArmor_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423
      - Number of Textures: 27 (Custom) 16 (baked)
          -Slash Textures-
          T_bodyTrailMask
          T_slashVoronoi
          T_fireMask
          -Character Textures-
          T_archerHairAO
          T_archerHairC
          T_archerHairN
          T_archerHairORDB
          T_archerTeethTongueC
          T_Body
          T_bodyORE
          T_dirtC
          T_dirtN
          T_dressArmorN
          T_eyesColor
          T_faceC
          T_faceN
          T_leotardAO
          T_leotardBA
          T_leotardC
          T_leotardN
          T_swordC
          T_SwordMaidenCID
          T_swordMaidenORE
          T_swordMaidenRGB1
          T_swordMaidenRGB2
          T_swordN
          T_swordORE
          T_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_M_eyes_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423_BaseColor
          T_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_M_face_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423_BaseColor
          T_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_M_face_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423_Normal
          T_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_M_hairR_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423_BaseColor
          T_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_M_hairR_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423_Normal
          T_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_M_hairR_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423_Roughness
          T_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_M_teethTongue_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423_BaseColor
          T_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_MI_bodyLeotard_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423_BaseColor
          T_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_MI_bodyLeotard_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423_Metallic
          T_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_MI_bodyLeotard_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423_Normal
          T_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_MI_bodyLeotard_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423_Roughness
          T_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_MI_dressArmor_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423_BaseColor
          T_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_MI_dressArmor_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423_Metallic
          T_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_MI_dressArmor_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423_Normal
          T_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_MI_dressArmor_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423_OpacityMask
          T_M_SM_swordMFBX-Baked_MI_dressArmor_EE69FDED47FEBD6826ED6DA320394423_Roughness
     - Niagara Particles: 6
          NS_fistTrailL
          NS_fistTrailR
          NS_footTrailL
          NS_footTrailR
          NS_slashF
          NS_weaponTrail
     - Curve Atlas: 2
          CA_bodyTrail
          CA_fireSlash
     - Curve Color: 2
         CB_bodyTrail
         CB_fireSlash
     - Texture Resolutions: 4K (Custom) 2K (Baked)
     - Features:
          Rigged
          Fully Compatible with default UE5 Animations/Blueprints
          Fully Textured
     - Materials Included: YES
     - Rigged: Yes
     - Rigged to Epic skeleton: Yes
     - IK bones are included: Yes
     - Animated: Yes (Has Access to all default UE5 Default Animations)
     - Number of Animations: UE5 Default
     - Animation types: UE5 Default
     - Supported Development Platforms: Unreal Engine 5.1
- Windows: Yes