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Project Arcanum: Lab Tanks

During my time at Beyond FX we created an internal project for the use of our Apprentice and Junior artists to create fx in a more real feeling game dev environment. We called this Project Arcanum. I helped out in several places on this project, one of which was creating some big liquid filled lab tanks that gave off an earie, mysterious vibe. I used multiple simple methods here, the idea being that simple concepts can build off of each other to create something nice, even for a background prop piece. I created the liquid mesh, textures, materials, particles, and lighting. Lab tank static mesh was created by Bad Rhino.

Project Arcanum: Lab Tanks

Lab Tank Components

Liquid Mesh with materials applied

Upward moving bubble particles

Floating bubbles and foam particles on liquid surface

Custom user parameters for enabling/disabling elements and setting liquid/bubble color.

Bubble Particle Material: Bubble UV's.

Bubble Particle Material: Bubble UV's.

Bubble Particle Material: Bubble color and opacity.

Bubble Particle Material: Bubble color and opacity.

Tank Liquid Material: color, opacity, and normals.

Tank Liquid Material: color, opacity, and normals.

Tank Liquid Material: WPO

Tank Liquid Material: WPO

Foam Particle Material

Foam Particle Material

Light Function

Light Function

Blueprint: Setting and exposing custom parameters

Blueprint: Setting and exposing custom parameters