NinjaPlayer

Andras Ketzer - Feb 17, 2021
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Flipbook Player with Niagara extension. Map baked simulation data on Meshes, UI and Particle Arrays. Use velocity and flow maps for advection. Learn from examples.

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  • Supported Platforms
  • Supported Engine Versions
    4.20 - 4.26
  • Download Type
    Complete Project
    This product contains a full Unreal Engine project folder, complete with Config files, Content files and .uproject file, which can be used as a template to create a new project.

Manual / Tutorial Videos


Welcome to NinjaPlayer 1.0: a generic flipbook processor mapping baked simulation data

on Meshes, UI, Particles and Niagara Particle Arrays.


  • Material Functions and Niagara Modules to build your own player systems
  • Pre-built Materials and Particle Emitters to play flipbooks instantly
  • Velocity based frame blending for smooth playback and flow effects
  • 6 Mbytes functional core that could be merged to any UE Project
  • 120 Mbytes example content with use cases and flipbooks for experimenting


For baking fluid simulation to flipbooks inside Unreal, see: NinjaTools

NinjaPlayer is included to NinjaTools. This is a standalone release.

Technical Details


  • 2 Niagara modules to directly map flipbooks on Particle Arrays - no Blueprints or Materials needed
  • 4 Material Functions to add Flipbook Player and Flowmap features to any material
  • 8 pre-built Flipbook player Base Materials
  • 40 Material Instances - with exposed Params like PlaySpeed, Colors, Tone mapping, Alpha, Refraction
  • Velocity based frame blending to slow playback - or play normally using only a few frames
  • Experimental materials using Velocity Flipbooks as animated Flowmaps
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NIAGARAFLIPBOOKFIREEXAMPLES INCLUDEDSMOKEMATERIALSNIAGARA VFXNIAGARA MODULEVISUAL EFFECTSUSER INTERFACEMATERIAL FUNCTIONS

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