Exaro Fire & Smoke Essentials: 45 Niagara Fire, Smoke, Explosion and Dust Effects with Drop-in Blueprints

Fire, smoke and explosions for games, ready to drag into any Unreal Engine 5.7 or 5.8 level.

The effects: 45 Niagara effects in five families, plus a Niagara master per family to make your own. Vehicle fire: engine-bay flames, a black smoke plume, a burning tyre, flames with embers and the burnout. Open fire: a campfire, a brush fire line, a fuel pool fire and a fuel flare-up. Smoke and steam: chimney smoke, an industrial stack and vent steam, calm or leaning in the wind. Explosions: a ground burst, an airburst, a fireball and a low ground blast, from 1 m to 25 m. Dust: impact puffs and the kick-up behind a vehicle. Each is a flipbook rendered from a fluid simulation and plays as a single sprite, cheap enough for gameplay. Flames keep their orange-to-yellow gradient under the engine's auto exposure and bloom, day or night.

The Blueprints: drop BP_Fire, BP_SmokeColumn, BP_Explosion, BP_DustBurst or BP_BurningWreck into a level and set plain controls in the Details panel: Type, Size, Smoke or Wind, Variant, Glow, Opacity and Fade. The fires bring their own flickering point light that lights the ground and props round them, and send up glowing embers; every explosion brings a flash, hot sparks, thrown debris, a ring of dust rolling out over the ground and a scorch mark left on it, each switchable. BP_BurningWreck spreads flames over a vehicle's body under a smoke plume that rises out of them. Fires ignite and go out smoothly on a call.

The Burnable component: add BP_BurnableComponent to any actor and call Ignite, or let a hit or any damage set it alight. The fire is sized to the actor and burns round its sides as well as on top.

The systems on their own: drag any NS_ system into a level, or spawn it from Blueprint. Every system takes the same Controls colour (R glow, G opacity, B size, A fade). Each family has one master material and one Niagara master; every effect is an instance of them.

The maps: open L_FireSmokeDemo and press Play. L_FireSmokePerformance plays all 45 effects at once for profiling; L_FireSmokeExamples shows the Burnable component and each Blueprint set up; L_FireSmokeShowcase stages a few of them side by side.

A user guide ships inside the pack (FireSmokeFX/Demo/Docs). Content only, no plugins or C++.

• fire
• smoke
• explosion
• vfx
• niagara
• flipbook
• campfire
• burning car
• vehicle fire
• smoke column
• chimney smoke
• steam
• dust
• fireball
• blast
• embers
• blueprint
• gameplay
• particles
• fluid simulation
• unreal engine
• ue5
• game ready