Marvel's Deadpool VR: Fire, Water and Dust VFX

These are fire, smoke, water splashes and dust impacts I created for Marvel's Deadpool VR.

We took a stylized, mesh based approach to overcome the issue of overdraw being a bigger performance issue than poly-count. This also tied into the overall fun, comic book style of the game.

For fire especially, being opaque and mesh-based was a challenge. For the small fire seen in the video clip, I used a smoke sim in Houdini that I then meshed as if it were a fluid. This combined with a custom material I made in Unreal to give it a fake interior, comic-like glow helped sell the opaque mesh fires.