Tunnels VFX Progress 1

Below is my first progress in experimenting with VFX in Unreal Engine. I have been focusing mainly on the emissive element. For now, I've made a quick place holder mesh in Blender (tutorial here) so I can see what it looks like on a tunnel shape and size. I also downloaded coal and dirt materials from megascans to act as placeholder textures.

To achieve the lighting above, I used a combination of the 3 tutorials below:

Making Cosmic Materials: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/making-cosmic-material-ue4-vismay-soni-1c/

Flowing Noise Tutorial:

Pulsing Light:

What I'm trying to achieve for now:

• A sense of energy, that this place is alive.
• A look of something unearthly - the ethereal element to 'hellscape ethereal'

Next steps for VFX:

• Working out some colour to represent negative emotional energy - dark iridescent.
• Make the veins look like it's carrying something inside them.
• Figure out a way to make the light look like its coming from inside the wall/travelling through the rocks.