Introducing EasyRain for Unreal Engine 5

Easy Rain allows artists to create highly-realistic rain using a Blueprint system and harnessing Niagara particles. With it, you can create light rain, or stormy summer downpours in seconds. Easy Rain is aimed for both Games/Realtime, Offline Rendering, and runs well on lower-end GPU's. This video helps you get started and integrating Easy Rain into your Unreal Engine 5 projects.

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro
00:57 - Into Unreal
01:54 - Using EasyRain
03:13 - Interiors
03:30 - Making EasyRain look its best
04:43 - Rain Curtains
05:26 - Material Functions, Landscape Puddles, Droplets/Leaks
08:11 - Animating values, Tick Rate
08:30 - Tips for Movie Render Queue/Cinematics usage
10:03 - Technical Limitations/Caveats (Troubleshooting)

[WilliamFaucher]

This pinned comment is where you can leave suggestions/things you want to see in future versions of EasyRain! Would love to hear what you guys would like to have/how things could be improved.

[Nodia]

That moment when I just hit the “buy asset” button immediately, no matter what's inside. William - thank you! You're awesome.

[KyleAllenMusic]

The work you do is always mind blowing to me. The indie game dev community doesn't deserve you and we're grateful to have you.

[Victor-xykj]

Dude, all your plugins are made so professionally and easy to use and when I was watching your video I was like: "Oh this would cost like 200$, or smth..." But it actually costs only 20$ for artists to use. I just wanted to say a big thank you for your work towards the community and THANKS for helping artists!

[solofilmmaking]

“I just finished my film after using the ‘Easy Snow’ plugin for 4 months. Now, I have a lot of ideas for ‘Easy Rain.’ Thanks, William, for the inspiration!”🎉

[MartinAaberge]

Yeah. This will be in 100% of all Unreal Artist toolbags out there. Great work!

[Wardson]

Instant pick. The amount of adjustable options really goes to show how this tool was crafted by a master. Thanks a lot!

[sveneschCOM]

Honestly, now the time has come to raise you up to the sky, William! I am really following your work and your tutorials for a very very long time now and what I especially love is your passion and your approach to always create great stuff for using UE as magical realtime 3D tool for filmmakers. Keep on going! Best!

[MosquitoforkFilms]

These addons for Unreal under the "easy" tagline are one of, if not the most useful and powerful plugins I have ever bore witness to in the unreal engine cinematics space. Their straightforward and open-ended nature make them a must have for every single one of my scenes, and I couldn't imagine creating a scene without using them in some capacity. I had high hopes that an easy rain addon would be created, and my prayers were answered in spades! My hopes for the future now only consist of an easy leaves and an easy birds plugin, and then the perfect ensemble of Unreal Engine cinematic enhancers will finally be in our grasp. Your contributions to my and many others scenes have been indispensable, and for that, I must provide my everlasting thanks!

[stefevr]

Your stuff is constantly high quality, as someone who has made rain many many MANY times since unreal 4.11 this is absolutely the way to do it and all wrapped in a convenient system, awesome!

[revisualisation]

At first I didn't understand why it was needed if there was already UDS, but there are so many improvements here that it's worth every dollar, thanks!

[judasthepious]

nice timing.. it rains on November

literally watching this while it's raining outside of my house

[davidcroucher]

Thank you so much not just for this video, and the product itself, but also for the more than reasonable price tag. Being set during a storm is major plot point of my game and you just saved me weeks, maybe months of work. Amazing.

[JoshuaMKerr]

Incredible work Will. I'm always in awe of the work you do.

[RoyWae]

Thank you William for all your uploads and plugins. Purchased everything you have on FAB /UE marketplace. Your tutorials helped me to get into RealityCapture a year ago, I made some really nice 3d scans and renderings of local objects and buildings since, and now I'm about to start my own 3D buisness after 20 years of hobby design. Thank you so much, without your help I wouldn't be where I am now! 👍

[LarsStrandenArt]

This looks amazing, Will! I can't count the amount of times I could've used something like this in the past. I've delivered rain shots that ended up in theatres that didn't look even half as good as this 😄Fantastic job!

[zyapguy]

At first I thought this was going to be another one of those highly realistic, but extremely expensive assets, but I don't think I've ever seen a price thats this fair. Honestly a steal, thanks for making this, and making it affordable.

[frazaobr]

Fantastic as always, William! So much love on this one too. My suggestion for updates is bringing something where we can draw with splines to make water drip from correct corners and edges shapes, also flooding tools, small waterfalls drop for high surfaces, imagine a down hill street, where the water is going down.

[delboye]

I will happily support anything that you create, bud. Your tutorials have always been inspirational and these plugins are both awesome and incredibly accessible. Fantastic work.

[eduardosoler]

Hello William! Any plans for “EasyFire” ? ( Burnt/ember effect using MF for Materials. Particle system for fire, sparks, smoke, or similar.)

Thanks!