Dissolve Any Mesh

All-in-one solution for disintegrating any kind of mesh (static mesh / skeletal mesh, nanite / non nanite, tiny / big) with minimal effort. Easily customize presets via the 70 user-exposed parameters. Game-ready, high-quality optimized Niagara VFX.

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Description

UE4.26 & 4.27 versions released!

QoL update released for all other versions!

⚠️Please read the description and watch the trailer video before purchasing this asset pack.

✨ Use the provided dissolve manager to increase the visual quality of your projects: dissolve meshes any way you want! Burn them to ashes, make them turn to dust, stone, gold, and many more possibilities. Unlike most dissolve effects, Dissolve Any Mesh doesn’t require to create a bespoke VFX for each mesh.

Scalable for real-time performance and cutscene quality.

Watch the Trailer (musics not included in the pack).

Download the Demo executable (please note the demo executable uses Lumen so the framerate might vary depending on your PC specs, but this asset pack can be used without Lumen in your projects).

✔️ Compatible with any mesh (static mesh / skeletal mesh, nanite / non nanite, tiny / big, with any number of materials) with minimal effort. Easily customize / create presets via the 70 user-exposed parameters.

No advanced blueprinting knowledge required to use this visual effect and its dissolve manager / dissolve showcase. Just place the provided dissolve material function in the materials of your mesh and select said mesh in the dissolve showcase to test it… And voila!

Does not require plug-ins.

Watch the video Tutorial on how to set up a character’s assets.

Watch the video Tutorial on how to dissolve a mesh in a sequence.

See the screenshot of how to render dissolving meshes in Movie Render Queue. (replace BP_Game Mode_Dissolve with your own game mode if you have implemented the DissolveMesh function in it).

⚙️ This dissolve effect works in editor mode / play mode and in packaged builds.

I’ve only tested packaging for Windows but I can’t think of any reason why this pack would not work on current gen (PS5 & Xbox Series X/S).

Join the Discord community and access private channels linked to this pack.

❓ If you have questions, requests or need support in using this pack, the best approach is to post in the Questions tab of this page so that others can see my response as well. Otherwise please contact support@digit-atlantis.com and I’ll reply as soon as possible.

Some meshes seen in the pictures are not included in this pack (they are free assets that you can get on the Epic Games Launcher).

Please leave a review on the marketplace to let me know what you think of this pack.

Technical Details

Documentation

Number of Blueprints: 5

Type of Emitters: GPU

Number of Unique Effects: 2 (13 different examples of customization on 9 example meshes)

VFX LODs: Yes

Number of Materials: 1 Material, 4 Material Instances for particles

Number of Textures: 2

Number of Unique Meshes: 1 low poly mesh for particles

Supported Development Platforms: Windows

Network Replicated: No

⚠️Only non nanite meshes can have Masked materials in UE5.0 (this is a limitation of the engine version, not this pack). But nanite meshes can use the “Instantaneous” spawn type to replace the mesh with particles instead of dissolving it over time.

⚠️Dissolving translucent meshes and instanced foliage actors won’t spawn particles.

⚠️Some optional features require to Generate Mesh Distance Fields.

Supported Engine Versions

4.26 – 4.27, 5.0 – 5.3