This sprint has been looked forward to for a long time. To spend two weeks to mostly add visual effects and DJ Lights that you could control through the DJ Control Panel. The first of the new DJ Lights that were added were first the Light Towers that randomly turned lights on and off as well as changed the light colors.
The pyro effect as modified to have a loop every X seconds setting in the control panel so that you could set them and they would keep repeating the pyro burst over time. Strip Lights were added that change the color and pattern in the lights using pixel mapping. Basically you identify a texture and it reads the the colors in the texture and the material uses UV scrolling to change how the lights in the strip change. This will be probably exposed the game player to use their own textures in the future. You choose which pattern to apply in the DJ Control Panel for the Strip Light.
This sprint a whole new set of menus were added that are called Visual Effects. These effects are Particle Emitters, Niagara System Effects or just blueprint programmed effects. They are controlled from the DJ panel. With this sprint we added the ability to start and kill the basic Visual Effects. The menus were all set up for each effect that so in the future we can add controls to change various parameters the control how the effects look (color, scale, brightness, etc). But, the first release just played preset parameters for each effect. Visual effects added were a Flame Pillar, three new Pyrotechnic Fountains, a Plasma Fountain, a Spreading Electric Current, a simple Explosion with smoke, Red and Green spiraling particles effect, a Confetti Cannon, Shooting Orange Lightning, a Mortar that shoots plasma bolts, a Plasma Jet, Flame Throwers, Steam Dispenser and a Matrix looking green Waterfall. Here is a video showing the Visual Effects in action.
Lastly, we hooked up Reactive Visual Effects so that are controlled from within the DJ Panel. This will allow us to use the Reactive Visual Effects that we previously developed so that they could be used as part of a DJ light show.
