Ue Niagara Effects

This one's for when you're wiring up Niagara particle systems from C++ in Unreal Engine. It covers the practical stuff: spawning effects at world locations or attached to sockets, setting User parameters at runtime (colors, vectors, scalars), binding data interfaces like SkeletalMesh or StaticMesh, and hooking into the OnSystemFinished delegate when you need completion callbacks. The context check is smart, it reminds you to verify the Niagara plugin is enabled and your Build.cs dependencies are set before you start writing code. Includes separate reference files for parameter type mapping and a data interface catalog, which saves you from hunting through engine docs when you just need to know if GPU sim supports a particular DI.

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$ npx -y skills add quodsoler/unreal-engine-skills --skill ue-niagara-effects --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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UE Niagara Effects

Target engine: UE 5.8. APIs below are verified against the 5.8 headers; older forms are listed under "Deprecated — do not use".

Niagara ships as the Niagara plugin (Engine/Plugins/FX/Niagara, enabled by default). Game code spawns and drives systems through UNiagaraFunctionLibrary and UNiagaraComponent, feeds them structured data through data interfaces and Niagara Data Channels, and controls cost through component pooling and UNiagaraEffectType scalability. Add "Niagara" to your module's PublicDependencyModuleNames, plus "NiagaraCore" when you subclass UNiagaraDataInterface.