Unreal Glass Crack & Shatter Overview
In this video we give some information about one approach on how to add a breakable glass system to your game. Note this video sets up a material and particle system for impacts not physics based glass shattering. Made in Unreal Engine 4.27.
LINKs
Different use case but similar method: [Better looking. Uses render targets.]
• ADDING DESTRUCTIBLE WALLS TO MY GAME
[31 Aug 2025 Update] A great video that gets into physics based glass shatter effects that came out after this video was released. • How I made Breakable Glass In Unreal Engine
The asset I got the particle effect from: [The ice hit particle]
https://www.fab.com/listings/ac2818b3...
A very helpful video on UV rotation materials in general:
• UV Rotation - Shader Graph Basics - Episod...
Static fractured meshes: • UE5 Fracture Tutorial - Super Easy Destroy...
DISCORD
Assets from the video are on the Discord under the asset-sharing channel.
Discord for growth and support: / discord
PAID GLASS ASSETS
Paid Assets: [I have not tested these assets out.]
• Destructible Glass
• Breakable Glass v1.5 Demo
• Next Gen Destruction Toolkit - Launch Trai...
A cool procedural glass breaking generator. [Not used in the video. A paid asset.]
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/zx...
EXTRA
Procedural fracturing systems: [Preview with no tutorial]
• Breakable Glass Test in Unreal Engine 5 (S...
• Destruction Chaos and Dynamic Mesh
Unreal form post I used browsed when researching this video.
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/gla...
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/dec...
Documentation on Unreal’s Forward Rendering system
https://dev.epicgames.com/documentati...
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