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Real-time Fire, Smoke, and Explosions

EmberGen is Built for Games

We're proud to say that EmberGen is currently used in over 200 leading game studios. Our games specific workflow has been battle-tested in production for years. From fire and explosions, to energy and magical effects, realistic or stylized, EmberGen can do it. Not only does EmberGen allow for real-time iteration, but its ease of use and built-in texture export features are unparalleled.

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Effortlessly Generate Flipbooks
& Sprite Sheets

EmberGen has a flipbook workflow unlike any other visual effects package in the industry. Generate game-ready, fully assembled flipbooks in seconds, then preview your flipbook animations with our inspector tool. Need to make a change? No problem, it’ll only take a few seconds.

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Iterate with
Unprecedented Speed

We feel your pain: A single flipbook traditionally takes over a week to get right due to slow simulation times and complicated channel packing needs. We got sick of that struggle and built EmberGen to give us real-time feedback and instant exports. EmberGen uses the full power of your GPU—so that you can simulate and render sims faster than ever before.

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Instantly Export
Game Ready Data

Export an array of game-ready data types with no special setup required:.

  • Final Renders
  • Motion Vectors
  • 6 Point Lighting
  • Normal Maps
  • Depth Maps
  • & More!
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Features

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Real-time Simulations

Harness your GPU to edit simulations in real-time.

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Import Animated Meshes

Import FBX and Alembic files for use as emitters and colliders.

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Import Cameras

Import FBX cameras for pixel perfect compositing.

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Export Image Sequences & Flipbooks

EXR, PNG, TGA

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VDB Exports

Need to render your volumes elsewhere? No problem!

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State of the art Volume Rendering

Utilize our renderer for high quality results instantly.

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Looping Simulations

Tweak your simulations in real-time while looping its timeline.

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Over 100 Preset Projects Included

Learn EmberGen by dissecting our presets.

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Simple to Use Interface

The best UI you have ever used in any software, period.

From Game Studios

"It feels like cheating... I'm not spending hours tweaking settings and waiting for previews to render. It's real-time, right there, as I drag sliders finessing the final look of my effect it's happening in front of me. Then it's a simple one-click and I have a game-ready sprite sheet to use! Very well thought out program, I'm excited for my team to get to use this on our studio's games going forward."

Josh Parker

Lead Visual Effects Artist at Twisted Pixel Games

"EmberGen is a game changer for real-time VFX artists doing pyro sims for games. The production and iteration of a sim is at least 6x faster for me now. And converting that sim to a texture atlas I can test in-game is instant. I consider this a must-have VFX production tool."

Jeff Kuipers

Visual Effects Director at Alchemy VFX

"EmberGen made me feel right at home, since I’m used to procedural workflows. It's very responsive, and great fun to iterate with. It's hard to intentionally make things look bad, has tons of options to tweak and export the simulations, and a solid renderer so you know what you see is what you get. I will not be surprised if EmberGen becomes the go-to tool for VFX in the games industry, it's that good."

Käy Vriend

Game Developer & Material Artist

"I have never been able to prototype effects with iteration times this small before. The time savings are huge."

Jesper Bergman

VFX Artist at Sharkmob

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