unreal-vfx
Unreal VFX (Niagara, Chaos destruction, VFX critique)
Version 0.1 (2026-09-24), part of Unreal Engine Expert Skills v0.1.
Expert level means an effect that tells the player the truth (where it hurts, when it is over), costs what its gameplay class allows across the whole world, and is proven by per-thread numbers on the target core count plus captures scored against a written rubric. Python cannot author Niagara emitters or modules (5.8 API): the agent works through templates with a User parameter contract, Material Instances, Effect Types and Dataflow recipes, and escalates the few graph edits as precise GUI requests.
REQUIRED BACKGROUND: unreal-expert (channels, review loop, 5.8 traps).
Status (2026-09-24): Unreal is not installed. Offline checks pass (python3 tests/code/unreal-vfx/run_all.py --offline); every in-editor snippet is not yet run in Unreal; job_00_vfx_probe.py answers the [verify] names.