Unreal Engine Volumetric Fog

Bring cinematic atmosphere and depth to your Unreal Engine environments with this fully customizable Volumetric Fog Material.

This material is perfect for game developers, environment artists, and filmmakers looking to enhance their scenes with dynamic fog that reacts to surfaces and lighting.

Whether you're building a misty forest, a mysterious cave, or a stylized landscape, this asset gives you the creative flexibility to get the look just right.

What’s included

An Unreal Engine project including:

• The fog material and material instances.
• The example level displayed in the video.

There are 2 material versions.

• WITH distortion control.
• WITHOUT distortion control.

Key Features

• Free updates.
• Fully customizable fog layers — blend up to 3 detail layers for rich, layered visuals

• Wind-reactive simulation — directional movement with adjustable speed and Z lift

• Surface-aware behavior — fog dynamically adjusts around objects and terrain
• Color gradient controls — artistic control over top/bottom coloring and blend height

• High-performance options — supports quality tweaking via console variables
• Distortion controls — add subtle motion and shape complexity for realism
• Modular material instance — tweak settings in seconds to fit any scene
• Includes demo scene setup and recommended console commands for high-quality results

Compatibility

All Unreal Engine 5 versions.

Licenses

Indie: For an individual creator or a small team with not more than $100k of revenue or funding in the last 12 months.

Studio: For studios or other entities with over $100k in revenue or funding in the past 12 months.

This material was crafted to save you hours of complex shader work — so you can focus on making stunning worlds. Whether you're a solo dev or part of a studio, this is a plug-and-play solution you can trust.