Stylized Water Tornado Material
Stylized water material done in Unreal. It was inspired by this concept art made by Jeanluc Kol (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4XODY2). I didn't get to make all the secondary effects, only the main water material, so it's not a 1-to-1 replica.
Also it wasn't made for any game or isn't being sold anywhere, it's just a study!
Playing with parameters!
Playing with other parameters!
Short breakdown of the material. Mixing a fresnel and a twisted texture to get the bade colors
Used a fresnel done with tangents and a high frequency texture to create fake speculars
Added foam and sampled its texture twice to create fake shadows
Used a Add/Sub formula with the noise texture and the fresnel to get the alpha
Similar fresnel technique for getting bright edges