LogInEmil Anticevic shared his free custom tool.
Chaos' Fracture tools are excellent for generating destructible geometry directly in the editor, but Chaos physics can be too CPU-intensive for handling large amounts of cosmetic destruction across a scene. To solve this, Emil Anticevic developed Niagara Destruction Driver, a system that converts Chaos Geometry Collection assets into highly efficient, GPU-simulated destructible static meshes powered by Niagara particles.
Under the hood, the plug-in uses a Niagara system to simulate the physics of the fragments (bones) on the GPU, write their transforms to render targets, and finally, a vertex shader to constrain the vertices of a specific fragment to its respective bone using the render targets.
A rough roadmap is available on GitHub, outlining planned features like Nanite support, multi-level Chaos Geometry Collection handling, and more. Contributions are also greatly appreciated, so if you have ideas for improvements, feel free to fork the repo and submit a pull request.
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