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AI Niagara
Niagara VFX tooling — list Niagara system assets, inspect a system’s emitters, and spawn a Niagara component into the editor world.
At a glance
Install
Requires the base plugin UnrealMCP. After installing, reopen the editor so the new tool family appears in the agent's list.
unreal-mcp-cli
unreal-mcp-cli install-extension com.ivanmurzak.unreal-ai-niagara <UEProject>When to ask the AI for it
Ask when you want to survey a project’s Niagara systems or drop a VFX system into the level for a quick look.
Not sure if it's installed? Ask the agent
"Do you have Niagara tools available?" — the niagara- tools only exist when the package is present.Example prompts
Copy-pasteable first requests. Start with one, verify it in the editor, then build up.
List every Niagara system and show me the emitters in NS_Fire.Spawn NS_Fire at the world origin.