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A simple Burst particles created with basic niagara system

A Flip book smoke particles 

Mesh renderer for small rocks and pebbles

A simple Flouting Burst particles created with basic niagara system, using Curl noise to randomize the trail

Step up the Game - Custom Materials

Set Up Your Materials to add more details, I got these texture on the internet very easily

Set Up Your Materials just like now we normally set up particle materials but adding panner and some math magic

Shifting the RGB mask separately and recombining them will create this cool-looking visual effect. 

Here I am using Dynamic Parameter to control most of my parameters so I can later twit them in Niagara

Gradient mask to soften the edges of the mesh

apply onto the mesh ring to see the result

I made this flash of flare only 0.25 sec long, and have it size up quickly and slowly turn small to add the impact of the lighting

Here I am using the Dynamic Material Parameters to control the refraction, this allow me change the refraction over the life time of the particle with out the extra work of going in and out the blueprint, very convenient

I found these 3 flip book lighting map online, made some adjustments in photoshop

Using the Visibility Tag I was able to spawn two different sprite randomly by assigning them the visibility tag in the sprite renderer settings

Instead of using Sub UV animation to animate the flipbook, I and using the SubimageIndex from Particle Parameters that give me more control how the Sub UV is played, like this float from Curve will give different play speed to the UV, and select Float from Array can play UV animation from two different frame

Remove the rocks, smoke, Decal, flouting particles and set every thing else play in REVERSE

Set Up an other empty Blueprint

Use the Get All Actor Of Class to as target to spawn Secondary Lighting VFX

Put in some camera shake to increase the impact of the lighting