Burrowing snake VFX

By using the DitherTemporalAA node in the material graph for the flipbook smoke texture as opacity, I was able to make the effect appear more "sand-like".

Dithered material

Bursts of stretched-out smoke and particles that follow along a spline.

Additional textures used in the VFX

Blueprint for spawning and turning the snake mesh into a spline-mesh. Getting the spline distance and tracing/moving the mesh along the spline with a timeline.

while also spawning Niagara systems and camerashake-blueprints

The splines in question.

The snake mesh

Big inspiration came from Black Desert with the hashashin class