Layered materials - performance cost?

dzibarik

I've seen the new video about soon to be available Substance Painter plugin which allows to plug masks from Painter directly into material shader in Unity. I was wondering if it's the same setup that's already available in Unreal and if it comes with the same performance cost. I guess the plugin will support Unreal too, am I right?

Jerc

Unity doesn't have a visual shader editor so you still have to manually write the layered shader but yes, it's the same principle as with UE4.
We are discussing about a potential UE4 link, more details will come later.