[UDK] planar dissolve/teleport effect

EmAr

I made this effect in the UDK material editor. I'm pretty happy with the current state of the effect so it's time to get crit's I guess

The material calculates the distance of each pixel to a plane defined by a position and a normal vector. Then generates a gradient which is used to mask a dissolve effect.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0N6j9jmdhg[/ame]

Thanks for looking

Scampbell

that is awesome i love it

maybe where it turns white make it look like its being burnt or something along those lines that might be cool. vary awesome tho

passerby

i have been trying to figure that out for ever.

so or you using the "IF" node with a pattered greyscale map for the transition? yes yes how did you generate the image to drive the transition with.

a nice addition would be to make a the edge of where hte transition hot in the emmsive cahnnel so it blooms out a bit, than in the particle editor you could do some embers to go with it.

EmAr

Thanks for the suggestions

passerby, actually there are two textures with different panner/rotator setups. One with soft black spots on a white background and one with blurred cracks. After these are composed together, they are blended with a clamped(max 1, min 0) gradient which is generated by the distance of pixels to the plane. Then both margins of the gradient are chopped off so there are 3 regions:

1)full opacity, no effect
2)effect with gradient
3)no effect, zero opacity

Thanks again for looking

Vailias

That is a nice effect.
is the monk statue actually teleporting from plane to plane? or are there two monk statues moving back and forth with linked rotation?

EmAr

Thanks Vailias:) There are two statues.

passerby

so how do you generate the gradient from the distance of pixels to the plane.

iv been trying to make a teleporting effect like the one used for hyperspace in the homeworld games.

EmAr

Hey, I made a video that explains how the material works. I hope this answers your questions better The video is in 720p:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG0OnnkseQQ[/ame]

I must speak English more frequently

passerby

EmAr wrote: »

Hey, I made a video that explains how the material works. I hope this answers your questions better The video is in 720p:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG0OnnkseQQ

I must speak English more frequently

thank you very much.

so the position of the plane is just keyed into a constant 3 Vector

and if i had a moving plane via mantinee i would also need to use a material intance actor to animate the constant 3 to move with the real object?

EmAr

You are welcome Yes, what you suggest should work.

passerby

thanks, works like a charm exactly how i wanted. now all i got to do is get a particle effect from cascade to track along the plane as it moves.