Translucency Issue

Accipiter

Has anyone out there had similar issues as this with an Alpha placed in the Opacity channel?

My Blend Mode is set to BLEND_Translucent, which should be correct and I also have "Use Lit Translucency Depth Pass" on. Without that, I get worse results.

No matter how I rotate this object, you completely see through to the existing geometry behind it.

Is this a node issue in the material? I'm guessing you can't just slap your Alpha into the Opacity and expect it to work correctly.

I can show Material setup if needed, but it's just a common Diffuse in, Spec in, Power, and Normal, with the Alpha in the Opacity.

Santewi

Translucency in UE3 is sometimes a bit wacky... I've found that it's best to have two separate materials on the mesh in cases like this... So using two UV maps you can have a opaque material for the black part and then another translucent one for the other part.

I've never seen it get this bad though, maybe it's a problem with translucency+skeletal mesh? Does the same happen if you import the same model as static mesh?

Accipiter

Wow, what do you know!



Looks like it could just be a Skeletal Mesh issue. I might have to try the separate materials to see if that works.

Accipiter

Cools, just now getting back to this thing, but having two separate materials does solve the issue.
Thanks for your help!