[FREEBIE] UE4 'Smear Frame' material effect

Kashaar

After I saw a very sweet version of a "smear frame" 3D effect on Twitter, as made popular by those awesome Overwatch animations, I thought I'd have a go at recreating it. And since I love you all, you can have it for free!

Video: https://www.facebook.com/jan.kaluza/videos/vb.531452965/10153692034062966/?type=2&theater



If you're curious how this effect is achieved, or just want to use it, you can download the project on GitHub: https://github.com/LuggLD/SmearFrame

There are a few tweakable settings, such as the scale of the noise used for modulation, velocity treshold before smearing occurs, or the angle treshold for smearing. The latter can also lead to interesting variations, such as a full object smear:



Hope you like!

mister-tea

thank you very interesting !

Brian "Panda" Choi

Oh my gosh.

Elithenia

Awesome! Thank you for sharing!

Joebewon

You wizard! 
Thanks for the share!

Tul_

That's really neat man, love it

limeforce

Wow, thanks! Both the Blueprint Component and Material Function are extremely readable too, great contribution!

ErdemArslan

just perfect

Kashaar

limeforce said:

Wow, thanks! Both the Blueprint Component and Material Function are extremely readable too, great contribution!

Very happy to hear that!
I try my best to make things dummy-proof, hehe.

Westmark

Could someone take a screenshot of the material function and blueprint? We're working with Unity3D and I'll see if it is something I can port. I might need to install UE4 and have a look for myself, but maybe not

Edit: Nvm, somebody already made it for Unity

Rogue One

Hey Westmark, care to share a link to the unity version? Cheers 

Ravenok

This is so cool I just had to try and recreate it on Unity. A pretty rough attempt but this effect is super cool.

Video:
<a title="Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPfK3YtmBpI" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPfK3YtmBpI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPfK3YtmBpI</a>
EDIT:
Fixed the link to take you to youtube instead of a failed GIF :pleased:

roumenov

You're amazing, I love you. I've wondered about something like this but hadn't gotten around to investing the time. You have saved me so much trouble and taught me so much.

_kite

I am trying to replicate the effect in Unity3D but have some problems with how to actually deform the mesh.
Maybe some of you wizards here can share some light on that matter?

Kudos

Zeozen

This looks very cool, thanks for sharing!:D Gonna test to weigh the pros n cons of doing smears by hand or dynamically.

Butthair

I just smeared pants.