Dissolving opaque into alpha blended

Neppari

Hello!

I'm playing around with dissolve effects and running into some problems. I have an animated model that has two materials, a full opaque toon shaded one, and a "ghost" form that's alpha blended. I'm trying to achieve a smooth dissolve between these two.

How do people generally handle these effects? Do you have two models on top of each other, and just dissolve the opaque material away, revealing the alpha blend underneath, or do you have other tricks for this?

I tried adding the materials into the same shader using different passes but it didn't quite work out as the opaque material is not alpha blended.

Any tips and tricks would be greatly appreciated!

Obscura

You can try dithering the alpha test one. It won't be fully the same, but it should be at least a step closer.

Yes, 2 overlapping meshes is usually the way.

Eric Chadwick

I would make two versions of the toon shader, one with alpha blending. Swap shaders at the start of the blend. Which engine is this? We have subforum for Unreal or Unity.