Jelly/ Slime / Goo Material help

djwiley912

I have been wanting to do something with this for a while now. I like the idea of the Jellybots by Nicholas Kole (https://www.nicholaskole.art/jellybots). 

So I have some test meshes and started the models and am looking for some help with the Material setup for the Jell in Unreal. I want to make a material that can show things inside like a person, bubbles and tech and also cast a shadow.  I can get one or the other but having a hard time making a nice in-between

I think something with a camera-based transparency would work but I don't know how to have it not cut through the mesh. Can anyone recommend a tutorial or some insight on a material setup? 

Alex_J

maybe somebody can give you a real solution, but if you can get it to look translucent but then the only hang up is lack of shadow, perhaps you can have an invisible dummy just for the shadows: 
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/make-an-object-invisible-but-with-shadows/281046

poopipe

one of the transparency types supports shadows - i think it's the forward one.  It has some limitations (possibly no support for screenspace AO) . iirc it's comparatively  expensive and unsupported in the lower material quality modes but it's probably your best bet

you'll have to compromise on something with transparency, just pick the one that looks the least crap for your situation