I'm coming from lots of Unity experience but relatively no shader experience especially with these networks or nodes. Jumping into Unreal 4 and the basic PBL setup (Diffuse, Roughness, Metallic) what can I do to try and push more realism? Also this may be a good opportunity for other people to learn as well? I know there…
Hey everyone, I've been learning how to render in Arnold but I can't seem to find a good tutorial that talks about making procedural crevice or dirt texture (e.g. concave surfaces get a different colour than convex). I have found this: https://vimeo.com/134311814 - but I don't think it really covers what I'm asking. Is…
I have two substances I made imported into Painter. A stone material and a moss material. I want to blend these two together using the heightmap of the stone material. So the moss starts revealing itself in the lower cracks of the stone heightmap. This is easy to do in Substance designer and UE4. In designer you just…
Hey guys currently having some trouble with making an ice shader in UDK. this is sort of the effect I want. http://pixdaus.com/pics/1222389968Nsim3rt.jpg As of right now I am using a fresnel and plugging that into a square root node. I then blend that node with a heighmap and plug into my diffuse. I tried opacity but it…
Use your buffer visualization mode to check specular/roughness differences, check it under different lighting conditions (ie: when the sun is behind the grass, does it get darker than the landscape?). This is sort of to be expected, though; grass cards are generally perpendicular to the landscape so they will receive light…
Hi Jordank95. Wall dimensions question: The best way to determine the needs you are talking about is to lay these pieces out in your 3D engine. Make a 3x3m pieces and compare them to the 4x4 pieces and see what works better for your project. 4x4 might be easier if you don't want to do fractions. Also you might need less…
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