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…
miauu's Materials Reducer allows you to find and replace all identical materials in your scene. It will compare all accessible parameters and values of the provided materials. What will be ignored are the names of the materials. You can have a bunch of completely identical materials with different names - miauu's Materials…
This is sort of like a cross-over post with a question I asked here: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/a-quick-way-to-rename-parameters-in-material-graph/1706116 But my broader question for polycount is, are there any tools or methods to improve QOL with the unreal material graph? Renaming a bunch of parameters,…
I want to replace all materials that share the same name with a single (selected) material instance. Not only the directly assigned materials but also nested materials residing in for instance; multi/sub-materials and corona layered materials and shellack and material blend material. The workflow would be: 1) select a…
might be able to get around it by using a stencil mask in the outline post process material: How to Create Masks With the Custom Stencil Buffer | Tips & Tricks | Unreal Engine (youtube.com)
alpha blending you say ? could be a sorting issue - use the opaque material on anything that doesn't require transparency. if there's an alpha test / clip / masked material use that for anything it'll work on.
It depends how photorealistic you want it to be .. if you want to really push it I dont think photosourcing the textures is the right way to go due to it being a fuzzy cloth material
the two sided foliage material might be a good option - it's a little simpler to operate than the subsurface scattering material and supports cast shadows (eg from the tent poles / stuff inside)