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1. Re: Getting Z-Depth from another player camera in Mat editor

   

   Reply by dnc · Oct 2012 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Thanks Guys, all great and good replies. Well I have been finding that UDK's mat editor is being quite limited and as much HLSL I know it doesn't quite cut into the things I would like to be doing. We have hit on some problems and not having access to source has troubled our team, we know the effect is theoretically…

2. Re: Getting Z-Depth from another player camera in Mat editor

   

   Reply by blankslatejoe · Oct 2012 · Home› Unreal Engine

   hm...getting Zdepth from another camera? ..one way to do it would be to hook up a camera/scenecapture actor to a postproc effect that only captures scene depth, and then have that write to a render-to-texture actor...which you can then reference in your material. It might involve some scripting or kismeting to make the…

3. Re: Getting Z-Depth from another player camera in Mat editor

   

   Reply by Angry Beaver · Oct 2012 · Home› Unreal Engine

   It's not going to be as simple as you want it to be. A shader has a few processing steps. Vertex Shading -> Pixel shading -> Post processing In the vertex shading steps all the information about the verts making up a model are calculated. Then for the Pixel shading step the information about those vertices is interpolated…

4. Re: Getting Z-Depth from another player camera in Mat editor

   

   Reply by Davision3D · Oct 2012 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Possible solution: World postion in a distance node and in the other input the vector position of the other camera that you get into the material by modifying a vector parameter of the Material.