Layered Landscape Material Setup Part 1/2 Hi again. I'm now going to try and give a breakdown of the layered material used on the landscape. I'm going to have to do it in two halves otherwise this one post will end up being too big. As I mentioned on my Artstation page for this artwork, I originally went a little overboard…
Available on the Unreal Engine Marketplace Contents: Overview - What does the shader do Initial Setup Material Overview Outline Material Greyshade Material Hatching Material Ink Material Paper Material Toon Shader Brush Stroke Material Painted Sky Material Pixelate Material Vignette Material Mixer Material Combining the…
just because it'll get you later on. games generally don't use transparent materials for leaves - instead we use alpha-clip / alpha-test. These are significantly less costly to render and sort on the GPU - the downside is that you can't have graduated transparency. it's probably a good idea to get used to using them since…
"[...] Which seems like it's bound to have inter-penetrations when it's simulated" One side might penetrate the other with such thick cloth, but these small interpenetration are a non-issue if the material isn't rendered as 2-sided (outside of perhaps some faint shadow artefacts). You could probably test this out by…
Hello, unfortunately I can’t show the current project. I will probably create a new scene when I have some free time and show it instead, since I’m not able to share the current one. Video reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5fTnIBziXc The issue with my scene is that I can’t achieve the same sense of volume as the…
Hi 3ds max 2012. Im using Neil Blevins script "Material mover" to distribute materials (around 60-190(?)) randomly to hundreds of objects in 3ds max. I have been using it for years but only using the material editor (max 24 materials) to objects. But currently i have encountered quite a big problem, and im not sure who is…
Hey Polycount, Releasing Quadify Ultra today, and wanted to share it here since this community has always been where serious topology conversation happens. https://youtu.be/1_7xRSyeLUc What it is Quadify Ultra is a retopology addon for Blender 5.0 with an ML routing engine. You select a mesh, hit Ctrl+Shift+Q, and it…
Typically you'd overlay tiling detail maps in-engine and/or secondary UVs to get things like fabric weave. I'm not a character artist so I don't know if 8 sets is too many, but my gut says it is :lol: You probably want to look into layered materials and detail maps if you're unfamiliar with the concepts. I get that its a…
not all translucent material types cast shadows - there are a a few different options that all have pros/cons the not drawing thing is a little odd - does the object disappear if an opaque material is applied? unless the asset came from the marketplace or whatever I wouldn't expect this to be a lod issue - the default…
Im having a problem with adding decals as you written: "Additive, additive blending is great for glass and wet or secondary layers on top of other materials (eyes for instance). Additive blending works by adding the specular reflections onto the render. Does not work correctly with the depth of field effect." no mater what…