Wow, thank you Colton! Yes, you're right - I tried using the node named "Light Vector" in Unreal and it didn't work so my assumption was that it wasn't available. Thank you very much for the correction and for teaching me!

@@BenCloward I love your content, Ben, and I'm always happy to help.

Thanks for the encouragement!

Since I've never used Niagara, I'm probably not the best person to make tutorials on it, but I imagine there are some good tutorials out there. This series is pretty good: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mKuHiqyHspm6nqc.html

In order to fix this, you need to set your texture sample node to clamp mode instead of wrap. The effect you're seeing is happening because the texture filtering is sampling from the opposite side of the gradient and setting it to Clamp will prevent that.

I didn't know about that, thanks so much for the tip, that fixed it!@@BenCloward

Bump. I have this same problem, when I adjust the slider, it changes the overall colour shade, not the shades as well. Can anyone help?

I think it’s a newer node so if you’re using an older version of Unity, it may not be available.

That's a pretty complex problem. I don't know of any easy solution to it.

@@BenCloward Thanks in any case! You are creating amazing video. You are really helping people learn a lot!

You may also be able to fix this by setting the texture sampler node's Sample Source to Shared: Clamp in Unreal or adding a Sampler Node in Unity and setting it to Clamp instead of Wrap. The problem is happening because the texture filtering is wrapping around to the other side of the texture when it filter's the image's last pixel.

@@BenCloward This was the perfect fix thanks Ben!

I fixed it. Thank you!

Remap is designed to convert any range to any other range - which means it has to be a bit more robust than what I'm doing - which also means it's a tiny bit more expensive than what I'm doing. Because I have a very specific case, I can apply a very specific solution that's as optimized as possible.

It’s HDRP, but you should be able to do the same thing in either render pipeline.

@@BenCloward ok ty Ben

Oh, that's a good question! I'm going to need to study that a bit to see if I can find a good way to do it. If I do, I'll make another video covering it.

@@BenCloward Thanks Ben hope you find a good menthol to share with us.

[Edit: I just remembered Ryan Brucks has a way to do it on his Shaderbits blog "Custom Per Object Shadowmaps using Blueprints", but I don't think it would be very performant on mass scale.] The only reasonable way I've found so far has been in post process by doing scenetexture::postprocess0 -> desaturate / scenetexture::basecolor -> desaturate. It's not very flexible as it only gives you white colored light, but you can still do a lot with it if you're creative / crafty. I'm currently hacking up a way to add color to the light in what should be a semi-performant way if it works, but the best way is to recompile Unreal's source and add your own custom hlsl shaders. I'm not familiar with forward rendering in UE4, but shadows might be more accessible with it. It's significantly easier to do with Unity (URP) if you're familiar with that engine at all. I tried switching over and learning it, but it would take me too long to learn anything beyond shader code.

@@whyismynametaken123 i been Trying to craft Anime,Stylized,Illustration art in UE4 but i haven't manage to created anything Similar as Unity where you can get all lights data etc w/o Limitations in UE4 i manage to craft some Toon shaders but really unhappy with the results this are the menthol i use 1) Unlit Material L.N i don't like this menthol & don't receive shadows, to receive shadows you have to created then What i Use to created then is a Funtion that created the Shadows Using the InverseTransformMatrix to Convert world space drawing coordinates to Light space coordinates (View conversion) & a Blueprint using the Scenecapture work fine but have really Hight Performance cost & at this Point is just better to created you own Light Direction, Point Light etc in the Material & can't Instance the The Blueprint for PointLights so Have to duplicate then inside the Material in order to use more than 1 Point Light, SpotLight etc 2) Another menthol is using the Normals When the Normal and the Light direction point the same direction the Object become brighter and created the effect of a Toon shading All lights will work perfectly The models will receive shadows & it look so good but the downside you can't control the shadows in artistic way & input light Specular,metallic Don't work to make them work have to use Clear coat mode material and use the dual Normal to created the Toon effect 3) Post Process can't control styles per material the Post process affect the entire scene and you can mask it using Customdepthpass but it don't matter everything using it will look the same and a bit expensive 4) recompile Unreal's source is the best menthol so far I drop Ue4 for Unity when is come to this type of shaders In Unity is just to easy you can get all Light data's etc and created unique shaders on the fly i saw Ben doing Toon shaders Tutorial in Ue4 so i was curious if there is another way to get the shadows Information

@@asap1544 Just out of curiosity what version of Unity are you using? I DL'd 2020.3 LTS and got shadow casting / receiving working using the built-in render pipeline, but could only get shadow casting to work using URP. I tried several tutorials and had issues with each. I'm either missing something important outside of the shader code or the tutorials are incorrect for the version I'm trying to use.

Should be pretty easy to make in any image editing software - Photoshop, Gimp, Substance Designer, etc.