Thanks for watching! :) And thank you for the great method! Olusia is looking great so far, keep it up! I love roguelikes ;)

@@underscore00 is there a reason you use the nodes 'subtract AB' 'abs' 'vector length' rather than the single 'distance AB' material node in your blog post write up?

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Thank you! been looking all over for that answer!

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Something like this: imgur.com/a/mR5XNOv

@@JAMbosco It works, thanks man!

@@AJeyLMFAO Welcome mate

@@JAMbosco can you tell me how to add a glow around the edge? Or just the color at the edges of the sphere?

@@AJeyLMFAO Will look upon that and tell you, I'm also interested in something like this !

Could you happen to help me out lol?

@@RogueTurkey ???

Yeah lol

Go on...???

It’s just not working lol

PS nice window layout

Ended up going a different route. I compared the distance between CameraPos and PlayerPos to the distance between CameraPos and AbsWorldPos, If it was less I just passed white, but if greater I took the angle between the CameraToPlayer vector and the CameraToPixel (AbsWorldPos) divided it by the max degrees I wanted to expose around my character (15) and then clamped result between 0 (or whatever fade I wanted) and 1. Different route, but was the only way I could get the same effect without being locked to the camera view. Now if follows my character around behind objects even if I'm in headset looking away from it. Hope that helps if anyone is doing this effect in VR, if you have any questions hit me up and I'll share a blueprintue pastebin

go into the Mesh I think and make collision custom then tick ignore visibility

I kinda did it, but its centered in the camera view, is there any way to make it follow the hand? As if the effect is between the wrist and the camera?

In theory an orthographic camera is infinitely pulled back and zoomed in. Probably because of it's nature the camera position isn't calculated correctly.

Where you able to do it?

Yes you can! I chose a masked material for performance reasons, but you can set the material to translucent if you like. You can also use a node called 'DitherTemporalAA' that will add graded opacity to masked materials without losing functionality by changing it to translucent :)

@@underscore00 thanks for reply. That works well, the issue i have tho is my whole terrain is translucent now heh. The things to be occulded at mostly terrain that runs from one material.

@@underscore00 MY GOD SIR! You are absolutely the bees knees!

Hello, did you manage to fix this by any chance?

@@bernardgra yes i did! :)

@@MadaoKing I am having a similar issue. How did you manage to fix it?

@@bernardgra I missed one variable in it. happened when i try to skip steps

@@MadaoKing I see. I think my problem comes from the fact that my camera fis finda fixed in the center of the screen and the character is not always in the center :/

Hey, I've not tried fog of war myself, but if you want to try it yourself, my initial thoughts would be learn how snow trail textures work and you could probably adapt that to a map for fog of war.

Theres a free one on the marketplace now by VAFogOfWar that works pretty nice, but it's a plugin.

Hi! Sounds like you need to look into animation re-targeting! That's where you take the animations from one character and re-target them to the skeleton of a different character. Is that what you're trying to do?

Yes! You can convert the material to translucent and then use the opacity pin (instead of opacity mask) and then use a clamp node to increase the minimum to a value above 0. This also opens you up to using soft edges and other effects, but you might notice a slight hit to performance.

Hey, you ever get this resolved? I'm having the same issue where it appears behind my player if the camera is not centered directly over them.

@@jonzcrypto kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a79hjc1mzb7Iiqs.html I find this one easier to follow, even though it's in what I think is Russian lol

If you use it like in the video, the performance impact should he negligible. If your experience a frame rate drop, let me know and we can discuss the specific case :)

Hmm interesting. Are you saying the panner doesnt work in the editor or when you play the game? It sounds like your editor is potentially not set to real-time. If that's not the case then I'll have to investigate, I havent followed this in 5.3 yet. Thanks for the thoughtful comment :)

@underscore00 I've actually had to read some pretty obscure articles but it seems that a scalar parameter (fed from MPC) is understood by the panner to be a 'fixed' number, i unplugged the speed and multiply and just fed it a .1 on x speed and it works. Maybe this is a change in 5.3? i.e the panner can also be used to offset the uv coords, not just animated panning. Not sure, but thanks for your time.

@@studiotkt2991 ah interesting, I hadn't noticed that! Might be worth making an update video about

@@underscore00 I think it would benefit new users especially to make a new video ( more likes the better am i right :) ? ). I mean a few nodes have changed, for example, the 'absolute world position' node now has split struct pins so you can choose which axes to take, ultimately meaning you don't need to 'transform vector' anymore. Little things like that would confuse a newbie. As I said, i have been using unreal from 4.6, i moved from unity when i heard murmurs of nanite being developed and OMG am i glad i did. Moving to materials without tessellation was a shock to me, it made sense for high poly models in the nanite system, however, characters aren't supported within nanite, so doing away with tessellation/heightmap in this instance, in the knowledge that nanite will eventually include characters, probably wasn't their best move. I know a lot about unreal, but i am sooooooooooooooooooo far away from knowing everything. Point being, i thank you once again for making specific videos, but more importantly, with specific titles. Searching for what you need in unreal, is a completely different vocabulary for searching a unity vid.

Its a masking material, so you only need whatever nodes are plugged into 'opacity mask' to make the effect work. This means you can pretty easily adapt your existing materials by selecting the main output node and changing the domain to 'masked'. Hope that helps :)

@@underscore00 Thank you for the reply, I realized that after a little playing around :) I was using pre made assets and didn't know how to get it to work with them (Still don't) so I am making my own :)

@@underscore00 Great tutorial I wish this part was in the video but really glad you responded. So we have to go into each material for each object and add the "occluder_MF" into the mask plug? Thanks again a lot of us are really new and all these little steps really matter!

The channel is growing slowly :) The best thing you can do to help is to share videos far and wide and get as many eyes on it as possible! No pressure though, thanks for watching :)

@@underscore00 ok ill tell my friends to subscribe to you

Okay I got this.. Using multiply *face palm* xD

@@JAMbosco thats exactly what I wouldve suggested :)

@@JAMbosco Wish I read this comment three hours ago.

Can you elaborate please? I have foliage that already has an Occlusion Mask node, without it plugged in the leaves are a globby mess, how do I input both of them into the Occlusion Mask input?

AAAhhhh I mixed it with the "MultiplyVectorWithQuaternion" node, it works! :D