Profile picture
, 4 tweets, 2 min read
My Authors
Read all threads
If you want to nicely fade out an object close to the camera in #UE4 just set the Material to Masked and run a Distance Blend into a DitheredTemporalAA node. It's a commonly overlooked technique that efficiently adds polish and it's only 4 nodes! #UETips
If you're looking to fade out an entire object or fade between LODs then use Dithered LOD Transitions with a simple checkbox. Really helps foliage!
One little "gotcha" that might pop up from using camera based fading is that shadows will now *also* fade out when close to the object. You can use a ShadowPassSwitch node to get around that.
A cool aspect of this is that you can use the ShadowPassSwitch to also fake certain effects on assets like the fabric in Gears 5.
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh.

Enjoying this thread?

Keep Current with Chris Murphy

Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

Twitter may remove this content at anytime, convert it as a PDF, save and print for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video

1) Follow Thread Reader App on Twitter so you can easily mention us!

2) Go to a Twitter thread (series of Tweets by the same owner) and mention us with a keyword "unroll" @threadreaderapp unroll

You can practice here first or read more on our help page!

Related hashtags

#UE4 #UETips

More from @HighlySpammable see all

Profile picture
Chris Murphy
@HighlySpammable
If your characters have the same general skeleton, but different proportions, don't feel like you need to make new animations. You can use Runtime Retargeting in @UnrealEngine to automatically scale selected bone movement in the animation. A little hidden away though! #UETips
Remember to keep your bone rotations the same wherever possible, just try and change translations. You can even add additional bones, like pony tails! A really useful way to debug it is the ability to show the non-retargeted animation underneath the existing one like this.
If your characters have different skeletons, but they look like they should still generally work, you can check out the Animation Retargeting in #UE4 which will then try and match the two together. Results may vary! Info for that is available here.
docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/A…
Read 3 tweets
Profile picture
Chris Murphy
@HighlySpammable
Creating an outdoor environment is both easy and hard. Getting the basics down pat is easy but if you want to make the best possible scene you're going to need to want to learn to use some of the systems built to handle them within @UnrealEngine. Time for a tweetorial! #UETips
Creating an outdoor environment doesn't start with the world, it starts with the project settings. Head to Project Settings->Rendering. Static lighting? Kill it. Having it enabled while using dynamic lighting adds overhead and you won't want lightmaps for a world that big.
We're going to have a whole lot of foliage and that would normally mean overdraw but we can enable an Early Z Pass. It works by caching the pixel distance in a pre-pass to skip occluded primitives. Setting "Mask Material only in early Z Pass" *really* helps with dense foliage.
Read 18 tweets
Profile picture
Chris Murphy
@HighlySpammable
If you're not using them already: Enable Runtime Virtual Textures in @UnrealEngine to have your foliage/environment sample the landscape beneath it to nicely blend and remove asset seams. It's really only a little bit of work to do it! Let's check out how.
Step one: Enable Virtual Textures in your Project Settings. Restart Editor. Important step.
Step two: In your Content Browser create two Runtime Virtual Textures (Under Materials and Textures) and call one Environment and one EnvironmentHeight. Set the Height RVT to "World Height" under content. I also increased the quality of my Environment RVT to 10.
Read 9 tweets

Embed code for your website

×
Follow Us on Twitter!

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just three indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!