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Simple Billboard Baker Tool
Documentation & Dev Log Check out the project if you haven’t seen it yet:Simple Billboard Baker You can get the plugin from here:Simple Billboard Baker Tool – Unreal Engine The Tool Introduction I recently picked up again a Vines Roots Generator tool I worked on years ago, to finish developing some features and went down…
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Simple Billboard Baker Tool
Content Plugin A Simple Billboard Baker Tool for Unreal Engine packaged as a Content Plugin, that captures and bakes to textures the GBuffers Layers.The tool works by simply positioning the subject actors in front of the SceneCaptures cameras and using an Editor Utility Widget to adjust some settings and Bake the textures. The tool also…
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2D SDF – Advanced Shapes
Material Function Library UE5 The last piece of my 2D SDF library.All of the advanced shapes you can see in this post are coming from Indigo’s Article (+ShaderToy), please check it out:2D distance functions I’ve only recreated them in Unreal’s Material Graph using nodes, it was a lot of fun and a great way to…
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2D SDF – Gradient/Flowmap and AA technique – Material Function Library
Introduction In this post, I’ll show you how you can create a gradient from a 2D SDF and how it can be used as a flowmap in the material to warp a texture or in Niagara to drive the location of particles! I’ve also added a bonus section about Anti Aliasing, something that I haven’t covered before.If you haven’t seen…
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2D SDF – Manipulate Space
Material Function Library UE5 wip – migrating content
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2D SDF – Manipulate Space – Material Function Library
Introduction This is the third part of a series of posts about 2D SDF, check out the first one where I show some simple shapes and explain the basics to visualize them, and the second one where I show different ways to combine them!I think it’s very useful and valuable knowledge for every Technical or Environment Artist, but really for anyone that…
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2D SDF – Combine Shapes
Material Function Library UE5 wip – migrating content
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2D SDF – Combine Shapes – Material Function Library
Introduction This is the second part of a series of posts about 2D SDF, check out the first one where I show some simple shapes and explain the basics to visualize them!I think it’s very useful and valuable knowledge for every Technical or Environment Artist, but really for anyone that works with materials.In this post, I will…
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2D SDF – Basic Shapes and Visualization – Material Function Library
Introduction I’ve been working on a Material Function Library for 2D Sign Distance Field that contains shapes and relative merging and manipulating operations.I think it’s very useful and valuable knowledge for any Technical or Environment Artist, but really for anyone that works with materials. There will be a few posts about this topic, in this first one, I will…