Is there a manner so as to add a cloth glow to meshes with out altering each single materials that’s on a mesh?
I’m desirous to do some glows on characters and presumably another meshes, and I’m making an attempt to do it simply with supplies. I do know I may change each single materials that might presumably be modified, however that additionally would entail plenty of work for a easy impact.
So, is there a option to do one thing like this with out altering each single materials individually?
There’s a technique you may arrange by way of Blueprint, the place it mainly duplicates a skeletal mesh and mirrors the entire animations on it, which you should use as a type of “shell mesh” and apply a easy emissive materials with some world place offset to the verts (to push them out a little bit to keep away from overlap and z preventing).
Manufacturing-wise, it’s cheaper from a efficiency standpoint so as to add the glow in your grasp character/prop materials and alter it by way of blueprint or anim curve, however if you wish to keep away from that it’s potential to make use of the above technique.
I do know duplicating meshes is one thing that’s been averted purposefully, so I’ll look into doing that as a substitute. I got here right here to verify to see if anyone knew one other manner moreover these two, but when that’s my choices, then I’ll cope with them.
Thanks to your response
It actually simply relies on the mission. When you’ve got one thing like Diablo or Darktide the place you’ve gotten dozens and even a whole bunch of characters stay all utilizing that characteristic, the price will stack up fast. However when you have a recreation the place solely a small variety of cases can ever use it, like simply the principle participant, you ought to be secure
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You are able to do it as a post-process impact materials utilizing stencils
Calculate dot product from digital camera to world regular and also you get the fresnel gow, set it with an influence node for finer tuning then mix it with the ultimate body.
I used overlay mix, you should use add or different mixing strategies, additionally you may mission noises from digital camera area for extra variations.
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Thanks for that as properly and the instance. I don’t know an excessive amount of about put up processing stuff with UE, but it surely’s one thing I do know I’ve to be taught. Is put up course of materials efficiency heavy?
I’m guessing you simply specify what receives the put up course of based mostly on its stencil worth, in order that it doesn’t get utilized to all the things that’s utilizing that materials as a mother or father? Or would this want an unique materials mother or father per object you need to have an effect on?
I don’t have a lot expertise with put up course of both, so I’m making an attempt to wrap my head round the way you go about proscribing or specifying particular person issues that the put up course of impact is utilized to 
From the unreal documetation.
Hey are heavier than normal materials, however you may simply stack as much as 5 lighter supplies like this and get no efficiency points. After all it relies on the platforme.
Apply the stencil worth per object. The restrict is 255 distinctive stencils.
In principle, you cod have 255 distinctive post-process materials results in-game for varied actors.
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I figured it was one thing like that. Thanks for the information and sharing the screenshot examples 
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