bro looks like antony starr

Thank you for the tutorial. Is there any way to use it with custom wheat mesh ?

Is there a way to keep the color? So it's not replaced by black and white

Edit: I had a multiply node instead of a max node in the final section of nodes in the outlines. After finishing the video, the outlines aren't working. I've triple checked all nodes and connections as well as the Laplacian filter, no idea what's wrong as viewing just the outlines shows them to be working despite not being visible with the whole shader. On further inspection they seem to be "visible" but transparent, no idea what's wrong as every single parameter and node are the same. Any ideas?

Great video. I LOVE that you show things being implemented and pause to discuss things. Thank you both for spreading knowledge!

Underrated tutorial, underrated youtuber

Awesome, very in depth stuff! I just downloaded UE yesterday, so I'm jumping in the deep end a bit. I'm up to the 5:15 mark, but I'm having the jittering issue that others have mentioned. It looks like in 5.4 there's no longer an option to blend it before tonemapping. Is there any advice you could offer to get around that, or should I just use an earlier version of the engine?

trying to replicate the material function but it seems i fail. It always remains black and thef inished shader is nowhere soft in the viewport... and the outline gumroad file also renders awful. Whats with the settings.

My mom has been telling me to learn how to code for years, I was sure that it was a waste of ti,e and energy, amd also that I would have to get a degree in computer science to be able to understand what I am doing. You some how proved my mom right and not make me mad in the process, LOL Thank you so much for holding my hand while navegating the most shallow (but still scary) waters of coding.

this is amazing! Thank you for this tutorial 😍

Hi-Fi Rush was made in Unreal and they made a really interesting GDC talk about how they did it (it's quite recent). Would love to see tutorials based on that talk.

How can I render the game at higher resolution so there's no blurry pixels?

Am I crazy that I see a weird big line that follows the camera? it's at a somewhat 'far' enough distance to look like a shadow from something but its there all the time

This is Gold! thank you guys!

So basically, to follow this tutorial, I need to purchase the file for 50€ + VAT?

I'm noticing some shadows glitching when I put the shader together. It's like the shadows are rotated on alternating polys. I think my post keeps getting removed because I had a link to the picture, DM for it. I'm not sure if it's a DX11 issue but DX12 doesn't help.

The innermost secrets of the Epics have been merged!

the sample project is gone 💀

So I implemented bicubic filtering via a custom HLSL node, and find that the visual pros sink against the performance cons. I had a nifty and optimized material that transitioned between nearest neighbor, bilinear (default) and bicubic based on distance. The extra taps for many textures in an actual game scene? More costly than using a better looking 64x64 detail texture or other techniques. As much as I love my alternative filtering - I've also got Lanzcos, Gaussian, etc for other uses - anyone that I had take a blind taste test of bicubic closeup versus detail texture closeup, chose detail every time. There IS however a valley in the distance blending, where bicubic looks slightly sharper, but again, there are cheap/free alternatives to the extra taps/samples required for bicubic with any variation of algos behind it. Awesome video, not shredding it with the above statements by any means. Just blathering on ;)

Jesus christ man. This feels like youtube premium. I will single handedly give you props if I get a job around this.

Is this more expensive than texture sample?

Just use Octane Render, use Lino Grandi's method. I dont understand why NPR artists are trying ot reinvent the wheel, when there's one perfect method for NPR and CGI.

does this work for world space normals?

Hai il pisello enorme, i material (e la matematica che ci sta dietro) sono già un mondo enorme, ma capire e spiegare i limiti dell'engine è qualcosa di più della semplice conoscenza del framework. Davvero, complimenti

OBIVAN_KENOBI_!!!!!!!

Works great, however when this is placed on randomly rotated tree instances it doesn't override the original rotation. So a lot of them are facing the wrong way or are misaligned. I'm looking to I guess reset the rotation of all the billboards to face +X in the material before doing the point towards camera operation. But I'm not sure how, any ideas?

I wanted to know if this is applicable to games or is it maybe too hard on the performance for stable fps while playing? also: Do I need to credit you if I publish the game?

Hey it is a great tutorial and you explaining everything well, I had one problem which I hope you can help me when I am trying to choose the blendable location I don't have the option Scene color after DOF. I am using unreal engine 5.3. If anyone could tell me how to fix it it would be great thank you :)

I actually do want to see the details of how you derived the sigmoid equation at 21:34 -- I'm fond of sigmoid equations in general (I love 1/(1+e^x) because of how simple it is and how easy it is to modify its parameters, and how easy it is to differentiate and get a bell curve, which even if this isn't a normal distribution, is a nice reminder that the integral of the normal bell curve IS a sigmoid curve) so when I saw a sigmoid curve that can be tweaked to become completely flat in that way, I got super eager to analyze why it works the way it does.

Incredible content. Thank you for breaking everything down and explaining why certain things work or wouldn't work, instead of just showing nodes. Wonderful content.

how did you create the yellow node at 8:41 ?

I was giving this a go and also got the sample project from your gumroad, and an issue I'm having is that all of the cast/ground shadows have "banding"; after looking at the engine.ini files I realized my test project (where I am following the video step by step) was in DirectX 11, while your sample project is in DirectX 12. Do you happen to know if its possible to fix the shadows in directx 11? Edit: Another issue I may have found, maybe it involves the exposure settings, but any Unlit materials I add to the scene turn black without trying to compensate for Exposure in the material?

Has anyone implemented it in their game? I was about to buy it on gumroad, but I would like to be able to see how it behaves on different colored characters, for example a dragon. I've bought too many assets that aren't what they seem, so I always want to go totally certain....

The rounded voronoi instantly reminded me of pomegranate seeds.

27:55 **laughs in pain as a programmer**

Hey guys, I'm new in UE5 making a game with some friends, and I'm interested in Shaders and stuff even though my Math don't math sometimes. On 21:52 I don't quite understand the Smoothstep he shows, is he saying that Smoothstep can also work instead of the function he made? If so, how does it actually work then?

Canny edge detection please!

Physically Cringe Cel Shading tutorial when

I've followed the tutorial but I have noisy/grainy shadow edges/artefacts. I've tried turning the lumen settings on and off as well as changing the source angle of the light. I'm on version 5.3.2. Thanks for any help.

If I followed this tutorial is it the same as the gumroad item?

This is super cool and exactly what im looking for, Its sad that someone making such high-quality content doesn't have more subscribers! Im following the tutorial, but at 9:15, when you set the light to 120,000 lux, my scene gets completely blown out. I tried messing with auto-exposure settings, but I can't figure it out, do you know what could be causing this? Im on version 5.0, as that's the highest my machine can handle.

This really is the mother of all Materials tutorials

Any chance you'd go into detail on the math nodes (?) behind creating the dynamic S-curve? I've been trying to create something a lot like that for awhile now.

I'm very interested in seeing this with actually textured assets

I really like this material. Is there a way to have more than 3 colors? And, can I change the color of the outline?

Dude this is like a master level course. Most tutorials end up with a shitty end product for the "sake of simplicity" but I suspect they just don't know how to make it truly great. What you produced is AAA level cel shading

Love the quality and the thinking behind your work. - In Unreal custom node you are indeed able to output more informations than the one single return, instead of packing your return to a (float3, float) in the custom node, you can add output pin (as you can add input pin), just give it a name, then in the hlsl code you use that name. For instance in the custom node add output, give name OutNormal, in the hlsl code towards the end, you just write OutNormal = LaplacianNormal / CenterWeigth; - Also looping in the gpu is never considered a good idea, if statements also are a bad idea. Since you are directly writing in hlsl code, the compiler will literally copy and paste your hlsl code, without optimizing for the compilation part (usually the compiler knows better then us). The matrix loop can be optimized heavily by not making it if checking every iteration of the nested loop. The center of your kernel is always 0,0 you can check it outside the loop and make the loop iterating by dodging the center. Hope these information can be useful, love you works. Edit: literally just saw 1.5 hahaha mb