@@fmaribo there’s a setting in the foliage/mesh settings somewhere for disabling WPO at a distance. If you know the distance that the WPO stops, you can create a Fade function to Lerp the WPO to 0 so it doesn’t pop in/out

@PrismaticaDev you are an angel 😇

You may also be able to create a custom function (Initialize Spline, etc) and call that function in the Construction Script

​@@PrismaticaDev Yes! Works perfectly. It shows how artificial this restriction is - I read that set of function that create dynamic content was forbidden in Construction Script due to some issues. But you can still do everything on C++ level. Also in blueprints it seems that condition it is tested very directly and only on editor level - I can't use that function in Construction Script, but as you suggested I can do this in function, and call this function in Construction Script. So it works - question is how long? Possibly in future UE version it would cause real issues, or I am not aware this issues right now. Anyway thanks for help, thank you for all your videos - are really great and helpful for such greenhorn as me :)

It should work for any platform :)

That's the most common way in most player-character-oriented games. The only downside, as you mentioned, is that you have a fixed number of "slots" for the number of characters that you want to interact. If you're interested in another approach, check out my Prismatiscape Plugin videos :)

@@PrismaticaDev 🫡 already have ! i think its great

@@iclone3d It’s a case of give a man a fish VS teach a man to fish. It isn’t a how-to video, it’s an explainer of the overall concepts

@@mrxcs you are! :)

@@Haukett happy to help! :)

@@mady901 hey there! I think there is actually a new experimental feature called the Texture Graph since 5.3 which is supposed to act kinda like Substance Painter. I haven’t looked in to it myself, however.

@@PrismaticaDev thank you so much! i will do some research on that. I appreciate it

@@kingBigfootia you can use the PerturbNormals function (uses DDX DDY) which I’ll be releasing a video for in the next week!

@@sithmaster hey hey! Unfortunately I went on holiday before I could add it to the PScape project fully. There was also a bug in 5.3 that prevented it from looking the way I wanted. I’ll make a mock-up material and put it in the description of this video when I get home in a couple of days :)

@@PrismaticaDev Aww no rush Sir! You are awesome! I am so happy and learned so much with your videos. I will keep the plugin for sure, just to honor all the time you invest in showing us things that can have a big learning curve at times. Btw, this is being used in a real game-dev scenario inside bigger landscapes (8x8 km) with dozens of rivers with branches. The water itself is using the singlelayer material base. The most difficult challenge is to get this on top of very realistic water with non stylized foam. Currently, I am making some mockup based on some of your implementation, but lacks proper "flow" that runs a bit longer through the river. For now, it's just being visible where I have the distance field and distance field gradient, which sadly, even in 5.5 looks very blocky on larger scale. I have added a 4motion inside the foam itself based on Ben Clowards tutorials to get a little bit more realism to it. Another issue is the brightness of it. Normally, I would pass 50% into the emissive channel for whiter foam, but since we have full day and night cycles, I wonder how to make it look more bright without using the emissive at all. Looks nice in the sunshine, but is too bright in shadowed places, like inside caves and tunnels. We paired it with Ultra Dynamic Skies for the day to night transition brightness, but that does not work nice at all. I wonder if there is a way to render it on base material but boosting it a bit more that it looks like using emissive on daytime. Same issue with waterfalls, since the base gets too much coloring from global illumination. That's not how foam or water fog/mist works in real life.

@@jayhop960 NinjaLive is extremely powerful, but sometimes the simplest tricks can get the job done. Depends on the project!

@ do you have any videos on making the cel shaded landscapes you have those are beautiful!

@ I have a very very old video about my cel shader, but there are some others that use the same ideas

I think there are a lot of Blender scripts for things like that - converting Vertex Colour or Pivot Locations to UV's etc. Another cool thing to keep in mind is that UV's are 32-bit floats (unlike 8-bit(?) vertex colour) and so you can technically encode 4 8-bit floats in to each float, giving you a possible 16 different 8-bit values per UV channel (I'll cover something like this in a video this year, since I use it inside a big global Render Target Param-Atlas thingo)

Hey hey! Firstly, is your road outputting to the Normal output of the RVT Output node? Secondly, is your landscape sampling the normals from the RVT? Thirdly - maybe check that the road is being drawn last using the Translucency Sort Order value

Yep - for ambient-occlusion type stuff you definitely can.

It depends on how much of it can be offloaded to the Animation thread, and as others have pointed out how dense the pose library is. It can definitely be a lot more performant than the sample project, but it -cannot- be as performant as a regular Blendspace which is totally pre-determined for any given value.