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While the noise actually looks really good, I am actually using a ditherTemporalAA (anti aliasing) node since it is usually lighter on the processing. I apply that after the output from the material function. But for other things this tutorial really helped me out thanks!!

really super awesome and helpful, thank you!!! one question, is it possible to recreating the mecha movement plus dash, dodge in Unity or UE5? like armored core 6, maybe it is a huge goal :)

Thank you for this. I learned so much!

I think the solution not to have the floor affected by the masking is only a workaround, since the masking is still creating what could be described as artifacts or places where you would not expect the masking to be clipping into. I am experiencing this in my own project with a lof of different objects because of my orthographic-ish camera angle. I'm hoping that I can adjust the distance at which the masking takes place. In theory everything behind the player should not be affected by the mask, but in practice certain objects that are behind the player will have points that are closer to the camera than the player is, and they are all being cut by this masking plane which seems to be at the location of the character at the angle of the camera.

I don't know about BG3 but many games will show the back walls of a room that has been faded out. Also you can do stuff like show the contours of the windows, doors and other meshes that area part of the front walls shape, so the player can get a better sense of stuff that's there, but hidden...

For some reason I am getting a weird plane still hiding a small distance of objects that are farther from the camera...

I am having an issue with the location the texture is masking to. I have followed the steps exactly (to my knowledge), but it keeps focusing on 0,0 and not on the player. Does anyone know how I might go about fixing this?

Is it better to add Trigger to IA or to connect nodes with Started exec pin instead of Triggered? I'm talking about IA_SwitchCamera.

My camera always rotates after using MMB once. As in, if I use MMB once then let go, it will keep rotating when I do other things like holding left click.

amazing stuff! I'm so happy I've found your videos - currently I'm designing occlusion masking system and these videos are priceless! Thank you so much :)

what caused the camera will be dispositioned during rotation when we move the mouse a bit too fast?

I have an issue where things taller than the character that are directly behind it will also be partially masked out

genius with the maths

Very usefull and simple. Thx a lot

you are pretty good at teaching. I hope you share more content! I had fun following this project.

Hey! Amazing tutorial, i am just wondering thsi work just fine with cube etc - assets that do not have some other material textures. But what about megascans assets? How can i 'comabine' its materials/textures with our environment for this to work. Thanks!

also how can I make it so that the area that is transparent isnt 100% see through, so like 50% opacity where the "black" in the mask is

can you make it where it doesn't mask out what the player is standing on

Why not use a "Is input key down" for the camera rotation? Why a gate?

I didn't like the feel of the camera toward the boundary, so I added a check before my return node to see if the output speed was below my cutoff threshold (in my case 1.0), and if it was I set the return value to 0. Amazing tutorial, really appreciate it!

Hey, I've been following this series for a bit now, but I'm running into a problem where the floors aren't fading back in, both when going far away from the building and when going up the stairs, any idea on how to fix that? The floors above the player do fade out when going inside the building. Thanks for the great tutorial :)

5:18 What would cause it to still use the default character camera? I've been over video part 1 and up to 5:18 on this video many times, I don't see anything I did wrong. One thing I do notice from the last video is the project settings, game mode, the radio button is not lit up for "project settings". It is lit up for "world override". Update: Figured it out. "window", "world settings"... Panel on the right, set "GameMode Override" to none.

I have finished this tutorial. Thank you.

I cant find the static mesh you used, Is it a custom mesh you have or a static mesh that is no longer in 5.4.2?

Hi!! Loving your series so far, just jumped from zero and learned a lot. But I am having a problem with the fade out that is not triggering. I followed everything correctly three times already and I don´t know what I am missing. The material seems correct, changing the FadeAmount parameter by hand changes the material, all the collisions trigger correctly and draw the hitbox squares., so I just don´t understand what I am missing. I started following the tutorial from chapter 7, since all I needed at first was the occlusion, I dont know if any parameter from previous videos are neccesary for the fade out, and thats causing me problems.

Thanks for the amazing tutorial! I have a question about the dithering/mask. Could you guide me on how to mark that location as unmovable so it doesn't snap to invisible walls? Thanks :) An example of what I mean: Time 11:15

amazing stuff. absolute hidden gem of a tutorial

Nice tutorial, it was very helpful, but I'm having an issue where if I click through a "hole" or dithered surface it sets the destination on the surface not on the place I'm actually seeing. Do you have any suggestion on how to fix it?

In case the ShadowPass isn't working for you, you'll probably have to change the project settings > rendering > shadow map method to "Virtual Shadow Maps"

Brilliant work! Fancy adding a light version of the combat system with ability to switch from a sword to a crossbow?

Finding this series of tutorials was like striking gold! So thanks a lot for making this. Just wanted to add that the IF statement in the material function might not be completely unnecessary, as when I skipped it I got a dithering effect on the edges of my mask even when FadeAmount was set to 1. It was fixed when adding the IF, since it skips the entire Dither effect when set to 1.

Nice series! Do you have any idea om how you would implement the combat system for bgt3? i know it should be quite easy to do turn based, and from what i understand most turn based tutorials are grid based.

Nice tutorial and easy to follow! I have an issue: when I'm close to a wall, the mask affects the wall next to the character, kind of masking the wall behind it. Is there a way to polish this? I have another question if you have time: Is it possible to add some post-processing effects, like glitches and making the hiding effect more blurry? Thank you!

this guy is right

This has been super useful so far for my map camera system. Not sure if it comes up in a later video yet, but one feature of Enhanced Input you may have missed is Input Action triggers. You can add a trigger to an input called Chorded Action. This lets you set an input that is required to be triggering to allow the main input to fire, so you can avoid using branches and multiple input actions in blueprints

Great videos, But I am hoping some one will help me understand is, How can I apply a Material function to objects like Megascans that already have their own materials? Every tutorial I find regarding this subject is based on a specific chosen material.

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Quick Correction: The "Add Unique" function returns the index of the newly added item. What you want to do at 22:10 is check if the length of the array "Rooms in the way" is greater than zero, which means there are objects colliding with the multi-box trace. When I did this, it worked for me :) Thanks again for the tutorial! You are amazing, and I'm learning so much from it.

This class was amazing. Thank you so much fr !!!!!

Im making a topdown style game and this was the perfect thing for my project! Super high quality video and the way you teach is super helpful showing the how and why of everything! Please keep it up!!!

Hi!!! I'm following your videos (Awesome videos btw) and for any reason only the first floor is fade out, and it's fades when I'm on the first floor, looks like both boxes are triggering at the same time because the First floor and the second one fade out, not only the second floor, it's weird, do you know what it's happen? or where I do wrong?

It was an interesting experience. Thank you

This is really interesting and understandable for a beginner like me

Your lessons are a real treasure

I love the video and series! Please do more on BG3 game mechanics :)

I just want to take a moment to thank you for these videos. I'm not exaggerating when I say that your videos are the only ones that I have found that teach me to achieve the effects that I'm looking for. I only recently started learning game development and I'm improving every day. Your videos are well thought out and extremely easy to follow. I hope you expand this channel and continue to release more content that can help other aspiring developers like myself. Subscribed and looking forward to more.

Anyway, your tutorials are incredible for being the first ones you've done, I hope you continue making content

Hello, I'm following all the tutorials, but in this chapter I got stuck on the issue of the camera colliding with the environment, and I have followed everything you have done, but when I move with the camera it keeps climbing on top of me of things. Do you know why it could be?

Wow You saved my life!!! I was just looking for a tutorial like this

Great Videos, helped a lot. Found that reducing the size of the Multi Box Trace For Object's half size in BG3_Camera to x5.0 y5.0 z5.0 eliminates the occlusion pretty well when the character is up against a wall opposite to the camera angle. I Don't know if you intend to make more ''tinkering'' videos but may I suggest a video for fixing the following: - Cursor being able to select walls and objects as destinations. - (This one might be only me) After rotating the camera once with the middle mouse button, when moving the character while holding down the left mouse button the camera is set to follow as if I'm still holding the middle mouse button. - Any way to have the destination marker disappear when the destination is reached? Thanks!