So it seems like I can but blend to translucent and add the time move thingy in so the fog will move but when i start using my Mesh editor and use my eraser wich is 0 then it won't stop the fog from moving.. it will slow it down but not stop it, can you help me with this too? Hope you respond soon and thank you very much man!
@AngelThearZ The shader doesn't have a rhythm to it.. With the way i have the shader set up, each vert loops, but it is on a different time length. This causes some irregularity in the animation. If you would like a different feel to the shader, adding 0 won't change anything, but multiplying by 0 will. You can set up your shader so painting the verts with red will add to the time (offsetting the time of the wave) and painting with blue will multiply ( which will stop the animation if set to 0.)
Hey man I followed you UDK Mist guide on your page and I just copy pasted your picture wich you made in photoshop and I reduced it's size to 128x128. My result was kind of blocky-ish fog. Now can you help me with that? And the fog material I've made has it's blend set to additive but now you're telling me I should put it to translucent, wich one should I do? Please respond and thanx for your help so far:)!
@AngelThearZ Additive will give a different feel to your fog than translucent. It doesn't really matter which you use since it's entirely up to you to make it how you want it to look. The guide i have is simply that, a guide. Never hesitate to experiment to see what works and what doesn't, and why. As for the blocky texture, that could be anything form the pixel density of your shader, or a bad texture compression. E-mail me with a pic if it continues and I'll take a look at it.
It can be used for fluid surface with any method? I tried it, but I can't paint fluid surfaces with the Mesh Paint Tool... There are any other method that I can use for simulate long waves? Thanks for your help.
yes, There is no limit to how big the geometry can be, and if you want to make the edges soft, well, it depends on what you mean by that.
If it's through the material, just alpha it out. If you mean 'soft' as in slower, just make the vertex colour value less and it will wave slower. If you mean the edges where it connects with geometry, there's a tutorial for that on my site. look for the 'UDK Mist/Fog' tutorial.
fog/mist, flags, clouds. this method can be used for a LOT of things in game.
Why cant you just use REAL displacement mapping (whatever that is?), Im assuming its the effect that makes a material look 3d (seperate from bump/normal mapping) I thought the Unreal 3 engine was one of the best engines going, so you shouldn't have to 'fake' anything!
Whatever the case, this looks really good, I've been checking your tut's on your UDN thread.
2 questions: Can you do this on a LARGE scale? and is there a way to make it softer at the edges?
@ncshuriken It isn't necessarily the "Best" engine though it is widely used for it simplicity of use. And it has moderate graphics and sometimes if the artist is good enough quite nice graphics still with some very good performance.
okay, i have no idea what the hell u said, but im gonna learn and i would like some help plzzzz. i dont even know how to make ground....go ahead and make fun of me.
So it seems like I can but blend to translucent and add the time move thingy in so the fog will move but when i start using my Mesh editor and use my eraser wich is 0 then it won't stop the fog from moving.. it will slow it down but not stop it, can you help me with this too? Hope you respond soon and thank you very much man!
AngelThearZ 4 months ago
@AngelThearZ The shader doesn't have a rhythm to it.. With the way i have the shader set up, each vert loops, but it is on a different time length. This causes some irregularity in the animation. If you would like a different feel to the shader, adding 0 won't change anything, but multiplying by 0 will. You can set up your shader so painting the verts with red will add to the time (offsetting the time of the wave) and painting with blue will multiply ( which will stop the animation if set to 0.)
seescruffyrun 4 months ago
Hey man I followed you UDK Mist guide on your page and I just copy pasted your picture wich you made in photoshop and I reduced it's size to 128x128. My result was kind of blocky-ish fog. Now can you help me with that? And the fog material I've made has it's blend set to additive but now you're telling me I should put it to translucent, wich one should I do? Please respond and thanx for your help so far:)!
AngelThearZ 4 months ago
@AngelThearZ Additive will give a different feel to your fog than translucent. It doesn't really matter which you use since it's entirely up to you to make it how you want it to look. The guide i have is simply that, a guide. Never hesitate to experiment to see what works and what doesn't, and why. As for the blocky texture, that could be anything form the pixel density of your shader, or a bad texture compression. E-mail me with a pic if it continues and I'll take a look at it.
seescruffyrun 4 months ago
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AlexandreBelanger01 7 months ago
It can be used for fluid surface with any method? I tried it, but I can't paint fluid surfaces with the Mesh Paint Tool... There are any other method that I can use for simulate long waves? Thanks for your help.
AshleyLesnie 8 months ago
Thanks dude, awesome tutorial, helped a lot
nathanb117 1 year ago
cool, thanks :) its like a fluid surface info in ut 2004! ... just better :D
videoGunZ 1 year ago
Perfect. I was about halfway finished re-inventing this very thing for clouds. You just saved me a weeks worth of re-inventing your wheel.
Thanks.
wyldhunt 1 year ago
This Tutorial is a fucking great work! You explained that stuff very well!! Thank you very much
stonefacex 1 year ago
yes, There is no limit to how big the geometry can be, and if you want to make the edges soft, well, it depends on what you mean by that.
If it's through the material, just alpha it out. If you mean 'soft' as in slower, just make the vertex colour value less and it will wave slower. If you mean the edges where it connects with geometry, there's a tutorial for that on my site. look for the 'UDK Mist/Fog' tutorial.
fog/mist, flags, clouds. this method can be used for a LOT of things in game.
seescruffyrun 1 year ago
About what Oikonny said:
Why cant you just use REAL displacement mapping (whatever that is?), Im assuming its the effect that makes a material look 3d (seperate from bump/normal mapping) I thought the Unreal 3 engine was one of the best engines going, so you shouldn't have to 'fake' anything!
Whatever the case, this looks really good, I've been checking your tut's on your UDN thread.
2 questions: Can you do this on a LARGE scale? and is there a way to make it softer at the edges?
ncshuriken 1 year ago
@ncshuriken It isn't necessarily the "Best" engine though it is widely used for it simplicity of use. And it has moderate graphics and sometimes if the artist is good enough quite nice graphics still with some very good performance.
PuLsE0o0 1 year ago
okay, i have no idea what the hell u said, but im gonna learn and i would like some help plzzzz. i dont even know how to make ground....go ahead and make fun of me.
KrisHeir 1 year ago
too bad that you can't input a texture channel into the worldpositionoffset to fake real displacement mapping ...
Oikonny 2 years ago
awesome are you going to make a game
theking199012 2 years ago