Ah well knowing that I have to try again now don't I? 😎
1 year ago ( 1)
The timer screen shake is a bit brutal but here we go 😎
I was just thinking, how did you design those 3D textures, covering the inside of the fruits the whole way through? And how are you measuring the mass of an arbitrary 3D shape? What sorcery is this?!
1 year ago ( 1)
I'm using the new Geometry Script (https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/geometry-script-users-guide/) from Epic Games that was introduced in Unreal 5. The add-on enables all kinds of procedural stuff in real time. It's crazy! However still in beta. I faced some issues/bugs during development but managed to overcome them.
For the "3D textures" I did a little shader that samples the local position of the pixel in relation to the center of the rendered object and, with a little bit of vector math, I sample an inner fruit texture that I have for the inside. It's not perfect (it might give some repeating artifacts), but it works. So, for each fruit, I have a material for the "outer shell" and another one that I assign to the "procedural cut" for the inner part.
Here is how the inner texture looks with the expected "mapped mesh":
