Anyone know how the masked post process was done? for Unreal Engine btw [Solved!]

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The VFX ref was done by Darin Aranda on Artstation.

I’ve been trying to figure this one out for a while, the post process seems to activate only where the masked mesh appears and nowhere else as seen here >

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In her breakdown she does show how she achieved it but the screenshot is kind of hard to see

Anyway if you know how this was done, please do share

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You can imbed the mask directly in the shield material using custom stencil buffer.

Set the actor you want to mask in the customdepth stencil value = 1
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That’s the one! Thanks Jukerlaaaawww!!!

Also for any future readers turn this on >

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