Looks really nice and smooth, one more question =)
How do you handle normal reconstruction? Usually, when doing vertex offset in a shader you need to reconstruct your normals, there are several ways to do it but I didn’t manage to find a perfect solution.
I still need to figure out accurate normal reconstruction, at the moment I’m using a temporary hack to fake normals, I haven’t worked on this in a while so I can’t remember exactly what I did, i can dig up the file when I get home.
Reworked the Crystal Ball shader a bit this evening, I think it feels more grounded without the weird edge glow, I think the subtlety also works better.
This is my temporary hack, N= (Heightfield * vec3(0.5,0.0,0.0) + vec3(0,0,1));
Wont work with more complex deformations, also only works along one axis, so only on planes.
Been re-watching the Clone Wars animated show lately, so here’s a wip of a Star wars Style Hologram Shader.
sexy! is the scanline pattern world-space mapped? i see that it deforms with the cylindrical geometry but it doesnt look like mapped on the cylinder in a traditional way …
sexy! is the scanline pattern world-space mapped? i see that it deforms with the cylindrical geometry but it doesnt look like mapped on the cylinder in a traditional way …
Thanks. I did try Mapping it to world position, but in the end I went with ScreenSpace, I felt it worked better for a Hologram Feel. Also in the clone wars, the bars definitely look like they are mapped in screen space.
Doodle from last night, another hologram type thingy, with some parameters to control appearance a little
Finally got down to updating my blog, added a breakdown of my glitch shader Here for anyone interested.
Better late than never I guess, my submission for the #RealTimeVFX. Definitely need to rework the timing curves, but meh…
Fun Fact, this actually doesn’t use any vector fields or particle simulation, the blue glowy dots, are animated using curl noise in the shader.
When you move it around it almost looks like the simulation is cached in world space
Add some time to the shader, and it looks like a simulation
I’ve added another breakdown, it’s a star wars inspired Hologram Shader and BP System, you can find it Here
Finally finished up writing about my rainy surface function, Ironically now i’m going to redo the whole thing as a post process material, since that’s much more convenient to use 
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That rain looks rad! question what is a post process material?
Whoo! If you mixed it up with bright drips emitters at he edges of the shelter it would sell it completely. Great work!
Post-Process Materials are materials applied to the Rendered Screen buffer as post process, it’s kind of like a screen space filter for the scene. If you look at the settings on the PostProcess Volume in Unreal, you have the option to use Materials. Some of the default settings like “Grain Jitter” etc are examples of post-process materials. You can read up here Post Process Materials in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.0 Documentation
ooh that’s actually a really good idea, that would add nicely to the scene.
I love your scene ! Really cool stuff !
Hi, you scen is relay nice, it could be outstanding scene of blade runner! The bus driver station! 
My famous think is the poping up busstation sign!
Dont get me wrong, your rain awsome! 
cheers Emre
Thanks dude! I definitely took inspiration from the rainy night cyberpunk street esthetic.
Saw this awesome Fog of War shader on twitter https://twitter.com/phi6/status/989638191949975552
and I had to try and recreate something similar in UE4, my implementation is really shit right now using material Functions, but I’m trying to learn some C++ wizardry so that I can implement it in the global Geometry shader
