Depth Mask shader in Amplify Shader tool?

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Hello, i have come to a halt when it comes to making VFX and i really want to expand my knowledge, i recently stumbled upon this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URj0ps0OSJA

The references and everything was to a great help at first, but i really dont know how to get it to work, i just return to the starting point cause i cant figure things out. Ive tried for weeks now but ive come here to seek for guidance and help!

Can anyone help me with this? All i really want is a working depth mask function, everything else i can do myself!

Thank you all so much for reading!

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Hi!
if you want more references here is one ive made too:

things can go through too as you can see in one of the replies:

You will need more than one thing and i totally recommend to watch this video in order to understand it well if not interested in colliding you can skip that part:

Have a good develop and post the result here :stuck_out_tongue: !!

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oh my goodness i cant believe the amount of help you have sent my way. I just recently got sick but i will keep that promise and update with what i come up with!

Again, thank you so much!

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Here is a quick one i just did!

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im actually super excited now! I can now explore a whole new world with shaders!

Thank you again so so much! And to everyone else that has inspired me!

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Does anyone know the same tutorial but for unreal? I’m also now struggling with this stuff. Thanks!

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Well to achieve the effect you will have to make the shader in code, thats what i did, it took time but instead of doing it node based i wrote the code myself!

You can find the code needed here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHhxs12ZfSQ

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I can’t code, unfortunately. I guess this effect will be mystery for me.

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Dont use unreal too much, but i think this could help you:

GL

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Hey vaxkun, do you have any way to create those 3d cracks!?, ive tried looking and theres nothing online and im not good at creating meshes and / or UV mapping them… Any help?

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Took the crack image .ai (illustrator) in order to have the strokes, then i import it into 3ds max to have this:

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Then converting it to a editable poly we will have it “plane”
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Then select all its edges and with shift pressed, move it upwards to have the “Walls”
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For final touch, the UVS:

At my case because ive made a shader to effect the glow, and it have a “color fade” in Y axis on UVs i want to place the floor down the UVS, and then the walls up

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In order to have those 2 parts, cut the walls from the floor and cut the walls in the half.
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(Obvously there are so much vertex in this example so dont go crazy on that xd)

Then export it and add it to unity

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omg this has been a huge help! i will make sure to make this as soon as i can!

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Hello Vaxkun, ive made some progress, since i have the mask shader to hide the ground, im puzzeled cause i dont know why it doesnt show the 2nd crack

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Aka, i put a normal slightly bigger mesh over it but it wont show!
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Hello again, the resolution i found was to give the crack a plane and put the mask under it, but for some reason, if i put another cube inside of the depth mask it renders over it. Still trying to figure this out!

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Obviously for that to be effective on everywhere, you need a quad/plane/Euclidean surface with the mask, and the crack mesh. each one with its respective shader:

En eventually add other things in it but that things must have the “other” shader

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oo i see, is it normal for the mask shader to glitch when ur further away? it pops in and out for me, this is the shader code

Shader “Masked/Mask” {

SubShader {
	Tags { "RenderType"="Geometry-1" }
	ColorMask 0
	ZWrite On
	
	
	Pass{}

	
	
}

}

idk why it keeps glitching. sorry for all the questions, im not the best at writing shaders im more of a node based guy im so sorry

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i wanted to see if it would glitch with a cube under it / blended with the top layer cuz i already had made that top part for the crack

then this happened

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Ive made that on shader forge xD

EDIT to your second reply:
that shouldnt be happening so there may be something with the shader

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oh my god thank you so much ill try to look into wtf is wrong with this! And as soon as i get the problem fixed ill start working on the cosmetics and keep you updated!

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Here’s how something like this effect can be made in unreal

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