Anisotropy material

[yannoch]

Hi all.
I looking for make a material with anisotropy effect.
Like this:

I know how to do that in UDK but i dont know with UE4...
Some one can help me please?

[DizcoDev]

Anisotropic materials are currently not supported in UE4. But you can try to fake it using TXAA and maskmaps. There's an demo for this in the Content Examples project on Marketplace.

[yannoch]

Anisotropic materials are currently not supported in UE4.

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i will look at the Content in Exemple project.
Thanks for your reply !

[lucas.cdsantos]

Hey guys! Any update about doing this anisotropy effect? I'm struggling to find a way to do but can't find it, I looked everywhere on the internet and nothing! Please tell me that you managed to make it!

[mariomguy]

It seems the G-buffer used in UE4's deferred rendering needs more information than what is currently allocated. I'm sure sooner or later UE4 will offer it as an alternative option, much in the same way they allow toggling of a normal underneath the clear coat, and the addition of more color information for subsurface scattering materials. Presently, anisotropy has to be simulated by shifting normals of the surface into multiple directions per-pixel to give the illusion that light is spread over the surface. Obviously this illusion is not perfect.

[Daveyploo]

Presently, anisotropy has to be simulated by shifting normals of the surface into multiple directions per-pixel to give the illusion that light is spread over the surface. Obviously this illusion is not perfect.

Could you expand on this please, I'd love to know more.

[mariomguy]

I think in the Materials Examples there is an experimental approach to anisotropy. Using the Temporal AA Dither material node you can get a dithered pattern over your material. Each pixel can then be shifted across the surface in a certain direction. So a brushed material with vertical streaks will have the normals tilted horizontally over the surface, leaving longer streaks. I don't have my project in front of me right now, but I was able to get it to work. Unfortunately the more you stretch, the lower your roughness, and the lower your screen resolution is, the worse it looks. Getting some of that stretched lighting effect is really nice, though!

[ZacD]

You can also add noise that is directionally blurred to your normal map.

[mariomguy]

That solution doesn't work as well for a couple reasons:

• Noise gets softer and blurred when mipmapped in the distance. And removing mipmapping just causes the result to be heavily pixellated.
• The noise is mapped to the object, so scales larger when zoomed in: in reality, the fibers on an anisotropic surface are so thin and small this phenomenon does not appear to happen.

Ideally, UE4's renderer should just know the direction to skew lighting, but until we get proper G-buffer support for this, it won't happen. Any workaround manipulating normals ought to happen in screenspace at a high resolution on a per-pixel level.

[IronicParadox]

That solution doesn't work as well for a couple reasons:

It's not a solution, it's a work around...

[mariomguy]

It's not a solution, it's a work around...

Then, that workaround doesn't work so well. I tried it before to get a brushed metal anisotropic effect myself, but it just didn't give the expected result.

Looking further into this issue, apparently the hair model has anisotropy built-in! I'll try messing with it and seeing what I can get. There is documentation on the shader, but it's a bit skewed to an explanation of the effect rather than how to set it up properly. There's a lot in the material that's specifically driven for hair, unfortunately

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest...r/#hairshading

[JamesEmory]

Well, at least this guy has *some* form of anisotropic materials working:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkjhN7cjemM&t=84s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR6-nclH7Z0

[Deathrey]

Actual anisotropy would require a forward lighting pass because it needs light vectors and in a deferred rendering setup, you don't get that.

That statement is baldly misleading.
Firstly, you have light vectors in a deferred shading. I can't image what made you think, that you can shade a surface without having light vector. Nope, you can't.
Secondly, you do not need forward rendering for anisotropic shading model. It can be done with deferred and was actually used in production before. All you'd require is a additional gBuffer space.

Hi all.
I looking for make a material with anisotropy effect.
Like this:

I know how to do that in UDK but i dont know with UE4...
Some one can help me please?

Hey guys! Any update about doing this anisotropy effect? I'm struggling to find a way to do but can't find it, I looked everywhere on the internet and nothing! Please tell me that you managed to make it!

While it is not that much of hassle to get anisotropic shading model running(can't make it in material editor alone, sadly), one would inevitably run into a number of complications, ranging from getting anisotropic reflections to minimizing performance impact.

For what it takes, various fakery methods, will generally be preferable. One of the methods was mentioned by earlier mariomguy. Alternatively, you could make fake anisotropic specular for one directional light in the material itself, by adjusting material's per pixel normals to reflect the light straight into the camera, depending on some kind of anisotropy map.

[NilsonLima]

lucas.cdsantos

Check the Automotive Materials sample (free download at Marketplace using Launcher), there is a material function called MF_BrakeRotor_Radial_Iron that "fakes" the aniso effect with normals and they provide the textures for the radial part used in the bottom, but there is no texture provided for the lateral. There is a way to procedurally generate both and I was sure that I had them anywhere but I failed in finding them, anyway a little thing that it will not fake of course the the blurry starting to appear moving from center, but even scalling the textures I found the result still good.

It is at least the best you can have for free and not much trouble.

[stororokw]

I think you can get anisotropic highlights by writing a custom shading model. You just need to figure out how to fit things in the GBuffer.

Ward's anisotropic model
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GLSL_P.../Brushed_Metal

Far cry 4 - slides 12-21
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/102223...e-World-of-Far

These ones are for unreal engine
http://oliverm-h.blogspot.com/2013/0...materials.html
https://docs.unrealengine.com/udk/Th...cLighting.html