Texture facing camera

[Philcrifo]

I’ve found a solution to my original question (quoted below) but didn’t want to open a new thread for a follow up question, so here it is:

Is there a way for a screen aligned texture to pan in order to follow the object in the world? Basically what I want is the texture to stay “fixed” relative to the object, and not to the screen, but still be displayed as a “flat” texture parallel to the screen, inside the bounds of the object.

let me know if that makes any sense

Cheers!

Hello everyone,

I’m scratching my head over something I’m trying to achieve, it may be super easy (hopefully) but I’m really no material specialist and can’t figure out a way to do it.

Basically what I want to do is have a texture facing the camera. I’m not talking about a bilboard, the idea is to apply a material to a 3 dimensional object and instead of the texture using the UV coordinates to apply to the surface of the object, have it simply face the camera.

An exemple here (youtube link)

I’m pretty sure the galaxy texture on the M_SpawnPortalPlane material faces the camera.

Thanks in advance for your help

Cheers

[EDIT] Of course I find a solution a few minutes after posting the thread…

SOLUTION For those looking for the same thing: The ScreenAlignedUVs node will do the trick

I may have further questions coming up though…