I would like to achieve something like this.
When paint is layered pretty often you get this effect, it is a bit “higher” at the edges of a surface.
I ll gonne test Edge detection, but I m not sure if this gonna work, does anyone has an Idea, how to start?!
All the best and thank you in Advance
Do you mean this?
That’s just a reflective surface with a bevel on it.
First of all, Thank you ^^
You mean, I should “Just” Model it out… Youre kidding hahahha.
Thats a good idea (To be honest I didnt thought about this completely logical approach hahaha)
With this Mesh it would be possible without any doubt.
I was thinking about “more Dirty CAD Meshes”.
What I also thought about was, to make a flatten mapping (bake an edge Channel out of Substance) and put it into the second UV Layout to combine a Normal map based on the Bake and the Triplanar Mapping of the Automotive Materials…
Yes, if the model isn’t beveled, you have to fix that in modelling software 
Sound like trying to bake the normals to make it look beveled would be more work, actually 
Yeah, I think it would be more work. But the thing is, I often have to work with “dirty” Geo and it is a pain to bevel it (or even not possible) thats why I wanted to work on it shaderwise.
To Unwrap a flatten mapping and bake a texture seems (at least to me) the more eficient way). BUT As someone who hasnt gone one of this workflow ways it s easy to say ^^
Ah, that’s what you mean by ‘dirty’ Yes, impossible to bevel then.
In Unity, there is a bevel shader, but not in UE.
Thank you for this Info, I didnt know that. Maybe there is a way to immitate that Bevel Shader?
I’ve seen others try and fail… 
Hahahahah… Thank you for your Insights…
Hi everyone,
i think what you try to achieve is to have a “round edge shader” , unfortunately not available in Unreal … yet
i waiting for this for years, and it can be done , because it exist already on UENGINE … for 3 YEARS!
I’ve been waiting for this for years now, and it’s a shame, because as I often work with CAD (which contains thousands of objects), the objects have no chamfer and it would be almost impossible to do them by hand.
That’s why I don’t use unreal completely yet, because the rendering is magnificent, but if I can’t get the bevel shader, I’m forced to stick with blender (octane) or Modo, because they have the functionality.
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