Anisotropy on Nanite

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The question here is about rendering Anisotropic shaders on Nanite geometry.
I looks like it simply doesn’t work at all and there is no information about that in the docs whatsoever.

You can switch to Strata/Substrate Materials but then it’s just glitchy: (left with Nanite disabled, right with Nanite enabled) (you can see the same results in the Content Examples project as well)

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I suspect it has something to do with how Nanite treats Normal and Tangent data?
What am I missing? What am I doing wrong?

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Looks like there are some changes coming up in 5.3 with “Explicit Tangents” in Nanite Settings. On Nanite geo Anisotropy is only supported via Substrate Materials.

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Yes it’s help , but for me i needed to change also the position of the vertex …
help a lot.(my objects is small 4cm with lot of detail)

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Question :
is Anisotropy work on nanite with classic material ? on unreal 5.4
i try on unreal 5.3 still not working and i really need this. substrate is still experimental.
is there an ETA, when it will work ?