Billboarding Certain Vertices Within The Vertex Shader

[Arkiras]

Someone actually posted a solution to this in a thread recently:

Need help re-creating this stylized tree shader in Unreal

Hi there, I recently did this in unreal and the workflow is ultimately the same as the video here but the nodes are slightly different. For the mesh, you need to make a ‘blob’ like he does in zbrush or your preferred modelling software. Then go into you UV editor and cut every single edge, and stack those UVs on top of each other, you can select the verts on the left side for example and then use your scaling gizmo (For example pressing ‘R’ in Maya) to flatten them all together across every edg…