Bioshock-style Pickup Glimmer Material

I recently re-played through the entire Bioshock series, and one of the things they do in those games that I really liked was that pickups, loot, and interactable items didn’t stand out. They didn’t glow, they didn’t have labels floating over them. You’d just find coins or bills on a desk, a candy bar on a table, or a button next to an elevator, etc… But, to make sure you knew which items you could pickup or interact with, those items will occasionally glimmer. In game, you usually catch it almost as if out of the corner of your eye. It makes for a subtle hint that doesn’t break immersion and take away from the gorgeous environments of that game.

I thought it would be fun to recreate that effect as a UE4 material and I was curious to see if that approach would work better than our current pickup visuals in . It was surprisingly easy to implement. I really do love UE4’s material system.

The material is based upon a standard Default Lit opaque material (though you could also use a translucent material and get the same effect). There are parameters for base color, roughness/gloss, and normal maps for creating object-specific material instances. A Sine curve fed off of a Time input node drives the glimmer, and there’s a parameter to speed up or slow down how often the material glimmers. Both the light intensity and the light color are also parameters and can be overridden in material instances.

There’s one thing that can’t be controlled by an instance parameter, which is how “wide” the glimmer is. In other words, how much of the object can glow at any given moment in time. This is controlled by the equals threshold of the If node, so if you wanted to have materials with different glimmer “widths”, you’d have to have multiple master materials.

It uses ScreenAlignedUVs and a gradient texture to drive the glimmer. From further way, it’s just a glimmer, up close, it’s a quick right and then left flash. The gradient is a simple linear gradient going from pure black to pure white horizontally.

You are welcome to use in your games without obligation, and if you make any changes or improvements, I’d love to hear what you did.

Here’s a picture of the node graph (click for full-size):
http://8.t.imgbox.com/jsN8NZ0y.jpg

Here’s the node layout for pasting into the material editor:


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Hi!
Just now seeing this post, it’s exactly what we’re looking to do in our VR game. I’m having a rough time getting it to work though. Wondering if it has something to do with the screenalignedUV’s node. Attached is a photo of my material, could you let me know if you see anything off here?

thanks!