i am finding solution and help for new project. We already have prepared meshes for our VR project ( Picter gallery) and finding a solution for changing material on static mesh realtime in VR. We have progress of painted picture to our gallery from 3 (1987-1990) years, i want to find solution that u can move with slider and for example on cube (its doesnt matter to be only on one side, we will have different object so we need that material will apply whole object not just side) will change material by years on slidebar.
We already deal with text changing by years but i have absolutely no idea how create material array and connect it with each step of slidebar, if anyone help me, it will be amazing, thank you so much.
we choose the materials in the widget or in the actor that has the mesh? Does it matter to you?
do you have a specific need for many materials? Perhaps a single material that we can update is enough?
what are the paintings? Just images imported into the engine or something more elaborate?
we have progress of painted picture to our gallery from 3 (1987-1990) years
are we updating the paintings themselves or the progress of them painted? As in, you scroll the slider and observe the image being painted, more details appear as days go by…
how how many are we talking? 3 paintings in total or maybe several (hundred) per year?
do you need transitions between the painting or is it enough to swap them instantly
i think it will be better to choose material in the widget, because we can easily apply that script for more painting in the future. For each painting could be their own widget with different material. We think about the specific need for material as u asked for, we plan that material will always contain one “base” texture - empty old paper texture, and second painting progress we can create material with two texture and param - alpha to cover each layer, we already create that material for each phase of painting, so in final u will have Bp contain two widget (slider - switch between years - every year different texture, slider - opacity of material - 2 texture with alpha channel) and model (model is same for every year, didnt change. We dont need any transitions between material change just normal swap. Every year is just one texture to change, not more, so every year has his own one texture(material).
the widget creates a Material Instance Dynamic and sets it on the owning actor’s static mesh via a single dispatcher call
slider updates the texture in the material
Hope that’s close enough. Do tell if there’s anything confusing here or I completely missed the mark! I can zip the project and push it your way if that’s of any help all.
Its look like it perfect fits for my project, amazing work, thank you so much for your help. , i will try to test it today. First question is about yearRange in code it looks like that you use float range for this? how is it possible that u use in blueprint as green year range x and y?
thanks you, i think i understand this tool now and purpose of it, but i cant connect it to + in BP. Last questions is about second slidebar with oppacity level with ''base" texture - i cant connect it together in one blueprint because its similar casts, i think i need to code funcionality of this slider in widget not in BP am i right? I found this slider to change alpha channel also in your topic.
There should be no need to cast whatsoever, not for this.
Since it’s the slider that changes the opacity, it makes more sense to send this value to the material there, the material is created in the widget after all. At least in the example I sent.
Not sure what you’re up to here. It seems you’re continuing working on something you started previously, so those 2 approaches will most likely clash a bit here and there.
Make a choice and stick with it:
create the material in the actor and receive notification from the widget (what you’re doing now)
or do everything in the widget, does the actor really needs to know it all? In this instance the actor’s job is to hold on to the static mesh displaying a material, while the controls are in the widget.
I followed the logic you requested:
i think it will be better to choose material in the widget, because we can easily apply that script for more painting in the future.
the slider spits out values between 0-3 (4 elements in the array - this is set up onConstruct)
years are as requested:
to our gallery from 3 (1987-1990) years
The Year Range is 4 years, not 3 - 1987, 1988, 1989 & 1990. We add the first Year Range X and the slider value together. This is then sent to the text block.
The script in your post looks fine:
Ensure the param names are matching. If one slider works (we can’t see how you hooked it up) but the other one does not, you’ll need to provide more details regarding the setup.
is it possible to share your project? Maybe i will understand more funkcionality after i will look in. I will try today set all things up and hope i understand it well, thank you for your time and your patience.
it work great now thank you one time, so now i have last question about second slider, it is possible and if how i can integrate second (opacity) slider to this one what i already have, i could have in one widget everything right thats what you said that i need to choose how i want to do it in widget or in BP.
I already create second slider but have no idea if i need to use same param for material as in first case.
and after that combine it with onValueChange and set - create new material. It will work like the material created in previous proces i can control with second opacity slider to get main base texture always no matter what year i have appered?
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