Decals disappear after 5m of distance

Blue669 · September 8, 2015, 9:22pm

After upgrading to 4.9 I notice that my bullet hole decals disappear when I move about 5m away from them. I spawn them on a surface via Blueprint and they look fine if I stand really close to them. But if I move away for a little bit, they just vanish. How do I stop this from happening?

Blue669 · September 8, 2015, 9:51pm

How do I do that with Blueprints? When I drag out a line from the created decal node, it only gives me “get fade screen size”, not a “set”. Even when I turn off context sensitivity, can’t find a way to change the value.

Jacky · September 8, 2015, 9:26pm

Are they fading out or disappearing suddenly? If it is a fade in/out behavior you’ll need to decrease Fade Screen Size value of the decals.

Jacky · September 8, 2015, 10:09pm

Looks like it wasn’t exposed for some reason. : \

Blue669 · September 15, 2015, 3:17pm

Thank you very much!

anonymous_user_6e7b421a · September 15, 2015, 3:01pm

Hey Blue669,

I have gone ahead an entered a feature request to have the ‘Set Fade Screen Size’ exposed to blueprints UE-21092.

Thank you for taking the time to create your report. If you have further questions please let me know.

Cheers,

MAGtechnologies · January 19, 2016, 7:12am

I also got the advanced decal pack and need a lot longer range to decal fade. Please please add this in 4.11

Kovercrosser · March 3, 2016, 7:56pm

It fades out fast if the decal is smal … you can make the decal bigger, but make the material smaler

anonymous_user_586d8a2c · May 27, 2016, 3:54pm

I really need this fixed too! Looks like it didn’t make it to 4.11, as I can only “Get Fade”, not Set.

anonymous_user_6e7b421a · May 27, 2016, 4:05pm

I have increased the community interest on the report so this feature request can get more traction.

anonymous_user_1fb1235f · June 15, 2016, 11:43am

We are interested for prototyping concerns either !

anonymous_user_586d8a2c · June 15, 2016, 12:59pm

I would like to add that I fixed this in my own program by adding a Decal Actor. The Decal Actor, as opposed to the decal itself, contains the ability to change Fade distance. My bullet holes now have unlimited viewing distance.

sreames · January 13, 2017, 5:04pm

Oh man, this one is bad…Any progress?

anonymous_user_6e7b421a · January 13, 2017, 5:07pm

I have updated the bug report with a link to the public tracker for the issue that was logged. You can find the link in my answer below.

anonymous_user_3b4c8d46 · April 20, 2017, 4:21pm

Come on this still isn’t fixed? It takes 2 minutes to resolve.
Just do it!

anonymous_user_6e7b421a · June 5, 2017, 2:06pm

We have it slated to be fixed and integrated for 4.17. Since it is such a quick and fairly simple implementation, I think it is safe to assume it will be in the official release of 4.17. This is not a guarantee it will get integrated, but it most likely will. I added a comment to the ticket internally to let our engineers know interest in this issue has increased a lot.

Thanks for all your patience everyone.

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Allar · June 5, 2017, 2:27am

Begging for an update on this fix. Easy enough to do with your own custom engine, but would like to ship marketplace assets using blueprint with this functionality.

anonymous_user_0f9a512a · June 26, 2017, 3:23pm

I need this too.

Lucas_False · September 3, 2017, 9:10pm

If you are using source version of UE, you able to change [UE4]\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\Components\DecalComponent.cpp FadeScreenSize manually, or in [UE4]\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\Components\DecalComponent.h change FadeScreenSize from BlueprintReadOnly to BlueprintReadWrite and edit fade distance via blueprint.

anonymous_user_8312749a · September 4, 2017, 1:46am

for clarity: by source do you mean via github or just a c++ project?