Distance Field Soft Bodies

EnricoUniverse · September 6, 2015, 1:03pm

I downloaded the content package but the balls don’t deform…

anonymous_user_e6436d8c · October 14, 2015, 1:31pm

I’ve made a test with this project on 4.9.2 and it doesn’t work for me too… don’t know why… the balls are overlapping each other

Ue4QuickTips · October 15, 2015, 6:41am

Sorry if my question doesn’t make much sense or my wording is wrong (i don’t work with stuff like this alot) but is there to sort of stop calculations, like once the ball/surface has been pushed in (making the displacement value of that area lower than its original value) it cant pop out again, even after the colliding object has been removed. I was thinking to maybe clamp the max value to the current minimum somehow but, would that clamp for the whole mesh ?
I cant seem to figure this out, maybe i need to take a break or maybe I looking at this whole thing wrong.
Any help is appreciated, thanks.

anonymous_user_e6436d8c · October 17, 2015, 2:02am

The project doesn’t work under master version too, tested it today, 4.11 … what is wrong ?

anonymous_user_8dd6a5a3 · August 12, 2016, 12:48pm

This project file is no longer available, would anyone have a copy to share?
I want to implement this sort of functionality but am a total beginner with Unreal Engine ( moving over from Unity )

Aumaan_Anubis · September 3, 2016, 9:46pm

Hey does this self-collide?

anonymous_user_5b2bb52a · December 8, 2016, 4:14pm

Experimenting with soft bodies in UE4 atm. Super curious what approach you used for your jelly!

Vahid · January 29, 2017, 7:07pm

Hello can you remake this in newer versions, please ? I couldn’t make it works…

Adeptus · January 29, 2017, 9:01pm

Link leads to 404

alexformosoc · February 28, 2017, 12:56pm

Does anyone have a copy of the ZIP?

Sardorian · January 31, 2018, 2:55pm

Would be awesome to get working version of this in newer engine version or copy of the zip:(

Crown-Zero · February 7, 2019, 9:54pm

I managed to bring back that cloaking effect in 4.20 and make my version of it using dithering. I haven’t had much luck with the squishy effect however, only managing a slight squish using distance fields. Here’s my graph for cloaking. In newer versions distance fields became a feature to be ticked in the project settings.

thefoofighter · February 4, 2020, 11:47am

Hey,

I was getting back into unreal picking up on some old project and recalled this distance field soft bodies thread and by pure chance i still have the original project zip

Here ye go distancefieldsoftbodies.zip

I have no idea if it works in current versions but maybe you can learn from it at least

Strix64 · July 3, 2020, 5:11pm

Hi,
Tried it, but it seems it’s lacking the deformation. It looks more like just clipping, while in the original video while bouncing and even after settling down there are deformation curves on the balls.
Started with UE like a week ago so I might have missed something

Version 4.25.
It seems like materials, physic materials, material instance all that loaded OK though.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/core/image/gif;base64

Edit: I forgot to enable Distance field generation in project settings, now works like a charm!

LeonKendel · August 4, 2020, 4:44pm

does anyone know if its possible to use this technique to apply the same effect on skeletal meshes? or any other way? i’m willing to pay for it.

Sam_Deiter · August 5, 2020, 1:18pm

Unfortunately, you can not use Distance fields with skeletal meshes.

hydr0k · December 6, 2023, 2:24am

How can I get this working in Unreal 5.3? I’ve taken steps to re-enable the Displacement pin in the material editor, but Tesselation is gone. I have limited material knowledge and therefore am stuck.