does material editor supports visual programming of geometry shader?

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1

I am wondering if I can spawn new geometic primitive in material editor by visual programming, so I dont have to care about cross platform issues

2

Hmmm, your question is hard to understand.
Do you mean if it’s possible to generate vertices in the material editor by scripting visually?

3

Yes, thats what I mean.

4

Currently that is not possible. Geometry adjustment in the material editor is limited to:

  • World position offset: which is evaluated in the vertex shader. So it is limited to not using textures and only moving the existing vertices around.
  • World displacement: which does use the SM4+ shader stages internally to allow for texture based deformation and tesselation, but the tesselation options are limited to a couple of predetermined settings.
5

It is very helpful to me, hopes the unreal team will includes geometry shader nodes in future engine core versions.