Enabling and disabling Nanite on individual static meshes on runtime to allow for highlight/outline

[nande]

yes.
“There should be a bDisallowNanite flag (which can be set a runtime) on StaticMeshComponent for the renderer to fallback to the nanite proxy mesh if r.Nanite.ProxyRenderMode is set to 0 which should be the default.”

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There should be a bDisallowNanite flag (which can be set a runtime) on StaticMeshComponent for the renderer to fallback to the nanite proxy mesh if r.Nanite.ProxyRenderMode is set to 0 which should be the default. Did you watch the State of Unreal talks held at the GDC recently? Epic explained how they updated Fortnite assets to work with Nanite. Trees and grass for example was updated so that individual leaves were modelled and the material didn’t need to be masked anymore. Of course if the ma…

Also i’ve made a postprocess that uses custom stencil to draw outlines and it works. so could be an issue with your meshes, not nanite.

also there’s r.nanite cvar for global toggling