Engine Features Preview 5/29/2015

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Distance Field access in material graphs

There are two new nodes to access the global distance field properties within the material editor. They can be sampled at any point in space.

DistanceToNearestSurface returns signed distance in world space units, here it is divided by 1000 for visualization.

This can be used to have effects avoid occluders

If you take that cloud/fog one step further, you could have it piling up accurately like this,

http://i.imgur.com/Dqit8.gif