Feeding material with world position offset data

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@divi;623075

to get the sphere location and radius to the material you can use Using Material Parameter Collections in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.3 Documentation

with this approach you will have to do the deformation for each sphere though. You could also look into using SphereMasks for the deformation so they are in 3D space.

I have no issues with location and radius, my beef is sending information from multiple actors to the same material.

I’ll be dealing with 30 actors at most. So you’re suggesting a MaterialParamCollection with 30 location vectors, 30 radius scalars and 30 whichever-param-I-need and looping through the objects while setting the collection’s parameters accordingly. OK, I can see it work, as awkward as it sounds.

I used 3d sphere mask previously but run into the same issues but I can look into it again.

@divi;623075

Another approach could be to write a displacement texture via blueprint and render it to a texture target and use that for the deformation.

That sounds promising, I’ll do some extra digging, thank you.

If anyone has any other ideas, please do let me know.