So I am not that experienced with making materials. I have a hexagon Plain that i want the edges outline.
My thought process was to clamp the texture so it doesn’t tile and simply add colors to the texture. this works find when previewing on a square plane. but when I add the material to a hexagon shaped plane instead of a square it doesn’t render at all.
So if anyone who reads this who could be so kind to help me outline this hexagon plane that would be much appreciated!
Can you give a bit more info? Can you put any material on the hex plane?
Can you show your current mat?
Here is the texture
here it works on a plane
Here is the material. I am probably way off but i just want the the edges to be able to glow and possibly be able to edge the size of the thickness of the edge as well
Yes i can add other materials to the hexagon just well just this one doesn’t fit
It really depends how you mapped your UVs. I only mapped the top face of the hex, and still had to write a material like this to get it centered:
A bit late, but I couldnt find anything else online so I figured I’d post my solution here for anybody else in my position, and in case anybody has a way to improve this.
I’m not good at math so this probably isn’t the best way to do this. It also gets a bit janky with small outline widths. But it works.
Since I’m using a static mesh for a grid I used the texture coordinate and get the distance from each UV point to the edge
then just use a step and lerp to determine which color is picked. Then plug into the base color.
I made the outline quite small but its adjustable.
