How to achieve this sort of effect with foliage actors?

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Hello all! I am trying to figure out if it’s possible, and how exactly to get my objects and foliage actors to perform an animation like this. I’ve gotten as far as setting up a material function that handles a near/far function inside it that I can sort of use as a gradient to control the falloff of the effect, here’s a look at that network. My line of thinking is that I can use this value somehow to isolate the Z offset of the materials WPO attribute, and have it sort of drop into place as I animate an object from far to near. The thing I’m confused by at the moment with that, is how to drive it using a specific object rather than a camera, any help on that would be greatly appreciated as well.

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The problem is, anything you do in the material will apply to all instances.

You might be able to get around that with ‘per instance custom data’

Micro-tutorial: Per instance foliage logic/effects using per instance custom data

This is an extension of the methods covered here: Individual Foliage Logic using Per-Instance Custom Data [UE4/UE5] - YouTube Problem: You want to do something to your foliage instances, but how do you get access to the individual instances? Demonstration: In this example I will show how I am fading trees that are between the camera and the player character in a top down game. [treesfade] Setup: On material that I want to fade, I add PerInstanceCustomData node [image] Note the assig…

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Awesome, thank you for the link, I’ll give it a view here.