How to blend the edges of a masked texture?

[Axebeard]

Hi, I have a plane with a nice muddy PBR material on it that I used an opacity mask on. As you can see in the picture, the edges are sharp, I’m trying to get them to blend out a little bit. I assumed they would do that automatically, since the opacity mask has soft edges on it.

[redbox]

You use Masked material, which means that edges will have opacity 0 or 1. In translucent material you can have opacity 0-1, but simple translucent material not casting dynamic shadows.

[Luos]

while what redbox says is absolutely true, there is a ditherTempAA material function which can fake translucency somewhat on masked textures. use it as the last step into your opacity mask input.

[Axebeard]

Here’s what setting the material to translucent gives you:

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[Axebeard]

That gives a pretty decent result, thanks!