Is there real support for ARKit at Epic?

[Joti]

@anonymous_user_237a74f8

Is there even any way to get proper shadows? I know that Unreal has problems with casting shadows on translucent materials, but there’s a NEED for soft shadows that are real-time in AR.
Has anyone had any sort of progress on this? I would love some pointers on how to achieve this.

You should be able to apply an unlit material using a similar setup as the ARKitCameraMaterial (“AppleARKit Content” section when you switch on engine content) uses to any geometry you wont to have as a shadow catcher or occluder. Thats the way I’ve done it on previous AR projects using Vuforia and way back pointcloud.

I wish Oculus hadn’t bought pointcloud and shelved it, that tech was never perfect but it had stable SLAM on much lower specs than either ARKit or ARCore and that was years ago.