Magnify Glass Material?

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Hello,

I was wondering if anyone might know how to go about creating a “magnify” type effect on a material for UE4, such as the glass effect seen in a magnify glass.

I’ve been trying to figure it out but haven’t had any luck finding any information. I know they had a similar effect in Kliener’s Lab in Half-life 2, so I’m hoping it’s possible.

It’s not supposed to be on a scope tied to the first-person view, more like being on an environment prop/literally a magnify glass if that changes anything on how I should go about it. I might be able to live with just having it be plain glass with a high fresnel + refraction, but I’d really love to get the thing actually magnifying what’s on the other side of the glass.

Thanks!

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Could fake it maybe using a camera at a distance from the Magnifying glass that could display its visuals just underneath the glass.

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You probably don’t need it anymore, buy maybe the next person reading this could benefit from this:

The trick is to use a sphere (not a plane or cube), just like real life. You can make it (almost) flat by decreasing y or x scale. Play around with fresnel and refraction. If you use it as a scope, you can get a clean picture with 3x~ Zoom. If you need help hit me up

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would you be willing to break this down a bit? this is exactly what I am trying to do!