I’m looking to reproduce a visual effect which makes an object flash solid white for a few frames before returning it back to normal. It’s popular effect famously used in arcade style games to visually communicate that something has just been hit and has been damaged. A similar effect is often also used to indicate when a player has (re)spawned into the level and has a few seconds of invincibility. My quick attempt to find an example gif on google image search has come up empty, but I hope that the above description is sufficient to convey what I’m referring to.
Anyway, I’m looking for a little bit of guidance as I’m not so familiar with the material editor in UE4 (that is to say, I’ve spent a lot of time in it, but I still don’t know what I’m doing most of the time). Any help is much appreciated.
You can build the flashing into an opacity mask which is controlled by a scalar parameter in a blueprint. What does you character’s material look like and I can give you more specifics.
The material is used for the base colour of the player pawn. In blueprint, a material instance is made and configured to change the base colour ending up with something
Your material should be set to Masked and the Opacity Mask Clip Value should be set to 0.5 and depending on your character you probably will also want to set to Two Sided.
