Painting on Skeletal meshes in game

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I’ve been trying to figure out a good way to paint on skeletal meshes while in game. I’ve followed this tutorial (Unreal Engine 4 - Blueprint Texture Painting - YouTube) and it’s worked perfectly for static meshes. The problem comes with this node:

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Skeletal meshes don’t work well with it and it usually does not give the correct value. I’ve come across this video (Character Damage using Render Targets in UE4 - YouTube) where he uses line traces instead of finding collision uv, and it works well with skeletal meshes.

I think I followed his tutorial on the unwrap method that he posted (Post Page) properly, but I’m not sure where to go from there, or if I even did it properly.

What do I do after getting the mesh unwrapped? How do I connect that with the skeletal mesh to display the paint strokes and such?

The more I work on this the more confused I get, so any help is appreciated!

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Hi. Did you find the solution ?
I am working on this now and also can’t find good tutorial how to do it.

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I actually had to stop working on this to work on something else, so I kind of temporarily gave up on this :confused:

But good news is that the guy who wrote that tutorial replied back with his project:

“I actually released that example for download last year here, under Hitmask rendering:
http://unreal-engine-public-share-cdn.unrealengine.com/ShaderBits-GDC-Pack.zip
Best of luck,
Ryan”

Hope you can get use out of this. Pls let me know if you can figure it out haha

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Thanks very much. Any tips how to open it. I downloaded but this zip doesn’t have *.uproject file. Only content, resource and plugin file. I tried create clear project and paste those folders inside the project, but when i try to open the most importent BP for me HitMask_Render the engine crashes.
Have you tried open this files ?

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ist’s plugin.
paste folder from zip to yourproject/plugins/