Pixels of an object facing location

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#1

Wondering if anyone has any ideas about how to construct a material that produces an alpha 0-1 using the pixels of an object that is facing a certain location. Say a material that always faces 0,0,0.

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I know that using world position and pixel normals within the material is my best bet. however i really dont know which method to use in order to select the pixels facing the desired location.

#2

This does it for facing 0,0,0

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I -think-, to get coord X, just subtract it from word pos before the normalize.

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#3

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks so much. material trigonometry still messes with my head no matter how much I tinker with it but its getting better :stuck_out_tongue:

For those looking in future, this is my complete setup:

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