POM material

[Daedalus51]

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I just recreated that setup and was unable to get that crash. So hopefully that means it is fixed already in code.

I am not exactly sure how you are using pixel depth offset to fix the floating blend. That may just make both layers have pixel depth offset that is correct in-and-of-themselves, but I can’t see it fixing the floating blend. But I am interested to hear your solution since I have been thinking of making a separate version of the POM node that is intended to work with multiple layers.

The method that I thought of to make work nicely involves passing a ‘mask’ texture object input into the POM node but it would involve a double-texture lookup at every loop iteration and wouldn’t easily work on landscape since you cannot sample the blending mask at offset locations.

Hey ,

thanks for your reply. I will try to explain better what I did and whats is not working.

So first of all I have a material function for rock and one for soil/forestground. Both functions use the pom and output pixel depth offset from your pom node into the according pin in “make material attributes”
I then added another lerp node inside of a copy of MaterialLayerBlend_Standard and hooked up pixel depth there as well.

So what I want in the end is basically behavior for both layers in my material (and even more than these two in the end:

I made my material like :

But then it only looks like :

so for some reason, even though I pass the lerped pixel depth values from the two functions via the material attributes, it seems they are ignored in the end.

When I hook it up like , it works for that one function that I use of course:

And when I try to kinda force it by connection it after breaking it, I get an instant crash with the line I wrote above:

So thats basically what I am trying to do. I havent yet even touched the look of the blending of the layers with pixel depth since I never got that far

Hope helps a bit more to reproduce the!

Thanks and cheers!

EDIT: I dont know what your take on is, but I initially wanted to use tessellation for all landscape material stuff, but even with a distance fade on the multiplier, results are super slow and not very clean cause of limited landscape base resolution.