Postprocessing, translucency, subtracting colours and more!

anonymous_user_ec3e2410 · April 12, 2016, 9:07pm

So, I’m sort of getting somewhere. But also sort of not. Because I’m modding something vs writing from scratch, I’m somewhat limited in what I have access to.

However, here’s where I am. In the editor, I’ve dropped in an alien, and made a green material and applied it. I’ve set it to SDPG Foreground - you can see it rendering through the wall.
Here it is:

I’ve also created a postprocess material which does this (the image is skewed because the image preview does nasty things):

This is the material I’m using, in case you’re curious: http://i.imgur.com/C2HgL3b.png

In Xcom, I’m injecting a Process Process effect using the material created above, and changing all the pawn materials to use the green tint.


foreach B.AllActors(class'XComAlienPawn', Pawn) {
		Pawn.Mesh.SetDepthPriorityGroup(SDPG_Foreground);
		`Log("DPG:" @ Pawn.Mesh.DepthPriorityGroup);
		for(i = 0; i &lt; Pawn.Mesh.GetNumElements(); i++) {
			`Log("Mat" @ Pawn.Mesh.GetMaterial(i));
			// Pray this works
			Pawn.Mesh.SetMaterial(i, Material(`CONTENT.LoadObjectFromContentPackage("PostProcessGreyScaleScan.Test.Green")));
		}
	}

It’s definitely setting things to the foreground, because the log shows this:

Here’s what it looks like in-game:

But! When I turn on the PostProcess Effect, I get this:

The troops are see-through. Also, they don’t render through terrain/walls/etc as they do in the editor. What could I be doing wrong?