Reconstructing Normals from Depth Buffer for Dbuffer Deferred Decal Masking

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Hello, currently I’m trying to mask out dbuffer deferred decals from “bleeding” onto perpendicular surfaces. I found out pretty quickly that you can’t directly access normals from the dbuffer decal, but with some digging I found out that normals could be reconstructed from the depth buffer, as seen here: Accurate Normal Reconstruction from Depth Buffer. This seems to do exactly what I want. I’ve been trying to recreate the pseudo code the author provided in their blog post using material nodes, but I have no experience with HLSL given that Unreal Engine is so heavily focused on material nodes. This is what I currently have set up so far:

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A lot is wrong with this, I’m sure. Anyone more experienced with HLSL willing to help me out here? Thanks!

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Hi, looks like this will work for you.
But i’m not a pro, so it could be more proper way…

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float4 SvPosition = Parameters.SvPosition;
float DeviceZ = LookupDeviceZ(SvPositionToBufferUV(SvPosition + float4(0, 0, 0, 0)));
if(DeviceZ<0.0001) return float3(0.0,0.0,0.0);
float DeviceZRight = LookupDeviceZ(SvPositionToBufferUV(SvPosition + float4(1, 0, 0, 0)));
float DeviceZBottom = LookupDeviceZ(SvPositionToBufferUV(SvPosition + float4(0, 1, 0, 0)));
float3 Mid =    SvPositionToTranslatedWorld(float4(SvPosition.xy + float2(0, 0), DeviceZ, 1));
float3 Right =    SvPositionToTranslatedWorld(float4(SvPosition.xy + float2(1, 0), DeviceZRight, 1)) - Mid;
float3 Down =    SvPositionToTranslatedWorld(float4(SvPosition.xy + float2(0, 1), DeviceZBottom, 1)) - Mid;

return 0.5*normalize(cross(Right, Down));

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float DeviceZ = LookupDeviceZ(SvPositionToBufferUV(SvPosition + float4(0, 0, 0, 0)));
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float DeviceZRight = LookupDeviceZ(SvPositionToBufferUV(SvPosition + float4(1, 0, 0, 0)));
float DeviceZBottom = LookupDeviceZ(SvPositionToBufferUV(SvPosition + float4(0, 1, 0, 0)));
float3 Mid =	SvPositionToTranslatedWorld(float4(SvPosition.xy + float2(0, 0), DeviceZ, 1));
float3 Right =	SvPositionToTranslatedWorld(float4(SvPosition.xy + float2(1, 0), DeviceZRight, 1)) - Mid;
float3 Down =	SvPositionToTranslatedWorld(float4(SvPosition.xy + float2(0, 1), DeviceZBottom, 1)) - Mid;

return 0.5*normalize(cross(Right, Down));"
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3

I’ve copied in your nodes into the deferred decal material, but the masking here doesn’t seem to be working. Do you have any kinds of settings for the material modified besides changing the material to a decal?

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Ok, so I’ve played around for a while with the material’s parameters but the masking still isn’t showing up here. I’ve tried your solution on both 4.22 and 4.24 to make sure it’s not a bug related to the engine, so I don’t think it’s an issue that’s engine related. Could you perhaps double check the code/material you’ve provided here to make sure it’s the exact same thing that produced your output in the screenshot, and if it is the same then maybe show your project’s rendering settings? I’ve tried playing around with my project’s rendering settings and I’m not finding any of them to be the culprit here, so I’m thinking the problem might not be on my end.

5

All right, I figured out what I got wrong, totally my fault. I was just using the linear interpolation node wrong. I can’t believe I overlooked that… I naively assumed it was there to determine whether or not the entire decal was meant to be visible, not to directly control the visibility of the masked part. whoopsies!

I was hoping to get the masking to cover 90 degrees of area (hence I mentioned perpendicular in the original post), but this covers 180 degrees. Any idea how that might be accomplished?

6

i’m sorry for long responding. You can insert Lerp node to control angle. But since it is reconstructed from depth you may have a strong “steps” on low poly geometry

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7

there is a better solution:

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8

Thanks @inedible.red !! Just what I was looking for