Rounded PT-Like Edges

[DaveFace]

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You could build it into the objects and materials with some fancy shader blending and multiple UV coordinates.

That sounds like it could work, I might try experimenting with it. The main problem I’d see is it becoming unmanageable very quickly

@TheJamsh;415328

This is definitely being made out to be more complex than it is. Those kinds of details will be generated as part of the entire texture for the object, not as extra geometry or decals. You can do this sort of thing easily indies the texture, using curvature maps and the like. This is really common practice, Quixel, Substance, xNormal and other software all have the ability to generate curvature maps for you to use as a basis.

The post that BrickTop (great name btw if I get the right reference) linked is also not too difficult to do inside the Shader but would require some real thought. You’re basically trying to reverse the decals projection, which is no different really to shadow projection, an inverse ray intersection should allow you to distort the UV’s of the decal and get it aligned to a surface correctly, providing you can somehow feed it the data of what it’s projecting on to, which is the trickier part. You might be able to determine what you need from the World Normal post-process input (if decals can get to it).

Maybe I didn’t really explain the use of this - but as BrickTop has said it would be for larger geometry and architecture where you use a generic tiling texture, not for smaller props which would have unique textures and normal maps. That stuff’s easy, this is trying to be a bit more modular.

I think perhaps it’s my days with Cryengine that expected decal materials to work on meshes - but alas, they do not. And if the current implementation of geometry decals are expensive and/or a DX12 feature that writes them off as practical for this purpose.