Tech Art Fundamentals Series

[dokipen (Dan 'dokipen' Elliott)]

Ep 7!

We will find out how to use the map data type in Blueprints to track which objects have been hit and give them their own unique damage texture which is generated on the fly in the game.

Tracking damaged objects using Blueprint Maps - Unreal Engine 4 Tech Art S03E07

[rYuxq]

Thanks man, for a programmer like me, these videos are very precious now I can come up with even better gameplay

[dokipen (Dan 'dokipen' Elliott)]

Ep 8! We take care of the case where there is already an existing render target because we hit a mesh that has already been hit before. We use the ‘find’ method of the blueprint map.

Reusing Damage Texture Render Targets - Unreal Engine 4 Tech Art S03E08

[dokipen (Dan 'dokipen' Elliott)]

Ep 9!

How to sample mesh surfaces with a uniform sampling basis so that in the next video we can draw damage hits with the proper scale and remove the stretching.

Measuring the Scale, Squash and Stretch of mesh UVs - Unreal Engine 4 Tech Art S03E09

[dokipen (Dan 'dokipen' Elliott)]

Ep 10!

We actually use the sampled uvs to correct for the warped meshes and draw correctly scaled splats.

Correcting for Scale and Squish of UVs - Unreal Engine 4 Tech Art S03E10

[dokipen (Dan 'dokipen' Elliott)]

Ep 11 is up
Here we modify a starter content particle system to get a quick and simple smoke effect.

Cheers
Dan

A Simple and Quick Smoke Particle System - Unreal Engine 4 Tech Art S03E11

[dokipen (Dan 'dokipen' Elliott)]

Penultimate episode of Tech art 3

Approximating surface area of mesh to choose optimal render target size.

Using Mesh Surface Area to set Render Target resolution - Unreal Engine 4 Tech Art S03E12

[Leonsiuss]

Hello
how can I solve tiling texture issue?
the Mesh which uses tile UV, RenderTarget paints in each tile