Terrain Blending Tool (based on Star Wars: Battlefront)

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Hey, I found a clue about the “missing link” about this technique (how to find out the normals of the terrain around the static mesh) here at 1:42:48 https://youtu.be/eYDn2sQ8uKs?t=1h42m48s

…For each particle, looks up into the global distance field and it gets the distance to the nearest surface and it also computes the gradient of the distance field which gives you the normal of the surface you are closest to. So you automatically know both the distance and what the normal of that surface is…

Next step is to somehow blend the the normals of the of the static mesh and the normals of the terrain with the mask from ‘DistanceToNearestSurface’ Node for each pixel.

We just need someone to translate that into Material Nodes or HSLS Custom Node, please