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[wickerman123]

I wanted to ask if you all had some better solutions for curtains in UE4? I dont want to do the unlit route where you render out a two sided material and bring in the texture and set it to unlit. The two images below are as follows:

First image is Opaque, and two sided foliage.
Second Image is Translucent, and two sided foliage.

Is there a way to get the look of the first image with the transparency of the second? Also id like the sun light to come through the curtain.

Thanks

I’m not sure about getting the translucency working - still trying to figure it out myself. Getting light to shine through is relatively simple:

The way I’ve done it is to use two-sided subsurface scattering to get the glowing effect on the curtain. To get light shining through, set the mesh to not cast shadows, duplicate it, set the duplicate mesh to not render in the main pass, make sure it’s set to cast shadows then apply a translucent version of the material to the invisible curtain. When you bake you should