Hey folks,
so I was researching for two days now to try and find a simple solution on how to stop weapon and character mesh from clipping through objects - walls or enemy pawns (what I mean: Imgur: The magic of the Internet). And I don’t think increasing the radius of character collision sphere is a valid solution, as some suggested. I mean it can be, but there has to be something better. So far I tried with custom depth, vertex shaders, pixel depth offsetting and translucency with disabled debt test and nothing works as it should. Let me show you:
1.) For custom depth I only saw tutorials and solutions that make outlines on mesh or they change the color of the mesh, making the mesh visible through objects. So I didn’t even bother to actually make it visible through objects, because you only see a certain colour or outlines and not the actual mesh.
BP: Imgur: The magic of the Internet
2.) For vertex shaders and pixel depth offset it just didn’t work. There was always some clipping and I could never set the offset parameter right. This may also be because I use longer mesh for weapons, but that mustn’t be a problem. I followed this yt video basically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XO7sb-Attw
Imgur: The magic of the Internet
BP: Imgur: The magic of the Internet
3.) And for translucency with disabled depth test it did actually work in a way that when I went close to a wall or enemies the mesh didn’t clip and was still visible because it was above every other mesh. But the problem was, I couldn’t disable opacity on mesh itself and you could also see through the weapon and character mesh, plus it had artifacts… And also translucency doesn’t cast shadows as I read somewhere, so I don’t know if I like this solution.
BP: Imgur: The magic of the Internet + the “disabled depth test” option checked, but it’s not visible here
4.) Oh and I also tried this: https://forums.unrealengine.com/deve…-through-walls. The long answer from “ricardoreis” in the middle of the page. This also kinda worked, but only on player not on weapons, plus it was kinda glitchy looking. Maybe this solution could lead somewhere with more explanation.
5.) I also tried solutions mentioned in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengin…apon_clipping/. The solutions here I basically what I already mentioned I tried in previous points.
I don’t have much knowledge about materials and how to modify them, so I would please ask for some advice on this. I just want to achieve this, but close to objects: Imgur: The magic of the Internet. There HAS to be a simple solution in unreal engine to this very common problem for FPS games.