World Normal Edge Detection ( and Speedpaint Art Style)

stucki · September 21, 2015, 9:22am

hi maternal.
really glad to hear we can play with the values
i really want to try this on some of my scenes, so keep up the good work and submit it to the marketplace.

would it be possible to add these effects to smoe object only, too ?
i guess this is a whole screen only effect ?

but as it is your first screenshots were love at first sight for me !

Mathias_Wenzel · September 22, 2015, 4:08pm

I am working on refining the edge/blur detection. So this is my Kuwahara filter approach. (Testmodel is Juliet from Lollipop Chainsaw)
As far as i know, Zelda Skyward Sword uses a simliar effect.

Mathias_Wenzel · September 26, 2015, 12:05pm

Hello again,

i was wrong about the Kuwahara Math, but now its working! Tested on the bumping pub. This is a modified Kuwahara method, it uses a normalmap or flow map for randomizing the pixel kernel.

Mathias_Wenzel · December 21, 2015, 4:23pm

So i got alot of requests recently and i first have to apologize for not being around that much. I had a lot to do and since i need much interested people to believe into something, i lost attention to this.
For now, i would have to renew the project to the newer engine version. I also want to release a very clean, optimized version so this is a step that needs a bit extra work.

Since i am not so happy with the Marketplace system, i would release it on gumroad if thats okay. The problem with the Unreal Marketplace is that it kind of slows down artist like me that need a lot of patience and support to actually sell or create something. And most of the time, another person was faster and released something simliar. So its like a race to get the place in the Marketplace to dominate certain products. I don´t want to be part of that.

Anyway, you will hear from me soon after Christmas - i guess i can´t produce a good version in less than a week to make it perfect. And that is what really matters to me. And it will be very cheap, since i am more interested in sharing knowledge.

See you, and have nice holidays.

Luos · December 28, 2015, 6:41pm

This looks really awesome!

As for the marketplace, yea… its fairly slow, but without awesome content like this, or creators who care… it would be a boring place

anonymous_user_50d18ceb · December 28, 2015, 9:14pm

It’s amazing! I really didn’t know that this can be achieved with shaders

elementLee · February 8, 2016, 10:07am

soooo,nice

Construc · March 17, 2016, 8:04am

Any chance on an update for this? Or can anyone tell me how I can achieve a similar effect if Maternal is no longer working on it? This is beautiful

Mathias_Wenzel · May 25, 2016, 4:41pm

I am sort of Working on it. I have to migrate it to newer Unreal Versions Tough. Also i have learned alot since then. This is what i have now :
[video]- YouTube

Bariudol · June 6, 2016, 1:18am

This is amazing. Are you planing to share/sell this? I would love to get my hands on it

Mr_SquarePeg · June 6, 2016, 3:19am

I am curious about this as well

anonymous_user_d9d037a9 · June 9, 2016, 6:16pm

I would welcome any more information about this approach. I like the look and would want to try it out. Any ideas about access and time frames??

oniram · November 14, 2016, 10:39pm

I’m curious if any more progress or updates have been made with this. What I find to be the most interesting about this technique is how the specular/gloss is broken up in a nonlinear way.

Xenovore · February 5, 2019, 9:27pm

What happened to this?

TristanPiejn · March 25, 2019, 1:37pm

That is so amazing! Is it possibly to show us a clearer breakdown image of you material? I would like to know what you are doing to make this effect.