A next tutorial will cover an interact system that incorporates flickering lights and a light switch that can be used by the player.

I revisited the simple water shader and added a fade out for opacity and refraction. So it's slightly more expensive but especially for lake or river water this helps with the water intersecting the landscape.

Copy and paste the material here:

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/l7di5oxt/ 

a quick video how to have different impact sounds on different surface types.  #UE4 #unrealengine #gamedev also have a look at this alternative method to test for surface types  

also have a look at this alternative method to test for surface types  

Here is another oldie i made years ago.

It's about wrapping polies around other polies.

Could still be relevant i guess, so i post it here again.

i made a small snippet explaining the 3D widget material.

it wasn't obvious to me how it worked once i had to change it, so i thought it might help to share my findings

When you want to change a 3D widget material of a 3d widget component in a blueprint, in order to make it e.g. look like a holographic material, you have to understand how the parameters in this material work.

This video covers the importance of the correct naming of those parameters. 

copy the custom widget material from this pastebin 

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/_s6boszl/ 

I made a stroboscope shader with the help of a friend, Michael Mendelson.
Perhaps you'll need something like this. then here it is:

From time to time i will repost some stuff from my old blog here, simply bcs i find it still useful for myself today.
This is one of those posts

a facebook user asked how to recreate this effect in unreal.

i tried to make a mockup with one texture and a material that is additive.

This is the result

You can download the project here

Useful vector math friends helped me with.
Usually this friend is Jan Kaluza :)  Check out his ressources

https://twitter.com/jkashaar 
https://twitter.com/i/events/1064095060319498240 
https://www.artstation.com/broadstrokes 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQo-M_M9BVl6ByloRxAMiYQ 

Find Min Max values from Component Bounds for "Make Box" in the blueprint editor

i made a first weapon concept in oculus medium.
the concept itself is meh but it is my first one and i have to learn a thing or two about industrial design.
but testing out shapes in oculus medium is ultra fast and much fun.
you can get lost for hours under your VR headset
i did not use the highest resolution tho.
some modeling actions are also very inaccurate in VR. 

this video tries to explain how to detect physical surface types of materials the player walks on and set some movement component settings accordingly to fake a slippy ground. i.e. make the player slide on ice or any other slippy surfaces.