Magic Dog

     Ultimately at the end of the day, I don't know shit.      Did I render this right in Unreal 5? The short answer is... no.     Anyways... What am I doing? Yeah? Right? - I think the big thing is, I haven't figured out a way to build everything from scratch. One of my biggest gripes about the unreal 5 engine, is the fact I cannot start with a completely blank project. It comes with a sun, baked lighting, some cool other effects, and a bunch of default settings I am not going to use. I spend HOURS wondering why everything looked extremely high contrast and saturated - which I found out was caused by the camera deciding to auto expose itself. If this was the real world, AWESOME, I would love a camera that corrected lighting and made it easier to see. But for a video game? No, this isn't going to work. Well, it's not going to work for me . Did Paper Mario have this intense of lighting? No. So, me trying to delete things without making the fun...

     I don't know anything about shaders, and honestly, it looks confusing as all hell. But in theory, I will only need to learn how to use it once, as most of the design choices in the game will only require one shader shared universally. Let me show you what the tree looks like after making some selections. This is what the tree looks like using the Legacy Transparent Cutout shader. Looks like plastic. Shiny. Here is the Partical Surface shader, but the problem, with this (and you might not see it here), is that the draw order is wrong, causing massive clipping and clip through. It shouldn't look like that. Here is the basic "cutout" shader. It doesn't provide any "shade" at all. On one hand, its nice to actually see it without any shadow effects, as this is the "intended" look based off the sprite sheet. But I would like some basic shading. In fact, if I could get some basic cell shading, that would be wonderful, but I want to at least see m...