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Description

For see-through two-sided materials like shield domes. Normally you see the inside faces at full brightness fighting with the front, and it turns into a mess. This dims the back faces so the front stays readable. One slider: how dim the inside should be (0 = invisible, 1 = no change). Hookup is slightly different from my other snippets: wire your emissive INTO the Result node's A input, then send its output to Emissive Color. Your material needs Two Sided turned on, on a one-sided material it simply does nothing.

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Nodes: Comment (x2), Constant, LinearInterpolate, Material, Multiply, Saturate, ScalarParameter, TwoSidedSign

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Node groupNanite-friendly
UE 5.6UE 5.7
0
license

CC0 1.0: Public Domain

Public domain: use it however you like, no credit required.

dependencies

Zero dependencies

Pastes and works in any UE 5.3+ project. No textures, no material functions, no MPCs.

tags
#translucent#emissive#two-sided
ue compatibility
UE 5.3UE 5.4UE 5.5UE 5.6UE 5.7

Details

Last update
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Published
16 hours ago
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