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That looks very promising. What's the approach to do the cutout?

Wow Bombshell Blitz is going to randomly be like 12 other game genres now at this rate. Thats great lol. Seems like a good learning excerise

More wizardry! A thing that might interest you: split fiction does some splitscreen camera magic where it can merge back together.

not bad for an evening's work - still a few kinks to iron out but I feel like i've improved the implementation of the fade a lot since I last attempted that kinda thing. Will continue posting progress as I go and probably do a bigger breakdown once i've landed on something good!

How do you find working in unreal? I started learning it recently for uni and find the blueprints overwhelming but hoping it gets easier with time!

the general gist: - Make a nice radial gradient in screenspace and offset it to center on the player's position > - only include pixels in the gradient if they're further away from the camera than the player pos* > - save it as a material function that any material can use in it's alpha mask!

*it's important to FLATTEN the height of your position values for the distance comparison, otherwise pixels on surfaces that are *higher* will technically be considered close enough to the camera to not be culled

OOO WHATS THE APPROACH HERE? Masking world materials if some position vector parameter is greater distance from camera than their depth?