Fixing Bad Grass Shadows in UE4! (READ DESCRIPTION FIRST)

You CAN SKIP the part in 3:33 - 6:46 where we Duplicate the Mesh and simply put this in your Grass Material first (YOU STILL NEED TO MAKE UPWARDS NORMALS) - https://imgur.com/a/2LEZdEL You can also skip when I mention creating Duplicate Faces in Blender from 9:33 - 11:38, basically just ranting about how the backfaces of Normals are always the OPPOSITE of the front face. There are Chapters in the Progress Bar you can use as a guide :) 00:00 Intro 03:33 You CAN SKIP (READ DESCRIPTION!) 06:46 Fixing Diagonal Grass 09:33 More Stuff you CAN Skip! 11:38 Wrap up and shameless Discord Plug HUGE thanks to Divivor for showing me the magic of TransformVector - this saves a lot of vertices! (I'm not entirely sure on how Unreal renders double-sided materials... Either way, it saves the extra set-up time!) Today we're fixing bad Grass Shadows in UE4! This became a real issue for me since I use a global cel-shader (which you can build yourself here: https://youtu.be/RkFwe7JI8R8) A common solution I see online is to set your Material to Non-Tangent-Space and feed a (0,0,1) vector into the Normal channel but you'll soon find that this is only a Band-Aid solution. It only looks pleasant in very specific circumstances and falls apart completely when dealing with slopes/natural landscapes. By making your grass blend perfectly with your landscape you can lower the overall density of the grass, saving performance! Discord: https://discord.gg/HUacdHUaXq YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/prismaticadev Twitch: https://twitch.tv/prismaticadev Patreon: https://patreon.com/prismaticadev Twitter: https://twitter.com/prismaticadev ---------------------------------------- Computer Specs: Ryzen 3900x 12-core CPU MSI Geforce RTX 2080 Super 64GB Corsair RAM One of those fancy nvme m.2 SSD's Programs of choice: Unreal Engine 4 - (Game Dev) Blender 2.8 - (Animation and Modelling) OBS - (Video/screen capture) Davinci Resolve - (Video editing) Adobe Photoshop - (Graphics and Texturing) Quixel Mixer - (Texturing) ProTools 11 - (Compositions and mixing) OldSchool Runescape - (Chillax time) Filmed using: Sony A7s2 body Sony 24-70mm f/2.8 GM lens Yonguo YN360 LED's for colour Yongnuo YN760 chip LED w/ Godox softbox for key My lovely cats names are Boycat, Girlcat and Ladycat :)