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[Gear VR] Masked materials don't render - bug?

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This is what I've discovered: https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?107733-Bug-Masked-unlit-material-doesn-t-render

Is it a bug or limitation of the platform?

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motorsepAuthor

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@rpalandri I think I figured out the issue and I do think it's a rendering bug.

Basically, a proper way to setup camera is to have an anchor actor, so to speak, and parent camera to it. So I did that by adding a cube and parenting camera to it:

Full image: http://s31.postimg.org/q54r7quhl/camera_anchor1.png

And then I thought that camera will show the cube in the view, so I ticked Hidden option.

Apparently children inherit that (and probably other) properties and this my view fade mesh would not show up in the view because it was automatically hidden. Once I disabled that checkbox you see on the screenie, my view fade mesh showed up on the device. It was clipped ugly, but that's another story.

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rpalandri

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Glad to see you figured it out! Is it really a bug then? I would deem logical that children would inherit their parent's properties such as hidden. Why it displays on the preview however I don't know.

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motorsepAuthor

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I don't believe it should, for flexibility sake.

Now I got another issue - clipping of the fade view mesh :( I posted about it in another thread, I think.

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motorsepAuthor

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Ok, "fixed" that too by scaling up plane and setting camera's near plane to 0.01

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motorsepAuthor

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Actually .01 value is bad - zfight happens at relatively short distances on the level. Value of 5 works better.