The trick using vertex color (or any other mask) to shift the blend id within a mesh. This way the branches, etc looks like a separate mesh to the MeshBlend shader.

Hard to see the seams in the final image.

How to make branches and decoration feel like one natural looking tree in UE5 👀

Use vertex color to mask out the seams.
Then use MeshBlend to drive the blending between the different parts of the same mesh.
#gamedev

How is it after having played the first one?

MeshBlend 1.5 on Fab - Better noise, better controls, better setup and better blending!
Excited to bring this update just in time for #UnrealFestStockholm!

lo-fi is the hardest since there is less noise in the image. But it works pretty well with that too

MeshBlend ON/OFF 👀

The blending keeps improving, so did some new screenshots for MeshBlend on Fab.

Yeah the plugin doesn't care if you do it in editor or spawn stuff in the game. Can change, refresh, disable, enable blending on meshes at runtime.

MeshBlend 1.4 just dropped on @unrealengine.bsky.social

Always working on that visual quality!
#gamedev #environmentart

How many rocks?

MeshBlend started out as a way to make terrain look nice in games.
It has grown a bit since it's inception 17 months ago!

www.fab.com/listings/1f4... #gamedev @unrealengine.bsky.social

At this point it's no longer uneducated/misguided people, but straight up a scam to get money from people..

I can get the "TAA feels blurry" crew. I've run countless games with DSR to get a much better visual quality. But there is a mountain between hunting that visual quality and these grifters!

Performance is important and a big part of #gamdev. So how does MeshBlend fair in real projects?

Wanted to show a clip from the Dark Ruins Megascans project with blending on everything! ~0.07 ms on Low and ~0.16 ms on the high quality meshblend-preset on my Gaming PC

More here meshblend.lervik.com

Feels different when there are no seams! 😄

Just playing with MeshBlend today.
#ue5 #gamedev

I'm toggling the MeshBlend plugin on and off to visualize the scene with and without edges in the terrain.

MeshBlend is a plugin for Unreal that lets you blend any mesh. meshblend.lervik.com

Our brain is incredible at detecting edges, to the point where too much visual clutter makes it harder for players to focus on what matters.

Blending meshes isn't always about making it look good but helping the important stuff "pop".

Used MeshBlend + "Find edges" filter to visualize
#gamedev #ue5

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How many rocks do you see?

Too much fun just doing pointless stuff like this on a Friday evening! 😄

MeshBlend for #ue5 #gamedev

Seams always ruin those gorgeous photogrammetry pieces! Not anymore 🪄

MeshBlend on Fab - #UnrealEngine5 #gamedev

Yeah, the bitrate limits on bsky hurt 😅

Better version on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBb6...

It's a screen spaced effect in the end. So performance is great and it doesn't alter the actual meshes in the scene.

Part of why you can have millions of meshes blending in your scene without perf issues.