Retro Shading for Unreal Engine 5 | Gouraud (Vertex) Lighting, Blinn-Phong Specular Highlights, & More!

PLEASE NOTE: This is an early access version of the assets. Included is a project file with all materials, textures, and material functions you'll need to get up and running; while everything is totally functional, some blueprints and materials are still very messy and undocumented.

A set of materials, material functions, and Blueprints for achieving a retro shading effect in Unreal Engine 5!

Includes the following features:

• Gouraud (vertex interpolated) lighting, as seen in most PS1/N64/PS2/GCN games. Uses an entirely Blueprint-based lighting system, with support for up to 48 (dynamic) lights at a time (this limitation will likely never go away, but the maximum amount will be increased later on!).
• Blinn-Phong specularity, for specular highlights
• Cubemap reflections for glossiness and metalness
• Dozens of parameters to control tint, hue, saturation, tiling, world alignment, opacity, glossiness, specular highlights, metalness, emission, texture masks, and more.

• BONUS: ‘90s pre-rendered CGI material to emulate that old-school promotional material look!

PLANNED FEATURES:

(These may or may not get added!)

• PlayStation 1-style material, with vertex snapping and affine texture mapping.

GAMES USING THIS

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