Hi there: We need to materialize a toothed belt in one of our 3D e-learning projects. Initialy, we were looking for a solution via GLTF, but that has finally not possible, as a correct approach using a cinematic skeleton implies a high number of links, exceding the limits of the format. This way,…

You can use getBlockByName in the NodeMaterial to access and change the values of any input block: Node Material Get and Update Values | Babylon.js Playground (babylonjs.com)

It’s pretty simple to achieve an effect similar to the one @paleRider posted with NME: NME animated displacement | Babylon.js Playground (babylonjs.com) :smiley:

Hi, @carolhmj : Thank you very much for your support on this. About your code, I’m not at all aware of the MNE, but I guess that “TJ9SG3#5” is a kind of URL for the specific node graph. Isn’t it? In that case, how can we visualize it in order to study your solution? We’d like to have it done on an…

@paleRider , I was on vacation last week so I apologize for the delay in my response. To see the NME solution from @carolhmj : Click on the inspector button Click on the + next to materials to expand the list Click on the edit button next to the node material [image] This will open NME in a child…

Hi there @PatrickRyan : First; I hope you enjoyed your vacation time. Here in Spain the weather is this year hot as hell and vacations (or digging deep enough in the ground to avoid so much heat) is something all people are thinking about these days. This said, thank you very much for the instructi…

Also maybe this thread could help, it has NME and ShaderMaterial examples of a strategy to compute the normals. [image] How to smooth normals useing NME? Questions Hello! When we use an a displacement for vertex shader positions is changing but normals isn’t. For some cas…

Hi there, @Blake : Thanks for your advice. We’ll keep an eye on it!

Sorry for the delay, I’m ill in bed, but better today and better enough to be able to read your messages. Thank you @carolhmj @PatrickRyan and @Blake for your inputs, they are super helpfull. In order to see the final (kind of) effect we want to achieve, I create a mockup scene in MAYA that you ca…

Oh no, hope you feel better soon D: This effect is pretty straightforward to achieve on NME, take a look at this mockup: Babylon.js Node Material Editor (babylonjs.com)

I also hope you feel better quickly, @joie ! And @carolhmj is right on the money with her NME graph. There is one addition that I would add for performance reasons, which is a discard node . What this node does is to throw out any pixel that’s value falls beneath the cutoff value. The reason that this…

Thank you all for your very appreciated help on this. I’ve made the final mesh for this and laid out its UVs so the textures will hopefully do what we need. So, here is the setup I’ve come up with. I have decades of experience with nodal procedural shading editors, so it’s pretty natural for me. …

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Also maybe this thread could help, it has NME and ShaderMaterial examples of a strategy to compute the normals.

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