Render anime character Eyebrows over Hair

icqqq

Dear all, I'd like to achieve this effect :

Which you can see the eyebrow is always render on top of hair. And the eyebrow will not render on top of the rest of the body. I don't know how to do it in Godot but I think it should be related to shader. Does anyone has any idea? Thank you so much!!

Megalomaniak

I'm guessing the face is rendered as a decal and projected onto both the head mesh and the hair mesh. Both of which are separate meshes from the rest of the player character. The head and hair mesh might be the same mesh object/node though.

aztecsensei

hello! you may find this article useful: https://medium.com/@gordonnl/links-expressions-eb7beae2c62c cheers. :)

icqqq

@aztecsensei said: hello! you may find this article useful: https://medium.com/@gordonnl/links-expressions-eb7beae2c62c cheers. :)

Thank you very much for the article! It is very useful. However, I didn't found the technology or explanation on how the author achieve the Eyebrows over Hair effect. It should be note that the eyebrow and eye in the demo will over hair only but not the other part of body.

I am not familiar with Threejs and may be I am wrong but I have checked the code and see the shader part of the eyebrow and eye and found it use transparent: true, depthTest: false, I have tried to set the same flags (which is transparent and no depth test) in Godot's spatial shader for eyebrow but I get the eyebrow over all objects, which means the eyebrow not only over the hair, but the whole body and also over all objects in my scene, which is not what I want.

So still how can I achieve the eyebrow over hair effect just like Wind Waker?

Thanks!!!

icqqq

@Megalomaniak said: I'm guessing the face is rendered as a decal and projected onto both the head mesh and the hair mesh. Both of which are separate meshes from the rest of the player character. The head and hair mesh might be the same mesh object/node though.

Sorry for asking silly question. How can I do that in Godot? Thank you!

Megalomaniak

I haven't really looked at using decals in godot yet so not sure either.