how to place something on skin of animated object?

[steveh2112]

thanks,
RaycastHit.textureCoord wouldn’t work because it needs a mesh collider and for characters, people typically use capsule colliders for efficiency i guess, and anyhow, i don’t think mesh colliders will deform with the animation

but maybe i could add a temporary mesh collider just to find the uv coord?

i’ll experiment with it, but i think you are right, ‘putting the blood splat directly on the material is your only option if you want it to look decent’

even if its not exactly the right spot, i can probably get it close just from the capsule collider hit

so how to paint directly onto the characters texture?
some discussion here

Painting a texture ingame

Ok, so what I want is to paint a texture over the skin of a mesh. This texture would override the previous coloring of the mesh, but only in areas around a ray-casted point. I.e. ray-cast his point blah blah blah, you create a circle of effect around it, (fading off around the edges preferably, though not necessary), and then paint a assigned texture. This would be used for an effect like this: [image] (For those who recognize this, this is Kirito from SAO II, after getting slapped REALL…

but no clear answer
UPDATE
i just tried added a blood splat png with transparent background into the detail mask and detail albedo slots on the standard shader and it does work
the trick is how to create potentially hundreds of blood splats in different locations if i go for a pre canned approach, or create an on the fly texture and no idea how to do that