Material Property For Loop

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Hi all, I have a somewhat straight forward question :
Can you loop an array of values in a material? I know there isn’t an actual for loop node, but maybe with a custom code node? The uses of this would be large, and quite awesome. Currently I have a post process that does this :

It’d be cool if somehow an array of vectors could be stored for multiple characters in the game, or any other instance. I know I could just use a material parameter collection with multiple values and just have a material with that many functions, but it’d be nice to have a sort of dynamic way to do this.

Thanks in advance,
Jacob

P.S. I know the effect in the screen shot could be achieved with decals, I’m just actually finding that there are many applications this would be useful.

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You can! But currently you need to use the custom code node to do this. Try looking at the Parallax Occlusion Mapping material for a practical example of a custom node for loop.