how to make a crystal ball like The Lab's?

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I want to make crystal ball with media in it.
I think i found the way to make crystal ball but i don’t know how to make like this picture.

please help.

You wan’t to put a media texture on a translucency shader? For cristal ball you can use fresnel as alpha or in refraction if this use translucency to get a nice results. And about media, you need to import your media and create a media texture, and put it on a media player. Hope this helps.

kinda like this, you will probably need to tweak this. I would try to mask out the distortion better than I did.

some of the info from this livestream should be useful: Shaders in UE4 | Live Training | Unreal Engine Livestream - YouTube