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Fun with MeshBlend is a July 2025 essay on c0de517e.com that reverse-engineers how a mesh-to-mesh material blending effect like Tore Lervik's Unreal MeshBlend plugin could work, without claiming to document the shipped plugin.

It walks through observations from trailers and screenshots: bidirectional blends along intersections, small configurable radii, view-stable results, deferred rendering, and no geometry edits. The author rejects naive distance-field or decal fades, then argues for an SSAO-like screen-space gather that blends material properties when nearby samples belong to other meshes, with notes on temporal amortization and depth discontinuities.

It is for advanced real-time graphics engineers comfortable with deferred pipelines, G-buffers, and screen-space techniques.

Access is a free long-form blog post with stills and reasoned speculation; it does not ship code or a plugin build.

It is useful as a design exercise for inventing intersection blending once a proof of existence exists, rather than as MeshBlend documentation.