Unreal Engine Materials in 6 Levels of Complexity

Check out the Honkai: Star Rail 3D Challenge here: hoyo.link/8sEiFBAL --- MATERIAL VERISON UPDATES AND WISHLIST: v3 RELEASED: - added snow/dust layer controls - redesigned the normal map node structure - added "color correction" dropdowns for anything that uses (brightness, contrast, saturation, min/max) - disabled unneeded plugins from UE project file - added switchers & controls to use textures for metallic, opacity and emissive (with placeholder black_solid in the texture slot) - using the terminology "scale" as opposed to "tiling" as it's more accurate. WISHLIST: -realtime edge and recesses matte (curvature map) -option for packed textures (ORM, ORDp, etc.) -displacement -named reroutes -world aligned node for meshes w/o UV's.

Watched the whole thing, great explanation! Some good suggestion already in the comments: I would suggest generally using a few more functions to clean up your master, adding detail normal (u can use BlendAngleCorrectedNormals node for that), adding a texture slot for metallic. Also I would suggest you to look into some blend nodes for combining your imperfections (blend_screen for example). You could also add some blank texture samplers for when you need to swap your Shading model, or use different masters for each. Another great organisation tip is using named reroutes. Small but very useful workflow tips: - toggle "hide unrelated" at the top of the graph, makes working on large materials a lot more managable. - press q when having nodes selected to straighten the connection! For more advanced stuff, you can make your own shader using Material Attributes (Layered Materials). Also for anything shader related, Ben Cloward here on youtube is the best teacher!

so helpful clint. i’ve recently been hired as an unreal artist for a commercial studio and thought that my knowledge in blender would transfer over and it definitely hasn’t been as easy, especially with the the way materials are set up. the material instance feature alone is different enough that needed its own understanding. super dope vid

Level 7 : Displacement. Ooohh boy that feature sure has some weird scaling variables.

I would suggest add something for emmisive, detail normals(for large objects), opacity option, and an option for objects that do not have any UV's, so an WorldAligned option. Oh and an option to use packed textures (quixel and SubPainter use that a lot)

Great tutorial, well explained. I think the other things key to a "Master Materal' would be to have nanite displacement controls (for 5.3 onwards displacement is back) + alpha controls for masked materials. Would also be interesting to have a switch for transparent materials (not supported by nanite), so one could still use the same master material, but switch when you need a transparent material. Also material blending controls to remove tiling etc would be very useful. Keep up the good work

Hey Clint! Great work on this video, must have been a hell of an editing job...by the way killer thumbnail! I love filmmaking and virtual production in Unreal Engine, it changed everything for me. Keep up the solid work, It's not easy but you're killing it.

Damnnn judge for the Star Rail competition? That's awesome. Can't wait. Fantastic tutorial by the way, learned a lot.

Amazing! This just might be the best materials video out there. Top notch. Thank you!!!

Amazing Tutorial man! Feel so lucky to have seen you do it live at the event last time :) Thank you so much for being such an amzing creator and sharing you knowledge!

Thanks Clint for this amazing tutorial! It makes life so much easier! So many things I still have to discover in UE and I am happy there are skilled artists all around to teach me more :) Keep up the good work!

This is a great intro to Materials in UE Clint. Thank you!

Amazing! This is super helpful thanks Clint, as always bringing the power to the people!

That was Awesome Pwnisher... I followed along till the end and created my first Master Material.... thanks A lot

Such amazing explanations of materials! I can’t wait to bring these ideas into my games in Unity as well!

Now this is the type of vids I love as someone who hasn't touched any real work with this stuff just enjoy the content made about it. No video has made me want to begin working with this stuff then these. I hope the vid does well I know I'm sharing it around so I can see a lot more of this content :D Love it keep it up :)

Another amazing video! Materials have been the scariest part about learning UE for me. Great job demystifying them!

I was looking for something like this a few weeks ago and had to piece together parts from multiple vids to get what I wanted. This vid has it all in one! Thanks Clint!

I've watched a lot of material tutorials, and this one by far had some of the most useful information and it was the easiest to follow. Thank you!

I followed this video step by step, learned lots of skills, appreciate for sharing. Thanks again!