Unreal Engine 5 Beginner Materials Tutorial - A Complete Guide in UE5

Overview

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Learn to create materials from scratch in Unreal Engine 5 with this comprehensive beginner tutorial. Explore the fundamentals of material creation, including physical-based rendering, basic math operations, and texture usage. Master advanced techniques such as material instances, parameter groups, and material functions. Dive into material layers, blending, and vertex painting to enhance your level designs. Create a versatile master material and apply it to various assets while learning to add realistic details like snow and puddles. By the end of this tutorial, gain the skills to leverage UE5 tools and significantly improve the visual quality of your game environments.

Syllabus

Intro
What is a Material?
Creating our first material
PBR Physical based rendering
Basic math operations
Using Textures
Using Masks
Using Lerps
Changing Normal Maps Intensity
Material Instances
Changing roughness
Changing tiling scale
Moving UV coordinates
Base Color Tint
Parameter Groups
Material Functions
Simple tiling function
Color tint function
Material Layers
Material Layer Blend
Grunge texture blend
Channel Mask parameter
Applying our Master Material to the Layer asset
Changing layer parameters
Adding Snow with a Slope Mask
Refining our Slope Mask
Basic Vertex Painting
Height Lerp Vertex Painting
Painting Puddles
Creating the Puddle Function
Outro