Unreal Engine 4 Materials Tutorial

In this Unreal Engine 4 materials tutorial, you will learn how to modify textures in the material editor, create material instances and update material instances during gameplay. By Tommy Tran.

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Where to Go From Here?

You can download the completed project here.

I love materials because they are so powerful and there are so many things you can do with them. You can layer materials together to create a complex material like stone with moss growing in the cracks. You can also make cool effects like the disintegration effect shown in the tutorial.

If you would like to learn more about materials, I recommend reading the Material Inputs page in the Unreal Engine documentation. Learning what these inputs do will allow you to create more advanced materials.

I encourage you to mess around with materials and test out a bunch of nodes (there are a lot of them). The best way to learn something is by trying it yourself :)

If you want to keep learning, check out the next post in the series, where I cover how to add UI elements like labels or buttons into your games.

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