Unreal Engine 5 Materials

Unreal Engine 5.2 (Materials) for beginners and architects
Chapter 9 out of 23 from Unreal Engine 5 for beginners and Archviz full course

About
This mini-will teach you everything you need to know about materials, how to create them, be smart about them, and all the different possible workflows to achieve high-quality realistic materials in Unreal Engine 5,

In this class, you will learn the following:

1. What are PBR Materials

2. Material editor UI

3. Basic material nodes

4. Material instances

5. Using Texture

6. Material intensity

7. UV Texture transformation

8. Megascans

9. Texture variation

10. Translucency and glass material

11. Advanced metal materials

12. Generating textures

13. Quixel bridge

14. Migrating textures

15. All Materials

16. Water material

17. Light materials

At the end of this course:

You will be able to make various materials that will make you work with, game, environment-level design, Archviz projects confidently, and make you resourceful enough to look for and make many different types of materials.

You should be able to apply the knowledge you will learn in this course to any project you desire, but in case here are the FBX files exported from 3Ds Max and compatible with Unreal Engine, you just have to import them into Unreal and start learning.

This lesson will introduce a new concept of computer graphics visual element called PBR materials.

Textures and values are being connected through nodes we can connect and disconnect nodes to be able to create a certain material logic.

We create a material instance to be able to edit in real-time, optimized our material creation process, and shortcut the time of creating new materials.

Remember we get our textures from:

1. Textures from Max

2. textures.com

3. Google

4. Megascans
   

In this lesson, we will learn how to fix the UVs for all of our materials including:

1. Movement

2. Scaling

3. Rotation

4. Stretch

In this lesson, we will dive more in-depth into our material development process, we will also talk about Megascans and how to obtain textures from them.

In this lesson, you will learn about roughness maps and how to make texture variations within the same material.

In this lesson, you will learn everything you need about translucency materials in Lumen and how to maximize the quality of its reflections.

Advanced metal is very similar to advanced textured material but with small changes to it.

We can generate texture channels through Photoshop or through ShaderMap 4
Link to download ShaderMap 4:

https://shadermap.com/downloads/

Remember

Bridge is a rapid tool but not necessarily the only one! but for now, Enjoy!

Remember

It's always preferable to migrate the entire folder and then delete what we don't want from inside our project, in case we liked another asset in the same project, migrating the same folder again could cause crashes in Unreal.

In this lecture, we will learn to combine all the material workflows that we learned with all the objects of our scene pt.01

Note: In this video, the audio stops after minute 5:33 till the end of the video

In this lecture, we will learn to combine all the material workflows that we learned with all the objects of our scene pt.02

Note: In this video, the audio stops after minute 6:40 till the end of the video

In this lecture, we will learn to combine all the material workflows that we learned with all the objects of our scene pt.03

Note: This video has no audio till minute 13:05

In this lesson we will learn how to create light materials and when to use them