UE4 Guide: Master Material For Beginners

Take a look at a tutorial by Aaron Kaminer that covers the basics of setting up a scene for material testing, creating the most common elements of a master material, and key information in creating effective material instances out of a master material. 

Two hours of tips and tricks with teach you how to create your own master materials and instances in Unreal Engine 4 and provide you with some basic knowledge on principles of material creation within the Unreal Engine 4 material editor. 

Contents

01: New Project and Scene Setup

• How to start a new first person project
• How to setup a basic lighting environment for material testing. Including light mass importance volumes, sphere reflection captures, directional lights, and skylights.
• Basic navigations and hotkeys for the editor.
• Saving files
• Baking basic lighting.
• Creating folders for clean navigation in engine.
• Creating Basic Blank Master Material
• How to Apply Materials using Material Elements

02: Albedo Base Setup

• Setup Base Color Input
• Static Switch Parameters
• 2D Texture Parameters
• Organizing with groups, comments, and descriptions.
• Material Instancing
• Texture saturation and hue

03: Roughness/Metalness/Normal Base Setup

• Roughness Values/Maps
• Metal Values/Maps
• Masks
• Normal Map Paramter
• Normal Intensity
• Clamps
• Basic Math

04:Emissive Base Setup

• Emissive Base Color
• Emissive Power
• Emissive Masking

05: AO Base Setup

• AO Engine Default Setup
• AO Albedo Overlay
• Linear Interpolate 

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