Unreal Engine 5 : Materials for Beginners Guide

Unreal Engine 5 : Materials for Beginners Guide, available at $79.99, has an average rating of 4.45, with 59 lectures, based on 19 reviews, and has 245 subscribers.

You will learn about High level understanding of the different workflow for creating materials inside of Unreal Engine 5 Learn how to optimize and create efficient materials and shaders inside of Unreal Engine 5. Integrate your unreal engine materials into blueprints for more dynamic material control. Confidence that you will be able to create your own materials for your own needs after the course This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginners to Unreal Engine 5 and its Material Editor. It is particularly useful for Beginners to Unreal Engine 5 and its Material Editor.

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Summary

Title: Unreal Engine 5 : Materials for Beginners Guide

Price: $79.99

Average Rating: 4.45

Number of Lectures: 59

Number of Published Lectures: 59

Number of Curriculum Items: 59

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 59

Original Price: $69.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

High level understanding of the different workflow for creating materials inside of Unreal Engine 5
Learn how to optimize and create efficient materials and shaders inside of Unreal Engine 5.
Integrate your unreal engine materials into blueprints for more dynamic material control.
Confidence that you will be able to create your own materials for your own needs after the course

Who Should Attend

Beginners to Unreal Engine 5 and its Material Editor.

Target Audiences

Beginners to Unreal Engine 5 and its Material Editor.

Learning the material editor in Unreal Engine 5 can feel overwhelming. With numerous techniques and methods available to achieve your desired visuals, starting can seem nearly impossible.

In this course, we delve into the basics of the Unreal Engine 5 Material Editor, providing you with a strong foundation to unleash your creative potential for your project or game. No longer will you be confused when striving for specific outcomes or be confused with material editor options. You will gain the confidence on how to attain a specific look or effect.
This course is taught by a Senior Technical Artist with over 12 years of experience in the video game industry, you can be confident that the methods taught in this course are demonstrated in a manner expected by a professional game studio for approaching material creation.

The course begins by covering the fundamentals necessary to start building your own materials. It also addresses how to construct optimized materials that are performance-oriented, and how to structure your materials for easy updates and sharing. Furthermore, the course addresses creating materials that interact with the blueprint system, enabling you to have materials that react dynamically. By the end of the course, you’ll possess the confidence to craft materials for your projects and games that truly shine. Let’s get started!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Installing Project Files

Lecture 3: How to use Project Files

Chapter 2: Material Editing Fundementals

Lecture 1: Installing Unreal Engine

Lecture 2: Creating your first material

Lecture 3: Material Editor UI Overview

Lecture 4: Material Editor Nodes and Naviagation Basics

Lecture 5: Applying Materials to Meshes

Chapter 3: Core Nodes and Concepts

Lecture 1: What do the color of Nodes mean ?

Lecture 2: RGB is XYZ

Lecture 3: Texture Sample Node

Lecture 4: Texture Coordinate Node

Lecture 5: Vectors and Constants Node

Lecture 6: Core Math Nodes

Lecture 7: Clamp and Saturate Nodes

Lecture 8: Append Node

Lecture 9: Component Mask Node

Lecture 10: The LERP Node

Lecture 11: The Fresnel Node

Lecture 12: The Transform Node

Lecture 13: The Panner Node

Lecture 14: The Time Node

Lecture 15: Vertex Painting Basics

Chapter 4: Material Detail Panel Overview

Lecture 1: Detail Panel High Level Overview

Lecture 2: Material Domains

Lecture 3: Shading Models

Lecture 4: Blend Modes

Lecture 5: Two Sided Materials

Lecture 6: Material Attributes

Chapter 5: Material Domain Examples

Lecture 1: Decal Materials

Lecture 2: Light Function Materials

Lecture 3: Volume Materials

Lecture 4: Post Process Materials

Lecture 5: User Interface Materials

Chapter 6: Special Case Materials

Lecture 1: UV Tiling Basic Example

Lecture 2: World Space Tiling

Lecture 3: Basic Emissive Material Setup

Lecture 4: Masked Emissive Material Setup

Chapter 7: Blend Modes

Lecture 1: Opaque Blend Mode

Lecture 2: Translucent Blend Mode

Lecture 3: How to use refraction in Translucent Blend Mode

Lecture 4: Masked / Cutout Blend Mode

Lecture 5: Additive Blend Mode

Lecture 6: Modulate Blend Mode

Lecture 7: Alpha Composite Blend Mode

Lecture 8: Alpha Holdout Blend Mode

Chapter 8: Material Organization

Lecture 1: Material Parameters

Lecture 2: Sorting Material Parameters

Lecture 3: Material Instances

Lecture 4: Material Functions

Lecture 5: Material Parameter Collections

Lecture 6: Adding Comments and Node Comments

Lecture 7: Reroute Pins and Named Reroute Nodes

Chapter 9: Master Material Scene Organization Setup

Lecture 1: Master Material Overview

Lecture 2: Base Color Controls

Lecture 3: Setting up ORM options

Lecture 4: Emissive Color Controls

Lecture 5: Normal Maps Options

Chapter 10: Summary

Lecture 1: Course summary and congratulations!

Instructors

Bradley Wascher
Senior Technical Artist in the Video Game Industry

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