Unreal 5 Materials – Part 1 Environments

Unreal 5 Materials – Part 1 Environments, available at $89.99, has an average rating of 4.7, with 96 lectures, based on 126 reviews, and has 1026 subscribers.

You will learn about Have a holistic understanding of the Material Editor in Unreal 5 Learn best practices and workflows for using Functions and producing optimal Materials Explore how to use Data from elsewhere in the Engine to build dynamic materials Apply all the base knowledge to Environmental examples, such as Landscapes and Vertex Painting This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone who wants to learn how to make Materials in Unreal 5 It is particularly useful for Anyone who wants to learn how to make Materials in Unreal 5.

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Summary

Title: Unreal 5 Materials – Part 1 Environments

Price: $89.99

Average Rating: 4.7

Number of Lectures: 96

Number of Published Lectures: 96

Number of Curriculum Items: 96

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 96

Original Price: $74.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Have a holistic understanding of the Material Editor in Unreal 5
Learn best practices and workflows for using Functions and producing optimal Materials
Explore how to use Data from elsewhere in the Engine to build dynamic materials
Apply all the base knowledge to Environmental examples, such as Landscapes and Vertex Painting

Who Should Attend

Anyone who wants to learn how to make Materials in Unreal 5

Target Audiences

Anyone who wants to learn how to make Materials in Unreal 5

Part 1 of this course covers a holistic overview of the Material Editor in Unreal 5 – from Material Types and Blend Modes to individual Math Nodes and Input Data, focusing on not just the How to do things but also the Why and looking at the underlying logic and math behind what the engine is doing. Covering how to build up your own Material Functions and build that into your workflow to produce powerful and flexible Materials. We also take a deep dive into UV’s – how they work in the engine and how we can take that knowledge and produce effects such as Distortion, Animation, and Parallax Occlusion Mapping.

Part 2 of the course then takes this knowledge and applies it to Environmental Materials, covering:

Master Materials and some best practices in how to build them,
Decals and their various blend modes – as well as more complex effects such as Angle Based Masking and Custom Decal responses,
Vertex Painting to blend between material types,
various approaches to make Landscape Materials and using RVTs to blend objects into them,
the new Layered Materials system
how to use Input Data to automate variation in materials and create angle based effects such as Snow.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Source Files

Lecture 1: Where to download

Chapter 2: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Introduction to the Material Editor and UI

Lecture 3: Break down of different Node Types

Lecture 4: Best practice Workflow in the Material Editor

Chapter 3: Material Types

Lecture 1: Opaque Materials

Lecture 2: Masked Materials

Lecture 3: Dither Fade Materials

Lecture 4: Translucent Materials

Lecture 5: Refraction in Materials

Lecture 6: Additive Materials

Lecture 7: Modulate Materials

Lecture 8: Premultiplied Materials

Lecture 9: Alpha Holdout Materials

Chapter 4: Material Blend Modes

Lecture 1: Lit and Unlit Materials

Lecture 2: Subsurface Materials

Lecture 3: Clear Coat Materials

Lecture 4: Hair and Eye Materials

Lecture 5: Cloth

Lecture 6: Single Layer Water and Thin Translucency Materials

Lecture 7: Blend Mode by Expression

Chapter 5: Material Editor Math Nodes

Lecture 1: Data Types

Lecture 2: Mask and Append

Lecture 3: Add Subtract Multiply Divide and One Minus

Lecture 4: Power

Lecture 5: Sine Waves and Constant Bias Scale

Lecture 6: Abs Clamp Min and Max

Lecture 7: Floor Ceiling and Frac

Lecture 8: If Lerp and SmoothStep

Lecture 9: Normalize Dot Product Cross Product and DeriveNormalZ

Lecture 10: Panner and Rotator

Lecture 11: RotateAboutAxis and Transform

Lecture 12: Desaturate

Lecture 13: DepthFade and CameraDepthFade

Lecture 14: Fresnel

Lecture 15: Vertex Interpolator

Lecture 16: Distance

Chapter 6: Input Data

Lecture 1: Position Orientation and Scale

Lecture 2: World Position

Lecture 3: Vertex Colour

Lecture 4: Custom Primitive Data

Lecture 5: Vertex Normal and Pixel Normal

Lecture 6: Two Sided Sign

Lecture 7: Time

Lecture 8: Camera Position and Vector

Lecture 9: Pixel Depth and Scene Depth

Lecture 10: Per Instance Random and Fade

Lecture 11: Screen Position and View Size

Lecture 12: Particles

Lecture 13: DDX and DDY

Lecture 14: Reflection Vector

Lecture 15: Sky Atmosphere Data

Lecture 16: Scene Colour

Chapter 7: Working with UVs

Lecture 1: UV Gradients

Lecture 2: UV Tiling

Lecture 3: Animated Textures

Lecture 4: Scaling UVs

Lecture 5: Gradient Mapping

Lecture 6: UV Distortion

Lecture 7: Bump Offset and POM

Chapter 8: Functions

Lecture 1: Perturb Normal HQ

Lecture 2: Flipbook

Lecture 3: Object Position Randomness

Lecture 4: Add Randomness

Lecture 5: Offset Contrast

Lecture 6: World Space Modifier Functions

Lecture 7: Add Noise to Gradient

Lecture 8: Auto Landscape Helper Functions

Chapter 9: Master Materials

Lecture 1: Qpaque Master Materials

Lecture 2: Master Material Functions

Lecture 3: Masked Master Materials

Lecture 4: Translucent Master Materials

Chapter 10: Decals

Lecture 1: Decal Basics

Lecture 2: Angle Masking

Lecture 3: POM Decals

Lecture 4: Custom Decal Response

Chapter 11: World Data

Lecture 1: Object Position Random

Lecture 2: Add Random Function

Lecture 3: Projection Overlay

Lecture 4: World Space Moss

Lecture 5: World Space Snow

Lecture 6: Detail Normals and Distance Based Tiling

Chapter 12: Vertex Painting

Lecture 1: Simple Vertex Painting

Lecture 2: Adding Noise to the Painting edges

Lecture 3: Using a Height map to blend materials

Lecture 4: 3 Layer Blends and Additional Layers

Chapter 13: Landscapes

Lecture 1: Weight Blending

Instructors

Thomas Harle
Realtime VFX Artist

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