Unreal Engine 5 Beginner Materials Tutorial - A Complete Guide in UE5

How to create Materials in Unreal Engine 5? In this UE5 Beginner Tutorial you will learn how to create your own Master Material and use Material Layers to leverage UE5 tools and make your levels look prettier.

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Timestamps:

0:00:00 Intro
0:01:12 What is a Material?
0:03:42 Creating our first material
0:10:25 PBR Physical based rendering
0:14:38 Basic math operations
0:20:51 Using Textures
0:26:21 Using Masks
0:30:08 Using Lerps
0:37:43 Changing Normal Maps Intensity
0:41:03 Material Instances
0:46:48 Changing roughness
0:49:49 Changing tiling scale
0:53:08 Moving UV coordinates
0:57:15 Base Color Tint
0:58:57 Parameter Groups
1:02:36 Material Functions
1:08:30 Simple tiling function
1:12:38 Color tint function
1:16:45 Material Layers
1:24:29 Material Layer Blend
1:26:45 Grunge texture blend
1:31:35 Channel Mask parameter
1:34:22 Applying our Master Material to the Layer asset
1:39:39 Changing layer parameters
1:42:50 Adding Snow with a Slope Mask
1:46:46 Refining our Slope Mask
1:50:02 Basic Vertex Painting
1:56:26 Height Lerp Vertex Painting
2:00:34 Painting Puddles
2:12:23 Creating the Puddle Function
2:19:04 Outro

[unfgames]

Hello! 👋 Time to learn some Materials! 🎨





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Want to learn something in UE5? Let us know in the comments!👇

[mr.silver]

Seriously a true mentor, can you do a tutorial on directional wind on foilage, for example the foilage you see in ghost of tsushima when the wind kicks in? Great work over all though, you are legit mentoring new generation creators!

[germanmairen]

This is the best tutorial I found for Materials in all the Youtube. Thanks a lot

[violentpixelation]

This tutorial belongs definitely to the really good ones! Thank you. It was a great refresher for me.

[MrXanth]

Absolutely legend tutorial for the basic understanding of materials in UE5. Big Thanks for you guys!🙏

[npstris]

Best material tutorial for beginer ever

[jamessharpe]

Thank you so much, I was watching your snow level tutorial today and was curious how to improve the looks of some imported models.

[DavidLevinson]

Very good tutorial for actually using nodes and manipulating with nodes in the UE UI. Thank you.

[kwazastudio]

LIKED, SAVED, COMMENTED, you deserved that and more sir! REALLY enjoyed this and learned A LOT! THANKS from argentina!!

[ArchWorld]

OMG... This is just perfect... I get to know everything about materials... OMG Thanks Thanks Thanks... I really want to know about grids for City Building Games

[ilfalsomaggiorennedovano]

This is working without any problems guys

[donnyjoe]

For anyone whose thumbnails (e.g. Material Layer Instances) are not updating:

1. Press Settings in Content Browser (Gear Icon).
2. Check Thumbnail edit mode.
3. Click and drag on thumbnail to rotate.

This will update the thumbnail thus making the asset/MLI collection less confusing.

[auroredesriac]

Your tutorial is well explained and cover a lot of things.
I really enjoy following it.
You helped a lot, thank you!

[Zimescu]

I love you man thanks for your videos! 😌

[sarayrobertoanimacionconlego]

Really amazing!!. I don't understand very well why sometimes you use some nodes to join "operations" and other times others: add, multiply, lerd, attend... in any case, thanks so much! Your tutorials are impressive! :)

[lz]

Thank you for this, you have covered a lot of basic stuff that I have skipped during my early learning with the material graph. Hoping to see more advanced material animation stuff like time, sine, WPO and even vertex animations in the future. Also an advanced physical animations tutorial would be cool. Thank you

[kimii]

Nice video man, clear and concise explanation! Thanks a lot!

[영영무]

thank you so much for sharing this method with !

[whtrbt]

Terrific tutorial for beginners like myself ;) Thank you!

[rhysekohler]

How did you get to outliner and layers on that task bar? Anyone using uE5 for the first time doesn't have that they only have world settings they need to know how they get to those settings so they can follow these tutorials.