Unreal Engine 5.2 - Intro To Strata/Substrate Materials Tutorial

Topic: Shading In Unreal Engine 5.2+

In this video we look at a brief introduction to the Strata Shading System for Unreal 5.2+, this is a experimental feature at the moment that will allow for more realistic material creation and layering. This was originally introduced in Unreal 5.1 but has been updated in Unreal 5.2. This video covers the basics and key things to understand to start using this new feature and a bit about material and shading theory.

This video looks at different ways and approaches to create metals like Gold, complex fabrics like Gold, and generic Glass.

You can also find a official page about Strata in Unreal 5.1 here, which is a bit different from 5.2 but useful to read/checkout as well:

If your interested in other new features in Unreal 5.2 check out:

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Tags:
Computer Graphics, Strata Shading, Material X, Realtime BSDF, Shading in Unreal, Unreal 5.2+

[losimple]

one of my Best UE5 learning channel ever !... thank you

[ZAKarchitects]

Really brilliant in depth introduction.. Looking forward to see more of your creativity.. Thank you so much ❤️

[andreymalygin]

Thank you! Perhaps this is first tutorial of substrate material, not a presentation, but tutorial.

[markross]

How do you control the Fresnel falloff in substrate ( how to get the Fresnel to go farther inward from the rim?)

[AroTheOcto]

hi i have a problem, the moment i open the new material, i have a Substrate UE4 Default shading even tho i am in UE5

[marcfruchtman]

This was an amazing video tutorial. I have to admit tho, that when you showed that last material with 3278 instructions, that's just way too many! I do see that the Parameter Blending reduces that down to 798, but I you lose the glassy appearance and well defined reflections off the surface. I haven't had a chance to see if this improves in 5.4, but plan on making this very soon and will try to comment back.

[SoldatovArtem]

hi, why do I see the outline of an object inside a matte object

[TheFunDimension]

And how in the world can we fix the shadow of the glass material?

[DevGods]

Empty shader with 250+ instructions? I thought that they said the performance compared to a regular material would be the same.

[xSTstSTx]

Can you do a video on post processing effects with substrate enabled. Thanks.

[starscream]

Hello, do you think you're going to expand the tutorial about strata? With more advanced techniques?

[KevinFisher-mf]

Why does my shader ball in the material editor always look like there is no lighting, just black?

[uimoos]

Great Video, How do i make dark tinted windows though? When i change the color to a random color, it works but when i change it to black, it loses the transparency

[VISDE]

So far the best substrate material tutorial! Shared and liked!!! One question tho does substrate glass material support raytracing translucent? Any improvement if it does?

[ShawnTheRazor]

Are you able to use the old materials and new materials at the same time?

[lacilaci]

Great tutorials. I cannot figure however how to make foliage material, like thin translucent so I can see shadows on backside, or something like curtain material using substrate.

[vlad.serbanescu]

29:03, middle-top part of the screen - what is the name of the software you're using to, I assume, help with snapping windows in custom layouts? I use MaxTo so I'm curious to compare them.

Also awesome videos! Thank you for the work!

[adarshwhynot]

Thanks a lot, you are really good at explaining 😊

[eraj]

Can you do a video about creating skin shader?

[koala]

very nice video. ue always has some greate update.