Unreal Engine 5 Beginner Tutorial Part 6: Intro to Materials & Textures

In this episode, we provide an in-depth explanation of materials and textures, guiding you through the process of creating and manipulating them. We learn how to create simple materials, and controlling base color, roughness, metallic, emission and specular . We will also teach you the concept of Material Instances and Parameters for dynamic material tweaking.
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Part 07 - Material & Texture Basics
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For people using Unreal Engine 5.4.4 the shortcut to RGB node is Hold 3 and single Left click

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You can also ALT+click on the node line to remove it. That removes the line right away. CTRL+click repositions the line

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did you find the MF_Tiling node in UE5.5?

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Thanks a lot for your great job guys!! you explane everything very clearly!! but What to do if there is no MF_Tiling node in UE5.5?

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At the end of the video, i am not able to find "MF_tiling" what do i do?

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you can use the height map too if you use bumpoffset node and connect it to the normal map

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Loving the tutorial series guys! But uh, I don't have MF_Tiling coming up in 5.4.2. And because I don't really understand it I'm not sure how to fix.

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AO Map Ambient Occlusion (AO) is a normal lookup calculation to use instead of Global Illumination (GI) for environment lighting. The occlusion areas of the ambient lighting is saved as a black and white calculation based on the normals of your model and will be used to mult the ambient lighting only in the white areas of the resulted calculated texture. .. the AO map.. The idea of store the calculation in a map is to avoid having to ray-trace it, which is good for real time or games.

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[@GaryRogersDOP]

absolutely loving following these tutorials, i looked at others and gave in but these are really enjoyable to follow! I have now hit a stumbling block when loading in the sci fi panel textures. Every time I drag them into the folder UE crashes every time. I've isolated it to the 'Normal. Tiff file, all the others work and come in just fine, but the Normal file crashes it every time! Please, please any suggestions would be most welcomed!

[@T-RexFury]

did u try downloading lower resolution scifi material and tell me what fps are u getting ?

[@meiteingmba1953]

I was following along but when I try to search for MF tiling , it is no where to be found . Can anyone help me ?

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thanks for amazing tutorials the shortcut of base color node is not working .....

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Hold 3 then press left click

[@psyduck4763]

For those who are wondering why value node not showing up, newer version does not have it, the value text input box is integrated in the material panel itself.

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[@siegfredamoah5591]

Hey guys... Great job getting all this knowledge out free of charge... We really appreciate it. Unreal hangs everytime after I open a material instance 😢. Any help?

[@badxstudio]

Absolutely my friend. Oh that's a shame! Well have you tried turning down your "Engine Scalability Settings" from cinematic to something lower? Maybe your pc can handle it better that way. You can try to also restart a new project just to test material instances to see if by any chance this project is corrupted... but i doubt that this is the case!

[@Red-iv8ov]

is RTX 3050 enough for this project

[@yugpatel889]

Hey ! I am not able to find MF_Tiling in my ue 5 latest version.

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them being color blind makes this amazing lmao

[@AnuroopMogilisetti]

I am not getting MF_tiling node. Do I need to switch on any plugin for that.?

[@badxstudio]

Try adding the starter content! Also try downloading one quixel library material then the mf Tiling should appear! U can check the next episode to see how to do that

[@jakkarujackvt]

@@badxstudio This worked for me THANX!

[@TaeMan1976]

great course, I really love it. But the short-cuts don't work for me? where can you set shortcuts?

[@mahmudulhasantaniz505]

stuck at LMB+3 shortcut.not adding any node.where can i find rgb node manually,,any help?

[@leviskoo7694]

FOR ANYONE WHO DOESNT HAVE THE MF_TILING NODE: DOWNLOAD THE QUIXEL BRIDGE PLUGIN FROM YOUR LIBRARY

[@laTeafairy]

Thank you for this, I was so confused on where mf_tiling was that i ended up making two "1+left click" nodes, turned them into parameters for x and y, connected them to an append node, then connected that to a multiply node, then made a "Texture coordinate node" and connected it to the multiply node too, then connected the multiply node to the uv slots for the textures. all thanks to a random yt video from 11 months ago along with a random post on a forum 10 years ago.... all to find out that i didnt have the Quixel plugin installed in my epic games library under unreal engine........................

[@Anshi_480]

Thanks for the series I learned ue5 in one night thanks to you guys. I have a project for my college and my jury is coming soon and facing a problem like in 16:16. I made an object into light with the help of an emission node but my light is uneven and flickery and the general quality of ue5 seems low and I don't know what to do I tried to look for video in yt but couldn't find one please help me out😭 you guys are my last hope

[@1TapJaxx]

is there a new way to do the tiling MF_tiling does not seems to be in the nodes anymore

[@leviskoo7694]

Same, did you figure it out?

[@EnrizeStockMusic]

Hey guys! What an amazing tutorial you've made. I haven't seen such good, fun and easy to watch material for a long time! I have a one question. Why multiplying RGB values increase intensity of a light? Shouldn't it just change the color? Even if we hit the upper limit, it just should make our emmit light color just white? This is the only part i don't get. Could you please explain? Thank you!

[@ashifrahman7448]

This is a very good tutorial. Zipped a rookie right into a sci-fi modelling mode. A little constructive criticism though, you went through the materials chapters a little too fast to fully grasp. Or maybe I am just a slow brain. Anyway, thanks

[@lefterisgaming1523]

Hey, nice work!! I have 1 problem. I cant find the MF_Tiling. Can you guys help me?

[@rasname7023]

me too at UE5.5 ((( pleace let us know if you'll find the solution

[@milasky]

24:13 Why didnt add height map there?

[@YanchenTatsuLu]

I couldn't find that "MF_tiling", what could I do for it?

[@rasname7023]

me too. at UE5.5

[@rasname7023]

Please let us know, if you'll find the solution

[@ljesonu]

Can you make a game by free blueprint

[@letsplay9737]

In my UR there is no mf tiling so what to do?

[@varadwankhade2039]

the MF_tiling node isn't showing up when i search for it. any way i can fix this? please help.

[@ariefrahman7625]

i have same issue,,, have u find the solution

[@elxakiltse8773]

they commented another similar post below: "Try adding the starter content! Also try downloading one quixel library material then the mf Tiling should appear! U can check the next episode to see how to do that"

[@Nasty1512]

If anyone is facing problem in 3 left click to add RGB node. Hold 3 in your num pad and left click in that area 🫡

[@ling6701]

Didn't work on mac, so i searched for it: type 3v, then choose Constant3Vector.

[@StevePaulSounds]

thanks I was struggling!

[@StevePaulSounds]

oops still doesn't work

[@StevePaulSounds]

oh it started working!

[@movistar4996]

I was hoping the comments had something about! You were the very last comment when I was losing hope! Thank you this helped me with the shortcuts! I was ciclying 1 by 1 to see if I would get the one they were using and I couldn't even find the nodes like that.

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You won't believe this but I'm at 11:29 right now and the clock of my PC and yours is same lol

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[@chokit0733]

Bro in "3 left click" i was pressing left click 3 times, its took me a while to notice it😂

[@aarondwilliams2002]

Hey! loving the lesson!.. But why isn't my material nodes opening up anymore? Sometimes Unreal tends to not allow me to open up my nodes once again for some reason.

[@aarondwilliams2002]

Nvm, I forgot it was another window behind another.

[@t-420gamingpr]

I'm using Unreal Engine 5.4.4 i need help with the material instance child when you stretch the cube i don't have the tiling button to fix the texture and i have all the nodes in the parent material include the tiling node

[@t-420gamingpr]

i mean the scifi panel tiling control button

[@t-420gamingpr]

and the floor is the same i can't do the tiling

[@channlaaa7520]

Can you guys tell me about the pannel height? is it goes to specular???

[@skakash71]

Tiling is not appearing in material instance. what can I do now ?

[@jrsvfx]

No displacement height map node??