Subgraphs and Material Functions - Advanced Materials

Subgraphs and Material Functions - Advanced Materials - Episode 21

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@FrankGametest Жыл бұрын

Mr. Cloward, sir you did great videos, I can tell it will be very useful even for a starter of CG like me, thanks for selfless sharing!

@NopeSecret Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the continued shader tutorials. I will always say this. You are one of the best teachers on youtube and your tutorials are absolutely amazing. I have been watching your videos for a few years now and everything I know about shaders and most of what I know about texturing I have learned from you. Thank you for helping me learn how to use unity and unreal engine to create shaders to help build beautiful worlds I can use to express my creative side.

@ChrisCohen Жыл бұрын

I love the way Ben starts every video like it's a children's story 😂 "Today children, we are going to learn how Mr Rabbit programmed his own shader using C++ and a raspberry pi!"

@BenCloward Жыл бұрын

LOL!

@3dtrip870 Жыл бұрын

Ben, Thank You! I am an artist, and these technical setup videos with clear explanation and thorough setup examples really help me make my work come to life in an efficient way. Again, Thank You!

@jacekfr3252 Жыл бұрын

You are outstanding teacher, your videos are very valuable for me, thank you!

@Ebani Жыл бұрын

You're doing god's work

@Mia.m793 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your outstanding work.

@elpainto1 Жыл бұрын

Great video! Getting organized and having a better understanding of what what the node systems can do is really powerful. I would be interested to also hear about how you manage vertex/interpolator operations in shader graph, and what some good uses might be.

@BenCloward Жыл бұрын

Oh, that's a cool idea. Thanks, Diego!

@brunocandia9671 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing ! your knowledge, I wish you the best in your life !.

@devdev2088 Жыл бұрын

good job dude!

@3tomke Жыл бұрын

Great video! Thank you!

@Michael_Barik Жыл бұрын

Ben, Thank You!

@antoniosuarez7881 Жыл бұрын

thanks, grate explanation grate tutorial

@jeremyb2120 Жыл бұрын

I watched 1-13 of the basic shader graph tutorials, as well others, and I haven't seen any on the GUI side of things. I'm having a little trouble adding inputs within Unity so that I can change things on the material in the inspector. If you could make a basic to in depth tutorial or series on adding GUI to the shaders, that'd be great! I might be able figure out how to add a albedo map value for the user to select a texture for, but what if I want to have a button on the Material that automatically adds all the other associated texture maps with a similar name. So for example, I add my "Rocks_diffuse" and then click a button and it auto adds all the other maps into their slots "Rocks_normal", "Rocks_height", "Rocks_metalic", and "Rocks_ao". Sometimes, it's a pain to add all the maps every time... and I wish I knew how to create better GUIs for shaders. I'm a big fan of your tutorials! I've learned so much in such a short time. I just recreated your parallax shader in Unity's URP; it's so neat to see and understand how it works! Thank you so much!

@seafoo246 Жыл бұрын

Hey I love your vids, I wonder what would be your take on a Bottle Liquid VFX ? Best wishes.

@JhebadiaSprunklefunk Жыл бұрын

Hey Ben I was wondering if you're interested in going over UE5.2's new material functionality with their Substrate system? It essentially lets you author shader models in the material graph, I'd love to hear your input on it given the amount of hidden gems of info you know.

@BenCloward Жыл бұрын

I am interested in it and I will cover it in the future, but not yet. It's a feature that they're still working on and I think it's going to change a bit in the next few months, so I don't want to make a video and then have it be out of date right away. In it's current form, it enables some really interesting effects and material types that haven't been possible to do before, but it also makes creating simple/basic materials harder and more complicated - especially for beginners. I'm hoping they can improve that before it's ready to be used.

@JhebadiaSprunklefunk Жыл бұрын

Ah yeah makes sense, well I look forward to then. Also I agree, SSSMFP instead of opacity isn't an easy learning curve... >_

@adamplechaty Жыл бұрын

Brilliant as always. How about material layers and materials blends after this? :)

@TheDesknight Жыл бұрын

Any way to add modifiable 'details' in our Unreal material functions ? , many Ue5 native nodes have them , but i cant seem to expose properties within my Material functions (like a simple switch to toogle betwwen default colors).

@BenCloward Жыл бұрын

That's a good question! I haven't found a way to do that either.

@TheDesknight Жыл бұрын

@@BenCloward Welp if you didn't i definitly wont either. Maybe its possible in another type of graph abstraction alltogether.

@HomAxz 6 ай бұрын

Ive been using Functions for some time but I wanted to know your thoughts on when to choose what input? I see you use Color as V3, but DetailTex is a T2d. Is it because there might be something packed into the alpha of the Detail Texture so it's better to use T2d input? If you end up plugging a texture that only uses RGB, is it more performant to put a V3 input instead? doesn't it matter because the same texture is sampled regardless?

@mojochin7004 Жыл бұрын

Do subgraphs allow more sampled textures? We have a system that allows multiple textures to be combined and output a single texture that is then applied to the material's base color. We've had to restrict the number of textures to be combined as there are errors when we go above 11-ish sampled textures in the shader. This is easily breached when you add in the multiple other textures that are required. If we can do the combining in a subgraph and free up textures in the shader it would be good. Or is there another way?

@BenCloward Жыл бұрын

Subgraphs, don't fix that, but there is something that does. The limitation isn't the number of textures sampled, but rather the number of sampler states being used. You can fix this in Unity by creating a Sampler State node and plugging it into all of the your texture sampler nodes. In Unreal, select each of the texture sample nodes and set the Mode to Shared: Wrap. Doing this makes all of your texture sampler nodes share the same sampler and should allow you to sample more if you need to.

@mojochin7004 Жыл бұрын

After looking into it, it seems it is not possible like this but may need a multi-pass shader instead.

@mojochin7004 Жыл бұрын

@@BenCloward Thanks! Will look into it! Love the videos

@kuadiyuxianzhi Жыл бұрын

When will the boss talk more about the UESubstrate new material system...

@BenCloward Жыл бұрын

That's a good question. I'm waiting for it to be a little further along in development. It would be a waste for me to create videos about it now if they're just going to change it a bunch in the next couple of months. There are some kinda weird things about it that I'm hoping they'll improve as they move closer to a real release.