Unreal Engine 5.2 - Brushed Metal / Anisotropy Material / Anisotropic Highlights Tutorial

Topic: Shading In Unreal Engine 5.2+ / 5+
In this video we look at how to create Brushed Metal and surfaces that have Anisotropic Highlights. We also take a look at making Tangent/Directional maps for these highlights procedurally as well as how to convert a Grayscale Directional Map to a Tangent Map easily in the Material Editor.
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Computer Graphics, Strata, Substrate, Shading In Unreal, Brushed Metal, Stretched Highlights, Tangent Maps, Directional Maps, Directional Highlights, Anisotropy, Specular Highlights, Shading & Materials In Unreal.

[@derekfloodVFX]

All your tutorial are super helpful! Wanted to mention that you can get smooth anisotropic reflections on the texture by converting it in Nuke from PNG to EXR.

[@Fafmagic]

Really useful! Thanks.

[@wewantmoreparty]

Thanks

[@maschinelab8598]

Great video! I am trying to make realistic architectural glass with Substrate, but with glasses with thickness I cannot make the light go through it. Any tips will be apreciated! Cheers

[@notmyself9279]

is this the same effect used for the horse shader/material from RDR2 or any of the Short Fur/hair surface shader

[@bradleymcwilliams3139]

What do you plug in for the tangent if using substrate?

[@renderbucket]

No difference, exactly the same. If Substrate gives error you may have to just make sure your feeding it 3 values, R, G, B so there's no vector conversion issue. So if you took the TextureCoords and then a Subtract Node and Subtracted 0.5 it might give error because your feeding 2 values (U, V) to a parameter expecting 3 Values (R, G, B). So you can solve this easily by adding a Append node on the very end connected to a constant (in B slot) with 0. Then your feeding it R (U), G (V), B (0). 3 Values. So there's no vector conversion error.

[@adarshwhynot]

Is it possible to make similar custom tangent maps in substance designer?

[@renderbucket]

Yes, very easily.