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Animated materials

Animated materials - Unreal Engine Tutorial

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Animated materials

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- [Instructor] The Unreal Engine Material editor has an ever growing library of functions and commands allowing artist to produce some amazing art. Animating material in Unreal can be achieved in a couple of different ways. So producing surface disturbing effects is possible in Unreal with the help of a few simple nodes and we want to take a look at how we can use a few of these simple nodes here to disturb the surface of our guitar to create a very cool animated material effect. We're going to look at two ways to achieve that. So first off all if you're following along with the exercise files you see I'm in 04 04 and of course we have our guitar body material that we previously created assigned to the guitar. Let's click on that guitar body material, right click, and duplicate this and we want to rename this. I want to call this so that it's M_guitar_anim, there we go and then what we want to do is click the guitar in the view port and with that guitar anim highlighted in the content…

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