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Creating wood materials

Creating wood materials - Unreal Engine Tutorial

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Creating wood materials

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- [Instructor] When creating materials in Unreal Engine, it's important to consider how the surface of the model needs to behave under real world lighting situations. Let's examine how we can create a couple of materials that can really add life to our guitar scene. So in the previous workflow here, we took a look at applying a simple walnut material to our guitar. Let's click on our material in our material folder here, and open it right up. I'm just going to make the material header a little bit bigger, but I'm not actually going to dock it up there because I do want to have access to a couple of things in the content browser as we work. So here we're actually going to create something a little bit better for our guitar. So I'm going to clean this area up. I'm going to take that container that I have, and I'm going to select overtop of it, make sure that I have the nodes inside selected. And everything's in yellow and I'm going to hit the Delete key just to clean that up there. I'm…

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