11.12.2023 - Session 02

Intro to Material/Shader in UE5

• Essential Material Concepts: What are materials?
• Physically Based Materials: What are PBR materials?
• Material Editor Guide: How do you create materials?
• Material Properties: Get to know the details menu inside the material editor.
• Material Inputs: What are Base, Roughness, Metallic, Specular, etc.?
• Material Data Types: What is Float 1, 2, 3, 4?
• Substrate Materials: What are substrate materials?
• Instanced Materials: What is an instanced material, and why do we use it?
• Material Functions: Creating material functions
• Material Expressions Reference: List of material expressions

If you are interested in learning the terminology related to materials/shaders, please check the CG Lab page under section 2.3 Material/Shader/Texture Terminology.