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/// Materials & You

To begin with, realistic lighting is the first thing I removed, and material wise, if you have a base color material in unreal, it comes out with nothing

So I'm gonna go ahead and make a quick environment...

The texture problem is actually an interesting fix for me.

Since I used a lot of big meshes, I built the materials for starchaser with blockout >> final level in mind, with speed as a focus

So I used world aligned textures

That's the basics of the material setup.
If you want a brief look at how I use some other elements of the material setup you can see so here

It has a handful of different things mixed into it, but the general process is like this
Base color
> world alignment (either base version, or sharp, since basic world aligned texture function uses bilinear filtering)
> Color Multiplier > Vertex Paint added with a lerp (alpha controlling how strong the vertex paint max is)
> Glow strength overall, though this more makes sense as a brightness scalar
> Hue shifter > In case I want to fine-tune some colors when I have a value I like already
> Material / Distance Based Fog

• To see how to do the vertex painting and give the material even more depth, go to the vertex painting page

• For making the blur post process, go to HDR Haze

• For a material based lighting alternative, go to Material: Gouraud

• /// Avoiding the default UE5 engine look \\\

• /// Materials & You - Basic Material Setup

• /// HDR Haze - Its not even real HDR, that's the fun part

• /// Vertex painting - Controlling Shadows

• /// Material: Gouraud Faking an old lighting method