We will go over the basics of PBR textures used in UE4, Texture Packing and overview of the UE4 Material Shader System

We will breakdown Master Materials, Instances and the overall benefit in production of using the feature. We will also work on creating parameters and basics of Math in regards to shader systems and art. Finally we will go over the Modular workflow of Master Materials and how we can organize better with Material Functions.

In this lesson we will go over more complex uses of Math such as; Time, Sine and Cosine as well as Panner and Rotator. We will also go over other special materials used in games such as, Transparent/Glass, Fresnel, SSS, Clearcoat and Velvet.

We will go over Landscape Materials and how we create layer blending, we also will go over other Complex Materials used by Environment and Prop teams such as Vertex Painting, Weight Painting, Position based effects and other blending techniques.

This lesson will go over more complex and expensive shaders such as Parallax, Tesselation and Decals (Deferred & Mesh Decals.)

Finally we will go over Foliage and other features currently in Unreal Engine such as Mesh Distance Fields and Virtual textures and how both can be used practically, but also Pros and Cons overall.