Unreal Engine – Materials for Architectural Visualization

Release date:2019, March 14

Duration:01 h 34 m

Author:Joel Bradley

Skill level:Intermediate

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

00. Introduction 01 – Create materials that look as real as possible in Unreal Engine

01. Important Workflow Considerations 02 – Why is UVW mapping important 03 – Geometry detail vs. Texture detail 04 – Why texture procedurally 05 – The advantage of bitmaps in Unreal 06 – Understanding scale and resolution 07 – Environment vs. asset texturing 08 – Our choice of texturing application

02. Building Materials Inside Unreal 09 – How and when to use Unreals Material Editor 10 – Creating a new Material 11 – Setting up the base colour 12 – Adding the roughness 13 – Blending the normal maps 14 – Exposing parameters for reusability 15 – Build flexibility into materials

03. Using Substance Source and Share with Unreal 16 – Downloading the Substance plugin 17 – Using Substance Share 18 – Accessing and navigating Substance Source 19 – Using downloaded .sbs files in Designer 20 – Taking .sbsar files into Unreal

04. Putting Bitmap 2 Material to Good Use 21 – What makes a good starting photo 22 – Using the B2M standalone application 23 – Utilizing B2M inside Substance Designer 24 – Using B2M inside the Unreal Engine 25 – Working with patterns in B2M

05. Benifits of Procedural Texturing 26 – Understanding the Relative to Parent option 27 – Creating tileability 28 – Adding flexibility to our materials 29 – Simplifying materials for game engine use

06. Conclusion 30 – Next steps

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