Introduction to Materials in Unreal Engine 5

Learn professional techniques used in the game industry to create high quality materials for environment art

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Don't underestimate the importance of learning Materials in Unreal Engine 5

Environment creation in Unreal Engine 5 covers a wide range of different topics: world building, modeling, lightning and many other disciplines combined. But if you had to choose which discipline to focus on to improve the quality of your scenes I would advise you to go for Materials.


When I was working at Ubisoft I learnt a valuable lesson. It doesn't matter how good looking the model is, if the materials and textures are wrong, it's never going to look right. My art lead told me something I never forgot: "Materials and textures cover 70% of the visual quality of your game", and she was right.


I will teach you all the necessary knowledge to start creating Materials for environments in Unreal Engine 5. After finishing this course you will have a solid understanding on how to make your environments look better, while increasing the performance of your project and saving time.

This is what you will learn:

  • Understand Physical Based Rendering

    We will start by showing you what is physically based rendering and why its important to understand it to create different types of surfaces in the future.

  • Learn the most important nodes

    The number of nodes available for you can overwhelm you. We will simplify the process by teaching you the most important operation nodes that you will use everytime no matter which material you are working on.

  • Create a library of Material Functions

    Functions in Materials are incredibly powerful and allow you to reuse complex networks in different situations so that you are able to add more features without making it more complicated.

  • Learn Height Blending techqniues

    Height blending is the standard in the game industry to increase the quality of your materials by blending different types of surfaces. We will explore all the different height blending and vertex painting options available so you understand which tools to use in the future.

  • Learn UV Mapping Manipulation techniques

    You will learn how to manipulate the scale of UVs using different industry standard techniques.

  • Understand Optimization using Materials

    The biggest bottleneck in performance for most game projects is related to Material complexity and textures. You will learn how you can optimize your games using Materials and use industry standard practices to ensure your project not only looks beautiful but also is performance friendly.

Your Instructor

Mao is a professional 3D artist for video games who has worked on Ubisoft where he contributed to titles like Skull and Bones and Immortal Fenyx Rising - Myths of the Eastern Realm. He is also an Unreal Authorized Instructor for Epic Games.

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Introduction to Materials in Unreal Engine 5
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