Chapter 9. The Devil Is In The Details!—Making the Most of Materials

This chapter's recipes cover some of the Material Editor's deepest, darkest secrets. Most of the solutions pave the way for further exploration; exposure to a new tool often means that other functionality is also exposed. The recipes presented here are not tailored exclusively for a game level (for simplicity's sake), but their use in game construction is explained too.

In this chapter, we'll discuss activities such as:

• Animating a Material Instance Constant in Kismet

• Forcing a mesh to always face the camera

• A cloth-like effect using WorldPositionOffset

• Creating murky liquid

• Creating a scanning effect

• Quick glass

• Creating transitions between materials

• Static Cubemap creation and real-time reflection

• Wet surface reflections with dynamic actors

• Making a holographic effect using Bump Offset

• InteractiveFoliageActors

• Getting varied hit impacts off models using a PhysicalMaterial