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Unreal Engine 5 Shaders and Effects Cookbook

You're reading from   Unreal Engine 5 Shaders and Effects Cookbook Over 50 recipes to help you create materials and utilize advanced shading techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837633081
Length 402 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Understanding Physically Based Rendering 2. Chapter 2: Customizing Opaque Materials and Using Textures FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Making Translucent Objects 4. Chapter 4: Playing with Nanite, Lumen, and Other UE5 Goodies 5. Chapter 5: Working with Advanced Material Techniques 6. Chapter 6: Optimizing Materials for Mobile Platforms 7. Chapter 7: Exploring Some More Useful Nodes 8. Chapter 8: Going Beyond Traditional Materials 9. Chapter 9: Adding Post-Processing Effects 10. Index 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

To complete this chapter, you’ll need to get a hold of Unreal Engine 5, the main star of this book!

This can be done by following these simple steps:

  1. Download the Epic Games Launcher from the engine’s website, https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/download, and follow the installation procedure indicated there.
  2. Once installed, get the latest version of the engine. You can do so by navigating to the Unreal Engine section of the launcher, and then to the Library tab. There, you’ll be able to see a + icon, which lets us download whichever version of Unreal we want.
  3. Launch the newly downloaded version of Unreal by clicking on the homonymous button:
Figure 1.2 – Location of the buttons you’ll need to click to complete the previous set of actions

Figure 1.2 – Location of the buttons you’ll need to click to complete the previous set of actions

Apart from that, we have provided all the assets that you’ll see me use throughout the different recipes in this book. You can download...

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