Working inside the Material Editor

Let’s get started working inside the Material Editor! This is where the magic explained in this book happens, as well as the place where we’ll spend most of our time, so we’d better get well acquainted with it, then! As with everything inside Unreal, you’ll be able to see that this space for creating materials is a very flexible one – full of customizable panels, rearrangeable windows, and expandable areas. And the best thing is you can place them wherever you want!

Because of its modular nature, some of the initial questions that we need to tackle are the following: how do we start creating materials? And where do we look for the most used parameters? Having different panels means having to look for different functionalities in each of them, so we’ll need to know how we can find our way around the editor. We won’t stop there, though – this new workspace is packed with plenty of useful little...