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Creating materials - Unreal Engine Tutorial
From the course: Unreal Engine 5.6 Essential Training
Creating materials
- [Instructor] Now let's create a material from scratch. I'm going to create a material that goes on this plane and creates basically a form. Now we're going to use some textures here. So under Assets, Textures, if I double click on that you'll see we have some textures in here. And the one I'm looking at mostly is this basecolor, and that is basically just a black and white checker tile floor, so that's a material we will be creating. So let's go ahead and create a material and then add those textures in to make it look the way that we want. So I'm going to double click on Assets, Materials, and there may be some additional materials in here, but I'm just going to go ahead and right click over the Content Browser and you'll see we have an option here for Material, and that creates a blank material. And then we just get to name that, so I'm just going to name that Floor. And then left click and drag it over that plane, and you'll see we have a very basic material on that plane. Well…
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