Dynamic Material Instances Per Actor, Pro Tip! 

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The materials needs to be a material instance and with overrides on for the parameter you want to edit.

Create a material instance. Or try it with a Megascans material instance.

Hi I also cant find the button, had Material Instance and checked the properties I want to override but still nothing. Im using 5.1. I want to change 1 property on my static mesh material.

@@VHShark This is a part of the "Virtual Camera" plugin

My guess is that as long as you have one material per actor it shouldn't be much of an impact.

Hey this depends on your scene: - The instance itself will take up a tiny amount of ram and vram. - The mesh will break auto instancing if you use a dynamic material (unreal will try to combine the same mesh with same material into one drawcall, nanite on the other will combine all the same materials into one draw call, even different meshes, so this might affect nanite even more) - so don't overdo it and assign it to each pebble but when your scene has only a couple here and there there should be no performance difference - if you want better performance and don't break instancing, but have a per instance control you can use "custom primitive data" in the material

@@kettenotter thanks man! :)

​@@kettenottercan I use custom instanced data on a non instanced mesh?

@@dr_j0nes No. There is per instance custom data which you can't use. But you can use per primitive custom data. Its a little bit confusing. For per instance custom data you need instanced static mesh (ISM) component or any of it's children. Per primitive custom data you can use on any mesh. Even on ISM but then all instanced will get the same input. But if you use it on a static mesh actor you can controll it per instance and it should still combine draw calls with unreal engines auto instancing if you don't use nanite and with nanite it should draw them in one drawcall anyway.

Yes, but be careful that that will create another dynamic material. Is the same deal but with a different tool.

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@@Monochrome010 No 🤷‍♂️

Also looking for this option that I had on certain of my projects but not others... Incomprehensible! 😤 I finally tried to debug between a project that had the option and a new project without anything, and I finally found that it's a plugin that adds the option. It's the “Virtual Camera” plugin! Voilà, good luck for the future 😉

I looked into this further. Virtual Camera uses 2 other plugins, important one being VirtualCameraCore. VirtualCameraCore uses 12 other plugins. The important one being "VirtualProductionUtilities". This VirtualProductionUtilities is the one that contains the relevant code/section for "Create Dynamic Material" if you want to include the minimal amount of indirect plugins. Since I didn't want to include everything that VirtualCamera indirectly activates. Even that one includes too many so I'm liking to rip out the materials editor module and port over to my own. tl;dr; You actually want "VirtualProductionUtilities"

Also looking for this option that I had on certain of my projects but not others... Incomprehensible! 😤 I finally tried to debug between a project that had the option and a new project without anything, and I finally found that it's a plugin that adds the option. It's the “Virtual Camera” plugin! Voilà, good luck for the future 😉

Also looking for this option that I had on certain of my projects but not others... Incomprehensible! 😤 I finally tried to debug between a project that had the option and a new project without anything, and I finally found that it's a plugin that adds the option. It's the “Virtual Camera” plugin! Voilà, good luck for the future 😉

@@6Kony9 Thank you! This worked for me! \o/

Yes, not only colors but per actor changes on every parameter override in the material instance. Although must be used after the material is done because as you see new overrides or even new parameters wont be added to the dynamic materials, until you reset it.

Nope, is there since 5.0. But now you know, hehehe.