UE5 Blueprint Tutorial - How to Create Dynamic Material Instances 

Thank you, much appreciated! I started my journey in Unreal back in 2016 through resources on RU-vid, so just trying to return the favor now that I've been working in the gaming industry for a while.

@@UnrealDevHub Yeah, I make mine as supplements for my students and I'm not monetized. I don't expect to be the next Faucher or WINBUSH but when you spend all day making a 10 min video as good as you can get it, it would be nice to crack triple digits after a few months. Oh well.

Great call! I made an updated video (with some additional/different functionality) where I mention the hotkeys. Great callout - the 1 and 3 keys are my favorite hotkeys in the material editor, and B for Branch has to be my most used in the Blueprint Graph. A newer video I've posted tapping into some other functionality related to Dynamic Material Instances: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7S8FdUPpxUw.html&ab_channel=UnrealDevHub

And F click for foreach node - that's a good one.

Another one that I don't see people using, is if you right click on the metalic or roughness pins, and select 'promote to a parameter' it will set up a named scaler parameter for you already wired in. This also works on most input pins, though sometimes it'll give you a vector 3 parameter when all you want is a scalar but it still saves time though!

Glad I could help!

Happy to hear that!

Happy to hear that. If there are any other subjects or examples you’re interested in learning more about, let me know!

Glad you enjoyed the tutorial.

You can just move this logic to the construction script and you’d see this change in viewport without hitting play!

@@UnrealDevHub ahh, I see Thank you, I’ll try that!

You're welcome!

Damn, that's what I'd like to know but no reply from youtuber.

So what you want is a Material Instance. This will use all of the Parameters you've created in the material in a way that you can permanently set the values of materials that use all of the same logic as your parent material. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wUfGPIB01yU.html&ab_channel=UnrealDevHub In this ^ video I cover this process of creating a Material Instance at 4:25. You just right click your material, select the first option (Create Material Instance) and then in that material instance you can adjust the material parameters in a way that is permanent. Then apply that material to your mesh.

@@UnrealDevHub that's awesome! I'll check it out, thanks!

So the thing is, I'm making a ball game. I already have a save and load system and I have a store in which the player can buy and change the ball skin. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I've tried to save the new material for the next map and load it, but it still shows the default one. In the debugs it shows that its using the new material, but the new material isn't loaded into the next phase/map. Do you know how can I do this?@@UnrealDevHub

@EleventhEwe67 Hmmm. So it sounds like you're saying you have the material stored somewhere after you've purchased it in the in-game UI. - Do you have your actor SetMaterial with your new purchased material (skin) on BeginPlay? It might be saved somewhere, such as in a variable MyPurchasedMaterial, but even after you've saved it, you'd want to set MyPurchasedMaterial to MyBall (ball mesh component) on BeginPlay when you spawn the MyBall actor. When you spawn the actor in each new level, it is creating a new version of the Actor (pawn) with its default values. When you spawn your actor, make sure that you set the new material - totally speculation, but from what your describing, that could be a solve.

@@UnrealDevHub You nailed it! I was able to save the material and load it, I just redid the code in the beginplay of each phase and it worked. Thanks!

Happy the video was helpful.

When you say "write on them" do you mean how to use the mouse to draw on a texture that would be displayed in the world? @zeon3d755

@@UnrealDevHub no to place dynamic text

Glad you liked the video!

also there is alot of vocal fry

Ironically this is the first tutorial I ever made - I got a new mic shortly after and that’s not an issue with all of my recent videos 😂

my brother :)@@UnrealDevHub

the variables ? just click on the little eye next to the variable name

I solved it. I just had to connect the event to something.😅 I still wonder what you did.

Thanks for watching!

I haven’t actually gotten that feedback on this particular video before. Take a look at my “beginner series” on my channel - it might be a little more “wordy” and easier to follow along if you’re new to UE5!

In theory it should be the same - make sure that your material parameters are named correctly in your construction / BeginPlay script. Also make sure that you've made them Material Parameters by right clicking and selecting the option in the material graph. It should behave identically for all types of materials - opaque, translucent, masked, decal, etc!

@@UnrealDevHub thanks for replying, appreciate it. i will take a closer look. i did this once but i found its so finiky to get working.cheers