A beard has appeared on your face as a physical manifestation of your game dev wisdom.

Oh my science. This has so many possibilities! And opens a lot of creative opportunities.

Fantastic overview of the switch node!! Thanks for the detailed showcase on using it.

8:03 This is the classic lol, it happens every time, great video definitely stealing a couple things from this

To be honest in the beggining I just had no clue how to follow your tutorials.. but now I no my way around Unreal your videos are great... Its strange using Unreal is like learning to read..

I once built something that did effectively this for 8 "shades" of 32 "colors", 256 colors total. I thought then that nope, here's where I hit the limit and just use a texture sample instead, as it was some 800 instructions for the whole thing. I am very excited to rebuild that with a few of these bad boys and see what the cost diff is. Thanks for the video!

I literally wanted to start working with your old video tomorrow.. To create such a batch function... And now that.. Nice to know that 😂

Just adding to what you said. Static switch parameter can actually be used dynamically in UE5. There is an option on the node that is called dynamic branching that allows it to be branched in realtime. I'm using it to change from different material outlines on the character (When they are friendly, aggressive, neutral etc.). Don't know that much about performance information since I didn't see anyone talking about this (not even in the documentation, tbh).

This is going to make VFX so much easier to do.

This one definitely flew under the radar. Thanks for sharing!

One of the limitations I found with the Switch Node is you can't use it with something really advanced like a Make Material Node to use with Material Attributes unfortunately. That's something I would really like to create some really advanced setups. And maybe Unreal will one day get an enum parameter in the material section.

For some reason your hair plus slightly longer beard makes me think "viking vampire..." Great video, I've accidently grabbed this node a few times when trying to get the static switch, never bothered to find out what it does.

Thanks mate!

Well well look who it is…thanks!

If you talking about cartoon texture faces like Megamand Legends, they have all facial expression textures combined in one image. Less texture samples for materials, less heavy shader. Unless I was confused on your explanation. Also thankyou for another video! The material world of unreal gets demystified when you talk abotu it!

Finally, materials in UE5 have something like enumerators. Can't wait for them to add enheretance, incapsulation and polymorphism and cycles and variables to make this finally usable.

No honey stop, you don’t need to go stay at your sisters for a while, Prismatica dropped another video

Is there a way to build a material in which you can switch texture sets in the parameters?) But for one switch to replace the entire set of textures, for example from 1k to 4k textures.

Oh, this shaders' complexity debugging looks like great topic for a video. At least, I definitely find it useful, if I'll need to check what logic in my materials performs better

I used something like this for team colors on uniforms.

Will we get another devlog of the game soon? Loved those videos so much

I can’t figure out if it’s possible to recreate the master material using switch nodes. I don't understand how I can add a normal map to a color. It turns out that the node switch merges the “channels” of colors together and there is no way to add normal maps for each color. or am I missing something?

I wonder how conceivable it is to make a tool with the Geometry Scripting, etc in Unreal, that will take a selected mesh or some list of meshes, and create a second UVmap and place the UVs of the mesh into it. Since a lot of projects deal with many meshes coming in from the marketplace, this sort of tool could come in real handy. Maybe I'll look into it. I never quite understood how the second UVs relate to the first UVs (I don't mean lightmap). EDIT: I guess the tricky part is the selection of an element by material ID, and then assigning that to a particular square, none overlapping.

Thanks for the tip, really useful, as usual! I'm a bit sad that if we put a value like 1.5, it doesn't lerp the value of 1 and 2 to create an interpolated result. But hey, it's better than nothing

Thank you for this video. Can you please do a tutorial on optimizing materials eg draw calls and instructions and how best to optimize materials in situations we run into day to day. I really appreciate any help you can provide.

What if we connected multiple textures to the switch then used a scalar and custom primitive data the set the value so it changes dynamically? Or used custom data values as an input for the number ?

How many texture samples I can use in switch node ? Cuz I think its limited to 5 texture samples. When I go above that number the engine shows me an err message.. something like sm5 c:\engine\private...

Are you going to make any videos on the new Substrate material features with UE5? :)

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no way I caught this video 0 seconds after it was uploaded lmao

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im suprised switch went under your radar when its a beginner function.