DitherTemporalAA is an amazing node for cheapening transparency, plus i love the aesthetic of it

Hey dude, I get behind these tutorials, will be solid. My constructive criticism is to get to the point right away. It get's the most respect, especially if they are super informative in a very short time. Show the final product first, then how you did it. This sounds bad, but no one cares who you are, what you look like, what happened to you lately. Why do I say that? As someone who's worked with software for the last few years, there are times when I have to come back to a tutorial because I forgot how to do something. Or I tried to figure it out on my own and got pissed that I couldn't figure it out. So when I hit up the tutorials because; A) I tried to figure it out on my own but couldn't so I'm a bit pissed/embarrassed that I have to watch a tutorial because I wasn't clever enough, so I'm coming in with the "yeah yeah, get to the point" attitude. B) It's something new and cool to learn, but I've also cross referenced your tutorial with another just to see if your way is the best most efficient way, and that dude has a intro, yours has a intro, the dude after you will have a intro. Like Mat Weinstein's "Hello, this is a tutorial for x" and he has a kid saying "Tomato" in it somewhere too. That's valuable viewer time I don't need to waist. I see what it is about in the title description. C) Some KZfaqrs love to go on at the start of the video about how they look, the weather, why they are late/slow at uploading etc. Then they ask for a subscription before I even seen the content which is ass backwards. As a viewer, I don't care, I didn't come here for your personal stuff, I might not subscribe at all. I came here for the tutorial, so move out of the way and get to it. If you have good valuable content in which I learned from, then sure, I'll sub. Also, I might watch this tutorial a year from now, and it's summer when you're talking about winter. It just takes up viewer retention. I say this as a guy who spent hours upon hours in tutorials and will continue to do so (as anyone should grow their skillset). We need people like you who are willing to make awesome tutorials about materials. Mat's are my weakest point. Same with Niagara effects. But please, for the love of god be informative and quick. And explain WHY you use a node like "we use a scalar parameter so we can adjust it in our Mat instance. And we use a mat instance so it uses less resources and is scalable etc. Looking forward to seeing what you make man. The world needs solid cool material tutorials. I just learned about using depth and stencils and post process effects. Mat's can be powerful.

​@@etchasketch222 hey there my dude! I understand completely about people that don't get to the point - this is why in this video we get started within 15 seconds. An introduction is 100% necessary as it tells the viewer what they're about to experience, the nature of the video and also gives them an incentive to Subscribe to the channel if they want to see more in the future. In these videos there is no final product - it's a discussion about the applications of a Node in the material graph and the possible use cases of the node, rather than "How to XYZ". Give a man a fish Vs. Teach a man to fish. I also do make a note of explaining why we use each node in my other tutorials, although I'm going to do a video about basic Math nodes soon (Add, Sub, Mult and Div) which I can redirect people to if they're unfamiliar about why I'm Multiplying something in order to Mask it. Hope you're enjoying the content! :)

Great vid. haha @etchasketch222. Use your left and right arrow keys to skip through the vid if you can't stand someone saying their name at the beginning of a video they made. I get annoyed by people pausing for long periods during the tutorial but use your first minute and a half to introduce yourself and even pitch some sponsors for all I care. As far as a next video, I would love to see something about "material attributes", or however Quixel's textures are setup. Relatedly, are you able to use material instances inside of a landscape texture? If so, that's also something i'd like to see. Good work so far, look forward to seeing more of your work.

@@dwaynarang500 you're unable to use an Instance inside a Landscape, but you can set up a Material Function as a 'proxy instance' and then shoot that into the Landscape Blend. I'll definitely do a longer video about landscapes at some point :)

Haha I also stay up too late watching UE4 videos :P

Cheers Ashbee! Glad you're finding it all helpful :)

Very glad to hear that :') Thanks a tonne Dusan!

I'm glad you think so! I always feel like I'm rambling on and on hahaha. Luckily I can edit 30 minutes of footage into ~5 minute videos.

Not as knowledgeable as you but I'll get there one day!

Cheers mate! I might do a little walk-through of my explosion material in a future video once I've ironed out a few kinks haha

@@PrismaticaDev Would be wonderful ! Thanks !

Cheers Gal! Glad you learned something :)

Cheers mate! It's a ripper, that's for sure.

That's great to hear! I wish there was a global standard for material nodes haha. I have a few other tutorials on my channel that you might find handy if you're getting in to UE4 - particularly about Runtime Virtual Textures which I'm not sure are used in Blender

Thanks Vincenzo :) Make sure to share with a friend!

Haha thank you Alejandro! Hope you're looking forward to the next one :P

@@PrismaticaDev 100% ♥

Very smart! Getting things to blend with the terrain can be hard at times - dithering sounds like a very cheap way to do it!

You're beautiful! Thanks :)

Haha looking back at this, I hope people didn't feel threatened by the "Destroy actor" node :P

@@PrismaticaDev Hey Philip DeFranco used to start every show by "threatening people" to punch them in the throat :D you're good.

Really glad you're finding them helpful :)

Glad to hear it! :)

Haha sounds like I picked a perfect node for the first episode then!

Haha I felt like a hugebrain when I made it on stream!

@@PrismaticaDev Do you have a link? I'm trying to wrap my head around how you would have a discrete "animation period" for something like this rather than just a looping sine wave.

yep, you could also make it foamy!

Check out my shader math video, hopefully it will explain things :)

Hey hey! Sure do - Multiply by X, Floor, Divide by X-1. X is the number of bands you’d like to create :)

Hey! Check out my material math video here and you should get a better understanding :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f7uKZMip3tGamKs.html

@@PrismaticaDev Thanks! That cleared up a lot for me.

You’ll need to edit your mesh to have smoothed shading - sharps will be split in to seperate verts

I’m not exactly sure what you mean - could you explain a bit more?

@@PrismaticaDev Okay, so I am making a game with a retro aesthetic in mind. Which means no normal maps. Right now I am trying to figure out how I can blend a snow texture on top of my leaves texture. So I want to blend a 2d snow texture with a 2d leaves texture and combine the alpha channels together by using the vertex normal node. I don't know how I shall do this, since I need the alpha mask from the leaves texture to keep them transparent I guess I also need the alpha channel from the snow to blend in with the texture before the final output.

@@protophase Ah, gotcha! So you'd want to be doing a HeightLerp (I have a video about it) using the Vertex Normals as the Transition Phase. However, depending on the tree type you could possibly use the UV coordinates at the transition phase instead (would work well with pines) If you happen to catch one of my livestreams I'd be happy to show you an example there :)

@@PrismaticaDev I appreciate the response man, I've been looking everywhere for help on this. I'm not an expert at Unreal Engine but I will take a look at your Heightlerp video and see what I can do. The tree that I am currently making is a european spruce/ fir tree that I made in treeit using a trunk as base and leaves turned downwards. I'll try and catch your livestreams aswell!

Holy shit, this is more what I am looking for. I took the alpha from my texture straight to the opacity, ran the RGB through the HeightLerp - "Height Texture" and the vertex normal -> Mask(B) -> Multiply as the transition phase. But my question now is, can I invert the value of the VertexNormals? Because now the snow comes from inwards -> outwards instead of the opposite. Can I also somehow connect a noise as to not make the transition a full gradient but more of a pattern?

Super cheap - the Vertex Normals are already getting sampled anyway so they're readily available without any noticeable additional cost :)

Man I was struggling a lot to create cool materials in UE, this guide is awesome, thanks a lot! @@PrismaticaDev

Saturate is just a clamp from 0-1, but is free for the GPU to compute. I'm guessing a static 0-1 Clamp would be compiled as a Saturate anyway

@@PrismaticaDev oh ok, got it, Thanks

Hey Rexx! We won't have a playable demo for at least 6 months I think. You can stay up to date in our Discord though :)

Yes :) UE4 and UE5 are exactly the same

@@PrismaticaDev wow ok thx

Sorry to hear that June! I don't script any of my videos so they are very run-and-gun, which is also how I am in life haha. If you're looking for some slower paced creators, I highly recommend Mathew Wadstein's channel, as well as Your Sandbox and Ryan Laley.

@@PrismaticaDev For what it's worth this was basically perfectly paced for me (and I'm a beginner / intermediate). The only thing missing was wanting to know more about that fancy explosion mesh!