Unreal Engine 4 Shaders and Effects Cookbook by Ramos, Brais Brenlla -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Unreal Engine 4 Shaders and Effects Cookbook

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Physically Based Rendering

Introduction Setting up a studio scene

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Working inside the material editor

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Our first physically based material

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Creating some simple glass with the translucent blend mode

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Lighting our scene with image-based lighting

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Checking the cost of our materials

Getting ready How to do it... How it works...

Post-Processing Effects

Introduction Using a post-process volume

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... See also

Changing the mood of a scene through color grading

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Setting up a cinematic shot using depth of field

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Applying cinematic effects to our games

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Mimicking a real-life camera using Bloom and Lens Flares

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

A horror movie pulsating effect with post process materials

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Adjusting anti aliasing and other rendering features

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Opaque Materials and Texture Mapping

Introduction Using masks within a material

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Instancing a material

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Texturing a small prop

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

A plastic cloth using Fresnel and detail texturing

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Creating a semi procedural material

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Baking out a material

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Distance-based texture blending

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Translucent Materials and More

Introduction Creating a candle material with SSS

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Setting up a truly transparent glass

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

A different type of translucency – holograms

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Achieving realistic reflections

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Mastering refraction by creating a pool water material

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Water caustics

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Animating a sea shader

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Beyond Traditional Material Uses

Introduction Using an emissive material to light the scene

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Playing a video from the internet on a screen

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Creating a CCTV camera feed

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Highlighting interactive elements within our game

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Creating a game compass

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Creating a mini map

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Advanced Material Techniques

Introduction Painting a mesh with vertex painting

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Using decals to add granularity to our scenes

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Creating a brick wall with Parallax Occlusion Mapping

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

A brick wall using displacement

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Proximity-based masking with mesh distance fields

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Using Material Instances

Introduction Creating snow on top of objects using layered materials

Getting ready... How to do it... How it works...

Changing from a sunny scene to a snowy one through parameter collection

Getting ready... How to do it... How it works...

Changing between seasons quickly with curve atlases

Getting ready... How to do it... How it works...

Blending landscape materials

Getting ready... How to do it... How it works...

Customizing UVs

Getting ready... How to do it... How it works...

Mobile Shaders and Material Optimization

Introduction Creating materials for mobile platforms

Getting ready... How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also...

Using the forward shading renderer for VR

Getting ready... How to do it... How it works... See also...

Optimizing through texture atlases

Getting ready... How to do it... How it works...

Baking a 3D model material into a texture

Getting ready... How to do it... How it works...

Combining multiple meshes with the HLOD tool

Getting ready... How to do it... How it works...

General material-optimization techniques

Getting ready... How to do it... How it works...

Some Extra Useful Nodes

Introduction Adding randomness to identical models

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Adding dirt to occluded areas

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Matching texture coordinates across multiple meshes

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Adjusting material complexity through quality switches

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Using interior cubemaps to texture the interior of a building

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

Using fully procedural noise patterns

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more... See also

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