Master Surfaces Shaders - Easy, Powerful & Optimized Shaders for Unreal Engine

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https://www.artstation.com/a/13465387

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USER GUIDE : https://sylvl.gitbook.io/untitled/guide/using-the-master-surfaces-shaders-introduction
Extract the archive content in the Content folder of your UE4 Project.

These master materials shaders have been made from the ground up to be a easy to use and optimzed way to apply all sorts of materials to your objects, without ever having to use nodes.

What is unchecked isn't computed. The shader is more or less heavy according to what's enabled !

It's just check what you need, choose your textures, and if needed use a suite of options directly in the material instances to fine-tune the look of your material. They have been made to be very versatile, and should be enough for the huge majority of your props and surfaces.

Contains fully integrated features like Material Layers, RGBA Vertex Painting w/ Individual Channels Control, Triplanar Mapping, Random value offsets, Parallax Occlusion Mapping / World Position Offset (w/ Wind Support), and more :

Basic Options in the shader includes :

UV Breaking (Anti-Tiling) Features
Dynamic Ambient Occlusion Features
(Allows to use Occlusion with non-baked meshes by darkening Color and Specular)

Runtime Virtual Texturing Blending w/ Landscape
(Allows to blend the shader with a Landscape material for better transition)

--- Full Material Layer Support

--- Toggleable Map Support
    Base Color*
    Normal
    Specular*
    Roughness* (Glossiness if reversed, using the gradient map Grayscale map adjustements)
    Metallic*
    Ambient Occlusion
    SSS
    Opacity Mask
    Emissive
    Anisotropy & Tangent
    Clear Coat

    Opacity*, Refraction* for the TRANSLUCENT variant
    Tesselation Force, Distance, Displacement Map for the TESSELATED variant.

*If disabled, uses a changeable uniform value

--- Global UV Scaling, Offset & Rotation
--- Triplanar Mapping

    Smoothness of the transition

--- Packed "ORM" Map Support (For UE4 Packed Textures coming from Substance, or recomposed manually.)

--- World Position Offset
    Inflate vertices
    Wind Effects & Settings
    Heightmap Masking

--- Parallax Occlusion Mapping (Applies on all Color Maps)
    Heightmap & Min, Max Steps, Height control

Advanced Features in the shader includes :

--- Individual Color/Grayscale Map Adjustements

- Color : Hue Shift, Contrast, Luminosity, Saturation, Tint, Gradient Map
- Grayscale : Contrast, Luminosity, Gradient Map

Includes a global or individual Mask to apply these corrections on some parts of the map only.

--- Vertex Painting (4 Channels / RGBA)

- Standard or Height-Based
- Allows enabling/disabling individual channels per layer
- Layer Opacity
- Per channel World Position Offset and Parallax Occlusion Mapping support
(Plus Opacity and IOR in the Translucent Version, Displacement map in the Tessellated version)


    Supports "ORM" Packed Textures for each RGBA channel
    Triplanar Mapping mode supported for Vertex Painting (independently of the global Triplanar mode)
    UV Scale, Maps adjustement options for VP maps

--- Variance Features

    Random UV Translate
    Random Masks map adjustements UV Position
    Random World Position Offset multiplier
    Random Normal Flatness
    Random Base Color Offset 

(by Tinting or standard Color Overlay, either from nothing to a standard color/random color on each R G B channel & Luminosity, Saturation Offset options Random Metal/Roughness Offset)

Note : Allows the use of a mask for the Grayscale/Color offset values.

--- Visual Effects

- Global Fresnel (on Color and/or Emissive)
    Allows the use of a fresnel normal, mask, mask panner (Base color and Emissive Fresnel channels are independent.)
- Global Panner
- Pixel Depth Offset (requires the mesh to have "cast shadows" disabled.

--- Manual Cubemap Reflection w/ Opacity Setting.

Removal of unecessary options & static switches, added UV Offset & Rotation

More details at https://sylvl.gitbook.io/untitled/changelog