Materials & shaders

Author and drive Unreal materials — UMaterial (the node graph asset), material instances (UMaterialInstanceConstant for editor-authored variants, UMaterialInstanceDynamic for runtime parameter changes), material domain (Surface/Deferred Decal/Light Function/Post Process/UI/Volume), shading models (Default Lit/Unlit/Subsurface/Clear Coat/Hair/Cloth/Eye), blend modes (Opaque/Masked/Translucent/Additive), scalar/vector/texture parameters, material functions, material parameter collections (global scene-wide values), and the material C++ API (CreateDynamicMaterialInstance, SetScalarParameterValue, SetVectorParameterValue, SetTextureParameterValue, UKismetMaterialLibrary). Use…