How to create materials in CRYENGINE | Getting Started Video Lecture | Cry Engine Tutorial:Getting Started - Game Development

for this tutorial we're going to cover
how to create a single material and aid
multi material with sub materials inside
of the material editor we also show how
to copy and paste values between one
another
so then you can actually get the
settings you want quicker without having
to go in and manually input every single
thing so to go to the material editor we
can go to tools material editor we're
going to go ahead and dock that over to
the right here
go ahead and expand this out and what we
want to do is we want to actually get
the properties from the selection so
it's this button
we'll see immediately that this is wood
beams burnt if we scroll that out we now
have a material and what we want to do
is we want to copy a material into
another material that we're going to
create we're going to create two types
of materials here we're going to create
a identical one just like this so if I
were to do that I can right click and I
can do duplicate so now I have wood
beams burnt one and I can also do it
where I can only do a multi material
that I explained that I want in this one
I have six channels well what if I only
want to have four well in order to do
that I can go up to shader ball and I
can say add new multi material so if I
were to click in here let's do wood
beams burnt won't do tutorial just so we
know it and we'll save then we can
right-click and we can set the number of
materials so now I have four
so now I have four materials in here but
they're randomly named and they're also
not containing any of the information I
want so I can right click on this and I
can rename that sub material 3 name it
to the same thing as the first one which
is the proxy so proxy underscore sub
so now we have proxy underscore sub and
we can rename some of these as well
to outside
and then we'll also do sea
logo
you
and then the last one will make a custom
one I will name this one Colin
underscore sub
so the proxy material if I were to
expand this out I can go ahead and go to
the proxy one underneath the wood beams
burnt and I can right-click and select
copy all
so if I want to do that I go to coffee
all and then paste all same kind of
thing so now you'll see we've inherited
the node raw shader and surface type
into our first channel the next thing
that we can do is we can go to outside
and let's do the same thing just so we
can see it change
and now you'll see that we automatically
just took that entire sub material
what happens if I want to just copy a
category so in the lighting settings I
can copy the category and I can come
back to the seee profile and if I paste
that you'll notice that it only did the
actual category so this gives you a
chance to actually pick and choose based
on just the lighting settings but not
actually overriding the whole material
or sub material itself
and the last thing that I can do is I
can just once again copy all and paste
before we move on I
show you and wood beams burnt so in this
we have wood beams burnt and we were
able to duplicate it what if we want to
duplicate the entire material and sub
materials without having to go in each
one because otherwise what we've shown
is we've just done each sub material so
let's go into soil what we can do is we
can copy soil B and we can go into wood
beams burnt one let's go ahead and paste
this and just press cancel
we go into it you'll notice that all the
sub materials have actually taken on the
soil material without actually having to
go in and copy and paste each individual
sub material
since we've gone in there and we've
explained all the sub materials let's
keep the easiest for last and that is we
can add a new material and we can call
this one tutorial single
and it'll just add a simple sub-material
in theory and not have a master material
and then we can go in here and we can
copy all
and then we can paste
so this has given you a quick overview
on how you can pretty much manipulate
materials through copying and pasting
and making single and multi materials to
be able to dress up your scene quickly
and manipulate things that may already
exist in game SDK or from your teammates
in your own development