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Substrate Materials

Topics and reference about using the Substrate Materials framework.

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Getting Started

Substrate is Unreal Engine 5's approach to authoring materials, which replaces the fixed suite of shading models and blend modes, such as Default Lit and Clear Coat, with a more expressive and modular framework.

Getting Started

Substrate Materials Overview

An overview of the Substrate Materials framework for principled BSDF-based Material authoring.