Chrome Material (Part 2) - UDK Tutorials by Javahawk

Creating a chrome material in the UDK using the material editor.

I will cover creating the chrome/metallic material using one external texture sample, and a user generated cube map in game. I will then show how to import a static mesh from 3dsMAX, how to apply the material to the static mesh, and a few keyboard shortcuts when manipulating models in editor.

This is a medium level tutorial. Please watch my other videos first if you have trouble with this one.

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• UDK
• Unreal
• Epic
• Graphics
• Tutorials
• Kittens
• Unreal Tournament
• Javahawk
• Unreal Development Kit
• Material Editor
• Material
• Node
• Module
• Texture
• Import
• Shader
• Cascade
• Prefab
• Fire
• Effect
• Bump Offset
• Special Effect
• Cube Map
• Cube
• Map
• Model
• Mesh
• Static Mesh
• Static
• ASCII
• .ase
• Model Import
• Chrome
• Chrome Material
• Metal
• Fresnel
• Camera Vector
• Vector
• Reflection Vector

[amaraklov]

@spacetimesparx I think you need to do a linearize (0-1) function on your highlight... so a clamp function will do the trick

[spacetimesparx]

Obvious Question, WTF is causing the annoying black artefact in the center of my specular hilight and how do I make it die a horrible painful death!!??

[cybermad64]

Awesome ^^ thanks for the tutorial. Fast and right to the point. I made this material with your help un less than 30 minutes! :D Now I'll try a realistic car paint material ^^

[maclover6]

thanx a million, appreciate the time for explaining this

works perfectly for making a relective water plane without killing performance ;-)

Maclover

[KyleKatarn145]

Quick question, if I wanted the chrome to be part of a weapon or something that moves with the character, will I have to generate a cube map and a new material for each level it's used on?

Great tutorial, it really was a help. Thank you heaps.

[zouhairone]

i have a question please :

can UDK read a video ? mpg - avi or others formats.

how can i change my first gun ?

when i started the game in my map i want see a knife but not a gun of see a hand and not a gun, how can i do it ?

thank you so mush and all your videos tutorials are the best 1.

thank's so mush

we lov ya man ♥♥♥ thanks again

[N30NCYPHER]

Great tutorial mate, that has really helped me understand reflections in UDK - keep up the great work :)

[hydzior]

Pretty cool :-)

[joshergold5555]

well done