Material changing (From one created to normal textures)

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Hey!
I made a nice material for me, let’s say it’s just normal colour which would cover the whole mesh, for example: Imgur: The magic of the Internet

And I applied this to my mesh, but this mesh also have textures ( I mean, I have textures already done for this object)

How I can create something like - this object have this colour, but after 3 or 5 second (randomly) is changing and have textures?

Thanks!

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This could be approached in 2 (at least) ways:

  • have 2 separate materials and replace them after countdown using the SetTimerByEvent node
  • create a dynamic material instance with a parameter, use the parameter to switch between textures/colours
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Thanks! In the first way, should I just use normal blueprint? What type of blueprint? I’m sorry, I can tell that I am a bit new to UE4.

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Difficult to advise as I do not really know what you’re attempting.

I created a new actor with a cube inside. I manually placed in the level and:

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I set a random time value between 3-5s, register a CustomEvent with a timer. The CustomEvent will fire every time the counter finishes, flipping between 2 materials.

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Yes! It’s exactly what I needed. Is there any way. to make this material change a bit slower? Or like a gradient. which would change this materials slowly?

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Yes, you could easily control it with a Timeline + lerp node + dynamic material. In this case you’d only need 1 material and lerp between 2 textures.

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i tried that same thing thinking it would work earlier but it didnt seem to work