UE4 Material Properties

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This document breaks down the properties available on a Material. These properties are accessible by selecting the Main Material node in the Material Editor, or by Right-Clicking the Material in the Content Browser then selecting Asset Actions then Property Matrix.

• Properties inside Material:

• Accessing the Property Matrix:

• The Property Matrix:

The base material node has a number of properties which affect how the material behaves. These properties are described below, with each category divided into its own document section, and presented in the order in which they appear in the Properties panel.

Physical Material

Property	Description
Phys Material	The Physical Material associated with this Material. Physical Materials provide a definition of physics properties, such as how much energy will be retained on collision (bounciness) and other physics-based aspects. A Physics Material has no influence over how a Material appears visually.

Material

Property	Description
Material Domain	This setting allows you to designate how this Material is going to be used. Certain Material uses (such as decals) require additional instructions for the rendering engine to consider. Because of this, it is important to designate the Material as being used for those cases. Material Domain includes the following options: Domain Description Surface This setting defines the Material as something that will be used on an object's surface; think metal, plastic, skin, or any physical surface. As such this is the setting that you will use most of the time. Deferred Decal When making a Decal Material, you will use this setting. Light Function Used when creating a Material for use with a Light Function. Post Process Used if the Material will be used as a Post Process Material.
Blend Mode	Blend Modes describe how the output of the current Material will blend over what is already being drawn in the background. Put more technically, it allows you to control how the engine will combine this Material (Source color) with what is already in the frame buffer (Destination color) when rendered. The available blending modes are: Mode Description BLEND_Opaque Final color = Source color. This means that the Material will draw on top of the background. This blend mode is compatible with lighting. BLEND_Masked Final color = Source color if OpacityMask > OpacityMaskClipValue, otherwise the pixel is discarded. This blend mode is compatible with lighting. BLEND_Translucent Final color = Source color Opacity + Dest color (1 - Opacity). This blend mode is NOTcompatible with dynamic lighting. BLEND_Additive Final color = Source color + Dest color. This blend mode is NOT compatible with dynamic lighting. BLEND_Modulate Final color = Source color x Dest color. This blend mode is NOT compatible with dynamic lighting, or fog, unless this is a decal material. For more information on these Blend Modes, please see the Blend Modes documentation.
Decal Blend Mode	This defines how to GBuffer channels are getting manipulated by a decal material pass.(Only with MaterialDomain == MD_DeferredDecal)
Decal Response	This defines how the Material reacts on DBuffer decals(Affects look, performance, and texture/sample usage). Non DBuffer Decals can be disabled on the primitive(e.g. static mesh)
Shading Model	Shading models determine how material inputs (e.g. Emissive, Diffuse, Specular, Normal) are combined to make the final color. Model Description Unlit The Material is defined by the Emissive and Opacity inputs only. It does not respond to light. Default Lit The default shading model. Perfect for most solid objects. Subsurface Used for subsurface scattering materials, such as wax and ice. Activates the Subsurface Color input. Preintegrated Skin Used for materials similar to human skin. Activates the Subsurface Color input. Clear Coat Used for materials that have a translucent coating on top like clear coat car paint or lacquer. Activates the Clear Coat and Clear Coat Roughness inputs. Subsurface Profile Used for materials similar to human skin. Requires the use of a Subsurface Profile in order to work correctly. For more information on these Shading Models, please see the Shading Model documentation.
Opacity Mask Clip Value	This is the reference value which the OpacityMask input of masked materials will clip against per-pixel. Any value higher than OpacityMaskClipValue will pass and the pixel will be drawn (opaque), any value lower will fail and the pixel will be discarded (transparent).
Two Sided	The normal will be flipped on back faces, which means lighting will be calculated for both the front faces and the back faces. This is commonly used on foliage to keep from having to double up the number of polygons. Two Sided does not work correctly with static lighting, since the mesh still uses only a single UV set for light mapping. As a result, two sided materials with static lighting will be shaded the same on both sides.
Tangent Space Normal	Tangent space normal's are calculated from the surface of the object, with the Z-Axis (blue) always pointing directly away from the surface. World space normal's use the world coordinate system to calculate pixel angle, ignoring the surface's original orientation. Tangent space calculations are a bit more costly in terms of performance, but are generally more convenient, as these are usually the types of normal maps you can create in 2D applications such as Photoshop. Visually, tangent-space normal maps tend to look primarily blue-ish, while world-space maps are more vividly rainbow-colored.
Decal Blend Mode	As the name suggests, this defines the Blend Mode that will be used when the Material Domain property is set toDeferred Decal and cannot be changed until the Material Domain is set accordingly. It contains different Blend Modes than those available to surfaces. Mode Description Translucent This will cause the decal to blend Base Color, Metallic, Specular, Roughness, Emissive color, Opacity, and Normal. With this you can blend in an entirely separate material, such as a wavy water puddle, complete with normal map-based muddy building around it. Stain Only blends Base Color and Opacity. Useful for decals that only change color, such as dry spray paint on a wall. Normal Only blends Normal and Opacity. This is useful for adding cracks to a surface. Emissive Only blends the Emissive and Opacity channels. Nice for making things glow that were not originally.
Use Material Attributes	This checkbox will cause the Material's primary node to be condensed down to a single input labeled "Material Attributes." This is useful when you need to blend in multiple Materials using Layered Materials, or when defining multiple Material types using a Make Material Attributes expression node. See the Layered Materials documentation for more information.
Subsurface Profile	This will allow you to change what Subsurface Profile is used in the Material.
Num Customized UVs	This sets the number of Customized UV inputs to display. Unconnected customized UV inputs will just pass through the vertex UVs.
Generate Spherical Particle Normal's	This produces surface normal's that remain spherical as you rotate around a Particle System that uses this Material. This is useful for volumetric Particle Systems, since the sprites always rotate to face the camera. With this option, they will have a more spherical volume appearance.
Emissive(Dynamic Area Light)	If enabled, the Material's Emissive color is injected into the Light Propagation Volume.
Wire Frame)	Enables a wire frame view of the mesh the Material is applied to.
Refraction Bias	This property offsets the depth of the refraction test. This is useful when refraction values are causing unwanted nearby objects (typically in front of the translucent object) from rendering into the Material surface. Higher values will start to separate refractions, however, causing a visible break between the surface and the refracted objects. This property does not enable until you have connected some expression node into the Refraction input.

Translucency

Property	Description
Separate Translucency	This indicates that the Material should be rendered in the Separate Translucency Pass( This mean that this will not be affected by DOF and also requires bAllowSeparateTranslucency to be set in the .INI files)
Responsive AA (Ant aliasing)	Small moving objects, especially particles, can sometimes get obliterated by ant aliasing; by setting this property to true, a different AA algorithm is used which provides more definition. Put another way, if you create a blizzard or similar particle system and you feel like you cannot really see your snowflakes, turn this on - it will help. However, this shouldonly be used on small moving objects, because it creates aliasing artifacts on the background.
Translucency Lighting Mode	This allows for control over the lighting mode used by Translucency within this Material. This is especially useful for Particle Systems that are making use of Translucency, such as self-shadowing smoke or steam. Mode Description TLM_VolumetricNonDirectional Lighting will be calculated for a volume, without directionality. Use this on particle effects like smoke and dust. This is the cheapest lighting method, however the material normal is not taken into account. TLM_VolumetricDirectional Lighting will be calculated for a volume, with directionality so that the normal of the material is taken into account. Note that the default particle tangent space is facing the camera, so enable bGenerateSphericalParticleNormals to get a more useful tangent space. TLM_Surface Lighting will be calculated for a surface. Use this on translucent surfaces like glass and water. See LitTranslucency.
Translucency Directional Lighting Intensity	Useful for artificially increasing the influence of the normal on the lighting result for translucency. A value larger than 1 increases the influence for the normal, a value smaller than 1 makes the lighting more ambient.
Disable Depth Test	Allows the Material to disable depth tests, which is only meaningful with translucent blend modes. Disabling depth tests will make rendering significantly slower since no occluded pixels can get Z-culled.
Use Translucency Vertex Fog	When true, translucent materials are fogged. Defaults to true.

Translucency Self Shadowing

 

Translucent self shadowing is a nice way to get a volumetrically lit translucent object, such as a pillar of smoke or steam. The self shadowing is broken into two primary parts: Self Shadow Density and Second Self Shadow Density. The two parts exist to allow for variations. You can define the density of each independently and use the difference between the two to get interesting patterns throughout the self shadow.

Property	Description
Translucent Shadow Density Scale	This sets the density of the shadow cast onto other surfaces by this Translucent Material. This acts a bit like a master scale for shadowing; if set to 0, there is no shadowing whatsoever. As you increase the value to 1 and beyond, both the cast shadow and the self shadow will get darker.
Translucent Self Shadow Density Scale	Sets the density of the shadow this Material casts on itself. Consider shadows within a pillar of smoke.
Translucent Self Shadow Second Density Scale	This is a second self shadow density that can be set for variation. An internal gradient is created between this value and the Translucent Self Shadow Density Scale.
Translucent Self Shadow Second Opacity	This sets the opacity value for secondary self shadowing., serving as a way to scale the gradient effect between self shadow and second self shadow.
Translucent Backscattering Exponent	This controls the backscattering that is used when employing the Subsurface shading model along with Translucency. Larger values give a smaller, brighter backscattering highlight. This value is only used within volumetric translucent shadows formed from a directional light.
Translucent Multiple Scattering Extinction	This gives a colored extinction value - which basically amounts to a shadow color - for objects that have a volumetric translucent shadow, such as smoke or steam.
Translucent Shadow Start Offset	This is a world-space offset for the self shadow created within a translucent volume. The higher the number, the farther the shadow moves away from the lighting source.

Usage

The Usage flags are used to control the types of objects on which the Material will be used. When compiling Materials, these settings allow the Engine to compile special versions for each application. These are only valid when using the Surface Material Domain setting.

In the editor, these flags will be set automatically for any objects that already exist within your maps. For instance, if you have a Particle System that uses your Material placed somewhere in a level, when you load that map in the editor, it will automatically set the Used with Particle Systemflag. The material asset will need to be saved to allow the game to use the material on that specific mesh.

Warning: If you do not have the appropriate usage flag set, the default material will be used in game instead! This will have an appropriate message in the log of the game client.

Property	Description
Used with Skeletal Mesh	Set this if the Material will be placed on a Static Mesh.
Used with Editor Compositing	Set if the Material will be used with the Editor UI.
Used with Landscape	Set if the Material will be used on a Landscape surface.
Used with Particle Sprites	Used if this Material will be placed on a Particle System.
Used with Beam Trails	Set if the Material will be used with Beam Trails.
Used with Mesh Particles	Indicates that the Material and its instances can be used with mesh particles. This will result in the shaders required to support mesh particles being compiled which will increase shader compile time and memory usage.
Used with Static Lighting	This is set if the Material will be considered for Static Lighting, such as if it uses an Emissive effect that should affect lighting.
Used with Fluid Surfaces	Fluid surfaces are no longer supported in Unreal Engine 4. This option will soon be removed.
Used with Morph Targets	Set if this Material will be applied to a Skeletal Mesh that utilizes a Morph Target.
Used with Spline Meshes	Set if the Material will be applied to Landscape Spline meshes.
Used with Instanced Static Meshes	Set if the Material is intended to be applied to Instanced Static Meshes.
Used with Distortion	Distortion is no longer supported (it is now Refraction) and this option will soon be removed.
Used with Clothing	This should be set if the Material will be applied to Apex physically simulated clothing.
Used with UI	This indicates that this Material and any Material Instances can be used with Slate UI and UMG.
Automatically Set Usage in Editor	Whether to automatically set usage flags based on what the Material is applied to in the Editor. The default option for this is enabled.

Mobile

Property	Description
Fully Rough	This forces the Material to be completely rough and by doing so saves a number of shader instructions and one texture sampler.
Use Lightmap Directionality	This will use lightmap directionality and per pixel normal's. If disabled, lighting from lightmaps will be flat but cheaper.

Tessellation

Tessellation features allow you to add more physical detail to your meshes at runtime.

Property	Description
Tessellation Mode	This controls the type of tessellation that will be employed by your Material, if any. Mode Description No Tessellation The mesh will not tessellate. Effectively disables the feature. Flat Tessellation A simple form of tessellation. This adds more triangles without smoothing the mesh. PN Triangles Employs simple spline-based tessellation, which is more expensive but better for fine details.
Enable Crack Free Displacement	Enables a displacement algorithm that fixes any cracks that may appear in the mesh. This is more expensive, however, so if you do not see cracks when displacing, leave this set to False.
Enable Adaptive Tessellation	This tessellation method tries to maintain the same number of pixels for each triangle.

Post Process Material

Property	Description
Blendable Location	If this Material is being used as a Post Process Material, this property allows you to control whether the Material is calculated before or after Tonemapping. This is important if your Material will be used to modify the color of the Post Process.
Blendable Priority	This is a priority value that is used for any other Materials that can be applied to the Post Process.

Lightmass

Property	Description
Cast Shadow as Masked	If true, lit translucent objects will cast shadows as if they were using Masked lighting mode. This can help get sharper shadows on translucent objects.
Diffuse Boost	A multiplier for the amount of influence the diffuse component of the material has on static lighting.
Export Resolution Scale	A multiplier for the resolution at which this material's attributes are exported. This should be increased when details are needed.

Material Interface

Property	Description
Preview Mesh	Sets a Static Mesh used to preview the Material in the Preview pane.

Thumbnail

Property	Description
Primitive Type	Sets the type of shape primitive that is used in the thumbnail preview.
Preview Mesh	Sets the mesh that is used in the thumbnail preview. This will only work if Primitive Type is set to TPT None
Orbit Pitch	Sets the pitch of the orbit camera around the object.
Orbit Yaw	Sets the yaw of the orbit camera around the object.
Orbit Zoom	The offset from the bounds sphere distance from the asset.

材质 & 贴图

This document breaks down the properties available on a Material. These properties are accessible by selecting the Main Material node in the Material Editor, or by Right-Clicking the Material in the Content Browser then selecting Asset Actions then Property Matrix.

• Properties inside Material:

• Accessing the Property Matrix:

• The Property Matrix:

The base material node has a number of properties which affect how the material behaves. These properties are described below, with each category divided into its own document section, and presented in the order in which they appear in the Properties panel.

Physical Material

Property	Description
Phys Material	The Physical Material associated with this Material. Physical Materials provide a definition of physics properties, such as how much energy will be retained on collision (bounciness) and other physics-based aspects. A Physics Material has no influence over how a Material appears visually.

Material

Property	Description
Material Domain	This setting allows you to designate how this Material is going to be used. Certain Material uses (such as decals) require additional instructions for the rendering engine to consider. Because of this, it is important to designate the Material as being used for those cases. Material Domain includes the following options: Domain Description Surface This setting defines the Material as something that will be used on an object's surface; think metal, plastic, skin, or any physical surface. As such this is the setting that you will use most of the time. Deferred Decal When making a Decal Material, you will use this setting. Light Function Used when creating a Material for use with a Light Function. Post Process Used if the Material will be used as a Post Process Material.
Blend Mode	Blend Modes describe how the output of the current Material will blend over what is already being drawn in the background. Put more technically, it allows you to control how the engine will combine this Material (Source color) with what is already in the frame buffer (Destination color) when rendered. The available blending modes are: Mode Description BLEND_Opaque Final color = Source color. This means that the Material will draw on top of the background. This blend mode is compatible with lighting. BLEND_Masked Final color = Source color if OpacityMask > OpacityMaskClipValue, otherwise the pixel is discarded. This blend mode is compatible with lighting. BLEND_Translucent Final color = Source color Opacity + Dest color (1 - Opacity). This blend mode is NOTcompatible with dynamic lighting. BLEND_Additive Final color = Source color + Dest color. This blend mode is NOT compatible with dynamic lighting. BLEND_Modulate Final color = Source color x Dest color. This blend mode is NOT compatible with dynamic lighting, or fog, unless this is a decal material. For more information on these Blend Modes, please see the Blend Modes documentation.
Decal Blend Mode	This defines how to GBuffer channels are getting manipulated by a decal material pass.(Only with MaterialDomain == MD_DeferredDecal)
Decal Response	This defines how the Material reacts on DBuffer decals(Affects look, performance, and texture/sample usage). Non DBuffer Decals can be disabled on the primitive(e.g. static mesh)
Shading Model	Shading models determine how material inputs (e.g. Emissive, Diffuse, Specular, Normal) are combined to make the final color. Model Description Unlit The Material is defined by the Emissive and Opacity inputs only. It does not respond to light. Default Lit The default shading model. Perfect for most solid objects. Subsurface Used for subsurface scattering materials, such as wax and ice. Activates the Subsurface Color input. Preintegrated Skin Used for materials similar to human skin. Activates the Subsurface Color input. Clear Coat Used for materials that have a translucent coating on top like clear coat car paint or lacquer. Activates the Clear Coat and Clear Coat Roughness inputs. Subsurface Profile Used for materials similar to human skin. Requires the use of a Subsurface Profile in order to work correctly. For more information on these Shading Models, please see the Shading Model documentation.
Opacity Mask Clip Value	This is the reference value which the OpacityMask input of masked materials will clip against per-pixel. Any value higher than OpacityMaskClipValue will pass and the pixel will be drawn (opaque), any value lower will fail and the pixel will be discarded (transparent).
Two Sided	The normal will be flipped on back faces, which means lighting will be calculated for both the front faces and the back faces. This is commonly used on foliage to keep from having to double up the number of polygons. Two Sided does not work correctly with static lighting, since the mesh still uses only a single UV set for light mapping. As a result, two sided materials with static lighting will be shaded the same on both sides.
Tangent Space Normal	Tangent space normal's are calculated from the surface of the object, with the Z-Axis (blue) always pointing directly away from the surface. World space normal's use the world coordinate system to calculate pixel angle, ignoring the surface's original orientation. Tangent space calculations are a bit more costly in terms of performance, but are generally more convenient, as these are usually the types of normal maps you can create in 2D applications such as Photoshop. Visually, tangent-space normal maps tend to look primarily blue-ish, while world-space maps are more vividly rainbow-colored.
Decal Blend Mode	As the name suggests, this defines the Blend Mode that will be used when the Material Domain property is set toDeferred Decal and cannot be changed until the Material Domain is set accordingly. It contains different Blend Modes than those available to surfaces. Mode Description Translucent This will cause the decal to blend Base Color, Metallic, Specular, Roughness, Emissive color, Opacity, and Normal. With this you can blend in an entirely separate material, such as a wavy water puddle, complete with normal map-based muddy building around it. Stain Only blends Base Color and Opacity. Useful for decals that only change color, such as dry spray paint on a wall. Normal Only blends Normal and Opacity. This is useful for adding cracks to a surface. Emissive Only blends the Emissive and Opacity channels. Nice for making things glow that were not originally.
Use Material Attributes	This checkbox will cause the Material's primary node to be condensed down to a single input labeled "Material Attributes." This is useful when you need to blend in multiple Materials using Layered Materials, or when defining multiple Material types using a Make Material Attributes expression node. See the Layered Materials documentation for more information.
Subsurface Profile	This will allow you to change what Subsurface Profile is used in the Material.
Num Customized UVs	This sets the number of Customized UV inputs to display. Unconnected customized UV inputs will just pass through the vertex UVs.
Generate Spherical Particle Normal's	This produces surface normal's that remain spherical as you rotate around a Particle System that uses this Material. This is useful for volumetric Particle Systems, since the sprites always rotate to face the camera. With this option, they will have a more spherical volume appearance.
Emissive(Dynamic Area Light)	If enabled, the Material's Emissive color is injected into the Light Propagation Volume.
Wire Frame)	Enables a wire frame view of the mesh the Material is applied to.
Refraction Bias	This property offsets the depth of the refraction test. This is useful when refraction values are causing unwanted nearby objects (typically in front of the translucent object) from rendering into the Material surface. Higher values will start to separate refractions, however, causing a visible break between the surface and the refracted objects. This property does not enable until you have connected some expression node into the Refraction input.

Translucency

Property	Description
Separate Translucency	This indicates that the Material should be rendered in the Separate Translucency Pass( This mean that this will not be affected by DOF and also requires bAllowSeparateTranslucency to be set in the .INI files)
Responsive AA (Ant aliasing)	Small moving objects, especially particles, can sometimes get obliterated by ant aliasing; by setting this property to true, a different AA algorithm is used which provides more definition. Put another way, if you create a blizzard or similar particle system and you feel like you cannot really see your snowflakes, turn this on - it will help. However, this shouldonly be used on small moving objects, because it creates aliasing artifacts on the background.
Translucency Lighting Mode	This allows for control over the lighting mode used by Translucency within this Material. This is especially useful for Particle Systems that are making use of Translucency, such as self-shadowing smoke or steam. Mode Description TLM_VolumetricNonDirectional Lighting will be calculated for a volume, without directionality. Use this on particle effects like smoke and dust. This is the cheapest lighting method, however the material normal is not taken into account. TLM_VolumetricDirectional Lighting will be calculated for a volume, with directionality so that the normal of the material is taken into account. Note that the default particle tangent space is facing the camera, so enable bGenerateSphericalParticleNormals to get a more useful tangent space. TLM_Surface Lighting will be calculated for a surface. Use this on translucent surfaces like glass and water. See LitTranslucency.
Translucency Directional Lighting Intensity	Useful for artificially increasing the influence of the normal on the lighting result for translucency. A value larger than 1 increases the influence for the normal, a value smaller than 1 makes the lighting more ambient.
Disable Depth Test	Allows the Material to disable depth tests, which is only meaningful with translucent blend modes. Disabling depth tests will make rendering significantly slower since no occluded pixels can get Z-culled.
Use Translucency Vertex Fog	When true, translucent materials are fogged. Defaults to true.

Translucency Self Shadowing

 

Translucent self shadowing is a nice way to get a volumetrically lit translucent object, such as a pillar of smoke or steam. The self shadowing is broken into two primary parts: Self Shadow Density and Second Self Shadow Density. The two parts exist to allow for variations. You can define the density of each independently and use the difference between the two to get interesting patterns throughout the self shadow.

Property	Description
Translucent Shadow Density Scale	This sets the density of the shadow cast onto other surfaces by this Translucent Material. This acts a bit like a master scale for shadowing; if set to 0, there is no shadowing whatsoever. As you increase the value to 1 and beyond, both the cast shadow and the self shadow will get darker.
Translucent Self Shadow Density Scale	Sets the density of the shadow this Material casts on itself. Consider shadows within a pillar of smoke.
Translucent Self Shadow Second Density Scale	This is a second self shadow density that can be set for variation. An internal gradient is created between this value and the Translucent Self Shadow Density Scale.
Translucent Self Shadow Second Opacity	This sets the opacity value for secondary self shadowing., serving as a way to scale the gradient effect between self shadow and second self shadow.
Translucent Backscattering Exponent	This controls the backscattering that is used when employing the Subsurface shading model along with Translucency. Larger values give a smaller, brighter backscattering highlight. This value is only used within volumetric translucent shadows formed from a directional light.
Translucent Multiple Scattering Extinction	This gives a colored extinction value - which basically amounts to a shadow color - for objects that have a volumetric translucent shadow, such as smoke or steam.
Translucent Shadow Start Offset	This is a world-space offset for the self shadow created within a translucent volume. The higher the number, the farther the shadow moves away from the lighting source.

Usage

The Usage flags are used to control the types of objects on which the Material will be used. When compiling Materials, these settings allow the Engine to compile special versions for each application. These are only valid when using the Surface Material Domain setting.

In the editor, these flags will be set automatically for any objects that already exist within your maps. For instance, if you have a Particle System that uses your Material placed somewhere in a level, when you load that map in the editor, it will automatically set the Used with Particle Systemflag. The material asset will need to be saved to allow the game to use the material on that specific mesh.

Warning: If you do not have the appropriate usage flag set, the default material will be used in game instead! This will have an appropriate message in the log of the game client.

Property	Description
Used with Skeletal Mesh	Set this if the Material will be placed on a Static Mesh.
Used with Editor Compositing	Set if the Material will be used with the Editor UI.
Used with Landscape	Set if the Material will be used on a Landscape surface.
Used with Particle Sprites	Used if this Material will be placed on a Particle System.
Used with Beam Trails	Set if the Material will be used with Beam Trails.
Used with Mesh Particles	Indicates that the Material and its instances can be used with mesh particles. This will result in the shaders required to support mesh particles being compiled which will increase shader compile time and memory usage.
Used with Static Lighting	This is set if the Material will be considered for Static Lighting, such as if it uses an Emissive effect that should affect lighting.
Used with Fluid Surfaces	Fluid surfaces are no longer supported in Unreal Engine 4. This option will soon be removed.
Used with Morph Targets	Set if this Material will be applied to a Skeletal Mesh that utilizes a Morph Target.
Used with Spline Meshes	Set if the Material will be applied to Landscape Spline meshes.
Used with Instanced Static Meshes	Set if the Material is intended to be applied to Instanced Static Meshes.
Used with Distortion	Distortion is no longer supported (it is now Refraction) and this option will soon be removed.
Used with Clothing	This should be set if the Material will be applied to Apex physically simulated clothing.
Used with UI	This indicates that this Material and any Material Instances can be used with Slate UI and UMG.
Automatically Set Usage in Editor	Whether to automatically set usage flags based on what the Material is applied to in the Editor. The default option for this is enabled.

Mobile

Property	Description
Fully Rough	This forces the Material to be completely rough and by doing so saves a number of shader instructions and one texture sampler.
Use Lightmap Directionality	This will use lightmap directionality and per pixel normal's. If disabled, lighting from lightmaps will be flat but cheaper.

Tessellation

Tessellation features allow you to add more physical detail to your meshes at runtime.

Property	Description
Tessellation Mode	This controls the type of tessellation that will be employed by your Material, if any. Mode Description No Tessellation The mesh will not tessellate. Effectively disables the feature. Flat Tessellation A simple form of tessellation. This adds more triangles without smoothing the mesh. PN Triangles Employs simple spline-based tessellation, which is more expensive but better for fine details.
Enable Crack Free Displacement	Enables a displacement algorithm that fixes any cracks that may appear in the mesh. This is more expensive, however, so if you do not see cracks when displacing, leave this set to False.
Enable Adaptive Tessellation	This tessellation method tries to maintain the same number of pixels for each triangle.

Post Process Material

Property	Description
Blendable Location	If this Material is being used as a Post Process Material, this property allows you to control whether the Material is calculated before or after Tonemapping. This is important if your Material will be used to modify the color of the Post Process.
Blendable Priority	This is a priority value that is used for any other Materials that can be applied to the Post Process.

Lightmass

Property	Description
Cast Shadow as Masked	If true, lit translucent objects will cast shadows as if they were using Masked lighting mode. This can help get sharper shadows on translucent objects.
Diffuse Boost	A multiplier for the amount of influence the diffuse component of the material has on static lighting.
Export Resolution Scale	A multiplier for the resolution at which this material's attributes are exported. This should be increased when details are needed.

Material Interface

Property	Description
Preview Mesh	Sets a Static Mesh used to preview the Material in the Preview pane.

Thumbnail

Property	Description
Primitive Type	Sets the type of shape primitive that is used in the thumbnail preview.
Preview Mesh	Sets the mesh that is used in the thumbnail preview. This will only work if Primitive Type is set to TPT None
Orbit Pitch	Sets the pitch of the orbit camera around the object.
Orbit Yaw	Sets the yaw of the orbit camera around the object.
Orbit Zoom	The offset from the bounds sphere distance from the asset.