Custom Meshes And Materials

How to add custom meshes to the kitchen blueprint and how to make use external materials.

To create more colors, make a copy or instance of any other than the white color material. Change the Color value and rename it.

All cabinets are mapped for 100x100cm textures. Most downloadable materials for Arch Viz have that size.

Crazy Bump or Substance can create a normal map from a diffuse texture.

CrazyBump download link

Wood Material from Textues

Duplicate one of the existing materials and rename it.

• Replace the Diffuse Map
• Replace the Normal Map or set the Flatten Normal value to 1.0 if you do not have a normal map.
• Adjust the roughness. Negative values are possible.
• Adjust UV-Rotate or make another duplicate for a 90-degree rotated wood version

Benches and Splash Back require world tiling materials. World tiling materials use the world position to seamlessly aligned over multiple meshes.

UV shifting and scaling works in Unreal units and not from 0.0 to 1.0 as with non-world tiling materials. Setting the UVs to 200 would stretch the textures to that size.

Non World Tiling materials do not work well unless they are 'flat', like a glass material or a plain color.

Create World Tiling Material From Textures

Make an instance of M_MK_StoneWorldTiling and name it.

• Replace the Diffuse and Normal Map
• Normal Flatten needs to be a high value like 0.95. Set it to 1.0 if you do not have a normal map.
• Roughness is interpolated between the Min and Max values.
• World-Pos-Offset can shift the UVs. It is used in the Kitchen Blueprint to align the tiling for splash backs.

World Tiling Material from Quixel Textures

• Color Map - diffuse texture
• Normal Map (optional. Flatten 1.0 to disable)
• Roughness Map (optional)
• AO Map (optional)
• Metal Map (optional)

Scale UVs in World Tiling Materials

Convert your textures to texture objects.

Connect the Texture Size and World Position to all Texture Objects.

The best way to preview world tiling materials is with the Cube. The Sphere will always look distorted because X Y Z materials will blend as soon as the material diverts from straight angles.

Unreal doesn't have a pivot object by default. It uses the 0,0,0 origin of the mesh instead. There are ways to permanently change the pivot in the Unreal Editor. But it is unreliable.

Transform can adjust the handle position but it needs to be repeated every time the handle is used.