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Animated water material

Animated water material - Unreal Engine Tutorial

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Animated water material

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- [Instructor] One way to add life to your unreal projects is to animate textures. So, let's use that to create an animated water effect. Now, in this particular scene I have a pond here in front of my building and as you can see we have a water texture on it but it's pretty lifeless because there's no movement to it. So, we can change this by animating the texture. Now, I'm going to start off by creating a new material. So, I'm going to go into my content folder, Materials and then let's create a new material. Now, you may already have some materials in here but let's go ahead and right-click, select Material and Create a New Material. I'm going to call this Water underscore A. Now, if you already have this in your folder go ahead and just select another name. Now, I'm going to select this material and drop it onto the water object in the scene and as you can see, it turns gray. Well, we're going to change that simply by manipulating this material. So, I'm going to double click on it…

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