The advantage of bitmaps in Unreal

- Whilst using bitmaps in an Unreal material … is definitely more computationally expensive … than making use of something like, say, a substance file, … it may well be that we either don't have access to, … or don't have the know-how to be able to make use … of an application like Substance Designer. … If this is the case, then what could we say … about the advantages of having to use bitmaps … in a real-time texturing workflow? … Well, one is the fact that if we are using … Unreal's Native Material Editor, … we can also make use of a texture sample node. … This, letting us select any bitmap … that has been imported into our Unreal project, … and use it for material creation, … whether that be in the base color, roughness, … or even normal map channels. … Here then, I have opened up … the master leather material, that can be found … inside the materials and leather folders of the U-project, … so that we can consider how it is … that the texture sample node brings any advantage. … Well, once the texture sample and import map …