How to create a Plastic material in Unreal Engine

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This new series of tutorials shows you how to create simple but eye-catching materials in Unreal Engine 5. The first one is a cool plastic shader using just one texture. It's super simple, so don't worry if you're new to this.

Let's get started!

00:00:00 intro
00:00:09 create a new material
00:00:17 activate subsurface scattering
00:00:31 specular node
00:00:41 base color node
00:00:52 subsurface scattering node
00:01:02 roughness map
00:01:41 invert the texture
00:02:00 scalar ramp functionality
00:03:31 TextureCoordinate node
00:04:57 Height map to Normal map
00:06:46 VectorNoise node
00:07:39 from Tangent Space Normals to World Space Normals
00:09:39 TransformVector node