UE4, Blueprint, Material instance independence

Beelzeboss

Does anybody know if it is possible to have material independence when using instanced materials and blue print.

Basically I have a mesh set up with Blueprint where I am exposing one of the colour values to change but I only want to change it on individual meshes not all meshes. It is probably something simple I am missing but I have looked around and can't seem to find an answer.

cheers

Glowing Bovine

Do you mean you want to change one mesh in the blueprint itself, or you want to change blueprints independently in the level?

Parkar

It's covered in this tutorial.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2XmTbfIJ3s&list=PLZlv_N0_O1gaCL2XjKluO7N2Pmmw9pvhE"]Materials - 10 - Dynamic Material Instances, Pt2 - YouTube[/ame]

Beelzeboss

Basically I have a mesh with a blueprint on it. I want to have clones of this mesh and be able to tweak the colour on individual ones. What happens right now is I will change the colour on one and since each clone shares the same material instance the colour changes on all of them.

JordanW

yeah that video should cover it, the short description is:

1. make blueprint with static mesh component
2. in construction script reference the static mesh component
3. drag off from that component and say 'creatie dynamic material instance'
4. promote the result of that node to a variable
5. set the material on the static mesh and set the material as the variable
6. get a reference to that material variable, and drag out from it and call 'set vector parameter'
7. promote that color to a variable and click the eyeball icon

Beelzeboss

Thanks Jordan it is working now I started it again and followed your steps I had done similar I must have used the wrong node somewhere being an idiot.

thanks again for the help guys