Handling master materials and material functions for a modular environment?!

Jaston3D

Hi everyone! I'm looking to start another environment but I want to be smarter about how I plan my materials instead of just making unique materials for each mesh. I'm going to be making a modular scifi biodome and would like to be guided in the right direction as far as materials and material functions go for a modular sci fi environment. I want to have the nice softly baked edges and normals for each mesh but would also like to use a tiling metal/scifi base texture on a lot of things kind of like a baked normal/detail normal set up. Could anyone break it down for me? 

Jaston3D

I figure i'll probably just throw money at Minos new office environment videos  

Shrike

just put everything thats the same in one 8k atlas. Add some generic normals so you can change UVs for them to appear on flat surfaces, else there are many ways of doing things. If you use unreal master materials just assigns masks on your atlas and link the sub materials to the masks