Ue4 Remove Material Slots Games
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A trick is to just Migrate the Content folder into itself. So if you want to clean up ALL the unused stuff in the Content folder you can filter by Level, select the maps you want, right click = Migrate to another new folder called ContentNew, close Unreal, rename your Content folder to ContentOld and rename the ContentNew to Content again, reopen Unreal. I have a University project that needs to be submitted very soon, I have a map that uses assets from other merged project contents, and now I'm left with a massive amount of unused assets, which shoots the project size to about 9 gig. And I need to submit the entire project file. To do what you are asking, typically a mesh will be used with multiple material slots/ids. This will tell the engine 'these polygons use material slot 1, and these use material slot 2'. This is a simple way of using basic colors to make a detailed looking paint job. However, there is usually additional overhead for each material layer.

An overview of how slots are used in UMG.

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Hi Steel. I've faced the same issue a while ago. The point is you can not change material slots in UE4. Unreal creates multiple material slots when you import different meshes as a combined one. The engine literally puts all your materials out of each mesh and then assignes it to your combined model.

I solved this issue by importing each model individually and placing them manually in the world.

There is a function in Blender (and in other 3D software I believe) which allows you to share materal data with multiple meshes and eventually to set up materials across all your models. But I didn't try it, don't know how it works after importing to Unreal.

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I am trying to add material parameters on the tool and it works well, but it doesn't create the material slots if there is no material file inside of the file path. I tried to find other ways to solve the problem like adding material string path and adding multiparm folder, but string doesn't get populated like material slots and the multiparm folder materials doesn't attach on the mesh properly. Is there a way to make populate-able material string path or add material slots without placement (string is better option for me)?

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You need to use a prim attribute “unreal_material” to enable the slots in UE. The drawbacks is that you don't have the nice UE dropdown but a string in which you need to put the material reference (right click on the material in the content browser > Copy reference and paste it to the string parameter).
What is nice about it is that it keeps the references on recook

sorry for the late respond.
Thank you for the explanation about the unreal material system. I want to use string to add the material, but it doesn't allow me to add multiple material on the mesh at the same time. For mine, the mesh has more than three shop_materialpath attribute that has to be used in ue4, but only one of them can be used if I use string. Is there anyway I can populate the string parameter based on attribute value like add three string if there are three material attributes?

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sorry for the late respond.
Thank you for the explanation about the unreal material system. I want to use string to add the material, but it doesn't allow me to add multiple material on the mesh at the same time. For mine, the mesh has more than three shop_materialpath attribute that has to be used in ue4, but only one of them can be used if I use string. Is there anyway I can populate the string parameter based on attribute value like add three string if there are three material attributes?

or is there any easier way to separate materials in one mesh in procedural way for ue4? I don't have to use string to do it (it is efficient, but if it is more important to make it easy to use) I went through research, but I couldn't find any good resource other than material instance (I tried to use material instance, but I couldn't find a way to use it properly).

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