are shaders and materials the same thing?

[Vata_Raven]

@darthviper107;210865

They are technically not the same, a shader determines how things are used, a material allows you to use a shader and change the setting. UE4 is great in that you don’t have to worry about doing them separately, it controls it all from the same thing and manages it.

is another way to example it?

a Material is a texture, just built in-engine (easy to change and non-resolution bases, like the textures you can make from Substance designer/painter)
and a Shader…helps a Material/texture look better (I knew that much)

I saw a video about Naughty Dog and them showing off some things. they said a lot of their texture work was done with Shaders (like the cloth, the leather, even the clothes had added seam lines through shader and not a texture)