Creating Blueprint node graph for material with Python?

[aliasense]

How can one create a new Blueprint material nodes from a python script?

import unreal
material = unreal.Material(‘Material’)
…

is there an example?

[Andreas_Ranman (Andreas Rånman)]

Not sure it’s possible currently. I would assume you need to call

AssetTools.create_asset

Something like

import unreal

def main():
  unreal.AssetTools.create_asset(
    "M_MyMaterial",
    "/Game/Materials/",
    unreal.Material,
    unreal.MaterialFactoryNew(),
    "Python"
  )

if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()

Never had any luck with Factories seeing I always get

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute MaterialFactoryNew

You could try see if you have better luck, some other stuff I had missing from my Python seem to have existed for others such as the Undo context.

[anonymous_user_4c8af90f]

This is how you create a new blueprint asset:

As you can see in vr_project.py, the name of the file that should be created is BP_VRMainCharacter.

In **blueprint.create(name, path, unreal.Character) **the third parameter is the parent class that defines the type of the blueprint being created. So, try changing this to a material type. Which material type? Maybe there is a material type you can find in the Documenation:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/PythonAPI/index.html

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I’m stuck on something else… once the Blueprint is created… is there a way to script adding Event Graph nodes into the Blueprint?

For example, is it possible to create the Event Graph pictured below with python script?

[TadParty]

Hey there @gmilligan - did you ever solve your last question? Are you able to use Python to add nodes to the Event Graph somehow?
I’m trying the same thing…

[clarkelj]

Hello.

Search the documentation for this:

unreal.MaterialEditingLibrary

Methods within to add nodes.