Exposing material function parameters

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The documentation I’ve been able to find isn’t helping.
I’m trying to nest different materials into a single material and use vertex colors to place several textures on geometry but I would like to instance the material that’s calling the material functions and access the texture maps and other paramaterised variables in the material functions I’m calling

Currently I am choosing between instanced materials and layered materials in my level. One allows for a more artist friendly way of building materials.(at least one I conceptually understand) The other is efficient and inexpensive. I am figuring out how to do Instanced layered materials so I can have more artistic license while still doing the most inexpensive solution possible. The instant update of instanced materials in the viewer is also nice and I’m wondering if this can be achieved with access to the paramaterised variables in the material functions I’m calling

This was in unreal documentation. So I think its possible.
“Material Instance parameters are now supported in functions. This makes it really easy to expose parameters to material instances. This brings functions to feature parity with materials, the same node graphs can be used in either. The only exceptions are the function input and output nodes which are inherently function-only”

How do I accomplish this?

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Solved. I had to complete the network in the material I was instancing and save my materials. I placed the function call node and wired it to a break material attributes node and wired that to my material node.Saved the parent material and then the instanced material has the drop down options in the parameter groups section.

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i was struggling with the same issue. try to follow your instruction apparently did not work. seem cant find how you connect it back to the material node. is it ok if u share the network u created?

thank you

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It has been so long, I’m not sure where this particular node network was. But I do remember It was a simple fix. If you would like, you can send pictures of your network and explain the problem you are having and then I can try and help you.