# Getting error with texture sample node

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/getting-error-with-texture-sample-node/9339>\
**Category:** Asset Creation\
**Tags:** unreal-engine\
**Created:** [August 13, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/getting-error-with-texture-sample-node/9339 "2014-08-13T23:09:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_6c1df161](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_6c1df161](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_6c1df161)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/getting-error-with-texture-sample-node/9339/1 "2014-08-13T23:09:14Z")

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Hi,  
I was following this tutorial

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But when I press T to place the sample texture, it was placed but without the texture although I was selecting this texture in the content browser. Now when I follow the tutorial the connect “multiply” to “emissive color” I get error in the texture sample saying: Error [SM5] (Node TextureSample) TextureSample\> Missing input texture

Please advise

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Deiter](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/sam_deiter/32/1064709_2.png) [@Sam\_Deiter](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Sam_Deiter)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 4:04am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/getting-error-with-texture-sample-node/9339/2 "2014-08-14T04:04:00Z")

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Sounds like you are missing texture. Did you have a texture selected when you pressed the “T” key in the material editor? If not then all you need to do is find the texture that you want to use and make sure to feed that into the texture sampler.

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**Author:** ![Praglik](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Praglik](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Praglik)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/getting-error-with-texture-sample-node/9339/3 "2014-08-14T14:18:23Z")

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You can just drag & drop the texture from your content browser into the material editor. Much simpler imho !

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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_6c1df161](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_6c1df161](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_6c1df161)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/getting-error-with-texture-sample-node/9339/4 "2014-08-15T00:05:23Z")

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Thanks for all replies

Samsterdam  
yes I had the texture selected.

Praglik  
It did not accept drag and drop !