How are Materials actually handled in a UE Project?

[Fantam_Mayfly]

@JoSf

Materials are done inside Unreal, but your materials often rely on masks, maps and textures to work. You can’t always apply flat textures to models inside materials either, sometimes you need to paint the surface textures to avoid seams, so you need to speficially create the texture to a model.

Thanks. So this is why this particular tutorial seems confusing, while in Maya, the author looks like he is adding textures to meshes. I understand Maya is where a rough block mesh would be sent to turn it into a finished product, and maybe somewhere it will be explained, but I’m not seeing the advantage of applying textures in Maya if they will end up in UE, and a material will be applied there. I mean, materials WILL be used, so I don’t yet see the reason why you’d be applying textures while in Maya. It seems like a waste of time and obviously I’m not understanding a part of the process such as “specifically create the texture to a model.” ← does this happen in Maya or Blender?