# How do I give color to my water shader material?

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-do-i-give-color-to-my-water-shader-material/319084>\
**Category:** World Creation\
**Tags:** Water, unreal-engine, Shaders, UE4, Blueprint, question\
**Created:** [May 19, 2015, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-do-i-give-color-to-my-water-shader-material/319084 "2015-05-19T06:58:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_20899a9b](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_20899a9b](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_20899a9b)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-do-i-give-color-to-my-water-shader-material/319084/1 "2015-05-19T06:58:59Z")

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Hey I followed the tutorial in the Ue4 documents on how to make a water shader, Ive partially succeeded as it does not show the color of the the water I included in the blueprint. Ive tried messing around with stuff but nothings happens

PS: Im new to UE4

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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_776011b61](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_776011b61](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_776011b61)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-do-i-give-color-to-my-water-shader-material/319084/2 "2015-05-19T11:29:43Z")

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Can you show some pictures of what you are doing?

Very hard to work out just from description and what tutorial did you ise?

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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_20899a9b](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_20899a9b](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_20899a9b)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 9:13am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-do-i-give-color-to-my-water-shader-material/319084/3 "2015-05-20T09:13:30Z")

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Hey thanks for such a quick reply and yeah I’ll post the link

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I followed this throughly but I still dont get the color I want my water to be

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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_20899a9b](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_20899a9b](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_20899a9b)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 9:15am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-do-i-give-color-to-my-water-shader-material/319084/4 "2015-05-20T09:15:47Z")

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I have the translucent material but I just dont know how to give color to it.

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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_c7335e8f](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_c7335e8f](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_c7335e8f)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 8:55am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-do-i-give-color-to-my-water-shader-material/319084/5 "2015-10-18T08:55:39Z")

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Interestingly I have followed the same tutorial and ended up with the same result. Happy with how the waves, etc. work but no colour to the material.

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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_27dc0d1e](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_27dc0d1e](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_27dc0d1e)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-do-i-give-color-to-my-water-shader-material/319084/6 "2015-10-25T18:38:54Z")

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Yea, same problem here, any one has an answer??

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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_e13e1a90](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_e13e1a90](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_e13e1a90)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-do-i-give-color-to-my-water-shader-material/319084/7 "2016-02-12T19:14:04Z")

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Have you got an answer yet?