Is there something like a color ramp in materials?

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Hey guys!

Comming from Blender I use the “color ramp” very often when creating node materials. Is there something that works similar in UE4 materials?

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Left - a noise texture without a color ramp
Right - same noise texture with a color ramp

Quote from the Blender docs: "The ColorRamp Node is used for mapping values to colors with the use of a gradient. It works exactly the same way as a Colorband for textures and materials, using the Factor value as a slider or index to the color ramp shown, and outputting a color value and an alpha value from the output sockets. "

Cu, Manu.

EDIT:
So I made something with the “if” node, but the result isn’t exactly the same, as it misses the gradient between 0 and 1.

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So the closest thing I could find is the “3PointLevels”. Sadly it’s a bit counterintuitive, e.g. you have to use input values <0 for black and >1 for white to achieve the effect described above.

EDIT: A better way at least seems to be setting black value to 0, white to 1, middle value between 0 and 1, and also connect the middle point with a value 0…1

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In case of black and white textures (and probably color ones too), simply multiplying that texture by a value larger than one did the trick for me (Larger values - more contrast, smaller values - lower contrast).

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:joy:Almotst 10 yrs later , still there is nothing remotely close to “color ramp” in unreal. , color ramp is too versatile tool to have , sure some one skilled enough can make a mat function , but the way you have to plug in all the threshold , numbers , is not intuitive at all.

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There are color curves in Unreal and have been for (probably) at least the last 10 years

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thanks , didn’t know that :thinking:, immediately learned

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