This document highlights various quality-of-life improvements for Materials as of the 5.6 Unreal Engine release.
https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/knowledge-base/raq5/materials-quality-of-life-updates-in-unreal-engine-5-6
Good job! We need an explanation of more new features.
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Several phenomenal changes here, great work on all counts!
I am curious though, with the massive QOL push, why this is still a thing? @SheDoesArtStuff
Seems like a bit of an oversight
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Amazing work, thank you!
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These are some very welcome and awesome QoL bits and doodads! Keep up the great work.
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Thanks for reaching out about this – it’s on our radar as an issue!
These are some nice changes. However sad to see the material layering system is getting neglected again and further regressing compared to previous versions.
The yellow shader instruction overlay, which was already broken in UE5.5 due to a display fomatting issue, seems to have now disappeared completely.
I have to use the Platform Stats window now which unfortunately doesnt update the stats properly when working with material layers.
There is also a Stats window, which is just blank for some reason.
As you can see the stats only seem to update when using a normal instanced material.
