Modular Rendering API for Creators

[volumetrix]

This has been requested for ages:

Make the engine more accommodating for custom shading models

Unreal currently requires changes to the C++ source code files to do the trivial process of adding material pins and enabling the CustomData GBuffer. I’m not an engine programmer/C++ expert/etc but surely there has to be a better way to expose this stuff to users so they don’t have to change 5 lines of code and then waste hours compiling the engine. All the actual rendering logic occurs in the USF/USH files and you can modify these no problem on launcher builds, you just can’t enable/add materi…

There has never been any indication that shading/rendering control will be made available to developers in the shipped version of the engine.