Question about creating a new Material.

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Okay so, fair notice, this morning was essentially my very first time loading Unreal. So I apologize for the lack of knowledge of even basic things.

I’m trying to do a tutorial/example from World Creator 2. At one point in the process I’m given two options for creating a new material. Both options assume I’m extremely fluent in Unreal. The first option says to copy the contents of plain text file and paste it into a fresh material. Well, I’ve spent over an hour now trying to figure out how to do that and I can’t find any place to paste around 5,000 characters of plain text for a new material.

The second method is only slightly less vague but at least is less frustrating because it wants me to know how to actually make materials normally, which I don’t yet. So, if I can’t figure the first option, I’ll eventually figure out the second.

So anyway, if anyone knows how to paste a bunch text (which I assume defines the properties of the material) into a new material, I’d be grateful to learn this.

Thank you.

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Hi, based on context - there are two places you can paste plain text. The first place is to paste directly into the graph. Blueprint nodes are all plain text just wearing a fancy wrapper. You can also copy a group of nodes and paste them into a text file. The second place would be the text field in the details panel of a hlsl node.

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Consider going to Unreal Online Learning and taking an intro class or first hour with Unreal class.
Best to get some of the basics in place before world building.

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