An example would be, setting up material layers, and naming your parameters, “RockColour”, “RockRoughness”, " RockNorm" Etc. Sometimes my functions have dozens of parameters. I would like to be able to replace the word “Rock” with the word “Grass” or “Snow” across an entire material / material function at once. This would really speed up the process of creating landscape materials!
U could try an alternative way too :
- c/p the material ( or parts of it ) into a .txt file and use the standard “replace” or “replace all” option.
- Now c/p everything back into your material and u are done
Can save a lot of work in several situations, kinda everything in UE is able to c/p into a .txt file, u could even do simple backups this way, an old but still a simple trick.
There is also a freeware utility called “FindAndReplace” which can search in a directory
for .txt, .json, .xls files and more to replace or remove words or sentence
without the need of opening these files.
Hope this helps people out bumping into this topic after all these years 