I’m trying to have a dynamic overlay material appear on my character at the press of a button. My question is, can I set the overlay material to my material at runtime on the button press (in blueprints via Set Overlay Material) or do I have to have the overlay material set on the character asset i…

You can make an apply MIDs(material instance dynamic) during runtime, but keep in mind that there’s a cost to swapping materials during runtime and depending on the complexity, it may cause a hitch. You can so use things like Material Parameter Collections to store global variables that can then be …

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Setting Overlay Materials at Runtime

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Nevfel_Emre10 (Nevfel_Emre) August 22, 2025, 2:17pm 3

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