World Aligned Texture controlled by another object

[absudario]

I am trying a simple project but spending already one day trying to understand how to achieve it inside UE.

The goal is that the white cube X,Y would control parameters U_offset, V_offset from a instanced material applied on the plane. This would alight the cross texture under the white cube. (had to put all images in a single one)

2rd image is how I prepared the material (the function was customized internally with the texture - replacing the texture object node)

3rd image is how I set up the BP for the plane object. “Center” is the reference for the white cube.

Currently, nothing is happening when I play the scene. Not sure if this would be the correct approach to this…

[ClockworkOcean]

I think it’s the cast of the material, I assume it makes a new material.

In the construction script, drag off the plane, and make a dynamic material instance, save it in a variable.

Then apply those parameters to that material at runtime.

[absudario]

Thanks. I am bit confused here, but, by creating a new dynamic material, definitely UE is creating a new instance of the source_material and automatically applying to the target, I guess. When I first came to try this, my idea was that getting the material already applied and changing its parameters would be easier than creating a new material and setting it to target.

out of topic, but now I can only see the results in play mode. Is there any way of debugging it - changing the position of the cube and update the material parameters in edit mode? I have added a custom_event callable in editor, with a button to update the values. Is that the way to go?

[ClockworkOcean]

Looks good. It might work in editor, if you just move all that to the construction script.