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Unreal Engine Editor Tool - Material Instance Generator

This tool was created to help artists automated material creation and texture assignment process (with a single button click) yet providing some other options so artist can modify it based on its need. This tool has the following features:

• Generating a new material instance with a single click
• Easy to understand GUI
• Generates material instance name based on textures name (can be modified)
• Assigning textures to its corresponding slot inside the material instance
• Setting up the parent material before creation of material instance (can be modified)
• An option to open new material instance after its created.

This tool was created using Python in combination with Unreal Engine’s BluePrint system.

Tool's brief

Tool's brief

Demonstration of the tool

Tools UI

Tools UI