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You're reading from Unreal Engine 4 Shaders and Effects Cookbook Over 70 recipes for mastering post-processing effects and advanced shading techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2019

Last Updated in Jun 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789538540

Length 524 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Unreal

Concepts

3D Game Development

Authors (2):

Brais Brenlla Ramos

John P. Doran

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Physically Based Rendering FREE CHAPTER

2. Post-Processing Effects

3. Opaque Materials and Texture Mapping

4. Translucent Materials and More

5. Beyond Traditional Material Uses

6. Advanced Material Techniques

7. Using Material Instances

8. Mobile Shaders and Material Optimization

9. Some Extra Useful Nodes

10. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Mobile Shaders and Material Optimization

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Creating materials for mobile platforms
Using the forward shading renderer for VR
Optimizing through texture atlases
Baking a 3D model material into a texture
Combining multiple meshes with the HLOD tool
General material-optimization techniques

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Authors (2)

Brais Brenlla Ramos

Brais Brenlla Ramos is a passionate Architect, 3D artist, Unreal Engine 4 developer and first-time author based between A Corua and his place of work in London, UK. His passion for all things 3D-related dates back to when he was playing games as a child, experiences that fuelled his later studies in architecture and computer animation. His entrance into the professional 3D world happened at the same time as his studies were finishing, with initial projects undertaken in the field of architectural visualization for different studios. Since then, he's worked on many different 3D modeling and app development projects, first as a team member, and later as the Unreal Engine 4 lead developer at a company called AccuCities, based in London.

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John P. Doran

John P. Doran is a passionate and seasoned Technical Game Designer, Software Engineer, and Author who is based in Songdo, South Korea. His passion for game development began at an early age. He later graduated from DigiPen Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Game Design and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Bradley University. For over a decade, John has gained extensive hands-on expertise in game development working in various roles ranging from game designer to lead UI programmer working in teams consisting of just himself to over 70 people in student, mod, and professional game projects including working at LucasArts on Star Wars: 1313. Additionally, John has worked in game development education teaching in Singapore, South Korea, and the United States. To date, he has authored over 10 books pertaining to game development. John is currently an Instructor at George Mason University Korea. Prior to his present ventures, he was an award-winning videographer.

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