Unreal 5 Materials – Part 2 World Position Offset by Thomas Harle

Following up from Unreal 5 Materials Part 1 – Environments we take a 7 hour deep dive into World Position Offset in Materials in Unreal Engine 5 – in this course we cover the basics of what World Position Offset is and how it works technically as well as covering many examples to add life to your scenes and create realistic foliage animations.

• Part 1 covers the background to World Position Offset, including a technical breakdown of how it works and how we can use World, Local and custom Vectors to control our Animations
• Part 2 is a series of simple examples – from hanging chains to basic cloth, that reinforces the theory from Part 1, while also introducing a few key workflows.
• Part 3 we take a look at foliage shaders – how we can use a Global Wind parameters to control multiple materials at once, and how each Foliage type requires different World Position Offset settings.
• Part 4 we cover some more advanced uses of World Position Offset and take a look at Rederiving Normals to ensure the shading of our models is correct when using World Position Offset.
• Part 5 takes a look at some World Position Offset uses that affect the overall world, rather than individual objects – creating curved worlds easily using shaders.

WPO is a great technical subject that can help you to learn about Vector Maths and how to use Blueprints and Vertex Colours to control our models and materials.