Material Assets in UEFN

There are two ways to make a custom UI material for your project:

1. Material Collection: A collection of materials that have all the UI functionality prebuilt into the material.
2. Custom Parent Material: A material made from scratch using material functions.

Material Collection

Material Collection is a series of highly customizable meter materials and textures. You can find the material collection in the content browser under Fortnite > UI > Materials. The materials are split into two types:

• Meter Materials: Typically used as Progress Bars.
• Textures: Typically used for iconography and player portraits..

The material_collection_device has an example of how the material collection can be used with Verse to display the textures and materials as well as use the parameters of the material instances to dynamically change the UI materials when damage events happen in-game.

Custom Parent Material

To create a custom parent material for a UMG Image widget, you need to set the Material Domain to User Interface for the Main Material Node. This parent material employs the use of Materials Functions that make the material more dynamic.