Route Art For Anyone Having Issues Creating A Material Function (work Around)

Hi all

When creating a material function in the current version of the editor mine always crashed back to desktop.

I have found a way round it so I thought I would share.

I was fortunate enough to beta test the original editor that got abandoned many years ago and it just so happens that functions that were created in there actually work in the new editor. This allowed me to create a blank function and copy the file across to the new plugin folder for my current project.

I have included the blank file with this post. (You will need to unzip it). If you need to create a material function and you get a crash like me try copying this file to your plugins folder and then use it as a template for all your other function. (Copy and Paste inside the editor)

 

BTW. If anyone is having crashes while trying to create other files give me a shout. I might be able to create those files as well.

 

Thanks for this.
I have created several material functions in my Landscape material (adjustments for normal strength , albedo brightness etc.) . I created these in Unreal 4.26 editor and then migrated them to TSW editor but all the functions had to be repaired after migration because they show up as "Unspecified Material function".

This time I am not texturing the landscape until I have finished laying and levelling terrain to track because of numerous crashes but I checked my material yesterday and all the functions are broken/corrupted again.

I have copied some repaired functions into copies of your blank and will see if these are broken again after a few days.
Thanks again.

 

Turn off Live Update, that seems to fixed it crashing for me.

 

Sorry it's been such a long time since I responded but I have been occupied with other issues on my route such as passengers, tunnels etc.
Having returned to my Landscape Material yesterday I found that the Material Functions which I made from your master were OK but the ones I made from scratch were all broken again.(In the Material every function is listed as "unknown" )

Thanks once again for the file, I should now be able to complete my landscape material and be sure that it won't break after a few months.

 

Remember to turn off Live update to prevent crashing =)