General material-optimization techniques

One of the ways that we can develop materials that can work on both low- and high-end devices is through the material quality-level system. This recipe discusses the creation of materials with quality settings in mind, allowing us to create one material that can be used on a variety of devices.

Getting ready...

In order to complete this recipe, you will need to have a material that you would like to look different depending on what quality level your game is running on.

 

 

How to do it...

To start, let's create a material that will display something:

1. Create a Material and name it M_QualitySettings. Double-click on it to enter the Material Editor. 
2. From the editor, create a texture sample by holding down the T key and then clicking to the left of the M_QualitySettings result node. 
3. With the Texture Sample node selected, go to the Details tab and set the Texture property to something that also has a normal map. I used the T_Brick_Cut_Stone_D texture from the...