How to do it...

Now that we have the Material Layers feature enabled, let's actually make our first Material Layer:

  1. Right-click anywhere inside of the Content Browser and under the Create Advanced Asset section, select Materials Textures | Material Layer:

  1. Name it whatever you want—I'll go with Layer_Base for this particular instance. Double-click on the newly created material to open up the material editor:

This editor should look fairly familiar to you if you've used Material functions before, the only difference being that on the right-hand ...

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