UE2:MaterialFactory (UT2004)

Object >> MaterialFactory

Package: 

Editor

Direct subclasses:

FractalTextureFactory, RawMaterialFactory

Known custom subclass:

UFontMaterial (UT2004)

This class in other games:

UT2003, U2, UE2Runtime, U2XMP

Subclasses of this class are used by UnrealEd 3 to create new Materials. An interesting use of a MaterialFactory is the custom class UFontMaterial that actually imports true-type fonts.

Properties

Description

Type: string

The display name of this factory class in the editor. This name is used in the drop-down list of the "New Material" dialog window.

Functions

Native functions

ConsoleCommand

native function ConsoleCommand (string Cmd)

Executes console commands in the context of the editor engine, as if they were entered in the UnrealEd console.

Events

CreateMaterial

event Material CreateMaterial (Object InOuter, string InPackage, string InGroup, string InName)

This function is called by UnrealEd to let the factory create a material with the specified parameters.