How to Animate Lava Materials in Unreal Engine 5 Tutorial

Animated Lava Material in UE5

This tutorial shows how to animate a lava material in Unreal Engine 5 with flowing UVs, world position mapping and mesh deformation.

Use it for volcanic levels, lava rivers and fire environments, and see the related posts below for more lava and fire materials.

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Learn how to bring your lava materials to life with realistic flow and mesh deformation in UE5. Transform static shaders into dynamic volcanic environments in minutes. 🔥

What you will learn:

Animate lava flow using Time and Vector 3 parameters
Create glowing intersection edges with Depth Fade ✨
Add realistic surface displacement using World Position Offset (WPO) ⚡
Set up customizable Panners for separate noise control

⏱️ Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Lava Animation
00:36 Applying Lava Material to Mesh
01:52 Adjusting Material Texture Tiling
02:13 Absolute World Position Setup
02:41 Creating Directional Animation Parameters
03:06 Testing Flow Direction Axis
03:39 Implementing Depth Fade Intersections
04:46 Configuring Translucent Blend Mode
05:17 Refining Edge Intersection Opacity
05:43 Implementing High-Resolution Meshes
06:45 Setting Up World Position Offset
07:33 Separating WPO Noise Tiling
08:36 Adding Panner Speed Parameters
09:43 Final Shader Performance Notes

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Check out the shader nodes and start creating dynamic lava flows today!

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