Most common / Bread & Butter Shaders and Materials "techniques"?

[Travis]

@Torbach nailed it, I was thinking UV distortion as well when I was reading your post. The only other things I would say are pretty common are:
Vertex Displacement/World Position Offset

World Position Offset, Displacement and POM, adding Depth to Materials

World Position Offset Effects | Live Training | Unreal Engine

Color gradient look-up tables (LUTs)

Particle Gradient Mapping

Hey guys, I’ve been doing some experimenting lately and wanted to show you some of my results. Shannon Berkes comment about using the shit out of gradient mapping made me think about how to use it inside the engine with particles. I think this is super useful and offers new possibilities color-wise. I’m certainly not the first one to try this, but i’ve never seen someone post anything about it, so i made a small tutorial on how to do it in UE4. This is the basic material setup for UE4: [ima…