Art Of Shader - Film And Special Effects - Getting Started

Each Art of Shader pack is available separately on the Marketplace, or as part of the complete Megapack bundle.

Purchase your desired pack(s) from the Unreal Engine Marketplace
Open the Epic Games Launcher and navigate to your Library
Click "Install to Engine" and select your Unreal Engine version
Open your Unreal project — the AOS content folder appears in the Content Browser automatically

Create or select a Post Process Volume; tick Infinite Extent (Unbound) for global coverage
In Details → Rendering Features → Post Process Materials → Blendables, click +
Select any AOS material instance (e.g. MI_VCRGlitch)
The effect appears immediately in the viewport
Double-click the material instance to adjust its parameters

💡 Start with Examples: Open a demo map in the Examples folder to see every effect in context before building your setup.

Folder	Contents
`Materials`	Base shader materials — usually don't edit these
`MaterialInstances`	Parameterised presets ready to use
`Blueprints`	AOS actors and helper blueprints
`Niagara`	Particle system effects and module scripts
`Textures`	Noise textures and lookup tables
`Examples`	Demo maps showing each effect category

Folder

Contents

Materials

Base shader materials — usually don't edit these

MaterialInstances

Parameterised presets ready to use

Blueprints

AOS actors and helper blueprints

Niagara

Particle system effects and module scripts

Textures

Noise textures and lookup tables

Examples

Demo maps showing each effect category