UBorder::GetDynamicMaterial

function UMG Blueprint Since 4.0

#include "Components/Border.h"

Access: public Specifiers: UFUNCTIONBlueprintCallable

Description

Returns a dynamic material instance for the border's background brush, creating one from the brush's current material if it isn't already a UMaterialInstanceDynamic.

Caveats & Gotchas

• Only works if the brush's underlying resource is a material, set via SetBrushFromMaterial or in the editor — calling this on a texture-based brush returns nullptr.
• The first call reassigns a newly created MID onto the brush, so cache the returned pointer rather than calling this repeatedly, e.g. every tick.

Signature

UMG_API UMaterialInstanceDynamic* GetDynamicMaterial()

Return Type

UMaterialInstanceDynamic*

Example

Animate a border material parameter C++

void UMyUserWidget::PulseBorderMaterial(float Value)
{
    if (MyBorder)
    {
        if (UMaterialInstanceDynamic* MID = MyBorder->GetDynamicMaterial())
        {
            MID->SetScalarParameterValue(TEXT("Intensity"), Value);
        }
    }
}

Version History

Introduced in: 4.0

Version	Status	Notes
5.6	stable	—

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