Must know keyboard shortcuts for the Unreal Engine Material Editor

These are some of the most useful keyboard shortcuts for adding Material Editor nodes in Unreal Engine. I use them all the time, and they can significantly speed up your material workflow.

Elias Wick, Senior Technical Artist | Published: Mar 18, 2026 – 2 min read #shortcuts #keybindings #materials #shaders #editor

Information

Use the built in keyboard shortcuts in the Unreal Engine Material Editor to quickly add the most common material nodes shown below.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Vectors
Nodes	Keyboard Shortcuts
Constant / float	`1 + Left Mouse Button`
Constant 2 Vector	`2 + Left Mouse Button`
Constant 3 Vector	`3 + Left Mouse Button`
Constant 4 Vector	`4 + Left Mouse Button`
Scalar / float Parameter	`S + Left Mouse Button`
Vector 4 Parameter	`V + Left Mouse Button`

Math
Nodes	Keyboard Shortcuts
Add	`A + Left Mouse Button`
Divide	`D + Left Mouse Button`
Multiply	`M + Left Mouse Button`
One Minus	`O + Left Mouse Button`
Power	`E + Left Mouse Button`

Miscellaneous
Nodes	Keyboard Shortcuts
Bump Offset	`B + Left Mouse Button`
Comment	`C`
Component Mask	`Shift + C`
If	`I + Left Mouse Button`
Linear Interpolate (Lerp)	`L + Left Mouse Button`
Material Function	`F + Left Mouse Button`
Normalize	`N + Left Mouse Button`
Panner	`P + Left Mouse Button`
Reflection Vector	`R + Left Mouse Button`
Reroute	`Shift + R + Left Mouse Button`
Tex Coord (UVs)	`U + Left Mouse Button`
Texture Sample	`T + Left Mouse Button`

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