UE Tip: Named Reroutes

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Use the Named Reroutes feature to help clean up your Material Editor. These are essentially wire portals that help segment logical sections of nodes. A declaration node captures a value, and any number of usage nodes output it elsewhere in the graph without a connecting wire.

How do I create a named reroute?

There are two ways to make one:

Right-click the graph and pick Add Named Reroute Declaration Node…, then wire the value into it.
Double-click a wire to add a regular reroute, right-click it, and pick Convert to Named Reroute. The wire disappears and a declaration and a usage node take its place.

Select the declaration and give it a unique, descriptive Name in the Details panel. You can also set its Node Color to color-code related reroutes.

To place more usages, find the name under the Named Reroutes category of the right-click menu, or right-click the declaration and pick Create Reroute Usage.

How do I get around the graph with them?

Here are the shortcuts and menu options for jumping between declarations and usages:

Action	Result
Double-click a declaration	Selects all of its usages.
Double-click a usage	Selects its declaration.
Right-click > Select Named Reroute Usages	Selects all usages of a declaration.
Right-click > Select Named Reroute Declaration	Selects the declaration of a usage.
Right-click > Convert to Reroute	Turns the pair back into a wire with a regular reroute.

Is there a list of every named reroute?

Yes. Unreal Engine 5.8 adds a Named Reroutes tab to the Material Editor, which lists every declaration in the material along with its node color. In the default layout, it opens as a sidebar tab on the right.

From the tab, you can:

Double-click an entry to jump to its declaration.
Drag an entry into the graph to place a usage.
Right-click an entry and pick Select Named Reroute Usages to list its usages in Find Results.