would it be something like this ?
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it seems to treat the mask as a defuse map when I try it like that 
im at a loss

thanks, looks like I just need to figure out how to o make a Mask Texture to store different kinds of Texture information into the individual R, G, B, and Alpha channels  with gimp?
what I have now is more like a CC3 color ID

were is the node for base col0r tint ?
I canto fallow the video without that
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it's called "constant " (2-4Vector) , right click and type constant or hold the number 2, 3 or 4 (4=+alpha) and click with the mouse into an empty space in the BP.
There are a lot of tutorials around ....