Unreal Engine

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Shadow Color - Newbie Question Hi guys. I'm very new to UDK. I have most of my environment set up and I've been messing with lighting. I wanted to change the shadow color to a blue-purple color, but it keeps coming out a dark t…	4 Last	Santewi Aug 2012
Reimport FBX models, only one part is imported When I export a model, which consist of several objects (so not all objects are merged into one) to FBX, and then later rightclick the model in UDK and choose to reimport it, it only import one of th…	6 Last	McGreed Aug 2012
Everything a Platformer Should Have! So this is my first post on polycount, and it is a project that i have been looking into for some time. I am going to do my best to get as much done now before school in september...we shall see how …	1 Last	AbominableSoul Aug 2012
Point light moveable limit Hi all , me again :D. This time i would like to know your opinion on Point lights moveable, I fall in love with them cause of sharp stencil shadows. But with just 10 of them in my map + one dominant …	5 Last	ZacD Aug 2012
Lights Hi all, this is my first post in polycount forum! I'm a newbie in udk and in 3d/2d art, so I have a bit of questions... Is lightmass useful? I think light points are the best to have a better atmosp…	8 Last	osman Aug 2012
Bake AO into vertices Hi! I used to bake AO maps and merge them with diffuse maps in Photoshop. Now I read that you can bake the AO directly into the mesh vertices in 3ds max. Can anybody please explain to me how this wo…	2 Last	cupsster Aug 2012
Landscape Normal Shadow Hi all, using Moveable Point light to get stencil shadows, (shadow mode to normal , SQF set to High) Works perfect but not on areas that are close to Landscape. As in landscape surface is like 256 un…	2 Last	HAWK12HT Aug 2012
My UDK shader collection "WL-Shader" Hello. I'm trying UDK for portfolio. And we need to use many materials in a scene. I thought it troublesome to make a new materials. Then, I'm making the materials with all required functions. Plea…	21 Last	tristamus Aug 2012
Material instance constant / multiple meshes Hi all ok so while working on my level i came across another question in head. I have several emmit map information on my texture, so im confused which way to go with. 1. have multiple copies of …	6 Last	McGreed Aug 2012
Simulating a far view of a city I've searched for this technique where you mimic a view of a very far city just like the one in Samaritan demo but with no luck. I have though of sky-box but i didn't try that. If it is not a sky box…	11 Last	sprunghunt Aug 2012
Offsetting texture position within a material? Does anyone know if it's possible to change the position of a texture within a material in UDK? I have a texture that is tiled (using a TextureCoordinate) and I'd like to nudge it over a few pixels/…	3 Last	LoTekK Aug 2012
Textures Hi all, How much textures are too much for modern PCs given the new lines of GPUs in the market going with 2gb + video memory. Basically lets say if I have 8 1024x1024 textures in one map how much o…	4 Last	HAWK12HT Aug 2012
terrain lighting disaster I posted this on my thread in the pimping section too, but I figure it might be better to put this here as well. I'm having serious issues with lighting this terrain. Since my terrain is very flat …	5 Last	Kenturrac Aug 2012
Sidescroller Camera shouldnt move on Z axis when jumping Hello there! I'm currently making a simple sidescroller game based on the sidescroller platformerkit from epic. When I'm jumping with the character the camera automatically moves with the character…	3 Last	sebi3110 Aug 2012
UDK dynamic lighting problems Hi.I started a new environment in UDK, and i wanted to use fully dynamic lighting with no pre computed shadows (without lightmass).The problem is, when i deselect the light source, all of the shadows…	12 Last	Minato Aug 2012
Mid fight Particles when map loads. Hi, I was wondering if its at all possible to have particles spawn half way a long their path rather then at the start, when the level loads. I want it so its as if the emitter was already running fo…	3 Last	imbueFX Aug 2012
Issue with viewmodel lighting Hi, I would really appreciate if someone could help me out on an issue I have been having with my custom viewmodel. I have searched the forums and cannot find any similar threads. Here is an image …	0 Last	Bellers Aug 2012
UDK - Isolate mid-gray color in material editor Quick question for you polycounters: Is it possible to isolate the mid-gray color in this image? [IMG]http://i921.photobucket.com/albums/ad53/whynot1983/UDK.jpg[/IMG] I've used power nodes with ex…	11 Last	Harbinger Aug 2012
Window/Glass Hi everyone, soo after searching loads here and other sites, im unable to decided which is better way to make glass window. 1. Have 2 material ID and mask (for window) and make a cube map etc 2. Ha…	1 Last	JamesWild Jul 2012
Got a weird viewport shadowing/artefact problem [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20141186/3d%20stuff/NEW%203D/Environments/NEW/industrial/wips/viewport_artifacts.jpg[/img] No normal map applied, it's real-time in the viewport and it has proper light…	6 Last	Ace-Angel Jul 2012
APEX Problem I use the APEX cloth in my project,but when the character moves ,the cloth will shake back and forth very fast so that it may break like the picture below [IMG]http://fmn.rrimg.com/fmn063/201207…	0 Last	dengbohan Jul 2012
transparent material (glas) Hello That´s what I did with" alpha blending" so far. I already included some reflections in those areas where the glass should be. Now we want to make the glass transparent (It should be visible).…	8 Last	ZacD Jul 2012
UDK Texture Error? Hey guys, I am having a problem best described with pictures. Shadermap 2 (Blender looks the same): [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ziiE3.png[/IMG] UDK: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/uFFq3.png[/IMG] I am not r…	1 Last	Benton Jul 2012
Material Effect to PP Volume Hey guys, I'm trying to add a material effect or a post processing chain to a specific post process volume. but it does not have a parameter that asks for a material effect or a post process chain …	0 Last	Kenturrac Jul 2012
UDK Landscape Menu Missing Ive been trying to create some landscapes in UDK , but have come across a problem that my landscape editing menu isn't there?? It should like the UDN one. [IMG]http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/rsrc/Th…	13 Last	reverendK Jul 2012
Skyrimesque area hard loading? Hi Folks I'm having a small problem loading interior cell's on a mainly exterior map within the UDK. I'm aiming for a skyrim/fallout approach however the problem arises when it comes to transitionin…	2 Last	TheSerum Jul 2012
UDK Bink Movie texture help Ok so i have a movie texture in my game, i also have audio from the video and i have it so that when the player starts the level the audio and video play at the same time, but the video goes slow, in…	2 Last	Chay Hawk Jul 2012
UDK Particle System UDK Experts help please. i have a partice system that i set up but for the love of me i can NOT get it to loop or cycle more than once. i've played with the duration settings, there is also a value w…	2 Last	ChickenNoodleSoup Jul 2012
Landscape material setup Does anybody know if I can blend my Colormap with a blend_overlay and LayerBlend for my detail textures this way? Also is my WorldAligntexture setup correctly? [IMG]http://img221.imageshack.us/im…	1 Last	decorix Jul 2012
sharing scene and material. I have this scene of a landscape and I would like to share it. How can I share my Landscape scene and the landscape material. I have created in one package. There are also other materials in that pa…	1 Last	DeadlyFreeze Jul 2012
Particle over time, not life? Is there a way to affect particles over time rather than over life? Like no matter what the lifetime is of a given particle it's velocity will be affected the same after 3 seconds.	12 Last	imbueFX Jul 2012
UDK Custom Height Map Collision Hey guys, Just curious if anyone can answer this. I made a terrain in World Machine and exported the height map. I was able to bring it in no problem, however, when I wanted to test out using 'Play…	3 Last	AzzaMat Jul 2012
noob unreal question. vertex pivot points for brushes so im just now learning unreal and trying to move vertex points of my brush. Any reason my pivots are skewered and not going according to world coordinates?	1 Last	ranek Jul 2012
UDK Landscape Problem Hi, im new here, i was previousley posting all my stuff on the Epic forums but no one can seem to help me with this problem and after 3 days of waiting for a reply i hope someone on here can give me …	4 Last	[iWi] Jul 2012
Limited number of textures on a landscape compnent? Is there a cap on how much textures can be painted on one component square on a landscape? everytime I try to paint a different texture the editor crashes. Is there a way around this?	6 Last	wes.sau Jul 2012
UDK Tutorial: VFX Application Series - AoE Ground Slam (Sorry for double posting in general & UDK) I've been promising a new Cascade tutorial for imbueFX and we've finally arrived! I'm starting a new series on practical application, which means focusing…	19 Last	S-ed Jul 2012
K-Actor Acceleration Looking for a way to control the acceleration of a falling K-Actor. (although not threw unreal script)	3 Last	tuxmask75 Jul 2012
LandScape material (Normal-detail blending) Hi all, I'm working on a LandScape material. I have a colormap_texture in my diffuse. Also a BlendOverlay which connects to my Layers (materials Landscape). -Grass,Dirt,Rock,Soil. But I would also…	17 Last	decorix Jul 2012
customised characters how easy is it these days to put your own character in to UDK with your own custom animation set. I want to also have it in 3rd person. haven't done any mod stuff with unreal since 2002 or so:)	3 Last	Ruz Jul 2012
UDK Shadow Problem Hey everyone, I've just been going through the foliage tutorial on 3D Motive, and I'm doing fine with it, but I'm having some issues with my foliage not casting any shadows when the light has been bu…	4 Last	Blubberblase Jul 2012
postprocess material help so, i've been cursing at this all evening, and googling and asking around has got me well on my way to the result I want but i'm still bugged by a giant problem. the result i'm trying to get here, i…	6 Last	Ace-Angel Jul 2012
Weapons modification I want to make my rocket launcher fire the pulse gun projectiles? Is that possible? Can you direct me to any tutorials?	2 Last	Oniram Jul 2012
UDK Fog Volume Falloff I am working on making a very large forest for an environment, and I can't seem to find a way to make fog volumes have a falloff. Inside the fog, I really like the effect, but outside the fog, there…	4 Last	Hourences Jul 2012
Localized Normal Map problem Hey guys. Been looking around for a solution to this but I can't find it. Model info: 1 contiguous model, 1 2K texture set. For some reason the inside walls are not taking normal map information. I …	2 Last	clondike7 Jul 2012
Strange thing with imported textures Im noob in UDK, so i dont know what to do and google didnt give me an answer, so im here. The problem can clearly be seen in the screenshot, so what do i need to do to fix this? [IMG]http://i.imgur.…	4 Last	SuperFranky Jul 2012
Lanscape Material refuses to compile Hello again, I come with another landscape problem. I have a landscape material that works all fine and dandy in the editor, but when i try to play from a package version of the game it crashes. The …	0 Last	Pampers Jul 2012
UDK planet model normal map lightmass seam issue Firstly here is my model in Blender [IMG]http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/199/c/0/pl_by_happy_nyappy-d57r19m.jpg[/IMG] And this is what happens to it in UDK [IMG]http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs…	4 Last	RobertJamesPorter Jul 2012
Why do my models look flat in unreal? [IMG]http://www.danielmanion.net/Weedwacker3.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.danielmanion.net/Transport9.jpg[/IMG] you can visit my website to see the texture flats of each one. Are my textures lacking…	12 Last	NautalusX Jul 2012
Nuclear Blast Hello, I was recently wondering how does one make a nuclear explosion in UDK? Basically what I want is a dynamically lit smoke that also casts shadow on itself. From what I've gathered most smoke p…	4 Last	passerby Jul 2012
object local x-axis rotation to camera view hi, i use the foliage mode with billoard material for my wood project. How can create a billboard material with [URL="http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/8387/xqzp60br.jpg"]object local x-axis roatatio…	0 Last	Hellfire Jul 2012