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Sticky Unreal Engine 4

[url]http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/05/ff_unreal4/?pid=2564&fb_source=message&viewall=true[/url] This is what I've been working on for a while now.
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littleclaude

Sticky Unreal Developer Kit - MASTER THREAD

So yeah. This is the Unreal Developer Kit Master Thread. You can throw your questions in here, as this will be a sticky. For starters.. Did you know you can now paint vertex maps on static meshes …
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franman

How are you organizing level design for ease of iteration?

Say that you are building some 3rd person game environments, something like this: Which would be composed from a modular kit like this: Say you pain stainkingly snap together these many walls, roofs,…
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Alex_J

A specific UV manipulation issue

Hi!I'm working on a video game project by myself at this time, and one thing among many that I've been doing recently is creating a cartoony eyelid material in order to control a character's eyelids …
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poopipe

UE5 static mesh foliage not appearing at a distance

I'm using a procedural foliage spawner in UE5 to spawn the "Toad rush" and "Rabbit rush" foliages from megascans but they seem to not appear at some distance as you can see hereApparently the foliage…
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poopipe

UE5 Niagara Fluid Particles Falling Through My Mesh

[{"insert":"Hi all. I'm trying to simulate water in one of my environments for the first time using Niagara and I've run into a few problems that I'm not sure how to solve: \nThe Niagara particles ev…
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сhillyavis

can I get rid of the grid in my foliage paint? [Solved]

This looks stupid - and you can see if from ground levelShort of selecting and manually moving trees do I have any options here?  it's not connected to landscape tile boundaries  - just loo…
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Alex_J

5.11 world partition, landscape HLODs and crashes..

[{"insert":"I may be confused, I may be wrong and I would be very happy to find out that is the case \nbut..\nEven if we pretend there's no Out of Memory crashes in the HLOD builder it still behaves …
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poopipe

[SpeedTree][UnrealEngine] How do I export AO/Roughness/Metallic map?

[{"insert":"Hi everyone! I'm very new to SpeedTree, but I thought I'd learn it for a personal project I'm working on in UE4. The title speaks for itself. When trying to export to UE4, I can't see any…
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Eric Chadwick

multiple collision meshes

Hello I did  some reading earlier and it appears that unreal doesn't  exactly have out of the box support for the concept of multiple different collision meshes eg.  separate…
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poopipe

UE5 Baked normal map issue

Hello, I am not exactly sure what is going wrong with some of the assets in my scene, but the normals maps have baked incorrectly and are displaying weird artifacts in UE5. I sculpted the asset …
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sprunghunt

Texturing landscapes in unreal engine 5

I'm currently learning environment art and I'm using ue5 for my environment. I used gaea to create a landscape height map and successfully imported it in unreal engine, but now, I'm absolutely lost. …
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Fabi_G

Create more inclusively with Elias Wick - Color Blindness [FREE ASSETS]

Greetings!Since my early teens, I have had a desire to assist, aid, and promote fairness for those who are at a disadvantage in the world. Although the world has started to think more about peopl…
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EliasWick

UE5 Normal map error / displaying incorrectly

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hello everyone!"}]},{"type":"p","children":[{"text":""}]},{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"I'm having an issue in Ue5 where my normal map is displaying incrorrectly.…
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sprunghunt

Creating Tire Tracks in Landscape Sand

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"I was hoping someone can help me out with this. I have an environment I have created using megascans and a quixel landscape material in UE5.1.1. I would like to cr…
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sprunghunt

Can't make the Wind Directional Source work on imported Speedtree mesh

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"I encountered a problem when importing the st. file into Unreal Engine 5.  When I added the Wind Directional Source in UE5, the tree didn’t move.  I wonder which ste…
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KayHuang

Some basic lightmap questions…

[{"insert":"\nsome questions regarding using both dynamic and static lighting. working on a level that uses dynamic outdoor lighting, but anything indoors is set to static lighting.\nDoes a lightmap …
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poopipe

Unreal 5 Packaging Error - Wise Plugin

[{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"Hi all,"}]},{"type":"p","children":[{"text":"My brother and I are working on a small project, he is a musician and taking care of coding a few levels but when it com…
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LeonardoScazzocchio

UE5 Bones Creation for Control Rig

[{"insert":"Hello there,\nIs anybody can help me to understand how to create my own skeleton for mesh for future creation of control rig to use it to animate a character in sequencer? I know about Mi…
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sprunghunt

How to achieve this effect in Unreal 5

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Pep_mepla

Skewed Texture Bug

[{"insert":"Hello\nIt is perfect in other programs e.g. 3D Painter. I also tested it in Marmoset and it worked.\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/upload…
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andykerrart

The Edges of my Mesh EXPLODE when I'm applying a material/texture

[{"insert":"Hello, i'm not very good Unreal, but in general I have no issue. Recently i got a bug where my Static Mesh transform\/deform when i am applying a material. An Instance Material only for …
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Fabi_G

Mirrored geometry get inverse normals in UE5

[{"insert":"Hi,\nI'm used negative scale geometry for my asset to UE5, but it's always inverting the normals for the "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"left "},{"insert":"half. Which is weird…
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Psyminator

Animation/skeletal mesh from UE5 to 3dsMax and back again

[{"insert":"Hello, \nI want to export a skeletal animation from ue5 to max, change it a bit and then export it back to ue5 \nThis is not straightforward and I don't understand why.\nIt doesn't seem t…
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poopipe

Help with trim sheet material shader setup?

[{"insert":"I have a trim sheet with normal map information. I want to reuse the trimsheet as much as possible, therefor it only contains normal information and no unique color, roughness etc.\n"},{"…
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Eric Chadwick

Texture animation UE5

[{"insert":"hey guys,\n\nWas wondering how to animate these holes for an alien skin to open and close randomly using UE5\n\nNB: it's all made in a substance designer to be used in UE5 for a game. (so…
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salimmatta

Copy Player moves, to possessed Pawn.

[{"insert":"I can't wrap my head about one thing. I want to copy Player moves, to possessed Pawn. And control 2 characters in the same time with one input. Best case, that I can recall - In blade run…
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Alex_J

Bridge Materials Appearing as Flat Colors in UE5

[{"insert":"I was using some materials from Bridge as placeholders to plan out my scene. However when I apply the materials to assets in my scene I get this flat color. Does anyone know what causes t…
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Fabi_G

the problem in unreal engine 5

[{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/O9BJNAB05VF8\/image.png","name":"image.png","type":"image\/png","size":1411185,"width":1666,"height":917,"displa…
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Sshixa

Is it possible to use both Parallax Occlusion Mapping and World Aligned Texture?

[{"insert":"I like the outcome of using Parallax Occlusion Mapping. However, I also want to make the height map world aligned. Is there a way to use both nodes on the height map? Or, is there an alte…
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KayHuang

Help! ISSUE RENDERING P_TORCH

[{"insert":"Hi everyone!\nI've come here to seek your precious help. I'm trying to render a scene, there's a torch visible in the viewport, visible through my camera, everything seems fine but when I…
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KODA

[Shaders] Help creating masks for texture maps in UE5?

[{"insert":"I'm trying to create a shader that will blend two materials together with the top material being blended based on a simple world rotation mask so that if I rotate my mesh the blended mate…
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coolguyslims

Noise functions with exposed parameters (download)

I've been working with the "noise" node many times in Unreal because its very useful for quick iteration or high quality output without flipbooks and whatnot, however there was always a big limit for…
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benmerrick3d

Reflection "moves" through object shadow

[{"insert":"This is a hard one to explain so I tried to capture it in a screen \ngrab. Ive noticed this before in Unreal Projects where when you do a light bake, the reflections don't always work as …
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Eric Chadwick

How do you keep the third person Camera follow the character relative to its size?

[{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"url":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5021068\/uploads\/8U0MVXJE9X60\/image.png","name":"image.png","type":"image\/png","size":199733,"width":1428,"height":727,"display…
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poopipe

[UE5] Is there now a specular workflow or still only metalness?

[{"insert":"Metalness has problems and generally less control than the specular workflow. Especially for gradual transition areas where you do not want to have a binary on\/off for metal. Metalness w…
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poopipe

Please vote for request of full specular workflow in UE5.

[{"insert":"Feature request for colored Specular PBR workflow as alternative to the metalness workflow:\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"body":"Metalness workflow is binary and not suited fo…
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ZacD

Please explain difference between static mesh (instance) and an Instanced static mesh?

[{"insert":"I have run into some confusion on when is a static mesh actually an instance where it is reducing its draw calls in the project. Every static mesh in the detail panel has the word (instan…
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arcitek

Layer blending gives me a blocky result

[{"insert":"I'm trying to smooth out this transition between the soil and the white background, but I keep getting these massive blocky tiles. How can I change this? Is it because the landscape geome…
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poopipe

Help with opacity map for character

[{"insert":"so i have this opacity map which works in marmoset and other programs but in unreal i cant seem to get it work,even after watching and googling lots of tutorials.In material opacity chann…
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poopipe

sky luminance in a post process shader

[{"insert":"Hello\n\nI'm working on an optoelectric night vision post process shader, its pretty cool and stuff but it has some ugly hacks\nnone of the atmosphere nodes in the material editor that I…
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poopipe

UDK Rain Shader

Hi, I'm making a rain shader inside UDK for my folio : [url]https://vimeo.com/40859784[/url] It's WIP so it needs many improvements.
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TheMetaMorphe

UMG Collapsibles/Accordions Possible?

Hi guys,I'm just wondering if anyone has ever had any luck with/ever made accordion style menus with UMG/Widgets in UE4?If you're not quite sure what I mean, here's an example: http://www.w3scho…
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Sergey_Filin

Lumen, volumetric fog and flashlights.

[{"insert":"Hi!\nMy scene consists of a dark environment, a flashlight and fog. pretty clichê.\nI’m using lumen for lightning.\nMy issue is, when the flashlight is on, is has a nice effect on the fog…
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GlowingPotato

UE4 Landscape: does it support mesh distance field?

[{"insert":"I would like my niagara gpu particle to collide with landscape mesh, and so far I haven't been able to do it with gpu distance field mode, only depth buffer mode works.\nI checked the mes…
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bitinn

Help understanding elements of digital human

[{"insert":"Hi\nI've recently finished a character model, which I'll eventually post on this forum for some feedback. "},{"insert":{"emoji":{"emojiChar":"😉"}}},{"insert":" I did debate on whether to …
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DustyShinigami

How to access vertex normals of static mesh in Unreal C++

[{"insert":"I am working in UE5 and would like to get the vertex normals of a static mesh using the C++ API. I can successfully access the vertex buffer, and then get the "},{"attributes":{"bold":tru…
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cathodeyolk

During world origin rebasing, how can I add the offset into Absolute World position of materials?

[{"insert":"\nHello, I am not noob to Unreal, but pretty close to a noob with material graph stuff. Not a math skilled person. However, I think I know what needs to be done, just not the way to say i…
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Alex_J

RESOLVED: Trying to create simple 2-PBR material blend - NOT Vertex material

[{"insert":"I will start by saying I am NOT a material expert in anyway so this is all on me, meaning, my ignorance is creating this issue. I am wanting to take two full materials that are each a typ…
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poopipe

How can i rig this garage door for animation

[{"insert":"I have a garage door that needs rigged and do an opening animation for an Unreal engine project\nhere is the vid for the animation ref\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"height":11…
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VISDE

Lightmaps popping based on camera angle/position

[{"insert":"Hi everyone, I have started to have an issue that did not exist before. I have a vr scene made in UE5 with just basic functionality. I have one 1 movable directional light and 1 stationar…
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Dantexagc

RESOLVED: Why does my material look different based on view angle?

[{"insert":"I have what I feel is a pretty straight forward material that is a wood plank floor. There is no fresnel or anything that would impact how the material looks at a certain angle but yet, a…
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arcitek

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