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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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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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hussein303

[UDK] Zelda Water Shader Help

Hey, I have another interesting challenge for you folks on Polycount. It helps if you're familiar with the the game in the title but I'll provide a gif of a waterfall below. I'm trying to recreate t…
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Eric Chadwick

UE5 Render Queue White/Flickering Lights issue

Hi I am working on a level with some friends and we are on the process to render the final scene. We are using render queue in UE 5 to render stills and then put them together into a video format. Th…
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vali

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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SvilpeV

What is the top tutorial to begin with for learning how to design outdoor landscapes?

Hi there! I'm new to Unreal and have been focusing on interiors. Now, I'm eager to dive into exteriors. Could anyone recommend some reliable tutorials to help me get started? Thank you!
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cturbo

Unreal Engine Video Guides: All You Need to Know

https://youtu.be/NNK6P1GhmgA This tutorial explores the latest VDB improvements in Unreal Engine, offering a step-by-step guide on importing VDB sequences, adjusting attributes, refining data, en…
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sarkamari

NPCs and doorways

Hi! I've got a few issues when it comes to sending points of interest to NPCs that are located in doorways. There seems to be an issue where, as a result of blocking off the navmesh (Single door door…
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BTDarmstad

Creating an Icelandic scene in UE5 using Ultra Modular Landscape (Tutorial)

Hey,I have created a tool called Ultra Modular Landscape with the aim to bring a fresh approach to landscape material creation and mountain sculpting in UE5. You no longer need to touch the mast…
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Fisher007

Problem with DDX DDY normals breaking lighting when used for opacity masking

Hi![TLDR: Tree's shadows break when masking out polygons that are perpendicular to the camera by multiplying the opacity mask with the Dot product of Camera Vector and Normals that have been calculat…
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how do you make metal look real in unreal 5 with raytracing?

Hi there! I'm working on a diner that features a lot of steel, but I'm not quite sure how to achieve a realistic look for the metal materials in Unreal Engine 5. I was wondering if there are spec…
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cturbo

Mesh edge blend sharing the same material?

Hi! I'm trying to find a way to blend meshes that share the same material. I found this method, but I'm trying to avoid it because it seems like too much extra workhttps://cdnb.artstation.com/p/asset…
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b1mod

Strange Volumetric Fog Artifacts only for sequence Render

Hi, I’m getting this strange artifacting for my sequence deferred Renders. As seen below.However, it looks perfect in the view port.I tried messing with the distance settings of the exponential heigh…
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erebus9

Smoother character movement for NPCs?

Greetings!I'm working on a prototype for a stealth game, and I would like some help figuring out the character movement for NPCs. While the default character movement setup is perfectly functional, i…
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BTDarmstad

New Here

Hi everybody I'm a new level designer just now getting my feet wet when it comes to developing things. I have multi faceted talents that I've done for my school and desire feedback and constructive c…
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Eric Chadwick

Struggling with Shader Performance on Large-Scale 3D Assets in Unreal Engine 5

HelloI have been working on a large-scale 3D project in Unreal Engine 5, and I’m encountering performance issues related to my custom shaders. When applying complex shaders to large assets, especiall…
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Benjammin

UE5 - Virtual Texture Streaming, does it improve performance ?

Hi, I'm currently developing a game in UE5, as the number of assets grows, new and unique textures also grows. I'm wondering if Virtual texture streaming will improve (decrease) VRAM use.Re…
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poopipe

Shadow Popping?

I am but a simple hair artist so this may be something easy, but can anyone tell me why my shadows are popping on my hair cards? It's most noticeable on the forehead. I assume it's some kind of culli…
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HarlequinWerewolf

ID mask and Detail mask in 1 material, UE5

Hi, i'm making a interior environment and I have quite a few props I need to model.I would like to do it correctly and efficiently, doing a material with PBR textures in a layered approach.All I want…
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poopipe

Vertex Paint with fake height between 2 materials? How?

Hi guys, I got to the vertex paint stage in my level and I am confused how to go about this issue. I am trying to create fake height difference between my top layer (wallpaper) and bottom layer (plas…
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Eric Chadwick

Unreal Engine 5

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littleclaude

Prop texture avoid repetition(Unreal Engine 5)

I'm working in a game for our portfolio and I am placing the meshes we worked on in our scene in UE5. We made our own 4-Blend Material to blend in up to 4 different texture with base color, Normal an…
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Fabi_G

How do I achieve this effect? Dynamic decal paths

I'm trying to figure out how to achieve the terrain texturing effect in the attached images.As you can see the dirt paths on top of the grass texture here appears to be some kind of decal, with both …
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sb92

Unreal Engine Plugins and Settings That are Unnecessary

Hey,I want to learn unreal engine from zero. But all of these plugins and settings that are enabled as default confuses me. I would like to know what each of these plugins are responsible for. And i …
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pior

strategies for dealing with OFPA bloat and perforce?

Yesterday I was happily laying out buildings in my city map and managed to generate a single p4 changelist with over 180,000 files in it.The number of actors in my level isn't a problem in itself, wh…
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Implementing Smooth Lighting of Speedtree in Unreal Engine 5

I have a confusion about implementing Speedtree smooth lighting to Unreal. In general, I have seen that people multiply normal maps with TwoSidedSign node, so that the backfacing leaves doesnt flip t…
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satyakiMandal

Advanced Skeleton control rig into UE5 question!

I Need help! I am trying to export my advanced skeleton control rig into UE5. Every time I import the control rig into UE, it makes the eyeballs off center and rotated on my skeletal mesh. I’m n…
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Chelle21

Edit parts of material in negative texture space?

Hey, is there a way to edit the parts of the material that are in the negative UV space? I have hair cards with an applied flow/tangent map and I want to flip the red channel of any cards that have b…
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HarlequinWerewolf

Is Possible export mesh painted textures from ue5 ?

i want to export this painted texture
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poopipe

90ms on landscape subsystem tick in a world partition level

This is in editor rather than at run time - the problem is entirely on the game thread (gpu time is under 20ms)Times double if the landscape is converted to naniteEdit layers are disabled although th…
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stupid shadow artefacts on nanite landscape

wtf is this and how do I make it go away? (it is not the thing with a solution in the video you just thought of)UE 5.3.2Hardware raytracing is disabled (which is why its not the thing in the afo…
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poopipe

Help with Hair Card Generator: How to assign a material or use the generated textures?

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pamtemoo

Looking for a Unreal Foliage Wind Shader Tutorial

I am looking for a modern tutorial/guide to wind/wpo animation for Unreal Engine 5.  Specifically for trees and realistic as possible.  I cant seem to find any information on how to make on…
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poopipe

Unreal Engine 5 Blending Materials

Hello. I want to do material blending for painting a terrain in Unreal Engine, and I’ve done it using three materials and height lerp. My question is, since I’m doing this with RGB channels, I can’t …
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Benjammin

Blueprint vehicle movement help

I am not experienced in programming or blueprint, I know just very basic stuff.I was following a tutorial for a vehicle, but I wanted to do some extra stuff. Like making the vehicle tilt on the side …
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poopipe

MetaHuman: discussion: custom character

Hi, I've been investigating creating custom MH(MetaHuman) characters. The main reason for me to utilize MH is for the face rig and the skinning of the body that are automatic.The purpose of this post…
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Geuse

Optimization

Hi! I am concerned about the question and would like to ask experienced 3d environment artists. How many polygons should a one-story building have for a game of about 90 square meters?
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AlbertS

Help with outline Post process and UE4 water system

Hello EveryoneDoes anyone know why my outline post process wont work underneath unreal 4's water system? I'm at a loss and would appreciate some help :)Many thanksRoss
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poopipe

Pivot Point issue inside UE5

Hey guys, I need your help!I’m animating my pistol model and I stuck on the hammer part.I messed up from the start because my pivot point was way off when I just imported it so I had to place it manu…
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Unreal shorts featuring the world famous Evel Knievel toy :)

Check out this dude making Unreal shorts featuring the Evel Knievel toy :) - https://www.jamielancaster.co.uk/shorts-evel-knievelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN46kF_zFKI
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littleclaude

Datasmith for games

Does anyone here used datasmith files for games? What about optimisation and workflow? I have a huge model exported to datasmith (pretty similar to Hillside Sample), and I'm figuring out what is the …
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danielgrey8256

Landscape and roads

Hi everyoneI'm making a pretty big scene of a city in UE5, using realworld terrain data. So the question is what is the best approach to make roads and pavements? There is a lot of them, and the land…
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poopipe

UE5 Lighting issue - Source Radius & Scattering

I've setup just a head mesh with some solid color diffuse, normal and roughness.But I've getting some unwanted results while setting up my lighting.I'm trying to get rid of some sharp shadows, but by…
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vonboe

Metahuman hair textures

[{"insert":"Hello guys,\n\nI am trying to make hair using metahuman workflow. I already created groom via Houdini and generated Cards. How I am struggling with textures. \nThere are for Cards: Depth,…
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connordavis107

I cant get NPC behaviour right UE 5.3

I´ve been trying for the NPC to attack these crops for a while. Before I had the model to work with I was using a cube, and that seemed to work well, but now that´s set up with something more alike t…
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Alex_J

Can see through object on area that isn't transparent.

Srgb is off on the AORoughnessMetallic also, ive already posted this on reddit and someone said check my normals but they are not flipped and seem fine. I have no clue what to doTransparency is drawn…
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poopipe

Asset library

I am new to UE5.. Is there a good asset browser that can store meshes (with assigned materials) and materials for later use in othere scenes? I have found Connecter, wich looks very good. but 50 € a …
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Alex_J

Apple Silicone / Metal Support

Hi, I am in a situation where I will start stying Game Development, I will test different areas (Environment, Concept Art, Tech and more). I have been offered to keep my current computer (M1 Max…
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poopipe

UE 5.3: Unpacking and Recalculating Normal Blue Channel Issues

Hello, I am looking for advice on how to combat an issue.Process: Sculpts in Blender -> Baking in Marmoset -> Texturing and Channel Packing in Designer -> Import into UE (Compression Setting…
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poopipe

Calling All 3D Artists: Share Your Texture Baking Preferences!

Hi everyone! I am a 3D Art Student, currently writing my Bachelors Thesis covering the topic of Texture Baking. Currently, I am trying to find out which software is the most popular for Bak…
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davit3d

color grading - how to fix for more legible dark skin types

this is question thread but will update with my findings as I goproblem is that i try to make sure that dark skin type faces remain legible. with unreals default tone mapping if you are any darker th…
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iam717

Translucent Decals. Can I have color ? please?

Hi!I'm experiment with translucent decals. My first goal is to make puddles decals, and I think I achieved a good result.Now, I would like to add a little bit of color to it. Like shades of green/ora…
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