Unreal Engine

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Ray Tracing Not Working with Titan X? I have a Titan X, the latest windows update (1809), the latest drivers (430.39), and added -dx12 to the end of the 4.22 shortcut path after the quotation marks in the windows properties menu. I also …	5 Last	evan_wessel Apr 2019
Mirroring assets - Shading/ Lighting? Hi,You can mirror assets/ static meshes in UE4 - does it work without any issues due to shading and lighting ( flipped normals), because the x-scale is minus 1?I want to avoid useing extra static mes…	3 Last	Obscura Apr 2019
Fog around light source Hi guys I'm working on an environment but don't know how to create a fog effect around a light source. I tried but It doesn't look good using point light light any idea?	6 Last	jaker3278 Apr 2019
river in unreal JUST NEW TO UNREAL CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW CAN i CREATE RIVER IN UNREAL ?	7 Last	jayantbhatt007 Apr 2019
any ideas on faking subsurface scattering in an opaque material? hello, I need to fudge something like this together on an opaque material. I'm layering materials so I'm forced to use the opaque shading modelI've tried dicking around with fresnel, light direc…	4 Last	poopipe Apr 2019
Unreal Material HELP for Eyes with refraction Hi everyone, recently I have being testing a way to simplify the eye mesh and be modular to use on realtime and high render you can see it here (https://polycount.com/discussion/206915/eye-setup-for-…	11 Last	aanselmo Apr 2019
Modulated blending woes in non-landscape materials I've been hitting a road-block with a multi-layered material in UE4, and now I'm wondering if what I'm trying to do is even possible. Maybe an Unreal guru out there can set me straight.I have develop…	0 Last	AlexanderLawrence Apr 2019
UE4 masked opacity performance for VR I googled a bit and quickly searched through the polycount but couldn't find a wide answer.How actually the masked opacity is cheap or expensive for performance in UE4.The shader …	0 Last	ACeye Apr 2019
Blurry Textures viewport Textures are blurry in unreal View port I searched on internet also but didn't work out for me and I'm using skylight in the scene . How can I fix it?	2 Last	jaker3278 Apr 2019
ugly shadows? Hi all,I am trying to figure out why I am getting some blotchy shadows. Check out the screen grabs I enclosed. This was run on a quality of medium. I am going to try and run this on a production…	0 Last	alexworx Apr 2019
white areas Hi All,So I am working on my scene and doing some test bakes. Seems to be going smoothly but I am have weird things going on. Take a look at the enclosed screenshots. I have some white line…	3 Last	alexworx Apr 2019
export from maya to unreal missing polygons This is my first time exporting from maya into UDK. I have tried many things and I feel like I'm out of options. I am using maya 2010 64 bit and the actor x 2010 x64 plug-in. Here is what I've tried.…	4 Last	seb3d Apr 2019
Combining more than two Normal Maps in UE4 Hey folks,It's been AGES since I logged in to polycount - after getting into the industry my posting really dropped off, as I had access to so many professionals in the studio to help sort through al…	3 Last	Obscura Apr 2019
[Houdini][UE4] Procedural Farmland Generation Hey guys just wanrted to share something i'd been working on as my final year project at university. when i started the project i had never done anything with houdini before so was a good experience …	2 Last	RyanDJackson Apr 2019
Using Construction script to chose 1 between different premade mesh How can i make script that allows me fast choice between different meshes (Doric_Column01, 02, 03,...) that use same container mesh (column)?Want to minimize number of blueprints (column 1 stra…	1 Last	Obscura Apr 2019
Beginner Tutorial for Creating a Quiz Game? Hi,By any chance, do you know a beginner tutorial for creating a quiz game from start to finish?I search some threads: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/596566/creating-a-multiple-choic…	0 Last	bentraje Apr 2019
Trying to fix arm twist for a UE4 rig Hey PC,I have a little problem trying to figure out how to make the bones be able to twist without having the classic "candy wrapper" effect in which the mesh shrinks where bone is being twisted. Unt…	5 Last	Ruflse Apr 2019
[Materials] Is there a way I can specify the location of voronoi-noise feature points? I've got a texture mask representing stones set in grout, with white pixels representing stone and black pixels representing grout. Not unlike this!There are some operations I want to apply to the gr…	1 Last	Obscura Apr 2019
[UE4] Building lighting removes/reduces reflections in scene & dims lights (Alot) Hello :) I'm working on a new scene for my finals at Uni and I'm just having some problems when building my lighting, It's seemed to always act this way and I can never really get around it, of …	6 Last	leleuxart Apr 2019
UE4 Snapping Objects/texture bugs Heya everyone, been having a weird issue while trying to learn UE4 the snapping seems off with every mesh i import, and im not sure what to change about the settings too make the meshes not intersect…	3 Last	GarethStandfield Apr 2019
Landscape textures have this whitish effect on them HELP what could cause this problem? any new textures i change on the material they turn to be white not completly white any1 know?	4 Last	m_asher Apr 2019
[UE4] ~ Packed png VS unpacked jpeg maps, number of samples or video memory? Here's another "shower thought" of mines: jpeg maps take very little space, but at the same time they dont have an alpha channel; furthermore, they nearly always present some minor compression arte…	2 Last	poopipe Mar 2019
Please HELP me with landscape texture (from World Creator 2 to Unreal Engine 4) I have correctly exported heat maps from WC2 but still unable to get the correct texture. How can I fix the tiling?	1 Last	jkelly206 Mar 2019
[UE4] How to disable lightmass on terrain? My Epic Games account for some reason does not work in the UE4 AnswerHub, so I decided to post the question here.Currently looking for a way to disable lightmass computation for a terrain. At first I…	4 Last	TheGabmeister Mar 2019
[FOLIAGE & UE4] ~ Grass, full 3D strands to cards LOD transition, is it possible? I'm still banging my head on the foliage topic to find my own workflows/methods/techniques.Trees may be dimmed a success.Now on to grass (again, actually).I've already tried, and I keep trying, to ac…	65 Last	Steamy_Steve Mar 2019
lights do not update in view Can someone explain this to me. I am putting spot light in my scene ( static or stationary ) and I am changing the intensity, cone angles attenuation etc and its not updating in my scene?Why not?Alex	0 Last	alexworx Mar 2019
ground shadows Hi All,I am working on a interior scene and trying to get some nice soft overall lighting along with some shadows.I have enclosed a bake, lighting only and a wire frame showing my current light setup…	2 Last	alexworx Mar 2019
[ Web-Service ] Epic Marketplace Sales Report → Table Hi! I'm a Marketplace seller and official Sales Report always confused me, that much, so I decided to make a small Python script, which does all calculations with money and grouped results by mo…	0 Last	chibo Mar 2019
delete pls :) EDIT: wrong thread, pls delete the post and i'll make a new one in the showcase, sry about that!	0 Last	SittingDucky Mar 2019
Phantom sphere can't be deleted Hey there I have this phantom sphere that doesn't appear in the viewport (even in wireframe mode) and i can't find it in the World Outliner, yet when I play the Standalone Player (to render 360 imag…	5 Last	jkelly206 Mar 2019
Unreal Group project Hello!So me and a group of artist want to start a Game Environment project in Unreal, As individuals we all have experience in the Engine. But we never used it in a group scenario. So first of all i …	1 Last	Vollgaser Mar 2019
import things in unreal ok, is there anyway in ue4 to have 1 file that contain all your texture connected into a shader and the shader applie to the mesh?	0 Last	Norw Mar 2019
Normals Rendering Oddly in Unreal 4 (Solved) Hey All,We have encountered an issue within Unreal while importing textures. Currently we are in the process of animating our dinosaur characters and bringing them into Unreal to test. Prior to impor…	6 Last	Nanobait Mar 2019
[HELP] Light passing in between two meshes I have two meshes that are overlapping together, this supposed to give me a shadow that covers the directional light illuminated from behind these two meshes but there is still a light that passed th…	1 Last	Obscura Mar 2019
Node Editor question? Hello all,Very newbie question, but I've double clicked on a Material Instance, and it's taken me to a big material sphere with some parameters to the right. How do I get to the node editor for this …	2 Last	rexo12 Mar 2019
Problem with volumetric fog from a stationary directional light. Hi Im trying to set up volumetric fog on a stationary directional light. It it behaves as I expect when Im setting it up but when I relightmap the scene something goes very wrong. If I then swi…	11 Last	rogrobin Mar 2019
UE4 Particle Effects Help I am very interested in VFX for unreal engine 4 and am currently working on a stylized project with my team. I am trying to create an EMP explosion but I can't find a good tutorial to do so. Can some…	1 Last	zachagreg Mar 2019
UE4 overly dark foliage shadows why is it so dark? been working in unreal for about 3 h and I´m lost. Everything just looks shit. The material is a mask so i can use alpha for cut out and i have 2 sided shading on. I have no idéa w…	2 Last	Onbird Mar 2019
export animation problem Hi All,I am clearly doing something wrong. I animated a simple walk through inside UE4. In the sequencer everything looks fine. I go to export the animation and hit the render button and the preview …	0 Last	alexworx Mar 2019
Best topology for ue4 Hi everyone, maybe it's the hundredth post about topology , but i want to make sure that what i am doing is right .So i started to make some assets for my project for ue4 like a wooden door for…	4 Last	vivek_tomar Feb 2019
How to make the asset game ready? Hey guys, so far everything I've done was purely for show and to learn modeling/texturing so I didn't need to import it into any specific game engine etc. and now I'm helping creating assets for a mo…	2 Last	Taylor Brown Feb 2019
[Newbie] Retain the Transform/Rotation Values of Object after Import? Hi,Whenever, I import an object (say with a position of 50,100,20) to Unreal, the object axis snaps back to 0,0,0 or the ground. Is there a way to maintain those 50,100,20?The reason is I'm trying to…	2 Last	bentraje Feb 2019
UDK / Build lighting by selected assets issue (different tone of lighting) So im in a project which I need to build the lighting by selected objects instead of the whole scene at once, the thing is when I do this the lighting reacts as it shouldn't.If i build them separatel…	2 Last	keku645 Feb 2019
Can i use intersecting meshes Can i have meshes(white ones) crossing one another in Unreal ? Doing temple and im curious can i use one long beam instead of many and how will engine react?	4 Last	m_asher Feb 2019
Advice UE4 vs Vray Morning All,I wanted to get some feedback on how I can get my UE4 renders to become more Vray like. Enclosed are a few example images from each scene.Pretty straight forward on the setup of of each. …	6 Last	alexworx Feb 2019
Is it possible to achieve these reflections in real time with UE4 ? I'm currently working on a couple of scenes that i want them to have strong reflections caused by wet surfaces and glowing lights in the night and dark places.The final look that i'd like to achieve,…	5 Last	Andreicus Feb 2019
Simple normal map causing weird seams I've been running into issues trying to get my texture to seamlessly repeat but the normal map is causing some weirdness on the edges. It repeats vertically but horizontally I get weird lightin…	3 Last	cupsster Feb 2019
UDK / Is there a way to store all data info in the lightmap texture? (No NormalizedAverageColor, etc Hi! I'm wondering if there's a way to store all data info in the same lightmap texture instead of being splitted in different textures such as NormalizedAverageColor, ShadowMap, etc. Maybe by editing…	2 Last	keku645 Feb 2019
Importing a Character Hi I'm looking to get started in UE and was hoping to get pointed in the right direction when it comes to uploading characters and animations.I have a character made up in 3ds max, textured and ready…	6 Last	ozaffer Feb 2019
3ds max Vray To Unreal Engine Converter script Hello guys, i just finished my script for Convert 3ds max Vray to UE. It's for my game, but i think some body can use it tooBasic pipline is : Select all objects in scene, click convert (wait s…	26 Last	cupsster Feb 2019