Unreal Engine

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How efficient are interior mapping materials? After playing the new Spider-Man game for a little while, I was inspired to try replicating the interior mapping effect used on buildings in the game.It looks a lot more convincing than the parallaxi…	8 Last	LTS3D Sep 2018
Simple Depth of Field for screenshots? i need to set up some DoF to take some screenshots. Just simple foreground blur. But I can’t seem to figure this out. Trying to move around sliders is doing nothing. The documentation for this is a b…	1 Last	PatrickSF Sep 2018
Shadow seams in modular building generated by blueprint I created a blueprint that generates buildings using modular wall meshes.I can't figure out why the shadows have very noticeable seams as can be seen here. The mobility is set to static, same a…	2 Last	PatrickSF Sep 2018
Student - Need help with normal maps! Hi!I'm a first year student, so I know next to nothing I've just made a piano. I added textures. When I import into unreal it looks flat and unrealistic. I believe I need to add normal maps to t…	8 Last	Zablorg Sep 2018
Splotchy lighting issues Hey there,for some reason I cannot get rid of these splotchy circles that the spotlight is creating (ie when I turn the spotlight off they disappear)..here it is in a Preview Build with Light Map Res…	3 Last	PatrickSF Sep 2018
Texture import is causing channel data to be mixed in a way I don't want. Edit: Bumping up the contrast of the non-red channels significantly revealed the presence of the circles. I thought it might be an artifact of improper bucket tool use in Photoshop or something, but …	4 Last	Zablorg Sep 2018
Weather Channel use UE4 to make a storm surge HOW THE WEATHER CHANNEL MADE THAT INSANE STORM SURGE ANIMATION IN UE4https://www.wired.com/story/weather-channel-hurricane-florence-storm-surge-graphic/	0 Last	littleclaude Sep 2018
UE4 Blueprint Editor Widgets Tutorial Hey all, Today I posted about the basics and a couple tricks you can use when it comes to utilizing the "Show 3D Widget" button on Vectors and Transforms. Any feedback on how I did the tutorial / som…	0 Last	chriszuko Sep 2018
Procedural grooving in grout material? I'd like to make a pretty geometrically simple material- some grout inlaid with smooth stones.I plan on modelling the geometry by basically intersecting a bunch of these stones with a simple plane. T…	1 Last	Zablorg Sep 2018
Setting up vertex blending with parallax as well? I've set up vertex blending for one of my materials and it works fine. Here is the setup:Now I have this Parallax setup, and Im not sure how to connect it to the above material graph:any help how to …	9 Last	Obscura Sep 2018
Best VR Space design to showcase examples? Hi there I work for a university and we're looking to create a 10m x 5m physical space to showcase our VR Vive learning resource examples that we've created for our academics to try out. I was wonder…	1 Last	zachagreg Sep 2018
UE4 Cool Electrical FX Material I happened across a neat way to do some tiling electrical FX the other day and decided to share. It is meant for doing things like shells around players or electrical floors. The video goes over the …	0 Last	chriszuko Sep 2018
Unreal Engine 4 - UV Seem Issue / Normal Hi guys,do you know why i get the following issue in UE4?Unreal Engine 4. The Lightmaps are ok (green) and the light was baked on production. Yes there is a UV seem, but why do I get such an ungly bo…	0 Last	Dennis_Levi Sep 2018
Problem when exporting animated Geo to UE4 Hello Guys!As part of my new project I decided to create an idle pose for my character. I know the basics (no deformers, no dynamics, everithing well baked etc) and probably because of that my animat…	1 Last	Iwalyl Sep 2018
Question about selling Unreal Engine 4 scenes Just wanted to be sure about the commercial use terms for Unreal Engine 4. I modeled and exporting from MayaLT, textured in Substance Painter 2. I wanted to set up my scene and textures and materials…	1 Last	supremedalek925 Sep 2018
UE4 getting real-time Brigade engine support starting 2019. Oh man, this is going to be sick. Before I thought it was Unity exclusive, but last month, Otoy actually made an announcement that Octane/Brigade will be coming to UE4 next year, with private beta te…	0 Last	JordanN Sep 2018
Import gltf model I've created this model and want to import it in UE4, for a construction simulation experiment.Downloading in gltf format appear the humble Creator is perfectly able to import it and maintain the com…	4 Last	davide445 Sep 2018
Why won't my BP get any Motion Controller Inputs? Hey Folks,I am currently trying to get into VR Blueprinting in Unreal. But I keep struggeling with figuring out how Motion Controller inputs in the VR Template Scene work. Im simply trying to create …	1 Last	Obscura Sep 2018
Lighting Problem: Unknown highlights Hey all, I'm making a recreation of an office space and encountering a problem with lighting on the doors. I don't know how or where I'm getting a highlight and shadows from. The lightmap seems okay,…	12 Last	Alanandrade92 Sep 2018
I have a question about morph target in unreal engine i want know about morph target in unreal engineThere are both advantages and disadvantages of different? if compare to use joint animate face charater?thank you	1 Last	Zablorg Sep 2018
Substance Painter to UE4 textures look flat Solved I've tried turning off sRGB and changing the compression settings to Mask. To export I used Substance Painter's UE4 default Export that uses a RMA.For reference this is how the model looks in Sketchf…	1 Last	Lopiky Sep 2018
swarm not working Hi all, This is driving me crazy and I have spent hours on this and cant figure out why this doesn't work. I have a total of 3 machines. A,B,C.A is my main machine that I am running UE on and doing m…	0 Last	alexworx Sep 2018
Normal map error in UE4 vs Toolbag 3 I'm having some trouble getting UE4 to display this specific area of my model correctly. It was baked in Toolbag 3 using MikkTSpace with a triangulated mesh. As you can see, the results display corre…	6 Last	3Dyan Sep 2018
[UE4] ~ Interactable grass, how do I make it react to every PC and NPC? So.I managed to make a material setup that makes grass displace away from the player's character, which is great, but now I have some doubts.The game I'm working on will have some wild life, which is…	14 Last	Steamy_Steve Sep 2018
(Opaque) Optical Camouflage Material Yo,I wanted to see if I could get a decent result at an Active Camo/Optical Camo setup in UE without using Transparency at all. Many Multiply and Lerp nodes later, I got something that works :) since…	0 Last	FULGORE Aug 2018
[UE4] Curvature,convex and concave extraction from Normal map Hello !I need your help for a little thing.I have made a Curvature extraction shader in UE4 that seem to work nice.Here the shadergraph:But when i want to extract the convex and concave edge,it's giv…	4 Last	Antut Aug 2018
Maya/Unreal ART Mannequin Rig - No Reverse Ball Pivot? Hi Just learned about the Unreal/Maya Pipeline.The provided Unreal Mannequin Rig does not seem to have a ball pivot control or a ball pivot attribute.Is there a way around this?You can see an il…	0 Last	bentraje Aug 2018
what is the purpose of cubeMap i need to know what is the purpose of using cube Map inside unreal and it is used inside design time only or run-time , thanks	2 Last	Alanandrade92 Aug 2018
Baking cubemaps inside UE4 So, I have this idea. I want to load a scene inside of unreal, and then bake a cube map of that scene, save it out, and load into Toolbag to use as lighting data. The basic idea being you could use t…	8 Last	MaxBayne Aug 2018
Collision in concave objects by what i understand from tutorials and the manual the way that you would make a collision for something like a tunnel would be to use boxes or rectangles around it. But what if i have something…	4 Last	GearStormTrooper Aug 2018
Damaged Fuselage Metal - Master Material HeyThought I'd share something I ended up making in preparation for some aircraft panel work - a Master Material that handles the base material (painted metal), tiling panel patterns, and Vertex Colo…	2 Last	FULGORE Aug 2018
Where should I start when creating a character and animation for Unreal Engine? Hi guys, first post around here.I have a big project on the side I'm working on (I don't have a deadline or anything) and I needed to start doing animations for character rigs.I am currently using Bl…	9 Last	Yuri10k Aug 2018
Stylized tree workflow from blender So I've been looking around at a ton of articles and threads involving this, and after grabbing info and methods I'm still struggling to get a decent result on my leaf cards. A main problem is that m…	7 Last	Alanandrade92 Aug 2018
Animating a chest in UE4 So I'm pretty new on the workflow on animating props in Unreal. I've tasked myself with creating a functioning chest opening animation in game to learn and understand blueprints better. I t…	2 Last	BrandonBerryCG Aug 2018
[VR] [Oculus] VR Preview Black Screen Hello!I can edit my world in "VR Mode" without any problem.In "VR Preview", my screen is black.Nothing special, I simply push a MotionControllerPawn from the Virtual Reality preset in my level and ad…	0 Last	walter Aug 2018
ColorID maps, 16 texture limits, and what's the deal man? Hi Polycount!intro: I've been a longtime lurker on Polycount, but haven't ever posted my stuff. I'd like to change that, as I've got a topic i'd love to discuss with the broader game artist community…	7 Last	Obscura Aug 2018
Best Practice / Setup for Character Animations and Additives? I have been researching animations and additives for UE4. I'm making a game with 9 characters (humanoid) that share universal animations (using animation re-targeting). There are 14 weapons. Some are…	0 Last	Oblivion2500 Aug 2018
Best way to create portfolio for props inside UE4 HiI am trying to create a portfolio for my art station profile, my focus is going to be Game related props and some environmental modular pieces (walls floors etc). I recently watch the Killer Portfo…	3 Last	Gigante Aug 2018
Mesh decals, how to combine normal maps ? Hello!Is it possible to "Combine" normal maps from a mesh decal to the backgroung mesh ?I mean by "Combine" the normal mixing fusion mode without using the opacity mask.I want to stay simple and just…	6 Last	walter Aug 2018
Material displacement looks jaggy Trying to get displacement working for materials, but the result is very jagged/messy. I've tried all sorts of different values for the tessellation multiplier and world displacement, yet the results…	9 Last	Twixxo Aug 2018
Best way to texture a heigh map? (world) Hey guys,So whats the best way to texture a generated height map in the engine? I was using Quixel Mixer the material looks pretty good, but when I imported it to UE4 and applied to the terrain it go…	1 Last	Obscura Aug 2018
Color ID map and separate controlling of roughness Hi guys :)I have some model with separate parts (on single mesh) which i want to separately paint in different color and have separate control of roughness.I create 4 channel (R, G, B, Y) color id ma…	1 Last	Obscura Aug 2018
How dense can I go with foliage? i see games like Shadow of the Collosus remake for PS4 and parts of that are pretty dense. And that’s console. I currently have all my trees and foliage (including grass) LODd and set to cull at…	7 Last	sprunghunt Aug 2018
Problems with Reflections on Glass material Greeting Polycounters! I've been messing around with this glass material for forever, but I cant seem to get it right. Right now it seems to be reflecting a image of itself rather than it's surroundi…	0 Last	ReneFisher Aug 2018
DOT Game - Experiment with custom 2d rendering - Part 1 I wanted to try out custom 2d rendering for a long time now. I have no problem with Paper 2d in unreal, but if we wan't to be honest, its actually 3d rendered from an orthographic camera. I also like…	0 Last	Obscura Aug 2018
Lighting across meshes inconsistent, can't work out why Hey all,I'm currently working on a scene and I'm having trouble with the lighting. There is a directional light casting through the windows which is achieving this effect:However, on the other side o…	3 Last	Seraphim3D Aug 2018
Tree lighting and Normals problems in UE4 Hey there!So I asked about this over on the Speedtree forums, and that was really helpful, although I'd still like some more advice in general on this!So now I'm here asking you amazing folks about l…	31 Last	drliamj Aug 2018
Unreal texture set not coming in properly? I seem to be having an issue with a set of textures in Unreal.In Unreal Engine, the texture comes in looking really odd and deformed, while inside of Maya and Substance Painter, it looks the way it s…	2 Last	JordonBritz Jul 2018
UDIM's in UE4 Hello. I have a question about UDIM's Unreal Engine 4. From what I've read UE4 does not support UDIM's. Is there a similar way to have multi grids and UE4 does it support? Can anyone know the best wa…	16 Last	RAVX Jul 2018
How to download ver 4.19.1 ? time sensitive Hi I am new to the engine and my project requirement is 4.19.1Currently i am using ver 4.19.2 . How can I download 4.19.1?	5 Last	kmack Jul 2018