Unreal Engine

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Rolling Ball Template Not Working I'm trying to get the player sphere to roll forward. I have tried switching things, adding and removing. I've tried about four different templates to get the ball rolling and nothing works. One of th…	0 Last	joe809 Jul 2018
Is there anything special about how the Fortnite circle is rendered? For those unfamiliar, the circle shrinks over the course of a Fortnite match to restrict the circle of play. You can see it as the blue wall in the promo image below.I'm uncertain how they go about r…	1 Last	Obscura Jul 2018
[TUTORIAL] Creating Procedural Stars Hey guys, I wrote up a tutorial on creating procedural stars. You can find a link here.	1 Last	AndresSepulveda Jul 2018
Huge assets in UE4 Hey guys,I have huge gate in my UE4 scene and I have noticed that the textures are being pixelated and the light map looks awful. So again what is the best way to approach huge assets in U…	2 Last	ixrob Jul 2018
Material blending - Normals not blending properly? Hey guys, created a simple material blend using a wooden and metal material but can't seem to get the normals to blend properly. Seems that only the normal from the base material shows through; hidin…	5 Last	RashedAlmetrami Jul 2018
Function to create AO from Normal map? Hey guys, was wondering whether it's possible to create a function which converts a normal map into an ambient occlusion map?If so, how would I go about doing something like this?Cheers!	4 Last	RashedAlmetrami Jul 2018
Material Layering - Can't add Model Normal? Hey guys, experimenting with the material layering system in 4.19. Materials are all blending together nicely but just having one problem; I can't seam to add the base normal map of my model. When I …	10 Last	Obscura Jul 2018
Speedtree and LODs issue in UE4 Hey guys -I have a few trees that I have made in Speedtree. They all import fine into UE4, and in the static mesh preview window if I zoom in/out the LODs work like they should. My issue is, I need t…	2 Last	jordank95 Jul 2018
Level sequence with multiple scenes I'm not sure if it's possible or what I should look into but I'd like to use a level sequence to create a multi-scene cinematic. Is it possible to preload all the scenes to quickly transition f…	2 Last	ntomassetti Jul 2018
Simple Grass wind- Change wind direction?? Using simple grass wind for curtain movements, I noticed the wind intensity moves the curtain in the y axis direction, is there a way to modify the curtain intensity movement in the X axis direction.…	2 Last	melviso Jul 2018
Queston about UE4's texture compression Hi guys,I've been having this issue with textures I import into UE4, It seems to be to do with compression as when I bring in my textures most work fine but some start to create artefacts. Below is a…	2 Last	OrangeKnight96 Jul 2018
Debugging/Testing from VisualStudio to UE4 Hey everyone,right now I am diving into UE4 developing. (I study Computer Science since a semester now and I want to use what I've learned by now to make a game) Although I am not learning C++ in the…	0 Last	Finnn Jul 2018
Dither opacity noise on animated mesh? Using dither opacity works wonders for translucent objects but when animation is added, there is this noise that appears that tend to lag behind the mesh as it moves.Also is there a way to place a dy…	12 Last	melviso Jul 2018
VR Mesh Socket Snapping Blueprint Hey fellow Polycounters!I am trying to create a snapping mechanic in VR, utilizing sockets placed on various meshes.Getting the meshes to snap to a position isn't that big of a deal and works we…	2 Last	JonathanLambert Jul 2018
How Do You Make a Flow Map? This has been puzzling me for a while now. A "2D Vector Field" or "Flow Map" is a user-created texture that determines the direction of which a material moves - most commonly used with water shaders …	164 Last	Jaston3D Jul 2018
Share animations for multiple skeletal character meshes? I have 9 characters with different body types and heights. They each have their own skeleton. The skeletons are exactly the same with bone hierarchy and names. Just different size and height/loc…	3 Last	melviso Jul 2018
UE4-Vertex animation tool or Alembic import? So I am trying out importing cloth simulated in Blender into ue4. Would using alembic file format to import the simulation affect performance? or vertex animation tool would be more ideal. From what …	2 Last	melviso Jul 2018
Very weird light artefacts. I have been creating an inn for my game project, and everything was going fine, building just fine, no artefacts etc.I have re-imported the block out of the tavern as I wanted to remove some elements…	5 Last	kdobkowski Jul 2018
Maya to UE4 Skeletal Mesh Character with LODs, missing UVs after importing in UE4 I have Maya LT 2018.3 and Unreal Engine 4.19. I have a skeletal mesh character with a base mesh and 4 LOD. They are all skinned to same skeleton and control rig. I exported using FBX 2016/2017 inside…	1 Last	Oblivion2500 Jun 2018
cloth shading model-fuzz slot I kinda understand what fuzz and cloth map does but if I am trying to simulate like a satin, velvet material using a falloff/ Fresnel node where the side in the folds are lighter than the front facin…	2 Last	melviso Jun 2018
TransformVector seam Hi.Is this seam to be expected when doing a simple WorldSpace to Tangentspace vector transformation?Cheers!	1 Last	o2car Jun 2018
Lighting LOD issues on Static Meshes All my meshes have good 2nd UVs for Light Map info, or in some cases the unwrap was unique enough to only need the first. The problem I am having is.. what I can only call Shadow LOD. I have my Lig…	23 Last	NFEX Jun 2018
"Pixelated" shadow Hi!I'm working on a scene and after baking/building all the lights i get pixelated shadows as seen in the screenshot. I have to say that i get those bad shadows only from a spotlight that is on …	4 Last	MartinCZ Jun 2018
Setting up vertex painting while keeping unique normal maps? (Not sure if I should be posting this here for in UE4 forum. Sorry mods if this is wrong place!)I have a bunch of rocks that I’m creating some giant cliffs with. The way I made them is I baked each r…	9 Last	m4dcow Jun 2018
Opacity dither mask & transperent shadows?? I am wondering if this is supported in ue4? Seems using dither opacity with masked materials does not enable transparent shadows or should lightmass replace node be used?	3 Last	melviso Jun 2018
Tessellation nowhere close to Substance Designer? Hey Everyone,I've been practising low poly stylized texture creation in Substance Designer. I have created a wooden plank texture which turned out amazing in designer but once same settings were appl…	9 Last	kdobkowski Jun 2018
[RESOLVED] Vertex painting does not respect tessellation? Very straightforward issue: import a plane with 4 faces, tessellate in the shader, then vertex paint. Despite tessellating to thousands of polys, vertex paint only respects the original vertex coun…	4 Last	Obscura Jun 2018
Open World Hi i'm trying to build the terrain for my game and have a few questions first is if i only want to concentrate on one island can i build that and then add more landscape later. second i want to make …	2 Last	michiKing Jun 2018
Build Lighting using command line? I am not sure how to go about this:You can use command line to launch the editor and bake lighting to save GPU resources for GPULightmass, especially video memory.Engine/Binaries/Win64/UE4Editor-Cmd.…	16 Last	Obscura Jun 2018
Ue4 - Levels and curves node for texture adjustments? I was wondering if there are nodes in ue4 material editor that are similar to Photoshop like the levels and curves where u can edit these nodes and it affects the textures in viewport?	6 Last	melviso Jun 2018
UE4 Texture settings help (Mip Gen Settings, LOD Bias, Power of Two Mode) Hi,I'm looking into setting up the correct settings of all of our textures in UE4. I read through epic's documentation on settings but they explain roughly what the thing does, but don't go into spec…	1 Last	sprunghunt Jun 2018
Unreal shutting down my computer Upgraded to 4.19 about two weeks ago and seem to have acquired a new feature: Unreal editor can now make my PC power off instantly when the viewport has to render a lot (high resolution screencaps, e…	4 Last	musashidan Jun 2018
Looking for a plugin... Is there a plugin or tool for use in Unreal 4 that helps with animating the construction of a building? Something similar to this video?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0RSRX45yFY	0 Last	ChrisKiser Jun 2018
Can you disable the ART plugin for Maya? The ART rigging plugin can be very useful, but there's things I don't like about it and I'd like to be able to disable it when I'm not using it. I don't like how it switches the up vector from …	0 Last	supremedalek925 Jun 2018
Does Ue4 support Area Lights? In offline renderers, we have area lights like this:I have tried looking this up on ue4 documentation but all I can find is directional lights, point, sky, and spot. Is there a way to fake it for dyn…	23 Last	melviso Jun 2018
Unreal Lighting Modular - Problem and general question Hi guys,I'm working on a sci fi lab for my school project and I'm currently struggeling with some lighting problems.I have shadow issues on my wall moduls. I made some screenshots where u can see my …	5 Last	sprunghunt Jun 2018
UE4 - How to move a bone when button is pressed? Hi I have run into a problem that is taking me a while to figure out. I have created a complex vehicle, and need to rotate some bones on the model when I press a input button. I haven't made any ani…	6 Last	newdude420 Jun 2018
Has anybody worked with Oculus Go and media streaming? urgend... :/ Hi folks out there,currently I have a lot of trouble getting the media streaming to work on four Oculus GOs.I am using four H.264 videos with a bitrate of 2038kBit/s and 25 frames per second and with…	0 Last	Evil_Fischi May 2018
UE4 gpu lightmap baker?? Found out about this:https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/rendering/1460002-luoshuang-s-gpulightmassAnyone tried this out?	46 Last	melviso May 2018
Landscape material not displacing Terrain in UE4 I need help with debugging UE 4 shader.I want to have tessellated and displaced terrain in UE 4 with layers blends driven by a height map. Last time I used this simple shader it worked. But no matter…	3 Last	Obscura May 2018
Attaching a mesh to an VR hand So im trying to attach a rigid mesh to the current VR mesh to make it look prettier(the new mesh im attaching will always stay on.)The pivots are lined up to were everything looks okay in the viewpor…	2 Last	Obscura May 2018
Paragon assets and export from UE? Paragon characters won't export to a mesh + skeleton when I save them out as an FBX. the file contains only the skeleton. for textures the asset export option is not even showing - at least for the f…	0 Last	thomasp May 2018
UE4 Light Object Symbol Not Showing in Viewport Hello there friends, I had a question about lights in UE4. I seem to have accidently clicked a key or something, but the lines that display the radius of lights, as well as the symbol for the light (…	2 Last	DefoNotMike May 2018
Why can't I get a seamless lightmap even with the most simple geometry? This is something that has driven me INSANE over the past few years working with Unreal Engine. No matter what I do, no matter what tutorial I follow, I cannot get a seamless lightmap. In this tutori…	27 Last	musashidan May 2018
Best way to light this scene? Hey guys, I'm working on a top-down game set in space. I'm not sure how to handle the lighting for my level (here). I have a flat playspace area, distant objects below and huge background objects.So …	0 Last	huffer May 2018
normal map issues , max bake vs ue Im importing normals and tangents so im a bit confused why the render isnt the same. Any one have any clues	5 Last	monodrobe May 2018
UE4 don't like one vertex in my mesh Hello. I have a problem with my mesh. I want to say right now that I cannot upload this mesh here :neutral: I wanted to ask you for your help. This is one of many, many meshes that I worked with and …	0 Last	Peksio May 2018
Lightbake not affecting static meshes placed via blueprint script , despite being set to static. Hello, In my scene I got a blueprint script setup for easy placement of certain static meshes. Initially they were all placed as moveable until someone pointed out to me that they would not be baked …	0 Last	Skamberin May 2018
VR Projects Basics / issues Hi Everyone! I'm starter on VR projects in unreal 4 and I want to begin learning how to do it . I have knowledges about Unreal in general.I worked in some productions but I was 3D artist.I 'd like kn…	13 Last	Lord Fryingpan May 2018
Using Absolute World Position to Tile Textures on all 3 Axis Hi there. I've been trying to get this to work for a while now and so now I'm looking for help.My material uses 512 x 2048 textures to make rusted pipes with a lot of variation. With my current…	4 Last	Calvinatorr May 2018