Unreal Engine

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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
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