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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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poopipe

5.11 world partition, landscape HLODs and crashes..

[{"insert":"I may be confused, I may be wrong and I would be very happy to find out that is the case \nbut..\nEven if we pretend there's no Out of Memory crashes in the HLOD builder it still behaves …
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andrey_aleks

Can anyone help with retarget animation from mixamo to unreal?

I am new to unreal and do not understand what I do wrong, but everything that works in tutorial videos on youtube, I do not work I do not understand why, For example, when importing animation I …
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LostSoul3

Get object pivot point but for an instance?

using the object pivot point as base for adjusting normals from gives a nice soft look for foliagebut when this material is used on foliage instances, the normals break. Pretty sure it is because the…
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poopipe

UE Masterclass for Automotive Industry

If you ever considered transitioning into the automotive industry this can help  : https://youtu.be/VLUjm1Q6_HU?si=15yz_GTXSbMOOGOe
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evelynSoa

Jelly/ Slime / Goo Material help

I have been wanting to do something with this for a while now. I like the idea of the Jellybots by Nicholas Kole (https://www.nicholaskole.art/jellybots). So I have some test meshes and started …
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poopipe

UE 5.3 Light Bleeding

I have a rect light behind the chess pieces. It's light bleeds through the pieces and the asset looks horrible. This issue goes away if I move my camera up close to the piece.I don't know how to fix …
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Zaeem

A problem with rendering

Hey Polycount forum, Everything looks correct on my timeline but Render.... My render looks horrible... Why? Whats going on? :( Thank you...  Timeline  https://vimeo.com/manage/vid…
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iam717

Glowing effect of a tent at night

Hi Polycount,How can I do that?  Glowing effect of a tent at night or similar solution.I have tried (tutorial) glowing objects in Unreal Engine 5 but It looks very bad. Do you have any…
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poopipe

Tangent Normal Map vs 1 Edge Cube

Hey there!I try to bake highpoly cube to lowpoly cube with 1 edge on the lowpoly cube, and t tried with merged uv-s, separated uvs, hard edges on uv border, but still getting seams at the edges in th…
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ZacD

the PCG graph is quite good fun

so, I've got some roadsand I've got the edges of the roads(mostly) marked outand I've got little plots aligned with the edges of the roadsI think I can see where this is going.. Does anyone know…
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poopipe

prbl animate four textures on a background

Hi ! (sorry for my english, I'm French ^^)I would like to animate four textures on a background (it's an underwater pixels scene material, play on a screen).It works but the four textures seem t…
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Raphi33fr

Batch rename and similar operations in the material graph?

This is sort of like a cross-over post with a question I asked here: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/a-quick-way-to-rename-parameters-in-material-graph/1706116But my broader question for polyc…
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Alex_J

How can I easily make the car look wet?

Hi polycount forum, How can I easily make the car look wet? I couldn't figure it out… Any idea? Thank you ☀️
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Alex_J

How can I change the direction of texture movement?

Hı polycount forum,How can I change the direction of texture movement?In the first image(material) the direction of movement looks correct, but on the model... flows from left to right. I want i…
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mountains

UE5.2 & Maya 2024 Live Link not working

Greetings!I've wanted to test out Live Link between Maya and Unreal Engine for a long time now, but my project has been running UE5.2. Live Link has finally been released for that version of the engi…
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BTDarmstad

Stylized Gradient Slider Inspired by Valorants Shading

You can make a cool gradient slider like the one they made in this post by using curveshttps://youtu.be/tNNrTRHH3mYThe post:https://technology.riotgames.com/news/valorant-shaders-and-gameplay-clarity
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poopipe

Workflow changes from UE4 to UE5 question...

Ive been working in UE4 for a project the last few years but have now been jumping over to UE5 for some personal projects. What are the must-adapt-to workflows that have changed from UE4 to UE5 for e…
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poopipe

Unreal Engine, StaticMesh and InstancedStaticMesh, doubt realistic use

I have observed that the difference between using StaticMesh and InstancedStaticMesh lies in the fact that, in the former, every time a 3D object is drawn on the screen, it generates 1 drawcall (not …
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poopipe

Quake1 engine, Unreal97 / UT99 map loading (help needed) (opensource) (C engine,but C++ unr exists)

Model_brush.c is the main file where new map and model formats are parsed: https://sourceforge.net/p/chaosesqueanthology/code-t3d_attempt_engine/ci/master/tree/model_brush.cAn example one is void Mod…
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chaosesqueteam

Texture colour fades when added to material, and AO input not working

I’m having two issues with my textures in a material. The base color fades a lot when adding it to the material, and the Ambient Occlusion input seems to do nothing, so I had to multiply it with the …
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MEKA_

WorldAlignedBlend with Height map blending?

I am making a landscape autoMaterial. I have finished most of it, but I ran into a problem. I want the transition to not be a gradient, but use the heightmap to blend between the rocks and sand.I man…
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MEKA_

UE 5.3 low FPS in editor viewport with a 5950X and RTX 3090 (different sample scenes)

Every example scene I open in the editor seems to be slow. FPS 20-30 and in cinematic mode 10-20 FPS. I have a 16-core 4.3 GHZ CPU and an RTX 3090. I know I can lower the resolution, but even then pe…
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poopipe

Blockout phase (Maya to Unreal)

Hi,This is the first time I work making a Blockout phase and I got a problem about transitioning from Maya to Unreal.At first, I made my blockout scene  in Maya, then, I selected all my assets a…
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poopipe

UE5- how do I add a candle flame into my world?

I'm a noob, so sorry if this is supposed to be really simple. following a tutorial, I created a flickering candle flame material. Now I need to add this candle flame to the wick of my candle mesh.&nb…
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Fabi_G

Light Bleed

Hello all,I'm new to lighting and I'm having an issue with light bleeding through to the interior of this room. Does anyone know what causes this? I thought it might be an issue with the thickne…
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ZacD

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ElKaWeh

Material Instance crashes Unreal 5

I’ve been working on a Material in UE5.3, trying to make a autoMaterial for my landscape.Following a bunch of tutorials I ended up with something that works and looks great imo.However, one crucial n…
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poopipe

not solved: multiplayer view distance for characters

I'm confused I have a multiplayer 3pp game (hosted by one of the players) with a large world using world composition on 5.3It's generally working fine but at about 250m other players stop drawin…
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poopipe

Screenshot Angles and Composition

Hello all,I need some feedback for my angles and composition of these screenshots for this room. (The room is just a quick blockout.)Would appreciate any advice on how to make the screenshots mo…
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Bulldog3dz

Banding artifacts on 16 Bit normal map only in UE

Hi, I've almost finished working on my game-ready model, and now I'm trying to set up a normal map for it. However, when I assign the normal map to the model, I encounter some nasty banding artifacts…
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poopipe

Unreal Engine 4 texturing glitch/distortion. HELP

[{"insert":"So I am currently working on a porsche 911 rsr model and I would like to render it in UE4. However, when applying the textures to the model in UE4, the base colour is wavy and pixelated. …
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Simosatan

A guide for beginners that are new to Materials in UE5

Hey guys, I always contribute my opportunity to work in the games industry to being on polycount and the people that I learned from on this site. I released a course on creating materials for be…
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Alex_J

"No shot" error when rendering: camera angle render completely off

Hi, i've added a new camera to my sequencer, and when trying to render i'm getting a still image of a completely wrong angle of my scene, and also getting this error:"Shot/Camera "no shot(2)" starts …
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Synthdrive

Is it possible to use both Parallax Occlusion Mapping and World Aligned Texture?

[{"insert":"I like the outcome of using Parallax Occlusion Mapping. However, I also want to make the height map world aligned. Is there a way to use both nodes on the height map? Or, is there an alte…
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poopipe

Media Texture appears white

Hi, i'm encountering a problem with some media textures. Basically the texture appears white, even though in the texture thumb it appears correctly. The source is a PNG sequence, and i've already cre…
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Synthdrive

Multiple UV normal blending

My aim is to use a multi-UV workflow to blend between the normals of unique sculpted bake of large assets which would be in one UV channel and a tiling texture in the other while blending them togeth…
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Chuk1000

Black spots on Wolrd Normals / White shining artefacts on meshes

This happens from time to time, i didn't find any solution yet, this is definitely problem with normals, i tried disabling compression / mipmapping / reimporting textures / rebuilding tangent and nor…
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red_snow

Material Instance Dynamic not working correctly?

Hi!This is a sort of continuation of the same eye material seen in this post from a little while back.    I'm at it again in this rabbit hole of creating planar eyes instead of spheric…
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snipert

Lumen interior lighting

Hello, i'm working on my first unreal scene. It's an archviz interior using Lumen. I've been learning mostly from YT, official videos, and documentation, and even tough i still have a lot to learn i'…
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Earvin

Unreal 5, stylized ocean shader waves not displacing correctly?

Greetings everyone! I...am having trouble with the ocean shader I am creating, specifically with the waves at this moment. Currently, I am using a sine wave into a 3 vector (Z) into the world positio…
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Singularity9823

Unreal crash when material node

Hi ! My Unreal 5.2 crash, crash and crash. I don't know why because before it's work ! It's like the system is not stable. I have executed Regedit, did the traditonal "uninstall/re-install" Unre…
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Fabi_G

Guidance with making high quality renders

HiI figured this would be better under the Unreal section rather than Technical Talk as it does concern Unreal.One thing I'm still not 100% confident with is creating high quality renders, a bit like…
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DustyShinigami

How are you organizing level design for ease of iteration?

Say that you are building some 3rd person game environments, something like this: Which would be composed from a modular kit like this: Say you pain stainkingly snap together these many walls, roofs,…
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Alex_J

Grooms are badly lit, and don't deform correctly [Solved]

Hi, and welcome to my ever expanding list of problems I create for myself in Unreal Engine (5.2) by being unbelievably stubborn and unwilling to turn around and doing things in an easier way!Lately, …
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BTDarmstad

Playable terrain for FPS?

Hello guys,So I have a new challenge to do where I work, we need to create a FPS map. So what I need to take into consideration when doing a "playable" terrain for games? polycount? keep it simple ( …
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poopipe

(Solved) Faint seams with modular normal map in UE4 and SP

Hello polycounters! This is the premise:I'm trying this new workflow for medium/large props. In short, what I'm trying to do is bake the least amount of normal information from the highpoly to the lo…
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Psychotic_Mike

Xgen -> Alembic Hair not showing correctly in Unreal.

Hello. This is my first time trying out xgen and rendering hair in Unreal. I've been following some online tutorials and I've encounted this problem which I am not sure how to tackle.I've exported th…
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hwaminjung

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