Unreal Engine

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Best aproach for wall carvings/deco ? For game engines, what is the best way to incorporate these kind of details on walls, furniture? Should this be imported as normal maps, parallax occlusion or modelled geometry? I am not sure i…	8 Last	melviso May 2018
Closed Moved: VXGI 2.0 is out!!!!!! (dynamic ray tracing) This discussion has been moved.	0 Last	Michael Knubben May 2018
More textures on landscape? i have my landscape currently maxed out with textures. I have about 11 textures (albedo, normal, roughness) total between 4 different materials. I have a pretty large map I’m working with, and trying…	1 Last	Obscura May 2018
Project Package Fail - Please Help Hey guys I am working on a project and when I try and package it up to send to someone it gives me a warning that my lightbuild scenario map file is too large (over 2gb) So I went back and made…	0 Last	ChrisKiser May 2018
Making the mesh for a glass material. Hi there. I'm just wondering about the best way to represent glass in Unreal 4 in terms of its mesh.I have a thick glass pane on the front of my restaurant. Is it better to model the glass with thick…	1 Last	pmiller001 Apr 2018
Hair Problems Hi guys, I'm so desesperate with the hair, I'm using 4.17 unreal version and Temporal AA antialiasing mode, for a long time I've been trying to create a realistic hair for our game but it's impossibl…	3 Last	Irensay Apr 2018
SpeedTree Trees Look Terrible in UE4 Hi. So, I took the plunge and subscribed to SpeedTree for UE4. However, when I import a tree into UE4 it looks absolutely terrible. I am following the video tutorials on Youtube, and I don't know whe…	4 Last	poopipe Apr 2018
UE4 believeable character scalp UV? how to make that so in the stream they make 3 uvset for hair from xgen in unreal. one of them is a uv of a all the hair flattened based on the scalp so the artist can apply noise color on the hair. how to unfold the …	3 Last	poopipe Apr 2018
SCI-FI Laboratory Hi guys, I finished a new project for UE Marketplace, it's Cells of laboratories in the rock. The basic idea is to combine large volumes with small interior modules, like laboratory cells. This modul…	0 Last	vegaart Apr 2018
Opening the UE4 Editor without the launcher? Is it possible to skip the Unreal launcher completely and just go right into the editor? I've read it's possible to compile your own copy of UE4 with the launcher disabled, but that seems like a huge…	8 Last	Blenux Apr 2018
Question about fading textures in a material Hi guys, I'm new here but I've seen a lot of support here for all things to do with Ue4, so I thought I'd try my luck and ask my own question here. I'm wanting to make a material that has a…	3 Last	leleuxart Apr 2018
Landscape painting follow brush direction? Hi there. I have managed to get some landscape blending to work and was wondering if anybody knows of a way to get a material to follow the direction you are painting? In this image for example, the …	2 Last	Axemeister Apr 2018
Landscape tool too low poly Hey there. When I am using the landscape tool I'm getting an extremely low poly result, even when I turn up the Resolution/component size/quads etcI've already built lighting so I know it is not that…	2 Last	Axemeister Apr 2018
Skin modifier (3ds max) cause shading errors O_o?? Hi guys and girls,i run into problems and need fire support. I have no idea, why a skin modifier cause shading problems but only, when i apply more then one bone to the mesh.Many thx for your assiste…	10 Last	JetX Apr 2018
Walk cycle root motion not working? So my friend make a walk cycle for my character. But it moves forward, which is unsuitable for it to be put in blend space.I solve it by moving the world controller back with the exact translate z of…	0 Last	hegvbwkeuyrv Apr 2018
Vertex lighting in UE4? Is there a way to set up my scene to use vertex lighting?I'm looking at building something to look like an early 3D game, but the modern lighting completely betrays the aesthetic. Is there a wa…	3 Last	Obscura Apr 2018
Procedural Growth in Unreal Hello, I'm doing some R&D for finding the best way to create procedural growth in Unreal. Something like this houdini canned anim video, but during runtime;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q…	0 Last	corvoconn Apr 2018
tips for creating foliage? Trying to create a bunch of foliage assets for my scene. I am familiar with speedtree and will probably use that for the majority of the work. But is there anything I should be looking out for from a…	1 Last	cmc444 Apr 2018
using splines to create roots in an environment? Hey guys!I'm currently working on an environment that is set under the ground in a catacomb/cellar. I want to make roots come down from the cieling and cling to the walls and pillars in the room. I'm…	10 Last	harry1511 Apr 2018
Lighting help! How to create sun light for a Cave Scene! Hello all! Sorta first time user. I am working on a environment scene ( ref pic for example will be attached ) and I’m having some major issue with lighting. I made a default scene from the start ( …	1 Last	lucasz Apr 2018
Ai enemy not going into chase player after first attack After first attack Ai goes into idle and stays there. After first attack Ai somehow its line trace "bounce" to the side of the player character instead of aiming directly towards the player.My b…	1 Last	Markmars Apr 2018
Materials for VR? Hey guys,Is there anything I should take into consideration when creating materials(inst) for an VR game?(its my first project in VR)Thanks	3 Last	poopipe Apr 2018
Creating iridescent oil I'm trying to create an iridescent oil-like material in unreal but haven't found any great documentation on it. It may be as simple as a substance texture but pie in the sky, I'd like it to reac…	4 Last	zombie420 Apr 2018
3D Max to UE4 Texture/UV problem Hello everyone,I have problem with importing FBX file from 3D Max to UE4....third picture is how model (shoes for expl.) should look like and first two is what happen when I import them in UE4, textu…	1 Last	yanpes Apr 2018
Can I make this spline sway? I have this spline blueprint that instances a number of lantern meshes along the spline, and I would like for the whole thing to sway as if in the wind. Is there a way to do this? Using the simple gr…	11 Last	kwagner Mar 2018
Lag + Freezing inside ue4. Hallo,UE4 starts to lag and practically freeze within a few minutes after start-up. I made a new empty document but the problems don't go away.Everything inside the viewport goes smoothly without any…	1 Last	Vexar Mar 2018
Importin a Multi-Chain rig from maya to unreal... possible? so my friend finished rigging my character, but its not all under one root joint. The shoulder are separate, and the rig use parent constraints. Is there a way to import this rig as an animation to u…	3 Last	Obscura Mar 2018
Creating landscape materials? ***I'm fairly new to the ins and outs of creating complex materials so bear with me. I'm following a tutorial about creating landscape materials and the narrator has ticked a box in the material prop…	4 Last	Obscura Mar 2018
Need advice from experience devs on tessellation and the megascans library Hi guy's,After reading for almost a complete day i am still at lost on tessellation performance issues since many threads on various forums seem to indicate that tessellation is still a major issue i…	9 Last	pixelquaternion Mar 2018
Importing game character with different types of material profile in ue4? So i have created a game character and i already put it in marmoset toolbag. I want to put it in unreal engine especially to try their subsurface scatter material profile. But the thing is my game ch…	4 Last	Alex_J Mar 2018
Why does unreal engine phorealistic character project file has roughness and specular map? i was just testing out and reading the doecumentation, but why does it has roughness and specular? isnt it basically the same thing? why dont they just blend it together	9 Last	Alex_J Mar 2018
Increasing texture pool size in UE4 Hey guys,How to increase the texture pool size in Unreal Engine 4?I tried [/Script/Engine.RendererSettings] r.Streaming.PoolSize=1500but nothing happened.Cheers.	1 Last	Obscura Mar 2018
Optimizing Foliage Hey Guys,I have never dealt with vegetation and foliage inside UE4. Can someone share some technical tips for vegetation optimization? (Material, textures, etc etc...)Thanks	2 Last	salimmatta Mar 2018
Forms of life	0 Last	vegaart Mar 2018
UE4 - Adjusting cull distance of foliage by adding nodes into the material Hey guys,got a short question here. I want to adjust the culling distance of my foliage and i know that it's possible to set a culling distance in the foliage tool options but i also know that it's p…	3 Last	Obscura Mar 2018
How to make particles attack an object This isnt urgent or anything, I just wanted to know if you all had any thoughts on this. HOw would I make an emitter, spawn mesh particles that fly up for a certain amount of time, and then all …	3 Last	Toku Mar 2018
Importing animation into unreal4 I'm trying to import a rig into unreal and even though the skeleton and the mesh import properly and work, any animation I have baked onto the skeleton appears in unreal as the en…	0 Last	kpadley0 Mar 2018
trying to animate a sine wave in a beam emitter, no dice. Hey guys, I'm trying to make a laser in cascade using a sine wave I can animate over its life time. This is what i've got so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRUmc2PmiJc Getting t…	6 Last	pmiller001 Mar 2018
UE4 Lightmap Density Issue. Hello Polycount community,I am hoping anyone out there can explain what is going on with the light map density on my mesh, everything else runs pretty much at optimal levels however this one mesh see…	5 Last	Apocrs1980 Mar 2018
[SOLVED] UE4 lighting artifact issue - strange bright spots on static mesh Hello! Hopefully someone here can help me out with this lighting issue I'm having, I've tried everything I can think of to fix this to no avail.Everything in the scene is baked lighting, I'm ru…	11 Last	CrackRockSteady Mar 2018
Optimization for VR PC project tips? Hey guys,I know that's a big question concerning an overall optimization for a VR PC project, and I know it needs time in order to get it done. But I would really like to know from people who previou…	6 Last	poopipe Mar 2018
UE4 Gore System for Multiple Characters w/ Multiple Costumes/Skins and Different Types of Kills?? I'm making a small game that got single player and local multiplayer only. It will have up to 4 players or AIs at a time per game (no more than 4 ever). The game will be old-style low-poly with low-r…	1 Last	poopipe Mar 2018
Animators that work in UE4...May I have a second of your time? Hello! I've been learning unreal in for my Capstone project so I can graduate and I've been loving it so far. But I've ran into an issue to where my attack animations look just straight weird. …	0 Last	JhGreene Mar 2018
Non-square UV-s for UE4 Hey guys, how things are going on with non-square UV maps (ex. 1024x2048) these days:)Basically talking about this technique (http://polycount.com/discussion/65234/rectangular-uv-map/p1) I am particu…	5 Last	fattkid Mar 2018
hierarchical z buffer ? Hey guys, just a question towards rendering guys. I was facing "hzb" for quite long time now, namely in Unreal, and I looked it up and not from the official documentations, but it turns out it stands…	4 Last	Obscura Feb 2018
Noob question about Glass meshes in unreal Ive been away from unreal for a while. When creating glass meshes for window or doors, does the mesh need to be a solid shelled shape with thickness or can it just be a single flat plane?Thanks.	1 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2018
Building 1st level in unreal engine I am not 100 precent sure on what I should be doing, Should I build the entire level in maya and then .fbx export the entire thing? or should I build it in unreal engine? Thanks for your time.	5 Last	Apocrs1980 Feb 2018
Issue with landscapes deforming. Sorry for the subsequent posts, still fairly new to UE4 and am running into an issue with my landsacpe.before everything was fine but now I notice whenever I rebuild the landscape shifts as such:Howe…	8 Last	Apocrs1980 Feb 2018
[Unreal Engine] Decals overlapping order HELP!! Unreal Scene View:Wireframe:Material:Im trying to stag decals. But as you see sometimes the vent is shown, sometimes not and sometimes a bit. I want to stag 3 decals the plate, the circle and the ven…	2 Last	Obscura Feb 2018
Faking transparency utilizing reflections. I'm not sure if this is an Unreal question, or just a shader question in general. I basically want to fake transparency by showing the reflections from the opposite side of the model. My thought is t…	3 Last	jackalope Feb 2018