Unreal Engine

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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
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