Unreal Engine

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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
How did games like Conan Exiles or Ark Survival make their map? I am genuinely curious.I have heard about World Composer or World Machine and then putting these maps through UE4 World Composition to make a map but none of these tools from what I have seen are goo…	6 Last	Apocrs1980 Feb 2018
How to achieve GI in lightmass without using skylight is there a way to utilize the new feature "Num Sky Lighting Bounce" without using skyight? Or is it just common sense to use skylight in every type of scene? What about a dark enclosed room with one …	2 Last	hegvbwkeuyrv Feb 2018
Building and executing a large indoor environment Hi,First of all I specialise in 3D mainly but haven't dabbled in creating levels before, even though I'm proficient using Quixel and substance painter. However we have a VR project in from…	3 Last	KurtR Feb 2018
Unreal Engine- Is edge support needed? Hi all,Just a quick question regarding Unreal Engine. Do my models need edge support, or will they be fine without it after importing and placing into a level?I know I can import and test it, but I'v…	4 Last	Obscura Feb 2018
Unreal Glass Pint - See through glass wall from a shallow angle Hello everyone. I'm working on a glass shader in UE for my pint here but I'm at a loss.I finally managed to make the normals see through but now I'm struggling with this difference between seei…	0 Last	Yoji Feb 2018
Royal Hospital Rainy evening, the progress of my new projectI'm working on a new project, this is a hospital. I want to show you my progress. This building is a hospital of 6 floors with rooms, elevators, lobby, I …	5 Last	vegaart Feb 2018
Understanding Unreals lighting and bakes thru experiments! I've been modeling for years for a variety of game styles and engines, and have been working more in Unreal lately, but not a lot with its lighting. So now, trying to understand it all better, …	0 Last	undertow Feb 2018
UE4 for expose parameters in ubstance designer so i made a procedural material in substance designer. Is it possible to control the things that i can control via substance' product in ue4 as material instances or some sort? I'm not really familia…	9 Last	hegvbwkeuyrv Feb 2018
I'm trying to make this image to a 3d, any tips on the water floor? https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/000/559/958/large/morgan-yon-26.jpg?1426773755thats the image, but i dont know how to make the water surface in unreal :c some of the cable sinks in…	1 Last	sharpened Feb 2018
how do people break the texture repetition when making modular assets in ue? so im making an environment which has a brick wall. Im planning to make a wall (modular) which i can replicate in UE4. Some questiion:1. does the wall has to be square? does it has to occupy the 0-1 …	8 Last	KurtR Feb 2018
Project Organization and File Structure Hey All,I am curious what some of your workflows might be for having a master project or master materials project that houses materials and textures you use the most. I am wanting to have a Master Pr…	1 Last	Zpanzer Feb 2018
How to create water on a concrete floor in UE4? Quite simple actually. I want to create an environment with a floor, with water on top of it. It cannot be a simple wet texture on the floor. It has to be real water cuz there will be some props subm…	10 Last	Prot Jan 2018
open project from newer version Hello everyone, I'd like to know if I can open an unreal engine project made with unreal engine 18, in unreal engine 16, is there any plugin that can do this, or it is not possible?	1 Last	Obscura Jan 2018
[UE4 - Paper 2D] - Yellow tinted textures in Tilemap view. I have a strange issue / bug when creating a Tilemap in UE4, version 4.17.1. All textures are tinted yellow in the tilemap view / window, meanwhile it looks all good in the actual viewport and when t…	2 Last	EliasWick Jan 2018
Visible seams on 3d model textured in Substance Painter Hi everyone, I'm trying to import my first mesh textured in Substance Painter in UE4. I textured the wood part with a built-in wood materials that comes with SP. I activated the option of tri planar …	2 Last	Chris Bruin Jan 2018
3d Widget communication problem Hi everyone i have a problem.I want to, lights in scene controlled via 3d widget using vr pointer but get the press input from gamepad as you can see everything is working fine but it seems like no m…	2 Last	Ibrahim Aysan Jan 2018
Substance Desginer to Unreal, basecolor map turns out tinted in the material editor? Hi! I've been strugginling with an issue involving Substance Designer 6 and UE 4.15 for a couple hours now...I created a material in Substance Designer, then I exported the .sbsar file to use it in U…	2 Last	leleuxart Jan 2018
Punch animation not working Hi so i have been making the character punch animation from unreals how to tutorial and followed it step by step.And when i play it the character is not playing the punch montage.I've gone through th…	1 Last	Mcbeardo Jan 2018
Need some help with rigging my character for ue4! Hey guys!I'm setting up a rig for my character for ue4. My character has hydraulic rams. I set up a look at constraint in max for the hydraulic ram, but when I import it to ue4 it doesn't seem to acc…	4 Last	Silohx Jan 2018
Paper 2D Character - CapsuleComponent gives incorrect Collision Hi, I am currently making a 2D platformer game using Paper 2D. I am having problems with the CapsuleComponent, it's not giving me correct collision, my sprite doesn't want to touch the ground. In…	8 Last	EliasWick Jan 2018
A FLoor, A Cable that subsmerged and come out of A Water how do i make that in unreal guys im confused	1 Last	Obscura Jan 2018
One texture with different color tints Hi!I have a cube with one packed texture but the texture has four different parts(metal/clean metal/rubber/plastic). Each part has its own mask in another packed texture. Also there is alpha channel …	4 Last	ahtiandr Jan 2018
Rope Animation Issue Hello Guys,I`m super stuck with that issue i hope someone figure out and help me..I have pretty similar setup for my rope as you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE57...dGxLmQ…	1 Last	syhdesign Jan 2018
[UE4] Ambient Occlusion not working in Post Process volume Ambient occlusion is visible in the buffer visualisation view, it is activated under 'Lighting Components', it is activated in the post processing volume and I have also tried activating it in the wo…	1 Last	CupMcCakers Jan 2018
How to detect Mirrored UVs in 3Ds Max 2014 Hey all,So I've struggled with getting proper Lightmap UVs for a while now but I just discovered a bit of info that I had never read before... apparently Lightmap UVs cannot be mirrored! Problem is, …	14 Last	poopipe Jan 2018
Changing Character Armor i have my base mesh then armor i want to make the armor changeable to a cloak witch will be mainly dynamics. is there a good tutorial for this out there i have looked at a few but looking for a reall…	0 Last	michiKing Jan 2018
[SOLVED] Missing Color Bleeding With World Space UV's I seem to have run into an issue where indirect lighting is not baking if I use World Space coordinates for my UV's. I want to do some prototyping in the FPS Template so I've setup a grid material, a…	3 Last	eCstatic Jan 2018
Fade Texture to "Damage" Texture Material/Shader? I have characters in this game, I want to have their normal healthy textures by default but as they get shot and beaten over time, I want the texture to slowly turn into a "damage" texture like all c…	7 Last	poopipe Jan 2018
Google Maps-esque camera pathing So, looking to start a new game project with a friend, but I'm not even sure where to start with the project set up because of how we want the camera to work. I've never made my own camera blueprint,…	0 Last	Ayples Jan 2018
Perforce setup guide for indies? Can Anyone help? Ok so it is obvious that perforce is not working for our studio. We tried setting it up by the movies on the perforce website but that gives constant issues. Each line of c++ code that is added to th…	1 Last	krike Jan 2018
Modeling & Rigging Low-Poly Characters w/ Blood & Gore Setup in Maya LT for use in Unreal Engine 4 In my game in Unreal Engine 4, it's a very low poly game, each character is about 1000-1500 tri poly total. I need help with a starting point before I model the characters for the game with my team, …	0 Last	Oblivion2500 Jan 2018
How to add blood & gore to custom 3D character models? I'm working on a game using Unreal Engine 4, Maya LT 2018, and Photoshop CC. My game lets you make your own character with different skin tones, clothing, and body size/shape. How can I add blood and…	7 Last	Oblivion2500 Jan 2018