Unreal Engine

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UE4-Dynamic indirect shadows? Currently experimenting with dynamic lighting in ue4 using LPV. Any way to add indirect shadows or fake this using dynamic light? I think LPV has improved-no light leaks.	38 Last	melviso Oct 2017
Need help with setting up material as mask for texture. Hello! I want to preface by saying I would have looked through the threads for this if I knew what it would be called.What I am trying to do is basically having the texture being a static image direc…	1 Last	Obscura Oct 2017
[UE4] Blueprint offset error when replacing references Hi guys Myself and my partner are having problems on a scene we're working on together in Unreal. We need to replace the references for a bunch of meshes in Unreal. Everything works fine except …	0 Last	Stu2Prof Oct 2017
Lightmass error?? I am having this issue in a ue4 scene?For some reason, these faces look illuminated. Any ideas?I am using the ue4.18 preview 2 version. Is this a bug?	1 Last	melviso Sep 2017
Unreal Lighting Mac Os Hello guys, I'm trying to realistic lighting on unreal, but I'm not getting it. Below I am putting as screen shots of my scenario. In this scene, I am using Directional Light. I can not understand wh…	3 Last	rondinellimorais Sep 2017
Performance of multiple materials for transparent & non-transparent mesh? Hello.As of my understanding, transparent materials/shaders require more power than a standard opaque one. That considered, take an object such as a weapon scope for example where a large portion of …	8 Last	poopipe Sep 2017
[4.17.2] can't get emissive materials to contribute to LPV hey everyone. I started a project using LPV on 4.15, everything worked perfectly fine. I decided to update to the latest build 4.17.2 , and now my emissive materials are no longer contrib…	2 Last	Tzur_H Sep 2017
Making a huge map in UE4 I am trying to make a huge map ( 8x8 Km) in unreal. I don't want to use world machine, I would like to use real life heightmap imagery. How should I go about this while keeping high fidelity in a 1st…	4 Last	DerkaWeverka Sep 2017
[WIP] 15 Million dollar mansion in UE4 I want to make this house in UE4 at a photorealistic level:UE4 archviz has been around for a while and creating small scandinavian apartments just doesn't cut it anymore. Creating this magnificent ho…	8 Last	Bletzkarn Sep 2017
How to get proper dynamic lighting on skeletal meshes Here is a skeletal mesh I have in my scene. I've made a blueprint that lets the player open and close the drawers with a left click. As you can see on the example on the right, the lighting is …	4 Last	supremedalek925 Sep 2017
Help: Unreal Engine 4 / Morph Targets / Audio / Talking Character Hi Polycount!I need to animate a character talking. Kind of like if you just walked up to someone in skyrim, they're mouth and face moves, and audio comes out :)I have a slew of audio clips and blend…	1 Last	Obscura Sep 2017
Real world units to UE4 units. I am aware that 1 unreal unit = 1cm but I'm sure many people have found that scenes simply look too small!Well after testing I think I think I've found a reasonable scale range, using doors. If …	5 Last	Bletzkarn Sep 2017
Grass blending with Landscape slope map Hey guys.I want to blend my grass with my terrain, and basically I have a 4k slope map for my Worldmachine generated landscape - I want my grass to be brown near the bottom for the white, sharp &…	10 Last	maddin Sep 2017
Per instance uv shift? This is for a temporary hack so don't judge me.Does anyone have any ideas on atlasing uvs on instanced meshes?I mean per instance within an actor blueprint.Im fairly confident I could pass parameters…	2 Last	poopipe Sep 2017
Metal surface looks bad in ue4? This is my first time working with ue4 and my metal surfaces look terrible compared to sp and marmoset how it is supposed to look. Marmoset and ue4 are both only using 3 spotlights in the same place …	5 Last	radiancef0rge Sep 2017
Secondary Specular Lobe skin shader/translucency Hello! I was wondering is there's any way of creating a secondary specular using the skin shader provided by the "photorealistic Human" Project. I see at the end of the shader a Material Blend, so i …	0 Last	bob3636 Sep 2017
UE4 Apex Clothing Sim not working Hello All,I'm currently experimenting with Apex Clothing simulation for UE4 and at present, it's totally broken and I have no idea why.To preface this, I want to say that I've used Apex before, 2 yea…	2 Last	Mark Dygert Sep 2017
V-Ray for UE4. V-Ray for UE4.Article - https://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/v-ray-in-ue4/https://vimeo.com/229371147	1 Last	Bletzkarn Sep 2017
Ue4 shader compile error on material property I'm working on a detail material function and I'm getting these two errors. I didn't get them when I was using the texture parameter. But I needed to have the function more flexible to have mult…	2 Last	Sunray Sep 2017
Need help for Setting up ligths correctly Hi, Game devs. Need some help and feedback. My problem is that I don't know how to set up my lights correctly for composition. Also, I've created materials for base colors, roughness, …	2 Last	alexcz93 Sep 2017
How to export Face Texture animation from Maya to Unreal??????? I want to have Face texture animation character in Unreal. How to do it in Unreal. Or how to export Face Texture animation from maya to Unreal???Thanh so much!	5 Last	duyvu2709 Sep 2017
What are my options if I want a million impact decals on screen at once? So yeah. I want unlimited instances of material dependent surface damage plastered over my level at runtime and I want it to be free(ish) This probably rules out traditional polygon decals…	6 Last	poopipe Sep 2017
working on a game (COMING WINTER 17') Blob Jump: Is a side scrolling platformer with 30 levels planned on being made in 3 different themes (10 level with each theme). The first 12 lvls already finished. Jump the platforms and …	1 Last	Brian "Panda" Choi Sep 2017
UE4 Snapping problem - Vertex snapping I've been following this tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raoeVwv9Q_k&t=8s ) , trying to vertex snap some wall panels. I know that it looks really easy on the video but it takes me at le…	0 Last	catlady Sep 2017
UE4 Modelling best Practises? Hey guys, Building my first interior scene and wondering which model configuration is best for UE4's lighting system. Examples below:1 color = 1 mesh. In this example the meshes are separat…	1 Last	Blitzwood Sep 2017
Automatic LOD vs Manual LOD ?? Hello lovely Poltcounter's,I am newly learning about LOD (Level of Details)... I learnt that we create LOD both Manually and Automatically...Links - (https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/C…	1 Last	poopipe Sep 2017
Same material/texture, different base color. So today I have a scene I am creating that is modular and has plenty of the same textures just with different colors. I feel like adding the same textures multiple times on the texture atlas with col…	4 Last	jake1210 Sep 2017
Access Emissive and other channels trought PP Material? Hey, I need to access some channels that are not included on the "SceneTexture" node for a post process material. I am trying to get my material AO, that is there but seems to be disabled, and emissi…	12 Last	poopipe Sep 2017
UE4 Apex buggery Hey everyone o/I'm currently making a mod for Conan Exiles, a game using the Unreal Engine 4 and I'm having a lot of trouble with getting apex cloth to work correctly. Here is a photo of my…	0 Last	HashBrownHamish Sep 2017
I need programming help Please watch my video explaining my issue. Then let know if you can help me.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocxLrQoamNs&feature=youtu.be	2 Last	Vexar Sep 2017
Rendering spherical images in ue4. Is it possible to render out spherical images using ue4. I am not sure ue4 has spherical cameras. Looking into this atm. Any knowledge that can be shared I appreciate it.Thanks.	2 Last	melviso Sep 2017
UE4 for Visualisation. Ideas and Processes Hey guys I'm in my first job as a full time Visualisation Artist using 3DSMAX & Vray. I started very amateur however I'm getting a lot better. I want to switch over to using UE4 visualisation exc…	18 Last	CompanionCube Sep 2017
Roughness vs specular HiI never understood the relationship of roughness and specular. I'm creating textures in Substance Designer with a roughness/metallic workflow. In unreal Engine however I still have the specular plu…	7 Last	poopipe Aug 2017
Lighting showing up on static meshes where they shouldn't... I've helping create a game demo and using a modular asset workflow. In one room the lighting looks great when I build a preview. But in other rooms it appears cut off between mesh pieces …	5 Last	IacopoAntonelli Aug 2017
My First Project: Horror Game (UE4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQgPHWoh9gQThis is my first UE4 project i made in 2017 Q2 with my girlfriend at College, what do you think guys? I have a youtube channel, it's really small yet, but i'…	0 Last	honikawaii Aug 2017
Texture Object Tiling Hello masters. I'm using material with Parallax Occlusion along with TextureCoordinate, however the base height value for the Parallax node is a TextureObject and doesnt have a UV input, so cant…	2 Last	ToRuKMactO Aug 2017
AUTO-PLUG tesxture maps to material (Quixel/Substance >>>> Unreal Engine4) Is there a way to automatically plug in texture maps (exported from Quixel Suite or Substance Designer/Painter) to a material in UE4.I'm converting a project in work to test in VR and don't want to s…	3 Last	Obscura Aug 2017
Calculate depth fade after refraction - water shader Ahoy fellow vertices and other geometrical shapes, I have a problem in a little water shader I'm testing out,I used depth fade for the opacity of the water, which works fine until refraction offsets …	1 Last	Obscura Aug 2017
Using non unreal dedicated server with Unreal game What benefits there are in using NON unreal dedicated server, but another one - BigWorld, etc ?Game is 3p shooter on big maps 2-10 Km. witn NPCs and items. 16-64 max playersBigWorld has nice buildin …	0 Last	SkyGround Aug 2017
Working to scale Hello everyone! A little question about modelling for UE4.Previously I've done my modular tiles and their textures in powers of 2 so 32, 64, 128, 256... UE4 uses cm scale 1, 5. 10, 50, 100.…	1 Last	rohMizuno Aug 2017
Creating First Person Camera Hey guys am trying to recreate the First person template that comes with unreal but i don't want the guns,arms etc. I just want to control the camera around the scene as it would look from a human's …	2 Last	Obscura Aug 2017
Blending two normal maps on Separate UV channels Good evening. I am trying to blend a Normal Map Trim texture that is on a different UV channel (Channel 2) using DeriveTangentBasis. My main tiling normal map is on Channel 0 and Light maps are using…	1 Last	Menchen Aug 2017
Procedural building using construction script frame drops? Hi guys, So through strife ive made my first real construction script in ue4 and ive gota building using instanced meshes in order to edit the mesh desired, number of floors and number of segme…	5 Last	IacopoAntonelli Aug 2017
Dune Desert Project [UE4] Hey there Community,my name is George and I am the Lead Designer of our Project (there is no title yet). The game is going to be a Third Person Shooter with Role-playing Elements and other interestin…	3 Last	Maximum-Dev Aug 2017
Unreal mannequin - and animation starter pack? So I've been skinning a character to the current unreal mannequin. Now, in order to test the skinning properly i exported some sequences from the animation starter pack (marketplace download) out of …	0 Last	thomasp Aug 2017
Problem with Lighting (Need Help) Guys, I am following this tutorial about vertex painting by Aaron Kaminer. The thing is I get this weird lighting and I don't know how to remove this. No matter whr I look from, I get this…	4 Last	Chidambhar_Swaroop Aug 2017
VRAY to UE4 Workflow. I'm creating some models in 3DSMAX vray that I want to be able to transfer to UE4 at a later time. However I understand the requirement for vray and UE4 are different.UE4 needs a lightmap UV, which I…	5 Last	Bletzkarn Aug 2017
Piston animations in characters I have an robotic character, who have lots of pistons in his limbs. Now, on the animations themselves it is fairly easy - just bake the constraints to the FBX. But the problem arises with using of st…	7 Last	Obscura Aug 2017
Substance material look blurry in unreal Hello everyone :)Someone can explain me why when i import this material in unreal it look completely wrong?	14 Last	Obscura Aug 2017
Messed up colours on backfaces Hey,I am making a small scene in Unreal 4. I am having an issue where the colours are getting really messed up when applied on a backface.https://gyazo.com/9b05b44891bbe684ef24babb42973bdd(Messed up …	1 Last	Obscura Jul 2017