Unreal Engine

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Texture inconsistancies between photoshop and UE4. I'm getting this variance with color and light/contrast level in the diffuse in UE4 with the default scene and having turned off most or all of the post processing stuff in the viewer already. Turnin…	4 Last	Obscura Apr 2017
UE4 compressing textures?? Okay so I have a 1024 texture tiled twice on a 319cm square mesh. Using 1cm to 8px. But the texture is looking heavily compressed compared to how it looks in my original 3d app. It looks even w…	36 Last	melviso Apr 2017
Ligthling and Shadow artifacts in UE4 :/ Hey, I just tarted out using UE4, and I'm also pretty new to game engines, just started learning how to use!So i modeled my scene in 3ds max and i tried to import it into UE4, after that i applied a …	4 Last	EliasWick Mar 2017
Distance based tessellation in UE4 for virtual reality applications For those of you who've worked on assets for VR games, you may know that normal maps don't appear properly when trying to simulate large details. it's difficult to explain to people who've never used…	5 Last	MatiasP Mar 2017
Importing head rig into Unreal with Skin and morpher modifiers I am currently creating a project for my final year university project, that involves me importing a head rig that I have made into Unreal and testing to see if it works. The head rig uses bones to c…	0 Last	iiAdaaamV1 Mar 2017
Lighting rendering funny Hey guys, I'm working on my final year project and I'm starting to work a bit on the lighting here and there. My main setup is a main directional light and skylight set to movable while every other p…	0 Last	KHM3dia Mar 2017
Flooring/Shadow Issue Hey guys, first time poster here!Currently working on an environment for my final year uni project, and I've recently run into this annoying problem with my flooring. I added a (temporary) lighting b…	2 Last	mollyentwistle Mar 2017
Light bake artefacts with modular assets Hi!I'm preparing a modular assets and level made with them in UE4.After baking I'm having such issues with baked light on the edges. Is it a matter of baking settings, UV or smoothing group?	2 Last	kpulka Mar 2017
Odd dark shading / shadowing / AO ? Hello everyone,I've been having an issue with an archvis type project. The built lighting looks absolutely fine everywhere but this particular mesh with rounded edges keeps receiving a lot of dar…	0 Last	GC_Vos Mar 2017
My first mobile game in UE4 as game artist Good day lads,We are making our first game in UE4 and I have to say that I'm a game artist who has never used UE4 for mobile before, any recommendations where to start? I was surfing the web and to b…	1 Last	DLoud Mar 2017
Normal Maps going horribly wrong after import in UE4 Hey guys, I'm not exactly sure when this started but all I know is it's been a consistent issue with Substance and UE4 for me recently...Ever since I upgraded to anything higher than UE4 4.13... all …	4 Last	Tzur_H Mar 2017
Unreal Introduction/VR course Any introduction to unreal course incorporated with VR that someone can recommend me? Thanks :)	0 Last	White_wizard Mar 2017
Poll Poll - Would you be interested in and kind of Unreal engine tutorials I already made a few, they did not have a huge audience. I still have a lot of ideas about what I could make a tutorial or breakdown from, but I'm not sure if people need it. They would be mostly foc…	1 Last	melviso Mar 2017
Material Error I'm working on one of my materials, and now it won't compile and it's giving me this error. Know what's wrong and how to fix it? It has something to do with my Lerps when I add Heightmap to vertex pa…	3 Last	Stavaas Mar 2017
How can I make a smooth curved UV map to be use with tile texture for UE4? Hi, I try to unwrap UV map for a mesh like this one. And I want it to be usable with tile texture which the texture should be curved along the walkway.Though, no matter how I try to unwrap it, it wil…	4 Last	Obscura Mar 2017
Sphere and box reflection probes, when do I use them? I'm finding a lot of info about the differences in the two reflection methods, but not a lot in when one is preferred over the other. And I'd really like to know how they each generate reflections so…	5 Last	zombie420 Mar 2017
UE4 blank screen?! I dont know what happened but i randomly got this blank screen and now i cant get it back to normal???	1 Last	Obscura Mar 2017
Load a 360 video in a VR environment? Hey there,just wondering if it's possible to load a 360 video whilst in a VR environment, ie say you walk up to this kiosk and press a "Play 360 video" button, how would I get that video to play…	1 Last	rFranks Mar 2017
reenable lighting messages I disabled the light warning for screen grabs (using the "DISABLEALLSCREENMESSAGES" console command) for a presentation last week, and now I don't know how to re-enable that message. Anybody kno…	2 Last	JoshWilkinson Mar 2017
DFAO Interior Artifacts I posted this on UE4 answerhub but didn't have any luck there: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/570333/415-dfao-interior-artifacts.htmland I haven't made any progress with it yet so I'm ask…	0 Last	Bek Mar 2017
lighting effect in ue4 How can this lighting shaft be created in ue4?I am aware you can do this with direction light but is this possible for a emissive material? and in this case it would be a point or spotlight. I …	9 Last	melviso Mar 2017
Unlit material rendering darker. Anyone know why if you plug a texture in to a Unlit material in UE4, the result color is darker than the original texture, I did work around that by increasing the power of the texture inside the sha…	4 Last	rohMizuno Feb 2017
Lighting inside and outside evenly. Hey there I'm doing a demo VR app to show the academics for the university I work for.And I'm wondering how you guys do your lighting when you have a interior and exterior scene?I have this factory, …	2 Last	rFranks Feb 2017
Lighting problem Hello guys,I've been working on a scene, but I got some problem with the lighting. As you can see, we can clearly see the edges of every meshes.. Any solution ?Thank you very much !	2 Last	Nyumesis Feb 2017
UE Blendspace maybe a noob question, but didn't turn up anything online or in the forumsin 4.15 (and 4.8 from what I see in the tutorial videos), Blendspace has settings for Min/Max values, and number of divisions…	0 Last	Hito Feb 2017
Has collision changed since 4.13? Hey there,I used to be able to make a collision object that had multiple parts and custom shapes, such as what I did here for this factory fan...with the appropriate file name...but now in 4.13 if I …	0 Last	rFranks Feb 2017
Emissive properties as seen through glass disappear when looked at from a certain angle Hey! So I've got these glass beakers, and they have liquids inside which are emissive. As you can see in the first picture, the emissive property is working well. However, when the camera rises verti…	0 Last	Ashervisalis Feb 2017
Add key binding to VR template Hey there we have setup a Vive VR project using the VR motion control template but we would also like the keyboard binding of "W" to be there for forward movement since we want to try out this app (&…	1 Last	rFranks Feb 2017
Light Leaks I am in the process of working on my first UE project. Its going slow but I am learning a lot and love the program. Here is my latest build. I am using a skylight with a hdri map along with lightmass…	15 Last	Obscura Feb 2017
Tessellation issues within unreal 4 Hi all,I am having an issue with tessellation in Unreal 4. I am relatively new to the engine so go easy on me.This is the first issue i have come across:The mesh that this texture is on was built in …	11 Last	JamieMcAndrew Feb 2017
Bunch of technical questions, draw calls realted Hi guys,1. Draw calls vs texture res, what to go for?For example, a mesh with 3 materials, each material is a 1k texture. Or a mesh with 1 material but 2k map. Would it be the same case i…	2 Last	Vailias Feb 2017
[UE4] Distance Based Texture Tiling Hi guys!I made a material function a couple of months ago to overcome the issue of terrain textures visibly being tiled at a distance.It basically has multiple world-aligned texture nodes with differ…	8 Last	Molokotof Feb 2017
FBX scene import data issue?? Hi all,Having an issue for sometime with ue4. If I add a new mesh in my scene in the 3d package, on re-importing using the fbx scene data import, the newly added mesh being imported into ue4 displays…	1 Last	melviso Feb 2017
[UE4 Game] Titania: Development/Trouble-Shooting Blog Hi, Polycount! This is the development blog for our game, Titania. Along with my group mate, Frostygon we are creating a third person Arena Fighter. We are building this for our senior project at Fer…	4 Last	Woggle Feb 2017
2 lights, same settings, different results. How can I fix this? Hello, I am having some problems with UE4 lights and shadows. These lamps have exactly the same light settings, using same the ies light profile and being baked on the same wall. The one on the …	2 Last	mine Feb 2017
[VIVE] Confused how to setup Level Streaming with VR How do you guys setup streaming levels with VR using the Motion Controllers?ie if I start a new VR template, duplicate the "MotionControllerMap" three times and call them "000", "001", "002" where "0…	1 Last	rFranks Feb 2017
animated characters Can anyone recommend animated characters or low poly people to use with in unreal? I am new to UE and I have started to bring over my scenes from 3ds max but I want to add people to them. Any info or…	2 Last	alexworx Feb 2017
saving unreal key bindings I just set up my unreal key bindings on my work machine and would like to bring them home. is there a file that I can copy to a flash drive?	2 Last	JoshWilkinson Feb 2017
Editing Nav Mesh Bounds Volume Hey there,just trying to setup where VR users can navigate in my factory and was wondering if there was a way to edit the Nav Mesh Bounds Volume since I'm having issues where walkways don't join up, …	1 Last	rFranks Feb 2017
Generalising Lightmaps HELP! Hey guys looking for some help here! I have been tasked with coming up with a solution to baking lights into models inside ue4. Looking to create a general scene that the artists can run their buildi…	2 Last	musashidan Feb 2017
Unreal engine If I start a new project using unreal 4.13 and try to open it on my personal computer using 4.11 would it still work because I'm having trouble trying to open up my scene?	3 Last	musashidan Feb 2017
Dynamic vector based snow Hello, I'm working on a level on kind of a snowy mountain, and I want to use vector based snow for stuff that would be covered in it, this I know how to do but I'm wondering if there is any practical…	1 Last	BoueeDeSecours Feb 2017
Top Down Render of Terrain Hello,I'm trying to create a very high resolution render of my terrain in a top down view. I want to be able to have a super large picture where I can zoom into a tiny area like 5 meters x 5 meters a…	0 Last	apollo580 Feb 2017
3dsMax / UE4 Tools Hey all, Finally finished the complete toolset! I have put it up on Gumroad so I can push out updates through their platform, which is neat. You can view the tool on gumroad [URL="https://gum.co/Gr…	115 Last	McGreed Feb 2017
Static Mesh Animation Import. I'm trying to import some static meshes into UE4 with simple transformation animations, no bones or anything. I've asked on the UE4 forums, and it seems possible [quote]You don't have to use bones, …	6 Last	musashidan Feb 2017
PS4 Controller input problem in Unreal Engine Hey, I just wanted to set up my ps4 controller to controll the X and Y axis of my char for a presentation but somehow my ps4 controller is not really connected with Unreal.For example if I press the …	0 Last	Tobi_dono Feb 2017
(UE4) Wiring multiple uvs to one texture sampler Is there a way to wire multiple uvs to one texture sampler rather than duplicating the texture sampler each time you want to use different uv settings for that texture sampler?Thanks	4 Last	melviso Jan 2017
Unreal for casual game- UI fx question I have a client requesting UI fx like sparkles, button hiccups, etc. stuff we'v done in Unity but need to quickly adapt to doing the same in Unreal. Anyone here experience with that workflow and can …	1 Last	Obscura Jan 2017
UE4: Terrain/mesh Normal Blending [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv8wjMGGGDM[/ame] I just watched a video about a Unity3D feature that allows Level Designers to seamlessly blend staticmeshes into the terrain. It seems to be do…	28 Last	duke Jan 2017
Shader Performance... overdraw? Hi,I'm doing a very simple test inside Unreal with some vegetation that I created for another engine, when pressing F5, Unreal shows the shader complexity for that given pixel, when I set the camera …	4 Last	GlowingPotato Jan 2017