Unreal Engine

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Working with decals I have a scene that needs a shit-ton of decals in it, so I was just wondering , rather than saving each one out individually is there a way to create a 'texture' atlas that where the individual decal…	3 Last	Obscura Feb 2016
UE4 POM Cost Hello,I'm working on a little thingy here currently with tessellation:But for performance reasons I'm switching to POM instead.My material consists of 4 layers and without tessellation or POM it's ab…	4 Last	Tetranome Feb 2016
Physically accurate material values Sorry if this was covered elsewhere already, I am very lazy and don't feel like looking.I was just wondering, in my final push to even out any technical kinks in my work - do people use physically co…	16 Last	Count Vader Feb 2016
Should I not be importing my complex objects as a grouped object? I am just trying to figure out if this is true, after reading around a few things. For example if I make a light fixture that hangs from the ceiling, do I need to combine the whole mesh into a single…	4 Last	zombiexm Feb 2016
Speedtree with Ideal Vertex Normals I need some help in getting my speedtree models to point their vertex normals out from the trees origin.I've been trying to attain good vertex normals in UE4's speetree editor with little success. Ba…	2 Last	Maximum-Dev Feb 2016
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Any way to achieve these kind of trees in unreal engine? I've been developing my game in Unity so far but because it lacks too many features to continue I decided to port it to Unreal Engine. Everything is working out so far but I have no idea how to port …	14 Last	Vailias Jan 2016
Sky in UE4? Hey Guys,So I'm making this scene right now:And somewhere along the line I must have deleted the standard skybox that comes with new Unreal Projects. I'm not sure when I must have deleted but I do kn…	1 Last	Auldbenkenobi Jan 2016
Questions about Light Map Hi guys, this is my first attempt to do light maps, I've read epic docs about it and made a couple researches and learn some rules and techniques to do such thing, but I still have some questions.1 -…	6 Last	musashidan Jan 2016
Partial Texture Removal in RealTime? Hey everyone,I'm fairly new to UE4 and still not knowing how everything works I was hoping I could get some help :)How do I remove a part of a texture to reveal another texture underneath, all in rea…	4 Last	leleuxart Jan 2016
Blending/Switching between Texture Objects UE4 Hey guys. I'm currently looking for a way to blend or switch between texture objects in UE4 so I don't have to eat the cost of my UV set up, and what happens after the sampler, every time I nee…	4 Last	s6 Jan 2016
Setting up a scene with HDR and gray background for presentation? Hi, I would like to create a scene to present my props and want to use an HDR with a gray background. Something like this. The above was rendered in 3DO however there are some projects that will…	0 Last	NinjaJoehenes48 Jan 2016
Bad Looking Skin in UE4 I am running into an issue with a character I am building, the skin is looking incredibly rough and unnatural. I am basing the material off of the "A Boy and His Kite" demo that was released recently…	1 Last	Marvin Mann Jan 2016
Get channel information inside Material Function Hey everyone, i'm not sure if this is possible since i've been trying to figure out how could i get individual channels from a texture inside a material function. To explain this better, this is how …	2 Last	Finalhart Jan 2016
Electric shocks like a game Halo How to make electric shocks such as when a grenade in Halo? You can see them in the picture.In Photoshop do it quite simply, I think in the shader in Halo uses this technique.https://youtu.be/uN4L9AS…	1 Last	divi Jan 2016
Shockwave Material? So I'm trying to recreate the distinctive expanding ring of dust and debris being kicked up from an explosion.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7U8-CqhYu0I don't just want to do it with a flat particl…	5 Last	passerby Jan 2016
Light Reflection Help I started learning UE4 a couple of days and I've come across an issue I don't know how to workaround. In the picture below you can see the red line running down in all 3 screenshots. In the…	4 Last	z3phon Jan 2016
Getting started in VFX Hey everyone,I'm entering my last year of school and am super interested in getting into VFX and things for games. I was searching for a good place to start by following a few youtube tutorials, read…	3 Last	The Vman Jan 2016
Why does my imported Fbx look like it hasn't been smoothed? So I'm making a scene in Unreal but this one import is giving me a lot of trouble, It looks like this in the engine:As you can see the topology is very clear even through the material. When it's supp…	6 Last	ZacD Jan 2016
Plastic/Metallic mesh when Vertex Color node is applied Hi guys!I´m having an issue with this particular shader.I've modified it to have the option to load vertex alpha and vertex color within the fbx imported. But whenever I check the option 'TRUE' the m…	2 Last	GAEG Jan 2016
Need help troubleshooting metal material issue in UE4 Hello,Need help troubleshooting metal material issue in UE4. Material does not look the same in UE4 as it does in Substance. Please take a look at the screenshots. The first two are from substance wi…	6 Last	leleuxart Jan 2016
UE4 - Rendering Out Movies With Matinee/Blueprints Howdy y'all,After a ton of head scratching and hair pulling (and a shitload of googling), I can't seem to find out how to render out image stills from Matinee in UE4. Basically, I've set up a few cam…	1 Last	Utility Dec 2015
Light Map misconceptions? I'm seeing conflicting information so before I start creating my light maps I'd rather weed out the wrong information. I'll just go over what I think is correct and you can tell me what's wrong and w…	17 Last	connect2infos Dec 2015
erm... reflective glass in UE4? Super newb thing, but I seem to be having trouble finding straightforward solutions to this so far. I just want glass with reflections (aka, you know, glass lol) It seems lowering the opacity value o…	2 Last	Count Vader Dec 2015
Does anyone know Tutorials on how to make GOOD lighting in unreal? (LONG) So, there's a wealth of tutorials out there on how to light in Unreal, but all of them focus on stuff like, how to lay out your lightmaps, what the difference is between a static or movable light, wh…	11 Last	ZacD Dec 2015
Double sided normals / foliage issuse. Hey all.. I'm working on some grapes in UE4. I am using double sided planes and have the material set to double sided but the back side of the normals isn't correct. It looks like the green channel i…	2 Last	cman2k Dec 2015
New free video tutorial on creating an animated transition material in UE4. Hey all! I've just finished producing and publishing a new video tutorial on creating an animated transition effect shader in UE4 for TGA Digital. Check it out! [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…	2 Last	Finalhart Dec 2015
Questions about Vehicle rigging Hello, I am new to this forum and I wanted to know if there is only one way to rig vehicles in Unreal Engine ?My workflow is to make the skeleton and bind it to the model in maya to be able…	1 Last	Finalhart Dec 2015
(UE4) Lighting still sucks I have all my light map UVs set (not overlapping), and no more degenerate tangent errors. Yet my light baking still looks like it does when these error do occur. What the heck is the problem? Could t…	4 Last	sprunghunt Dec 2015
Can someone point me to a tutorial or explain how they are doing this with Blueprints. I saw this Barrel Generator in the marketplace:https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/barrel-generator In the video they show off how you can adjust the grunge, change caps, dings, handles etc…	1 Last	Vailias Nov 2015
UE4 Physics parameters Hi. I imported mesh to UE4 and added FBX chunks. Now i want change physics parameters like mass, friction etc. separately for individual destruction chunks. How i can do that? I try using PhysX …	2 Last	Lee5.56 Nov 2015
Need some help to changing "r.streaming.poolsize 1000" to - 3000. Greetings! Read some place that you can change the Streaming poolsize for textures in Unreal Engine 4.Now they said that it has to be done in the console. The problem for me is that I can't locate th…	0 Last	EliasWick Nov 2015
Showing Widget/texture2d via button press? I'm currently trying to make a mechanic where when I go near a note, a note will pop up on the screen so the player can read it. I have a model of the note with a trigger volume on on it, and I want …	1 Last	blankslatejoe Nov 2015
Weird viewport glitch - need help! Hey polycounters! Has anyone ever had this glitch, where the viewport looks like if it was an orthografic view, but it's perspective, all meshes are transparent and flicker, and all the icons face to…	2 Last	Gadorian Nov 2015
Terrible shading errors with baked normal maps Hi,I have some issues using baked normal maps. Any tougher gradient gives massive shading errors, no matter what I do. The only solution is to use hard edges with UV splits at higher degrees.Baked a …	7 Last	JedTheKrampus Nov 2015
UE4 - Bump offset in a layered terrain material, possible? I have everything set up appropriately and I had a functioning material (displays properly) before I tried to add the bump offset functionality. When I hook in the bump offset node, to somethin…	1 Last	Limewax Nov 2015
I fail copying this Tutorial-Material-Network and getting the same results Hi Friends!I'm trying to copy this simple material network but I'm just not able to get the same results as this guy here in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOdTrIB5te0&feature=y…	9 Last	Vailias Nov 2015
Wrong post I couldn't find a way to delete the topic. Would one of the moderators be kind enough and delete it for me please? Thanks!	0 Last	Overon Station Nov 2015
What is wrong with my normals? Overall, my normals are really pixelated.But I feel like I'm using texture space well and I'm using a 4096 texture map. I just can't figure out why this is happening. I usually only model small objec…	3 Last	allengingrich Nov 2015
UE4 - Increasing lightmap-resolution increases Build Time drastically! Greetings! I have some trouble with Unreal Engine 4. I've been playing around with lightmap resolution to find out what the best lightmap resolution for a model would be in order for it to look good!…	6 Last	EliasWick Nov 2015
How to create Instances of Static Meshes? Topic How to create instances of a static mesh in UE 4? Cant find any info on this - is there a tutorial?	1 Last	Ispheria Nov 2015
UE4 technical tutorials chapter 3 - Usage of custom actors / Design This is the third chapter of my technical tutorial series...This chapter will be a bit different from the previous ones, instead of describing nodes and a "how to create this", I'm going to talk a bi…	2 Last	Mant1k0re Nov 2015
up vector Blending. World_Aligned_Blend Error - Please help Hello. I have attached a screenshot showing my shader setup. I'm getting an error when I try to blend the normal. It works for the diffuse. This is for a static rock mesh (with a unique bake). …	0 Last	synergy11 Nov 2015
Creating texture lines from nodes Hi everyone, sorry the title is so badly worded. I know this is also in the unreal documentation somewhere, but I simply cannot remember what its called, so it don't know what to look up!Any ways ple…	4 Last	Obscura Nov 2015
Concepting level design HOW? I'm having huge difficulties getting my head together in designing a level. How do you guys approach this? Do you model in 3d modeling package and then import to UE? Or model in UE using placeholder …	15 Last	licoriceTea Nov 2015
How do you create a lightmap for a Vase? Hello I've been having a bunch of trouble to create a lightmap for 2 vases, The result ends up looking horrible no matter of how I do it! Here are a whole bunch of images? Follow to link to see all …	3 Last	EliasWick Nov 2015
Rendering issue with modular assets Hi! English isn't my motherlanguage so I'll try to explain it as simple as I can. I'm building an modular enviroment in UE 4.8 and the pieces seem to be randomly rendered little darker or lighter tha…	2 Last	mjeruzal Nov 2015
UE4 - normal maps seams Sorry to be a pain but Ive done loads of hunting and not had any luck! Ive imported a mesh into UE and im getting these bas UV seams but I had no problem in maya and marmoset. I made sure its compre…	6 Last	Karamveer Oct 2015
Size Recommendations for corridors in UE4 Hello! Just want to know what's the best size for corridors in Unreal Engine 4? Width specifically and height but that isn't predicatively a problem.	5 Last	King Mango Oct 2015
HELP ! Exporting Opacity Channel to UE4 Hi guys. i am working on my graduation project, so i am using SP for the texturing. i switched the alpha blend shader, then played with the opacity for the helmet glass. everything is fine in SP, bu…	2 Last	issam.itmk Oct 2015