Unreal Engine

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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
Video Capture in UDK 2x Speed playback? Whenever I test my map in Unreal Editor when I use the startMOVIECAPTURE command in the editor it saves the movie in my movie folder, but when I play back my movie in windows everything is moving a…	0 Last	darkmanx_429 Oct 2015
Animation Transitioning When preparing animations, such as, idle, walk, run for Unreal. What is the best method for having animations that transition smoothly between the different actions? Using idle, walk, and run as an e…	3 Last	ZaqSchlanger Oct 2015
Frame rate comparison between 2 games (high graphic vs low graphic) on the same gpu? hi all, (Eng is not my 1st lang). my question is how a high graphic game can give me 35-40 FPS on my gpu, while another game (a game with really small map/level and not high on polygon) can't even re…	4 Last	RockWarrior Oct 2015
FBX animation import issues Trying out UE4 for the first time. Made a simple block man with a no-frills rig, direct parenting for the body parts, and simple 3 keyframe animation. When I export from max as an FBX (same as writte…	3 Last	PolyHertz Oct 2015
maya GMH 2.6 hello . i have probelem for bake map in GMH 2.6 if i click in bake i have message erreur if you have solution. [URL=http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=437494Capturehh.jpg][IMG]http://img11.host…	0 Last	lahbibforce Oct 2015
UE3 - KF2 Contest Mask Texture To create reflection, Subsurface Scattering, Glow and Lens Effect in Killing Floor 2, i will have to create a texture that uses black and white information in the RGB/A channels in the texture. The p…	0 Last	Arnout Mantje Oct 2015
Building kits in UE4? Lots and lots of pieces... I'm still fairly new to the UE4 engine. I was wondering if anybody had any tips on how to export out multiple kit pieces into the engine in a quick manner. I'm using 3dsMax as my 3d editor. What I'…	13 Last	passerby Oct 2015
UE4 technical tutorials chapter 2 - Healer pad - custom actors, actor components This is the second chapter of my technical tutorial series. In this chapter, I will show you how to make a custom healer pad, that heals the player, when he is standing in it. It will be also able, t…	0 Last	Obscura Oct 2015
"Potion Bottle" Prop shading technical question I've done a few searches around the forum but I can't seem to find a answer entirely relevant to what I'm looking to do. I have a concept I'm working on similar to this, [IMG]https://s-media-cache-…	0 Last	BeardedMike Oct 2015
Distance Field Scale? Hey guys, I was able to activate the distance field shadow without too many problems. The issue come with the quality of it. I have medium props/architecture that really doesn't render well (lots o…	5 Last	ZacD Oct 2015
Roughness in UE4 I am noticing that textured appear way less rough in UE4 than in Marmoset Toolbag 2. I spent a lot of time adjusting my textures using Marmoset Toolbag to have right amount of roughness. But then th…	5 Last	EagleTopGaming Oct 2015
How would I create a shader like that? Hi all, for a university project I'd love to achieve a rendering style similar to the project overdrive trailer from lol in unreal engine 4: [IMG]http://s1.dmcdn.net/N9gQO/854x480-60N.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]…	0 Last	Shyralon Oct 2015
Media Texture on Static Mesh Has anyone had sucess with this? I'm trying to align a video file I made with my TV messh. Every other video I've seen on this, they apply it to a BSP, which you can scale/ stretch the texture on it,…	17 Last	Scizz Oct 2015
Decals Is there a way to have a decal texture sheet full of decals and somehow have a mask for each one that the decal actor can switch between? I'm currently trying to figure it out but thought i'd ask he…	6 Last	Der Hollander Oct 2015
UE$ lighting compile help Hey guys I am trying to build lighting in my ue4 scene but I am having way too many issues with the bakes. Heres how it looks in preview mode [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/pLSEz6M.jpg[/IMG] - The l…	0 Last	Jimonions Oct 2015
Roughness in UE4 The SRGB option is checked by default for my roughness texture which for some crazy reason is always "Color" even though the file is in fact 8-bit grayscale when I export from Substance designer. So …	1 Last	WarrenM Oct 2015
Texture variation / Texture Memory usage I have this rafter piece which will be repeated in game. The textures are made using Substance Designer and I have possibility to make infinite variation by changing seed. My question is, is it acce…	0 Last	yaschan Sep 2015
Anyone know how to do a good Toon Shader like in Gigantic? in UE4? [IMG]http://i.ytimg.com/vi/CP0BRaoqr-A/maxresdefault.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://d1kxj2jbxosm41.cloudfront.net/content/gigantic/images/media/screenshots/thumbs/4ddc5031-d01a-40e7-b7cf-cd2eabfe8b9f.jpg[/I…	7 Last	Xendance Sep 2015
Translucent clouds shadow effect UE4 Is there a way to make a cool looking fake shadow effect from for my translucent clouds hovering over earth? Or can I only use the opacity mode to get cool cloud shadows? My scene is completly dyna…	1 Last	elwebbaro Sep 2015
World Gird Material URGENT Hi guys, I have been working on a project all day and all of a sudden when I save I am asked if I want to save the world grid material. I'm not sure what this is or whether I should be changing it …	1 Last	Vailias Sep 2015