Unreal Engine

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Applying a variety of materials to mesh LODs (mousedrop) Hello everybody, I am posting this question here after inquiring on [URL="https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/179812/applying-a-variety-of-materials-onto-mesh-lods-mou.html"]Answerhub[/URL] a…	0 Last	GC_Vos Mar 2015
L3DT/World Machine to UE4 ... tutorials? Hey guys. I'm familiar with setting up landscapes in UDK with landscapes, and I realize the process isn't much different in UE4, but do any of you know of any tutorials specifically for UE4? I swea…	9 Last	filthy_sandwich Mar 2015
[UE4] Z-Axis Oriented Material Issues Hi, So I am working on a moss shader for a project I'm working on. The purpose is that have the moss show up on the Z-Axis in world-space, so that when I rotate my mesh, the moss only appears on the …	7 Last	nfrrtycmplx Mar 2015
Smoothing Groups -Soft or Hard Normals On Alpha Cards used for Tree Canopies in game What is best practice for getting good real time rendering of tree canopies in game? Should I soften all edges in Maya before exporting or keep the Alpha Planes all hard edges? Most of these planes …	2 Last	synergy11 Mar 2015
Lighting/Normal/Building issue - Drowned normals? Hey fellow Polycounters, I've been having an issue in UDK. I'm working on a scene that has sexy normal maps but and it looks great in the previewer til I actually build the lighting then most of my…	12 Last	Elliot Lucak Mar 2015
Best Practice Texture Settings for Normal Maps in UE4 Good afternoon. I am importing normal maps I baked to a plane to use as tileable textures. I was wondering what the best settings were for the Texture properties and the Shader Properties for normal…	4 Last	synergy11 Mar 2015
Projection materials I made a few projection materials for Unreal Engine that I've decided to share with the community. For now it has triplanar world based, local, wood, and a spun metal material. Let me know if there…	0 Last	electricsauce Mar 2015
[WIP] Hair Material with anisotropic reflections for UE4 Hi all! I'm making an anisotropic reflections hair material since few days ago. [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4817133/UnrealForums/TracerHairLite.gif[/IMG] [IMG]https://dl.dropboxuserco…	7 Last	ZacD Mar 2015
Black Areas in Lightmap Hi folks, pretty new Unreal user. I am trying to build the lighting in my scene, but when I do, get ugly black areas around some of my UV seams. Not sure why; no errors pop up when building the ligh…	4 Last	alecchalmers Mar 2015
Rotating a Vector Displacement Map I have a vector displacement map and want to rotate it dynamically (in UV-space). Below, is an image to outline the current set-up. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/0J8Cw4u.jpg[/IMG] The world-space coordin…	1 Last	paradoxical-pixel Mar 2015
Mesh Particle Not Spawning Child Emitters from Collision Hi guys, I have an issue with a Mesh particle I created. It's a missile that's intended to collide with a vehicle used from the free vehicle demo. Once it collides with it, I used an EventReceiver Sp…	1 Last	Jimster092 Mar 2015
Please help - Which FBX emporter version do I need for Maya 2013? Good afternoon. I have Maya 2013 and I need to use FBX version 2014 as per the Unreal engine 4 docs. I can't seem to find a download for it from the Autodesk site. Where do I find the downloa…	2 Last	synergy11 Mar 2015
Ground Cover Foliage Lighting Hi all! First post, first(ish) project. Can anybody point me in the direction of a general explanation of how to get UE4's lighting to work well with foliage objects (double sided planes spread with …	4 Last	teaandcigarettes Mar 2015
Placing SpeedTree tree's in UDK? So I'm working on a project with some people, one guy is making the tree's in SpeedTree and I've got a large terrain to place them in. UDK won't let me use the foliage tool to place SpeedTree tree's…	1 Last	OakesSpeedTree Mar 2015
Loopable texture with panner node I'm trying to emulate fluid movement with a panner node and time function but it doesn't loop it just goes up and then starts again when a period of time end. I have currently solved it by putting a …	2 Last	dzibarik Mar 2015
Translucent materials for fluids and plastic I was wondering if it is possible to get good results with the current shader model for translucent materials if I want to make a plastic material for syringe and fluids. I've tried to play with the…	1 Last	dzibarik Mar 2015
Beating up or "Arting" up the frame in post FX The user and all related content has been deleted.	0 Last	[Deleted User] Mar 2015
Foliage shading/lighting issues Hey guys, I've been struggling with this for about 2 days now. Tried to watch the unreal material series at their website but it didn't really delve into foliage. So, I've made this grass, and I'm h…	6 Last	devonmousseau Mar 2015
Pivot Painter Script for Maya? I was wondering if anyone knows of any Maya scripts to paint vertex colors procedurally. Similar to what Pivot Painter does: [url]https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Content/Tools/PivotPa…	0 Last	tach Mar 2015
[Blender Addon] UE Tools Hi guys, one week ago I've posted an addon for Blender I did in order to improve my workflow from blender to Unreal engine 4 (I hope it serves to successive versions). Note that I am not a programme…	4 Last	Neoekamp Mar 2015
UE4 Asset / Material Import Issue [IMG]http://www.codywright.com/THRONE/rubbleissue.jpg[/IMG] When importing, it added 1,000 blank materials as well as the 5 shown above. And the asset is black. I am importing using FBX. I gener…	0 Last	Cody Mar 2015
blueprint class and matinee not working together? hi everyone! i created a level blueprint with matinee to open selected doors. okey and now i want to populate with it my level. now to copy it it's not a good idea, there is no any instance option to…	0 Last	teho Mar 2015
UE - 16bit texture support and Compression settings Hi polycommunity, I have question about 16 bit texture support in UE4, if UE support this and wich compression may be used for this. I have 16 bit grayscale textures, as heightmap, specular,.. and R…	0 Last	PetSto Mar 2015
Unwrapping, Texturing modular assets Hey guys. any chance that someone could explain to me how you texture assets for UE4? Please tell me if my workflow is correct or if I'm messing something up, I constantly have the feeling that I'm d…	4 Last	Special KBS Mar 2015
Matinee movie partly showing meshes Hi guys, We are currently working on a cinematic short movie. But when I render out a shot using matinee movie, the vehicle is showing up out of the blue and shortly after the character appears…	5 Last	Vailias Mar 2015
UE4: Curved Translucent Surface [IMG]http://i.gyazo.com/d0d118fb2b964ab1a05022dd732906f7.png[/IMG][IMG]http://i.gyazo.com/9ca220514328df69b2543d3ce6820aa1.jpg[/IMG] This is a staticmesh with one material applied to it. The materia…	13 Last	billymcguffin Mar 2015
"Hard Edge" on UV Seam. [SIZE=2][FONT="]Hi there. I am having what seems to be a lighting issue with my house model in UE4. At the two corners of my building I have my UVs cut. On these seam lines is where the issue …	11 Last	Farfarer Mar 2015
UE4 Blueprints limits hey, so with all the hype around UE4, I've been seeing and reading about how much one can do with blueprints. At some point I figured that maybe its easier to list what you CAN'T do with blueprints?…	0 Last	linkov Mar 2015
UDK Cascade collision issue I recently purchased the 3D Motive UDK Cascade Sparks tutorial and went through it and it looks exactly as the tutorial's final product. Which is great. The collision detection works great when I'm…	3 Last	acealmighty13 Mar 2015
Maya rigging toolset - messed up viewport Hello, I installed the rigging toolset from ue4 and I got the messaged "If your settings are set to use Y up in Maya(default), you will be shown a dialog letting you know that the world settings h…	0 Last	LeeMeredith Mar 2015
Unral Engine 4 - Mirrored UV's, normal map problem. Hello all! I've created a simple asset with mirror modifier. I wanted to try out if normal map will work... and it does not. My UV look like this [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/mkRT5cf.png[/IMG] I've uwr…	3 Last	dzibarik Mar 2015
Decals fades away So i'm working on a project thats going to have a lot of grafitti on walls, but i can't seem to get the decals right. I tried googling it and found some things about it, but when i try to set my mate…	3 Last	stefmen Mar 2015
Lightmap UVs are overlapping by 15.8% Error Hi all, So I keep getting this error message in UE4 about my lightmap for a particular mesh that says "Lightmap UVs are overlapping by 15.8%" When my lightmap is not overlapping at all. I have 2 cha…	6 Last	stefmen Mar 2015
Reflections in translucent material Hello, I can't seem to get any reflections on translucent materials, the moment I change the material type to translucent all reflections vanish like so: [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/318…	6 Last	huffer Mar 2015
Harsh Blue Lighting Artifacts Hey guys, I've been working on a scene and it's all been alright until all of a sudden after a light bake these strange, harsh, blue errors started popping up in the areas of the scene that a mostly…	0 Last	Garasin Mar 2015
Asset texturing in Mudbox, issues Related to asset creation - does anyone use Mudbox for texturing objects? I have a problem where projection painting using a 2k seamless texture map applies really low-res looking textures on my obje…	2 Last	hippowombat Mar 2015
UE4 Crashing on Reimport of Static Mesh Having this problem of UE4 crashing every time I try to reimport a static mesh I updated in Maya. I go and hit reimport on the static mesh in the UE4 Content Browser and UE4 immediately crashes. I kn…	1 Last	Vailias Feb 2015
Does SpeedTree UE4 work with UE3? Hey guys, my university hasn't transitioned to UE4 yet and I need SpeedTree but all I can find is the UE3 demo and the UE4 full version. Does the UE4 full version of SpeedTree work with UE3?	5 Last	Arnage Feb 2015
What does this mask do? Can someone give me a brief explanation as to what this kind of mask does? It's in the SciFiHallway map that comes free with the editor. I understand he's using a master material template, but the …	5 Last	MeshMagnet Feb 2015
Vehicle Tutorial Problem I've been working through this [URL="https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Physics/Vehicles/VehicleUserGuide/"]tutorial[/URL] and I have got to the last step and run into an issue I have no…	3 Last	Vailias Feb 2015
Depth of Field Post Process on Liquids? Hey everyone, I'm a student and trying to set up a render shot for my scene and I'm having a problem with some post processing effects on my liquids. There Guassian blur is effecting everything in my…	1 Last	divi Feb 2015
World Machine to UDK workflow [HELP] Okay so I'm making some large terrain but I think there are some problems with my workflow because I'm at a bit of a halt. I need some advice. I start by creating some rough terrain in World Machine…	5 Last	repete Feb 2015
Disappearing Shadows Why are my shadows disappearing? First screencap shows shadows from the boarded up windows, but when I move away from them, they disappear. [img]http://i.imgur.com/kZOzlb3.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.…	2 Last	narticus Feb 2015
Vert colour blending material Hello! I am trying to set up a material where all of its colour data comes from the material itself (read: no diffuse maps), that can then be vertex colour blended up to 5 times. My material looks …	15 Last	Vailias Feb 2015
UDK - Fog to water shader transition problem Normally I try to be self-sufficient but I'm at a loss here. Note this is UDK [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/vXlc8Uy.png[/IMG] Water shader is Blend_Translucent/MLM_Custom and currently allows fog. Is…	0 Last	DriveJunky95 Feb 2015
Unreal engine 4 translucent material problem? Hi, I have this problem when i'm trying to make glass cabinets. When i look around parts of the glass seems to disappear? I figured this is mainly a technical issue where i have to change engine se…	2 Last	jorisky Feb 2015
Lighting rendering incorrectly [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]Hi all,[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]I have encountered a strange lighting issue, some areas of my meshes in my environment are ligh…	8 Last	aiqbal Feb 2015
Light Direction Vector Disabled in Pixel Shaders - Does a Solution Exist? I've noticed that UE4 doesn't allow one to access the light direction vector when creating a pixel shader in the material editor. I understand that we are now in the age of physically-based renderin…	4 Last	Xendance Feb 2015
Various UE4 related questions Hi guys,needed this topic for all the doubts I have,I'll put them all in this place :) Todays doubt is regarding this tutorial page about baking normals for UE4 [url]https://docs.unrealengine.com/la…	11 Last	Marcus_Aseth Feb 2015
Quality Foliage Hey, I'm currently working on a variety of foliage assets - however the tutorial series I have been following is for UDK, whereas I'm working in UE4. It hasn't been a problem until now - creating mat…	9 Last	paradoxical-pixel Feb 2015