Unreal Engine

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Ribbon Trail Particle Troubles Hey all, I have a fairly specific thing that I want to do with a ribbon particle, but I can't seem to find a tutorial that explains exactly what I want to do. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/YE7bde4.png[/I…	0 Last	Valliant Mar 2014
UDK Frontend Cooking: Failing to compile material. Hey guys, I have a pretty big problem, I am using this ocean shader I made which is fairly essential to the scene I'm creating. Which works fine and everything in the editor and when I launch the UDK…	10 Last	Fogbrain Mar 2014
Which part of my custom code edits the weapon range? Hey guys.... ...quick question.... [B]Which part of my custom code edits the weapon range?[/B] As you can see in the image below, I am able to use my fire extinguisher to 'hit' a target from about…	3 Last	JValencia Mar 2014
[UE4] Normal problems when exporting from Maya Hello everybody, as probably many of you I'm currently testing the new awesome Unreal Engine 4. In the last week I tried to have an overview of the new amazing features. Today I started to import som…	5 Last	JoakimMellergard Mar 2014
Toon eyes for udk So I want to add a toon style character in to the UDK engine and animate it. However this toon character does not have perfectly spherical eyes rather it has flat eyes. Which I could animate in a m…	2 Last	VisceralD Mar 2014
Entire Level Animation Bit of a noob question for you animators out there and those proficient with UDK, but is it possible to animate your entire level? For example, the level I'm making is based out in the ocean and I w…	11 Last	Butthair Mar 2014
UE4, Blueprint, Material instance independence Does anybody know if it is possible to have material independence when using instanced materials and blue print. Basically I have a mesh set up with Blueprint where I am exposing one of the colour v…	5 Last	Beelzeboss Mar 2014
How do I kill an enemy/bot with 5 hits...? Hey guys... Quick Question.... [B]How do I kill an enemy/bot with 5 hits and show a voice announcement each time he is struck?[/B] This is something I would have thought would have been right up t…	1 Last	Butthair Mar 2014
Decal cast on Opacity masked material Have a bit of a problem with decals at the moment. Projecting a decal onto some geometry with a Material using Opacity mask. It seems that the decal is only interacting with the geometry only, is th…	4 Last	Butthair Mar 2014
Mask from Math in Material Editor I want to create a mask in my material that is generated from maths rather than a texture. I want to be able to create a simple white square in a particular coordinate to use as a lerp mask but can't…	6 Last	mkalt0235 Mar 2014
Learning Scaleform 4 (AS3) quick and easy? Hello! I'm working with several friends on a game and they gave me the task of creating a custom HUD for it. I'm no fan of Canvas HUDs limitations so I thought it would be a good idea to make a Scal…	2 Last	repete Mar 2014
[UDK] Player Position-based Material Recently, a coworker posed a question to me: "How do you pass the player position to a material in UDK?" "Well, couldn't you just use the CameraWorldPosition node? The player and the camera are so c…	17 Last	tuxmask75 Mar 2014
How do I kill a fire from a safe distance with 5 shots? Hey guys, [SIZE=2][B]How do I kill a fire from a safe distance with 5 shots? (and yes, i do mean in UDK! lol)[/B][/SIZE] [B][I](This question has been broken up into two parts)[/I] [/B] [B][U]Part …	1 Last	Butthair Mar 2014
Scaleform HUD errors. Help! Hello! I'm working on a Scaleform HUD and my ActionScript (which is directly copied from [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8oM808ETWs[/url]) is having some really interesting errors. The screens…	1 Last	Butthair Mar 2014
How do you extend the loading screen time? Hey guys, another 'quick question...' [I](think thats gonna be catchphrase from now on! lol)[/I] [B]How do you extend the loading screen time?[/B] I have created my own Bink movie to replace the s…	0 Last	jonm4y Mar 2014
Custom Gloss Maps Hello :D I've just begun learning UDK this week and I've been playing around with the material editor, which is really cool, but gloss maps have me stumped. I am aware you can make your own gloss m…	14 Last	Fogbrain Mar 2014
Recreating line/rope effect from another engine Hi, I want to recreate the sign and railing from this image in UE4. [IMG]http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/2/25628/2410783-2013_01_10_00001.jpg[/IMG] In Unity it's a simple render line f…	0 Last	Armageddon Mar 2014
Tips for a new UDK user? I'm traditionally a 3DS Max user and my aim is to produce some real time environment artist pieces. I've seldomly used UDK, with the only thing I know right now is how to switch the renderer from Di…	4 Last	Fogbrain Mar 2014
How can I hide the HUD but keep Voice Announcements on?! hey guys, quick question... [B]How can I hide the HUD but keep my Voice Announcements turned on?![/B] By using the 'Toggle Hud' option in Kismet I can turn my HUD on or off no problem, but in doin…	0 Last	jonm4y Mar 2014
Importing a sphere. Why so hard? Hi there. I'm working on a small game for my portfolio. I've followed some UDK tutorials before, so I'm somewhat familiar with how the program works, but I'm not an expert. Before I created too many…	8 Last	Steohawk Mar 2014
Massive waves I just started playing DS 2 and I noticed, that water shader for the sea is just awesome. They have massive, big waves and the water is constantly in motion. I was wondering how would you people go …	2 Last	Elodin Mar 2014
How do I Trigger a Trigger using just 'Used Triggers'?? Hey guys, I'm trying to create a sequence of 'used triggers'. IMAGE 1 : Here is my scene. 3 x light switches on a wall and 3 x lights. The game begins with no lights being shown and as each trigge…	3 Last	JBaldwin Mar 2014
UDK Game Stats Hey guys, I'm trying to get the Game Stats visualizer to work, but after following multiple tutorials, I'm wondering whether if it will work at all! I have the July 2011 version, so not sure if it'…	0 Last	powney91 Mar 2014
Collsion prims Hello all, How does UDK arrive at the collision calculation below, it has me baffled: [IMG]http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o791/repeteor/UDKcollisionPrims_zpscf96ebbb.png[/IMG] and the collisi…	6 Last	repete Mar 2014
3Dsmax to UDK Flipped UVW's Problem Ive created a model in 3Dsmax 9 and am importing it into UDK (the new one) there is no real problem until i apply the normal map ive created and then i see some bad shading going on where ive flipped…	8 Last	tarickTDS Mar 2014
Custom Hotkeys... I have been looking around and found out where to add or edit hotkeys (UDKInput.ini) but the problem is I don't know how to achieve the hotkey result I want. I want to assign Z, X and Y to quickly ro…	2 Last	passerby Mar 2014
Glowing Texture So i have two questions [LIST=1] []How do I make a texure glow without effecting the color of the texture []How do I export a custom game type when packaging... i only get deathmatch when i expor…	2 Last	iZac Mar 2014
Toggleable Lights Error I have toggleable lights in my level that are just using the toggle node in kismet to turn on and off when the level is loaded. They work fine until I build the lighting. Once lighting is built the l…	0 Last	Lite Mar 2014
Textures looks jittery/blurry? Hi guys, I've attached some screenshots I took in UDK. I've been making a level for some time now, and today, when I loaded up UDK, my scene suddenly looked really different for some reason. When I …	3 Last	Obscura Mar 2014
Lighting Help! Hi guys! I'm in the middle of attempting to light an interior scene with multiple rooms. I've looked at so many tutorials, but with everything jumbled together, I just can't get there. First of al…	1 Last	LMP Mar 2014
Emissive Material Lighting Issues Hey all, I've created a hologram style material that flashes and does a few bits and pieces. It's fine in the material editor and the material itself when in the scene before lighting is built is f…	2 Last	Katastrophi Mar 2014
Realism in the material using color Hello guys, I'm trying to make a material using the color black, the problem is that in a matter of diffuse, Meshe is not realistic and is a very large constrast in the scene around it,I tried to do …	7 Last	ToRuKMactO Mar 2014
scene capture reflect actor tiledshot issue Hi there, I've found a similar thread here from couple of years back but the solution was just to use a "shot" command, which doesn't help me, cause I need high res screenshot. I have a small scene…	0 Last	knj Mar 2014
Multiple Materials on Assets I've been working on a scene that has a couple single objects with quite a few materials applied to its surface. I was wondering if it was more efficient to break this object up into many different o…	5 Last	BKegerise Mar 2014
no lighting on bsp After doing a light build, some bsp is not being lit up, example attached below. I've cancelled the lighting, did preview and production lightbuilds, but a few places remain unlit.	2 Last	haarp Mar 2014
UDK: Increasing strafe speed So basically I'm making a game which has two players in the same view port, and both players are forced forward automatically like in temple run. because of the camera its important that both players…	0 Last	Danielj_B Mar 2014
Setting 3DSMAX units for UDK Hi everyone, I'm trying to create a small level with real buildings using plans. But I can't set the units right in 3DSmax to get the same dimensions in UDK. In a tutorial to set units in max, I le…	9 Last	WarrenM Mar 2014
Multiple Textures on one Mesh I may know the answer but unsure. If you create multiple textures for one mesh, is it doable to apply those different textures when the mesh is copied and placed in the same area, to give a pillar o…	3 Last	Henrik F Mar 2014
Serious lighting issues in UDK Ok so I'm just going to start by saying that I do not have a good understanding of lighting or displaying my work in UDK. I have modelled and UV'ed the major assets of my scene (I use maya), and crea…	3 Last	Shift` Mar 2014
Need Help with Close to finish game Alright I have a few MAJOR issue problems with my game thats about finished [LIST=1 [*]Walking up stairs [INDENT]Now I think I know how to change both my height and my walkablefloorz in the pawn.uc …	5 Last	Neavah Mar 2014
Performance; drawcalls, etc. Hi there!!! I have been looking for an answer about performance over the internet, and is still not clear to me: ¿Which of these options give me best performance? EXAMPLE 1: One material for t…	2 Last	kw71 Mar 2014
Eye reflections Eternal gratefullness=answer to my query. A screenshot of the material setup needed to recreate the "window in the eye" reflection...that stays in place even when the eye rotates. I have the "eye bu…	3 Last	BaNaNaSpliTTer Mar 2014
Importing custom cubemap into UDK Since UDK no longer supports importing custom made DDS textures, I wonder how I can bring in a cubemap that was saved via ATI's CubemapGen tool?	13 Last	mAlkAv!An Mar 2014
Imported static mesh has faceted edges problem (3ds max to UDK) Hi. I have imported in a static mesh from 3ds max to UDK and the static mesh has really visible faceted edges. This is a problem because the mesh does not hold the aesthetic qualities I am aiming fo…	2 Last	Spencer_Holmes Mar 2014
Persistent seams Hello PC, I guess this is another one of those seam question posts. I've been working on this amphora shaped phylactry: [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15894243/Polycount/Urna.png[/IMG] Th…	8 Last	Froyok Mar 2014
[Noob Question] Work Flow Question I am pretty stumped by this , after watching a few people develop environments inside udk. 1) How would you go by introducing content to the udk? I currently import each static mesh separately, and…	4 Last	acealmighty13 Mar 2014
Multiple 'Use' Keys Hi guys I'm making a level in UDK, and I have triggers that allow the player to open doors and draws etc, with the default 'Use' key being 'E'. My question is this - when a player opens a draw, I wa…	3 Last	powney91 Mar 2014
using bitmap in specular power slot. Hi, so I've tried researching this but can't seem to find a straight answer. I have an asset in UDK where part is glass and part is not glass. Glass needs to be glossier than the rest of the materi…	16 Last	passerby Mar 2014
Open Tube Collision Hello all, This is boiling my head and at my end I can't get proper collision on open tubes/cylinders. Collision mesh capped & polys flipped: [IMG]http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o791/repeteor…	3 Last	repete Feb 2014
GI-ing with point lights Hi! I was testing, how the oldschool gi-ing with point lights could look in UDK, and I think it looks pretty good, and not looks too expensive, even if I use it in a bigger scene. I was thinking on t…	17 Last	Obscura Feb 2014