Unreal Engine

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Anisotropic hair shaders for UDK Hey Polycount, I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to point me in the direction of where I would be able to find a anisotropic hair shaders for UDK to use for character hair? I have be…	0 Last	barnesy Sep 2013
Lighting Channels not working? I'm trying to use lighting channels to prevent certain lights from talking to certain static mesh actors. I thought the proper way to do this was to use Lighting channels, but I can't seem to get it …	11 Last	dawson_john Sep 2013
UDK asset polygon limit? Hi im wondering what the polygon and texture limitations would be to import an asset into UDK. If anyone could provide me with information or some links to a site with these details it would be great…	12 Last	Mikeronomicon Sep 2013
Ruined Train station- udk Lighting question Hello, I have been working on this scene and I am trying to fix the lighting and shadows and give it a better presentation, what would be the best thing for me to do in this situation? I added a seco…	7 Last	badger5 Sep 2013
Material ID Problem in UDK Hey guys, I have made a character and I originally had 3 material ID setup for it , 1 - body (armour suit) , 2 - head and 3 - hair However, I have tried to add a 4th and 5th for the eyes and the t…	3 Last	barnesy Aug 2013
UDK, xNormal and tangents : what the hell is wrong ? Is somebody able to explain me why this happen : [IMG]http://www.froyok.fr/archives/uplo/002/importtangents_problem.jpg[/IMG] I'm using Maya x64 2013 + FBX 2013.3, and also UDK November 2012. My nor…	47 Last	Defaultsound Aug 2013
Help with rotating rings inside material Hey guys, I have a material that has various animated parts using panners and rotators. The specific problem I am having is with a rotating disc-like element. I want the outer segmented ring to rota…	10 Last	Vailias Aug 2013
Loss in saturation from Youtube compression I've been trying to do different renders of my environment using the movie dump command in UDK.exe shortcut. The outcome of the screenshot sequences are correct in saturation but when I render it out…	2 Last	HakiMaterial Aug 2013
Multi Mesh Complex Mesh - Lightmass Hello all. I am in need of help with getting the light mass uv channel to work correctly with a mesh with multi meshes. After unwrapping all my meshes, and doing every ones "light mass" uv I get pr…	12 Last	r4ptur3 Aug 2013
Making Meshes Independent for Vertex Painting? Hi everyone, I am making a room with wall pieces that are copy's of the same static mesh. When I vertex (try to) paint every one also receives it like they are not copy's but more like instances. D…	3 Last	r4ptur3 Aug 2013
Screen Dump Won't Capture Light Shaft's Effect? Right, so, I'm trying to capture a small video of my environment in UDK. The weird thing I noticed is the screen dumps wouldn't capture the light shaft's effects from my dd light when I start up the …	5 Last	HakiMaterial Aug 2013
Master Material Starter Kit Hey everyone! I've been working on a new project in UDK and set up a Master Material just to get everything started. While there are many wonderful examples of master materials on the web, there ar…	17 Last	Lazerus Reborn Aug 2013
Lag issues with UDK Lately I've been experiencing lag and non-responsive issues with UDK, when I go to create and import textures/materials in the content browser. This never happened before I updated to July's version.…	5 Last	Ace-Angel Aug 2013
Optimizations with cubemaps One of the big concerns as I start the next part of my project is cubemaps and reflections. My environment is very shiny and sci-fi, and will be heavily dependent on cubemaps. As far as my understa…	7 Last	/anty/ Aug 2013
Creating assets for RTS Terrain, Need Pipeline help Hey Polycount: So at USC, we're making an RTS in UDK. [B]How do I go about creating modular pieces of flat terrain that level designers can fit together on their own? [/B] My conceptual understandi…	4 Last	ambershee Aug 2013
Lighting Dynamic Objects properly? Hello! I am having an issue with interpactors in my level, I am currently unable to light them properly from all angles. As far as I know, dynamic objects can only have one light source. This means…	8 Last	Graylord Aug 2013
Multiple Import Problems Hello Polycount : ) I have a problem import a model to the Editor. I want to import a house. I use Cinema 4D for the exporting my fbx. The problem is my model is splitted in like 10 Parts. When …	7 Last	Radiocity Aug 2013
How would you go about implimenting this into UDK? so i'm working on trying to emulate as much of the UE4 tech paper that was released a little while back. [url]http://www.unrealengine.com/files/downloads/2013SiggraphPresentationsNotes.pdf[/url] s…	6 Last	almighty_gir Aug 2013
Up Vector + HeightMap Blending - Demo Hi Guys, thought i'd just share the fruits of my labor for the past 3 days. Been working on a technical shader for the UDK that procedurally blends in a texture onto a rock mesh based off of that ro…	22 Last	Beno09 Aug 2013
Normal mapping a simple box. Hey everyone. I'm trying to learn more about UDK so I'm making an interior environment. A simple square cardboard box is giving me trouble. I've tried every way I can think of to do the UVs and the…	10 Last	Quack! Aug 2013
UDK - Collision Not Applying to Mesh So every other object I apply to collision works, yet I have a simple floor tile that is essentially a box and when I try to apply collision to it nothing happens. I mean it updates and no longer say…	4 Last	Hourences Aug 2013
UDK light leaks Hey guys, ive come across this problem when baking my lighting in UDK [IMG]http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/846/z1ym.jpg[/IMG] This is an example of whats happening, ive got a green light in the inside…	2 Last	riklopes Aug 2013
Lighting question I made a building using bsp and a few simple materials, but when I bake my lighting on high or production the shadows seem to come out a bit rounded. What am I doing wrong? [IMG]https://lh5.googleus…	3 Last	Xendance Aug 2013
UDK Material Reflection behaviour similar to Marmoset? So I'm trying to make it so that the Specular Texture would control the color of reflection as well as the intensity of reflections like in Marmoset. I have my material tree set up like this so far:…	17 Last	Santewi Aug 2013
UDK/Ddo Lighting Problem Hi, I am currently working on a spaceship interior in UDK. I have made all of my texture maps using Ndo2 and Ddo. I just started compiling today when i noticed a few issues with lighting. For starter…	18 Last	Santewi Aug 2013
sort of IBL in udk So I was fooling around with trying to mimic what stuff like marmoset/dDo previewer does. This is my attempt so far, if someone could maybe have a look at it, see how it could maybe be improved or if…	12 Last	Shrike Aug 2013
collison problem Hi guys, there seems to be a collison Problem in my Level. It started when i build a Matinee multiple camera cinematic. Now I cant run through my Level anylonger. Only in certain parts of the Level…	1 Last	GarfSnacks Aug 2013
Weird shading error in UDK I've got this weird error in UDK. I made a really simple crate and I noticed that it didn't get shaded correctly in the engine. And I wanted to figure out why. This is what it looks like when I impo…	6 Last	chrisradsby Aug 2013
Distort a texture correctly Hey guys, I'm trying to achieve a distorted texture effect using a radial gradient. The effect i'm going for is a sort of paper weight magnification, however it produces this nasty ring effect, (Th…	1 Last	mAlkAv!An Aug 2013
MIC Warning messag! Hey guys,, I have an onscreen message in skyblue color that wont go away while playing the game. MIC: SetScalarParameterValue : Modifying'WavyDistortionMaterial_INST' durning gameplay. ParamName: …	5 Last	tuxmask75 Aug 2013
Taking It To The Next Level I've been working with UDK for about a year now and I've done some minor stuff here and there. I was wondering if people could show me a few pointers so I can improve my work and hopefully get paid f…	0 Last	DarkUnicycle Aug 2013
Top Down Game Hi, I have been looking into TOPDOWN tutorials. I have the camera set and I can spawm too. The only thing I haven't solved is that the player is shooting into the ground. What steps are needed to …	7 Last	Vailias Aug 2013
Post process streched and squashed Hi guys, i'm attempting to display a texture on screen for post process. In this case its a circle.... However the texture is stretched and squashed. It seems to take into account screen aspect. Is t…	16 Last	tuxmask75 Aug 2013
Tessallation Problem bug? Well last version of udk when I select FlatTessallation the preview goes crazy and in game too. But when I go to the game and switch to the editor works fine, I close the game and other time crazy. …	2 Last	leleuxart Aug 2013
Matinee/kismet camera switching and character following path I just watched a Video on youtube [url]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_0eGXMMrSZ0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D_0eGXMMrSZ0[/url] I need to have multiple cameras in my scene that r all switching after an…	1 Last	r4ptur3 Aug 2013
Matinee Lighting Animation Hi, my fellow PCer's. I've been doing some trial and error to figure this out but failed to find an answer to this lighting problem in matinee. I'm trying to get this result: [ame="http://www.youtub…	5 Last	r4ptur3 Aug 2013
Engine drawbacks to using a 3rd UV channel on mesh? Man, I've been posting a lot lately, but I'm not having luck with the search features. I have a few meshes that are pillars that need all of the UV space so the high to low poly bake doesn't overlap…	1 Last	r4ptur3 Aug 2013
Cascade maximum particle count I'm trying to create a basic snow particle effect for an environment I'm making, but I'm having some troubles with the cascade system. I've created a nice looking particle effect but I can't seem s…	6 Last	imbueFX Aug 2013
Lighting problem with mesh So I just made this floor thing, same way I do all other meshes and same way I do lightmaps, but some areas and brighter than others..... [IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img593/6118/zbts.png[/IMG]	7 Last	Xendance Aug 2013
Landscapes giving me a crashy time, help appreciated Hey everyone, I've been fighting with this issue for a couple of days now and would very much appreciate any advice you might have! I have a pretty large and intense scene with a 4033x4033 size land…	1 Last	chrisradsby Aug 2013
Should I be worried about this warning message? Hey guys, had a quick question: I have to manually apply a material to an already placed static mesh that was imported with multiple materials applied to it. I figured out that I can go to the stati…	5 Last	Hourences Aug 2013
Maya exporting character with skelton I Need some help on this One I got a character that consists of two Parts (Main Body and tshirt). When I skinned the character to the skeleton the tshirt was only parented to the main body. And t…	4 Last	r4ptur3 Aug 2013
How many materials are too many? (Or too complex) Hey all, I'm putting together a little project where all the walls are based off a master material I put together so I can just use a few textures for the different walls then vertex paint different…	8 Last	sprunghunt Aug 2013
BEST lighting for Turn table Hi, I want to do a turn table of my character and use 2 or 3 lights. What is the best types of lights to use? How can I get great self shadowing? What would be the best tutorial? Thanks.	8 Last	olivierth Aug 2013
Setting up UDK for portfolio renders? Hey, Anyone know how I would go about setting up a scene in UDK that would allow me to render out good quality pics of my character models and such? I have quite a bit of experience in unreal but no…	31 Last	CognizanCe Aug 2013
Landscape Texture When I am trying to paint textures onto my landscape I cannot remove them via "CTRL-Shift-Left Mouse Key" Any idea why its doing this maybe I have the wrong keys?	2 Last	Hourences Aug 2013
Vertex Paint vs Decaling vs finding better solution Hi, I am pretty much a newbie to all ends, this forum, game development, and especially using UDK. I have several years in basic modeling and texturing in Maya. I am really interested in being able…	6 Last	Blubberblase Aug 2013
Is there a "right" way and a "wrong" way to set up Alpha blends with Vertex Painting? 1) Is there a "good" or "bad" way to set up the alpha blend for vertex painting? Is it just preference based on aesthetics? 2) I'm trying to understand why this behaves the way it does: [IMG]http:/…	4 Last	mister_s Aug 2013
Big environment in UDK Hi Guys, Posted this in the waywo forum, didn't catch anyones fancy, so I thought I'd post closer to home ;) I teach UDK at a vocational college in brisbane, australia and my big holy grail is to c…	2 Last	ultramedia Jul 2013
Help!: UDK no longer letting me export my (BSP) static meshes. No Source data availab The only reason I post this is it was working fine before. I block out my level in UDK then convert to static mesh and export as obj. I don't understand why it stopped working. I get this error.…	3 Last	Hourences Jul 2013