Unreal Engine

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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
Udk importing textures - purple/fuzzy Hello, I'm sorry if there's a thread already on this but I don't know how to explain the problem..so I can't really search for something that I don't know the name of. So here's the problem- I put a…	2 Last	GenericGoodGuy Jul 2013
Material ID limit? Hi, I've got a character with [COLOR=MediumTurquoise]8 material ID[/COLOR] in 3ds max and they all have the same multi/sub material applied to them before export. When I get into UDK all I have is […	6 Last	olivierth Jul 2013
UT3: Creating face masks for characters? Hey guys, I want to make a mask/ face accessories for UT3. I downloaded ONE of the iron guard UT3 males as a .fbx file that epic made available, but [SIZE=4][B]how do I ensure that what masks I mak…	5 Last	Vailias Jul 2013
DirectX 11 Lighting/Shadow on Player Weapon Oddity Note: I need to take some screen shots, but I'm worn out. I'm just going to throw the question out in case it is something dumb, recognizable, and can be easily fixed. Whenever I turn on Direct X11 …	0 Last	mister_s Jul 2013
Transparent & Opaque Decal I haven't had much luck in finding a tutorial (might be using wrong key words) on how to make a decal that is both transparent and opaque with desirable results, so I figured I'd post mine here. J…	3 Last	Harbinger Jul 2013
Import mechanical animations to UDK pipeline Hello folks, quite new here, great forum you got here :). I have a quite simple question. I am aiming to import an animation to UDK of a button being pressed. The animation would be quite complex, s…	3 Last	SopMod Jul 2013
Ocean, again :) Hi guys, I'm working on new ocean shader for my project. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h795SUTUOc"]Previous[/ame] (not my!) realization was actual for "yesterday", but today tech allows us t…	17 Last	passerby Jul 2013
Particle ribbons's material lagging behind the object/particle it is attached to So, I'm trying to create this kind of motion blur effect on a lightsaber blade. I'm using a mesh for the actual blade and a ribbon particle with SpawnPerUnit module to spawn the ribbon when the blade…	1 Last	imbueFX Jul 2013
Open World Game Hi polycounters, I have a question bothering me for some time, what is the workflow of creating maps for an open world game. Let's say for ex. Guild Wars 2, or other mmos out there. I think that th…	4 Last	passerby Jul 2013
Shadow Problem Even after giving this simple modular planar mesh a proper light map in a second UV channel I get these horrible blotchy shadows.How can I fix this? Please note that: -I have already created a second…	1 Last	Santewi Jul 2013
Shadow Problem Even after giving this simple modular planar mesh a proper light map in a second UV channel I get these horrible blotchy shadows.How can I fix this? Please note that: -I have already created a second…	0 Last	danscott Jul 2013
Tutorials for noobs Hello guys Moving from CE3 to UDK and need some basic tut's to get me started, there are a loads of them on youtube but I am sure you guys know the best ones. Cheers Pete	6 Last	Obscura Jul 2013
boost light bounce ? Hi everyone ! My first post here, so i hope it's ok to begin with a question :) I have some problem to configure the light for my scene in UDK. I make a map with both interior and exterior.…	13 Last	passerby Jul 2013
Tilling normal on another normal map Hi, I've got a character with normal maps and I want to tile another norm map on it without destroying the base normal. I've tried a "blend_overlay" to mimic what I would do in photoshop but the re…	14 Last	Vailias Jul 2013
Problem Importing Textures - UDK crashes Hi, I'm having a problem importing textures. I save the texture as a .tga at 512x512 from photoshop and when I import it to UDK it crashes! Every time! file size: 512kb using UDK July 2011 Any h…	5 Last	PeteHawk Jul 2013
Skeletal Mesh Custom Lighting Heyo, running into a problem here using Custom Lighting in UDK. While using Skeletal Meshes with a Custom Lighting Material, adding two or more lights into the scene results in weird shadowing artif…	4 Last	wahtye Jul 2013
Invisible Light Actor, lighting my room in UDK, that shouldn't be I have two identical rooms I have textured and lit in UDK. The first one looks great but the second one on a couple of the walls give off a red hue. Not what I'm looking to do. I've tried deleting…	0 Last	acealmighty13 Jul 2013
Extending Dominant Directional Light So I am working with a version of the UDK that doesn't have this actor class extended to a moveable state. This is the extension I have .fctbNone{ color:#000000; } .fctbStyle4Style11{ color:#0000…	1 Last	Vailias Jul 2013
Blend_Overlay: bad behaviour I'm trying to use the alpha channel of my normal map to be tiled and [COLOR=MediumTurquoise]overlayed[/COLOR] on the diffuse but I'm getting a big problem. It feels like the [COLOR=MediumTurquoise]bl…	7 Last	olivierth Jul 2013
normal map with alpha? Hi, I want to have a normal map with an alpha. I tried saving the normal maps with the alpha as a [COLOR=MediumTurquoise].tga[/COLOR] and imported with the [COLOR=MediumTurquoise]TC_NormalMap[/COL…	3 Last	Zocky Jul 2013
Update material nodes thumb? I can't remember the shortcut to update the preview of all nodes. Any help? Thanks.	2 Last	olivierth Jul 2013
Landscape Deleting Component Help! I know this questions is pretty common, but i have yet to find a solution to fit my current problem. Going based off the UDN Site for the recommended Landscape size. [URL]http://udn.epicgames.com/T…	1 Last	wes.sau Jul 2013
Apply transformations to multiple instances of a static mesh at once? In my case, I changed the pivot point of a modular piece after I had placed many instances of it in UDK, so when I reimported after making changes to it, all of the pieces I had placed were rotated 9…	3 Last	Subtle 1rony Jul 2013
Spawn Animated Skeleton Mesh (Not a Bot) from Actor Factory and Move Hi, I am trying to Spawn an animated (Skeleton Mesh) animation (Looping or Rigid) from the Actor Factory. Then I want it to move from one point to another (Left to Right). I got it to Spawn from Ac…	0 Last	sventhors Jul 2013
Limit the amount a value can change per frame/smooth blending So, I'm trying to create this dynamic tonemapping postprocess. I calculate the brightness of the screen and then use it to brighten/darken the image if necessary. The problem is, I can't come up wit…	3 Last	Santewi Jul 2013
Need some UDK help [FONT=Courier New][SIZE=3]I am trying to follow this tut. I think because the tut was created three years ago the settings have all changed. While he is creating his level he has a checker pattern s…	4 Last	fifftyframes Jul 2013
Can't find specific tutorial Hi, I remember seeing a tutorial about character presentation in UDK and it was with a mass-effect-like character that looked like a volus. I looked for it but I just can't find it anymore... I …	2 Last	olivierth Jul 2013
3DS Max --> UDK FBX export with animation Hey guys, this should be a pretty quick question. I'm trying to export an animation (with no heirarchy, it's literally just movement and rotation of a single object) with FBX, and I'm not sure how to…	11 Last	Roca Jul 2013
Lightmap compression always on ingame Hi, i have disabled lightmap compression in the config files but i still get the compression while ingame, while in editor it's fine. Is there another config file besides lightmass.ini where i need t…	3 Last	Blubberblase Jul 2013
Render Passes Hey, even though I almost completely ruled it out, are there in any way Render Passes while using the Material Editor, as there are in common shader languages? Would be pretty helpful with achieving…	1 Last	sprunghunt Jul 2013
UDK lightmap problem Hey all! I'm making small map, and i'm having problems with baking lightmap. I made 3 assets, each having two uv sets. The second, shadow map, has no overlapping faces, and it is snapped to grid as…	17 Last	Laguna88 Jul 2013
Switching materials from black to white and repeat I want to create a material that goes black then white and it keeps repeating this. What do I need to do in the material editor to achieve this?	3 Last	Evil raz Jul 2013