Unreal Engine

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UDK runs very slowly; advice on speed up of program? Hello! I've noticed that as I put more and more in my level, UDK starts to run very slowly. This is especially true when I go to test my level. It will run frame-by-frame with no fluidity and makes …	2 Last	SonicBlue Mar 2013
Weak imported vertex color Anyone know why vertex color imported via FBX from 3ds Max is super weak in UDK? Even if I plug it directly into Emissive, it's very weak, like pastel colors.	12 Last	System Mar 2013
foliage lightmaps? I've been working on a cornfield for a bit and am loathing the results I get when I bake the lighting. What I would like to see is the lighting light the corn stalks and create high and low lights th…	4 Last	System Mar 2013
World position offset, reset problem I've got an issue with a material I've been working on. It's an ocean shader using world position offset and some sine/cosine nodes to distort the surface like waves. The problem is there's a really …	1 Last	Norron Mar 2013
Translucent material pass behind distortion. hey guys, I cant seem to set up the following scenario correctly. lets say we have flat plane with a water material using translucency and also distortion. You also have a character or object with…	3 Last	Froyok Mar 2013
My material editor is missing the Texture Coordinate node I'm trying to adjust the map channels of my materials but I can't without that node. Any reason why it would be gone?	4 Last	Chase Feb 2013
Rotation Animation Import I am doing a simple rotation in 3ds max of a fan spinning. There is no bones in the mesh. I know i'm suppose to import the object as a skeletal mesh. I know im suppose to bake animation, and also I k…	4 Last	Hourences Feb 2013
Create heat lightning effect in UDK? Hello, I would like to create a "heat lightning" effect in UDK (lightning that only goes from cloud to cloud with no sound). What is the easiest way to accomplish this? Any help would be greatly app…	2 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2013
Obscura - UDK Materials Hi! I made a "little" material to test the vertex painting features in UDK. Just want to share, for some feedback.Its for any tile type material. This is how it looks in instance. [IMG]http://imagesh…	0 Last	Obscura Feb 2013
Importing Animation I have seen in projects, that people use animations from other games... Now my question is, how would one do this? I myself would like to use an animation from Battlefield: Bad Company 2, but I don't…	2 Last	Sensonomirai Feb 2013
Crazy glow on side of the screen? Hey polycounters, I am having some crazy weird glow on the side of my monitor when i am in game preview mode. It isn't there when editing normally but as soon as you press G the glow appears and is …	8 Last	Xendance Feb 2013
UDK, scripting, and examining objects I'm looking for some general advice, and you seem like the people best-able to help. I'm fairly new to the UDK, but I do have experience with several other 3D engines, with Flash/Actionscript, and w…	3 Last	Smashbox Feb 2013
Weird light splodges on mesh Hey Polycounter, So i'm working away making some light maps and all is going well until.... I get some crazy splodges of light all over my mesh. -I have upped the resolution to 1024 to be sure -Ch…	0 Last	Benjam Feb 2013
Help with kismet apex destructible kismet throwing rigid bodies I was watching this video [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYPEE-abGpA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYPEE-abGpA[/ame] and was wondering if anyone knew how to set up the kismet nodes to make th…	0 Last	Psychotic_Mike Feb 2013
InterpActor selected; Matinee says it's not Hello, I'm having trouble adding a Matinee sequence to my InterpActor (in this case, InterActor_8). I have it selected (I think?) and when I try to create a Matinee sequence for it, I get told nothi…	1 Last	blankslatejoe Feb 2013
Re-creating floor shader [Help] Hey guys, I'm about to embark on creating a level with a few friends and I'm aiming to recreate the floor shader as shown here: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ4wjHYYvzU"]http://www.youtube.co…	4 Last	explodingseashells Feb 2013
Vegetation shader issues Right, so I am working on this environment. And is currently in the process of making the vegetation and foliage for the scene. And I am facing two problems with the shader. This is the first time I …	6 Last	KMNettelbladt Feb 2013
Disable left-drag movement in perspective view? Left-drag in the viewport makes the camera move around. Is there a way to disable this somewhere in the settings? I'm using a tablet in UDK for mesh paint, or painting on a Landscape, and suddenly …	5 Last	blankslatejoe Feb 2013
Reflection RenderToTexture2D Troubles Hi guys, trying to get some reflections setup in UDK, i'm using a SceneCaptureReflectActor that's going into a RenderToTexture2D. You can see my material setup below, the result in-game and just a sh…	2 Last	FrostWolf Feb 2013
SSS Shaders I was curious to know how people here handle skin in UDK. I tried out the SSS feature of the DX11 renderer, and frankly I thought it looked like a pathetic excuse for SSS. That plus the DX11 renderer…	17 Last	migusan76 Feb 2013
Random function? Perhaps I'm overthinking this, but I can't seem to figure out a way to have a random(or at least different) pattern of using separate masks. I have to figure out a way to get certain parts of a textu…	7 Last	blankslatejoe Feb 2013
UDK scripting trouble I added my new animetree at my UTfamilyInfo_Mario. But When I start the scripting I have this (also a lot of unresolved error) [IMG]http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2013/07/1360948650-error.jpg[/I…	5 Last	MarianneM Feb 2013
TextureRenderTarget2D woes - 3/4 of the screen is green Hey guys, so...this is confusing. I have a ScreenCaptureReflectActor>TextureRenderTarget2D set up, and it produces a reflection properly in the viewports, but as soon as I play it, the reflection tex…	3 Last	l1kel1ke Feb 2013
Inconsistent lightmaps for modular pieces Hey guys, I've been looking around for solutions to this issue, but I haven't been able to find a way to fix it. I've redone my lightmap UVs a few times to test it out, fiddled with lightmass setting…	7 Last	shabba Feb 2013
UDK Alpha Shadows not being built Hi everyone, as the title says I'm having a problem with alpha shadows not being built on to my ground mesh. After doing a bit of searching through the internet I couldn't find any fixes. [IMG]ht…	8 Last	KingUNREAL Feb 2013
UDK Landscape has Black Spots Pretty much what the title says. My landscape has these black spots that I'd like to get rid of. I found these two 'fixes' from a Google search, but everything goes right over my head. [url]http://f…	0 Last	Burrill Feb 2013
Saving Locations for Progress Screenshots in UDK Hey guys. Just wondering, is there a way I can save certain locations within my working UDK map file? I want to take progress screenshots as I'm working on a scene, and I was just wondering if UDK h…	3 Last	PogoP Feb 2013
Neutral Grey Issue Hey, been running into a problem recently regarding the neutral grey values of the UDK Material Editor. From my understanding Constants are set up representing the 0-255 Color Values into a range fro…	2 Last	wahtye Feb 2013
Dutch Angle for camera? So in my WIP thread someone suggested I try and use a Dutch angle ( [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_angle[/url] ) for my portfolio shots. Here's the thread for reference: [url]http://www.p…	2 Last	J0NNYquid Feb 2013
UDK Cascade - Pawn particles at start of anim The thread title doesn't really explain what I need help with but I'll try better. I'm trying to make a bubble pop effect by spawning mesh actors instead of particles and having a panning wavy mater…	5 Last	Visceral Feb 2013
Rotating models in UDK (lighting issue) Hey guy's I'm having a problem with my lighting in UDK, This happens after bake and before, there is nothing wrong with the model or lightmaps. (that i'm aware anyway) :) Here the specular is worki…	47 Last	spicejustin@gmail.com Feb 2013
Emissive/Static Lighting B.S. So I have a little light on my wall; it's a friendly little modest light consisting of only 236 triangles. It's glowing because the relevant emissive map that I have plugged into my emissive proper…	0 Last	punchface Feb 2013
UDK Bink Video kismet help! Hi there, ive modeled a arcade cabinet of the mortal kombat 2 arcade machine, ive taken it into udk and i have a bink movie of the mk2 game running on it. very nice ive manage to use movie texture to…	0 Last	michaelbas Feb 2013
Specular highlight not lining up between modular meshes? Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone might be able to help with a UDK problem that's been puzzling me for a few hours. I've imported a modular mesh, given it tiling diffuse, normal, and specular maps,…	3 Last	Angry Beaver Feb 2013
Spectacular Specular Failure OK, so this is not a [URL="http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=115707"]new issue[/URL] for me. It basically goes something like this: No matter what I do, UDK mangles my specular. Now tha…	2 Last	JoshVanZuylen Feb 2013
Antichamber's Art Gallery-like chamber's tech Hellows! I just played Antichamber for the first time (you really should all play it, it's ... interesting! xP) and I came upon this Art Gallery-like chamber that did a technical thing in UDK that I…	14 Last	LuCh! Feb 2013
UDK- unable to paint terrain layers Hey guys, I'm having a bit of an issue concerning painting terrain. I've set up two terrain layers, and I can seem to paint the heightmap/topology fine, but it isn't allowing me to paint the second t…	2 Last	ambershee Feb 2013
Maya / UDK Orientation issue Hi all, I've been running around in circles on this one following various tutorials and just can't fix this issue. The problem is I have my blockout vehicle rig in Maya, following advice: - It poi…	0 Last	nathdevlin Feb 2013
UDK - Tree canopy normals/3D motive Foliage [COLOR="Orange"][B][Solved]: Answer two posts down[/B][/COLOR] Helloes! I have a question about a problem I seem to have bumped into, if someone else might have come across it. I were working on so…	2 Last	Erafic Feb 2013
Wonky tesselation results I'm working on a dirt road right now but I'm getting some terrible results with the tessellation. I have spikes that grow and shrink with camera positioning, making the whole thing look like water wh…	2 Last	LoTekK Feb 2013
UDK tiledshot vs. alt+prt screen Alright, I've got a question I assume has a fairly simple answer. When I take shots of my environment I'm building, I really like the quality I get with the tiledshot command. However, it messes wi…	4 Last	Ace-Angel Feb 2013
Foliage mode applying to static meshes Looking at the [URL="http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/Foliage.html"]foliage info on UDK[/URL], it tells me that I can apply foliage to static meshes. I don't know what it is, but I can't seem to do tha…	1 Last	ZacD Feb 2013
vertex offset in mesh paint? [img]http://i.imgur.com/jVxzSxO.jpg[/img] In my shader, I'm trying to use vertex offset when I mesh paint but I can't seem to get my vertices to recede; only protrude. Could be worth noting that I'm…	1 Last	sprunghunt Feb 2013
mix map vertex painting If I understand this right, I can blend to textures together using vertex painting. I must insert two maps into the A and B channels of a lerp node and then apply an alpha expression to the alpha to …	2 Last	zombie420 Feb 2013
Camera Vector Widget Question IF I plug a camera vector into the emissive and mask out the R and G, I get an expected result. The opposite of a fresnel basically. No matter how I orbit around the preview sphere. But... When I ma…	2 Last	King Mango Feb 2013
Normal Map Decals? Howdy all! I have seen (at least what I thought was) a way to use a polycard or decal material that would inherit the texture of any surface below it (or just be transparent) and apply a new normal w…	2 Last	Airhendrix Feb 2013
How can I fix the UDK normal seam? Hello guys! At the moment I am learning how to use UDK and 3dsmax. I usually work with Maya and Unity and I want to make an Portfolio Environment using different tools. I done a simple cube to work …	5 Last	PacoCasares Feb 2013
Crosshatch Shader Shadows Hi everyone! I'm trying to create a crosshatch shader in UDK, but I've run into a few issues. The problem is that I want to have the shadow as a custom texture, instead of a color/value change, but C…	3 Last	Otixa Feb 2013
Textures and Terrain - tiling and procedural texturing in UE3 and UDk Hi all - I'm teaching myself UDK, and to help flesh out a design portfolio that I'm going to spend the next 2 years building I'm also teaching myself UE3 so I can easily use the textures and static…	12 Last	King Mango Feb 2013
Having a severe case of shadow acne - dynamic lights only Hello. I'm trying to create a day / night cycle using a Dominant directional movable light. While animating my light i found that the scene is having this severe case of shadow acne. Been researching…	15 Last	Dante_mL Feb 2013