Unreal Engine

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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
Accidentally clicked Game View Mode; whole level went black I'm new to the Polycount forums. I'm learning UDK in my spare time and as part of a non-credit college course. I've been working on a level making tutorial for several weeks now. I haven't finished i…	2 Last	ambershee Jan 2013
Useful UDK HLSL Trick Hey folks, I found a really neat trick when working with custom HLSL nodes in the UDK material editor and wanted to share. As of right now, to pull in a texture as an input (assuming you want to me…	24 Last	ambershee Jan 2013
texCubebias blurred reflections How would one go about making a shader in UDK that blurs a reflection? I cant find any info on blurring a cube map in the engine unless maybe in the dx11 version. I want to do it in dx9. Would I hav…	7 Last	dralex789 Jan 2013
HLSL - Scene Texture in a custom node ? I'm currently testing some little things with the HLSL custom node in UDK and I'm wondering if there is a way to use the Scene Texture Sample node as an input ? I would like to perform something like…	3 Last	Ryan Smith Jan 2013
Skeletal Mesh/Physics Asset reacting to wind or gravity I have a dangling lamp. It's skinned and rigged with bones. I imported it as a skeletal mesh into UDK. I created a physics asset it for it and also a physical material. I want the object to sway back…	0 Last	theonewhoknocks Jan 2013
My UDK Kismet Scripting Thread Hey everyone, I thought it would be good for me to share some of my kismet scripting and general UDK tech art. For full details on my scripts you can check out [url]www.hatchiedesign.com[/url] and f…	5 Last	McGreed Jan 2013
Pawns sticks with several actions [IMG]http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/534152TopicImg0.gif[/IMG] Hi guys, I have a pretty unpleasant issue, the "Move to Actor" from the AI actions doesn't seem to work correcly. Actually, when I s…	3 Last	AmbiguousPackage Jan 2013
UDK Skin Shader HLSL Hi, Its me again and this time I present a Final piece : [IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1812933/Images/SSS/image_01.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1812933/Images/SSS/image_02.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]h…	7 Last	TheMetaMorphe Jan 2013
UDK Asset Managment OK, this is really starting to annoy me. I've got a level, and I've got a package with one texture that I was using, but it is not being using any more, so I deleted it, right? Well, now every time …	2 Last	sprunghunt Jan 2013
Need help making a mirror material I am trying to create a carousel that has mirrors as part of its decorations. So I was following the directions found at this site: [url]http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/DevelopmentKitGemsCreatingDisto…	2 Last	CourtT Jan 2013
Weird shadows after building lights Hi! I get these strange shadows when i build my lighting. image 1 - strange lights [URL]http://i.imgur.com/38dmY8o.jpg?1[/URL] the model im using looks like this, as simple as it could be. [URL]http…	5 Last	AmbiguousPackage Jan 2013
UDK not recognizing 3rd UV Channel ::UPDATE:: I'm afraid my lack of sleep has caused me to make an unnecessary thread. I just figured out my problem was the fact that I was still using Actor X for my props. Exporting as FBX fixed my…	0 Last	EvilPixills Jan 2013
having issues with lighting UDK Hey been doing some practice with UDK, but I have encountered a problem, with my lighting, I think it has something to do with my light maps any help would be appreciated. Here is a screen shot of th…	5 Last	AmbiguousPackage Jan 2013
Terrain Resolution I've built a terrain and having trouble making the res on my rocks look crisp. I'm pretty well versed in the material node network, but the mountain texture is not scaling the way i want it. I import…	2 Last	james567 Jan 2013
Draw Distance stupid question: how can I adjust the distance where the textures drop off and become fuzzier? It seems that I can only see ten feet in front of me before everything becomes all blurry.	3 Last	Santewi Jan 2013
Creating 'cell-shaded' materials for static meshes Longtime lurker, first post. I wonder if anyone might be able to point me in the right direction. I am pretty new to UDK, but I have a fairly good handle of modeling/texturing and level design in th…	1 Last	Ace-Angel Jan 2013
BSP, and games I heard a little while ago on this forum that games are moving away from using BSP, should I stop using BSP all together??	10 Last	blankslatejoe Jan 2013
UDK Newb Questions: Lightmaps & Geometry! Hey everyone! I'd like to start by saying I do have a generous amount of experience when it comes to modeling / texturing in Maya. However, my UDK knowledge was basically none two weeks ago. I'd ult…	20 Last	ZacD Jan 2013
I have a mesh that needs 2 materials what do I do Please any help would be appreciated	9 Last	Jacky Jan 2013
Animating using matinee and lighting I just have some questions after animating a fan using matinee last night. From what I understood I had to convert the static mesh to a mover in order to get matinee to animate it. But when I conver…	3 Last	r4ptur3 Jan 2013
Bad Normals, WTF? Why is UDK doing this? :poly127: [IMG]http://s20.postimage.org/5qvbm6yel/spheres.jpg[/IMG] [URL]http://s20.postimage.org/5qvbm6yel/spheres.jpg[/URL] OK, in this first image, you have two identical …	6 Last	Ace-Angel Jan 2013
take damage overriding my main animation. please help can anyone help me on this problem: its for a school project. [url]http://youtu.be/G96BxjNYKIA[/url] where do i disable this?	17 Last	JZChughtai Jan 2013
Material White Dot Artifacts ------	13 Last	SeanO'Connor Jan 2013
Issue importing apex cloth sim I have an Apex cloth sim setup and working well in Maya. I followed along with the Nvidia tutorials: APEX Clothing Tutorial with Maya using a Trench Coat: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJSUO…	1 Last	r4ptur3 Jan 2013
Screen Space Fresnel Reflections-UDK Hey guys, just got done making this video to show off a new material surface. The surface uses the rendered scene (basically a screenshot) to produce reflections per-frame. The video explains it bett…	25 Last	Scorpyx Jan 2013
materials wont show The user and all related content has been deleted.	3 Last	Ace-Angel Jan 2013
speed tree import failed...Help Hey guys I am having a big problem with speed tree. When I try to import the srt file into UDK, the Import fails. This is very frustrating as I am trying to create a jungle scene. On another form I s…	1 Last	SeanO'Connor Jan 2013
How to prevent UDK from LOD lightmap resolution in-game? Hello, I have a problem. This is my scene in viewport: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/dBog9.jpg[/IMG] This is my scene in-game: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/A0Lwz.jpg[/IMG] I get horrible seams due to light…	5 Last	Dee Jan 2013
Animating wrinkles and muscles on a Low-Res Mesh [B]Hi everyone,[/B] Recently I've figured out a way to animate things like wrinkles and muscles on a Low-Res mesh during the animation of the SkeletalMesh. As i've never seen any tutorial on th…	0 Last	gizmo1357 Jan 2013
UDK Shadow issue OK, I am just going to throw the question out there first to see if anyone has run into anything like this first. Then if I need to get more specific I can post examples etc. First off I cannot get …	21 Last	TDub Jan 2013