Unreal Engine

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UV Problem! All out of ideas! Hello, Im having a weird problem with a imported static mesh that is stretching its UVs or texture on only one part of the mesh. Pictures show it all. [IMG]http://hostingd.imagecross.com/image-hosti…	1 Last	tkfxity Dec 2012
Matinee and Particle Replay issue Hi, I am having some issues setting up a particle to record to Particle Replay track properly in Matinee. When I play a the recorded particle clip in Matinee, the particle stutters and flashes on a…	1 Last	Darklights Dec 2012
Best maya viewport shader to represent UDK Hi guys, im trying to make a modular environment but wondering if theres a good shader to test on in Maya so that i know if the material and normal is working correctly before i go into udk. Thanks!	5 Last	Ace-Angel Dec 2012
Strange shadows on mesh Hi! I am getting these strange shadows on my mesh, what should i do to smooth them out? Dont want those nasty edges. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/TECSL.jpg[/IMG] :)	1 Last	James Ordner Dec 2012
Errors in render output I just started experimenting with UDK again, and I'm noticing some artifacts in my render. I just did a clean installation of the November UDK with a blank project, and so far all I've done is set up…	6 Last	Ace-Angel Dec 2012
Complex room - main walls in bsp or part of the static mesh Hello everyone, I've started using UDK for a few days and I'm planning to make a little personal mod based on the Resident Evil mansion (yeah I've seen that quite a few times too :) ). I had starte…	3 Last	Angry Beaver Dec 2012
Does anyone know how to do a Hologram material in UDK? I'm making a computer and on the monitor I would like to have an image that shows some kind of disruptive lines on it that has some timing like if the monitor was failing. Anyways, here's an image of…	2 Last	RebSharkoon Dec 2012
UDK emissive and KILL IT WITH FIRE -ok, I'm looking online for simple emissive advice; but most of it seems out of date...I did find one from Polycount with a link to a 'simple emissive map', but the link was dead =( Also, what's the…	2 Last	ambershee Dec 2012
Speedtree Model Loading Nothing in UDk? Hey Polycount, I am loading my speedtree models into udk. (after saving in the modeler and the compiler, loading up the shaders in UDK) In the speedtree editor screen nothing is showing. Its like th…	12 Last	gannonroader Dec 2012
UDK Beginner Questions - Collision / Landscape So I've been seriously working with the UDK for a bit and I have some questions that the normal UDK forums haven't been able to answer. The first deals with collision. I am rebuilding an old RtCW m…	1 Last	James Ordner Dec 2012
Light or shadow Detection shader Hi guys, I'm wondering if it is possible for a shader to know what vertex or polygons are being lit or in shadow somehow. I'm wanting to take that data and make a sort of "If statement" or mask w…	6 Last	tuxmask75 Dec 2012
Mesh Flickering (Modular Tile) (Video Example) I have this issue that has been driving me insane. I have what is essentially modular tiles for the floor on my level. The tiles are just a single planes (2 tris). The problem is the things keep fl…	6 Last	the-blue-turtle Dec 2012
Blinn Model? I've been messing around with trying to get a different look for my materials and decided to try a Blinn specular hit with a Lambert diffuse. I found this formula (((V + L)*0.5) dot N)^Shinyness f…	10 Last	King Mango Dec 2012
Collecting Items on Click Hey Everyone. I'm in the process of making a game for school called "Deluge". It's a survival Horror game where you're scuba diving.. Officially you're there to collect some rare species of worm, whi…	2 Last	Joopson Dec 2012
UDK camera clipping through walls Hey guys. I'm part of a team working on a prototype game for iOS / PC and we have kind of an issue right now. It is not URGENT but it will need to be adressed so I thought asking here on polycount.…	3 Last	King Mango Dec 2012
How to make UDK not look like...UDK? So after using Cryengine for a bit it's come down to the time where I actually want to make something substantial out of all the modeling tutorials I've been through and actually make a game. Due to …	23 Last	bugo Dec 2012
How much Scripting would be involved? Hello, Myself and a group of others have started work on our third year student game. We're all art students with knowledge in UDK Kismet and Material Editor but that's about it. Just curious to h…	6 Last	funkbro Dec 2012
Importing from Maya 2012 Hello. I'm still pretty new at this and I'm having a problem importing static meshes from Maya. I know how to export them via FBX but when I import them to UDK they always import without the curves. …	3 Last	Joopson Dec 2012
UDK Midday Skydome !Issue! [IMG][IMG]http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/w379/Oliver_Williams/SkydomeIssue.jpg[/IMG][/IMG] No idea why this happened, but it only looks like this in my current level im working on,any ideas on …	14 Last	richwderby Dec 2012
Meshes from Content browser missing in Viewport Hi guys, it suddenly started happening and I dont know how to resolve it. Basically whenever i try and import assets from Content browser they dont appear in the viewport, even in wireframe mode but …	2 Last	passerby Dec 2012
UDK Lighting: Theory and Practice question Hi my name is Brian Choi, and I'm the student Art Director of "Core Overload," an Advanced Final Games project for the Fall 2012 - Spring 2013 year at the University of Southern California. Core Ove…	2 Last	Angry Beaver Dec 2012
A couple UDK questions Hi everyone, I'm building a level in UDK for my semester project, and I have a couple of questions/issues I was hoping you guys could shed some light on. 1) Can you duplicate landscape safely? …	4 Last	Angry Beaver Dec 2012
Move player start after cinematic I am having trouble moving the player after the cinematic ends. The player hits the trigger at which point a static mesh of the player walks over to something in a matinee. After the matinee is over …	5 Last	blankslatejoe Dec 2012
FBX Vs. ActorX So I'm working on a project (animated mech from Xenogears), and I'm using Link Constraints to pass control. When I tried to import this into Unreal, UDK wouldn't read the animations. I knew Link Cons…	3 Last	blankslatejoe Dec 2012
DX11 Image Based Reflection Problems I'm working on an interior scene to play with some DX11 features. I'm running into a problem where surfaces that are parallel to the reflection source have a strange radial specular reflection patter…	5 Last	JamesWild Dec 2012
Lost Power When Working in UDK- now can't load map. I lost power when working on a map in UDK and the power randomly went out, and came back on right away. But now I can't open my map at all. I load the external packages the map requires, and then try…	2 Last	blankslatejoe Dec 2012
Trying to get awesome using materials Hey Polycounters, I am not the best guy in the world when it comes to texturing and using the material editor, as proud as i was of my last project thinking back it wasn't exactly the most performan…	2 Last	Benjam Dec 2012
Usinig UDK's Skeleton - Problems - Advice needed As part of a project for my game development class, my group, decided to make our own character. We're using the same skeleton that they used for their male character, but I am having issues... [IMG…	3 Last	Jowens Dec 2012
Noob UDK Question Hey i'm having problems with a model I am importing from Maya it looks fine in maya but when I import it looks like this [img]http://i49.tinypic.com/2mi3l9f.png[/img] That pattern stuff shouldn't b…	2 Last	Jacky Nov 2012
One texture to rule them all... Is it possible to create a Texture-node, that you expose as a parameter in the material instances, that affects several TextureSample-nodes within the material? I have three TextureSamples with diff…	2 Last	ivars Nov 2012
Obscura's questions for UDK Hi everybody, today I downloaded the latest UDK release. After the setup, I realized, Epic removed the UTgame Game Type. This means, my game starts with empty inventory...I tried the cheats to add we…	8 Last	Obscura Nov 2012
Turning a float into texture2D? Hi. Is it possible to blend some textures together, and then manipulate the UV:s for it. As I get it, you can only plug Texture coordinates in to a texture2D but the results from my blends would be …	3 Last	imbueFX Nov 2012
UDK - Tiling platforms, lightning errors Hey guys! I have come upon a problem when im reapeting some platforms in udk, which i don't know how to solve. I have 5 different platforms that i want to switch between but i encounter some shading …	4 Last	Twoflower Nov 2012
UDK - Lightmass bouncing issues. Hi Guys and Girls, I was hoping someone could help me with getting lightmass bouncing in my UDK scene. I apologise if there as simple fundamental mistakes I'm making as this is my first UDK scene. …	15 Last	Ark Nov 2012
use prefab as interpactor I want to build a moving train in unreal, but I can't find a way to use a prefab constructed from a modular set as an interp-actor so that I can properly animate and light each cabin with relative ea…	4 Last	dregoloth Nov 2012
Flipped UV problems with July version Xnormal workflow Hi guys, I'm having some problems mirroring UVs when using the new Xnormal normalmap workflow implemented in the July version of UDK. The UV-shells that are flipped wont get the correct shading wich…	3 Last	o2_is_alright Nov 2012
Vehicle spawning problems Hi guys, I've been working on implementing an AH6 into UDK, its not the first vehicle I've implemented, i previously got a harrier jet in but the same issue occurred, i got around it by messing arou…	1 Last	JamesWild Nov 2012
New Tutorials: UDK Animated Sky, and Dynamic Sun. Hello Everyone, I wanted to share my latest tutorials. [B]UDK Animated Sky[/B] The first one covers how to create an animated sky dome from beginning to end. Tutorial results can be seen here: […	47 Last	Mio Nov 2012
UDK layer masking? Hi all, I have recently downloaded UDK and I'm loving it so far. Although I can't work out how to do one thing... I need to apply a detail texture to a terrain using a mask, so it will paint in the …	8 Last	DonCornholio Nov 2012
Advance vertex painting - blending 3 or more textures Hey all, i'd like to make a shader in udk, where you could, say, blend between 3 different textures. Sort of like if i was doing landscape (but without Landscape or Terrain tools). So you have 3 ba…	2 Last	Zocky Nov 2012
Normals keep giving problems with some meshes I have a staircase asset that I made for an environment in UDK. For some reason the normal map for this object looks very pixelated and ugly when brought into the engine and applied to the object. I …	4 Last	theonewhoknocks Nov 2012
Tree Foliage Lighting Problem - Bad Shadows I'm currently at a loss as to how I can fix the shadows on my tree foliage. I noticed that the shadows throughout the leaves are repeated - they're circled in red. In other words, the exact same sh…	2 Last	Santewi Nov 2012
Question: Toggle Specular for lights Hey guys, I'm wondering if it's possible to control which lights cast specular or not. I can find if they cast different types of shadows but not the specular control. Currently it seems to me that …	2 Last	timotronprime Nov 2012
UDK LensFlare Dirt Problem Hey guys i recently followed [URL="http://imbuefx.com/products/introduction-to-lens-flares-in-udk/"]this [/URL]tutorial and adjusted it to my needs (Sun LensFlare) and i was wondering why my dirt ele…	3 Last	pongo1967 Nov 2012
New to all this, a question on terrain layer masking Hi all, I have recently downloaded UDK and I'm loving it so far. Although I can't work out how to do one thing... I need to apply a detail texture to a terrain using a mask, so it will paint in the …	2 Last	DonCornholio Nov 2012
Sculpted areas disappear from Landscape I ran into a problem yesterday where parts of the landscape I recently changed don't show up correctly in a Frontend Build. The image below shows that lightmaps are still present as well as the folia…	0 Last	NickGW Nov 2012
Question about light in Viewport/Gameplay There is a HUge difference between what i see in my UDK viewport and when i hit to play the game, anyone knows how to fix it? i would like me game to be like the viewport preview, thanks a lot!! her…	3 Last	Jacky Nov 2012
Plugins for scene export from Max to UDK I blocked out a big map in 3Dsmax, I need to get it to UDK but exporting the whole thing at once leaves me with billions of little pieces with poorly located pivots. Apparently there are some plugins…	3 Last	cptSwing Nov 2012
UDK - Lighting/Shading Issue Hey guys and gals, I'm new here, so plaese don't be too harsh. Anyway the problem i'm getting is strange shading on static meshes. (Check images below) I'm running UDK July 2012. It's modelled in…	6 Last	PaRsOnS21 Nov 2012
UDK Transmission material issue I set up a basic transmission material that works just fine until i build the lighting (lightmass) after i build the lighting the SSS is gone from the model. Works well in the material 3d viewer and …	1 Last	Ghostman511 Nov 2012