Unreal Engine

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UDK Preview Window Problem This is the issue; all of my meshes show up in the UDK editor window and are connected to the packages correctly (UDKGame > Content > Packages) as well as my map folder is in the Content folder as we…	1 Last	blankslatejoe Oct 2012
Lightmass importance messes up interior lighting So, I'm having a problem with a scene that is both interior and exterior. When I enclose my building in a lightmass importance volume the exterior renders fine, with indirect light from my environmen…	2 Last	ivars Oct 2012
UDK Noob - Dynamic lighting problems :( Please help Hello, please bare with me as I am a noob at UDK. I was under the impression that you don't need a light map in order to have dynamic shadows. When I select the light - I see a shadow but when Un…	16 Last	sprunghunt Oct 2012
Material static switch change at runtime? Is it somehow possible to change the static switch parameter of a Material Instance Constant at runtime? I know its working with floats and vectors but for some reason there seems to be no way for bo…	4 Last	Davision3D Oct 2012
Vertex painting on Terrain? I've just started playing around with terrain for the first time but I would like to get some interesting weather effects going. Is it possible to give my terrain materials a height map and paint thi…	2 Last	leleuxart Oct 2012
Getting Z-Depth from another player camera in Mat editor Hi, First post and am stuck rapid prototyping a game. I want to compare the Z-Depth between the player camera and another camera I have in the scene. The second camera updates every frame. How wo…	7 Last	Davision3D Oct 2012
UDK problems with parralax and alpha shadows? It's my understanding that after May 2012, UDK carries a bug that ceases the ability to cast shadows through masked materials? I'm not sure if that was every fixed but I'm using March 2012 to avoid t…	2 Last	Ace-Angel Oct 2012
UDK Camera Tutorial Hello everyone! Wasn't sure where exactly to throw this but I figured this would be as good a place as any. I made this for one of the professors at Full Sail University who teaches the Portfolio Ass…	11 Last	solarSailor Oct 2012
Can't get translucency to work correctly! [SIZE=7][COLOR=Red]PROBLEM SOLVED![/COLOR][/SIZE] Hi, I am currently making a small environment in UDK where some small parts of the scene require translucency (Diffuse textures are wip). I haven't …	7 Last	JamieRIOT Oct 2012
normal map issues from Maya to UDK The image on the left is what my normals should look like; the image on the right is what my object looks like after building the lighting in UDK. I'm not sure why there's such a drastic difference i…	7 Last	tom.cherry Oct 2012
Foliage Lighting Woes Hi all! So i've been repeatedly banging my head against a wall for the past two days trying to get my custom foliage model to light properly with the instanced foliage paint tools. Basically all I w…	4 Last	UglyMuffin Oct 2012
Landscape shadow artifacts When I render the lighting for my landscape terrain I get these annoying black spots, which I guess i s shadows, but they look terrible. Is there a way to fix this, or maybe to turn off self shadowi…	3 Last	Santewi Oct 2012
Is Converting a Landscape to Terrain possible? I did some research and found that apparently Landscape is superior to Terrain, so that's what I used to make my single component plot of land for a level assignment. Here's the problem, my level has…	11 Last	Santewi Oct 2012
UDK - Renaming Packages/Copy Data not working? Heya to all, I was wondering if anyone could help me sort out a small issue. I have some assets in UDK which need a major renaming overhaul, but for some reason aren't propagating the 'changes', not…	3 Last	Ace-Angel Oct 2012
Inconsistent lightmap? Hello, wise polycount people! I seem to have a problem with my modular assets and their lightmaps. While making a wall tileset, I happened to notice that two assets that were made using THE SAME TECH…	22 Last	Dandi8 Oct 2012
What is the process of Making a enironment in UDK I would like to know the correct workflow to go about making an environment in UDK. Any feed back would be helpful. :)	10 Last	sziada Oct 2012
Increase map bounds? Does anyone know how to increase the map bounds (if it's possible at all)? I have quite large terrain and currently I can't reach the edges of the map even in the editor.	2 Last	Santewi Oct 2012
Particle value with range over time? So I'm trying to do a couple of different things, all with the same result. I'm attempting to give a particle a set of value ranges over time, but it doesn't seem to work. I'm using DistributionVec…	6 Last	flaagan Oct 2012
Lightmap makes me sick :( Hi There! I have troubles with the Light and the Shadows on my little Mesh! :( It makes me sick, because im trying to fix this about 3 Days long.... Getting agressive of this... I tried it with Ove…	4 Last	Visceral Oct 2012
Copy the whole scene from Maya to UDK ? Hi! Is it possible to Import 4-5 Static Meshes that i have in the Maya Viewport to the UDK? When i Combine them ALL to one big mesh, the Lightmap sux, because theres overlapping... When i export …	11 Last	Gazu Oct 2012
Smoothing group problem? Hi. I had a stone in udk that worked fine, but wanted to redo the uv and texture. When i imported it again the mesh looked terrible. The model has only one smoothing group! [IMG]http://imageshack.…	6 Last	KristianT Oct 2012
UDK specular overriding diffuse issue I'm having an issue inside of my UDK scene where, I set up a master material so that I could instance my assets off and just connect the base textures up nice and easily before I start introducing cu…	3 Last	Visceral Oct 2012
Custom character from Maya 2012 with UDK animation set Hey fellas I could use some help with getting my character into udk. I am a rigging & unreal script noob here. I have searched all over. I want to use my character with the UDK animations. I rigged m…	4 Last	mastershokhan Oct 2012
Export BSP as mesh Is there anyway to export a BSP brush/brushes as a mesh? I blocked out a level and i wanted to make a static mesh for support beams, but i want to match the shape perfectly	5 Last	imbueFX Sep 2012
Missing packages Hey all - was just going throught the Eat3D Intro to UDK DVD (quite an old one now) and a part comes up where I need to access the NEC_Pillars package. I'm able access it, but when viewing it I don…	8 Last	Santewi Sep 2012
Farm WIP [IMG]https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/61415_3228677215183_655735154_n.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/644693_3228677055179_1842527340_n.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://sp…	9 Last	Killjaqular Sep 2012
Bizarre Material Mishap Running UDK I deleted a large group of meshes because they were duplicates with the wrong naming conventions for my project, and almost immediately after that all of my materials stopped working. I h…	3 Last	blankslatejoe Sep 2012
UDK - Simple animation on Mesh (which the player will look at?) Heya to all, Question, I'm trying to just create a quick and cheap animation for a mesh of mine (basically, a statue moving from Position A to Position B, just once and voila, done). It's an enviro…	2 Last	Ace-Angel Sep 2012
Certain GUI's only displaying half Landscape and foliage editors are what i'm noticing immediately, but there may be more. [IMG]http://http://imgur.com/Vv5aP[/IMG] [url]http://imgur.com/Vv5aP[/url] in case my img link didn't…	7 Last	flashfreak Sep 2012
Lightmass problem with speedtree I have a problem with lightmass in udk, when placing some speedtrees. The build percent stays at 5-6% forever, I left it 1 hour and 30 min to see if it goes up but nope. The problem come when I ad…	4 Last	Dvonio Sep 2012
Matinee Movie Capture Won't Record Particles Hey PCers I'm having a bit of a problem trying to record particles in UDK using the new matinee "Create a Movie" button. Capturing the environment works great but the particles won't appear in the mo…	5 Last	Kon Artist Sep 2012
UDK's idle camera bob/sway In the new versions of UDK a camera bob has been added whilst the player is standing idle, as if the camera is swaying as they breath. Is there a way to disable it? After much googling iv'e discove…	2 Last	iansmithartist Sep 2012
Cursor gets stuck in editor JULY 2012 Version The problem is that the mouse cursor will freeze, and I can't get unstuck unless I alt-f4 UDK. It can still click and right click, but no movement at all. On a more repeated occa…	3 Last	blankslatejoe Sep 2012
Cascade Curves not working? Hey guys, So, I'm trying to edit some curves on a Color Over Life node in Cascade- and I cannot for the life of me get them to actually display in game. Essentially, I have dust blowing around a bit…	2 Last	Santewi Sep 2012
UDK Material - Reflection Glossiness control? Is there a way I can control the reflection glossiness? Right now, the reflections are super sharp and I'd like to have it toned down. I've tried multiplying it by a constant and that just controls…	6 Last	timotronprime Sep 2012
Create a movie not displaying static meshes Im having a bit of a problem...When I "create a movie" within Matinee the avi that's create only shows the sky/clouds...my static meshes aren't being captured as well.... here's my matinee set-up [IM…	5 Last	Notes Sep 2012
Lightmaps causing chaos Hi there. Im experiencing lightmap issue every time im trying to build lights. I've recorded a video explaining that problem, here: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyKXUfr552I"]Lightmap problems…	2 Last	Killjaqular Sep 2012
UDK Lighting Help Thank you in advance for any help you can give me. I am trying to create this scene [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/xGc8c.jpg[/IMG] As you can see it is lit very strongly through the window with lots of be…	15 Last	jackalope Sep 2012
How to show grid when using a Template? Hi guys im new to UDK and decided to use the template that epic provides, but i cant seem to get a grid to show in perspective view like it does in ortho. Any idea how? Thanks	5 Last	blankslatejoe Sep 2012
Cascade - Trail behind orbiting particles (and trails in general) I'm having problems with grasping main point on how to make particles that act also as emitters in UDK. I watched all 3DMotive Cascade videos and I still struggle to create particles that emit trail…	4 Last	ArYeS Sep 2012
Collsion Mesh Issues So I have a static mesh with a collision mesh set up as my ground/blocking of my level. At the playerStart spawn point, all if fine thus far. No issues, no errors. [IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/…	3 Last	dang87 Sep 2012
Big problem in UDK please help :( Hi, I am new to this forum and this is my first post. I am having a really bad problem with the terrain editor in UDK and cannot add static meshes to my terrain. Iv been stuck on this for around 2 ho…	3 Last	McGreed Sep 2012
Question about assets in UDK I have just one simple question. Lets assume you are making chinese building, specifically, roof. So basically, you have middle part that can be tilable, and then you have corners. You have corne…	2 Last	Zocky Sep 2012
How to hide objects from camera but keep reflection? I'm making a turntable for a model that has reflectance and I'm using a default skydome and pavements for it to reflect. When I'm rendering a turntable, I want to have the actual sky dome and paveme…	2 Last	timotronprime Sep 2012
UDK Point Light Actor Shadowing Issue Hello everyone! I am having an issue and would like some feedback. and for reference I am an intermediate to advanced lighting in UDK. (sorry for the noob-ish question) [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/TVTp6…	4 Last	RogelioD Sep 2012
Normals issue: ST & SK mesh differs Hi, I have imported a Maya FBX file perfectly in as a Static Mesh but upon importing in as a Skeletal Mesh (same fbx file) it appears as if my smoothing groups are being ignored. Here is my process:…	0 Last	derkaz Sep 2012
Light Map / Shadow Map differences? Can someone explain to me the differences between shadow maps and light maps. I have done some research and from what I read: Light Maps: [LIST] []Pre-calculated on a per object basis. []Creates…	3 Last	McGreed Sep 2012
Normal/Specular issues. Hello there, Currently my team are suffering from a burden of issues with Unreal's rendering of the models we have. We use Marmoset to configure our Specular's and such; however, when we take them f…	4 Last	Notes Sep 2012
Shader Profiling/Performance Measurement? Hey guys. I was just curious about something: I've been doing some shaders with custom code recently. And from what I hear you probably wouldn't want to trust UDKs material editors instruction count…	16 Last	leleuxart Sep 2012
UDK -TV Screen in game Hello all, Hope you can help me out, after doing some initial research on how to get a tv screen in game. I am a bit confused i believe it needs to be a bink video, i have downloaded the releva…	3 Last	AzzaMat Sep 2012