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UDK's Specular seam issue.

I'm trying to find a better fix to UDK's issue with specular seams. The problem comes down to having mirrored UV's with inverted faces as far as I can tell. The half cylinder on left and the right…
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DeadlyFreeze

Lighting / Shadow prob

Ran into another prob here... Made a small corridor with a udk default static mesh and added a spotlight. this is how it looks with the spotlight selected [IMG]http://i1049.photobucket.com/album…
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Ace-Angel

Lightmap (Patchy/Bleeding)

Hi all! I've started a new project where I'm creating a street scene inside UDK, I've never done an environment before and also never really used Lightmass. So I read up on the layout of the UVs, …
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sprunghunt

Manually play a flipbook

Hi all, I've created a flipbook texture and it works brilliantly. However, I want to be able to control when the flipbook starts to play. I'm assuming this is possible because there is an 'Auto Play…
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Maffew

UDK Mobile shadow issue

i have run into a problem and cant find a solution.. the shadows for a mobile device.. i want to build a corridor which has a few light bulbs hanging from the ceiling and they are swaying back and f…
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JZAcH

Game crashes after installed

Hey guys I have a problem, When I am compiling my scripts, cooking and launch inside frontend, everything is ok. but when I package the game, install the game, and then launches it, it just crashes .…
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sprunghunt

light linking inquiries

I didn't realize it until testing, but it appears that light linking using channels allows me to dictate which objects are affected by which lights but no matter what I will always get a shadow from …
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sprunghunt

Trigger Touch in iOS Device

How can i activate a trigger touch using a touch? For example, if there was a switch which opens a door, in a PC game, pressing "E" would activate the trigger and the matinee to open the door would…
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JZAcH

Light map/Matinee problem

Hi, I set up a camera fly through with Kismet and Matinee. Everything looks great in the editor but when I dump the frames via the "Create a movie" button in matinee , the scene is rendered without t…
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sprunghunt

Lightmass Spots

Hi all can someone please tell me what is going on here oO. I have Oct UDK 2011. As you can see lightmap textel density is even. Proper Lighmapped UVs, no fancy options enabled in UDK. Default AO…
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Minato

Pawn visible only when dead ?

Hi everyone I have a very anoying problem, I have my custom game, my custom pawn. When I right click within the editor and choose Play from Here, then It works perfectly and I got my character displa…
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CHON

Minimap Question

Is it possible to have a dynamic minimap in the game?if so how? I have a 3 story building which can be navigated through stairs and i want the minimap to correspond to that story's map so when the …
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Minato

UDK - May-2012 - Sluggish Material

Heya Peeps, Quick question, anyone experience sluggish responses when in Editors like the Material and Kismet (mostly Material) in UDK? I recently upgraded from December-2011 to May-2012, and the e…
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Ace-Angel

Texture stretching :/

Hi all, Just was reading this article [url]http://www.thiagoklafke.com/modularenvironments.html[/url] and was wondering how he UVed the straight texture on to circular one without stretching. Its …
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HAWK12HT

Remove the default menu after packaging a game ?

Hey guys ! I am trying to packaging my game, I have my own scripts in it etc... when I am trying it with the "Launch" option that Frontend has, it is just working fine. But after packaging the game…
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Parkar

Removing error messages

When I click on "Play this level in an editor window" to view the game, I get some error messages in the corner. I've tried "build all" but I also get errors there so it doesn't help. In game, it lo…
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DeadlyFreeze

glass not reflecting in udk but in content browser?

hi people i have a problem [IMG]http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll248/starfrogsplash/problem-1.jpg[/IMG] basically i set up a reflective material for my glass but it only seems to reflect on t…
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starfrogsplash

Constant Clamp values above 1 ??

Hi, I've made a specular map for a beaten up character. The white color represents the blood, and the rest goes from black to mid grey. Now, I need to change this map inside the material editor to …
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LoTekK

How to save/set up new projects

Hi I'm kinda new to UDK. I'm wondering how to start a new project and set up my save folders. I've tried searching on UDN but cant find what I'm looking for. I think I'm setting up things wrong as…
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Eric Chadwick

UDK Simple SSS Shader

Hi there, i would like to share with you a very simple SSS Shader. [IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1812933/Images/SSSSimple/image_01.png[/IMG] [IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1812933/Images/SSSSim…
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Fracture Pieces Hanging in Mid Air

For some reason, sometimes, when I have a fracture object I wind up with several pieces hanging in mid air. I noticed that the fracture object has a flag for "Always Break Off Isolated Islands" but …
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Imatk

Moving objects around in UDK

Im stuck with picking up and dropping objects in UDK using kismet. I can pick up the object, move it around but no higher than floor height. Basically i was wondering how i can make it so that when…
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Synoise

3Ds Max UV Channels messing up in UDK

As the title says my UV channels are messing up. It might be something simple that I am missing but basically I have created a building consisting of 4 UV channels 0 - Main Building Walls/Exterior D…
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seanburrows

losing texture quality at a distance

Hi, I'm making a turntable of a character for my demo and I wanted to move the camera back and zoom in. The problem I'm getting is the texture quality is reduced and I would like to know how to kee…
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olivierth

UDK & Maya questions

Hey guys, I am in the process of re-doing a scene from my portfolio and I need to get into the habit of using a game engine so i was going to use UDK. I was just wondering, is it better to make and…
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FlynT

Character Splash rotating

So I've got a character diving into the water, jumping back out then falling back in. He emits a splash in the AnimSequence for each of these. The problem is, with all the tumbling and such the parti…
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imbueFX

Interp Actor and SSS (image)

I was following a tutorial on making a turntable of my character and they said to use a "interp actor" instead of a "static mesh" to make it turn. The problem is, the same character as an interp acto…
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olivierth

Something I figured out

I figured something out that you can do when sizing brushes that I never thought would be something they'd have. Let's say I want to increase my brush by 128, it's at 256, well, normally I could do 2…
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Inset / Chamfer 1 Smooth group

Hi all so im back :D, Ok this time I am wondering if it will be too much to chamfer edges and use inset when making models for games. The reason i am doing this is that with the right combination of …
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HAWK12HT

Nasty Lightmaps (Help!)

I've created several levels from start to finish but have never had a lightmap look as bad as some of the shots I'm about to show you. It's been a while since I've done baking and Lightmass so I ma…
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Froyok

K Actor Disable Bounce and fall speed

Currently i have a Kactor that drops on level start up, No mater what I do, I can not disable the bounce when it hits the ground. I have attempted to add a Physics material with a restitution of 0 a…
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Froyok

Multiple diffuse textures, one material one model

Hey guys, got a question, i used to know how to do this but i completely forgot, i have a tree and one uv set for the trunk and one for the leaves, i want to apply the two different diffuse t…
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Minato

UDK Tessellated Roof Troubles

Hey Guys Iam working on a japanese inspired environment in udk and want to add some nice dx11 features to some assets. Iam currently building a shrine gate and the goal is to have nice tessellated r…
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darthwilson

Random particle system play?

Hey there, I have a particle system (dust falling from the ceiling) that I want to set up to play randomly within a given time frame (every 10-50 seconds for example). I've played around with differ…
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MorganFX

Exporting Cutscene issue?

I have Kismet set up with a Matinee with all my camera Q's set up and I am ready to export for editing in Premier. Problem is, when i play in editor it stalls at my player start point. Here are the…
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knak47

lightmapping problems

I'm pretty new to lightmaps and am trying to better understand them through lots of trial and error. When I lightmap meshes with a lot of separate geometry, I sometimes get the error that it has over…
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tristamus

Smoke Trail

I have a smoke trail that I'd like to attach to a gun my character is using. The problem is when he moves it leaves little "puffs" of smoke instead of a trail. Anyone have any tips on how to do som…
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Imatk

UDK- additive vertex colour blends

Hi all, This may have been asked before but I'm not finding the solution for my problem anywhere so far. I'm fairly new to UDK and working my way through a few projects. I have a shader setup that…
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nathdevlin

Sine/Cosine phase Shift?

May seem like an odd question,but how can i shift a sine wave left and right in the material editor?...
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Minato

Matinee and Multiplayer

Hey ! I have a question regarding the use of Matinee in Multiplayer. My Problem is, that every matinee sequence seems to open up new network channels for each of the objects which is modified...wh…
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silent_death

Particles, explosions set up not working right.

So I'm still pretty new to cascade and UDK in general, and I'm trying to make an awesome explosion effect. One of the various problems I'm having is with the spawn node I guess? Basically, this only …
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TdGoods

Comments function in material editor?

I'm using version 9505 of UDK (which I think is May 2012) and I can't seem to find out how to create comments around my functions in the material editor. Some tutorials say you just press "C" and som…
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zombie420

Light Functions

I'm trying to make a flickering light in one of my levels, but whenever I click on the blue arrow to create a light function it doesn't do anything. I've been searching around for a couple of weks no…
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Azumante

Brush Help- New to UDK

Hello, I just started UDK and I'm following an Eat 3D intro to UDK tutorial, and in the newer version, when I spawn a blank level there is no brush, nor can I seem to make a new brush, I've been loo…
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AlexCatMasterSupreme

Screenshots & Presentation Help/Thread of Knowledge

There's a TON of unique steps that each of us takes to finish a piece, but in the end, there's one universal and final step we [I]all[/I] take - Screenshots. However you reach the end, your work can …
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underfox

UDK content browser/materials

In my version of UDK the content browser has very little in it. It has basically nothing when it comes to textures. Is there a library of textures that I can download? Also how can I import my own te…
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underfox

Green strip in reflections

I have a reflective material set up but I am getting a terrible green strip in my reflection. It seems the more distortion I apply to the reflection, the worse the green strip gets. Any news on how t…
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recording with Matinee (blurred)

Hi, I'm trying to record a movie with matinee (UDK MAY 2012 build). But when I render out my frames (as bitmaps) they are blurred in the beginning of my sequence. Does anybody know why this happenin…
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decorix

Problem with Cube Map Reflection

Hey guys, I'm having some problems with cube map reflections in udk, and I can't for the life of me figure out what I'm doing wrong. I figure a picture of what is happening will help: [IMG]http://i…
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Angry Beaver

can't add a new light function.

Hi , i have yet another problem. This time i have a probleme with lightfunction, i can add a light function to my dominantdreictionallight, but i can't add one to any other light, does somenoe know w…
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underfox

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