Unreal Engine

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RealTime Texture Blurring in UDK Hello my fellow nerdy polycounters, I want to share a quick function i just added in a material of mine that enables you to sample a texture of your choosing and apply a blur to it. The code is simi…	10 Last	King Mango Apr 2012
ProcBuilding Lighting errors So, I've been making some procBuilding rulesets for work so that we can how useful they are. I've been having some fun with them and just seeing what they can do, but when I bake lighting everything…	9 Last	praetus Apr 2012
Can see static mesh in the level I'm having a new founded issue with exporting my model into UDK. I've exported a modular part of a building, collision included, but when I drag it into the level and play test it the building does…	4 Last	SaferDan Apr 2012
Character Artist Wanted! Panzer Gaming Studios is seeking a 3D Character Artist for there new upcoming title Left to Rot. More details can be found here [url]http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/78883?a=497025[/url] Requiremen…	0 Last	PanzerGamingStudios Apr 2012
Is UDK's default AO different then baking an AO Map? Just wondering if having AO checked on or off in UDK is the same thing as rendering out an AO Map in a 3d program and applying it to the Diffuse?	8 Last	Chase Apr 2012
Vertex Painting and Cubemaps ? Alright I'm having some issues with getting Vertex Painting and Cubemaps to work together. In the image below I've setup a material to simply add the the Cubemap together with the Diffuse, while con…	4 Last	Harbinger Apr 2012
Skeletal mesh animation render issue. Hey peeps. I've got a problem with UDK. I have a skeletal mesh with animation, during the animation the character walks away from his world 0,0,0 skeletal mesh actor position (done by unticking Anim…	0 Last	Danny Blank Apr 2012
UDK Character Creation Pipelines? Hi guys Geordie here, I am currently writing up a dissertation on character production for games, and the target engine is UDK. My University has trained me to use UDK and has given me an extensive…	1 Last	Donavonyoung Apr 2012
Hatched shadows or another solution to this problem Hello, For my current UDK project I'm building a level based on several images from a manga called BLAME!. While based on these images, several things have been added and several things still need to…	4 Last	Bramako Apr 2012
Alternative to Vertex Painting I'm a huge fan of vertex painting but sometimes I wish I had more verts and adding them sometimes seems like a waste especially on larger surfaces. So I thought about using mesh paint instead and wa…	11 Last	Harbinger Apr 2012
Cubemap problems I've done some testing and I need to have some reflections in my floor. I've gotten it working with a SceneCaptureCubeMapActor, the problem as you can see below, is that it becomes really large. Doe…	4 Last	PointlessReboot Apr 2012
Spawning Pawn / Bot and Forcing it into Turret Hello there, I have been tasked with making a single player esque level in UED for a University assignment and I have a turret that I'm trying to force a bot to control as a player runs over a tri…	6 Last	Captain Salty Apr 2012
Creating gravitational lensing effect [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/BlackHole_Lensing.gif[/IMG] I'm looking to create the distortion that a black hole makes. But I find it too hard to comprehend. How do you m…	17 Last	Xendance Apr 2012
Vertex shading issue? Another noob question, and I am sure this one has been asked a million times. On my pursuit of going back to basics I have ran into an issue where a simple cube is getting weird shading in the botto…	1 Last	DennisGlowacki Apr 2012
Dynamic Shadows with Lightmass I've been working on trying to figure this out for a little while now and searched online and on here but haven't been finding a solution. I have an interior scene and want to use Lightmass to bake …	4 Last	Quickel Apr 2012
Cascade: The Complete Beginner's Guide - Available Now! EDIT: I'm pleased to announce that 3dmotive has purchased the rights for this video. It should be available in their training library in the coming weeks. However, I cannot sell the video any longer.…	29 Last	Pola Apr 2012
UDK Morph Sequence Hey guys. I am creating a morph sequence of a character morphing between two states in UDK and while the mesh morph is easy enough, the texture morph is a whole other problem. I have played around w…	8 Last	Patackular Apr 2012
UDK Landscape _can't walk or drive on it? What's wrong? I've made several landscapes now for my portfolio, but I cannot run around on them, or drive vehicles. When I hit play, the character falls down, gets stuck, and then spawns somewhere else on the ma…	3 Last	gannonroader Apr 2012
Foliage display errors Hi guys! I've been working on personal environments in UDK to try and develop my level building skills. Currently, I'm working on an outdoor scene using Landscape and foliage. I'm getting pretty wick…	4 Last	Xendance Apr 2012
Cover System Help I found this Code Repository from Ameypa, who made 2 kinds of cover systems. One was procedural, which turned any mesh in the game into a cover, basically. And the other was by CoverLink nodes in th…	0 Last	vipar Mar 2012
Understanding Cubemaps I'm sure this has been asked before, but I can't seem to find anything exactly on it... In my pursuit of becoming a shader guru I am finally finding time to jump into UDK. I am just trying to under…	7 Last	Vailias Mar 2012
Landscape lightmap looks and behaves horrible Hi, I have a large Landscape in my UDK map. After building lighting (medium, high or production, same result) I get a really blotchy shadows on my landscape from static meshes. The landscape self sha…	3 Last	deutschbag Mar 2012
Decal and Vertex Paint? Can a decal material be used with Vertex paint the same way a regular material can? I made some graffiti decals, and wanted to add a way to paint parts of them out so that I could get more mileage f…	5 Last	Harbinger Mar 2012
Lightmass shadow issue Hey everyone! Ive stumbled upon an issue with lightning, specially when using lightmass I cant wrap my mind around. You can see the issue in the picture below, built with lightmass: [url]http://i.img…	1 Last	Cronnix Mar 2012
Basic AI Hey Polycount! This is my first post on the forums, so I hope you can help me out! :3 I have this AI, which is made on Mougli's Portfolio example. It's supposed to follow me, even if it can't see me…	4 Last	vipar Mar 2012
Motion Blur on Particles Hello, I'm fairly new to UDK and even though I've been practising particles and simulations in Maya and Realflow I thought I should try the particle system in UDK. I'm working on a scene in which th…	22 Last	ImSlightlyBored Mar 2012
UDK Model import with material settings Hey guys,,, I have 100s of models with lots of material ID's for each model. many models share the same material ID's and material. I need some materials to behave exactly the same threw out every me…	3 Last	tuxmask75 Mar 2012
CameraShake/Fade/Anims not showing Hey guys, I've been trying to use some of the camera effects via kismet (Camera Shake, Fade, Play CameraAnim) in the UDK assets but for some reason they don't show in PIE or full play. I have tried…	0 Last	taxicrab Mar 2012
UDK - Shadows - Dynamic, Vertex and Self Heya peeps, I'm having some issues with UDK's shadows, and here is the issue (if anyone is kind enough to help me with their every lasting love of being a good Samaritan - pun intended). I'm trying…	15 Last	madact Mar 2012
UDK Normals in Ambient Shadow Is there a way in UDK to get normals to pop while in ambient shadow? Of course there is no direct sun light on these areas so they technically would never have normal detail, but normal maps are jus…	8 Last	Ace-Angel Mar 2012
UDK Lighting on everything is black It's got nothing to do with lightmaps since this is what UDK looks like when I start it up. [img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7250/6862343436_778f5ef581_b.jpg[/img] I just built a new rig and hav…	4 Last	justinms66 Mar 2012
Question upgrading udk builds With the current environment I am working on, I have stayed in the March 2011 build of UDK. When I went to May a while ago, I had a lot of problems with lightmass. I'm interested in upgrading due to …	4 Last	AlexLeighton Mar 2012
UDK grid settings anyone know how to change the division of the grid in the perspective viewport? ive asked quite a few people no one seem to know and googleing so fars brought up nothing : [ [IMG]http://i.imgur.co…	3 Last	sprunghunt Mar 2012
Rim Light ? I have been playing around with Rim Lighting, to get my normals to "pop" more. What is the standard practice to using Rim Light though? I have tried both Diffuse slot Rim light and Emissive slot rim…	3 Last	Jowens Mar 2012
Beam emitter question Is it possible to have a beam fire intermittently? It always seems to be constantly on, I'd like it to fire just like a regular particle system with a variable spawn rate. Setting a variable spawn r…	4 Last	imbueFX Mar 2012
leveling system help hey im trying to find a good level sysytem to base of. my level cap is 50 and debating to use a skill tree system or point system for character skill improvement. if any one got a good idea or a plac…	2 Last	Captain Salty Mar 2012
Murky Water I'm Trying to figure out how to make a large bode of Murky water for a swamp scene I'm working on. At the moment it just looks like a layer of black Fog, So I was hoping I could get some suggestions.	8 Last	sybrix Mar 2012
Need archived version of udk aug 2011- udk downloads took this version off their site, but I just had a system meltdown and had to clean my hard drive- now I can't re-install the august version but I am in the middle of a project! How can…	2 Last	justinms66 Mar 2012
Lightmaps for Lightmass? For whatever reason, I was under the assumption that you no longer needed to map out a 2nd UV channel when using lightmass. But I've read through some threads on the forum and I'm seeing that people…	6 Last	G3L Mar 2012
Created landscape invisible and not on origo Hello. I'm using the January 2012 beta build of UDK. Desperately trying to get the Landscape stuff to work but to no avail. After opening UDK Editor, creating a blank map/preset map, I open the tool…	6 Last	Bumper Mar 2012
Starting ammo amounts Hi guys i am currently working on a level for a survival horror game for university I have the basics down but i was wondering if i would be able to lower the amount of ammo that the player gets at t…	5 Last	Jhill8 Mar 2012
Need help with Fog/Lighting Hey guys, I've got a very large cavern in the scene I'm working on right now, but I'm having a hard time getting the ambiance I want. The cavern is so large the exponential height fog (which is tun…	0 Last	taxicrab Mar 2012
UDK multiplying my polys / vert - ? Hi Guys,i got a problem and if you can help me i'll be very Grateful.:0) My low poly model in 3Dmax is with(9000 polys and 11600verts)quads. After import in udk triangles are 18 000 and vert 17000.Wh…	3 Last	iceman30 Mar 2012
[Tuts] UDK Minis So ive been playing around in udk and been having lots of fun. recording and commenting on things ive been doing. Ill probably make some more little mini tuts but figured id start a thread for the on…	22 Last	Oniram Mar 2012
Artifact Issue Hey guys, I modeled an asset in maya and then imported it into UDK in FBX format.When i imported it..it's showing weird artifacts at few places.I checked it twice and thrice, my model looks perfect …	3 Last	ageless Mar 2012
UDK Multiple UV problem! Hi Everyone, I am having an issue in UDK with using multiple UV's. I am trying to make it so my normals are on a separate UV than the Diffuse/spec. My issue comes in when I separated the 2. Br…	9 Last	King Mango Mar 2012
Weird UDK translucent/aplha problem. I am not sure what is causing this but every time I put my alpha of my texture to opacity its giving me weird see through splatters on my static mesh. This one is with only alpha map on diffuse cha…	4 Last	Ace-Angel Mar 2012
Crisp UDK Shadows I have been using UDK for a while now, but I have never been able to get crisp shadows when building a scene. I have followed all sorts of tutorials on how to do this and they all say the same thing.…	8 Last	JackBauer Mar 2012
lightning problem here Hello, i'm not that experienced with UDK, started a few weeks ago, and i'm getting a probleme everytime i put some light in my scene. the problem is the following [IMG]http://img850.imageshack.us/i…	1 Last	Oniram Mar 2012
Issues with RB_BSJointActor Hi ya'll i'm having a problem with the RB_BSJointActor that i can't seem to figure out. I'm trying to connect a light to a chain with the JointActor and it works in the basic prebuilt UDK level. How…	0 Last	Azumante Mar 2012