Unreal Engine

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UDK - Material - Depth Trans for Single Mesh Hey to all, I was wondering if there is a way to use the a Depth node for a cheap way of faking Translucency on a single mesh? Basically, I have a character with a spike IN his hand, and would like…	4 Last	Ace-Angel Feb 2012
Importing Skeletal Meshes using FBX I'm trying to import my animated turret into the UDK from 3ds Max. When I import it as a static mesh, aside from some texture issues, its fine. But the guns on the turret are animated, so I have to i…	2 Last	praetus Feb 2012
Strange alpha material : how it is working ? Okay, I'm not an expert at all with the materials of the UDK, this is why I come to you polycounters ! :thumbup: I saw a while ago this video : [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTDEAq4fYVQ"]i d…	2 Last	Froyok Feb 2012
Magnetism in UDK Hi guys Im using a sample script by Ryan Medeiros his site can be found [URL="http://www.dwishr.com/2010/maglev"]here[/URL] I modified it and it compiled fine. Now my question is how do i use this …	0 Last	wabbz111 Feb 2012
Making glass reflect like glass I know this is an age old situation all over the forums but I have a question some light forum searching didn't seem to answer. I'm applying a reflection to a glass surface using a cube map but the r…	2 Last	JoshWilkinson Feb 2012
Cloth simulating in background, but not moving mesh Hey forum, I've tried to set up a cape to have cloth simulation from the shoulders down, but when I try to preview the cloth sim the mesh doesnt budge, HOWEVER, when I turn on the PhysX Debug thing…	3 Last	SirCalalot Feb 2012
UDK pass character pos to material. I'm trying to pass a player pawn's position or vector to a material on the ground, any way to do this in udk ?	10 Last	passerby Feb 2012
Controling wind speed in kismet? Yo fellas I have a flag (the image below) it has a medallion and three tassles. My original plan was to have the tassles handled by cloth and the medallion swinging in the wind slightly. I originall…	3 Last	Artist_in_a_box Feb 2012
Dynamic Physics Volume / Gravity Volume Issues Hey all, Today I've been working on a simple physics based mechanic for a project im working on and have ran into some problems, the aim for the mechanic is to simply provide an inhale & exhale for …	1 Last	JayL Feb 2012
Light functions break on light build? I'm having a problem with a light function I set up in one of my scenes. It's set to only be a dynamic light and it works as intended but after i build lighting it no longer does anything. The only …	5 Last	Norron Feb 2012
UDK - Color Suppresion - For RGB values Hey to all, I was wondering if anyone had any tips on how would one go about suppressing certain values in RGB. Basically, this is what I have currently as an example: TexA x TexB TexB should hav…	7 Last	Ace-Angel Feb 2012
Animset is WAY off from what it should be [IMG]http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg843/scaled.php?server=843&filename=udkvsmax.jpg&res=medium[/IMG] And these are my import settings [IMG]http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg851/scaled.php?server=85…	6 Last	Vailias Feb 2012
udk DOF issues. Allright. ive been scratching my head for days now woundering my I cant adjust my DOF correctly in UDK. I understand how my focus inner radius and my focus distance works together, along with fallo…	6 Last	mikezoo Feb 2012
Efficient Texture Blurring Hi folks! I'm wondering what techniques people are using to blur textures; e.g a gaussian blur type effect. It seems difficult to come up with anything that isn't overly instruction heavy :)	1 Last	Ace-Angel Feb 2012
Terrain's light(shadows) resulution_problem Hey Guys,I got an issue and if you can help me I'll be very Grateful. I got terrain and my problem is with light(shadows)resolution.My resolutin is 1. Is it lower-better? or is like the meshes higer…	5 Last	Xendance Feb 2012
Experience building for Mac? I have a project which I'm working on in Windows 7 x64. In windows, Unreal Frontend does allow me to create a mac build of the game but when I transfer it to a Mac it will crash shortly after the spl…	2 Last	Vailias Feb 2012
Lightmaping issues, round 2 or here we go again lightmaps So, after spending 2 weeks on getting a single mesh to work allright with udk lightmaping and (failing miserablly) i had to come once again for some help guys :\ I have done everything, tried everyth…	9 Last	DeadlyFreeze Feb 2012
UDK player height no longer 96units or...? Hey there, I was ensuring my Max was setup for UDK properly and did some test pieces. One of which was a 96x32x32 unit box, placed in the UDK default scene. Once it was in I did the 'Play From Here'…	5 Last	adam Feb 2012
VOlumetric Clouds. Hello PC, i have been looking aroung the web for articles on Particles and Particle materials. I stumbeled on something that i belive covered just this. Its called "Faking Volumetric Effects in UDK …	8 Last	Visceral Feb 2012
UDK - Material - Custom Texture Node Parameter? Hey to all, I'm trying use a Custom Texture in a Custom Node to control my LOD of the texture. So basically, I have a setup that looks like this: Custom Node = return tex2Dlod(Sampler, UV) My UV'…	4 Last	Ace-Angel Feb 2012
Toggle Take Damage Actor Kismet? Is there a way to toggle (enable) a take damage node in kismet? Right now I have a piece of glass. I have two take damage nodes. 1. node is for swapping the glass object to a cracked glass object …	2 Last	Imatk Feb 2012
Duplicating Prefab Actors So I'm working on an environment in UDK and I planned on making heavy usage of Prefab actors to quickly snap together groupings of modular meshes. However, I'm running into an issue where shift-drag…	6 Last	ambershee Feb 2012
Problem with volume lights(gaps on translucent material) Hey I've got a scene setup with the following Material: [IMG]http://i39.tinypic.com/1rrfqe.jpg[/IMG] Now as you can see in these renders, the one with an opaque material has the volume light showin…	7 Last	Ace-Angel Feb 2012
UDK - Material - Color Approximation for Tangent World Hey to all, I'm wondering if it's possible, in a cheap way to the approximate information from the a texture (in this case, an Cube Map) and remapping that information onto the object roughly. For …	4 Last	Ace-Angel Feb 2012
UDK - Can't open my level Last night my level stopped opening after I'd been tinkering with lighting. At one point I converted a spot light to a dominant spotlight and/or vice versa. The level log seems to indicate that said …	1 Last	SirCalalot Feb 2012
HLSL Random Int So I know there are a lot of good programmer hlsl guys here because Ive read a lot of the threads about custom HLSL stuff for Unreal. I was hoping to make a custom node for a random Int. Some of th…	7 Last	Xoliul Feb 2012
World Position Offset Hey, I'm using World Position Offset and Vertex Paint to paint some height into a ground plane. The problem is, I don't know how to choose which axis the mesh gets offset on. At the moment, it just…	4 Last	righteousouka Feb 2012
[Tutorial] How to create Standalone Game Launcher for your UDK Games Hi Everyone :) This is my two part tutorial for creating Standalone Game Launcher for your UDK Games. Description: This tutorial guides you on How to Create a Standalone Game Launcher for your …	5 Last	ryanjon2040 Feb 2012
Questions regarding Epic Citadel So I was looking at the Epic Citadel map and noticed that they used static meshes for everything. The one thing that it's bugging me is how they created the outside paths/cliffs. The meshes are HUGE,…	6 Last	SirCalalot Feb 2012
UDK - Texture Setting - LODBias Hey to all, I was wondering if anyone has any insight, or possible solution, on why UDK might not be dropping LODBias levels when I tell it so via the Texture editor. Basically, I have a texture on…	5 Last	Xendance Feb 2012
Kismet- Picking Up and Dropping Items Hey guys and dolls, I'm developing a level for my final semester's capstone project, and I need to know how to pick things up- more specifically, how to DROP them once they've been picked up. I've…	9 Last	Slainean Feb 2012
Landscape Forced LOD; Foliage Questions I realize that the point of landscape is to have a dynamically changing mesh but is there a way to force it to stay with a particular resolution? For example, I can see in the distance my landscape …	5 Last	Rekmar Feb 2012
Damage Texutre/Decal UDK? How do I assign a "damage" texture to something when it's hit? Been looking all over and can't seem to find anything.	3 Last	Rekmar Feb 2012
UDK - Material - Custom Tangent to World function without Node? Hey to all, I was wondering if any kind soul could fill me in on how to create in UDK a Tangent to World function without the need of the blasted node which keeps on killing my vertex colors. I was…	6 Last	Ace-Angel Feb 2012
Light spawned as part of an effect? I think I already know the answer to this, but will ask anyway: is there a way to set up an effect in Cascade and include (spawn) a light for say, an explosion effect?	2 Last	Rekmar Feb 2012
Rigid Body Weight Ok I have a static mesh, with collision setup as a rigid body with collision. I can shoot the object and it moves. I can use an RB Impulse actor to move it. What I CANNOT do for the life of me is …	2 Last	Imatk Feb 2012
Vehicle has forward and reverse, ......reversed? in a nutshell, I made a new vehicle, rigged it, blah blah blah, got it in udk, and adjusted someone elses script to accompany my vehicle (it has 8 tires). Everything is working great, except that t…	8 Last	Vailias Feb 2012
Light bleedthrough issue Hey.. Stumbled on another issue I can't quite understand, pic below: [url]http://i.imgur.com/3GGCl.jpg[/url] As you can see, in circle number 1 and three, the light from the opposite side of the obj…	5 Last	Cronnix Feb 2012
Wierd Problem With Mesh In UDK Hi Polycount, i'm having this wierd problem with my mesh when i import it from 3ds max into UDK, does anyone have an idea of what this may be? Notice in the max's viewport all is fine, but in udk you…	1 Last	Butthair Feb 2012
UDK Crashing and other issues So it's been about half a year since I last used UDK and I'm getting back into it, but I've had some really frustrating issues. 1. I downloaded the latest version(January), but I've also encountered…	1 Last	m4dcow Feb 2012
UDK - Material - Eye - UV Dilation/Expansion from Center Hey to all, I'm trying to create an dilation like shader for UDK. Basically, the same effect of Iris/Pupil dilation of the eye, kinda like this shader: [URL]http://carlosmontero.com/shader_eyeball.…	13 Last	Ace-Angel Feb 2012
Normal seam in Detailed lighting hear is a seam It doesnt show up in Max with the 3point shader, the lightmap UVs are fine but its showing up when I bake lighting. I can really see it when I turn on only detailed lighting (alt+5) …	14 Last	tristamus Feb 2012
Unreal Script Wizard [INDENT] [B][COLOR=#FF0000]Special Thanks to William Gaul.[/COLOR][/B] Hi all...I am happy to tell ya'll that [B]Unreal Script Wizard[/B] is now available to download. Please note that this i…	0 Last	ryanjon2040 Feb 2012
AO and Landscape, shadow fading. Hi all! I am having issues with shadows on my landscape. I'd like to achieve an effect of shadows being darker under the giant rocks, instead of having same shadow gradient everywhere. Could anyone p…	3 Last	Cronnix Feb 2012
Timer in Kismet I'm trying to set a timer so that when it reaches the end it triggers a particle system. I can achieve this with a Matinee for the system, but I was wondering if there was a way to do this using the…	2 Last	Imatk Jan 2012
UDK crashing after importing new vehicle I'm guessing it has something to do with my script, but i'm not a programmer. I edited a script from a youtube tutorial, and had to accomadate the fact that my vehicle has 8 wheels, so some change…	2 Last	gannonroader Jan 2012
showmethatagain : new UDK terrain texturing tutes PLEASE NOTE : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These tutes are no longer online and I will not be re uploading them as they are too far ou…	16 Last	Leodido Jan 2012
udk - Particles not colliding with terrain... or anything I've followed this tut for adding collision to my particle system: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnrV9kOlssY"]UT3-Particle Collision - YouTube[/ame] but my particles still just pass ri…	2 Last	AlanSMitchell Jan 2012
Mobile Crowd Setup I modeled a meteor and I imported it into UDK as a Skeletal Mesh. I have been tweaking the mobile crowd setup in the Jazz Mini Game but nothing is happening. I have a destination 1 and a destinatio…	0 Last	salochin59 Jan 2012
Calculating texture sizes / graphics card requirements. Hello Polly Count people! I've been playing around with the idea of trying to build my own game (well, me and my brother) and something that's been bugging me is texture sizes and poly counts (how …	1 Last	ambershee Jan 2012