Unreal Engine

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Ambient Occlusion Question. I have started to learn UDK a few weeks ago. I'm trying to get a specific look to a scene I'm building. I want there to be minimal lights, with all the details mostly being seen with ambient occlusio…	5 Last	mospheric Oct 2011
Flashing shadow on my mesh problem Hello,kindly i would like to ask you for help because i spent a lot of time trying to solve this,but witout any success.Here is my problem..I got mesh wall,from close and far it looks just fine,but w…	4 Last	iceman30 Oct 2011
Changing Mapping scale of a terrain mat saves related TLS and TMAT into new package Hey guys, basically when I change the mapping scale of a Terrain material, it automatically saves the corresponding Terrain Layer Setup and Terrain Material into a new package. Then I have to move t…	1 Last	Jessica Dinh Oct 2011
Editing Vertex Colours during runtime is there any way possible to to edit vertex colours during run-time in UDK, with a script or actor somesort, i want to try and make something based on some natural selection 2 art and want to find a …	4 Last	passerby Oct 2011
Procedural Buildings So has anyone has any successes with the procedural buildings tool in UDK? I know it's not meant to be a polished feature, but [URL="http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/ProceduralBuildings.html"]some peop…	0 Last	fearian Oct 2011
Wood planks texture problem Hello to Everybody again,I've got one more problem and i decide to keep my questions in different posts.Here is my problem.. I've got a wall and when i aplly wood planks material, from close it looks…	2 Last	iceman30 Oct 2011
[UDK] - DoF on Translucent materials ? Hey ! I'm having a problem with DoF and translucent material in the UDK (with DX11). It seems that translucent materials can't be blurred the right way. I explain with an image : [img]http://gaetm.…	12 Last	Vailias Oct 2011
Lighting Artifacts in UDK I've put it on detail lighting: [IMG]http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/6428/screenshot00000e.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/6412/screenshot00001b.jpg[/IMG] As you can see I've go…	1 Last	_Erik Oct 2011
Over my head I work with CAD software by trade, so all this mesh stuff is way over my head. Allow me to explain my situation. I like to make replicas of items from video games for the purpose of cosplay. I've ma…	2 Last	Vicanic Oct 2011
Adjusting bones on a skeletal mehs in UDK was wondering if there is any way to adjust the position of bones in a skeletal mesh after the mesh is in UDK. want to try out a trick i Seen ND do in there uncharted games which was making environm…	3 Last	Oniram Oct 2011
Vector Transform Node =/= Vertex Colors (As of August 2011) Hey guys, Wanted to bring up a quick issue, maybe someone has a quick hack for it, but currently, for me, the Vertex Color node is broken, and it seems like I was able to narrow it down to it not …	4 Last	Ace-Angel Oct 2011
Control over Landscape material blending Hi you guys, Been a while since i posted, but i've got a question for all you smart people out there. I've been trying to make a material for the new unreal Landscape sytem that makes the transition…	3 Last	King Mango Oct 2011
Regarding light seams problem. Hi. I'm pretty new to UDK and was hoping someone could clear something up for me. See that light seam where the top of the mesh meets the side? The other side doesn't have this problem, but the thi…	10 Last	Hayden Zammit Oct 2011
Damage location vector trying to figure out how i can get the XYZ coordinates of where a object has taken damage. prferiable in kismet but if it can easily be done in uscript in a way that can sent back to kismet that wor…	4 Last	passerby Oct 2011
UDK animation importing issues For the past week or so, I've been trying to learn the basics of importing animations into UDK. I've followed some tutorials and spent plenty of time tinkering, and I've finally hit a wall. I made a …	0 Last	Iron Clad Oct 2011
Saveing texture samples on a material. hello i got a pretty complex brick shader going in UDK, and am trying to figure out what is more expensive right now, adding a whole new greyscale texture to use as a heightmap for my vertex paint an…	2 Last	Perfect_Rolemodel Oct 2011
Odd Opacity Mask Problem Hey guy's I've ran into a strange problem when I started building a material in UDK for my Comicon Challenge model. What's happening is after I apply my opacity mask some triangles in the eyes disa…	0 Last	Shadownami92 Oct 2011
Depth of field blurring scaleform loly Hey, I'm trying to add depth of field into a scene Where I've got scaleform rendering on a poly that covers the whole screen. The dof seems to be blurring the poly using scaleform even tho it's well …	0 Last	kypo Sep 2011
Modular Piece Help I have been trying to fit this rail together for a while now, and I cant seem to do it. I don't know what the problem is. The settings are as shown in the images: [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/m…	4 Last	richwderby Sep 2011
UDK - CMY/RGB Soft Mask - How to Clean them up? Hey to all, I'm having a little bit of a problem, hope someone can help me. Here is the image. [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/825/unled1qab.jpg/][IMG]http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/6…	3 Last	Ace-Angel Sep 2011
LOD mesh elements ordering hello, i'm working on an object where i need 2 materials to always be the same order in the LOD elements when i import them from maya into unreal. I seem to some times be getting the materials muddel…	0 Last	kypo Sep 2011
Importing mesh with several elements Hello. I am currently working on a schoolproject, for which we're making a game. In this game there's a gun, what I'm currently modeling. I made this gun(see vid below), which uses separate parts. T…	2 Last	Chielvl Sep 2011
Bounce Light problem?? Dear polycounters, For days I've been struggling to figure out why my foliage isn't interacting with bouncelight and secondly the shadows are way too dark, occluding the foliage beyond any point of …	1 Last	polygunz Sep 2011
No mesh visible Hey, I ran into a problem in the june UDK version that I never experimented with older version. [COLOR=darkred]When I play my level that i made with the ''Start this level on PC'' button, it work…	5 Last	letronrael Sep 2011
UDK Crash to import *.psk! Hi! When I want to import a PSK file that I make in Blender, the UDK crash! The Log: [url]http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...lerrorudk.png/[/url] Can anyone tell me why this happens? P.D. Excu…	0 Last	shoto_reaper Sep 2011
Wood planks texture problem from far Hello,kindly i would like to ask you for help,because i spent a lot of time trying to solve my problem but without any result.Here's my problem.. I'm trying to create some old west house.When i appl…	1 Last	Endzeit Sep 2011
Lighting channels problem I've got some point lights set only to channel 3 and a couple meshes also set to channel 3 only. Now the problem is that the same point lights are lighting meshes set to channel 4. Why is it lightin…	0 Last	StraightDraw84 Sep 2011
Preview Meshs anyone know how to setup preview meshes for scale in UDK. there is a feature where if you hold down "\" in editor it will display a mesh of your choice for scale purposes. right now it is just a bl…	1 Last	WarrenM Sep 2011
Animating in unreal: what framerate? I've recently decided to take a stab at animation, but I find myself at a loss for what frame rate at which to animate for unreal, namely because I can't find out whether or not unreal takes into acc…	2 Last	dregoloth Sep 2011
can't paint in the distance Hello, I'm using UDK for making a scene, and I have a problem when using Terrain Editor. When I'm using the Paint Tool, it works only for a short range, what should I do to make it work the same no m…	2 Last	Anty Sep 2011
Lighting a daytime scene Hey guys, I'm kinda new at using udk. I wanted to know if you guys had any tips about lighting a daytime scene, I've looked up some tutorials online but they're kinda vague and don't go into a lot o…	2 Last	Ben Apuna Sep 2011
Lightmass is smoothing my normals So I'm having an issue in a scene I'm currently working on. Wherever there is an object with shadow on it, the normals seem to smooth/soften. I have proper lightmaps for most of the objects in the sc…	3 Last	Lucas Annunziata Sep 2011
Landscape normal maps not showing? Hey guys, I'm attempting to use normal maps with my terrain. Everything is set up as described in the UDN/this thread: [url]http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88347&highlight=landscape+…	0 Last	b1skit Sep 2011
Emissive Map Optimization and Effiency dilemma Hey guys, I have an issue that has been nagging me. I am going through my materials and textures in a package I am working with and I am trying to consolidate as much stuff as I can. Regarding Em…	5 Last	DOG-GY Sep 2011
StaticMesh acting the fool. This really isn't a problem I'm having at the moment, just some strange oddity I had earlier this week in one of my environments. Was wondering if anyone else experienced this. So I placed a static …	5 Last	Lucas Annunziata Sep 2011
Cascade - Locking the Z axis of a Beam Data particle Hi everybody, I'm working on a Beam Data particle system and I'm trying to lock the up axis so that the particles, instead of always facing the camera, are locked to always face upwards. Adding a Loc…	0 Last	o2_is_alright Sep 2011
UDK assumes a textures alpha channel is for transparency. I would like to use a textures alpha channel for something other than transparency. But when I import it as a 32 bit tga, it automatically uses what I have in the alpha channel, in this case an ambi…	10 Last	16bit Sep 2011
Physic Asset Collision Detection Hey guys, i'm trying to make an instant hit weapon do specific area damage on a spawned pawn(CH_IronGuard_Male.Mesh.SK_CH_IronGuard_MaleA) with some physic assets (SK_CH_Corrupt_Male_Physics). If i e…	4 Last	Vailias Sep 2011
Plane Mesh Mirroring Hey Guys, i have a simple plane set up in unreal, with details normal mapped on it. I want to mirror the plane when i rotate it 180 and set to two sided it still doesnt light. What am i doing wrong?	2 Last	nick2730 Sep 2011
UDK - Help instancing geometry Hello, It has come to a point where i need some help, i understand prefabs from an old topic i created that will be very useful to me later on down the line. However the problem is exporting meshes…	1 Last	sprunghunt Sep 2011
Vertex animation in UDK - nonskeletalanimation Hi ! i tried searching but i dunno if thers something wrong today but i keep getting the no found topics answer.. so idk if its been answered before. My question is, does UDK support Keyframed anima…	5 Last	sprunghunt Sep 2011
Landscape thread Alright, this feature is exciting to me, so I thought I'd start a thread. I have to do a UDK workshop next week, and was gonna do some natural terrain creation with the old terrain, but now that Land…	16 Last	Paunescu.Daniel Sep 2011
Lightmap is changing? Hello, I dont know whats going on with my Lightmap. Up close it looks good, then slightly further away its blotchy and bad, like a lower resolution of my Lightmap or something. [IMG]http://img684.i…	8 Last	Ouija Sep 2011
JUNE UDK - Dx11 Rendering? Where is the "enable dx11 rendering"? i noticed they moved the 'preferences' out of view but i can't find the "enable dx11 blah" button... :( anyone know?:\	6 Last	Gilgamesh Sep 2011
Cube Map Reflection Problem I'm new to udk and I'm having a weird issue, when I do a cube map reflection render to texture, all the six renders that I get are pointing down (renders out the same image no matter what side). I'v…	9 Last	Gilgamesh Sep 2011
My foilage Dilemma (Grass with white edges) Hey guys long time reader first time poster I am making foilage for UDK mind you that this is my second attempt from it the texture is completly hand made and it uses an black/white texture for the…	2 Last	Eastlin Sep 2011
Reading Material for UDK Scripting Beginner? Howdy, I've recently gotten into the scripting side of UDK. I'm deasperate to find readable and testable materials on learning how to even function within the UDK scripting language. The most i've…	2 Last	haiddasalami Sep 2011
foliage textures I have placed some foliage using the foliage tool when I play in viewport all is well when I play on PC, the textures have disappeared - I see the checkerboard on everything placed as foliage the …	4 Last	Zipfinator Sep 2011
Foliage Lighting like a Nut Sack. Anybody know what this is about? [IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3360480/New%20Mexico%20Desert/saltgrass_02.jpg[/IMG] It looked fine when I placed it but after building lighting on Preview quality (F…	6 Last	Zipfinator Sep 2011
Symmetrical UV problem UDK Hey, I've been using UDK for about a week so I'm a noob. I have symmetrical UVs on my floor pieces and when I import to UDK I get this! I have 3 Floor sections all sharing one texture map (diffuse/…	10 Last	Clark Coots Sep 2011