Unreal Engine

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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
Open UPK how? Hey man I am noob at UDK, and I am having trouble to open UPK in content browser. Is it because I have the old version of UDK? It is from 2009. When I open from folder button i get this error message…	4 Last	Ouija Sep 2011
light map help hi guys i was reading the lightmass section on udk website and i have a problem i cant understand the step that he take unlit scene to photoshop to see them on histogram [url]http://udn.epicgames.c…	2 Last	Ouija Sep 2011
Skeletal Mesh Hard edges and normals Hi Guys. I am currently making a game for a university project. I am having trouble with my character model looking as though its normals are set to the face. and even though i have normalised …	4 Last	Ouija Sep 2011
need help adding water to a level hi guys, Just had a quick favor to ask. I recently downloaded the newest version of udk, and i really need to learn how to add a water effect to it. I cant find any good video tutorials :( all the…	5 Last	Ouija Sep 2011
Modular building destruction I'm very much a beginner so forgive the ignorance that may follow... I just started learning about modular design and love the concept. Build the bits you need and reuse and reconfigure to make all s…	4 Last	tehfailsafe Sep 2011
UDK - 2-sided Material Flickering So! I've run into a bit of a problem on a scene I'm working on here. Quite a biggie tbh. It seems to have started when I upgraded to the latest version of UDK. It would seem as if all my 2-sided ma…	3 Last	ambershee Sep 2011
Parallax Maps Hey guys i was wondering if anyone could recommend a good tutorial for parallax maps and how to make them and utilize them in the udk?	14 Last	ambershee Sep 2011
UDK August Problems and questions Material Functions: Can they only be used within the same package the material that uses them resides in? If I use a material function in a material from an other package and try to save I get an err…	0 Last	OccultMonk Sep 2011
How many material IDs can you have? How many different material ID's can you have on a single static mesh in UDK? I'm having some difficulty when I import this mesh with 8 different materials... the material ID groups get all mismatch…	8 Last	Pope Adam Sep 2011
UDK "Can't Connect to Swarm Hey guys, I'm new to Polycount and hope I can get some assistance here since I couldn't get any on the UDK Epic forums. So, my problem is that every time I try to rebuild geometry,lighting, etc in U…	1 Last	Jerc Sep 2011
Shadow questions. I'm having a problem with my custom shader. Self shadowing shouldn't show on something that is cel-shaded, and yet I have no clue how to disable it and allow it to cast shadows on other things. [IM…	12 Last	16bit Sep 2011
static meshes not casting shadows? hey yinz, long time member, first time thread-creater. i am building a level in UDK almost purely out of static meshes. i have set up my meshes to have light mapping on the second uv channel and…	2 Last	GammaMinus Sep 2011
Masking Terrain Texture Blends? I've seen a few people say it's now possible to mask the blending of terrain textures with the new landscape system like you would with vertex paint but I haven't figured out a way and the threads wh…	9 Last	Swizzle Sep 2011
UDK - Low End Shaders/Material (AKA Old School Tricks) Hey to all, I was wondering, if anyone in here is willing to share some insight and maybe (pretty please) share idea and techniques on how to create and fake special materials/effects in UDK to save…	17 Last	Highelf Aug 2011
UDK - Material - Rotate the Pan Hey to all, I have been trying to make a material in which I have a texture that Pan's, however, I wasn't too happy with the Pan's direction, so I decided to rotate the direction in which it Pan's. …	21 Last	Vailias Aug 2011
All decals using the same shadows, need help! Hi, I been having this problem of all my decals using the same shadows for all the ones with the same name. For the most part they go full black if one of them isn't in a bright area. I've tried chan…	3 Last	Oniram Aug 2011
UDK texture popping When I get closer to static mesh when playing in viewport in UDK, my textures seem to pop. I suspect it is mip mapping, but when I look other maps, they don't seem to pop this close-or at least as no…	12 Last	riddlaz Aug 2011
New Tutorial: Level Design Memoirs. Part 01 Overgrown [URL="http://3dbrushwork.com/tutorials/"][IMG]http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/julio_juarez/Overgrown_Title.jpg[/IMG] [/URL] This is the first tutorial of the series titled Level Design Memoirs…	17 Last	riddlaz Aug 2011
using alpha channel to change color of texture. I would like to use a textures alpha channel to alter the color of the texture. I have a wall and would like to use the alpha channel of the texture itself to grime up areas of it. I am sure this can…	6 Last	Vailias Aug 2011
UDK texture blending, terrain mesh Heya, I am wondering about the advanced (modulated?) texture blend method and its application to terrain mesh inside of UDK. Typically the material is setup to act with Vertex Color and, if I rememb…	7 Last	Bart Aug 2011
August UDK release [B]August 2011 UDK Beta Upgrade Notes[/B] [B]New Movie Capture System[/B] [LIST] [*]Integrated Matinee and in game [URL="http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MovieCapture.html"]movie capture[/URL] [LI…	1 Last	Oniram Aug 2011
UDK "X" movement from "X" 100 to 200 Hi, I've tried with VInterpTo and FInterpTo and the result is the same as Move() function or maybe even worse. I've captured a video clip [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k8mtRXVAJo[/ame] . This…	3 Last	sprunghunt Aug 2011
importing .float and other HDR images I'm trying to import a .float image (HDR) into UDK, however, even with the TC_HighDynamicRange compression on, the file isn't importing correctly. Instead I just get a blank black image. Any sugg…	0 Last	BlvdNights Aug 2011
Maya to UDK questions I have a few questions about how to go about exporting textures from Maya to UDK. When I first started texturing my pieces, I thought I would be making textures for individual objects in UDK. But w…	9 Last	haiddasalami Aug 2011
UDK Environment Work Questions Hey guys, been some time since I last posted on here. I Have started doing a lot of new environment assets and I am planning on using UDK to show off my work. So far I have a scene well into produc…	4 Last	Camikaze Aug 2011
UDK - Clouds/Smog - Volumetric Solution (or closest thing to it) Hey to all, I was wondering what is the best solution for volumetric like clouds effects in UDK? I know that it still doesn't support them, and taking a look at some of the older packages, I came to…	7 Last	ambershee Aug 2011
Cat Rig Problems with UDK Hello, I am currently working on a modification for Red Orchestra 2 Heroes of Stalingrad. I am currently Using the September 2010 build of the UDK. I have some progress done in terms of Characters…	2 Last	HeadClot Aug 2011
-benchmark -fps=30, NOT! Hey sup, had this problem for about 3 weeks now and it has halted me at the last stage of my little project. I want to record a cutscene I did in UDK (thanks again for helping me with matinee and th…	9 Last	sprunghunt Aug 2011
AnimSet Editor - AnimSequence - Notifies Hi guys and girls. I wonder if anyone has any experience in adding particle systems to FPS weapons using sockets and notifies? Me and my collegue tried this feature to attach and trigger particle ef…	6 Last	o2_is_alright Aug 2011
Hovering and flying I have a simple static mesh that I want to have kind of hover like a space ship maybe move up and down slightly. Also another mesh that I would like to do the same thing but also follow a simple re…	2 Last	knak47 Aug 2011
Wierd Static mesh lighting issue Hey, I know I've seen ppl mention this problem before, but as you can see I have a wierd lighting issue of shadows showing up even though there shouldn't be any. Anyone know what's causing it and h…	7 Last	Kratilim Aug 2011
Need help: bones skin animation weapon in 3ds max for udk [COLOR=DarkOrange]Hi All ^_^ As you can see in the title I saw in a YouTube video of the work of weapon animation [/COLOR][ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV3RDphPcCo&feature=related[/ame] [CO…	7 Last	ASHOOR Aug 2011
reflections + shader + pre-process... Ok guys, First we set up a flat plane model with a bunch of subdivisions. [URL="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/833/22184613.png/"][IMG]http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/3681/22184613.png[/IMG…	6 Last	JordanW Aug 2011
new foliage system Is there any preparation needed for meshes that are dragged into the new Foliage window? I know old foliage had certain charactaristics that allowed for better performance, like foliage wouldnt cast …	1 Last	AzzaMat Aug 2011
UDK July Camera Moving Hello does any one know how to turn this feature off, in the console command or something. I'm trying to take a screen-shot of a scene but the camera keeps moving a little bit with out me touching a…	3 Last	AzzaMat Aug 2011