Unreal Engine

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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
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