Unreal Engine

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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
looking for help Hi My name is Sean I am extremely new to udk , while I know very little about udk I know a great deal about modeling and level design. My experience comes from making custom maps for halo 2 vista. A…	0 Last	Troy Aug 2011
Swarm batch process Does anyone know how (if it's at all possible) to setup a batch process for Swarm? I would like to build several map (lightbakes) over the weekend and not have to look at my pc every couple of hours…	0 Last	_Erik Aug 2011
geometry style? hi i'm extremely new to udk but i've been working in halo 2's engine (windows)for a quite a while, so please be kind when i ask what i know is a noobish question. how do i change the geometry style…	0 Last	Troy Aug 2011
a question hi i'm very new to udk but i have been a level designer for quite some time in halo 2 (for windows) so i hope you will excuse what i already know to be a very noobish question. how do i change my …	0 Last	Troy Aug 2011
UV island seams So I have been searching this forum and the UDN forums for a couple days to try to figure out this problem but I can't seem to find a fix. Everywhere that I have a UV island/smoothing group I get a …	7 Last	Dismembered Aug 2011
Foliage placement I want to place some random grass meshes in my environment and I have applied to it an interactive vertex shader for the wind animation which I found on the UDK forums. The problem is when painting…	1 Last	Bart Aug 2011
Tesselate Landscape Is it possible to subdivide or tesselate a landscape once you have edited it? Quite often the landscape mesh gets stretched out pthe applieretty badly causing d material to look poorly.	2 Last	chris89 Aug 2011
Map won't save, graph linked to external package, HELP D: Hi guys. Pretty new to this whole UDK thing, but finding it easy enough except for the whole package structure which I seem to have misunderstood completely. Here's what I've done. - Installed UDK …	2 Last	ivars Aug 2011
exporting levels Hello all! i am currently working on a level on my PC using UDK for my friend. i finished it and eveything, but now he needs to open it up from his PC. I am using a older version of UDK and his, is t…	8 Last	passerby Aug 2011
Physics assets reacting with wind ? Hey there ! I'm just playing with some physics asset at the moment following this tutorial : [url]http://www.chrisalbeluhn.com/UDK_Physics_Asset_Creation_1.html[/url] It's working perfectly when …	7 Last	GoSsS Aug 2011
Controlling edge falloff on a worldspace projected texture Basically I am trying to project a texture onto a mesh based on world space.. which works fine. I'm able to add by a negative constant to control how much of the texture is projected onto the up-faci…	17 Last	Vailias Aug 2011
Will my computer run it? Will my computer run UDK just for Map creation? The computer i'm getting is: [url]http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/samsung-s3520-15-6-laptop-black-silver-10708146-pdt.html[/url] I know i can check on …	4 Last	Ben Apuna Aug 2011
Shadows On Tiling Static Meshes I'm currently working on blocking out a level in UDK using modular pieces, and I'm having horrible issues with the shadows. [IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/832936/Polycount/udk_shadow_tile.jpg[/IMG] I…	2 Last	Sean VanGorder Aug 2011
Udk Lighting Problem Why would i be getting this type of Smokey Black Cloud lighting issue? It becomes more apparent zooming in and out of the scene/ Does it have to do with the light maps? Or the actual light in the sc…	4 Last	longhornfan25 Aug 2011
Character Importing from Maya to UDK Hey all, I wanted to ask are there any good resources online for importing a character to UDK with a walk animation, then being able to preview this in game? I've been looking on the net for somethin…	2 Last	Torch Aug 2011
UDK Remote - Tried it yet? Has anyone tried UDK Remote yet? I loaded up the default scene that comes with UDK Mobile, and am trying to test out the UDK Remote via iPhone to move around on the test window on my PC. So far, I'…	26 Last	Camikaze Aug 2011
Lightmap Quality Issue Hey guys! i pressume this is related to the type of compression lightmaps undergo... and i feel that i most probably wont beable to really "fix" this.. but maybe there are ways to improve what i have…	4 Last	Sandro Aug 2011
Basic MipMap problem - need help! Hello guys, I am not a Udk expert and I have a mip map problem in my Scene...I searched on the web and tried to change the MipMap/Lod settings of my textures as suggested from some udk users, but I c…	10 Last	cman2k Aug 2011