Unreal Engine

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Package Woes At some point, I have no idea when, my map started saving as one giant .UDK file. I only need this one file which is something like 100mb to open and see everything in map. I would really like to s…	6 Last	Lamont Nov 2010
UDK shader help HI I need help in making a shader in UDK.I need it to only show up on the model's shadowed parts..How do I do that..links for tutorials, tips etc are most welcome & are much appreciated..	0 Last	Pangahas Nov 2010
Weird Shadows? Hey guys, so I've been working on a new level for the project, and we're trying to do a cliffside by the sea. Only thing is the rock that I've imported has got some weird shadowing appearing on it. W…	6 Last	Neox Nov 2010
Stained Glass Church enviornment Hey I am currently doing an indoor church environment. I was wanting to put some stained glass windows on parts of the walls. Is there a way I can do this so that it can allow sun beams to travel th…	2 Last	cholden Nov 2010
Modo to UDK Hey guys! Just wondering if there is a plug-in much like actor x or something similar for Modo 401 or even a file format that is used to export meshes to take into unreal. Modo doesnt seem to have t…	5 Last	CT007 Nov 2010
Skybox Texture Compression Issue Hey guys, Just having an issue with my skybox and compression settings in UDK. I've done a quick Polycount search and found one thread but I couldn't fix my problem. Basically, this is my problem: …	3 Last	PogoP Oct 2010
Free showmethatagain UDK tutes Hi Everyone, I'd like to announce my two new tutorials for UDK. The first is an intro to UDK for beginners, the second shows a technique for creating a large map from satellite imagery. You can vi…	6 Last	Visceral Oct 2010
noooob question about transfering stuff between installations. basically i have some art assets that are all setup and pretty in one installation and i want to take all that and just throw it into a totally different udk instalation. i tried bulk export but it d…	2 Last	planaria Oct 2010
Exporting from Maya I am trying to export a shattered object from Maya into UDK using FBX. The object has been shattered and a radial field applied to make it "explode". I then baked out the animation but it wont expo…	0 Last	jjoyal88 Oct 2010
How to do AO in UDK? Hi all, Real UDK newb here. And yes I have used google and polycount search! I have been seeing a lot of cool renders on the forums with really dark AO's in UDK (some a little too dark might i add…	1 Last	cholden Oct 2010
Random Flickering I'm trying to get some random flickering to occur on the opacity of my material. Right now i'm using Sin and time to get a "pulsing" effect but I want it to be random. Anyone have an idea of how to…	8 Last	Oniram Oct 2010
Cloth Help I'm trying to get a basic bit of cloth to work. I added a cloth bone, and weighted all my verts to it that I wanted to be simulated and then weighted all the other verts to a "rigid" bone and import…	1 Last	jocose Oct 2010
UnrealED 2.5 Dark+Grainy Post-Process Effect Help Hey everyone, I'm using an older Unreal editor to make maps for Gears of War and I'm trying to achieve a dark horror feel. The closest example I can find is something that the Diablo 3 fans wanted…	3 Last	Xendance Oct 2010
Inverse Fresnel Help I'm trying to modulate the opacity of a material based of the fresnel vector, but i want the opposite effect that fresnel is giving me. Does anyone have any idea how to achieve this? When I look di…	5 Last	divi Oct 2010
Terrain Foliage Error When adding foliage to my level, in this case grass, I get strange artifacts and color errors in my editor window. This only happens when I start to move my camera around while editing the level. Whe…	6 Last	Mike Yevin Oct 2010
Skeletal Mesh Questions Ok so first time I do this with a .PSA, some stuff doesn't work [U] -I have all animations in one file, and just digest ranges of them. If I have an animation going from 0-80, I type this in the rang…	0 Last	Xoliul Oct 2010
Help with UDK ! please hi i'm new here in this forum : ) and i have a small question about UDK ... in this img [url]http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/189/test6k.jpg[/url] i wanna know how to make that glow on the board…	7 Last	polygunz Oct 2010
difference between physx mesh and fractured mesh Thanks for helping me with the ladder volume the other days guys. still working hard on learning UDK. Came across Raven's tutorials on physx He teaches about using physx to shatter the wall, and y…	4 Last	ihour Oct 2010
Control sound through Kismet Simple question really, but there's not much to be found: How do i go about controlling (ambient)sounds. As in, have them fade in, loop for a while, fade out. Toggling isn't hard, but it's the fading…	9 Last	Lamont Oct 2010
ladder volume in UDK hi guys just to pop my head in head again ( i've been lurking on all sorts of forums reading and trying to absorb information ) something i cant figure out. Ladder volumes. i've watched Raven's tut…	8 Last	ihour Oct 2010
UDK dominantDirectional poor shadow qualtiy? The shadow casting from my one light (DominantDirectional) is really low, i know ive seen in other games using udk, really crisp real time shadows. do i need to up some setting or something? i'd like…	3 Last	Nielsen Oct 2010
Terrain creation question Hey all. Myself and several others just started work on a platforming game which we're creating in the UDK. We've run into a small hitch though. One team member has brought up the possibility of c…	4 Last	Ryno Oct 2010
Daigonal Geometry & The Grid Hey Everyone, I have some modular pieces I am trying to lay out diagonally to the grid. The problem is that once I rotate the sections at this arbitrary diagonal angle (30 degrees) it isn't on gr…	5 Last	Xendance Oct 2010
FBX Normal Issues I couldn't find this issue by searching, so here goes. Is anyone else having issues with importing FBX files from Maya 2009 to UDK? Every single edge on all my meshes are showing up as hard and face…	5 Last	Jeff Parrott Oct 2010
MaxScript: UDK Export I have been working with a fair number of multisub objects lately, I also work with groups a fair amount and have had problems exporting things if they weren't first detached from a group. Also I u…	0 Last	jocose Oct 2010
Render_Fisheye_Smoothing groups_ 3 Questions Hey guys, I made a post on the master thread, but nobody answered, and i'm on a bit of a deadline here so time is of the essence. My questions are 1.) How would I go about making a fisheye lens…	10 Last	Xoliul Oct 2010
Directional Light not lighting So I'm brand new to UDK so excuse my noobness here, but I cant find an answer to this anywhere. I'm trying to set up a directional light, and when I place one, initially its lighting up the scene a…	7 Last	Nate Broach Oct 2010
Spawn particles on mesh surface Just wondering, as I'm delving into cascade right now: Is it possible to use a (static) mesh surface as spawn location? I'm guessing it's not, since it's nowhere mentioned and there don't seem to be …	5 Last	PixelMasher Sep 2010
Lightmass wont render an OpacityMask that uses vertex color Hey Everyone, I have some glass that I wanted to have a layer of sand sitting on in my mission. I figured this would be a reasonable place to try and use vertex colors. I made an evenly subdivided…	3 Last	JordanW Sep 2010
Setting up a tight FOV, tighter than 40 Currently you cannot drop the FOV in UDK below 40 degrees when using the console (FOV 40). Is this possible using a camera and Kismet? If so, any help on this will get you not ONE but TWO cookies. :…	2 Last	Xoliul Sep 2010
Using a Texutre Atlas (Sampling Specific Texture Coordinates) I have an alpha sheet that has several decal textures in it. Rather than making an entirely new texture I was wondering if there was some way of sampling a sub section of it and then using that as a…	6 Last	jocose Sep 2010
Atmospheric Effect: Airbon Dust I'm trying to figure out the best way to get a little dust floating in the air that is only apparent when the light catches it. I thought about using floating cards, but I'm wondering what UDK alrea…	2 Last	jocose Sep 2010
Kismet's limitations? i thought i might ask this question to the UDK gods in here.. Is there a limit to what kismet can do? If someone who is a total noob at programming and knows not a single word of unrealscript were …	9 Last	ihour Sep 2010
August UDK build -- material comments broken? I cannot seem to be able to comment groups of material nodes in the August build of UDK. I have done it before using the normal "C" hotkey. The most current documentation on UDN still says to use t…	3 Last	RAL Sep 2010
Lightmass: Shadows too ligh Hi Crew, I have been trying to figure this out for this scene I have been working on for awhile. The shadows appear to be really really light. I want crisp shadows to add a dramatic look from a …	4 Last	jocose Sep 2010
Self Illumination I'm sure this has been asked before but I couldn't find a thread anywhere How would you make your material self illuminate for hand painted textures like you could in max. For example in max its in…	2 Last	PhattyEwok Sep 2010
Gloss (Spec Power) Not working Every time I try to do anything with the specular power slot in the UDK material editor my model turns black or I get very bizzare shading. I tried a dark image, a light image, simply using and adju…	8 Last	Jeff Parrott Sep 2010
Spec Power - constant or texture? EDIT: I just realized there is a post about this.	0 Last	Jeff Parrott Sep 2010
Normal Map Texture Compression Issue Hey everyone, The image below shows a 512x512 normal map I have applied to these pipes. Obviously the compression is making a mess of things. Is there any way to turn this off? I know you can us…	8 Last	jocose Sep 2010
Lightmass: Transparent Material I made a transparent material but I cant get light to pass through it from one side to the other. Does anyone know if there is any trick to making lightmass work with a transparent material?	2 Last	jocose Sep 2010
Screen layer effect of Photoshop How can I do the Screen layer effect of Photoshop in the Material Editor? I have two nodes I need to combine, but I need to set my top node to [B]screen[/B] over my bottom node. Any ideas on how to…	12 Last	JValencia Sep 2010
Tiledshot from editor bookmarked camera I have seen people talk about using the tiledshot command to take larger screenshots in UDK. I wanted to take screenshots from different angles, preferably using the camera bookmarks I have saved in …	4 Last	seth. Sep 2010
Multi-sub object (Maya)? Hey guys, Im a Maya user and Im very familar with some of the techniques that max uses although Ive never used it. I want to know is there a way to export a mesh from maya and for it to have multiple…	4 Last	Quillisia Sep 2010
AO - Issue with UDK Ok so i figured out that udk uses a defualt AO in its world properties, and as you can tell its way to big and silly looking and i would like to scale it down. The issue is there is only a check box …	1 Last	Simmo Sep 2010
What's easiest, UDK or Unity? Hi I'm Klumpmeister and I am new here and want to start working on some games. I'm a novice 3D modeler who is still learning. So I like to know which program for an engine I should start learning as …	14 Last	openstheway Sep 2010
Swapping heads to the same body for UDK Okay, so recently I've been doing some animation and rigging work from 3DSMax to UDK, and I've run into a bit of a wall... Basically, I have one body I'm working from, and 6 different heads, all t…	2 Last	Mezz Sep 2010
UnrealMatinee Stamp Does any one know how to remove the UnrealMatinee Stamp and the frames count when you are in Matinee? Im taking screen shot and would like that to be gone.	2 Last	gamedev Sep 2010
Foliage layer offset from terrain? My terrain has two foliage layers. They both work fine on the terrain, and I can adjust them easily. However, there is this extra bit floating off of the terrain that I cannot change. I can't sele…	2 Last	3DRyan Sep 2010
Lightmass Seams Help [U][IMG]http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/4185/seamshelp.jpg[/IMG][/U] Does anyone have a guess as to why this is happening. The area where that black band appears is where those modular sections …	10 Last	Autocon Sep 2010
Exporting/Importing materials Is there a way to export a material and import it for use on another machine? Right clicking in the content view on the material and exporting seems to work but then re-importing fails, I've tried th…	5 Last	moose Sep 2010