Unreal Engine

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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
Change shaders on Epics models Hey everyone, I was wondering if there is a possible way to change/replace the material on some of the already in place models in UDK. In reality I just want to replace them with a grey material so …	6 Last	moose Sep 2010
1 shader displaying random textures per instance Is there a way in UDK to set up a shader to display random textures (from a list) per static mesh instance? IE, A a room with 4 tv's, using the same static mesh for each, but each one displaying a d…	8 Last	kdm3d Sep 2010
Decal Methods Hey guys. I know theres a few different methods for using decals Im not sure what is the easier method for what i what to do, havent done much with decals. I just have some white text logos that I wa…	1 Last	Snight Sep 2010
Old School Side View Hi guys, just for fun and to try to learn 3D and UDK "by myself", I'm trying to create a "remake" of Metroid Fusion on the UDK. (Yes I know that there is more than 3 Metroid Fusion's remakes actual…	23 Last	Lamont Sep 2010
UDK , FBX and Maya 2011 static mesh issues Hey, Long time listener, first time posting. Has anyone gotten consistent static mesh export results with smoothing and materials assignments from Maya 2011 to UDK using FBX? If so, what ar…	5 Last	Lamont Aug 2010
Making a DominantSpotLight cast dynamic shadows only I've been trying with no success to force a dominant spotlight actor cast dynamic shadows only. It looks alright on the editor viewport (with real time dynamic shadowS) but as soon as build lighting …	1 Last	Lamont Aug 2010
Flip U & V on BSP not working? I can't get the U & the V channel on bsp surface to flip on anything other than than the default checkered material applied to the brush. Can anyone else confirm this?	1 Last	jocose Aug 2010
Project Files delete	0 Last	mortalhuman Aug 2010
Lightsaber Just thought id share this vid with you fellow UDK users. here's just a quick demo video of a lightsaber that a friend and i have been working on. This is the first stage of a lightsaber class in UDK…	1 Last	Axios Aug 2010
Grass Material Setup trying to get some grass to look good, how ever im getting a harsh blurish bloom effect(my specular map inst white at all), along with too much SSAO. I did a quick search and couldn't find anything…	7 Last	Daniel Doerksen Aug 2010
Model problem with UDK Hi to all, in the last days i was trying to create a Sci-Fi environment in 3ds Max, rendered maps in xNormal and then export to UDK. The problem is when i export the model in UDK with 3ds max (.ASE f…	5 Last	Covin Aug 2010
UDK Effects Art Is there anybody here who specializes in effects work in UDK or any other real-time engine? I'm curious to see what other people have come up or have put in their portfolio. I want to get into creati…	3 Last	Oniram Aug 2010
Adjacent static mesh edges shadows I got a bunch of static meshes which is next to each another (see the image), and get this problem with shadows baking problem where the edges meet. Do I need to weld everything together? Would reall…	7 Last	McGreed Aug 2010
Opacity mask / distortion shader query So I've started getting my hands dirty with UDK materials, and I'm encountering a situation that I'm not sure about. I'm trying to add a glass effect to the windows of my scene. I'm trying to add s…	6 Last	danshewan Aug 2010
Searching for an advanced vertex blending shader.. I wonder if it's possible to find something like [URL="http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=68089&highlight=UDK+vertex+shader"]this[/URL] to download somewhere. My skills in the material…	2 Last	sltrOlsson Aug 2010
Unreal3 TOON Shader Network Creation? Unreal3 TOON Shader Network Creation. I want to creat a outline toon mat in u3 but the outline looks sad,how can I creat a better outline , thanks	18 Last	Irreal Aug 2010
Close proximity xray Hey guys, I couldn't seem to find anything on this so far. Tried searching up words like translucent materials or fading of objects, but what i'm trying to do is to get objects that are close and/or…	7 Last	haiddasalami Aug 2010
UDK Material Issues Hullo Polycount. Been gone a bit, but now I need you again. So I'm working on a blockout for a level for one of my classes. The level is a very large underground cavern containing a city. The level …	2 Last	divi Aug 2010