Unreal Engine

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Modo: Low-Poly Looks Polygonal Despite Normal Map Hi. I'm using Modo to put together a low-poly model. After making a normal map in xNormal from a high-poly model, I am running into some issues with the low-poly still looking polygonal. Here is a pi…	3 Last	feanix Jun 2010
Lightmass problem Lightmass is not working with me any more. It was working fine a few months ago, but not now. It takes forever, or when finishing, it doesn't show up lightmass results, just crappy lighting. I inst…	2 Last	sebas Jun 2010
selecting and attaching objects A couple questions. 1.Is there a way to marquee select objects in UDK? 2. Is there away to attach lights to static meshes? I dont want to use the emmisive to project my lights... takes WAY too lo…	9 Last	kdm3d Jun 2010
New May build of UDK slow I have recently started to dive into a new scene, but every time i pull it up in a game window, the frames dive, to 5-10 fps. this is with one light, one static mesh w/~5000 tris and a set of 2048 m…	6 Last	Xoliul Jun 2010
Maya normal map bad shading, smoothing errors Very sorry i posted it in the wrong Section. [url]http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1149234#post1149234[/url]	0 Last	sasuki Jun 2010
UDK: SVN assets/scripts outside UDKgame directory Yea, realize not our forte, but thus far have not found anyone experienced with the UDK whom can give an answer. If nothing else, those of you working with programmers and technical oriented might k…	0 Last	oXYnary Jun 2010
Dominant Light shadow is reversed? [IMG]http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1323/watkb.jpg[/IMG] This scene currently uses a single dominant directional light, and every prop casts a shadow just fine... except this bastard. It isn't …	5 Last	Parkar Jun 2010
Colour grading workflow Hello, I wanted to run by my workflow for colour grading to see if A.) I am doing it right and B.) Why I'm not getting results. My assumption is that with all your colour ranges (high, mid, shadow)…	7 Last	Axios Jun 2010
UV Errors on UDK Import Wasn't sure if I should post this in the UDK thread, because I'm not sure which program is actually causing the problem. Recently I have been having problems while trying to import meshes into UDK. …	9 Last	moose Jun 2010
2 feature questions for the May beta [LIST=1] [*]Where in world info to you supply your post process chain? It's not [URL="http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/rsrc/Three/ContentBlog/PostProcess.png"]here[/URL], as the wiki states. Or if it i…	16 Last	adam Jun 2010
Custom Gun in UDK hello everyone, i have a custom gun mesh that i want to make usable in UDK. how would i go about doing so? i tried searching for a tutorial but only found people showing off the guns they got in UDK …	4 Last	Oniram Jun 2010
Viewmodel stuff. Where to start? Hey guys. I have zero knowledge about setting up viewmodel stuff in UDK and would like to see if you could offer any insights or tell me if i'm right in my thinking. The thing I'm after is basically …	0 Last	Wahlgren May 2010
cubemap woes So it appears to me in my level here, that brushes are reflecting a cubemap in a certain direction... yet the static meshes appear to be reflecting in a different direction. All the same texture cube…	3 Last	kdm3d May 2010
UDK: help with Fog and Lights Hi guys, I have had a little play around with fog in UDK, and I cant seem to get the effect of light glowing in the fog as seen in the pics below Does anyone have any suggestions how I can make the l…	5 Last	JordanW May 2010
What exactly goes in this section? Before I start going crazy with questions, what exactly can I ask here? Does anything go, be it scripting, modeling, materials, particles and what not, or does it follow the nature of the rest of the…	4 Last	3DRyan May 2010
UDK - Full-screen effects (using Kismet) Gentlemen (and ladies), I'd like to look in to using UDK's options for fullscreen effects that is applied to the player's camera when they play through the environment I am creating. The easiest 'e…	16 Last	JordanW May 2010
Lensflare help in the UDK? ok so im setting up an environment in the udk, and I'd really like to get a grip on how to set up a lens flare, but the actor class for them isn't working, and I havent been able to find anything abo…	1 Last	Lamont May 2010
UDK Lightmass Artifacts Any idea whats causing these artifacts on the arch there? All the splochyness? Its a 512 lightmap, and should be smooth... [IMG]http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac270/CleverBit/WIP/l_artifacts.jpg…	5 Last	kyle.rau May 2010
[UDK] Baking lights with non-dominant's For my scene over in P&P I've been using a temporary light setup of 1 Dominant Directional light. It was something that A.) I could get to bake and B.) Was enough for me to see the environment as I w…	9 Last	Progg Apr 2010
UDK Material Question Hey PCers, I'm currently diving into my first UDK level with some assets out of Maya. You can see on the mesh that there are some triangles cutting through sections, especially on the top right. Thi…	10 Last	Amadreaus Apr 2010
[UDK] Curved platform, how to? Hi I'm creating an environment in UDK ([URL="http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=72090&highlight=train+stockholm"]link to thread[/URL]) and I'm having problems figuring out exactly how to s…	8 Last	Parkar Apr 2010
Seam in Normal map in UDK [url]http://www.nickfarley.co.uk/seam_issue.jpg[/url] Hi, I'm making a large rainforest type tree but am having issues with dark seams in the normal map when I import it to UDK. My creation process …	6 Last	easterislandnick Apr 2010
UDK Lighting problem with modular roads So I'm working on a level for my portfolio, and it's a down town area (my hometown) and I decided to go with tileable plains. Now the problem I'm having is that they aren't receiving lighting infor…	15 Last	gannonroader Apr 2010
Sky / Foliage in UDK I've posted this in the UDK thread but it seems a little sleepy in there right now and I'm anxious to get moving on this project as I've hit a bit of a roadblock. I'm pretty new to UDK, and this is …	14 Last	Eric Chadwick Apr 2010
UDK - Light Function Bleed This should be a quick fix for someone here, I've flicked every toggle on and off looking to sort this! I got round to using 'light functions' and getting this stained glass window in place. I creat…	1 Last	Flava-Fly Apr 2010
UDK LOD/ Clipping Plane on textures HELP! I need to turn of the clipping plane, I don't know if it was the update or something I did, but now I have to get really close to my static meshes to see the textures detail, and my skydome is horrib…	3 Last	lightless Apr 2010
UDK - Setting up foreground DOF Hey everyone, Is it possible to setup the DOF in UDK to only effect from the foreground outward? Right now I can only make objects blur the further from the camera that they are. However, I'd like t…	9 Last	Grimm_Wrecking Apr 2010
UDK Lighting help (preview looks crazy differnt from built lighting) Hi everyone I have a question about UDK lighting, I am getting some strange results when baking lighting and I was wondering if anyone can help me and tell me what i am doing wrong, I am fairly new t…	3 Last	Ben Apuna Apr 2010
Objects dissapearing in UDK on play level. The last two objects I imported into UDK disappear when I choose to play the level. Any idea why that is? I can place them in the world, but they disappear when I try to play the level. I've rebui…	3 Last	gannonroader Apr 2010
UDK Lightmap Resolutions I was always taught to stay low on lightmap resolutions, but this was a very long time ago. I was just curious to see what the industry norm for lightmap resolutions is now-a-days. I usually kept min…	8 Last	Progg Mar 2010
UDK is screwing up my mesh axis! Hi everyone, I am working on an environment piece at the moment and I am practicing modular pieces. I attached the gizmos in max to certain areas so it is easier to snap when rotating and such. …	8 Last	Mark Dygert Mar 2010
UDK Lighting Tutorials Anyone know any good tutorials for lighting in UDK? Besides the introduction ones over at 3DBuzz. Thanks :)	5 Last	DarthNater Mar 2010
UDK : Stained Glass Window Lighting Effect & Materials I'm gonna try and smash two questions into here quickly if I can. Firstly there was a recent thread we where discussing the addition of a stained glass window to a fellow users work, the two referenc…	3 Last	Flava-Fly Mar 2010
UDK: Terrain & Foliage related questions Hello! Over at my [URL="http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?p=1092100#post1092100"]Building an environment[/URL] thread I've ran in to some troubles within UDK, specifically with the terrain …	13 Last	Lamont Mar 2010
Export Static Mesh from UDK So I'm looking into asset modeling, and i find the best way to get a feel for stuff is messing around with models that are "doing it right." i can't seem to find a way to export a static mesh to pla…	9 Last	DarthNater Mar 2010
Need some help with ropes/chains/wires in UDK. Hey guys, I was hoping someone here could maybe show me some tutorials on creating rope, chains or wires in the UDK. The udk forums are really slow to get a response, and I find pc's forumers much m…	6 Last	gannonroader Feb 2010
UDK launching game instead of editor Help? I've tried multiple things and and all it does is launch the multiplayer game thing, and is on the menu screen of that.	5 Last	Andreas Feb 2010
How to do Billboarding for Grass in Unreal? I'm making a game in the UDK. I'm trying to learn how to make billboarding textures for grass. I think its called Billboarding. It makes it so the texture is always following the camera. Does anyone…	3 Last	Neox Feb 2010
Mirroring Normals in UDK Hey this has probably been answered somewhere but I couldn't find it. I'm working in UDK more extensively and I have models that have their UV's split right down the middle. I flip the UV's and s…	2 Last	vcortis Feb 2010
Allowing Terrain to accept complex shaders in UDK Is this possible? Got tired of fog destroying my skybox so I just created a shader to fake fog using world position and camera distance but it's having no effect on my terrain. Spec and normals also …	1 Last	crazyfingers Feb 2010
Unreal Shader Help I've been trying to teach myself how to make custom shaders in the UDK Material Editor lately, but I'm stuck on how to get a shader to work how I want it to for a project I'm working on. Its going to…	5 Last	Sean VanGorder Feb 2010
UT3/UDK issue [IMG]http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a261/plaski/udkissue.jpg[/IMG] I built a modular building, and between some of the pieces I'm getting weird shadows. I'm seeing it in many different areas whe…	5 Last	P442 Feb 2010
UDK speedtree into max. Hey, I am wondering if you can bring trees modelled in the Speedtree modeler that comes with USK, and bring them into 3ds Max. Is this possible? If so I'd be so happy. Thanks in advance!	10 Last	DaBeast Feb 2010
UDK Arm Swap/Counts/Texture Sizes Hi All. So a friend asked me and I couldnt find the awenser so I thought I would ask here. Dose anyone know how or knosws a good tutorial for changing the arms of the default character out with a …	0 Last	Autocon Feb 2010
UDK unrealEd: perspective view empty Hi all, i´m just starting with all this, so this is probably rather simple to solve...sorry bout that i got this: in the lower right view, perspective, the brush wireframe mode wont show stuff anym…	2 Last	les_tenebres Feb 2010
UDK vs. UE3 Hey, So I have finally decided to make an Environment art demoreel for school. And I am deciding where to get it rendered. I've used UE3 for a short while, so I know my way around it. But everything …	6 Last	ImSlightlyBored Jan 2010
Need Help in UDK: Dynamic Physics Volumes + Kismet Hi all, I'm trying to make a kismet system that will basically allow me to create a gun that fires a dynamic physics volume that interacts with the first thing it hits. Ultimately I want the physics …	2 Last	Lamont Jan 2010
SpeedTree LOD & Optimization for UDK I made a post at the UDK forums, but their community doesn't seem to be as lively as this one, so I'm hoping somebody here may be able to help. So, I made a tree and imported it into the UDK. Now, …	1 Last	commander_keen Jan 2010
Sky dome Hi all. I am working on a scene in Unreal and I can't quite figure out how to place a sky shere and keep it lit? I brought in a static mesh with a diffuse texture and put in a skylight and when I go …	9 Last	StuBurrito Jan 2010
UDK and Maya 09 i finished downloading the UDK but i cant manage to get anything inside of it, i installed their plug in actorX but it seams its only for animations. How do i export something from Maya to UDK ??	2 Last	serialkiler Dec 2009