Changing UDK Template Mid Design

Greg Westphal

Is there anyway to alter which template you use mid design of a level? I started with the afternoon one to see how stuff rendered in good light to make sure all the assets I was making was correct but now since I've finished the scene I would like to switch it to the night template. Is there an easy way to do that or is there a way to copy the information to a new level?

m4dcow

I don't know about any kismet and stuff, but you can just select everything, copy, and then paste into a new template.

Greg Westphal

Embarrassingly enough I actually tried that a few times and it didn't work. Textures went missing, models disappeared and the only thing that copied was the lightmap

m4dcow

So you copied everything in the viewport, opened a new template, pasted it in, and it didn't work?

Greg Westphal

Yeah, it ended up copying the directional lighting from the old scene and throwing an error. I deleted that light and it still kept some of the world properties of that lighting scheme.

m4dcow

Weird, but then I guess I have never copied more than a bunch of static at a time though.

Greg Westphal

Yeah, even when I deselect the skybox and everything but my static meshes its doing the same thing. It might be a good time for me to actually optimize my textures if this won't work.

blankslatejoe

IIRC the biggest differences in the templates are the skydome (material) and the dominant directional light. Why not delete those in your scene and copy them FROM the template and INTO your scene? you'll have to rebake, of course.

m4dcow

There are also a bunch of post process settings that are different though.

Greg Westphal

That's what i'm trying to do. Got the skybox fixed but I can't find where to select my dominant direction light. I'm incredibly new to UDK. I just started this project to familiarize myself with it actually.

Thanks for the help from both of you.

ambershee

It should genuinely be as easy as copying and pasting your content into the new map. If textures and things are going missing, then you haven't saved them into a valid package.

Greg, the light is an object with an icon just like any other. You can find any actor with the search / find / whatever the heck it's called option in the top edit menu.

blankslatejoe

you can also select it easily through the scene manager--one of the top tabs alongside the content browser where you navigate your meshes/materials/etc.