Materials/Texture problems

PeteHawk

Hey guys, stright to the point:

I made a palm tree the other day in 3Ds (UV'd Textured and Exported). I brought it into UDK and found that it just wasn't looking the same.
It's as if the normals are all flipped but they're not, I even flipped them in to see if it help, but no.

I'm baffled...
I had the same look uploading it into Sketchfab. Any ideas?

CowKing

The trunk and the leaves need to be on different materials to get a good looking effect.

post a screenshot of the material for further help.

PeteHawk

So I can't have it all on one texture sheet?

Obscura

You can, but for what you want, actually you need to use masked for blend mode.

PeteHawk

Thanks there! I guess translucency would be used towards objects that need transparency, glass and such.

I've just noted another oddity with my fountain. Seems that one half is slightly darker then the other. Would it have anything to do with the fact that I used a symmetry modifier?

Obscura

Maybe.Did you used offset on your uvs?Are those verticles welded?

PeteHawk

Yes all the vets are welded. I don't know much about tangents, but maybe they need to be corrected?
What do you mean by offsetting the UVs?

Obscura

Well I dont see too much unique detail on your textures, so after rethinking this, I can recommend an another thing. You could use 2 simple tiled textures.One for the tiles and one for the concrete. And then you dont need to use symmetried or overlapped uv's. And if you want ao, if you make the first uv channel with no overlapping (like how would you make the second for the lightmaps) , then you can still bake it.And for the another textures, you can use the texture coordinate for the tiling. Or you could use the second uv channel for the ao bake too.