Decal Problems

Zipfinator

Sorry if there's already a thread like this, but I didn't see one in a quick search.

I've been trying to get some fallen leaf decals onto my terrain in UDK but they won't show up when I place a decal actor. I'm fairly sure that my material setup is right as I checked a few tutorials and everything was the same in my material. I've also tried placing one of the UDK Goo decals and it wouldn't show up either. Does anyone have any idea why they don't show up?

tharle

have you tried pressing e? its the hotkey to turns off decals and really easy to hit by mistake if you're used to maya or max etc.

Zipfinator

That fixed it! Thank you so much. That was driving me crazy. Some of these toggling hotkeys make no sense to me.

tharle

you're not the first and you almost certainly wont be the last! once you know they're there they can be quite useful but they cause so much confusion with people not knowing about them and hitting them accidentally.

Zipfinator

Yeah, I'm finding a few uses for it here and there now. It would be nice if these would reset when you restart UDK though. For all I know I could have hit E in the scene a few weeks ago and it kept them off until now.

passerby

happens to me all the time, im alway acdiently trying to switch between the translate and rotate, and scale widgets using w,e,r.

makes me wish i could rebind keys in udk.