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1. Re: Various UE4 related questions

   

   Reply by Finalhart · Feb 2015 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Yea, there are more posibilities in UE4 even you can use now a lot of textures for a material which is good for terrain. Those are tricks and tips that can apply to UE3 or UE4, you can still replicate the same results.

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   Reply by wes.sau · Feb 2015 · Home› Unreal Engine

   In regard to syncing up height changes from UE4 to WM: I don't know if they have it for UE4, but in UE3/UDK very frequently I would export the heightmap from sections of landscape. It was done with the component gizmo, it also allowed to export just the heightmap, or additionally with all the layer masks. I did this more…

3. Re: Various UE4 related questions

   

   Reply by Marcus_Aseth · Feb 2015 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Thanks LMP :) :thumbup: New question for this day :poly124: When using worldmachine to generate the Heightmap of the Landscape,do people also usualy generate a normal map for it from inside WM? My problem is that after I have my Landscape in place inside UE4 of course I want to change something,therefore I modify the…

4. Various UE4 related questions

   

   Topic by Marcus_Aseth · Jan 2015 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Hi guys,needed this topic for all the doubts I have,I'll put them all in this place :) Todays doubt is regarding this tutorial page about baking normals for UE4 https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Content/Types/Textures/NormalMaps/Creation/index.html The thing that gives me doubts is the guide saying "The…

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   Reply by Marcus_Aseth · Feb 2015 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Todays questions: I'm looking forward into importing a character into UE4 but I'm still ignorant about rigging/animation and so on,I'll learn that stuff on the process ofc (now I'm still in the modeling phase) but I would like to have a preview of what I should expect during this project,so here some questions :) 1)My…

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   Reply by ZacD · Feb 2015 · Home› Unreal Engine

   1) Yes you can do cloth simulation in UE4, there's an example of it in the example content projects. https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Resources/ContentExamples/Cloth/index.html 2) You can also use jiggle/spring bones instead of cloth simulation, it's more commonly used in games, at least in the last generation,…

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   Reply by Marcus_Aseth · Feb 2015 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Thx you both for the infos guys :) :thumbup: Actually both :poly124: Also for now I'm only trying to get an overview so later on I know on what to focus my research/study,I don't want to dig too much yet because for now I'm only focused on anatomy until I get the sculpting done,but basically what a "jiggle/spring bones"…

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   Reply by Marcus_Aseth · Feb 2015 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Thanks Finalhart,though I couldn't help noticing the guide is for UE3 :/ Does it still apply? :poly122:

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   Reply by Wasp · Feb 2015 · Home› Unreal Engine

   I've worked with spring bones, and they are extremely snappy and annoying when blending between animations; I thoroughly recommend working with clothing instead.

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    Reply by Marcus_Aseth · Feb 2015 · Home› Unreal Engine

    @wes.sau: I see,I'll try the same,thx for the info