Unreal Engine

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How to achieve GI in lightmass without using skylight is there a way to utilize the new feature "Num Sky Lighting Bounce" without using skyight? Or is it just common sense to use skylight in every type of scene? What about a dark enclosed room with one …	2 Last	hegvbwkeuyrv Feb 2018
Building and executing a large indoor environment Hi,First of all I specialise in 3D mainly but haven't dabbled in creating levels before, even though I'm proficient using Quixel and substance painter. However we have a VR project in from…	3 Last	KurtR Feb 2018
Unreal Engine- Is edge support needed? Hi all,Just a quick question regarding Unreal Engine. Do my models need edge support, or will they be fine without it after importing and placing into a level?I know I can import and test it, but I'v…	4 Last	Obscura Feb 2018
Unreal Glass Pint - See through glass wall from a shallow angle Hello everyone. I'm working on a glass shader in UE for my pint here but I'm at a loss.I finally managed to make the normals see through but now I'm struggling with this difference between seei…	0 Last	Yoji Feb 2018
Royal Hospital Rainy evening, the progress of my new projectI'm working on a new project, this is a hospital. I want to show you my progress. This building is a hospital of 6 floors with rooms, elevators, lobby, I …	5 Last	vegaart Feb 2018
Understanding Unreals lighting and bakes thru experiments! I've been modeling for years for a variety of game styles and engines, and have been working more in Unreal lately, but not a lot with its lighting. So now, trying to understand it all better, …	0 Last	undertow Feb 2018
UE4 for expose parameters in ubstance designer so i made a procedural material in substance designer. Is it possible to control the things that i can control via substance' product in ue4 as material instances or some sort? I'm not really familia…	9 Last	hegvbwkeuyrv Feb 2018
I'm trying to make this image to a 3d, any tips on the water floor? https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/000/559/958/large/morgan-yon-26.jpg?1426773755thats the image, but i dont know how to make the water surface in unreal :c some of the cable sinks in…	1 Last	sharpened Feb 2018
how do people break the texture repetition when making modular assets in ue? so im making an environment which has a brick wall. Im planning to make a wall (modular) which i can replicate in UE4. Some questiion:1. does the wall has to be square? does it has to occupy the 0-1 …	8 Last	KurtR Feb 2018
Project Organization and File Structure Hey All,I am curious what some of your workflows might be for having a master project or master materials project that houses materials and textures you use the most. I am wanting to have a Master Pr…	1 Last	Zpanzer Feb 2018
How to create water on a concrete floor in UE4? Quite simple actually. I want to create an environment with a floor, with water on top of it. It cannot be a simple wet texture on the floor. It has to be real water cuz there will be some props subm…	10 Last	Prot Jan 2018
open project from newer version Hello everyone, I'd like to know if I can open an unreal engine project made with unreal engine 18, in unreal engine 16, is there any plugin that can do this, or it is not possible?	1 Last	Obscura Jan 2018
[UE4 - Paper 2D] - Yellow tinted textures in Tilemap view. I have a strange issue / bug when creating a Tilemap in UE4, version 4.17.1. All textures are tinted yellow in the tilemap view / window, meanwhile it looks all good in the actual viewport and when t…	2 Last	EliasWick Jan 2018
Visible seams on 3d model textured in Substance Painter Hi everyone, I'm trying to import my first mesh textured in Substance Painter in UE4. I textured the wood part with a built-in wood materials that comes with SP. I activated the option of tri planar …	2 Last	Chris Bruin Jan 2018
3d Widget communication problem Hi everyone i have a problem.I want to, lights in scene controlled via 3d widget using vr pointer but get the press input from gamepad as you can see everything is working fine but it seems like no m…	2 Last	Ibrahim Aysan Jan 2018
Substance Desginer to Unreal, basecolor map turns out tinted in the material editor? Hi! I've been strugginling with an issue involving Substance Designer 6 and UE 4.15 for a couple hours now...I created a material in Substance Designer, then I exported the .sbsar file to use it in U…	2 Last	leleuxart Jan 2018
Punch animation not working Hi so i have been making the character punch animation from unreals how to tutorial and followed it step by step.And when i play it the character is not playing the punch montage.I've gone through th…	1 Last	Mcbeardo Jan 2018
Need some help with rigging my character for ue4! Hey guys!I'm setting up a rig for my character for ue4. My character has hydraulic rams. I set up a look at constraint in max for the hydraulic ram, but when I import it to ue4 it doesn't seem to acc…	4 Last	Silohx Jan 2018
Paper 2D Character - CapsuleComponent gives incorrect Collision Hi, I am currently making a 2D platformer game using Paper 2D. I am having problems with the CapsuleComponent, it's not giving me correct collision, my sprite doesn't want to touch the ground. In…	8 Last	EliasWick Jan 2018
A FLoor, A Cable that subsmerged and come out of A Water how do i make that in unreal guys im confused	1 Last	Obscura Jan 2018
One texture with different color tints Hi!I have a cube with one packed texture but the texture has four different parts(metal/clean metal/rubber/plastic). Each part has its own mask in another packed texture. Also there is alpha channel …	4 Last	ahtiandr Jan 2018
Rope Animation Issue Hello Guys,I`m super stuck with that issue i hope someone figure out and help me..I have pretty similar setup for my rope as you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE57...dGxLmQ…	1 Last	syhdesign Jan 2018
[UE4] Ambient Occlusion not working in Post Process volume Ambient occlusion is visible in the buffer visualisation view, it is activated under 'Lighting Components', it is activated in the post processing volume and I have also tried activating it in the wo…	1 Last	CupMcCakers Jan 2018
How to detect Mirrored UVs in 3Ds Max 2014 Hey all,So I've struggled with getting proper Lightmap UVs for a while now but I just discovered a bit of info that I had never read before... apparently Lightmap UVs cannot be mirrored! Problem is, …	14 Last	poopipe Jan 2018
Changing Character Armor i have my base mesh then armor i want to make the armor changeable to a cloak witch will be mainly dynamics. is there a good tutorial for this out there i have looked at a few but looking for a reall…	0 Last	michiKing Jan 2018
[SOLVED] Missing Color Bleeding With World Space UV's I seem to have run into an issue where indirect lighting is not baking if I use World Space coordinates for my UV's. I want to do some prototyping in the FPS Template so I've setup a grid material, a…	3 Last	eCstatic Jan 2018
Fade Texture to "Damage" Texture Material/Shader? I have characters in this game, I want to have their normal healthy textures by default but as they get shot and beaten over time, I want the texture to slowly turn into a "damage" texture like all c…	7 Last	poopipe Jan 2018
Google Maps-esque camera pathing So, looking to start a new game project with a friend, but I'm not even sure where to start with the project set up because of how we want the camera to work. I've never made my own camera blueprint,…	0 Last	Ayples Jan 2018
Perforce setup guide for indies? Can Anyone help? Ok so it is obvious that perforce is not working for our studio. We tried setting it up by the movies on the perforce website but that gives constant issues. Each line of c++ code that is added to th…	1 Last	krike Jan 2018
Modeling & Rigging Low-Poly Characters w/ Blood & Gore Setup in Maya LT for use in Unreal Engine 4 In my game in Unreal Engine 4, it's a very low poly game, each character is about 1000-1500 tri poly total. I need help with a starting point before I model the characters for the game with my team, …	0 Last	Oblivion2500 Jan 2018
How to add blood & gore to custom 3D character models? I'm working on a game using Unreal Engine 4, Maya LT 2018, and Photoshop CC. My game lets you make your own character with different skin tones, clothing, and body size/shape. How can I add blood and…	7 Last	Oblivion2500 Jan 2018
Converting Unreal Rotation ( Uelers ) To maya rotations Hello, how does one go about converting the ueler angles from unreal to degrees in maya so that the assets in maya and unreal have exactly the same rotation? Ive been trying to do some math but…	4 Last	Lsleepless Jan 2018
Extremely long beard/hair for Unreal Engine - i need some help :3 Hello everyone,I'm currently working on a small cinematic exercise in UE4. I need to create a long hair (30 meters or so) hanging from the tower window. I need it to look good from up close and anima…	4 Last	Obscura Jan 2018
Mesh edges showing through the normal map in UE4 [SOLVED] Hi everyone,I am having the following problem:This is my bake in Substance painterThe indented gradient shades nicely here.The same mesh in UE4The hard edges in MayaSP baking settingsI also tried bak…	4 Last	JordanN Jan 2018
Alembic Geometry Cache Normals problem. Hi,I have an alembic file that I've exported from houdini, and as a material I'm using textures from substance painter, using which I baked on high res detail to a normal map. This works fine on a si…	0 Last	richard_mcd_green Jan 2018
Please help me setting up my materials for my landscape Hi everyone.First I would like to apologize for the long post and I hope I don't take much of your time.I have looked at tutorials and documentations over and over trying to understand and make sense…	1 Last	Zatchie Dec 2017
exchanging assets Hi, anyone likes to trade some self-made 2d or 3d assets? Just post here what you got to offer and look for. For example I got to offer my self-made speedtree-nursery (still growing), but also much …	0 Last	Vollgaser Dec 2017
Textures are too dark Hello.I got the problem that all my textures are too dark in UE4. No matter where I create the textures (Painter or DDo) and no matter what what format I use (TGA, PNG and even tried JPG), they are t…	4 Last	Obscura Dec 2017
Importing Meshes with emissive materials I am trying to import a mesh into unreal so that the default material is an emssive material. Is there a way to do that?	1 Last	MrBFox Dec 2017
colored frosted glass Hi all,I am trying to get a coloured frosted glass inside of UE. Enclosed is a example what the glass looks like rendered out of vray and 3dsmax.Any one know the best way to approach this?ThanksAlex	2 Last	Vollgaser Dec 2017
UE4-Plane reflection- mirror reflecting another mirror?? Can a plane reflection actor be used create two mirrors at 90 degrees to each other? From the image below:The mirrors are not reflecting each other. Any workaround to this?	26 Last	melviso Dec 2017
Texture splatting - Grass Hello. I'm working in UE4 a personal project: a top-down game.I'm working on terrain materials. I created a tileable grass texture and a displacement map to go with it.I want to splat this texture wi…	1 Last	Vetril Dec 2017
Searching for beginners guides; VFX Hey! I apologize in advance if this is in the wrong area, I'm kinda new to this whole forum usage, doing my best to network! If it needs to be moved, just say so, sorry again! So, to cut to the case,…	2 Last	LilShocky Dec 2017
weird shading error, might be scaling. Not sure? relatively new to this Sup gang, so as the title says. I have a weird shading error on my model upon import. Me thinks its due to a scaling issue, because my fbx files that i was using happened to be different s…	5 Last	pmiller001 Dec 2017
Removing foliage at runtime Hello! I was wondering if someone knows a good way to remove foliage, while the game is running? An example might be to have foliage burning off from a specific location, over time. …	2 Last	Dakkon Dec 2017
Unreal Engine and UI Hello,I want to know if the sort of animated and interactive screens (computer monitors in the game world) in Prey can be done in UE using UMG or if it would be done in another way.Same question for …	3 Last	Obscura Dec 2017
Appropriate Poly Count for non-baked UE4 Models (Arch-Vis) I'm modelling playgrounds for UE4 and am not doing low-poly / high-poly bake workflow. Mainly because it's not needed for a lot of models and these models will be used for VR.The playground is separa…	3 Last	PixelMasher Dec 2017
Animator wanting to test animations in game Hello! My name is Jhalyn and I'm having trouble understanding what I need to learn to get my animations into Unity and setting them up to be tested. I want to learn the technical side of gaming and I…	2 Last	JhGreene Dec 2017
Decall Fully Masked ??? Hello guys...Im curentely working on a project that need some damages on walls and I dont know how is the best way to achieve that....I have a Masked Material that works on instances both opaques and…	0 Last	ToRuKMactO Dec 2017
UE4 Editor Slow/Laggy - Impossible to use Problem:Opening a brand new empty scene, I am unable to orbit the viewport, use the interface, or add objects without an insane amount of lag. 1-5fps if im lucky.Any help would be greatly appreciated…	6 Last	shabba Dec 2017