🧵 /ueg/ - Unreal Engine General
Anonymous at Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:17:32 UTC No. 902644
The general for Unreal Engine, arguably the best real-time 3D renderer available. It's also open source and free to use. If you have any questions, ask away.
What projects have you been working on lately? What features are you eagerly awaiting?
News:
>UNREAL LIGHTING CHALLENGE (must be submitted before June 26th)
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/
>Metahumans update, including mesh to metahumans
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOV
>Featured free Marketplace content—June 2022
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/
>Automotive content has been updated for UE5
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/
Nvidia Build of Unreal Engine:
https://github.com/NvRTX/UnrealEngi
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🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 12 Jun 2022 06:09:51 UTC No. 902899
Anonymous at Sun, 12 Jun 2022 09:19:44 UTC No. 902915
I'm tempted to fuck around in ue5 and try to bring some of my dumb ideas to life
Anonymous at Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:01:13 UTC No. 902930
>>902644
>Unreal Engine
ah, yes.
the other popular chinese spyware.
the main one being tiktok.
you've been had by a lighting system, anons.
just let carmack do his thing and he'll make ue a yesterday.
Anonymous at Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:28:04 UTC No. 902986
>>902930
You are a complete moron
Anonymous at Mon, 13 Jun 2022 02:10:28 UTC No. 903031
>>902930
Compile it yourself and gtfo you faggot
Anonymous at Mon, 13 Jun 2022 02:12:50 UTC No. 903032
Can someone confirm what an anon told me earlier about how good animation retargeting was in Unreal ?
I'm going to rig and animate a placeholder character that might be bigger in frame than the character I'm currently working on and I'm scared it'll fuck up all my animations when I'll switch the placeholder mesh to the new one.
Anonymous at Mon, 13 Jun 2022 02:49:39 UTC No. 903040
Anyone else thinks unreal engine insists upon itself and is insufferable? Its really not that good.
Anonymous at Mon, 13 Jun 2022 03:07:42 UTC No. 903042
>>902644
>scanned rock formation #5977 looks good
>anything else exposes the shitty lighting instantly
lmao every time
Anonymous at Mon, 13 Jun 2022 03:51:10 UTC No. 903046
>>903032
The goblin is a store asset I retargeted onto, the mannequin is a bought animation, the elf is my own with the store asset skeleton scaled down and with the arms moved down and made less wide. The weight painting is also not much beyond blenders automatic.
Anonymous at Mon, 13 Jun 2022 05:23:30 UTC No. 903050
>>903040
Idiot.
Anonymous at Mon, 13 Jun 2022 06:25:02 UTC No. 903058
>>903050
typical braindead shill response
Anonymous at Mon, 13 Jun 2022 07:18:00 UTC No. 903108
>>903040
>unreal engine
You misspelled Unity
Anonymous at Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:45:22 UTC No. 903161
>>902930
loooool
>>903032
animation retargeting is so good that it successfully retargeted a sculpt
Anonymous at Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:46:35 UTC No. 903162
>>903058
>shilling free software
Anonymous at Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:57:48 UTC No. 903166
>>903162
free software != software that collects royalty after a certain percentage
Anonymous at Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:31:11 UTC No. 903353
>>902644
Can you make coom art with unreal?
Anonymous at Tue, 14 Jun 2022 19:20:52 UTC No. 903376
>>902644
I'm a complete noob in rendering so does this mean it's easier for me to render out an animated scene in UE than in Blender?
Anonymous at Tue, 14 Jun 2022 21:02:14 UTC No. 903388
What is the recommended way to make animations in Blender then import them to UE?
Free, please.
I read Rigify + Uefy. Or Auto Rig Pro. But those cost money.
Anonymous at Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:25:51 UTC No. 903407
why not just use unity?
Anonymous at Wed, 15 Jun 2022 09:51:37 UTC No. 903473
>>903407
Because Unreal Engine is better.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 Jun 2022 09:52:38 UTC No. 903474
>>903388
Watch this entire playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li
and don't skip any videos. Watch every minute.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 Jun 2022 10:12:22 UTC No. 903476
What are the advantages of creating your own rig? As opposed to re-targeting the Epic Skeleton?
If I'm making a game in Unreal, should I be rigging my characters to the Unreal/Epic Skeleton? Is that the common indie workflow?
Anonymous at Wed, 15 Jun 2022 15:45:24 UTC No. 903535
>>903474
I feel memey say this, but is there a good porn animation guide.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 Jun 2022 20:40:25 UTC No. 903601
>>903473
>Nanite and Lumen not supported in VR
>No tessellation
>Empty project is like 2 gigabytes
>Huge stuttering because of shader compilation
>Need something that cannot be done with blueprints? Have fun recompiling the entire engine
Anonymous at Thu, 16 Jun 2022 09:32:05 UTC No. 903709
>>903601
>Need something that cannot be done with blueprints? Have fun recompiling the entire engine
This is how I know you're an idiot with no idea what you're talking about.
Anonymous at Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:50:54 UTC No. 903796
Is it true that renaming your project is a huge pain in the ass?
Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jun 2022 14:12:21 UTC No. 903926
>>903601
>>No tessellation
This one seems to really be a problem, apparently it doesn't work in UE5? I've seen a lot of people caomplain about it. Did they decide they want to go full Nanite instead? How will that work with the terrain though, it loses flexibility. I ain't importing hundreds of small 500k ground meshes to build my terrain.
Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jun 2022 14:32:48 UTC No. 903934
>>903926
They dropped it a few versions ago and pulled a unity depreciate without an alternative.
My guess is they want to tie it with nanite but that could be awhile.
You can displace a mesh with the modeling tools but it's a lot less flexible compared to shader tessellation.
Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jun 2022 20:38:54 UTC No. 904011
Is nanite good yet?
Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jun 2022 20:48:38 UTC No. 904014
I wanna make a game. Is this general good for advice? Or is there another one?
Anonymous at Fri, 17 Jun 2022 23:20:19 UTC No. 904048
>>903926
Tessellation is a fucking meme. Its uncontrolled, and requires specific base geometry to even get good results. You can achieve most of the same effects with pixel space offsets or other options.
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jun 2022 07:26:36 UTC No. 904081
>>904014
what a dumb question
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jun 2022 19:39:19 UTC No. 904153
How should I go about animating a character in first person perspective?
Should it always be just two arms and nothing else?
If I wanted to convert a fully modeled and rigged 3D character for first person perspective, should I just delete all the bones and verts besides the arms? Would that even work?
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jun 2022 19:58:29 UTC No. 904159
>>904153
youre going to need the full body because
1) you are going to be seeing player B doing the exact same animations with their full body when they go to attack you
2) reflections off of mirrors and water etc wont look right at all with only the arms
Anonymous at Sat, 18 Jun 2022 20:08:05 UTC No. 904162
>>902644
This engine is trash... maybe its good for movies.. but for games this is garbage.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 08:10:59 UTC No. 904224
>>904159
Then explain why the Unreal Mannequin uses just the arms for the first person template.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 08:12:00 UTC No. 904225
>>904162
t. moron
Just because you put all your eggs into the Unity basket does not mean Unreal isn't a great choice for games.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:12:34 UTC No. 904228
>>904224
>template
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:20:41 UTC No. 904229
>>904228
So? They made it that way in the template for a reason. It's meant to serve as a basis for a first person shooter.
And who said anything about player B anyway?
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:22:57 UTC No. 904230
>>904229
>basis
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:23:46 UTC No. 904231
>>904230
Idiot.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:29:47 UTC No. 904233
>>904231
Good luck with your floating arms, retard.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:32:40 UTC No. 904234
>>904233
I already know you're a complete idiot with no clue what you're talking about when it comes to game development. No need to dig yourself deeper.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:37:28 UTC No. 904235
>>904234
I'm not the one struggling to comprehend simple words such as basis and template. Small clue: What they don't mean is "the entire fucking game".
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:48:09 UTC No. 904236
>>904234
read >>904159 again. To add to that list, even your shadows will look wrong and if you ever even look down at your feet, well, they wont be there. Heres a protip : its not 1998 anymore. Also, epic for a lot of things has no idea what they;re doing. Dont trust them. Hell, half of their company is literally owned by one of the most oppressive, anti human rights governments in the world, the CCP. They simply dont care.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:49:37 UTC No. 904237
>>904235
If there was any reason to render the entire player character for a first person game, it would be rendered in the template you utterly braindead idiot. They only use arm meshes for a reason.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:50:51 UTC No. 904238
>>904236
>unitycuck crying about chinese ownership again
Immediate discard.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:52:23 UTC No. 904239
>>904237
You've already been given 3 out 20,000 reasons. Feel free to ignore them like the retard that you are.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:52:46 UTC No. 904240
>>904238
i dont use unity, i have a different, vulkan engine
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:53:38 UTC No. 904241
>>904239
Reasons provided by tech-illiterate idiots like yourself don't carry any weight. You know absolutely zilch about gamedev and have no credibility.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:55:02 UTC No. 904242
>>904241
Thanks for your opinion, template guy.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:55:08 UTC No. 904243
>>904241
you sound exactly like that idiot who was trying to prove that people with 20 years production cg experience didnt know what they were doing, like 2 weeks ago. Get out of this board and get a life
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:57:10 UTC No. 904244
>>904242
>opinion
You are factually an idiot.
>>904243
It's not my problem you're an engine-illiterate moron who thinks it's necessary to render an entire player character from first person perspective you stupid idiot. It's also embarrassing you think you know better than paid professional developers who actually make the engine.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 10:01:12 UTC No. 904245
>>904244
You will never make a game.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 10:01:42 UTC No. 904246
>>904245
No need to project your insecurities, idiot. You lost the argument, swallow your pride and move on.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 10:27:59 UTC No. 904247
>>904246
There is no argument, you simply can't see far enough ahead to develop your own game. It's ok to be clueless.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 10:32:38 UTC No. 904248
>>904247
You're still digging yourself deeper, idiot? You already got exposed as a moron. You don't know better than the Epic developers, or any game developers for that matter.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 10:40:10 UTC No. 904249
>>904248
So show us how it's done, champ. You won't.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 10:41:07 UTC No. 904251
>>904249
You've already been shown in the template by people far more qualified than an idiot like you could ever dream of being.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 10:55:18 UTC No. 904252
>>904251
No, the template shows how to do the most basic thing, mainly because retards like you need spoon-feeding. It's like the way the same template has the most basic environment, because again, a retard such as yourself could not handle any more information. But obviously a real game would have much more detailed environments and models, because they are made by real developers, not retards who think an example is the end product. You can go now.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 10:56:27 UTC No. 904253
>>904252
>No, the template shows how to do the most basic thing
If there was any good reason to render the full character from a first person perspective, the template would reflect that.
Alas, you're a complete idiot, and desperate to rationalize your terrible workflow practices. Not my problem, moron.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:05:01 UTC No. 904255
>>904253
>terrible workflow practices
>oh shit my game needs the full model for X reason and now I have to scrap 8 months of work and redo every animation
>so that's why they were laughing at me on /3/
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:07:07 UTC No. 904256
>>904255
You lost, idiot. No need to dig yourself deeper.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:08:13 UTC No. 904257
>>904253
have you ever even made a single level of a fps game, not even a full game? Why do you ask questions, and when given the answer with multiple bullet point reasons, reject them and lash out? Oh wait, its because you are a troll, just like you were in your last thread. Point and laugh, everybody.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:09:28 UTC No. 904258
>>904257
>ask question
>get answered by complete morons doubling down on their own stupidity
If you don't know the answer, next time just swallow your pride and don't answer. No need to embarrass yourself moron.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:12:14 UTC No. 904260
>>904258
the only one embarrassing themselves is you. Respect your elders, son
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:12:55 UTC No. 904261
>>904260
>deflection
As expected from a pea-brained idiot like yourself.
Again, you have zero clue what you're talking about. Stop giving advice when you're a beginner.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:13:46 UTC No. 904262
>>904257
Raising the royalty threshold was a mistake.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:15:09 UTC No. 904263
>>904261
>Stop giving advice when you're a beginner.
>literal cut and paste from his last troll thread
lol, grow up and make something, idiot
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:17:43 UTC No. 904264
>>904263
Ok, so on top of being a complete moron with no idea what you're talking about, you're also a schizo. Good to know.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:22:01 UTC No. 904265
>>904264
>claiming someone is a schizo
>when he is clearly the same poster that im referring to from 2 weeks ago who got so assblasted and BTFO with the exact same posting style and idiocy
you are done here, everyone can recognize your posting style you clown
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:24:37 UTC No. 904267
>>904265
>claiming someone is a schizo
>when he is clearly the same poster
Yes, this is exactly what schizophrenia is, idiot.
Keep doubling down on your stupidity, you're still a beginner and a nodev at the end of the day, and you still don't understand anything about this subject.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:27:28 UTC No. 904269
>>904267
are you done yet?
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:27:35 UTC No. 904270
Imagine getting filtered this hard by a template.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:28:28 UTC No. 904271
>>904270
Imagine being too stupid to understand why the template uses arms instead of a full character mesh.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:38:26 UTC No. 904272
>>904271
Imagine you ever making a game. I can't.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 12:41:37 UTC No. 904279
What is the best way to flood a room in real time in a 3D game?
Would I need something like Houdini to make this work right? Engine is Unreal.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 12:53:17 UTC No. 904281
>>904279
Depends.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 12:54:14 UTC No. 904282
>>904281
>idiot is still giving people trash input
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 12:58:10 UTC No. 904283
>retard still hasn't made a game
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 13:03:32 UTC No. 904284
>>904283
>enters the unreal general on /3/
>tries to answer questions you don't understand
>cries after getting BTFO
You are so embarrassing and stupid it's funny.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 13:35:25 UTC No. 904286
>>904284
I honestly don't know why you are so upset all these hours later, no one is stopping you from learning how to make a game.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 13:36:47 UTC No. 904287
>>904286
>upset
This is simply your projection.
All I was doing was correctly labeling you a moron who doesn't actually know anything about Unreal Engine or gamedev.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 13:44:01 UTC No. 904288
>>904287
I know you shouldn't be a retard and try and make an actual FPS with a pair of arms, so I'm at least twice as knowledgeable as you.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 13:48:10 UTC No. 904289
>>904288
>I know you shouldn't be a retard and try and make an actual FPS with a pair of arms
Except that's your word against thousands upon thousands of professionals.
You can cope all you like, idiot. You're still a beg and a no-hoper.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 13:59:08 UTC No. 904290
>these 2 guys have been arguing on 4chan for 6 hours straight
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 14:01:02 UTC No. 904291
>>904289
Hate to break it to you, but a template isn't an actual game.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 14:05:28 UTC No. 904292
>>904291
You were already destroyed on this point, idiot. No need to dig yourself into a hole again.
You do not know better than paid professionals at Epic. You're a loser and a beg.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 14:13:52 UTC No. 904293
>>904292
You're basing all your assumptions on a company that doesn't even make FPS anymore. How unfortunate for you.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 14:38:16 UTC No. 904297
>>904293
>t-they haven't made an FPS for a while, that means they don't know what they're talking about and i know better than them!
You're such a sad idiot lol.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 16:56:16 UTC No. 904309
>>904297
That's how it works when you appeal to authority, you have to actually appeal to an authority. It's like someone citing your opinion on the matter, you don't make FPS games, so what the fuck would you know? Now if you had cited Activision, you may have had a point. Except for the fact that Activision uses full models in their FPS. Because only a fucking retard wouldn't AKA you.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 16:58:15 UTC No. 904310
>>904309
>appeal to authority
Pffahahahaha, yeah citing the literal developers of the engine is a truly disingenuous logical fallacy isn't it?
I mean holy fuck, you're such an idiot it's actually insane. Your brain is literally broken beyond repair.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 17:05:27 UTC No. 904313
But we're not talking about creating engines, we're talking about developing a specific game. It's like pretending a guy who makes boots could manage a football team because footballers wear boots. Another logical fallacy to add to your list of copes.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 17:09:38 UTC No. 904314
>>904313
Not using the reply function just further illustrates your insecurities, idiot.
You tried to claim you knew better than Epic's own developers, and you embarrassed yourself. You're a colossal fucking idiot with absolutely no idea what you're talking about. It's hilarious watching you crash and burn, desperately trying to rationalize your idiocy.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 19:00:02 UTC No. 904334
>>904224
>Then explain why the Unreal Mannequin uses just the arms for the first person template.
Some games have floating arms (Unreal, Half Life 2) and some have floating arms + legs (Halo since Halo 2, GTFO).
If the game is multiplayer there's a whole separated character model rendered only by other players, if the game is single player that model might be useful to cast a shadow and make everything more immersive.
Some games just use one model for everything (I guess Kingdom Come Deliverance, Mirror's Edge).
It's a design choice and I like the latter.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 20:25:25 UTC No. 904350
>he now retreats into strawman arguments
Guaranteed (You)s
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 20:45:50 UTC No. 904354
bottom text
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Jun 2022 20:53:39 UTC No. 904356
>>904354
sneed
Anonymous at Mon, 20 Jun 2022 22:35:59 UTC No. 904494
Can Unreal handle as much geometry as Clarisse?
Anonymous at Mon, 20 Jun 2022 23:09:15 UTC No. 904498
>>904494
No.
Anonymous at Wed, 22 Jun 2022 11:25:48 UTC No. 904713
I am in the market for a new graphics card. Should I get a amd one with lots of vram or a nvidia card with like 8 at most?
Anonymous at Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:32:14 UTC No. 904723
>>904713
Get a 12gb 3060.
Anonymous at Fri, 24 Jun 2022 05:21:36 UTC No. 904948
>>902644
Which version of UE is the best?
Anonymous at Fri, 24 Jun 2022 05:41:19 UTC No. 904951
>>904948
Depends.
Anonymous at Fri, 24 Jun 2022 10:14:08 UTC No. 904971
>>904723
not a 6700?
Anonymous at Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:21:10 UTC No. 904992
>>904723
>>904971
Vanilla RTX 3060 here. The 12 gb is definitely worth it and you can run all shit with it.
Anonymous at Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:50:37 UTC No. 904997
>>904992
It's a bit of a tradeoff for gaming.
Anonymous at Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:52:38 UTC No. 904998
>>904997
not really, no. According to the latest steam survey, only 2% of all gamers use 4k displays. When you develop games you have to develop them for the main target audience (1080p)
Anonymous at Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:59:59 UTC No. 904999
>>904998
I mean personally too, it struggles with raytracing games and [spoiler]warhammer 3[/spoiler]
Anonymous at Fri, 24 Jun 2022 13:04:35 UTC No. 905001
>>904997
Not really I use 1080p and can run modern games on ultra without raytracing.
Anonymous at Fri, 24 Jun 2022 13:38:47 UTC No. 905006
Well, looking into I am starting to think the pros outweigh the cons. I don't see any reason for it to be a bad match for ue5 either.
I don't know much about production cards so I assume substance and zbrush will like it more than amd or a low vram card?
Anonymous at Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:18:04 UTC No. 906101
Any tutorial on making advanced splines ? Stuff like to manage when two spline cross each others and things like that?
Anonymous at Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:54:02 UTC No. 906108
>>905001
ultra is a meme, there are many many videos about that.
Anonymous at Thu, 30 Jun 2022 18:22:59 UTC No. 906139
>>902930
>just let carmack do his thin
Carmack hasn't been #1 for 20 years.
Anonymous at Fri, 1 Jul 2022 03:31:22 UTC No. 906199
>>904238
The 3d industry is always planning for the future and how to improve and optimize pipeline workflows to stay on top of the game. The main technology they are whispering about more than ever is Unreal 5 in terms of heavier adoption beyond gaming. Ultimately is matters what makes life easier for artists in a back and forth pipeline environment at a big studio.
Anonymous at Fri, 1 Jul 2022 13:45:01 UTC No. 906260
How important is the value of an albedo if the entire scene blends well together value-wise, even if the albedo of individual assets may be darker (or lighter) overall than it should be. Would just correcting the exposure to balance it out provide the same results? Would a higher lighting exposure on an underexposed albedo be the same as a lower lighting exposure on an overexposed albedo?
Anonymous at Fri, 1 Jul 2022 13:51:43 UTC No. 906261
>>906260
The albedo has a strong influence on secondary bounces. If your albedo is to dark it'll mess up the Global Illumination.
Its better to keep the albedo physically correct (neither too dark nor too bright) and then mess with the light intensity or exposure.
>Would just correcting the exposure to balance it out provide the same results?
No
Anonymous at Fri, 1 Jul 2022 14:06:03 UTC No. 906262
>>906261
Thanks, that's what I assumed. Changing indirect lighting intensity in PP wouldn't work either then? I wish I could find a good visual example of these behaviors, though, to truly understand how it affects the bounce. I might have to do it for myself.
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Jul 2022 18:52:27 UTC No. 906538
is it possibel to make a game only from default materials and not using a 3d modelling software?
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Jul 2022 13:50:23 UTC No. 906665
>>906140
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5K
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Jul 2022 01:58:31 UTC No. 906738
What would be the best way to create a water firing effect in Unreal? Like if I wanted water to be blasting out of a large pipe.
Is this best done using Niagara's toolset alone? Or is it better to outside it into something like Houdini? Obviously the flooding water simulation effect would need to be baked.
Anonymous at Wed, 6 Jul 2022 15:44:58 UTC No. 907036
Some neat Game VFX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPw
Anonymous at Wed, 6 Jul 2022 22:37:21 UTC No. 907071
>>902644
Do you guys know any good Unreal Engine tutorials for a newbie?
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🗑️ Anonymous at Wed, 6 Jul 2022 23:27:35 UTC No. 907083
What do you guys think about the Epic Asset Manager for Linux? It's supposed to be an alternative to the Epic Games Launcher for Unreal Engine users on Linux since Epic never bothered to make a Linux version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgy
Apparently you don't have to compile Unreal Engine for Linux anymore since it can download and install Unreal Engine using the official UE Docker container packages from Epic's GitHub repo (as with UE's source code, you'll still need to have a GitHub account with access to Epic Games' repositories to access them though).
https://github.com/orgs/epicgames/p
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🗑️ Anonymous at Wed, 6 Jul 2022 23:36:58 UTC No. 907085
What do you guys think about the Epic Asset Manager for Linux? It's supposed to be an alternative to the Epic Games Launcher for Unreal Engine users on Linux since Epic never bothered to make a Linux version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgy
Also, you won't have to compile Unreal Engine for Linux anymore since it turns out Epic has prebuilt Docker container versions of UE for Linux on their GitHub account and you can use EAM to download, install and manage them. As with UE's source code, you'll still need to have a GitHub account with access to Epic Games' repositories to access them though.
Here are the Docker containers:
https://github.com/orgs/epicgames/p
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Jul 2022 06:18:10 UTC No. 907122
>>907036
Reddit animation.
Reddit vfx.
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Jul 2022 17:02:57 UTC No. 907182
>>907071
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-z
>>907122
show your work then
Anonymous at Thu, 7 Jul 2022 17:11:37 UTC No. 907183
>>907182
not him, but he is right.
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Jul 2022 11:48:54 UTC No. 907269
I want to easily create some more or less realistic terrain, put all my shitty models I've made into it and then check them out first person. Is this possible in UE? Basically limited scale world-building in which I can then walk around.
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Jul 2022 13:11:31 UTC No. 907279
>>907182
Not him but I did the castle thing already, its about creating an enviroment and not a game
Where do we go from here? Just start prototyping?
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Jul 2022 13:13:22 UTC No. 907280
>>907269
Yes, it even has a first person template you can use so coding isnt required
I would even say Unreal is overkill for what you are trying to do desu
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Jul 2022 13:13:57 UTC No. 907281
>>907280
Nice. I've checked few videos, it looks great.
>overkill
What else to use though?
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Jul 2022 13:17:04 UTC No. 907282
>>907281
Dont know of any alternatives besides Unity which is arguably even more overkill
Anonymous at Fri, 8 Jul 2022 13:44:43 UTC No. 907285
fluidninja is free this month
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Jul 2022 21:12:01 UTC No. 907638
>GTX 1060 is slow as dirt with Lumen in the UE5 editor
Looks like this is finally it for the GTX 1060 isn't it?
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Jul 2022 01:56:45 UTC No. 907685
>>903046
you do anything special with the lighting?
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Jul 2022 02:00:16 UTC No. 907686
>>906138
socket them to the model
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Jul 2022 09:23:56 UTC No. 908155
>unity is now malware
Unrealchads just keep winning.
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Jul 2022 14:41:44 UTC No. 908195
>>907285
What is it? What can I use it for?
Anonymous at Sat, 16 Jul 2022 23:34:23 UTC No. 908603
>>908595
That stands in direct relation to your IQ and your general motivation.
Its not less but probably more than an average DCC like Maya which is already twice if not more complex than Blender.
I am using it for 5 years now and I have only scratched the surface, but to be fair I am only using it as an realtime renderer, I have no intention to make a game with it. Even with this limited use-case, I still feel like there is a deep end that I haven't explored.
Anonymous at Sun, 17 Jul 2022 05:11:36 UTC No. 908633
Why can't I download my Metahumans? Bridge says do it in Unreal 5, so I tried through Unreal 5, but I still can't download anything.
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:55:08 UTC No. 909141
Is there a general rule what should be the skylight intensity with Lumen? Seems like I should just change the sunlight value and leave the skylight on default.
Also what about changing a default indirect light intensity, what's the most correct value?
And a third thing - what do you think about using real world values for lighting, e.g. sun should be 120,000 lux afaik.Not sure I see a difference if the camera exposure is auto. Maybe the bounce is calculated better from some forum posts I've seen, but others are not sure it really matters either.
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Jul 2022 19:25:37 UTC No. 909194
After the recent update, it seems that virtual shadow maps don't work at all for me anymore. I can't get soft shadows by increasing the radius. Anyone else with the same problem?
It might be due to my old drivers, but I can't really update laptop drivers with generic ones and there are no new ones to install.So probably it's a very specific issue. Nanite doesn't work for me either. Time to upgrade my desktop again I guess, it's gonna hurt the wallet.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:27:32 UTC No. 910428
What are pros and cons of vertex painting vs an RGB mask (or a splat map as it is also sometimes called)?
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:19:23 UTC No. 910580
>>902930
>carmack
Carmack hasnt produced anything groundbreaking since he turned 30. That brain of his had 10 years of superpowers in it, then he got old.
Your IQ peaks at 21 slowly falls from there.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Jul 2022 03:05:19 UTC No. 910585
>>910580
Funny that in my 20s I was addicted to drugs and alchohol and doing nothing and unemployed and now in my 40s I'm employed and have moved the industry forward
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Jul 2022 09:23:28 UTC No. 910628
>>910580
>Your IQ peaks at 21 slowly falls from there.
Dude, with 21 most people haven't even started to become intelligent, that's like the low threshold.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Jul 2022 06:06:20 UTC No. 910796
>>903040
>insists upon itself
Have you been watching family guy? I have only seen retards spew that line after having watched it.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Jul 2022 08:50:14 UTC No. 910811
>>910628
Most people didn't invent the FPS genre.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:07:21 UTC No. 910813
>>910811
>thinking Carmack invented first-person shooters
You must be at least 18 to be here
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Jul 2022 16:34:14 UTC No. 910879
is unreal good enough for rendering
how does it compare vs redshift, octane, arnold, etc??
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:16:22 UTC No. 910886
>>910813
he *basically* did
🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 30 Jul 2022 16:24:35 UTC No. 911334
what is the best 3d program to use for importing to unreal? if export fbx from blender will it be ok? if i cough up the dough for commercial is maya or houdini better? i used c4d in school, but there's no indie pricing and i don't wanna cough up three grand.
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Jul 2022 16:26:31 UTC No. 911335
>>910813
the ultima underworld engine was superior to doom by far, but he didn't build a cult of personality around himself like carmack, so you never heard of him whoever he was.
Anonymous at Sat, 30 Jul 2022 17:32:36 UTC No. 911340
>>910628
I'm not worried about IQ given zoomers are dumber than a boat full of a Somalians
Anonymous at Sun, 31 Jul 2022 01:45:49 UTC No. 911428
>>911361
First fps game was Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Stop photoshopping wikipedia articles mkay
Anonymous at Sun, 31 Jul 2022 02:05:35 UTC No. 911429
>>911361
What even defines a "true" FPS? The genre's origins go way back before that.
Anonymous at Sun, 31 Jul 2022 02:06:29 UTC No. 911430
>>911429
The first FPS was Unreal by Tim Sweeney and the first game engine was Unreal Engine, also by TS
Anonymous at Mon, 1 Aug 2022 02:13:12 UTC No. 911644
How do I learn UE5?
Anonymous at Mon, 1 Aug 2022 02:25:25 UTC No. 911645
should i get maya indie or houdini indie or just use blender for unreal? i used c4d in school but there's no indie pricing.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Aug 2022 06:16:48 UTC No. 911849
Do you know if there's a course on lookdev with Unreal but trough C++ programing (preferably). Like something that teaches volumes, materials, particles, virtual textures, etc... but not basic stuff, I'm after more advanced manuplating techniques.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Aug 2022 06:22:40 UTC No. 911851
I've done a few tutorials, can someone throw me something intermediary?
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Aug 2022 06:40:42 UTC No. 911855
>>904229
It's kind of just an arbitrary choice based on older industry trends.
Just arms was really common in the past and had some advantages and reduced some computation. Skyrim for example is arms (and maybe legs I don't remember). It works but it's not as worthwhile as it once was and arguably introduces more issues than it's worth, as others have pointed out with mirrors, other players, shadows.
You can do what you want but since it's not too much more to implement a full body why not do it and save you some trouble down the line.
Why ask for advice then reject it?
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Aug 2022 06:46:57 UTC No. 911856
>>907279
Anyone have an answer? I want to know too. I just want to know how to make some enemies and make a basic sword or gun game.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Aug 2022 07:05:43 UTC No. 911863
>>911856
This guy is good.
https://www.udemy.com/course/unreal
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Aug 2022 18:45:09 UTC No. 911985
>>911863
thanks man.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Aug 2022 19:04:47 UTC No. 911990
>>911985
The ultimate shooter course is a great grounding in a complete (very basic) game. This playlist is good for adding to that, although you'll also need the free plugin it is extending.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Aug 2022 20:12:35 UTC No. 912001
>>911849
bump.
Or I'll ask in another way. Can someone please make me a list in order of logical priority on what to learn for lookdev in Unreal? Not interested in making movies but on gamedev but I'd like to know how to make textures animations, use volumes, materials and custom material (procedural, etc.), VFX, etc.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Aug 2022 20:23:34 UTC No. 912005
>>912001
There's not much C++ material out there. Your best bet is learning Blueprints to C++ and then translating the Blueprint courses yourself.
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Aug 2022 05:28:46 UTC No. 912068
So uh what are you using Unreal to make?
Learn anything neat or new?
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Aug 2022 12:02:49 UTC No. 912163
I'm going crazy with this: how the fuck do I create a simple sky box that doesn't have lighting in it ? basically I've been using the hdri backdrop and using a cloud cube map but the cube map always have a sun in it. It too much brightness to my directional light. I just want a cloud texture in the sky and that's it. Do i gotta find a cloud texture with alpha channel ? help
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Aug 2022 13:35:52 UTC No. 912172
>>912001
I recommend you to check PrismaticaDev youtube channel. He'll give you an idea of how to make shaders, some vfx. Then you can learn more about shaders in Artstation courses for free. Once you have a better understanding. I recommend to integrate Houdini FX into the workflow (You can bake pretty complex effects into flipbooks and use them in Niagara). Also check Fluid Ninja VFX and Fluid Ninja Live tools.
Then you can also learn about substance designer (procedural textures), trim textures and tiling textures for speeding up your iteration times.
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Aug 2022 14:49:38 UTC No. 912182
Is there any reason to use ue4 instead of ue5 for archviz?
Anonymous at Wed, 3 Aug 2022 18:32:40 UTC No. 912212
>>912163
You can make a sky sphere model that surrounds an entire level and place an unlit sky hdri texture on it.
Anonymous at Thu, 4 Aug 2022 19:40:47 UTC No. 912395
What should be the intensity of skylight in UE5? I feel like previously it mattered more to control the ambient with it, but now since you get all the bounce from a directional light I just keep it at 1 and am not sure if it needs to be tweaked. What about indirect light intensity of directional and skylight? Would it provide more realistic results if you increased it or nah?
Anonymous at Thu, 4 Aug 2022 20:21:04 UTC No. 912401
>>912163
Get a photo of cloud, desaturate and pump the levels to get a clear black and white image. Use that as an layer mask on a solid white layer, cheap cloud
Anonymous at Fri, 5 Aug 2022 04:47:08 UTC No. 912430
Anyone know where I could find reading material on unreal other than the documentation?
I've got a lot of hours I can't watch videos but I want to keep learning relevant stuff to what I'm working on. I'm having a hard time finding anything to read online other than the documentation though.
Anonymous at Fri, 5 Aug 2022 06:30:48 UTC No. 912439
>>912430
I have 2 books for UE4. I read them both, and I find the advice of some random hindu guy in youtube to be more concise and helpful. God fucking help me.
Anonymous at Fri, 5 Aug 2022 10:44:05 UTC No. 912480
>>912430
https://zlibrary.unblockit.ist/s/un
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B
Anonymous at Fri, 5 Aug 2022 20:59:23 UTC No. 912596
5 hours of Carmack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I84
Anonymous at Fri, 5 Aug 2022 23:06:15 UTC No. 912610
Does anyone know what might be causing the messed up texel density and weird normals in the cliffs?
They look fine inside of Marmoset and Substance Painter but in-engine it looks very different
Is it a UV, Baking or lighting issue?
🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 6 Aug 2022 00:48:16 UTC No. 912618
>>912610
>asks for help with texel density
>posts a clay render
>different normals in dcc and engine
>doesn't say what engine
Don't be like this retard.
Anonymous at Sat, 6 Aug 2022 04:36:20 UTC No. 912628
>>912610
Have you built the project yet?
Anonymous at Sat, 6 Aug 2022 06:05:52 UTC No. 912635
>>912628
Built the lighting and it improved a bit.
Cleaning up the UVs on the low poly will fix the remaining issues, thanks anon
Anonymous at Sat, 6 Aug 2022 06:15:53 UTC No. 912636
>>903388
Have you tried this?
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/
Anonymous at Sat, 6 Aug 2022 06:30:34 UTC No. 912637
>>904225
unreal 4 ran like fucking garbage outside of fortnight in every single game that used it for how good the graphics were, is unreal 5 the same way, fastly disportionate worse performance vs what things look like?
Anonymous at Sat, 6 Aug 2022 12:26:23 UTC No. 912691
>>912637
Did it really? I never experienced any issues and I played plenty of UE4 games without a powerful PC. Shitty performance is still something that I subconsciously connect with Unity, even though ultimately it depends on developers and not engines.
Anonymous at Sat, 6 Aug 2022 16:14:49 UTC No. 912719
which driver works best with nvidia gpu for UE5 and Redshift
Anonymous at Sat, 6 Aug 2022 23:30:29 UTC No. 912754
>>912691
only epic really gets their games to run well on unreal 4, damn near everything they put out looks better than you would think given the visuals, meanwhile nearly every 3rd party developer for it the games for some reason shit themselves performance wise in comparison.
I mean yea, if you have an overkill pc setup you can mitigate how bad it performs but I don't think that should be a requirement. unreal 3 had the same issue at its launch, but over time the hardware to run unreal well became below minimum specs.
I really want to see how unreal 5 ends up performing, is it crap that runs like hell for reasons unknown to a consumer, or did they do something that makes it near impossible for devs to not get the game working right.
as for unreal vs unity, there are unity games that preform well and ones that preform shit, that engine is 100% on the developers to make the most out of it.
Anonymous at Sun, 7 Aug 2022 07:39:34 UTC No. 912791
>>912782
Does high end processors like the 5900x/5950x speed up shader compilation significantly? Looking to pick up one now the prices are so low since the new gen is about to launch. No, I will not be able to afford zen 4 since launch prices will be high as shit in my country for a while, kys before suggesting that.
Anonymous at Sun, 7 Aug 2022 10:39:05 UTC No. 912813
>>904162
/thread
I've been going back and forth between Unity and UE5 for half a year and can confirm that UE is a slow, bloated piece of shit not really useful for making games as it is for rendering pretty videos
Anonymous at Sun, 7 Aug 2022 10:49:33 UTC No. 912815
So are all game studios absolute retards for switching to UE5 now?
Anonymous at Sun, 7 Aug 2022 23:27:23 UTC No. 912919
>>912815
Probably. Obviously unemployed retards here know better than people with years of experience in the field.
Anonymous at Mon, 8 Aug 2022 14:12:51 UTC No. 913011
>>912815
Maybe? We have to wait and see how their games turn out and if they share similar problems.
At least they can pay for support which will help them get over any issues
Anonymous at Mon, 8 Aug 2022 17:12:38 UTC No. 913048
what is the most kino gpu+cpu combo for having UE5 not run like shit
Anonymous at Mon, 8 Aug 2022 18:35:08 UTC No. 913055
>>913048
My i5 and RTX 3060 suits me just fine. You can get something nicer with newer, fancier models.
Anonymous at Mon, 8 Aug 2022 19:04:43 UTC No. 913062
>>902644
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4o
Anonymous at Mon, 8 Aug 2022 20:50:03 UTC No. 913097
>>912480
Thanks man. Really useful.
Anonymous at Tue, 9 Aug 2022 15:50:13 UTC No. 913179
I want to add a floating/falling debris/dust/particle vfx or mesh to a dark cave I made. Is there a term for this I can search for? Or, does quixel bridge have anything like this? Something like when you see sunshafts through a window and can see the slow floating particles of dust within the shafts
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Aug 2022 10:20:22 UTC No. 913307
Redpill me on Unreal filmmaking, can I leave SFM behind?
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Aug 2022 20:38:27 UTC No. 913481
How did you guys learn to get where you are now?
Just online? Classes? Tutor? Documentation? Trial and error?
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Aug 2022 20:53:11 UTC No. 913484
>>913481
Depends on you, for me, purely online, downloading every class I can from cgpeers, being active on discord communities and learning from other critiques, reading articles on 80lv and a lot of trial and error.
Anonymous at Fri, 12 Aug 2022 13:03:25 UTC No. 913558
please, anyone, where can I get a working Zbrush torrent?
this is a cry for help
Anonymous at Fri, 12 Aug 2022 13:51:20 UTC No. 913565
>>913558
Cgpeers, maybe rutracker
Anonymous at Fri, 12 Aug 2022 14:03:10 UTC No. 913567
>>912754
no, you're just stupid
Anonymous at Fri, 12 Aug 2022 14:29:27 UTC No. 913572
>>913567
wow proved me wrong despite how many cases where thats what happens,
Anonymous at Fri, 12 Aug 2022 20:39:13 UTC No. 913601
>>913565
anything that isn't a stupid gatekeep like Cgpeers?
Anonymous at Sun, 14 Aug 2022 04:11:44 UTC No. 913764
>>902644
can megascans be used in commercial projects outside of unreal?
if not if I render it in unreal but do some post processing work in after effect or resolve, is that ok?
Anonymous at Sun, 14 Aug 2022 11:06:50 UTC No. 913794
>>913764
You can always buy a subscription and use them anywhere. They are free to use only if the final product is rendered in unreal engine.
Anonymous at Sun, 14 Aug 2022 13:41:10 UTC No. 913808
>>913601
Not wasting my time on some faggot who doesn't even have a cgp account.
Anonymous at Mon, 15 Aug 2022 01:17:24 UTC No. 913875
>>913868
Compete in what - that is the question. It depends. Quality? I think never, but the question is how good do you want it to be + how much do you benefit from realtime rendering. In some cases it can be great, but again, it depends on what you want to achieve and the project type.
Anonymous at Wed, 17 Aug 2022 22:55:00 UTC No. 914472
when will they fix raytraced translucency and volumetric fog working together, the rt translucent materials always render in front of the fog and it means you can't get a scene with everything at its best appearance because you have to pick and choose whether to use raytracing for you glass, or volumetric fog for you lighting. so annoying.
Anonymous at Thu, 18 Aug 2022 17:37:05 UTC No. 914589
Anyone knows a tutorial that goes deep on UI/Widget/UMG stuff? Preferably with C++ please. Couldn't find anything beside this Udem course: https://www.udemy.com/course/unreal
I'm downloading it as I'm posting this but I don't know if it's worth it.
Anonymous at Thu, 18 Aug 2022 18:16:28 UTC No. 914592
>>914546
Have you tried a different mouse? Could be a problem with the mouse you're using.
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Aug 2022 08:07:34 UTC No. 914650
>>914592
I tried. I think I may have found the culprit. When I hold the right mouse button down the mouse disappears!
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:11:14 UTC No. 914695
>>914650
That's not it. The mouse still appears in-game.
I tested it with other unreal games and it reacted the same way. I also changed mice and the problem persisted.
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Aug 2022 15:06:55 UTC No. 914699
>>913868
with some compositing, yes
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Aug 2022 17:55:14 UTC No. 914807
>>914787
epic. reminds me of this mario concept. also made in unreal iirc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHa
Anonymous at Wed, 24 Aug 2022 03:20:10 UTC No. 915182
How do you do cel shading?
Anonymous at Thu, 25 Aug 2022 22:10:06 UTC No. 915350
>>915343
the distinct divide between the tech and the pr
Anonymous at Fri, 26 Aug 2022 20:11:56 UTC No. 915449
How to balance colors in a shot where a lot of props are colorful? I find that my lighting looks really nice in detail lighting view when everything is light gray, but in lit mode it's a mess. I've been testing things by getting the values more similar to that gray shader in detail lighting mode and trying to desaturate them so it's easier to balance it out, but I think that's not it, there has to be something else. Because if I change saturation too much, they don't look right anymore on their own, albedo doesn't match to real world ref.
So another obvious thing would be to try to change the layout, but all of the props are red, blue, yellow, brown etc. I can't just get rid of them from the shot and grouping them by color won't make sense due their fixed position and function. How do others balance shots with lots of colorful props then?
Anonymous at Sat, 27 Aug 2022 11:47:50 UTC No. 915527
what should i use for ui if i want to make a template i can use for multiple projects in the future? umg always used to be the ui framework, but now there is common ui and slate. is umg still getting updates? is it going to be deprecated? what makes common ui better? is it one of those react style models like swiftui? i hate that shit t b h. is slate mainly for making unreal editor plugins and not worth using for game ui? why don't they just update umg instead of coming out with all these others?
Anonymous at Sat, 27 Aug 2022 13:51:13 UTC No. 915538
Nobody ever answers any questions here, it's a dead thread
Anonymous at Sat, 27 Aug 2022 17:13:10 UTC No. 915553
>>915538
Nobody cares about your worthless noob problems idiot. Fuck off to the questions thread.
Anonymous at Sat, 27 Aug 2022 19:03:59 UTC No. 915571
>>915553
>noob hands typed this
Anonymous at Sat, 27 Aug 2022 22:36:37 UTC No. 915592
>>915553
Lol that's the problem, people actually keep answering noob questions, but as soon as it's a bit more complex, nobody responds. Just look at this entire board, basic ass threads are always on top, /3/ even gives attention to schizos no matter how many threads per day they post.
Anonymous at Fri, 2 Sep 2022 12:45:49 UTC No. 916308
I plan on making a short film using Unreal Engine. I have no experience in Unreal Engine. How fucked am I? I will buy the assets and not make them myself.
Anonymous at Fri, 2 Sep 2022 19:31:03 UTC No. 916359
>>916308
Do you have experience making short films? Using game engines? If you're a veteran Unreal is easy to pick up, if you're a newbie it's the best place to start, it's both feature-rich and well-documented, with plenty of up-to-date tutorials that are easily accessible.
If you don't have any experience with engines or filmmaking you have a lot of learning to do, though. I'm speaking a couple months to get started, and a couple years to get decent. But that'll be an issue no matter what you make your short film in.
Anonymous at Sat, 3 Sep 2022 01:01:20 UTC No. 916410
>>916359
>if you're a newbie it's the best place to start
that would be unity. Unreal is only good if you are working in a large (100+) man team
> and well-documented, with plenty of up-to-date tutorials that are easily accessible.
errmmm about that....
Anonymous at Sat, 3 Sep 2022 11:56:37 UTC No. 916467
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Sep 2022 01:28:38 UTC No. 918232
How do you guys handle exporting from Blender to UE5? I just can't seem to get things right save for the most basic of objects.
Anonymous at Fri, 16 Sep 2022 11:39:42 UTC No. 918274
>>918232
What is the issue? Default export settings should work fine.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Sep 2022 01:55:11 UTC No. 918407
>>918274
Missing textures for the most part. Or the textures assigned to the wrong body part.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Sep 2022 07:09:15 UTC No. 918450
>>918232
Only thing I've had to do is invert the green channel on the normal maps. Otherwise, justwerks.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Sep 2022 08:06:22 UTC No. 918462
YOUR IQ PEAKS BEFORE YOUR BODY REACHES MATURITY
source: 4chan
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Sep 2022 08:29:26 UTC No. 918466
>>903108
you misspelled custom made too.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Sep 2022 16:26:26 UTC No. 918539
any shader experts here, can you take a look at this for me please?
I ripped this model out of a game, all is fine but I cant use the model's hair textures. It look like pic related. I know it has something to do with material instance because its labeled as MI.
Also the hair is supposed to look brown-ish.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Sep 2022 17:12:40 UTC No. 918543
>>918407
You need to set up the shader in unreal again. Just import the textures normally and connect them appropriately.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Sep 2022 17:43:19 UTC No. 918545
>>918543
I mean I want to use the textures outside of the unreal engine.
🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 17 Sep 2022 20:13:25 UTC No. 918569
what do you dudes think of the "unity/unreal engine complete course" bundle on humble bundle? yay or nay?
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Sep 2022 20:48:59 UTC No. 918572
>>916410
Shut up.
Anonymous at Sat, 17 Sep 2022 22:04:15 UTC No. 918583
>>918545
You said you want to export from blender to ue5, that means you already have the textures outside of the engine, no? If you want to export out of unreal, you should be able to do that as well, but again you need to set up the shader in your software of choice.
Anonymous at Sun, 18 Sep 2022 07:50:24 UTC No. 918635
>>918583
I used a tool called umodel to extract the textures. I want to use the textures in blender, but for that hair's textures, I dont know how. For example, this face textures from the same model, it was compressed to save memory, so I just edit it in photoshop, and extract the R/G/B channels. The unreal engine use R channel for specular, G for metallic and B for roughness. And for the hair's textures, I dont know how they do it to make it work.
Anonymous at Sun, 18 Sep 2022 11:22:41 UTC No. 918657
>>918635
You sure the channels are in that order? Do you assume they are or is this particular texture set up that way? Because usually it’s ao, roughness, metallic, OR it is roughness, metallic, ao. You usually don’t want to touch specular value and I doubt the texture contains a specular channel.
For the hair it depends on the style, I don’t know how the model looks like. If it’s some realistic type of hair you will probably need an opacity mask for it, it may be a separate texture or in the alpha channel of the albedo.
Anonymous at Sun, 18 Sep 2022 15:02:29 UTC No. 918678
>>918657
Yeah I think the order is wrong. Anyway, holy shit, this >>918539
Is just a glossy weight map and they just use material instance to give it q color. Goddamn man, this guess work is driving me insane. Anyway thank for the help bro.
Anonymous at Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:30:56 UTC No. 918902
Not only is epic launcher a buggy piece of shit, even bridge recently has been slow as hell. I have multiple second lag when I type something in the search field, wtf. No, it doesn't happen with other programs.
Anonymous at Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:41:02 UTC No. 919117
>>918902
I'm not seeing it, anon. My complain with the launcher is that its XML parser they use is slow.
I fucking hate how developers nowadays think that NoSQL databases are a good idea.
Anonymous at Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:24:26 UTC No. 919331
>>902644
kinda in a pickle, i want to get into unreal because I want to pursue environment art but then the whole concept of adding the mesh then re-applying the whole textures though another node based system inside unreal doesn't sit right with me. Is there an easier way to import models along with textures to unreal from blender? also are decals really that good?
Anonymous at Fri, 23 Sep 2022 20:49:45 UTC No. 919368
>>919331
>re-applying the whole textures though another node based system inside unreal doesn't sit right with me
Lazy, but understandable. There are quasi solutions (basic Maya shaders to fbx, USD and Material X) but you'll need to make things look good in Unreal, which means learning its material editor. This is especially true with environments where you're going to need stuff like tileables and instance scattering variables. It's actually a lot easier for characters where you'd only have 3 or 4 materials and won't need a ton of overlays and variations. Stuff like decals. A lot of Unreal cowboys on youtube just reuse materials from asset packs and learning libraries. That's fastest way to get something half decent on screen.
Anonymous at Sat, 24 Sep 2022 00:53:37 UTC No. 919388
>>919331
What's the advantage of using unreal for environments? Better at handling geometry?
Anonymous at Sat, 24 Sep 2022 01:00:57 UTC No. 919389
>>919368
I mean it's material editor isn't that different from blender just a bit more expanded ? I mean in blender the mapping node is a single node while in unreal you have to append parameters and setup various other nodes to get the same result. Also is there any rule of thumb for the amount of tris a model can have to make it game ready ? For instance a house or a coconut tree.
>>919388
It's rendering everything real time and lumen looks really fucking great. I want to pick it up because i want to be a environment artist for games and it only makes sense that i learn unreal to get a job. I wonder if there are any other jobs related to making environments.
Anonymous at Sat, 24 Sep 2022 17:45:20 UTC No. 919496
Is it possible to import an Unreal scene into Houdini?
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Oct 2022 00:49:30 UTC No. 922164
>>913808
How does one get a cgp account?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Oct 2022 12:19:32 UTC No. 922352
Do you guys see all of these big budget realtime music videos made in Unreal with mocap and Metahumans? All of them look like badly animated dolls. We're all going to cringe at this one day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ty
Anonymous at Thu, 20 Oct 2022 23:56:43 UTC No. 922668
>>922189
what in the fuck is fox invincible on his head
Anonymous at Sun, 23 Oct 2022 13:22:02 UTC No. 922955
>>907638
My 1070 runs Unreal 5 perfectly fine. For now at least lol.
Anonymous at Sun, 23 Oct 2022 13:28:59 UTC No. 922956
>>913048
Intel 8 or 9 core with a 1070 NVIDIA, oh, also have a couple hundred tabs open in both Brave and Google Chrome.
For whatever reason everything has been running fine for me.
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:13:39 UTC No. 923461
>>922955
>>922956
Unreal engine 5 can run fine on a potato but the rub is you will only be able to compile a few times a week because it simply takes too long whereas with unity you can compile hundreds of times per day
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Oct 2022 13:00:53 UTC No. 923698
>>923460
it's just an painter term for fog, that's it
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Nov 2022 16:48:09 UTC No. 924234
>>902644
why does it look so shit? i am still working on texturing the model but why is lumen so hyped up? it kinda looks shit but i assume i havent enabled some kinda option. any help will be appreciated
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Nov 2022 18:20:49 UTC No. 924244
>>924234
There's barely anything in the scene to light and models and textures can be improved. Lumen won't magically make everything looks amazing if you don't know how to set up lighting, colors and make good models t b h.
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Nov 2022 03:11:22 UTC No. 924302
What's the option that has the less cost in performance when trying to make clothes move. Let's take the example of a long vest:
- Make some joints for the long vest lower part and bake/make some animations directly on it
- Create clothing data for the lower part section (wich will simulate clothing physics but I saw that sometime it looks weird)
- something else
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Nov 2022 10:40:24 UTC No. 924326
>>924244
>Lumen won't magically make everything looks amazing if you don't know how to set up lighting, colors and make good models t b h.
could you link me some tutorials for lighting and colors? i am still working on the models
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Nov 2022 12:14:54 UTC No. 924332
>>924326
Lots of paid content on cgpeers, but you can check out this guy on YT:
https://www.youtube.com/c/WilliamFa
And this:
https://chrisbrejon.com/cg-cinemato
And just search for lighting articles on 80.lv and experience points, there is knowledge everywhere. Search for some books about lighting for film, those can be very useful as well later on.
But anyway, first actually populate your environment so you have something to light in the first place, get rid of sharp edges, improve your textures etc. They will also affect how the object is lit, albedo, surface details, it's all important. Make the sun shadows softer if you're trying to match these references. Have elements that will block the light and place parts of your bridge in shadows like in the bottom example. Check out cloud shadows and light blockers as well.
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Nov 2022 12:18:05 UTC No. 924510
I am a brainlet, newfag, and poor. What's the best way for me to get some wandering NPCs with realistic foot movement? Root motion? IK? Is this already part of one of the demos? I'm trying to mock up a game to see if the idea is worth pursuing and this unironically is an important part of core gameplay.
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Nov 2022 12:47:52 UTC No. 924515
/sci/ here, wondering if I could use UE for some physics visualization stuff:
Does UE support polar coordinates over cartesian, out of the box?
Would I need to modify the source code to add support?
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Nov 2022 13:47:28 UTC No. 924520
Any way to get the visible size of an object or material on screen?
Anonymous at Mon, 7 Nov 2022 14:20:27 UTC No. 924966
Motion Graphics coming to Unreal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAt
finally
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Nov 2022 00:49:17 UTC No. 925083
>>924332
William Faucher's work always looks like it is in the immediate aftermath of a nuclear explosion. He's terrible.
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Nov 2022 01:01:59 UTC No. 925084
>>925083
Care to explain why do you think that?
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Nov 2022 02:48:02 UTC No. 925094
>>925082
That's a badass short.
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Nov 2022 12:17:37 UTC No. 925132
How would you create realistic boob physics in Unreal?
I just want to recreate them in Unreal like in Maya/Blender, but the physics skeleton doesnt react and work the same way.
Cloth system maybe?
I would post a video showing the reference but sfw board
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Nov 2022 11:12:13 UTC No. 925287
>>912813
>>904162
>>903601
>it's slow!
>muh project size!
>it won't run on my 2500k!
>WHAT ABOUT THIS OUTDATED TECH?
Why are thirdies so mad about UE? It's not made to run on your poorfag rig, runs just fine on my 5950X.
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Nov 2022 04:23:47 UTC No. 925557
>download and install ~40 gigs of UE5
>wait 40 minutes for it to compile shaders
>crashes upon start
>another 40 minutes to recompile shaders
>import my vehicle model with just basic 2k textures
>gpu fans hit 3000rpm
>cpu temp hits 89'C
>download and install ~6 gigs of unity
> shaders compile witing 1-2minutes
>import same model, setup textures
>gpu fans idle
>cpu temp 31'C
Thanks, but Im sticking with unity. Better perfomance, less reasoures are needed, and I have ayyemdee card anyways so wont be able to use UE5's new fancy features like nanite and lumen. But I must say, UE you can figure out UE shader nodes just fine, but Unity's nodes are so retarded you migh need 10 tutorials to explain them.
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Nov 2022 05:36:40 UTC No. 925566
>>925557
The fuck kind of toaster are you on?
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Nov 2022 10:21:55 UTC No. 925583
>>925557
now I understand why every unity game is indie/lowpoly/basic shapes/low cost
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:57:38 UTC No. 925621
>>925583
It's not an engine problem that indie tards can only do shitty 2d pixeljunk or lowpoly trash for quick cashgrab. Yeah, unity editor is more optimized and needs less computing power so it attracts all sorts of shitters just like rpgmaker does. UE5 is a fucking disaster for personal/small studio use both as game engine and render engine. Why do I need a render farm of 10x4090ti to have smooth performance in UE5 editor? Only corpos can afford that, so here we are: it's either AAA souvless sjw corporate goyslop on UE5 or lowpoly cashgrab on Unity.
Me? I don't give 2 fucks about games, I just need a nice fast realtime render engine which is not blender EEVEE and Unity has that.
>>925566
RX590, 32gb ram. It still can run AAA shit fine.
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:43:27 UTC No. 925629
>>925621
>UE5 is a fucking disaster for personal/small studio use both as game engine and render engine. Why do I need a render farm of 10x4090ti to have smooth performance in UE5 editor?
I have absolutely no perf issues, what's your CPU?
>RX590, 32gb ram. It still can run AAA shit fine.
Why aren't you listing your CPU? That matters way more than the GPU for this.
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:36:50 UTC No. 925645
>>925629
Ryzen 3350g
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:44:04 UTC No. 925646
>>925645
Anon, that's a very low spec CPU for production and content creation. No shit UE5 isn't very snappy with it.
>b-but Unity works fine
Nobody denies that UE5 requires more than Unity, but even an old 3700X will run UE5 silky smooth.
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Nov 2022 19:07:22 UTC No. 925648
>>925646
I will die a poorfag, man. If only those fancy advanced cpus/gpus were affordable for an average dead end wagie. Im just using whatever tools are available. It aint gonna change my opinion that UE5 is targeted at big gamegev/cgi studios
Anonymous at Sat, 12 Nov 2022 03:25:06 UTC No. 925685
>>925648
Then work on Unity or RPG Maker if you must. UE is heavy because of all the shit it has available for those who know how to use it.
Anonymous at Sat, 12 Nov 2022 08:37:13 UTC No. 925696
I have an i5-8600K.
Should I upgrade my CPU for better UE5 performance? Also, should I be looking to get an unlocked K-series CPU?
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Nov 2022 02:09:49 UTC No. 926482
>>925648
dude, you don't even need a pc. ue5 and maya run great on my macbook pro and they aren't even compiled for apple silicon yet.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Nov 2022 03:42:40 UTC No. 926499
Got a question about animation retargeting in Unreal. Let's say I want to retarget a walk animation from a detailed skeletong to a much less detailed one. So less spine bones, no fingers and maybe a single bone for neck and head. Will it do the trick?
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Nov 2022 17:35:54 UTC No. 926556
No mention of this yet?
https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/e
Astonishing number of improvements over 5.0, fucking fat update.
Anonymous at Tue, 22 Nov 2022 23:34:19 UTC No. 927028
>>926556
Will be in the new thread.
Anonymous at Wed, 23 Nov 2022 17:09:27 UTC No. 927104
>>902644
I feel stupid even asking but will I want to kill myself if I buy a 6800xt when it comes to /3/ related applications? I wanted a 3080 but it seems I missed the boat and now I would have to pay nvidias disgusting gouging prices and I'm not sure I'm up for that. I've always heard AMD is always awful but I do my blender shit and ueg shit on a GTX 770 and it isn't really a grand experience either but it is passable.
Anonymous at Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:21:43 UTC No. 927115
Are there any FOSS repos of real world use of Unreal engine for C++ projects?
Like an actual app or game on github / gitlab done by a third party?
I learn the best by studying other people's work, not really by tutorials.
Anonymous at Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:22:37 UTC No. 927116
can I somehow save groups of nodes when i'm doing materials? I'm tired of remaking POM setups over and over
also what's the best way to add ambient occlusion to materials? it feels like the only way to see any AO is if I add it to the diffuse through a multiply layer
🗑️ Anonymous at Wed, 23 Nov 2022 21:09:32 UTC No. 927136
>>927116
>can I somehow save groups of nodes when i'm doing materials?
Yes. Check out material functions.
https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/e
Anonymous at Wed, 23 Nov 2022 21:10:51 UTC No. 927137
>>927116
>can I somehow save groups of nodes when i'm doing materials?
Yes, I believe material functions is what you're looking for.
https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/e
Anonymous at Wed, 23 Nov 2022 22:57:01 UTC No. 927149
>>927136
>>927137
nice, thanks guys
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Nov 2022 00:36:04 UTC No. 927250
>>927247
>soundcard
confirmed ngmi
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Nov 2022 01:33:20 UTC No. 927256
>>927250
Integrated soundcards are serviceable, but I enjoy having a good sound system.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Nov 2022 01:57:13 UTC No. 927257
>>927256
>a good sound system
>inside an electromagnetic echo chamber
🗑️ Anonymous at Fri, 25 Nov 2022 02:56:40 UTC No. 927258
i decided to play some tiny tina's wonderland over thanksgiving. wanted to check out some recent triple ayy unreal engine shiz. when you load it up guess what it says? "compiling shaders"!
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Nov 2022 04:23:43 UTC No. 927262
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHY
Genuinely looking for any critique in terms of lighting and just general mood. Characters were not a priority, they'll be re-worked when everything else is done.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Nov 2022 08:34:13 UTC No. 927283
>>927262
Are you going for the XBOX1/PS2 age feel? Just a few things:
- Movement of the camera when looking at the dude on the bed is unnatural. No human moves their heads like that.
- Grainy TV screen effect needs work. Study Silent Hill.
- Maybe just a nitpick, but the light sources are too bright and stable. An encroaching darkness with few "safe" unreliable light sources would help, unless nothing has gone wrong in your setting yet.
- Looking at a security camera is not scary.
- The "Road Closed" wood looks too clean for the already fading text.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Nov 2022 14:19:39 UTC No. 927300
>>927283
Solid spotting, thank you very much. All points super valid, the video is almost 1:1 to an original PS2 game intro hence why the scene choices like camera were in it.
Ultimate goal is to turn a PS2 era style original into something playable and modern.
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Nov 2022 18:12:58 UTC No. 927322
>>927247
Would a 3060 be good enough for archviz?
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Nov 2022 19:59:06 UTC No. 927338
>>927322
It is serviceable, in engine emulator can show some minor stuttering, but compiling shaders is ok. You may get better results with a beefier card, but the 3060 can hold its own.