r/unrealengine

I tried built in grain, but it doesn't quite look the same

I’ve been on and off to unreal engine for about 10 years I guess. I made my first render a long time ago in UE and it even hit the New York Times lol. But it always was a love hate relationship, some stuff was really hard to pull off. Now with all the updates I’m getting back into it.

I was wondering what are the go to resources fr cinematics? And to get away from the game look? I know path tracing and I’m a fan of octane but my goal is to not use them.

I would like to know more about your setup and I’ll provide mine here as well.

What are your go to tools?

I tend to use ultra dynamic sky, easy atmos, easy fog and easy textures a lot

What are your export settings?

I export as exr, with game overrides into davinci resolve

What are other softwares you work with?

I use Houdini for sims and export as alembic into unreal. Same with marvelous designer (which now had a nice pipeline). Modeling I do on an old version of c4d. Lately I also used blender with Colmap for video tracking and exporting camera tracks.

Any other advice is welcome.

I am making a Sim. Is there solid fab/asset-package/approach to getting a bunch of NPCs to populate the game with.

The caveat is I'd prefer to have a skeletal mesh asset to drop onto

MetaHumans have these segmented skeletal mesh asset.

Any recommendations?

Hello all, I have been trying to figure out a way to make a door breakable in Unreal when it loses HP, like say being hit by my player, however it doesn't seem to be working and I am looking for advice. I will post Below pictures of the flow I have for the Door Currently. I have it set up with HP as I don't want the door to break instantly unless it takes enough damage. The Door is set to Kinematic to start as when I tried looking it up that was what many tutorials told me to do, and from my understand this is supposed to set the door to go back to Dynamic and fall apart once it's HP hits Zero, but it isn't working.

Thank you wise Wizards in advance for helping in any way you can!

I've an actor that is spawned in the world from the beginning. And for a reason that I couldn't explain it suddenly began to be destroyed, but before this didn't happen, so I'm confused why this began to happen. Looking for a solution I found the UPROPERTY() way, but this actor isn't called inside another class to enable me to mark the reference as a UPROPERTY(). And I don't know another way to prevent it from being destroyed.

Now Im getting the same error saying: "Ray Tracing geometry always memory resident over budget" 1.5 GiB /15.999 EiB. What does it mean, and how do I allocate more VRAm for my project?

Creating a system to make a Splatoon-like prototype, with it I can fill a texture within the material, adapting to the UV of each mesh, and in the end read the fill of all the painted components in the scenario.

Currently it updates dynamically to create impacts with intensity, since animating a splash is more difficult than just placing a ready-made texture like a decal.

It's been a long time since I needed to use Megascans, and today I discovered that Quixel Megascans aren't free anymore thanks to Epic.

After searching around, it seems like the only way to access Megascans is either buying it on FAB or getting an account that already downloaded them all for free.

Sad that I missed it

I have been using Suno to generate music for my game (hobby project I plan on releasing via steam). I have a system where the background music changes depending on various factors, position in the level, combat, health level, etc. I’m happy with the results.

My original idea was to make my own or pay someone to replace the AI music. That seems less viable now due to sheer amount of content and frankly the quality is pretty good. I could make this stuff and could not afford to pay someone.

Question is, do you think this will negatively impact its reception? I’ve seen plenty of reviews on steam complaining about AI music or art.

Hey, guys!

My team and I have been working on post-apocalyptic vehicles, and recently created a new truck. It is a large monstrocity for roaming wastelands and obliterating everything in your path.

What we made:

• A Low-Poly 3D Truck model with rigging.
• 9 Textures.
• 3 Materials.

You can find the model here:
https://www.fab.com/listings/190cbe40-2fd5-4c21-b67d-a0d9b24fd163

Please, share your thoughts in the comments! We will be glad to hear your feedback 🙌

Hi all,

I have been looking into building a UE5 AI plugin as a passion project. Looking at things like Ludus AI, and how this community has responded to similar plugins, it seems like AI plugins for the engine are fairly lackluster in their current form.

Does anyone have any insight on whether these plugins are improving pretty quickly? Are they coming into use pretty fast? Or are they still very far from anything really useful?