UDK/UT3 Video Tutorials List and Support Thread

[lintaogood]

cool work、、、~~guy

[2fast4u_dk]

Thank you .I'll check it out.Also,how can I assign a sound to a part of the car.In my case i want to make the trunk subwoofers play music,how can I assign a sound to them on a drivable car?Thank you.
Also,how can I edit the smoke coming from the tires of scorpion?I want a custom made tire smoke.Thank you.(sorry for all this questions)

[geodav]

ok sounds are harder to do because it requires a fare bit of coding but take a look at the scorpian code for ideas, the same for the wheel effects look at what the scorpian has and see how Epic did it

[2fast4u_dk]

carefully select all the polygons you want to be in a single section then click the dettach button and select detach to element, now when you skin use the select element tick box

I tried that with another car and it doesn't work properly.I attach everything to 1 object,then I select the polygons,i click detach to element,and then when I skin ,I click select element and it doesn't select everything I detached,just some part of it.What can I do? Thank you.

[geodav]

thats the hard part if sections of it was a element before hand, i'm sure there is a way to fix it but i'm no pro, i'd detact to object then weld vertices then again select and detach to element then re-attach to the main mesh and see if that helps

[2fast4u_dk]

I thought of that too,but it takes a lot of unnecesary time .I thought there would be an easier way.I'll keep searching.Thank you so much for everything

[2fast4u_dk]

Why do 3d objects tend to get "boxier" and bad looking,sometimes when I attach other objects?Thank you.(3ds max)

[geodav]

normally because you might lose or change the smooth groups

[2fast4u_dk]

Thank you .Now I have 2 questions.
I want to make a city road.What is the best method?I used to make the road in 3dsmax and then import it into udk,but I think there are better ways to do this.If so,what are they?
How can I make a proper collision model to a road?I tried making a box and naming it UCX_ROAD(at least i think it was ucx),and it didn't work for the road,though it worked for trees and lamp posts.
Thank you.

[geodav]

ok there's no road building in UDK even though people have asked for one, afaik you'll have to make your own road meshes

for the collision meshes to work you need to name them the same as the staticmesh eg:-
S_RoadBendLeft = staticmesh
UCX_RoadBendLeft_01 = collision mesh 01
UCX_RoadBendLeft_02 = collision mesh 02 if you need more than one mesh
UCX_RoadBendLeft_03 = collision mesh 03

[2fast4u_dk]

Ok,thank you so much .
Do you have a good material for car paint that i could make please?

[geodav]

sorry but i'm hopeless with materials

[2fast4u_dk]

Oh,ok,thanks .
Now,another problem )(i`m so annoying you with my questions).
What can I do to avoid this kind of shapes on my mesh?Some have them,some don't.I tryied smoothing groups,optimizing,and other stuff in 3ds max but still no result.


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[geodav]

looks like you have too many materials slots, atm i can read at least 47, most vehicles have 1 or 2 !!!

you may also have to adjust the specular value of your textures

[2fast4u_dk]

Thank you.I know it has many materials but I didn't optimize the model,I just imported it and no matter what I do,I can't fix this strange geometry