I’ve been tinkering with a flickering light effect. While it is possible to animate the intensity with Blueprint code directly, there’s an easier way that lets us use the intensity as an override and make the light flicker without futzing with variables. The solution is a Light Function. To create one, let’s make a new …
I had this warning in Unreal Engine 5.3 recently when opening a level and didn’t quite know what to make of it: “Spatially loaded actor references a non-spatially loaded actor”. Everything seemed to be working fine, and since it wasn’t an error as such, I didn’t worry too much about it. Curious about what this …
When you open an EXR file in Photoshop, it will ask you how the alpha channel should be interpreted (as Alpha channel or as Transparency). It’s great to have a choice, but it’s utterly crippling when you want to bulk open several hundred EXR files. There’s no native way to suppress this dialogue, or set …
I’ve turned several objects from a pre-built level into a Blueprint, with the intention of spreading it around as duplicates elsewhere in my level. There was no logic involved, it was just a collection of static meshes. I’ve dragged several copies of my Blueprint into the same level, and when I was happy with the …
The other day I needed to make some geometric changes to an object in Blender that relied on my object looking handsome when viewed through a specific camera in Unreal Engine. Hence the best way to work was to export the camera I had setup in UE, and it wasn’t obvious how to do that. …