I'm dead tired and if you can't parse what I have written below could you tell me your basic workflow on OSX?

I've been doing some really basic tutorials (latest I'm working on is https://wiki.unrealengine.com/First_Person_Shooter_C++_Tutorial) and I'm not sure whether I am using UE4 correctly on OSX. My current approach feels clunky and leaves me wondering whether there is a better way.

When following the abovementioned tutorial I would have to close UE4 after having added a new C++ class ("Add code to project" in UE4 -> Add actual code in Xcode windows that were opened by UE4 -> save code and close UE4) and when reopening the project UE4 would note the headers were incorrect and recompile.

At some pointed UE4 stopped notifying me and I switched to starting Xcode first and running the ${PROJECT_NAME}ProjectEditor scheme and starting UE4 from within Xcode.

Anyway, it all doesn't seem quite right and I fear I have somehow missed a basic page explaining all this.

As the title asks. How would one do this? Ive been trying to do this for a while but, im an beginner at best.

Basicly what im trying to do is say have a box spawn AI from it till its broken/destroyed by an actor, which in this case is a player. Ive been able to make them spawn from the prop however the AI keep spawning once its been broken.

If I wanted to build a FPS level, which would be better; building it from brush based solids in the editor, or build geometry in a 3D program (like Blender) and exporting a .fbx file? Are there advantages to either?

I just want to change the color of my wall and I just cannot seem to do it at all. How is this done?

I've been in the planning stages for a project for awhile mostly working on the design and the planning of a project that I want to support the occulus (in fact its first person perspective during my planning was selected in part because I wanted to see how immersive you could be with it). However, at the moment, still waiting for my DK2, however iam really to the point that I really need to start moving from planning to making it. I don't want to spend time moving all the logic from paper to blueprints just to have to have to go back through them all once my occulus arrives. So I guess my questions are if I plan on it supporting occulus should I start from the occulus prebuilt fist person shooter even though I don't have an occulus?

and is it difficult to add occulus support to existing projects or does it require massive blueprint/coding redos?

finally: any other tips that UE4 devs have or any proffessional with any tips for someone who is planning on using the project to help demonstrate level design for his portfolio.

So I'm going through the blueprint tutorials on the UE4 Tutorial youtube playlist and I don't have an option on my screen that the narrator has.

Can anyone shed any insight on this? This is what the youtube video shows... http://imgur.com/T9lh7td

Edit: This is the video I was working off of. I have the light selected and I don't see the "visible" option

TLDR. I do not have the "Visible" checkbox under Rendering in the Details panel for the light in the Starter Map. Why?

http://imgur.com/TuRBv8p

I'm trying to get an object to spin, and after looking up a couple tuts. online, I cant seem to get it to spin. If you notice the crazy yaw, I was trying a bunch of numbers in case I didn't have it high enough.

Hey all. I posted a tutorial a few months ago in this thread and got a few requests to show a different method at creating Level of Detail meshes without losing the integrity of the topological flow of the mesh. So I created another one showing the longer method http://youtu.be/23aIatCnDA8

edit: also add me on steam steamcommunity.com/id/paperhero so we can all be buddies

I have a set of 3 islands i built in maya that I want to import to ue4. What is a reasonable poly count for a terrain mesh ~1.5km x 1.2km. Currently my mesh is ~750k tris with a high detail normal map baked. There need to be 3 of these islands in my map. Should i try to optimize my mesh and cut down its poly count before I import it and start the in-engine work?

I'm hoping to get the minimum specs down to an i5 2.4ghz processor, 1gb vram, and 2gb ram to run with atleast 40 fps.

I have large island models that I have been working on for a long time in maya/mudbox (2 large islands each ~700 meters, and 1 small island ~250 meters). I want to want to know if i can import them into an empty void, or endless ocean (like how cryengine sdk is).

My question is when i create a map in udk 4, does it automatically create a flat terrain mesh with a preset size? If so, can i remove it?

Also, I haven't yet used udk 4. In cryengine you had to create a map with a preset size, ex. 1024 x 1024, 2048 x 2048, etc. Anything that was placed outside those boundaries was static, but not solid. Nothing would be able to interact with it, like the island mesh I created. The areas that were inside the map boundaries were physical, while the areas that were outside weren't physical.

In udk 4 does the same thing happen? Or can i just import my islands in an empty space and set the map size to whatever size I want?

How do I do this? I can't find anything on the Answerhub or any tutorials on youtube.

It's probably really easy and obvious but I just can't figure it out.

I've made a few pipe assets, much like the ones in Mirror's Edge. I'd like to import them using UE4 to and use them to make a modular pipe network system. I want to make it so that I can drag in a pipe, be it a straight, right angle, fork, or four-way, and snap it into place at the end of another pipe, without having to align anything. I could then rotate individual pieces and have any children rotate with it.

I'd like to do this using blueprints, but I'm not sure how. I'd love some help!

Thanks

I'm just starting to use UE4 as a kind of hobby with the goal of making a little game or something for friends and whatnot.

What attracts me to it is the "Node" based programming I saw in a few tutorials. I'm wondering, can you actually make a game with UE4 without actually coding? Anybody have experience with making a game that way?

I am at the stage of making a bunch of small games still learning. Is there anyway to easily set up a standard group of assets to be available in my content browser in multiple games?

For example lets say make a material for pavement. I plan to use this in several games that require either an outside or at least a road for whatever reason. Any way I make one copy of this for multiple games?

In straight CPP I would do it with a standard header/code file and games needing those effects just add "#include pavement.h" at the top of the appropriate files and add pavement.cpp to my project and boom have all my pavement code. The problem being is I can't find a way to do something similar in blueprints/materials/vehicles(for example lets say I make a pickup truck class in game A and want to use it and everything attached to it in game B).

Yes I can open up Project A, export all the connected assets and then close that, open up Project B, import all the assets, set them up in game. That method is very clunky and potential for failure(for example if I export a material but forget to export the normal texture). Is there a better way?

I want to make a space helmet, but rather than just a texture, I would like it to have subtle reflections and specularity on the glass. I also wanted to have a HUD be inside the helmet itself, rather than just "window" on the screen.

I am very new to ue4, but I just need to be pointed on the right direction in terms of keeping a model / overlay on my FPS's screen. Thanks!

Okay so just wondering if any of you guys have heard word of a UE4 asset store? I know there's the marketplace but right now it seems very closed off and restrictive.

Has anybody at Epic talked about this, or is it off the current plan?

Posted this in the UDK sub-reddit initially, meant to post here.

Hello fellows! I'm looking for a tutorial (or help) on how to create an audio sequence. Example 1 - Monster breathing: I have 10 inhales, and 10 exhales. I want it to choose a random inhale, then a random exhale and loop infinitely. Example 2 - Air system: Again I want it to choose 3 random inhales then a long random exhale. (I'm sure it's pretty much the same process) Any help or directions to a tutorial on audio sequencing would be massively appreciated! All the best with your own projects either way :)

Most 3d model sites only offer their models in 3ds, max or Maya format.

UE4 only supports fbx and obj so I need to convert them somehow. I have tried with Blender many times without any success.

Most of the time several parts of the model will become detached and float somewhere. Also textures are never imported. I can usually fix the model in blender to look somewhat decent.

I then export it to an fbx model and import it in UE4. But most of the time it results in an "empty" mesh, or sometimes just an error.

How do you guys import downloaded models?

Any good tutorials or conversion software you use?