Level Design No blood splatter?

[Chromite]

Hopefully this will be my last question regarding the SDK..

In my map blood splatters do not generate on my meshes (using MIC textures). The only "external" things that show are grenade explosions (those black marks) and bullet holes. To elaborate some, I am talking about the blood that gushes out of gibs that create those huge pools of blood that makes KF2 oh so great looking. I am curious if anyone else has ran into this problem or knows a potential fix.

 

[DirtySpartan]

If you created custom meshes you need to generate a 3rd UV channel.

You can do that within the SDK in the static mesh editor.

 

[Chromite]

If you created custom meshes you need to generate a 3rd UV channel.

You can do that within the SDK in the static mesh editor.

They are not considered Static Meshes in my content browser--just Material Instances. Is this not possible then?

 

[DirtySpartan]

They are not considered Static Meshes in my content browser--just Material Instances. Is this not possible then?

UV channels are on the mesh itself, not the material instance.

Did you mean you have no blood splatter on the modular set meshes?

 

[-=Ivan=-]

If you are using BSP brushes it will not work. The splatter map only works with static meshes which have a third UV channel.

 

[acidchalk]

Well that explains why my kf1 ported map has no blood. Now, i assume if i change my bsp's into a static mesh i should be able to get somewhere, the question is where exactly in the static mesh editor is the option to generate the uv channel?

 

[-=Ivan=-]

We started to port BioticsLabs and had the same problem. We had to make everything in Maya and make the UVs there. I think UDK is not able to generate a proper UV map for a big mesh as there are many things to consider.

 

[acidchalk]

weird my editor looks slightly different, i guess i gotta figure it out.

 

[acidchalk]

nevermind had to maximize it! now i'm getting blood to show on my statics hehe