Confused by PostProcessing, cannot get my settings to work?

Hey,

Good news, I was able to figure out with the help of another set of eyes, how to get your PPV settings to work properly in your Snow Project. I have steps in order for you to do so as well! A couple of quick notes before I list the steps, and reasons as to why this issue had occurred. If you had a previous version of this project built in a different version of the engine and converted it over, the dependencies as well as settings might not have been translated correctly and were either ignored and/or overwritten. That being said there were a lot of redirects in your DefaultEngine.ini file that could have also caused the issue to occur. Follow these steps and go back into your project to see the visual changes.

  1. Go into you Unreal Projects Folder
  2. Find your Snow Project and open the Config file folder
  3. Find your “DefaultEngine.ini” file
  4. Right click the file and click on properties
  5. Be sure the check box “Read Only” is unchecked so you can save the changes you are about to make to the file.
  6. Make a copy of the “DefaultEngine.ini” file and send it to your desktop just as a safe guard
  7. Now, open up the file and delete everything except for your “[URL] GameName = Snow”
  8. See images for reference
  9. Also notice all of the r. files as well as the redirect files. These are what is causing your issue.
  10. Be sure to save the file after making your deletions/edits
  11. Close the folders and open up your project.
  12. The default level will now be the template and your UI layout will be reset, but don’t panic just open up the level you want to test. I suggest the snow level with the SnowCat matinee.
  13. Find the PPV and edit the scene color to see the effects!

Cheers!