Destructible mesh editor, viewport too dark

anonymous_user_b9d6f105 · March 13, 2015, 10:58am

I don’t wanna sound like a whiny baby here, but I’ve been messing around with destructible meshes at first using PhysX Lab and importing but ran into issues. So now, I’m using UE’s built in DM editor. I can’t see anything because the background is completely black, making it a bit hard to work with. I searched appearance in editor settings and couldn’t find anything helpful. It’s not a huge deal, but I’m just curious if there’s some setting where I could either change to another color for BG, or add an atmosphere of some kind. If it’s something that will have to wait, I’m not going to complain

~UE4 FTW!!!

anonymous_user_b9d6f105 · March 14, 2015, 11:14am

I realize for now I can simply apply materials to the objects AFTER I create the destructible mesh. Easy enough.

Tim_Hobson · March 15, 2015, 12:31am

You should be able to hold L and left mouse click to move the light around in the viewpoint to shift it better for your need.

Let me know if that doesn’t work for you.

anonymous_user_b9d6f105 · March 15, 2015, 1:19am

Hello kind Sir and thank you for the answer. I am able to move the light around, I can see the light reflecting from my metallic object, but seems to have no effect on the object’s color. I don’t mind using an unlit or brighter material while working w/ the DM then changing when finished, so I can use that workaround for now. If there’s anything you’d like me to try just to troubleshoot more, however, I’d be happy to .

anonymous_user_8e6a9ce01 · December 8, 2015, 9:19pm

I’ve got the same issue. I can hold L and left-mouse-click the light around, but the viewport is still so dark. Anybody know how to brighten up the viewport?

grisevg · June 29, 2016, 11:18am

It’s still way to dark.

anonymous_user_82c8f046 · July 12, 2016, 1:46pm

Yes it is unusably dark. Sort it out Epic.

Fexception · November 25, 2016, 9:42am

+1, at least give the option to add a background

anonymous_user_8853b4b4 · January 3, 2017, 9:10pm

Bumping this because it’s still very dark. I wonder how Epic uses it? I can barely see a thing in the DM editor

anonymous_user_8c66b5f1 · January 5, 2017, 8:36pm

Engine\Config\BaseEditorPerProjectUserSettings.ini has the lighting settings used by the destructible mesh viewer under [/Script/UnrealEd.DestructableMeshEditorSettings]. Note that these are used by several other viewers (SAnimationSequenceBrowser, AnimMontageSegmentDetails and SSkeletonWidget).
For some reason, the code that enables editing of these in the preferences UI is commented out (see RegisterContentEditorsSettings in EditorSettingsViewerModule.cpp)

However, the reason most of the screen is black is because the widget is just hardcoded to have a black background. If you can modify the source, you can change the implementation of FDestructibleMeshEditorViewportClient::GetBackgroundColor() in Engine\Source\Editor\DestructibleMeshEditor\Private\SDestructibleMeshEditorViewport.cpp to return a value other than FLinearColor::Black.

jordylakiere · June 17, 2017, 11:49am

Same here, its pitchblack for me.

CptCrl · September 19, 2017, 12:34am

Yeah it’s way too dark in the physx editor also…Pitch black.

Any way to set a world light or throw in a background image? I have to constantly rotate the light around and it’s still hard to see stuff. To edit shapes I have to turn off lights and rendering and work within the wireframes. The wireframes are too black also. I don’t have access to edit the source on my end.

Any plans to address this soon?

ScottleroK · September 4, 2018, 9:35am

1 for me, this really needs a fix

chackaloso · August 3, 2019, 7:48pm

Way too ■■■■ dark.

JJFawkes · February 12, 2019, 7:33pm

Is this ever going to be fixed?

anonymous_user_ec686786 · April 10, 2018, 3:00pm

It’s too dark… Don’t be ridiculous Epic, do something.

Burnrate · March 14, 2024, 4:30pm

Did anyone ever find a fix or workaround for this?