How to turn a mesh with added decal into a new mesh.

[lievengo]

Hi. I am a newbie sorry for this probably very simple question. I am trying to make a roadmesh that I can then drop into splines to construct a road. However I do not find a way to bake the roadpaint lines into the mesh. I have been searching but can’t seem to find the answer. when I select the actors (roadbox/texture/decals) and turn the actors into a mesh I get a mesh where the decals are not baked into.

[Quetzalcodename]

Hey @lievengo! Welcome to the forums!

Check out this answer from another thread that seems to be what you are looking for (there is a video included in the answer):

How to "bake" a decal onto the surfaces?

Baking decals would imbalance the benefits you get from them. In the case of overlapping them on a tileable texture, for instance a brick wall with graffiti you would have to bake the whole wall texture + the decal and merge it into once big texture. You would dramatically increase texture memory usage. The only way this is feasible would be through virtual texture maps. You can layer in texture samples and mix them with a lower gpu footprint. But in this case it probably wouldn’t be a decal bu…

I hope the above is the solution you need!

[lievengo]

It was much more simple than that… I found the solution at the end of this video How to Make Roads with Splines in Unreal Engine 5 - YouTube
thank you for looking into it!