I need help with understanding Post-Processing functionality!

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Hi everybody,

I can’t seem to figure out how to turn off post-processing effects when running a game in its own standalone window. When I shut off all of the post-process effects in the editor, it works, but as soon as I launch the game in its own window or another editor window, all effects are turned back up to 11, even when I have a PostProcessVolume disabled. This is making testing on a Mac, well, not very easy. :stuck_out_tongue:

And while I’m on the subject, how can I squeeze better performance out of UE4 on a Mac? I know just shutting off the post-process effects won’t do it, I’ve noticed that the default “null” material has some bump/normal mapping going on, is there anyway to shut that off to speed things up a bit?

Oddly enough, when I run the Blueprint third person demo, I get 40fps just fine, but when I created an empty map with only 4 objects and 3-4 lights, my fps was 25fps at best. What’s going on?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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When you disable them for the editor that’s only affecting them in the viewport. To fully disable them you will need to add a Post Process Volume to your scene and have it encompass the area you want to use. Then you’ll be able to disable/change any settings you feel are necessary. There are a lot of post processes that are set by default and can only be disabled by using this method.