Support programs

Development Programming & Scripting
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hi I’m looking into support programs for UE4, to make life essayer and crate better games.

  • "martial maker Programs " and I’m looking at B2M3 but I wanted to know if there’s any other good programs out there like it. I tried out Pixplant but it didn’t seems to import a hole martial and it also came up with a message about it not being to the Power of 2, could someone explain what that means? Pixplant it was a essay and quick to uses and crate a martial in the program , I was also thinking of any programs that would crate Normal maps and so on and crating the rest in UE4.

  • I have blender, and a student version Maya and mudbox (witch I am currently learning how to use and when I time comes will probably buy)

  • also looking a World Creator but not shore, and world machine I just don’t like, seems overly complex for the task.

-speed tree looks the best option for down the track , I found Forester but the demo wouldn’t even work so I couldn’t import the models into UE to see what they look like, so it doesn’t give me the best confidence to use.

any others would be good.
thanks

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  1. when you create a texture you should always make sure to use “power of 2” textures -> e.g 512x512, 64x64,… because otherwise it can caus mipmap issues
  2. I personally would choose blender, because it is free and you can do nearly everything with it
  3. take a look at terresculptor -> easy to use + you can create cool heightmaps with it

Other programs are tree [d], SSbump, gimp,… :slight_smile:

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thanks I will try them out

I don’t mind paying for programs that are good and make a better product. I find with free programs they are free generally they lack something or they don’t crate a very good product

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It might seem that way but trust me…Its very easy to work with World Machine and produces very good result.

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Any app that supports FBX would be good