Why does my sphere brush look so low poly?

Geldmann3 · April 11, 2021, 2:20pm

Hello, I created a sphere via Place Actors → Basic → Sphere and applied a mirror material to it. It looked kind of okay, but was a little bit to low poly for my taste. Therefore, I went to Geometry → Sphere and increased the tessellation to 5.

First it seemed like I would have a sphere with more geometry now. So I created a static mesh from it and placed the same mirror texture on it. But even though it seems to have a higher poly-count, the result looks way more cornered than the basic sphere.

Take a look at my screenshot below:

Does anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong?

ClockworkOcean · April 11, 2021, 6:10pm

Yes, exactly the same thing here. The UVs are totally shot on the brush sphere.

Much better to make the sphere in blender frankly…

arunoda · April 12, 2021, 1:04am

Yeah! Use some 3D software of do that. I hope Unreal Engine also has a beta modeling plugin, you can use that too. (I guess).

Geldmann3 · April 12, 2021, 9:23pm

I did it in blender now, but I think the Unreal Engine should bring such basic functionality by default.

I found out now that you can do it also with the “Modeling Tools Editor Mode” Plugin.
With the Plugin installed you find the option below Modes->Modeling->Deform->Sculpt->Mesh Vertex->Sculpt Tool->Rendering->Flat Shading