Also, you’ll need some basic knowledge of the game. You won’t see any basics of the game here.
Comic Sans is not a joke. Be advised.
Custom curved vents
In this part, we’re going to see how to make custom curved vents, useful for wheel arch vents or any other application.
In this case, we’re going to need only Chickenbiscuit’s Patchwork, and be using the UE4.24 version of the game. Below, you’ll see the steps.
So, for the custom vents I’m going to use these ones. You’ll find them under the body moulding category.
If you wanted to make a straight vent, you would just extend the one we’ve shown. The trick comes when we curve it. You’ll have to use some of them at the same “level” (1/4).
As you can see, there’s a lot of borders in between that we don’t want. We’re going to remove them with CB’s Patchwork (link above). We’ll use the cut-away variant and place it like so. It doesn’t have to go out of the vent borders, if it does we’ll end with horrible edges. These are going to be placed at level 2/4.
After placing those fixtures, we’ll end up with some red squares. We want them to be transparent, so we select each one and change its material to transparent.
So, after that step, we have the vents like before but with some voids in-between. We now have to fill them with the patchwork “slopes”. We’ll use the totally straight variant, the first one. Extend them to make them flush with the vent indent. Repeat until you fill all the voids.
After filling all the voids, we’ll paint them like the vents. In my case, it’s the body paint. Choose the one that matches the vent.
Now we’re going to make the vent mesh itself. If you placed the transparent cutoff as stated, you won’t have to make the border again. Just place another of these straight slopes and let it clip over the true mesh a bit, as seen here. It has to form these triangles, and they must end in a sharp finish. These are also placed at level 2/4.
Repeat until it’s fully covered.
Now that we’ve filled the vent voids, it’s time to change the materials. Match the vent mesh materials with the vent itself, like so.
And boom, you now have your own custom vents!
As stated above, you can use them in wheel arches for example. Hope it was useful!
And here, the result of the latest tutorial update. Thanks for reading!
