ue4-general

[queen wasp]

Well if you don't have dynamic how can you add new buildings to it?

[static viper]

thats what i am saying.

epic thought about these cases already.

there are bounds volumes that will automaticly block out areas

you assign those to the buildings

once they touch the navmesh they will collapse the area

[queen wasp]

So bounds volumes will work on non-dynamic navmesh then? sounds good if so..

[static viper]

it will look orange

thats the entire point of them

it would be impossible otherwise to generate navmesh

[queen wasp]

Cool, I thought I had to have it dynamic, this might help, thanks

[static viper]

i am having dynamic navmesh in my game

especially for locked doors and stuff

i know the system quite well 🙂

[queen wasp]

Yah I know it some.. I've coded a fair bit of c++ for navmesh use..

I'll look for the command to disable.. or other ways of getting rid of the rebuild. And try static navmesh and invokers/bounds volumes..

My map is 3x3km so, it has a fixed poolsize of 500.000 for navmesh hehe

Probably more than it needed, but I found that it worked better with fixed poolsize

I found the setting that seems to have turned the rebuilding off, in Editor - Preferences - Miscellaneous.. didn't know it was there too.. heh.

Yup that was it, closed editor and reopened, now it isn't rebuilding.. sweet.

[static viper]

3 year problem

solved in 5 minutes

[queen wasp]

Not solved no 🙂

Got more to learn.. Can't make navmesh volumes in blueprints it seems

Trying to learn what navigation invokers and modifiers actually do. Never spent enough time learning this anyways

I had it working only in the middle of the map hehe, since it got built there quick.. Still having the same issue, trying different things..

I tried static, colonists went through buildings even if adding invokers and whatnot..

I tried dynamic modifiers only, still no dice..

Maybe I have to add some c++ to the units to make volumes on the fly, IDK.. hmmmz..

But our chat gave me some ideas...

Aha! "Generate navigation only around invokers" might be what I needed all along..

still no dice.. anyways I'll stop spamming in here and do more research..

Navigation Invokers and dynamic works. Nice.

Found this helpful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7J7Mxlso6o

[pallid olive]

hi anyone an idea how to save a button that is been pressed ?

[jaunty zinc]

you mean in a save game object? I don't remember if there was a variable for that, try searching for an Is Pressed boolean, if not, create one in the Save Game Object, and on event button pressed, set the variable to true and save it

[turbid osprey]

Hey everyone, I am having issues optimizing my game and boosting FPS while playing it. I can get 40-60 FPS while in Editor but as soon as I enter Standalone/PIE/Launch I jump down to 20 fps. I've already done LODS, actor merging, lower texture resolutions but no dice. I also have a R9 5950X with a 2080S 64GB RAM on a SSD

[sharp crest]

use showflag commands to disable stuff

if still low fps after u disbaled everything on screen then it's bps

then make a copy of ur project and delete shit until it works

[remote rivet]

I have a weird thing that keeps happening but when I am running around testing things the character is being removed from the world outliner suddenly, I am still playing as the character and nothing changes its just not showing in the outliner anymore. Anyone know why? I dont even know if its an actual issue

[amber shuttle]

anyone using ue4 blender livelink? does it work with blender 3+?

[sharp crest]

if it doens't effect the game then just ignore it, doesnt sound like an issue

[gentle cloak]

Hi, i am using sequencer to attach my niagara to a spline, and in the spline have a mesh that i add using BP, basically i have a trail where the fire pass and i want this trail to vanish where the fire pass, there is anyway i can "hide" or "delete" the mesh or spline keypoint on the sequencer or BP? Thanks

[limber mesa]

@thin tendon ok I will take note of that, thank you for the advice

[pine pecan]

Are there any tutorials out there to make randomised armies like this? https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Oob9lJ

[marble kayak]

Quick question. I just had a pretty nasty crash in my Unreal 4 project.
I noticed that a Niagara System I had in the world simply deleted itself.
Just wondering if this kinda thing is common with crashes that some actors just dont come back.
If it happened to anyone else? 🙂

[ruby token]

Need help. im trying to drag uasset files into my projects folder like all the tutorials have said but it still doesn’t show up

[static viper]

it doesnt work like that.

uassets are bound to projects

you are not supposed to drag them around

if you want to import them from project a to project b you have to migrate them

[clever fable]

hello I want to ask a question.I dont know why I cant stop timer by handle on client

[ruby token]

Well its in a folder I don’t own the project. So theres no way to get them into my project?

Its for a skate game I want to alter the map

[static viper]

what skate game

[ruby token]

Session: Skate sim

[static viper]

and why do you have the files

[ruby token]

The community creates maps. You have to download the files to load them into the game

[static viper]

and why dont you ask the community then

[ruby token]

What would I ask for?

[static viper]

the community?

XD

we are not the Session: Skate sim community.

[ruby token]

No like what type of file

[static viper]

we are the unreal community

[ruby token]

Should I ask them to send

[static viper]

we are the unreal community

not the Session: Skate sim community

you have to ask them for modding help.

[rain badger]

What organization tools do you use to keep track of your project tasks and deadlines? (like trello for example)
And how do you come up with deadlines?

[static viper]

i use hack n plan

asana is cool too

coming up with deadlines is easier in a team

but generally

i like to call them milestones

no i dont care.

no

i call them milestones when i want

youre not my mother.

[jaunty zinc]

I use Codecks it's super friendly :)

also has discord integration

[mossy lichen]

Hi,
I'm using playerController->GetMousePosition(px, py) to get the mouse position.
If the mouse is out of the window on the right or bottom, it will return to proper positions.
However, if the mouse is to the left or above the window, it just returns 0,0.
Any ideas on how to fix this?

[honest cosmos]

im 14 btw so if you are looking for someone older its cool

[oak patio]

If you want to hire people for a project post to the job board

[fierce tulip]

Please read the #rules @honest cosmos

[honest cosmos]

sorry

[fierce tulip]

np, we have #volunteer-projects where you can try and look for teammates. (read the #instructions on how to do so)

though, i think atm the job-bot is a bit broken, for at least another few days

[uncut vortex]

hi guys, im new to unreal engine here and have a basic question i want to ask about trying to complete an event. i currently have an animation playing as a media texture with a transparent background that i want to play out before it turns into an animation that loops for an infinite amount of time until the player clicks on the animation to play a different animation and am unsure how to go about this. essentially it is: play video 1 -> play video 2 that loops -> click on video 2 to play video 3
any help or advice would be much appreciated ✨

[grim shadow]

Hey, im not new and i did some work in ue4 but im asking about downloading ue4. I want to download ue4 to a new computer but i don't have enough disk space. It tells me that i need 94 gb which is a LOT. I though that it only needs 20gb and is it normal that ue4.27 needs 94 gb of disk space? Please help

[sharp crest]

check in ur install options if anything else that u don't need is enabled for download

Idk what the minimum size is

[grim shadow]

I have everything disabled 😦

[grim ore]

there is a bug when you do that where it installs it all, check atleast one thing like templates or starter content

then it should be "correct"

[grim shadow]

omg thanks it works

[grim ore]

I thought that was just a UE5 bug but apparently it's a launcher bug

[sharp crest]

I think I had this bug yesterday too

good to know

[coarse jetty]

in which chat should i ask for vulkan render related things?

[opaque seal]

hello guys i have a question
how can i make smaller buttons or anything in ue4?

it's too big

[coarse jetty]

check for this

and edit the layout

all windows can be moved an redimencioned

@opaque seal

[pallid olive]

What parameters can i save inside savegame object

Is it possible to save buttons in widgets?

[coarse jetty]

why would you do that

[grim ore]

you can save the class, but not the object, so chances are no you cant save a button in a widget

there are ways of serializing and deserializing objects, in C++ mainly, or you can look at plugins that might do what you want. Saving a button isnt normally something that is done (no real reason to do it)

[west merlin]

Does anyone go back and forth between a Mac and PC on the same project? I needed something to compile for Mac so I got a laptop but it would be nice to be able to do some stuff on the laptop sometimes too

[sharp crest]

why even support mac

unless it's mobile

[light thunder]

I'm trying to duplicate a map but it is not letting me because it is linked to landscape layer material ? some weird error - what's the workaround?

[paper dust]

Is there a way to make my UE4 game start with VSync enabled?
I've seen UGameUserSettings::SetVSyncEnabled() but ideally I'd like to ensure it starts enabled right away, maybe I can set it via an .ini?

@rain badger We're using Taiga (https://www.taiga.io), it's like Trello with added Backlog, Sprints and Velocity chart (and can be self-hosted for free w/unlimited users+projects). Was a nice change after all that Jira'ing 🙂

@shy nacelle I've checked the .inis in my project's Config folder (and googled for possible settings), but so far came up empty.

[versed lion]

Anyone with photoshop can help a brother out? I need if you can use a plugin and combine 6 faces of a texture using a certain plugin

[paper dust]

@shy nacelle Thank you very much! I do fear that this will only take effect after I call UGameUserSettings::LoadConfigIni() but I'll test it out.

[versed lion]

Nvm I will just buy photoshop

[west merlin]

My question was more so about supporting Windows from a Mac haha.

[sharp crest]

ah XD

[grim ore]

you can support windows from a mac if you use something like parallels

lol

you could bootcamp if you use an intel mac but... really... dont do that (the intel mac part)

[rain pebble]

hi could anyone help me with a specific bit of code, I'll need to dm them

[fiery beacon]

pic is from the level editor. Problem is - can i somehow switch X and Y axis, so my X is left -> right and my Y is down -> top. Without rotating the whole world, component by component 🙂 😄 This is related to 2D turn-based character movement. If more info is needed, I'll gladly provide it

[rain pebble]

whenever i drop an item in my project its scale is set back to 1,1,1 though i need it to be 0.2,0.3,0.2

could anyone help resolve this issue

[light thunder]

This a bug? I can't duplicate a map?

[grand yarrow]

I do that all the time with Parsec. It works so well if you have a good router, it's essentially like working natively on your PC on your Mac

(Owned by Unity, but UE devs can use it just as well, haha. It's free)

[uncut vortex]

Going to ask this question again because its doing my head in.
Is there a way i can do this: play video 1 -> play video 2 on loop -> click on video 2 to play video 3
Any help would be much appreciated

[pallid olive]

Is it possible mmorpg in full blueprints

[oak patio]

maybe. probably not. and definitely should not be done

[fierce tulip]

you'd be bottlenecking yourself and the performance

[oak patio]

^^
If you are even considering making an mmorpg, ideally you will already be well skilled in c++ anyway

as well as more complex topics such as server architecture

[spice ruin]

Depends on your definition of mmorpg.

The game server might be doable in just BP, but all the other stuff absolutely not and requires many different technologies working together.

[mental shale]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/278359555530817536/1024538607958114375/20220926_170323.mp4

why does the editor keep on doing this?

it usually starts after a bit of using it

sometimes right as I launch it too though

it's 4.27.2 btw

menus and dropdowns will just start flickering or turning black

sometimes the entirety of the blueprint window will turn completely black

this has occurred for multiple restarts and gpu driver updates

never happened with 4.26 tho

[grim ore]

I would guess GPU driver, especially if it's nvidia

[mental shale]

ah, I do use a 2070

[real heath]

theres a fix from nvidia in the pinned messages

a reg file you download and run

[mental shale]

oh

in this channel?

[real heath]

yes

[mental shale]

ill check it out

[real heath]

#ue4-general message

[mental shale]

btw, are they not planning on doing any LTS updates for ue4 at all?

[real heath]

not according to any official statement. Full steam ahead on ue5

[mental shale]

dang

[vocal viper]

I want to ask, if you want to make a news/event system in the game, what method do you use?
which is like a menu showing information about events, news, quests or all that stuff and the data can be updated continuously from the internet

like this

[grim ore]

chances are you can use a web page for that, might be the easiest way. otherwise something custom fetching data from an external source and filling out the data using widgets

[vocal viper]

do you have tutorial to make it with option two ?
if using web browser unreal there will be some drawbacks such as login and so on

[grim ore]

why would you need a login just to display a page?

there is a web widget plugin you can enable for that, otherwise look at using something like an HTTP REST plugin or system to fetch simple data from an internet source

[vocal viper]

it's not like that. the data displayed is company data and coincidentally when I saw a similar feature in the genshin game I wanted to use it

[grim ore]

then the second option would be the best, you can use rest api calls to a web service and get the data you need

[vocal viper]

thank you for your help

[stark talon]

How do i make an animation transition instantly?
I have this animation and i need to change the scale abruptly.
So for example you have a small square and you need it to become big suddenly.
But instead what is happening is it still transitions smoothly from a small square to a big square.

Like scalling smoothly. i need it to scale suddenly.

[spare trench]

What is the advantage of using vulkan rendering level over Es3.1??

[thin tendon]

Are you referring to using vulkan over directx?

[tiny valley]

Hey, I'm asking here because no forums have been able to help without some proprietary solution.

The goal I wish to achieve: Playback UE4 mannequins skeletal animations on DAZ3Ds genesis in full quality. Meaning no post-process feet retargeting etc.

How I wish to achieve this: Open to a solution but, I wish to match Genesis's bones to the Mannequin bones 1 to 1 using a program other than UE4 and Daz3D, possibly Motion builder. Does anyone know of any scripts or tuts on how I can match these skeletons 1v1, and if there are any possible problems I would still encounter doing this thanks!

I've tried reach targets and IK using both UE4 and IClone, but I'm set on just getting the skeleton perfectly mirrored onto each other thanks!

[spare trench]

Im working on a mobile game

So Im just asking which would be better.

[fierce tulip]

if there is any, I havent found it

you could take a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz_zuBOJFaY
https://blendermarket.com/products/auto-rig-pro
But havent tried it myself, and currently not on a daz project. thank god.

[tiny valley]

I think that just takes a mesh input and adds a skeleton to it. IE it trashes the Daz skeleton and adds a new skeleton mixamo style.

This has a fundamental problem that it does not match the skeleton and the mesh remains unchanged, so the animation will not play back properly. And a lot of times looks horrid. I'm looking for a 1-to-1 skeleton mirror of UE4 Bones to Daz3D bones, The skeletons should look identical and for the most part, the mesh is irrelevant

[fierce tulip]

sadly, --afaik-- not going to happen

or at least, not atm

[tiny valley]

So if I manually match the bones the animation will not work or what

[fierce tulip]

the build in tool unreal engine has gets closest, but not perfect

somewhere on the daz forums you can find an accurate pose for the daz models that makes the conversion rather decent

or well, at best rather decent

I spend about nine months figuring this stuff out, and it resulted in many sleepless nights, fetal positions, and contemplating my life XD

[sharp crest]

@fierce tulip you're the coolest mod here

Want to see our viral reddit post

Wait ill get the link

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/xpz028/ue_community_support_be_like/

This is top tier unreal slackers promotion

I should get paid

[spare trench]

How can I fix the camera collision with bridge

[fierce tulip]

I dont even get paid XD

[fierce tulip]

Viral to me is at least a few thousand upvotes, but i'll take it

[sharp crest]

well it's on the homepage of the reddit, viral enough!

[sharp crest]

change the collision settings of the bridge to block/ignore the camera

[granite steppe]

so I started playing Gundam Evolution and it crashed and it came up with this crash report screen. Is this a new thing?

I know there's the UE4 editor one but i haven't seen one in-game

Wow i never knew that

How do you set that up?

[honest cosmos]

hey i want to make a button that opens a border i have the button made a on clicked event but i dont ge how to make the other parts. help?

[placid orbit]

Hi all, I'm having a issue with 4.27 on MacOS, the startup videos crash if I have audio. If I strip the audio, no crash. This is the last bit of my log:
[2022.09.28-00.48.09:661][ 0]LogAISub: UAISubsystem AIPerceptionSystem (0x18c71fc40), frame # 0
[2022.09.28-00.48.09:664][ 0]LogAISub: UAISubsystem EnvQueryManager (0x1917c0400), frame # 0
[2022.09.28-00.48.09:716][ 0]LogMoviePlayer: FAVMoviePlayer ctor...
[2022.09.28-00.48.09:716][ 0]LogMoviePlayer: Initializing movie player
[2022.09.28-00.48.09:781][ 0]LogMoviePlayer: FAVMoviePlayer init. Path count = 1...

Works fine on the windows packaged version

[thick herald]

https://twitter.com/ToshiCG/status/1575126612512624643

Todor (CGDive) (@ToshiCG)

Our addon, Game Rig Tools now supports the UE5 skeleton.

You can easily take any humanoid character and rig it with the Manny/Quinn hierarchy.
Hope it's useful!

Check out the overview/tutorial video:
https://t.co/PWioKAIBRN
#b3d #UnrealEngine5 #UE5 #blender3D

Twitter · Sep 28, 2022, 2:13 PM

closest I could see.

[slow spruce]

I need help

I can't create a new project it gives me an error

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/cannot-compile-unreal-engine-4-c-project-with-vistual-studio-2017/432620

This is basically my situation except that the answer in the thread doesn't work

[light thunder]

How do you hook up displacement maps (from Quixel megascans) into the material? World displacement isn't highlighted/possible

[thin tendon]

Not every material type can use every node. You just have to change the material type. For example from opaque to translucent. That is the setting you want.

[light thunder]

where would you hooked up a texture labeled "transluncecy?

[spice ruin]

To the opacity input

[vocal viper]

hi all, i want to ask. I want to retrieve image data from the internet (database) and call it using the click of a button. each button is clicked a new image data (from Figure 1 to Figure 2) will appear (like a slide show). how to do it with unreal ?

[sharp crest]

most likely u need a plugin or c++ for that

[tepid haven]

World composition/level streaming. Let say I have a level within my world composition that has a bp within the specific level that spawns an item. If a player walks in that levels area and that item spawns then leaves and comes back will it spawn again? And if so do I just need to make sure anything that has logic is in persistent level and just have all my buildings and stuff in each individual level?

Thanks for any info that can be provided.

[cursive field]

Do someone know how to make an object solid with data mosh

When I import an object from SketchUp I fall through them there not solid

[light thunder]

where can I find this render target, it's taking 6gb of video memory and I'm not using one

( i am, but not intentionally)

[vocal viper]

hi, i got a project which one of the features is to connect VR player and FPS player. Here, VR players act as teachers and FPS players act like students. is it possible to connect 2 different console players in multiplayer?

[flat turret]

My Plug-In assets not loading runtime after package ( using LoadAsset ) but work in editor

How to solve that problem?

[real heath]

Does your plugin have CanContainContent = true in it?

Package without Use Pak Files checked and browse through the directory and see if the plugin files are copying across

[cursive field]

Does anyone know why I can’t find the collision tab when on the model

[pallid olive]

in game instance, Event shutdown, is always called if someone closes the game

[mint notch]

Does anybody have a clue on how to import a point cloud live? I mean from a certain source such as a folder or a server

[pallid olive]

hi i have an easy exp function, problem is the players level integer is incremented after a check if player reaches the exp needed for next level

even with do once note, the players level is increased by 39 after 5 minutes of playtime, idk where the bug is

[thick herald]

See the bit before the branch? It's adding stuff to the exp. So every time the function is called, regardless of the do once it going to be adding things

[pallid olive]

yea but the workflow will only continue if the currentexp matches the exp needed?

in greater or equal check

or shall i set the players level after the increment?

[thick herald]

It doesn't matter. Every time this function is called, it's adding exp to the current exp.

[pallid olive]

the function is called everytime a enemy dies

so the playerslevel variable is equal to number of enemy killed ...

[weary verge]

Hello,
I currently have a frosted glass material and I want to create a knockout in the glass of a logo. Anyone have any ideas how I could achieve this in 4.27?

[thin cipher]

https://youtu.be/f7RzdiUhS-A any idea how made like this

[pallid olive]

hello

could someone tell me what is wrongwith this variable

this integer variable is set to 200 as default

but in the print string it says 0

[oak patio]

You must be changing it somewhere

[pallid olive]

lol brother cuppa tea you are a hero

asalways

i changed the default in savegame object

[oak patio]

That would explain it 😅

[karmic stag]

We have this behavior in the spline BP here, where it can't be rotated on its own, but it will rotate with its parent.

And if you open the Level Instance as a level, the rotation of the railings is fine. But in the world partition, they stick to 0 degrees according to the world

The BP seems clean. It's not my thing, but there doesn't seem to be anything in it that even references rotation of the whole thing.

oh dang, i did this on the wrong channel

this is UE5

[spare trench]

If I use blueprint in my game project then what the source code of my game?

[teal tulip]

someone remember where you can add extra grid scales on UE4 ?

nevermind is on viewports

[slow spruce]

What does this even mean?

[ripe carbon]

What is the simplest way to enable a widget with another? Like, I have this pop-up window with clickable buttons. But I don't want any of those buttons to be clickable during a dialogue cutscene that appears over the window and buttons; when the dialogue is finished, then the buttons should be clickable. So how would I make this work?

[versed lion]

Simplest way? @ripe carbon After creating the widget add a delay you with a time you wish the player to wait then drag out the button and enable activate, hold on lemme example it for ya

How it looks like

This is the most simple way to do so

Hope it helps 🙂

[radiant condor]

Can someone point me in the right direction for questions about rigging, skeletons, and cooking/uncooking them?

[ripe carbon]

I'm not sure how you did that, though. May I have a screenshot of the BP, please?

[versed lion]

Oh yeah I forgot to add them

My bad

Step 1 (This is in the button Details)

Step 2 (This is the widget graph)

[ripe carbon]

The dialogue widget disappears after a "Next Arrow" button is clicked enough times. But, I guess I can still make a long enough delay.

[versed lion]

Can you elaborate more? like provide more information about the dialogue widget, cause i can't tell what you mean

[ripe carbon]

Oh yes. One second...

This is the dialogue widget, with a text box (whose background color and opacity I'll likely change later) and an arrow button on the bottom-right. Each time this arrow is clicked, the widget goes on to the next window, using an integer-based counter...

But, while this widget is on the screen at the same time as this one...

I don't want any of these three "?" buttons to be enabled until the dialogue widget removes itself from the parent.

[versed lion]

Alrighty then

1 sec

so the dialogue and the ? buttons are 2 different widgets right?

[ripe carbon]

Yep.

[versed lion]

So correct me if i am wrong, at the end of the dialogue you want the widget with the buttons to appear and be enabled right?

[ripe carbon]

Yes.

[versed lion]

Here how it should look

[ripe carbon]

Alright. I was on the right track, but I didn't think to set the BP to enable the buttons individually. So I'll give that a shot.

[versed lion]

Although I don't think you should add that enable button

You can just remove the widget of the dialogue and add the widget of the buttons afterwards

Its simple as that

Dialogue 1 -> Dialogue 2 -> Dialogue 3 -> Final Dialogue -> Removing himself from parent -> Creating the buttons widget

1000x simpler

Widget may seem complicated but its very simple once you get the hang of it

[versed lion]

@ripe carbon You got it figured out?

[ripe carbon]

Back, sorry. Was called away.

Anyway, I tried this:

And this is at the very end of the dialogue widget.

But I don't think it worked.

[versed lion]

Maybe just make the buttons enabled from the checkbox

then create the widget at the end of the dialouge

[ripe carbon]

Or I can make the buttons appear once the dialogue is over.

[grim ore]

the laziest way is to slap a full screen invisible widget that blocks input over the rest of the screen until you remove the dialogue widget. It can be part of the dialogue widget so its automatic

[versed lion]

Nuh bro this is too lazy

at least put a little effort

[grim ore]

basically a "click blocker", its not uncommon to do this when handling popups for example if you want to absorb clicks in the background

[versed lion]

once the dialogue is over create the widget

you forgot to add it to viewport

btw

[grim ore]

thats probably the best way anyways other wise they will think they can interact with the widget as it's on the screen as well (not good user experience)

[ripe carbon]

I saw that and tried that, so it works. Though there's still a mess I'll need to clean up.

Anyway, thanks for the help!

[versed lion]

Anytime @ripe carbon 🙂

Tried to create some sort of galaxy portal type thingy for material practice, Ig its fine what do you guys think?

[strange stirrup]

Hi someone can explain me why i cant grab a door even if u put socket on it

[oak patio]

dont crosspost please.

[strange stirrup]

sry just wrong section UE4

[hasty palm]

Hey folks, I'm trying to get my hands on modding the Unreal engine 3 and on a tournament 3 or the Unreal development kit, something like that. I really want to mod the game, any of you can lend a hand in an advice, what would be the best option? Also yes I know the engine's longer used. I'm just trying to mod the game, any tips or advice?

Sorry I'm also knew at discord. So sorry for spamming it

[real heath]

UDK is standalone and can't be used for modding UT3. UT3 modding was a predecessor for UDK. So some tutorials apply to both. If you can get your hands on a second hand physical copy of UT3 Collectors edition it had a dvd with a bunch of modding tutorials on it IIRC

But yeah, this server isn't really targeted at UE3, and it's going to get harder to find information over time unfortunately

[hasty palm]

Thanks. More info would be nice too by the way but I get it. It's an old ass game and engine

If you got more info I'm all ears

[real heath]

I haven't touched UE3 since 2015, a lot has faded, sorry. I remember picking up the collectors edition for the videos back in the day though

[hasty palm]

Alright right. Thank you, I'm trying to do a weird ass project that's really niche It's not like I'm not into the unreal 5 or 4. It's just something with this game I just kind of really want the mod

Sorry to mod

[hasty palm]

Dumb question, is it still possible to somehow use the unreal engine 3 or nah

[real heath]

if you can find a UDK download, or grab the latest patches for UT3, yeah you can work on those, no problems

licensing a UDK commercial game may be harder now though, dunno

but UT3 modding yeah

but again, UT3 mod and UDK are not interchangeable

if you wanna mod ut3, forget udk

[hasty palm]

Alrighty, anything else? If not, thank you. Thank you very much

I appreciate a lot I I'm working on a project

[real heath]

again, a lot has faded, as i said, try and find a second hand copy of that collectors edition for some starting tuts

[hasty palm]

All right. Thank you. You have a good day

[glacial yarrow]

Anyone familiar with r.OneFrameThreadLag? Seems like a value of 1(default) sometimes causes serious input issues in menus. Value of 0 makes the game lose around 20 FPS. Both options aren't acceptable. Does anyone know what to do?

[vocal viper]

hi, how to increase the resolution of the web browser ?
here I do a comparison of web browsers with image downloads and the results are quite far where the results of the web browser are more blurry

[coarse jetty]

are u using a widget? increase the widget res or try to put the widget into a stereo layer

Does somebody faced this problem? can't find the solution online. And i'm sure that the texture is not a problem itself because is dpending on which dispositive i'm launching

Roughness_2K_ugciag2ga.Roughness_2K_ugciag2ga contains no miplevels! Please delete.

[warped hornet]

hi, im dabbling in ue4. I have a project open, there are 4 windows: Project settings, my main map, and 2 blueprints. Every time i "save" and exit, then re open, it prompts me saying 2 asset editors were open when last closed, and if i want to re open them

Of course i want to re open them, and i would rather they stayed there.

[still kayak]

hi there. Is there any way to feed one of the camera view into the capture card. Thanks in advance.

[spare trench]

When I select my scalability to low, medium, High, the quality of my game goes so bad and look like a low resolution game.

I guess I did something wrong or click wrong option by mistake

please help to fix this out

[real heath]

Low is meant to look terrible by comparison. For the rest did you wait for the shaders to compile?

[spare trench]

Yes there is no shaders to compile

Bro the graphics were okay yesterday but today I guess I click a wrong option by mistake

Have any Idea?

[real heath]

Build lighting, and check if it still looks bad

[spare trench]

ok leme try

nope nothing happened @real heath

I think I did somethin wrong with 'Editor Preferances' window cause when ever I open my unreal engine editor preferances windows popup automaticly and may be I clicked somethin wrong

I found somethin

for every asset my general setting's resolution has increased to 4 to 64. Is this normal or not?

[spare trench]

help please

[spare trench]

lol I fixed that, It was a stupid mistake sorry🤣

I set resolution scale to 50%

[peak hare]

wtb motivation

[valid raven]

hey freshening up in C#, would anyone know why my outputs are coming out in doubles?

[light thunder]

I want to have a series of meshes that can be loaded during construction script (so you can place them before gametime) - but I don't want to load them all, so I need soft object references - how is this handle for construction script, so it is resolved before runtime but doesn't load everything

[grim shadow]

Hey, is there a way to disable ue4 prerequisities when someone first time downloads my game and doesn't played any unreal engine 4 games before?

[oak patio]

whats this got to do with unreal?

[wild bobcat]

😭

[valid raven]

unreal is written in C++, they're pretty closely related. i found the issue though

it was just a logic issue, i put an extra writeline

[terse widget]

😮

[light thunder]

Ignore the animation - why is the simple move to command making him stop and start over again? Changes in location shouldn't have anything to do with animation blueprint (and I've set it to just play that animation for now) - he should be CONSTANTLY sliding, I'm confused as to why it is Go...stop...Go

the stopping/starting seems to occur regardless of animation

[marble iris]

With all the actors? Gonna have to go with a basically 100% no, you can export the fbxs maybe and import them to blender or whatever to convert to what CSGO needs (if that even works because ik CSGO has their own map editor) but other than that's there's nothing that won't be absolutely time consuming

[ruby bloom]

I have a project I'm looking into starting work on and wanted to see if I could ask some questions that might help me decide if Unreal Engine is right for my project or not. The game is going to be a survival sandbox with a focus on highly customizable combat vehicles and base building (destructible buildings that NPCs and other players can attack.)

I'll start with a feature I'm not entirely sure I plan on having in the game, but would like to implement in some way if possible. I've been considering having the game take place across multiple planets as part of a larger server cluster with players being able to travel between them using ships they have built. Interplanetary space will not be a thing to avoid spreading out players too much, going beyond a certain radius of the planet's surface will send you to adjacent maps (other planets, asteroid fields, etc.) This would also add the option of orbital stations.

Would UE4 be able to handle something like this? Preferably without long loading screens like those seen going between sectors in a Space Engineers server cluster.

[oak patio]

Unreal can handle whatever you want it to. its up to you to implement it. You will have to write many many custom systems, and likely need lots and lots of money. But its not the engine that would be the limit here. and worst case scenario if there was something limiting it, you can rewrite it!

@ruby bloom

[rare elk]

can someone help me with a bug Im facing? Its about this tutorial right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSJpiwlX4Ng

The problem Im having with this is that if the AI go to a locker that is not in the direction of the AI face, and if the player is inside it, the AI does not make the right turn, and keeps looking to the side without doing anything, instead of opening it to see if there is something inside, and then killing the player

[ruby bloom]

I realize I may have asked my question wrong. I guess I was trying to find out how difficult it would be to setup rather than if it was possible.

Or maybe more that if the engine lent itself to such or if there was a better option?

[oak patio]

very difficult. although depends on your expertise in the area. if you have absolutely no idea on dedicated server costs, implementation, maintenance, multiplayer games, c++, writing custom systems etc. then this wont be the project for you in any engine. Well not at the described skill level. of course that can change when you develop skills

[ruby bloom]

I didn't really prepare these questions as well as I thought I did. Maybe I should try this another time.

I was starting to prototype some of the mechanics in Unity before wondering if I should put the time into learning UE4 and building it there instead. Decided I should figure that out pretty early as the way I'm structuring the vehicle system right now doesn't really work that well outside of Unity, meaning I'd have to scrap the core of the game to move to another engine.

[oak patio]

Yeah its important to figure out what engine you want to use. A great thing about unreal is the ability to extend the engine as you have the source code, which you only get with unity by paying a lot of money. Go with whatever you are comfortable. No matter where you do it, it will be difficult. There are some ue5 tools that may make things nicer such as World partition that should be fixed soon, as well as nanite.

in the end it entirely depends on your skillset

[frosty onyx]

Hey folks! Does any of you knows the "ULTIMATE HIGH QUALITY RENDER SETTINGS" approach? What have you tried for exporting really neat high quality renders from UE5 Using the "Movie Render Queue"... Thanks in advance!

[warped hornet]

Say,

is there a way to clone a project, so i can try stuff in a different save and just revert back to the original in case i mess up

[plush yew]

Have you tried copying the project files?

[warped hornet]

u mean in the launcher?

or actual files in systems and stuff

[plush yew]

No in documents.

Unreal project. files

[warped hornet]

idk how to do that i just want 2 of the same project in the library 😊

[plush yew]

I guess there is a better way than copying the project file that was just thinking about.

[warped hornet]

pls tell

[plush yew]

I don't know about the proper way, what ill do is copy the project file that is in documents/unreal projects/project name.

And save it at the same directory with a different name.

[warped hornet]

ok or i can just store it on my desktop and then swap it in the directory with the messed up one but still, ur way does sound good

thx bunches 😊

o looky, wen i copy and paste it it actually makes a copy

[plush yew]

Oh

Good, it works for you.

[wide stirrup]

Is there a way to import PSK into UE4?

[spare trench]

Is there any work flow to create another level same as previous level with same environmentn lightning quality?

Or we manually have to set it?

[oak patio]

Source control. It marks every time you submit changes and can roll back to any previous version

[patent apex]

hello, i have a lot of maps in my game and i'm having a hard time to just package a specific one (without dependencies to other maps on the reference viewer)

it always package everything making the build time and size huge

i've tried:

i've tried adding to DefaultEditor.ini:
[AllMaps]
+Map=/Game/Maps/Empty.Empty

[AlwaysCookMaps]
+Map=/Game/Maps/Empty.Empty

[oblique tangle]

Hi all, apologies if this is a simple question but I'm really struggling to scale a box to fit between two vector points
How would one go about this? I've set the box's location to be inbetween the points and I'm not fussed about any Z scaling (strictly x,y)

[worthy glade]

hi, does anyone know why this error pops up?

just press play and the error appears

[spare trench]

Use "is valid?" node before attachactortocomponent

[worthy glade]

thank you very much!!! it works

[hollow ore]

Can anyone take a quick look and see if this document for my marketplace project makes sense?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BgPf2N7lVhqFscLKWjlnN3qyXnmXNX0FOk91Xkm3VBc/edit?usp=sharing

[steep dome]

https://youtu.be/8lQu_qhdn9U I need help with this problem, I was watching this to and was stuck on making the ball move left and right while going forward between 5:50 - 7:40 , i did the exact same thing but it wouldn't work

[scenic lance]

so im like totally new to UE4 and for some reason i cant set my actor mesh from my assets

i have dozens of meshes added from assets but they dont show up

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/spaceships-vol-7

these

following a simple youtube tutorial for a simple 2D plane space shooter

[spice ruin]

Ideally I'd like more than 4 tbh.

[scenic lance]

atm i just need player ship and a horde of enemy ships

assuming i can find a modeler after i get a prototype

i have tons of sketchup ship models i made, (blender doesnt like my frankencomputer)

[spice ruin]

If you want to hire someone, try #instructions

[scenic lance]

oh i try, sadly im kinda in the revshare side being on a fixed income

so might as well try and get basics made while i wait

[spice ruin]

Might I suggest the editor cube? It's free ! 😄

[scenic lance]

i know, but tutorial guy has ship, so best to have ship as well, once i have a finished prototype i can fiddle more.

*or make trek fan game and your borg vs borg

[spice ruin]

Heh

You can get a ton of free simple models on the interwebs.

[scenic lance]

ya

still really wanna use the model i made for the game specifically but sketch /= blender

it outputs really flawed models for games

[spice ruin]

:/

Can you not import it into some other software and then re-export?

[scenic lance]

blender ceases up for me

my laptop is a budget gaming laptop and ive sort of halfway upgraded it with occasional funds

the big thing is the SSD has a lot of issues because computer was made for optaine, and new SSD is not optaine

it plays games fine but making them seems to be the issue

im a lore guy and a manager, my specialty is in finding ways round problems but cant find ways around needing a dev

[spice ruin]

Have children. Raise them in the way of the coder. Profit.

[static viper]

the coder way

punch them repeatedly, dont talk to them, scare them.

right?

i dont like that.

i will always treat children with love and respect 🙂

i will be an example

the cool cousin/aunt

[spice ruin]

I was thinking more, support them learning math, logic and computer science.

[last current]

Good evening everyone) Guys, who knows how to fix this problem? Unknowingly deleted Blend Master Material (Megascan) and now when I want to mix materials it says: Master Material for blending was not found. Cancellation operation.

[arctic plover]

Where does UE4 store temporary files when packaging/building a game? It just crashed (out of space) and I closed it, but my hard disk remains full (wasn't before I started the packaging process). Any ideas?

[odd swan]

in your project folder / saved / staged builds

[warped hornet]

Whats an easy way to input an automatic directional movement of the player upon player start?

[oak patio]

add a movement input in your desired direction

[warped hornet]

input in project settings only has peripheral controls

i want it automatic from player start rather than a manual input

[autumn flame]

Event Tick with a Const 1,0

In the Add Movement Input

[oak patio]

you could with a cmc input

you just run that, in your desired direction, on tick for however long you want it to move in that direction

as Iannis pointed out

[warped hornet]

awesome thx ill try that!

[kindred depot]

if that does not work, you can always add an impulse in the direction you want the player.

[arctic plover]

Thank you!

[lusty dew]

hey, is there a replacement for that site? the link now redirects to https://dev.epicgames.com/community/?application=unreal_engine

[oak patio]

Woo scummy business practices!

It's so many layers of terrible. At which later does it turn good :(

[lusty dew]

any good + official guides for Unreal Engine 4?

it seems like stuff about UE4 in this link is deleted

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/ZpX/your-first-hour-in-unreal-engine-5/RPwK/your-first-hour-in-unreal-engine-5-overview is this compatible with UE 4.27?

[lusty dew]

a UE4 learning path got this course included into itself

[warped hornet]

any way to force a character walkable floor angle higher than 90 degrees?

[north condor]

hey guys can someone tell me how can I upgrade my project from UE4.26 to UE4.27? tried looking it up but all of them are only showing UE4 to UE5 right now

[warped hornet]

i just reinstalled ue4 and opened the old project into 4.27

maybe sum1 knoez a better way so i can feel dumb

[north condor]

oh I see, Ive done that in the past with old versions, didnt end well for me during packaging lol

[rare raven]

It was a project that I tested myself in a short period of 1 week, I am open to your comments.

[copper spire]

Hello where do I ask for help here?

[thin tendon]

You can try here but there are also different channels depending on the type of question you need help with.

[tender pecan]

Yeah this can happen, depends on the change that was made in the engine of course, but generally speaking you create a new branch in your source control for your project
example: MyAwesomeNewGame_4.27 and open the project with UE4.27 ( source or binary engine version ) and convert in place when asked ( since you are using source control 😉 )

Then deal with any errors as they arise, sometimes there are errors, sometimes there aren't.
I have converted old games from binary UE4.13 all the way up to source version UE4.27 by incrementally upgrading a few engine versions at a time, and fixing the errors as they come up ( editor and packaging errors ) 🤷‍♂️

[proper kindle]

Hello...I have a little problem with landscape material.
I have normal map with my own material (works fine), but if I create another level with landscape and apply same material, same layer info...well the only problem is the first one layer (autolandscape layer)...another works fine.
So any idea?

*And yes I tried rebuilt material, fill layer, remove it, try to copy the material and rebuilt...nothing

[north condor]

I don't use source control, which i think makes the project simpler to upgrade. But yeah incrementally upgrading is a good idea, a little tedious but still good

[tender pecan]

Yeah, going from 26 to 27 should be a piece of cake. We done it a few times too, you can ask for any issues here as well, no reason not to try. Also source control just meant for us we dont need to create a backup copy on disk, we can convert in place, works for us 🤷‍♂️

[static viper]

"Yeah, going from 26 to 27 should be a piece of cake. "

https://tenor.com/view/laugh-laughing-drink-and-laugh-drinking-laugh-rajabets-gif-22201520

[drowsy snow]

You'll learn it the hard way

Imagine you screwing up the version change in the process, you convert it in place and didn't make backups. Took you a while to realize you have nothing to rollback into working state again.

Well, sure, for BP only, just-messing-around, project, loss of working files might be nondetrimental.

[north condor]

i have 3 back ups of my project

just in case

I used to use Github, switched to perforce because github caused problems
then perforce started causing problems so I just gave up on setting up source control and I just zip up the project and upload it on a 3 different cloud drives instead

Source controls are just too complicated for me i think
or im just too stupid to use them properly

[real heath]

Not gonna lie, most people take a while to adapt, especially when you aren't introduced to it on a team with people already familiar. But it's well worth investing the time in to learning it

[north condor]

I spent 1 full year trying to learn and manage source control

just never could

source control and world composition

[drowsy snow]

One File Per Actor could be your messiah with that

It's available since 4.26, basically break down every actors in a level to ease up source control changing, so you don't have to commit the entirety of the umap

[north condor]

oh you mean like break down every group actor?

[drowsy snow]

Every single actor in a map becoming individual .uasset file, instead of having them all in the .umap file. It won't affect builds, just easing up on source control commits

[north condor]

I see i see

also, can you PLEASE suggest me a good source control program

like just what do i use

some say perforce, azure
i found git to be the simplest but everyone says its bad

[drowsy snow]

Personally I use Git terminal and store it to a git repo in Azure DevOps

[spare trench]

If I wants to rotate blades on its axis then which will be more optamize, animating it or rotating it with blueprints?

[north condor]

I..did not understand anything except 'use git terminal' part

can you link me any sort of tut to do the same?

[drowsy snow]

If it's cosmetic, rotating it in material with WPO is much more performant, but may cause TAA artifacts

[spare trench]

Lol I didn't understand a single word you said 🤣

[drowsy snow]

Well, that's pretty much it, really.
For me, Azure DevOps just providing space for private git repo. Aside from the URL (and maybe submodules), it's pretty much the same as GitHub

[spare trench]

I want to rotate this, what is more optamize method?
Animating it or rotate it using blueprints?

[drowsy snow]

Again, depend on context of how this is being used.

[north condor]

I see i see... so ill go with Azure devops as my source control then?

oh thats why, now i get it

yeah, i think ill go look up a tut for azure then and set up my source control after upgrading my project to 4.27 and UE5

[drowsy snow]

If collision matters and not many instance of this, you can rotate it in BP
If collision doesn't matter and only used for visuals, rotating it with materials is more preferred for performance.

[north condor]

kinda need two versions for testing

oh so I just download azure and use the commands in the git terminal to hook it up with my project again?

ahhh alright

[drowsy snow]

Again, aside from remote URL and accounts used, it's all the same with handling git on GitHub, or GitLab (or any other git hosting service)

[north condor]

thats convinenent

[drowsy snow]

I myself only had to change the remote URL when I migrated my project from GitHub to Azure DevOps
Git by itself doesn't host things for you.

[north condor]

oh yeah i know that part

ended badly

also how often do you push changes to SC?

like what i used to do is disable source control, work for 5-6 hrs then connect it again and push changes

yeah i dont mean in 'time basis' but the problem is that because it kept pushing every single change instantly

like i would move a block an inch and it would instantly push that

[drowsy snow]

I made commits every night, but as I have yet to have better internet connection, and it's still largely solo project, I push them sporadically

[north condor]

which really slowed down

it meaning unreal engine's source control thing

it kept pushing every small change

[drowsy snow]

That shouldn't happen by default, pushing commit is on demand

[north condor]

wait wait

oh god im confused so do you just push the folder itself and not connect it to unreal engine at all?

[drowsy snow]

I do enable UE's source control plugin, but I still handle the changes in terminal

[north condor]

ohh

thats...new to me

[drowsy snow]

In practice UE's source control plugin is useless for Git
(except to get autosave restoring to work, for whatever reason)

[north condor]

yeah pretty much

okay I just have one small question

without messing up anything, how do I change the folder for Unreal engine?

o god thats gonna take a 24 hr wait again

[drowsy snow]

Harder: use an evil hack of tricking the launcher

[north condor]

i thought i could like

just move these folders

then launch them from the new drive and the launcher would detect it

but im pretty sure there's a big chance of messing stuff up

[static viper]

@north condor

yes that works

launcher will detect it

[drowsy snow]

You can. After all , UE4Editor.exe (or UnrealEditor.exe for UE5) is what you need, but the launcher won't recognize, because the UX always taking seatback

[static viper]

and then start verifying

[north condor]

ohh okay

tysm

yeah this is much quicker than downloading it

[drowsy snow]

The evil hack in question is to start installing the engine again in another directory, but when it starts downloading, pause it, and move the engine files to the destination directory. Resume it so that the launcher can verifying it through

[north condor]

that sounds much safer i think

[drowsy snow]

Proven by yours truly

[north condor]

what sort of black magic is that

whats a symlink

[drowsy snow]

Basically pretending the file exists in another directory, and have the OS redirects it on demand

[north condor]

like shortcuts?

[drowsy snow]

Yes

[north condor]

Ahhh I see

the more you know ✨

[drowsy snow]

Though I'm not sure if it works with C++ UE projects
Had vague memory of symlink broke GCC in old Linux VM

[north condor]

Im blueprint only

using ue4 in linux was a nightmare for me

never again

[drowsy snow]

Then you should be good to go with symlinking

[north condor]

nice!

[drowsy snow]

Develop all in windows, then cross compile for Linux and Vulkan

[north condor]

that sounds like a good time

does it take more or less time in comparison to just compiling in windows?

[drowsy snow]

It's a thing: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/Linux/GettingStarted

Cross-compiling makes it possible for game developers to target Linux from Windows.

[north condor]

goddamn I didn't know that was possible

so you're telling me I can be of use to the fellow linux gaming community

[drowsy snow]

Compared to dualbooting or switching to VM/WSL for compiling, cross-compiling from Windows is way faster

[north condor]

oh defininitly faster than dualbooting, but thats good to know

[stone stump]

hey guys i created a skybox bp, but it doesnt look properly when i render, any idea why?

[honest cosmos]

hey i have a mesh and want it to add armor to it but the armor does not have the same skelleton help please

[spare trench]

could not find bind pose error comming when importing blender to unreal

Please help

Even animation is not working

[open cipher]

Do I need provisions to run my app on iPhone ? Will jailbreaking solve this?

[stark talon]

I reimported this impostor as an LOD. But its rotation is off with the other LODs. How can i rotate it now?

[plush yew]

anyone know what happened to my engine? every level is similar to this now, with the icons sideways and stretched, and a lot of meshes missing, in this example the floor mesh is there, as seen by the highlight, but its invisible and I can pass through it. For the meshes that are there, there are some rlly weird camera effects.

[light thunder]

What file saves the opened actor window layout? I swear my INI file is writable/checked out, but I must have the wrong one.

Every time I clean exit my project and reopen, it loses my layout in the editor

[spice ruin]

When you've got it how you like it, go to window -> layout -> save

[opal coral]

Is there some way to add custom things to be saved in user settings? I have some plugins (DLSS, FSR2) where the user can enable and disable them (calling console commands). These particular settings seem to be recalled when playing in the editor, but not in a packaged game, but maybe if they were saved in the Game User Settings they would be restored properly

[spice ruin]

If you have a class with UPROPERTY(Config) they will be saved to config files.

Just check out how UGameUserSettings works...

Generally you manipulate the CDO of a settings class and do SaveConfig() on it.

[opal coral]

Ah thanks, will check this out

[tiny valley]

Is there a way to do eye tracking with ue4 on a video files to cover up the eyes somehow

[pallid olive]

how can a boolean give errors

but the playercharacter has that component

so its valid ?

the player is spawned right after the game begins,and the booleans are for different anims

as my character is a player reference which i used many time in the anim graph

oke haha thanks tho

[ruby bloom]

How hard would it be for UE4 to handle a dwarf planet similar in size to Ceres? (950 kilometer diameter) with Earthlike terrain?

Out of the box, specifically.

[spice ruin]

Pretty hard?

Depends on the resolution you want on your terrain.

[ruby bloom]

I'm willing to sacrifice graphical fidelity for functionality. Or going smaller on the planet size.

I'm more curious about the engine's ability to stream the terrain as a player circumnavigates and gravity around a spherical world.

[spice ruin]

UE4 uses floats for its world coordinates, so you're looking at 7 digits of accuracy. So 0.01m * 10^7. I.e. 10^5. 100km.

For cm-accurate word positions.

Can you imagine your player/gun/whatever not knowing where it is up to cm?

10km is probably closer to your useful size.

That gets more accurate the closer you are to the origin.

Does UE4 have world origin rebasing?

[ruby bloom]

Not sure. I'm just trying to see if I should switch my project over to UE4 before I spend too much time building it up in Unity.

Switching to UE4 comes with the time cost of learning C++, though. Blueprints just frustrate me for some reason...

[spice ruin]

Apparently it does!

Nvm, that was the multiplayer stuff.

[light thunder]

Is there a bug with additive animation sequences? I'm asking about a BUG, because I know the import settings are good and I haven't changed it or the skeleton because they are version controlled and haven't been writable

so I'm wondering if there is some obscure bug in 4.26

I think it is something to do with slots

wtf is this

You can see it shrinking down

[cloud oyster]

I have character assets from the marketplace for 4.25 and above but would like to use them in 4.23? is this impossible? i tried migrating, changing the version of the project with the assets, and exporting (but the files seem to be useless??). Any tips/help much appreciated, thank you

or wait, i am dumb i am trying to export them now. but any help still appreciated lol

[light thunder]

Is there a way to copy a BP component in real time - I have a 3d widget with some complicated logic and I don't want to setup a doublesided material, so If I just copy it at its current settings and flip it around, I'm good

It would be complicated to have to redo all the functionality that resulted in the 3d widget being in its current state

[cloud oyster]

its a character asset, Tiny Toon City Folk or osmething, so far ive been exporting everything to .t3d, fbx so far bout to start all the materials, hoping itll take this way 😐

i have a feeling the .t3d are the ones thatll turn out bunk

[plush yew]

what resources do you recommend to learn UE4 without tutorials ? Official docs or anything else ?

[minor pine]

gosh, ue can't even copy assets reliably. Random copied dependencies fall away if you do 'advanced copy' with deps...

[minor pine]

Trying to do it yourself and then googling if you have no idea always have been the best resource. You need to know what specifically will you learn, since UE4 has a lot of tools for different tasks at your service

[plush yew]

I just want to avoid the tutorials that teach bad practices and force you to copy paste code so I guess I should just use the official docs and google then

yeah but then the official docs and just practicing and trying things should then be enough I suppose

[last current]

Good day to all) Please tell me how to get rid of these artifacts when baking light.

[ripe carbon]

This is hard to explain, but there's something weird with some of my dialogue widgets. My program seems to take the dialogue from one widget and display it in a different text. When I open a widget and click on the Text box under the border on the list, the dialogue changes to its proper text.

Like this...

Not this.

The dialogue for the colored square puzzle is supposed to start with this...

So, why does the dialogue keep changing when it's not supposed to, among similar widgets?

[thin tendon]

Because they are all named the same thing probably

[ripe carbon]

Actually, their names are slightly different. One is Level5Puzzle2Start (the first one) and the second is Level5Puzzle3Start.

[thin tendon]

no I meant each text widget is called [text]. Notice how your top one is different

[thin tendon]

Like if you notice here. I have named each text widget differently

[ripe carbon]

Ah, so it does matter what you name text boxes, then.

[thin tendon]

100% because if you reference [text] its referencing them all. Its the same for everything mate. Even in code. Try to not name stuff the same ever.

[ripe carbon]

Would that go for, say, borders, too? Like the border under which you find a text box?

the DialogueBorders, in this case.

[thin tendon]

It only really matters if you are wanting to do stuff with them. But what I do is see my spacers. I went _1 _2 just to be safe

[ripe carbon]

Okay. I'll give that a shot. Thanks for the help!

[short cipher]

I want to create an enemy that performs an emergency avoidance using a motion that uses "enable root motion", but I'm having trouble with the motion that changes the height difference.
It is very strange because the height difference is not reflected and it only moves horizontally. help

[drowsy snow]

Perhaps fake the vertical jump in the animation?

I think it's because character movement component's is still doing the gravity physics, overriding vertical root motion

[short cipher]

I removed the gravity physics, but the result was the same. . .

[short cipher]

I fixed it by changing the method. Thanks to you.

[half shadow]

is there a tutorial on how to make widgets be placed on top of objects in world space? much like valorant ping. I dislike the thing where the screen type widgets enlarge when you're too far from the camera

[thin tendon]

Pretty sure you can just get the real world coordinates and translate them to screen space coordinates. Then adjust size based of player distance to the desired coordinate. Hide the widget when it tries to move outside of the screen space.

[arctic plover]

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000008

What does this mean? I get a "Fatal Error" when I run my packaged game. It all works fine from the editor.

[coarse jetty]

are there any android devs around here? how do you test the apps, do you launch every time or did you found a more efiicient way?

[shadow sonnet]

If anyone has experience with the "Building Unreal as a library" project https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/BuildAsALibrary/ I need some help figuring out stuff about the last part in the docs. I don't really understand most of the part about "Expanding the API".

[hardy nacelle]

Hi I want to draw Text to Canvas, I have found function UCanvas::DrawText , but i haven't found any way to rotate this text

[violet yoke]

Hey guys, does anyone know where to get placeholder assets from? I need some FPS animations with a gun to test the functionality

[grim ore]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/animation-starter-pack , has animations. "gun" is a broad concept.

you can also get animations from existing UE Samples and Learning Content and use it for your placeholders

[violet yoke]

Thanks!

[raven nest]

how would you guys crossfade a bunch of textures

[light thunder]

How do I ragdoll but then freeze a character? so it's anim BP doesn't override it's pose when it ragdolls down, but also so the arms don't flop around with all the stuff that's around

this doesn't look like it is working ( the fingers still flop around )

[ripe carbon]

I've renamed all the borders and text boxes, and the game still changes messages when it's not supposed to.

For those who missed my question last night:

This is hard to explain, but there's something weird with some of my dialogue widgets. My program seems to take the dialogue from one widget and display it in a different text. When I open a widget and click on the Text box under the border on the list, the dialogue changes to its proper text.

Like this...
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/225448446956404738/1026347193138950184/unknown.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/225448446956404738/1026347193445142588/unknown.png
Not this.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/225448446956404738/1026347386068537344/unknown.png
The dialogue for the colored square puzzle is supposed to start with this...
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/225448446956404738/1026347555002519622/unknown.png
So, why does the dialogue keep changing when it's not supposed to, among similar widgets?

As an update: After receiving advice from @thin tendon about changing border and text box names, I did that and the program still uses dialogue from a different widget from what it's supposed to show.

[ripe carbon]

This is dialogue from the first of three widget-based dialogue scenes preceding a clickable puzzle.

This is the same dialogue from the first widget in the second one, when there is supposed to be different dialogue.

...When the dialogue is supposed to start with this. (The dialogue changes to what it's supposed to say when I click on the list on the left side of the screen, hence the highlighted text box and green border around the text box.)

[warped hornet]

Anyone know how to assign the jump function (set to spacebar) to jump repeatedly when held down?

[thin tendon]

It is probably to do with your get and set in your code. But based off your pictures. You don't even need a widget for each puzzle. It would work better to have one widget. Then change both text and image as needed. Would probably bug less and be easier to fix because then any problems would be in your code.

[thin tendon]

You could try from your input event on press set jump variable to true and on release set to false. Then use a custom event or function that repeats (possibly on a timer) to tell the rest of your code it needs to jump or not jump.

[ripe carbon]

Each widget is triggered when the player walks into a different trigger box and when he types Z to start a puzzle. So, how would I be able to get the widget to start at a particular point instead of the start every time?

[thin tendon]

How I would approach this. Set up an "event actor". Something that is interact-able instead of trigger box. When interact add Widget and set image and text. Then when I press the arrow on the widget get the next line of text from an array stored on the event actor (until there are no more lines of text to get). Then check player answers against the event actor's stored answer.

[ripe carbon]

The puzzle widgets that the player clicks on are actually separate widgets, since I have yet to find a way to disable clickable buttons until the dialogue is cleared. Even when I try to use a Set Enabled node on clickable objects, it still doesn't work.

Do you know of any tutorials about storing data in relation to a single widget, as well as how to call a certain array number at different points in a level?

[thin tendon]

I'm not sure about tutorials. But just create an enum for your event. Then store an array of that enum. This way index 0 would be event 0 and index 1 would be event 1. Then you can tell your code to retrieve the information for event x.

[ripe carbon]

And this can be done in BP?

[thin tendon]

I think you can just disable buttons by setting them to hidden.

[ripe carbon]

True. I can set them to Collapsed.

Because I believe Hidden buttons can be clicked on.

[thin tendon]

might need to adjust that setting that exposes them for use and makes them bold in the column

[ripe carbon]

I'm not sure what makes them bold or normal-faced in the left-side columns, honestly.

I've only been using UE for less than two years, so there's still much I don't fully know/understand yet.

By Event Actor, did you mean a Custom Event?

[thin tendon]

No I meant creating a blueprint actor to place in your world that handles the information for the event and passes it to your widget

[ripe carbon]

Oh. I never realized that was the case. I wonder if there's some way I can manipulate this, since I've named text boxes in each widget individually.

So, in that case, I would create a blueprint actor. So just an empty one, to start with?

[thin tendon]

This is kind of all design stuff right. You have a few ways to approach this and make it work. But I feel like you are either going to need your widget to handle the event information. Or you will need an actor or several actors in the world to handle it for the widget.

[ripe carbon]

That is one part I haven't dabbled into and I learn best by example. So do you know of any tutorials for using actors to handle event info?

[thin tendon]

I'm not big on tutorials myself. But I know two guys that do good tutorials.

https://www.youtube.com/c/RyanLaley

https://www.youtube.com/c/MathewWadsteinTutorials

[ripe carbon]

Okay. I'll have a look at each.

Thanks for the help, so far.

[crystal verge]

How would I go about using a keyboard input in editor to fire blueprint code?

[ripe carbon]

You'll need to set up your Input on the Project Settings window. Go to Edit > Project Settings... > Engine > Input, and you can set your keyboard and mouse controls as needed there.

[fallow hornet]

I'm getting fireflies on renders from movie render queue, rendering them with tiles and have tried cranking the sampling settings on my lights and post process volume? any tips?

[ripe carbon]

@thin tendon I've had a look at the info on enumerator tables and how to connect them to widgets with a variable based on a table. Now, the text works and doesn't randomly change to another widget! Right now, all the dialogue is on one widget, separate from the actual puzzles. I do some more tinkering in the morning. In the meantime, thanks for the help earlier!

I've used a function that invokes data from the enumerator and uses an integer-based counter to determine what the text block should say, based on the value of the enumerator variable.

[half shadow]

is there a way to increase the image in rich text image decorators? I don't see much change after increasing the image size within the decorator setting

[analog loom]

A few weeks ago I got linked a very good custom character controller on market place... i cant remember the name of it, it was a complete re-work of unreals built in CC

Anyone know what im talking about and remember the name / have a link?

[crystal verge]

Sorry, I understand that part, but you have to hit play to fire the code, I'm trying to get my inputs working outside of PIE and get it working on like a custom event without pressing the call in editor button

[ripe carbon]

Oh. I thought you were talking about, like, the control to fire a weapon in-game.

[crystal verge]

nah that stuff is relatively easy, im simply trying to control it with a keyboard shortcut since i have to press two buttons at once and cant really look at the screen

[proper kindle]

Another month, another assets

[tropic magnet]

I want to transfer the AnimStarterPack assets into blender to edit them there, how do I do that? There are only .uasset files and I don't think I can use these as such

[raw oak]

Should be able to right click export. Maybe under some sub category like asset actions

[arctic hazel]

Hi,

Is there anyone here having experience with world composition? I've had an issue for a while that I can't seem to solve, whenever I load out a level in WC it freezes for a split second, and my character will spin around if I was moving the mouse when it was loading out.

I've tried with levels that only contained a single blueprint/a few meshes 🤔

[grizzled hornet]

is it possible to specify different world settings for different maps?

[rocky estuary]

Why is ue4 taking 32gb of storage and it isnt even fully downloaded?

[spice ruin]

Did you disable all the extras?

[rocky estuary]

Where can you do that?
(I prob didnt do it💀)

[spice ruin]

Oh. It's a bug with the launcher that if you disable all the extras, it just installs everything.

So if you didn't do it, don't worry. 😛

[rocky estuary]

What?💀

Is there any way to remove that or..?

[spice ruin]

Just pick 1 extra?

Like I say, if you didn't change the install settings, it's probably not doing it.

[rocky estuary]

Oh, but can you uninstall them after?

[spice ruin]

Probably?

If you're lacking space, unreal isn't for you. 😛

[light thunder]

why won't this load

why aren't breakpoints working ? the print string itself works, but the breakpoint doesn't trigger and this is one the base class, so I don't care about instances not firing, they should all fire

I relied on breakpoints in conjunction with print strings for years to debug and they just decided to not work.

Please tell me there is some setting that somehow got ticked accidentally somewhere

[tall sorrel]

is there any option to have a rendering viewport other than path tracing?
I don't have an rtx card, but I'm building a whole new 3090 system in a few months to do ue5 stuff.
I have a scene I'd really like to get somewhat of a good render of, so are there any other rendering options in unreal?

[solar nexus]

hello, I am new to unreal and I have started creating a scene, one of the meshes has a strange distorted texture. Here are the examples of how it looks in unreal and substance painter. Is it a problem with UVs? Thank you for your help

[fallow hornet]

Anyone ever run into fireflies in png renders from movie render queue? If so were you able to fix them and how?

I'm currently working on changing texture compression settings right now to help to mitigate. Mainly on my Diffuse and Roughness maps, they all have been converted to BC7

I am also working on padding all textures to a power of two and capping the maximum size to 1024

[warped hornet]

Y can i only use one event tick? I try to use one in another event or function graph and it just tp's me to the one im using in input

Do i have to branch off for other functions? Pls help

[drowsy snow]

What do you need to achieve?

[warped hornet]

Possibly lots of things that could require an event tick

[thin tendon]

So it looks like there is a UV seam where that line in your wall is.

[thin tendon]

Just use timed functions and events. They are actually more performance friendly then ticks.

[void pebble]

is anybody able to help me out? for some reason unreal engine isnt letting me drag and drop my stuff into the scene that i imported

it just shows the little red circle with the line thru it

[green dove]

Why does my unreal engine project change its speed depending on the fps?

60-90 fps = slow motion / 120-160 fps = normal speed

[orchid marten]

I cannot build lighting anymore for no obvious reason. I checked the swarm log and saw this. Can anyone help? Happens in UE4 and 5

[fervent owl]

hey guys

is there w way to make a material that uses 2 textures, but using different UV spaces

[spice ruin]

Yes.

You can use multiple UV inputs.

[final notch]

Is it possible to export an unreal scene/capture it as pointcloud data?

[thin tendon]

The problem you are going to have putting in a different set of UVs is things like stretching. Also you can clearly see blank space in that texture which will show if you adjust the UVs to be wider. You want to use a seamless texture when doing stuff like using different UVs.

[fervent owl]

@spice ruin can ya point me to any examples of how these material would look like

[spice ruin]

There's a UV coordinates node which has an input 0-whatever.

[half shadow]

is there a similar feature in Unity where the camera can cull only specific layers or specific objects into the camera so only some objects are visible? I have some objects blocking the camera's line of sight on certain occasions 😅

[coarse jetty]

hi i want to make a tortoise character for my game. And i want to achieve nice feeling movement, the question is, i can achieve this through engine physics and constraints? or i should make c++ and maths?

[drowsy snow]

It can be as simple as making Character class BP, set the collision to be small and the max walk speed to be very slow.

Of course not including animation and stuff

[shut pebble]

I'm having alot of screen tear in the editor, I can't really find a vsync setting, any tips?

[real heath]

In console type r.vsynceditor 1

And r.vsync 1

See how you go

[shut pebble]

i'll try merci beaucoup

its still pretty bad, but only when playing in editor

[safe steeple]

hi，is there any solution for this suck shadow?

[glacial yarrow]

Where should I ask about Cascade questions?

[drowsy snow]

#visual-fx

[thick herald]

I'm thinking if they put a light behind the monitor a lot of the suck shadow would vanish. Unless the suck shadow is their shadow on the monitor? Not sure at this point tbh.

[glacial yarrow]

thanks

[spare trench]

Enabling virtual textures support will increase or decrease my fps?

Means Im making a game for mobile

If I enable virtual texture from project setting

Then will it increases or decreases my fps?

@shy nacelle

My game is lagging too much

How can I optamize it

I saw some yt video but they didn't work

Ok

What is profiling?

Im a begginer idk

@shy nacelle

[soft imp]

is there a way to search the engine for instances a key is being used?

[stark talon]

Does the size of a texture hinder performance in my soldiers? Im trying to make them all use the same material. So i merged the materials into one uv map, if that makes sense. But its quite a large texture. Should i instead use more small materials, for each body part? Or a large texture for the whole body that includes everything is better?

[open cipher]

Is purchasing a multiple cpu motherboard wise for UE4? Does ue4 use dual cpus or even quad cpus?

[open cipher]

So dual xeon platinum 8280 is not better then an i7? Also are you saying dual gpus are better then dual cpus? And also single cpu is better then dual cpu?

[plush yew]

anyone know how I can trigger an event when the game starts? not an actors BeginPlay or anything, but like when you hit play on the game

[tiny valley]

More cpus is more cores so it should work based off of that.

[oak patio]

it does, and that wasnt disputed. just that it entirely isnt worth it unless you are either a multi millionaire, or care too much about spending life changing sums of money, for optimal amounts of performance.
sure dual cpus will be better. but the original question asked if it was wise. which considering the price, it certainly isn't.

[tiny valley]

What about quad 6380 cpus, they are 4x 16threaded amd cpus that cost about 10$

are do they compare to a single amd ryzen

[real heath]

Xeons, threadrippers etc with exceptionally high core counts tend to have lower single thread performance. More cores benefits light bakes and code compiles, while better single thread performance helps fps more (generally speaking). The higher end ryzen desktop cpus (5900, 5950, 7900, 7950) have some of the highest single thread performance while still having a decently large amount of cores and provide pretty good bang for buck for a dev machine. You should ofcourse lookup benchmarks to validate all this. The "best" CPU is really the CPU that suits your work load. If you don't light bake or compile code, more cores won't benefit you. If that's all you do, get as many cores as possible.

Anyway, #hardware is better for more detailed discussions like this

[tiny valley]

Does it speed shader compiling?

[real heath]

Also that is also helped by more cores, yes

True

There's other things you can do to help speed that up too though, such as setting up a shared data cache, so you don't need to recompile between projects and computers

That doesn't so much speed up, more reduces the amount of times the compiles need to happen

[dreamy grail]

If you want a play button just create that as an UI thaht use this button with "on click" and use the bluetprint to load the level in that you are having your game. The button replaces the beginplay event.

[plush yew]

no, i mean is there an event or actor that triggers when the game is launched, when i said play button i meant when you launch the preview in the editor

[glacial arch]

So I've heard through a grapevine that apparently there's a way to get SM5 running on Android with Vulkan

Am I misunderstanding what I've heard?

[lethal linden]

Getting a crash with a packaged 4.27.2 project, the crash doesn't occur in PIE, and it only crashes maybe 1/4th of the time, something to do with the landscape

[2022.10.06-00.12.20:211][ 1]LogWindows: Error: Error reentered: Assertion failed: !bCurrentRequiresAdjacencyInformation || (bCurrentRequiresAdjacencyInformation && SharedBuffers->AdjacencyIndexBuffers) [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Landscape/Private/LandscapeRender.cpp] [Line: 2164]

from the crash log

check(!bCurrentRequiresAdjacencyInformation || (bCurrentRequiresAdjacencyInformation && SharedBuffers->AdjacencyIndexBuffers));

and heres line 2164 from landscaperender.cpp in unreal 4.27.2 source

can anyone help me figure out whats going on, thanks

[orchid marten]

Does anyone know how to fix these rainbow lines with GPU Lightmass?

[gritty mauve]

Hey guys, I'm trying to import this model into Unreal Editor. It's a grayscale patch, however when I import it it becomes red

It seems that the texture file that's uploaded to Unreal Editor is trasnparent for some reason

[drowsy snow]

There is indeed an option to use desktop vulkan in mobile, though performance will be abysmal even in the strongest so called gaming phone

[glacial arch]

ah, thank you

Yeah no shot then

Small team, was hoping to find a way to kinda bring the versions on mobile and PC closer together

without the constant need to basically baby both versions independently graphics-wise

[fickle island]

Hi
Is there a way to Align or match the camara to the view?

[drowsy snow]

Ideally you want to develop for the lowest common denominator first, then scale up from there

If you had mobile in mind, make sure your stuff work on mobile first, instead of the other way around

Unlike Nintendo Switch or Steam Deck/handheld PCs, mobile is much more limited in power and cheap rendering features

[glacial arch]

yeah thats the focus for now

[ripe carbon]

I'm having a very weird issue with part of my program, right now. There is a maze with arrow buttons that the player clicks on to navigate through the rooms. When obstructions and/or a pit and/or a switch to open a door are found, their respective icons pop up on the map when a "map" button is clicked on.

The three Xs that represent the obstructions, the skull icon for the pit and the circle for the switch room are separate from the map image; all of these images are set to Collapsed. When a certain room is visited or when the player attempts to go from one room to another only to bump into an obstruction, one of these icons becomes Visible because of a Boolean that determines whether or not each icon should start appearing whenever the player turns the map on. But then, whenever the pit or switch is found and either icon appears, only it appears on the map and not the others. Here are the pictures to better explain the scenario...

First image: This is how the widget looks with all images and buttons.

Second image: Full view of the branches controlled by the Map Button and the "Map Toggle" Boolean.

Third image: Start of the Map button command.

Fourth image: Part of the long tree of Branches that control whenever a certain image should appear with the map whenever the button is clicked on; there is an identical set that causes the images to be Collapsed when the map button is clicked on again.

First image: Map when you first start the maze.
Second image: Map when you bump into the first obstacle and a red X appears acccordingly.
Third image: Map with all three Xs intact, indicating three obstructions were found.
Fourth image: I go into this pit that causes me to start the maze over without removing anything from parent or reopening the movement widget and...where did those Xs go?

(Oh, and going into the pit tthat the skull represents does invoke a separate dialogue widget.)

[ripe carbon]

I'll send a copy of the project in a .zip or related assets if anyone can help and is not clear on what I'm talking about.

[bold fog]

I'm looking to create a movement system for a 3rd person character with a relatively simple goal, but I'm running into a problem. I want to be able to sprint forward, but not to the sides. However, the method I used ends up creating an issue where the character walks diagonally faster than it does in a cardinal direction.

Basically, the way I set it up was to set the character's max speed to its sprinting speed. All input axis values are clamped at 0.5 (except backward movement, which is less), unless the player is holding sprint (in which case, positive ForwardAxis values are permitted to reach 1.0). However, the issue of course is that now, 50% of max speed in two different cardinal directions produces a larger speed in the diagonal direction, because it is no longer clamped by max run speed.

I'm looking for an efficient way to accomplish the goal, without favoring diagonal movement. I am aware that if not for the desire to make backpedaling slower, we could just cut the max speed in half when not sprinting. However, if we did that, we'd still encounter the diagonal bonus speed issue when moving diagonally backward to the right or left. Any ideas?

[rain badger]

I am working on a twin stick shooter right now and my spaceship character has a turret on top of it. I cannot figure out how to get it so that it does not rotate when the ship turns. I have it able to rotate with inputs separately from the ship itself, but I don't want it to rotate when the ship turns. Does anyone know how to do this?

[thin tendon]

The problem is likely how you are determining when to clamp and what value to use. You want set values for each player state (strafe, walk, Run, Idle). When getting your values for player state and you are saying if I am strafing. You need another bit of code to say if I am moving sideways and forwards at the same time. To set the speed player state for your diagonals separately.

[thin tendon]

If it is a child of the ship it will probably rotate with it unless told not to. If your ship rotates you will need a fixed point ( like the crosshair or the top center of the screen). You will need a function or event that updates as often as needed (timer or when receiving input) to tell the turret to stay looking where you want it.

[rain badger]

Okay gotcha, thanks for that. It gave me some ideas.

[drowsy veldt]

so, i'm planning on blueprinting a system for a vr game. what it does is it gets the output of a list of characters and when selected it "turns the character into it". it'll have separate bp's and not be a simple model change. then after a set amount of time (i know how to do that part) you "turn back" into your original bp. any tips on how i'd do that?

[worthy plaza]

hello, someone could know why the lights (rect light, point light and spotlight) doesn't have the attenuation radius and the cone angle visible?this is spotlight and as u can see there is no cone range visible

[drowsy snow]

I recall there's a setting somewhere in the viewport menu's Show dropdown to show the light attenuation wireframe

[olive depot]

Hello! I'm trying to use the AudioCapture component. I can get it to work in blank projects, but in a project where there's already content, the "OnAudioEnvelopeValue" event always returns 0.0.

I have "Auto Activate" enabled. I have the "Audio Capture" plugin enabled. Are there some other common troubleshooting issues I'm missing? Since it's working in a project and not the other, on the same machine with the same editor, I'm assuming it's not an input device configuration issue either.

[honest cosmos]

Help i have been trying to figure this out: Mesh contains root bone as root but animation doesn't contain the root track.
Import failed.

[topaz monolith]

Does anyone know why I am getting these blotches when using a hdri in the skylight? I am using baked light ue4

[modest obsidian]

I wanted to profile performance. Is there a way to easily instance a skeleton multiple times, and move them by an offset?
I'm assuming theres a better way than copy and pasting a whole bunch of times

[dusky gate]

hi I'm trying to open a blank unreal engine project but my unreal is just black anyone know a fix for this.

[spare trench]

Double click on map@dusky gate or you have nothing in your viewport

[spare trench]

Bro what is profile performance please tell me

Im a begginer

[dusky gate]

i did that and its still black it loaded and did nothing

[spare trench]

Idk

[dusky gate]

does anyone else have a solution

[thick herald]

Have you put anything into the level?

[dusky gate]

i opened a blank project but when i did it before there was a skybox and light source and a grid i could place things on but now theres not but i can see that they are there .

[thick herald]

Try adding in a mesh or landscape.

[dusky gate]

ok

[dusky gate]

nothing

[wide kestrel]

Can someone remind me how i make the curve connection lines straight? I did this before and i built a new pc and now i can not remember how to change the curves to be straight.

[fierce tulip]

some button at the top left.

[wide kestrel]

I found it. I changed the forward spline tangent for horizontal and vertical to 0

In case anyone was curious

[ripe carbon]

I think the icons seem to be trying to overlap each other, or the skull icon overlaps any "no entry" signs. I still can't figure out what the problem is, even after creating functions to make sure all invoked icons appear and finding that the skull and "no entry" icons have the exact same parameters besides location. I am really in a bind and I'm getting frustrated with this.

[blazing swan]

Does someone know how to increase quality of this shadow?

I switched to all dynamic as the build times took hours

[thorn hazel]

increase the angle, soft angle of the the light casting that shadow.. it will soften the edges of the shadow

[blazing swan]

I will try that, thanks

[bold fog]

That’s smart — thanks!

[dire barn]

Can anyone help me to set up multi user editing did it years ago but since then doesnt work ive been through documentation and youtube videos but they dont work

[ripe carbon]

What is the best way to make a widget reappear without having to use Create Widget to call that widget? Like, I want to call one widget to reappear after a dialogue scene is over; and that dialogue scene is a separate widget? I realized, in my problem, that only one icon appears because I had the dialogue widget use a Create Widget node, which I believe resets the parameters of that created widget as it is Added to Viewport.

So how, in one widget, do I make a separate widget reappear without having to use Create Widget?

[raw oak]

Slightly confused by the question. Use create widget, set to variable. Add to viewport. Before creating widget check if that variable is valid. If not create the widget, if so add to viewport using variable. This will only create the widget once and not reset it when adding again. Use remove from parent to remove the widget. Again not sure if that's exactly what you meant

[rough knoll]

you could store a reference to it and set your canvas panel to hidden

[ripe carbon]

Here is the Create Widget, which occurs after the dialogue tree ends:

This is set when this room with a switch is found; an icon showing the switch's location should appear on the map after it's been found.

And this is when this pit is found and the player is forced to restart the maze. Each occurs after a different dialogue tree in the same dialogue widget (which extracts data from an enumerator file), but the widget for navigating through the maze does not reappear.

[rough knoll]

also i'm pretty sure garrett's solution will work as well

[ripe carbon]

@rough knoll @raw oak That's why I'm showing these screenshots -- to see if this is right or not.

[raw oak]

You don't need to caat to it. It should already be saves as that widget

[ripe carbon]

So I just right-click and pick Set Puzzle5Movement the variable?

[raw oak]

When you create your widget right click promote to variable

Then before the create widget check if the variable is valis

If it isn't send that to the create widget

If it is send it to the add to viewport

[ripe carbon]

I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by checking if it's valid.

[raw oak]

Get your variable right click convert to validated get

[blazing swan]

I fiddled with the settings for a bit and found out that enabling "Distance Field Shadows" made it look much much more prettier

[ripe carbon]

Okay, so now I would connect the "Is Valid" node to "Add to Viewport?"

[raw oak]

Yes and then the item you're adding to the viewport is the reference variable to the widget

Is not valid goes to create widget

Then create widget goes to add to viewport

[ripe carbon]

I think I kinda see. So, once you create a widget and if you promote it to a variable, any further references will need to be validated before the widget is made visible again?

[raw oak]

Yes so this makes it so you create the widget once and can call remove from parent to remove it and add ti viewport to add it back without re creating it. You could put it into an event called create widget and then everytime you need to re add the widget to your screen call that

[ripe carbon]

@raw oak So, something like this?

[thorn hazel]

yeah, and also playing with exposure settings or other stuff in postprocessvolume.. can help tweak the look to your liking

but looks better indeed

my recommendation is for that street light holder.. turn off shadows that it casts.. this huge of a shadow doesn't look good in the first place on the ground

[raw oak]

Yes put create widget after is not valid and set the variable then connect that to add to viewport

[ripe carbon]

Yet the movement widget still doesn't show after I reach the pit and trigger the dialogue and the commands shown on the bottom image.

I feel like there's something else...

Like something I missed.

[blazing swan]

Ground and grass: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/stylized-forest-03?sessionInvalidated=true

Wood: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/resubmission-for-release-greenwood-fantasy-village

[blazing swan]

I will try to do that, I just started playing with lightning overall

If you find any castles or something medieval like that hit me up, I dont have anything that looks similar to this style

[ripe carbon]

I was talking about something I might have forgotten to do with my situation.

[blazing swan]

I would love it, please do! ❤️

[ripe carbon]

@raw oak I feel like there's something else I need to do, since the movement widget still doesn't appear.
@plush yew Sure, though my demo is almost done. I guess I'd like to have more asset files in case I decide to make something new.

If I used Create Widget after getting the variable and validating it, would that still reset the widget’s Booleans?

What about using the "Get All Widgets of Class" node?

That didn't work either.

I just can't figure this out...

[rigid hearth]

hi guys! I was wondering if there was a way to search in bulk through the engine to see if a key from a string table is being used in a blueprint or in a data table?

[ripe carbon]

On the BP screen, there should be a Find command. Click on that or click in the textbox if you have the Search tab on the bottom of the screen and type in "Print String." Then the results should be shown and you can double-click to find what you're looking for.

[rigid hearth]

ahh tysm I will try this out rn!

[rigid hearth]

oh I was wondering if this will only search within the one blueprint? My team's got a bunch of blueprints and I'm not sure which one it might be in

[ripe carbon]

Only one blueprint, I'm afraid.

[rigid hearth]

all good, I might just be able to narrow it down to a smaller set of BPs and then do the search

[robust whale]

Hello Devs! anyone has experience configuring the trackpad as a dpad on the htc cosmos controllers?

[wary gyro]

How would I go about scaling a vr player model to match the height of the player?

[pure hollow]

you don't want to clamp the axes, instead you want to clamp the length of the input vector
I don't remember the C++ syntax, but basically instead of
FVector Input(FMath::Clamp(X, 0, .5), FMath::Clamp(Y, 0, .5))
I think you want
FVector Input = RawInput.Length() > .5 ? RawInput.Normalize() * .5 : RawInput
(correct me if I misunderstand what you're trying to do)

it looks like there is a node for this even:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Math/Vector/ClampVectorSize/

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/API/Runtime/Core/Math/FVector/GetClampedToMaxSize/

[warped hornet]

Anyone know how to make a 2d tileset with animated tiles using a flipbook?

[ripe carbon]

It is possible to animate using a widget and 2D graphics.

[ripe carbon]

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Can anyone provide an example, please?

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/calling-a-widget-within-a-widget-ue-4-27/664017

[thin tendon]

Is this the problem you are trying to solve right now mate?

[ripe carbon]

Yep. Earlier, I had a problem with this map on the maze. Certain icons would not appear when they were supposed to and only one would; I figured out why. It was because at the end of a set of dialogue strings in the dialogue widget there was a Create Widget node that made the puzzle movement widget appear but also reset the Boolean parameters. Now, I'm trying to call the puzzle movement widget from the dialogue one without having to create that widget.

Considering that the widget was made earlier in the dialogue one.

[thin tendon]

Ok so I don't know much about how you set your puzzle up. But from what I understand. You have 2 options with widgets you can create and destroy them as needed. Doing this means you need is valid nodes in any of your code. Or what I like to do is keep them created at all times and adjust visibility / enabled. Using a branch of is enabled and visible on my code. For movement I am unsure. I wasn't even aware there was a built in movement component. But what you can do is manually create your own movement code. Where you basically just set the new position of the widget as needed (creating the illusion of fluid movement)

[ripe carbon]

I tried using different ways to set visibility and add to viewport, but no effect on that widget. I'm not sure what you mean by the movement code, though. But let me make some screenshots in a second.

This is the movement widget. Only the four arrow buttons and the map button are visible; everything else starts collapsed. Then, when certain rooms are visited or obstructions are bumped into, icons representing each are supposed to appear. For each certain room or obstruction found, a Boolean used to make the respective icon visible is checked. (continued)

This is part of the dialogue widget that I made with your help recently; it's the one that extracts default values from the enumerator I made. In this case, it creates the widget and makes the movement widget appear after the first dialogue when the maze starts is finished.

When the player falls into a pit and starts over, another set of dialogue is triggered. Then the skull icon is supposed to appear, the next time the map button is clicked. The problem is that, if I use another Create Widget, the Booleans for icons such as the skull one are set back to their default value of False. So no icons will appear anyway.

I've tried different ways of casting to and calling to the widget and using Add to Viewport and even setting the buttons' visibility back since they were collapsed after the right button was clicked on. But nothing works. So I'm at another impase.

*impasse

The switch icon (the red circle) has a similar setting when it is found in another room. The "no entry" signs, however, are triggered within the movement widget.

[thin tendon]

ok so that was a bit of information overload but I will break it down and answer what I can.

[ripe carbon]

Okay. If necessary, I can send you the related asset files to examine.

[tall sorrel]

I don’t really see a megascans channel, but are you allowed to take quixel textures, use them in blender to put on a model, then use that model in ue4?

I don’t really know the exact specifics on that

[thin tendon]

So your problem here. Is that each object or trigger you bump into. You need to save the state for visibility on the trigger. Then when the create function is called on your widget you need to get that information to refresh the widget. But it isn't going to work with either your widget or objects being invalid. A better design here is not constantly destroying widgets. So you don't run into validation issues.

[real heath]

Yes, as long as your "end uses" are unreal based

[ripe carbon]

I've never used Blender or exported models, but surely the texture would be intact. If not just the shape.

[tall sorrel]

I thought so, but wasn’t sure.

[ripe carbon]

How do I check if a variable is valid or not?

[real heath]

so you can render a video, make a game, whatever with unreal. You CAN'T render your video in blender. Whatever the process you want to use to modify between getting from quixel to final unreal asset is fine

[tall sorrel]

And yea they would still be intact, any other editing done to the material would be done in like other files to go on the model, without changing the original texture.

[thin tendon]

Get object trigger. Get variable. Then check if it has a value. If the object is valid the variable of a bool will be to.

What I like to do is use bindings. Because they update pretty good. And put your variable object get code in one of those

[ripe carbon]

By an object trigger, do you mean a variable you get when you promote a widget?

[thin tendon]

nah I mean the objects you are using in the world to say now I want to add an icon to the main widget

[ripe carbon]

Which would be the skull icon, the switch icon and the three "no" signs? Sorry if I'm not making this easy; I'm kinda burnt tonight, after trying to figure this out all day.

Since those are the ones controlled by a Boolean.

Well, a Boolean for each.

[thin tendon]

Yeah so you would create a visibility binding that says. If skull trigger (variable) is valid get visibility variable from skull trigger. Then set visibility to the value you get. If it is not valid set to hidden. Then on widget creation you want to get the world object for your skull trigger and set the variable in your widget for the skull trigger to the world object.

Then do this for each icon widget

[ripe carbon]

And how do I check the validity of a Boolean variable? I don't see it under Details.

[thin tendon]

You don't need to because you are checking if the object it comes from is valid

[ripe carbon]

You mean like when the Boolean is checked or unchecked?

[thin tendon]

No that is just getting its value. Valid is like does it exist. Which we check on the world object.

[ripe carbon]

I'm still not totally clear on what to do, as I do better with examples. But let me get a screenshot of the part of the movement widget that makes the buttons collapsed...

When the right button is clicked on in Room #11, the robot moves to the right and into Room #12, which has the pit. The buttons become collapsed before the animation occurs and before the create widget that invokes the dialogue widget.

On the end of this branch, the Boolean for the skull icon is set to True.

And this is currently what's on the end of the branch in the dialogue widget, when the enumerator variable is set to the shown condition. Right now, it has a "Create widget," but this needs to be replaced with something that doesn't reset the Booleans, such as the skull one.

But makes the arrow and map buttons reappear after the dialogue ends.

So, in this case, how do I save the state of the buttons if I haven't already?

[thin tendon]

If you are going to destroy the widget you are using , then you need to pass that information to an outside object and retrieve it back when you recreate the widget

[ripe carbon]

So I would need to create a newer widget or data table that stores this info?

[thin tendon]

It really doesn't matter what the object is as long as it remains valid until you need it again.

What I do for my project. Because it is a lot more complex. I created an empty object (blueprint actor) and called it Variable Storage. This literally has one purpose it stores all the variable information that any of the objects in the current umap file will need.

[ripe carbon]

Oh. So I would pass or copy the state to this blueprint actor, then reinvoke that actor in the dialogue widget?

[thin tendon]

yeah exactly

[ripe carbon]

Hm. And there are tutorials on how to do that, right? My mind's too burnt for me to try now, so I can give it a shot in the morning.

[thin tendon]

I'm not sure but you just want to look up how to pass information between objects

[ripe carbon]

Yep.

I mean, okay. I'll do that.

[rough knoll]

anyone got any ideas with this packaging error?

ignore the wonky path, my ue 4.27 is totally not installed in a folder named ue5

[real heath]

It's not the error i'd expect, but make sure you have #pragma once in all your headers

[rough knoll]

they're in there

i think i found the source of my errors