ue4-general

[drowsy snow]

Last time this happens it was a Five Nights at Freddy's game. Now it's Gotham Knights.

[plush yew]

u mean arguments or bad game release?

anyways, cant you all see game dev is going down the drain.

i miss old days of gaming.

[drowsy snow]

Unreal Engine can make anything you can imagine, if you want to put in the effort. Competent and dedicated developer will be able to make good games with it, and vice versa.
Not to defend Gotham Knights or anything, I heard defending it is now associated with psychopathic mental disorders. But that's not my point.

[oak patio]

the engine is just a tool. it does not define the quality of the game, the developer does.
even more on that, it's an open source tool. if there is a limitation for your specific use case, you can extend around it and modify it.

gotham knights being a bad game is nothing to do with ue. its to do with it being a bad game (so i've heard)

[drowsy snow]

Well, "pseudo open source", it's source available and not adhering to true open source nature, but it's available for public licensees

[oak patio]

yeah

but it might as well be seeign as any can become a licensee for free

[final oak]

Hi guys, does anyone know how to disable temporal anti aliasing, for some reason it is still enabled in game although I disabled Post Processing and Anti-aliasing in the Project settings. Disabling it ingame through the console
works fine 🤔

[drowsy snow]

r.AntiAliasingMethod set to 0 should disable it completely

[final oak]

for some reason that does nothing 😕

[final oak]

ok nvm I am stupid, my issue wasn't caused by taa it was primary spatial upscale 🤦‍♂️

thank you anyways 😌

[drowsy snow]

FSR?

[tight crystal]

hello does anybody know how to replicate in blueprints if so could you please help me replicate my inventory system tomorrow. i followed a video to make it but they dont say how i could equip and use a weapon it was only moving droping and picking up so if you could help try make a use function to that would be much appreciated i know im asking for a lot sorry (picking up and moving is already replicated)🙏 👍

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NpcisVVhr0&t=25s

[plain owl]

when you looked at the clock an hour ago and it was 1 am

and you look now and its 1:05am

damn sneaky daylight saving

[final oak]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/ScreenPercentage/ I just found out that Unreal has its own version of that, usually I never noticed much issues, but for some reason today my engine scalability was set to low causing the game to render at a lower screen resolution and thus supersampling it up making everything look terrible (I am working on a pixelart game) 😅

my first thought was antialiasing but now everything makes sense

[opal ocean]

What would be the best way to handle a huge/expanding list of items? My game will have a lot of crafting and items. I'm currently using a datatable that holds the basic info for each item(name, type, icon, etc) But as I expand the list its going to become a pain to manage... is there a better way? Asking here cause my google-fu seems to be lacking. Also using ue5, but not sure if there's features there that would help

Watching a vid about AssetManager, data assets... Would data assets be feasible for having 100s of items?

[static viper]

@opal ocean SQL

[white hinge]

greetings , anyone know how to cancel Key input Z when glide or disable the play montage ?

[opal ocean]

I think SQL would be way overkill, unless I think I'm going to end up with 1000s... but I've been playing with data assets, and its looking good so far for what I need/want. Need to learn a bit more about them, but going good

[static viper]

yes

but 100 items or 1000 isnt overkill for datatables...

[opal ocean]

no, its mostly organisation/readability for me. my main item table would have every material, weapon, tool, player equipment, potion, buildable object... in one table, which even after a couple dozen becomes troublesome

[static viper]

you can make multiple...

i coded my system to be able to use multiple data tables

for item types

i didnt mean it like that 😄

its just

its ok to have multiple

[opal ocean]

but how do you handle knowing which data table to pull the data from?

[static viper]

i store it in the item

row table handle variable.

easy

ez

[opal ocean]

hm

my inventory is a map, itemName/itemStruct. the name in a map is so I can quickly/easily search for the specific item, the struct just has quantity and I think itemtype

[gray zinc]

I have a problem with the engine and all I want to modify the curve is crashed

[drowsy snow]

Does it happen when you start the editor again?

[gray zinc]

no, It only happens when trying to modify curve

[fierce tulip]

we do not allow conversations related to game unpacking/modding on this server.
Try to find that games modding community.

[main moon]

Oh does that count as piracy? I didn’t see anything explicitly mentioning that in the rules so I assumed it was allowed

[fierce tulip]

its more that most studios/companies do not allow for modding their games, and as we are endorsed by epic, we do not want to step on anybodies toes

but yea, also the potential of ripping assets has to do with it

[main moon]

I see, I didn’t know this server was endorsed by Epic

Regardless I figured out the issue

[fierce tulip]

good :)

[dark venture]

Hi! I'm kind of a beginner in unreal engine and I have a question. When I click left mouse button I can play the attack animation but my character is still able to move during the attack and I don't want it to be able to move during the attack animation how can I do this? I don't want to use blueprints by the way I would be happy if you can show me an example or tell me how to do it with c++

[drowsy snow]

Assuming you're also avoiding anim BP and the anim graph for some reason (which in turn nullifying montages), change the CMC's movement mode to None for fixed duration or use anim notify class in your animation sequence

Btw CMC = CharMoveComp

[regal mulch]

Avoiding AnimBP :D uff

[plush yew]

Help! I have a game jam deadline later today, and suddenly my AI is not working!! I'm new to working with AI so I'm still not 100% on how to fix things when they go wrong... Can someone please help me to trouble shoot? I can get in a voice chat and share my screen....

[opal ocean]

@plush yew I'm unlikely able to help myself, but we need more info. Whats it not doing? are there errors? whats it supposed to be doing? Also, if its AI related, there is an #gameplay-ai channel

[plush yew]

Sorry, the AI character is supposed to be patroling. I have patrol points set, and the AI should walk to them, wait a couple of seconds, then move to the next. If it sees the player, then it should chase and attack. Right now the AI just stands there not patrolling, and if I get close enough to him, he will attack me.

I also did not see the AI channel...thank you.

[drowsy snow]

Inb4 no answer until the deadline just passed for a few minutes

Would be funny but cruel, or the other way around depending on how you look at it.

[opal ocean]

thats how it usually goes. helped him in the ai channel, turns out somebody moved the navmesh on him, so easy fix

[dry vessel]

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[gentle wyvern]

Hi, I am new too Unreal and got stuck working on a project. So essentially my problem I think has to do with an object reference not connecting to the widget object input, like I want to.

So I have a "VegetablesWidget" Blueprint, see image "VegetablesW.png, a "Vegetable" Blueprint, see "VegetableBP.PNG", and a ItemsHolder Blueprint. In the Vegetable Blueprint I cast to the ItemsHolder Blueprint to get its variable, and that seems to work fine in the Vegetable Blueprint. The problem however occurs when I take the "AsItemHolder" in the Cast to ItemsHolder reference (see image VegetableBP) and connect to the "Create VegetableWidget". Because then, in the VegetablesWidget Blueprint (see image VegetablesW.png) I create an Actor Object variable called "ItemsHolderTest" which should represent the object taken in to the Create VegetableWidget. But this does not work, I have put in a "?is valid" and it print out is not valid.

So my question is if this is fixable or if I have to search for another solution. Thanks in advance!

[silk flare]

how exactly should I use github with ue4?

I was using for a while, all good

then I build the project...

and suddenly I can't push into the repository cuz it's too big ( 8GB )

is this to be expected or am I doing something wrong?

I expect this game to get pretty big later

~50 GB

so I think I'll go for the LFS

uhhh

now I can't tell what LFS even is

https://git-lfs.github.com/

here it says it's opensource and I see no price anywhere

[spice ruin]

LFS is an addon to git that adds limited history and outside-of-repo-server storage for large files.

[silk flare]

ooo

so this is not the storage

just the addon?

[spice ruin]

So all your code goes on your nice expensive server and your large files get only a few versions in their history and go on mega cheap arse server.

Correct. It's just an addon to git.

[silk flare]

gotcha

many thanks

[spice ruin]

Np

[opal ocean]

With Data Assets, do I have to add each type of PrimaryDataAsset to the AssetManager? Will they not work if I dont?

I'm in the process of changing over my inventory system, For example, a pickup has a data asset reference to tell it what type of item it is. it changes the mesh/etc from that data asset info. When the player picks it up, it converts that data asset to a soft reference and it gets added to the inventory array (a map of dataasset/quantity)

[violet yoke]

Guys I have some trouble making my side scroller movement feel as responsive as the one from Hollow Knight

The player doesnt change movement direction immediately, its hard to change direction mid air, basically everything feels heavy

I actually solved this by setting the max acceleration to a high value

[candid steeple]

Hollow Knight is likely manipulating velocity directly. I don’t think it had any physics interaction which would clash this

[real stratus]

What is the difference between this setting and this setting?

[rotund nimbus]

Weather you want to use c++ as base for your project (an programming language), or blueprint (visual programming)

as beginner you should go with blueprint

[fossil nexus]

is it really necessary to "Build" my project. Can i just package it? Its messing up all the lights, and is giving me some weird errors. Before building lights everything is looking great as is

[real stratus]

I'm interested in more details. Because I couldn't find any information.
But if I create a project using Blueprints, then for example I cannot compile the project using Visual Studio.

[rotund nimbus]

no you absolutely can use c++ inside your project hence you can combine c++ with blueprint for a satisfying result

[real stratus]

Does it also mean that I can't use Blueprints if I create a project with a C++ feature? What do I lose from blueprints?

[rotund nimbus]

no you can

[rotund nimbus]

if there is c++ unreal will use visual code while packaging your project

[real stratus]

Please reformulate, I correctly understood that Blueprint will be closed for me?

[rotund nimbus]

Blueprints are nothing but a visible way to understand code..
if you're a beginner go with blueprints settings.. you can still use c++ and visual code inside your project, with the blueprint settings.

[real stratus]

I know what a blueprint is, I thought you meant that the ability to use Blueprint would be closed when using C++. (I'm using a translator, sorry)
So what are the differences? Because judging by what you say, there are no differences. I'll show you in a minute why my question was asked and why it matters.

[rotund nimbus]

"If you choose Blueprint you can still use c++, If you choose C++ you can still use blueprints."

This is how you print a text in c++

and this is same thing in blueprints

[real stratus]

This is what I get with a blueprint project. Because of this, I can't use the plugin because trying to compile its code without opening Visual Studio results in the project being unable to open.
If you create a project using C++, then Visual Studio opens after selecting this menu.

[real stratus]

I understand you, then what is the point of this choice?

[rotund nimbus]

I do not really understand the question here

[real stratus]

The question is not "What is the difference between Blueprint and C++".
And "What is the difference between choosing these two menus."
Menu. differences in the choice of these two settings. What do I lose if I choose one and what do I lose if I choose the other.

[drowsy snow]

You don't lose much.
You can start with BP project and add C++ code down the line

However, building UE plugins from GitHub require at least a C++ class in your project

[rotund nimbus]

C++ and Blueprints have same function. C++ is a programming language, blueprints are an easier to understand form of c++.,

There will be no difference you'll have same libraries and stuff in both. Just you'll have to Code every thing up if you choose c++.,

No disadvantages of blueprint or C++, except blueprint can cause performance issue in a small scale.

(Some plugins like Pixel2d are limited to c++. In that point you can use visual code studio even if you have blueprint project)

[real stratus]

By the way, I don't have this button. You do not know what this is connected with?

[real stratus]

I know the differences C ++ and BP

[drowsy snow]

It has since moved to File -> New C++ Class

[upper igloo]

Hey all, I’m looking at making a dynamic camera system, does anything exist out of the box? Similar to Cinemachine for Unity or am I on my own here? Basically a trigger system that can blend between virtual cameras that have their own set of properties that control how that camera views the player.

[drowsy snow]

Set View Target With Blend?

I don't use Unity ||for 7 years|| so no idea about Cinemachine or whatever

[upper igloo]

Yeah I know Set View Target but I guess there’s nothing more built on top of that - will roll my own

[real stratus]

Okay thanks for the replies. I don't see any difference now, because I can create a C++ class.
But what is the difference in functionality is still not clear. More precisely, I don’t need it anymore, rather it’s just a curiosity.

[drowsy snow]

Not much, besides a starting point. One might want to have BP only project all the way, or one might have a change of mind (or hired a programmer)

[real stratus]

I understand it's a strange setting. :\

It's just that I just migrated from Unity a day ago. There, such a setting changes several important things. (This is not a stone in the garden of UE, Unity is bullshit)

[real stratus]

Thank you, to be honest, for now I'm looking at UE and it feels like .. "This is made by people, for people." Yesterday I did not sleep for almost a day studying the videos and the interface. The only thing that took me almost the second day was some kind of code compilation and plugin compilation. I have a feeling that I haven't installed something important, some part of the C++ library.

Oh well, thanks, that's the important part.

[eternal rain]

If I'm making a game with both First person and 3rd person segments, am I better off toggling from one camera to another, or switching Player actors?

[drowsy snow]

The former.

[eternal rain]

thanks

[long garnet]

Hello, I have a question regarding hosting my ue server on aws gamelift, where can I post this question?

[covert gale]

Hi, I am using the default plugin for web browser but it doesn't seem to work fine in case of webpages built with CSS libraries such as tailwind, etc. From what I have understood, it is still experimental and not stable. Are there any work arounds for this or any other plugins for rendering web pages on a canvas in UE4?

[covert gale]

you can post it here #multiplayer

[long garnet]

Thank you @covert gale

[fossil nexus]

my game has 1 feature that is related to a line by trace and a score that is not working after i Package the game. Any clue why this is happening? How can i find out what the problem is if its working well in the project before package?

[thin tendon]

Problems like this can be tricky to solve. Especially cause you can't print string in a packaged version. A trick that I like to use. I create a widget that displays text. I call mine (TestWidget). Then I will breadcrumb my code. Changing the text at various parts through out my blueprint code. So I can see how far it gets and if certain things are valid.

[fossil nexus]

thank you. thats a great idea. though in my situation using the development package option its also printing after packaged. so i will use this for now.

its just weird that it works in the editor, but then after package for some reason it doesnt work

[covert gale]

Hi, does anyone know about this?

[drowsy snow]

In most cases embedding browser in UE is futile.

[pallid olive]

hi if you have 2 widgets and want to read variables from each other

do you need to cast to the umg?

it asks for a object wildcard if you cast to the widget what should be put here

[dusty marsh]

Does anyone know what's causing this crash?

[pallid olive]

maybe this Failed to load /Game/OfficeScene/Meshes/Phone/Material.Material Referenced by uploads_files_631702_smartphone
[2022.10.31-09.21.08:738][ 0]LogLinker: Warning: While loading '../../../../../../Documents/Helen/Helen/Content/ImportedAssets/Phone/uploads_files_631702_smartphone.uasset' failed to load '/Game/OfficeScene/Meshes/Phone/Material_001': Can't find file.

[thin tendon]

An example of the way you would handle something like this. Using a reference to your player drag out get HUD > drag out again and get the desired widget. Or something to that effect depending on what actor has the widget and what it is a child of.

[dusty marsh]

Hm okay, can it be just as easy as deleting that asset?

[thin tendon]

The guys in #cpp are the best guys to ask questions like that. But from what I can see those errors are because it is trying to locate .dll files that do not exist.

[dusty marsh]

Ah okay, and that's so strange because I haven't deleted anything, I don't understand why they would suddenly not exist

[pallid olive]

Get player controller > Cast to desired widget ?

[thin tendon]

Well no mate. Because the player controller is not a widget. The object when casting needs to be a reference to the object you are trying to cast to. So if you are casting to FPS character. You want a reference to an FPS character object. Casting is like saying as this guy run the code for his type.

[pallid olive]

yea i know, but widget is not a actor so was curious what object reference it needed, but will look into forums

what if you make a variable in Widget B that is widget A

but it can read the variables if you have Widget variable of A inside B ?

[thin tendon]

@pallid olive Here is an example of a cast. I get the player controller. Then cast to my menu's player controller. So it knows to treat controller 0 as a menu controller. Then I save a reference as a menu controller to use later. Then to make sure it is working I use my saved reference to get a reference to my cursor widget. Then tell the rest of my code I am done loading.

[hallow dove]

hi there, was wondering if anyone has come across this issue before, and what solutions did they come up with, i have a facebook link that will direct users to my project that is running in a cloud streaming platform, the project needs to run in landscape mode, and works completely fine in all devices apart from ios, for some reason facebook ios web browser does not want to rotate, so the only solution i found is to simple press open in browser on facebook, is there possible another solution to this?

[pallid olive]

newby questio, if you have a object and use it as refference can you put the reference before you the object and do a ?isvalid node

[drowsy snow]

Yes, IsValid macro make sure the reference is not pointing to nothing

You could, however, consolidate it with validated get

[pallid olive]

yea ofcourse, thanks

[steep steeple]

Ugh why does unreal decide to load a bunch of random references that have nothing to do with the current blueprint, just from deleting a variable that hasn't even been saved to the blueprint yet?

it just freezes the engine for 10 minuets and for nothing

[static viper]

its a unreal engine thing

it goes through all the refs

you should restart the engine afterwards

this can happen

[sharp willow]

You try writing a perfect asset manager/referencing system!

[ornate hamlet]

did you ever find the answer to this?

[ruby robin]

Nope 😦

I ended up using several 2d captures to save some perofmance

[ornate hamlet]

that is ridiculous, how can an equivalent amount of 2D captures be so much cheaper. Oh well, thanks though

[boreal stirrup]

i want to use 'AI move to' to move a vehicle for x location to y location

but it's doesn't work

any suggestions?

[lament star]

why does Curve Atlas have to be so buggy, it's so frustrating to work with

[spice ruin]

What's wrong with it?

[lament star]

stops updating the changes a lot of times and I have to restart the editor to see them :[

[spice ruin]

Oh :/

I hope they've fixed that for UE5, I have to integrate it into a tool. 😦

[lament star]

yeah I hope they do a more stable 4.28 one day that'd be nice

It's just extra frustrating because I get to the point where I spend so much time trying to understand what I did wrong when it turns out I just had to restart Unreal lol

[spice ruin]

Lol

[fierce tulip]

welcome to gamedev XD
where your 1h task suddenly becomes a day of debugging, only to find out restarting the engine worked

[spice ruin]

Turn it off and on again. Always the first solution 😄

[fierce tulip]

but always the last one to try XD

[grim ore]

well yeah because it fixes it and then you don't need to try anymore 🤔

[fierce tulip]

hehe, I always make the same comment when someone goes "its broken, but it was working before"
yea, no shh sherlock XD

[violet yoke]

Is there a way to change the ground check radius? I want the player to jump a bit early before touching the ground so it makes movement a bit smoother

[fierce tulip]

@rancid sigil please read the #rules as you are posting this in the wrong channel.

[violet yoke]

can someone help?

[fierce tulip]

please dont bump @violet yoke > #rules :)

[violet yoke]

thanks

[young fern]

hey guys

how can i switch my character blueprint while playing? like map a key to switch to another blueprint

how can i make it so the new character is in the same position as the previous one?

ok

how can i get player location?

this is my entire setup

[young fern]

also should i have this setup in the level blueprint or what?

help

[earnest basin]

My automation spec copy+paste from the tutorial doesn't seem to be working - how come?

BEGIN_DEFINE_SPEC(MyCustomSpec, "MyGame.MyCustomSpec", EAutomationTestFlags::ProductFilter | EAutomationTestFlags::ApplicationContextMask)
    FString TestString;
END_DEFINE_SPEC(MyCustomSpec)

^ Moved to #automation

[stable halo]

im working on a scope, and the first one works great, but the second one is a red dot so the reticle is smaller - it blurs like crazy when moving. they're static mesh shapes inside a scope. any ideas?

if i make it larger it doesnt blur

[odd swan]

try using console command to disable motion blur

[stable halo]

Motion blur is disabled

only happens when the reticle is smaller than a certain amount

pretty weird

[real heath]

Taa/tsr? Disable AA entirely and see if it improves so it can be ruled out

[earnest basin]

Where is the automation spec GUI window in ue4?

wait it's a plugin now? I'm a bit confused - it says there's a specific place to store my tests now?

I called them 'integration tests', but there's no plugin for that.. Would that be runtime?

For example, I'd call our server and Login() => then do something

Function Testing Editor?

got it, seems like Functional was the way

but.... seems like I don't need to specially sort my tests?

[quick furnace]

In VR, when i grab either the gun or knife and try to move forward using locomotion, it reverses my movement. So I am moving backwards whenever i am holding the objects. Someone please help.

[trim belfry]

Are you colliding with them?

[quick furnace]

I Think so, cause im flying back and i cant even step on them

[quick furnace]

i tried to change it to "never update"

[hardy schooner]

how create material from umg ??

[trim belfry]

Those settings appear to be specifically for level streaming. Is the level these actors are in being streamed?

[quick furnace]

Noo, i just run it in VR preview mode.

[quick furnace]

Any fixes for this?

[pallid olive]

hi

i have renderd weapons and also using the same weapon, now the image is moving along with the weapon

do i need 2 actors ? one only for rendering and one for using, to have it correct displayed in the image

[young fern]

how can i switch my character blueprints while playing? i know that i have to have all of the blueprints in my level and posses them but i want them to be in the same location as the character i played previously

[dark oasis]

17 Hours in but no monthly

If im right it refreshes every first tuesday of a month

[drowsy snow]

Be patient. It's still early morning in Cary, NC.

[pallid olive]

hello who can help

i have integer variable default set to 200 and in savegame the default is set to 200

but when i printstring it, it shows that the value is 0

[peak vigil]

you fixed it?

[dry frigate]

Changed job, now that's someone else's issue, but thanks for asking

[waxen coral]

Hello, is there any way to mark certain actors/classes so they will not be rendered by certain cameras?

Owner No See/Only Owner See does not solve my case. : )

[earnest basin]

❓ In a test script, how would I get the local player? Or spawn a dummy one - whatever I need to trigger the subsystems to instantiate. Or instantiate directly. I'm having trouble finding an entry point.

[waxen coral]

Hello, are you referring to Functional Tests?

[earnest basin]

Yes

[waxen coral]

AFAIR, those tests have to be run on certain maps, with certain Game Mode set.

If you're using your standard Game Mode for gameplay on such map, the player should be spawned, as usual.

[earnest basin]

Do you have any resources for test examples that do something like this? I am a bit confused what I can test. Nothing is instantiated, so I'd have to essentially init the entire game engine to get a custom subsystem instantiated

[manic sluice]

Is there any triangle density viewmode? To see if lods are actually doing enough?

triangle to pixel cost

[waxen coral]

I don't know how much you know, sorry if that's too basic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HscEt4As0_g

General workflow is:

1. Create a map for test/tests
2. Create Functional Test(s) BP
3. Place those BP on the test map
4. In the BP, use references to actors on the map to script a case that you want to test
5. Run tests from Developers Tools

[earnest basin]

Thanks

[waxen coral]

Developers Tools -> Session Frontend -> Automation

[earnest basin]

One more question - many funcs I want to test are private. Is it best practice to... minimally recreate it in tests? Make it public? Straight-up copy and paste the class but change the scope modifiers?

[waxen coral]

In general, if something is private, you shouldn't need to test it. : )

[earnest basin]

But also generally, private == minimal, public == requires all kinds of prereq's

[waxen coral]

But - if you're not building your architecture from scratch with automated tests in mind - it's always problematic.

From my experience, I used Functional Tests for core gameplay mechanics: checking if enemies get damage when shot, checking if interactions work properly when player enters some triggers etc.

And I rarely had any issues with inaccessible function.

Or never.

: )

[earnest basin]

Hm, for example - I'm trying to test logging into a cloud system (like PlayFab). If I go for public, it's in a subsystem and inits by itself. Then that makes me wonder, do I need to init an entire map just to init that subsystem? If I init it standalone, would it break due to likely relying on other things?

Or can I call a subsystem standalone?

instantiate*

[waxen coral]

I don't know much about network related tests, sorry :/

[earnest basin]

ok let's pretend it's just a player subsystem

local

can I init this subsystem in a functional test without making a map/player?

[waxen coral]

To my knowledge, no.

[earnest basin]

Hm, so I'd need to make some private funcs public 🤔 eh I'll figure it out

[young fern]

well i want it to be seamless, i still cant figure out how to teleport the other player blueprint to the previous one

[real heath]

Hmm tests become less useful then as it’s not testing your actual code. You could make the test a friend class, or choose to do a higher level testing rather than testing all the private funcs.

[fast lion]

Hello.

I'm working with the cinematic mode for UE4.

How can I get the player character's camera so that the cinematic ends at the players point?

[versed lion]

@fast lion Get player character cast to player, get the camera reference then get player controller set target view blend and plug it in the player's camera

[void flower]

wow, definitely, UE4 is not a joke

[spice ruin]

Damn. That's a lot.

[fast lion]

Should I do this on the SequenceDirector Blueprint or the player blueprint?

[grim ore]

I would think in the director blueprint if you are having the sequence autoplay, otherwise wherever you are starting the sequence you can bind to the completed event

[blazing linden]

Hey. I have a question related to VR in UE4

I'd really appreciate any sort of lead or resources I can look into

So, I'm trying to create a VR environment that can be accessed by multiple users at a time

All players wear the HMD and user controllers to animate their avatar

[fast lion]

I'm still trying to sort out the player camera, but now I'm also trying to get the cinematic to play at the start.
And it won't play.

The controls are definitely frozen, but the game just opens as usual.

The other thing is, the first one I added in works but the other doesn't.

I'm going to try doing it again.

[void flower]

Hello guys, what is less expensive (computacional cost): having a raycast each frame to detect a collision or having a sphere collider that only overlaps with 1 collision channel, ignoring the rest? Thank you kindly.

[oak patio]

implement both, then profile each one. early optimization is bad.

[plush yew]

its only bad when you doing "exploration", but for something like collision detection.. might aswell do properly from beginning

[pallid olive]

hello guys i have a problem with a integer variable, it default is set to 500 and also in the savegame object is this set to 500, but when i printstring the variables it gives value 0

another thing, if you do a branch on if save game exists, and set the variables from savegame to ingame, do you also need to add load game from slot, or is by setting it enough ?

[sage coral]

Is there a way to add a actor BP to an actor BP trying to combine a lightbulb blueprint and a house prefab I have made

[opaque seal]

hi guys i have a question
how can i change the game user setting default settings?
example my game default screen mode is windowed but i like to change it to fullscreen or anything in game user setting... how can i?

[hot maple]

Anyone by chance know how to search for binary operators in the output log without it trying to process it as an operator? Trying to look for | in my output log but it keeps yelling about not enough operands for binary operator |
It seems that just wrapping it in " " works

[void flower]

Any advice about where to look inside the profiler (any specific category/group)?

[oak patio]

Unfortunately no. Just implement the one that suits you best and see if it causes any issues

[real stratus]

We have XYZ axes.
Can I swap the letters Y and Z?
For me, that's the way it is.

[plush yew]

https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/952661474501111808 ig if you want to re-write the coordinate system in the engine its possible

Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic)

Sorry y’all I was young and this coordinate system stuff was confusing https://t.co/S2tkQRfAHr

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[unborn nimbus]

Is there an easy way to temporarily set the LOD Bias of ALL of my textures to a high value?
The reason I ask is because while, I'm developing the game, i'm constantly reloading my levels and I just want the levels to load as fast as possible, and I noticed that setting the LOD Bias high will make the textures load really fast but I don't want to manually go through each texture and set them..

[real stratus]

I'm sure it will generate errors. Thanks for the answer. It is a pity that there is no setting.

[fierce tulip]

think if you just set editor settings or whatever (dont have ue open atm) to textures > low, it wont load in the higher res ones.

[analog lava]

could someone help me with some files i am having trouble opening??

uproject and uasset files in spefific

[true ridge]

Is there a good way to translate a duration into an interp speed? Say I wanted to VInterpTo from one vector to another over the course of 2 seconds. What would I plug 2 into to get the right InterpSpeed?

[drowsy snow]

Just get used to it lemao

[sage coral]

How do I make it do that when my window opens with a destructible mesh as the window pane it doesn't shatter right away when the window is opened?

[drowsy snow]

Swap the non-fractured mesh with the fractured one if it got hit with certain amount of force.

[robust lintel]

Hello, i would like to ask what is the differance between array, set and map, and which is the best to store information like this (Made a prototype of the code in JS) and output it like this:

Also is it possible to store a 3d array/set/map, like, multiple of these?

[tender sequoia]

Beginner questions: Why accessed none error came out??

[tender sequoia]

i dont get it.. what variable?

the one that i highlighted - Quest BP. I know there is a problem with that variable but i dont know how to fix it

er.. okkey.. i'll try

[pallid olive]

hello devs

have a question about renderd actors

i have a weapon that is renderd for as texture 2d, and if this is displayed at widget, and im wielding this weapon, the image renders also the movement when its wield

is it possible to have this only renderd once and after that is stops rendering ?

like in begin ini render once and that stop rendering

[thin tendon]

I'm a little unsure about your question. You want it to show and then hide? Because I mean that is as simple as telling it to hide and show as you need it.

[pallid olive]

hey it was verry simple in the scenecapture component there was a check called 'capture on movement' just had to tick off, now i can use the render also as texture 2d

before it updated the image when it was equipped

[coarse jetty]

hello, i'm new to body tracking and that kind of stuff. Is is possible to record during PIE?

i want to record vr ik mesh character and reproduce it later, and it only works in pie obiously

[spare trench]

whenever I build up my lights shadows becomes ugly. Please help me fix it!!

before building lights

after building lights

[floral solstice]

Hi I am making a game and now it doesn’t load it just says the following modules are missing or built with a different engine version would you like to rebuild them now I click yes and it still doesn’t work it says could not be compiled try rebuilding from source manually does anyone know what I have to do please help

[sharp willow]

What did you do prior to these issues occurring?

[floral solstice]

I clicked save on my game but it was stuck on 53 percent saving so I did task manager and clicked end task

Can anyone help me

[thin tendon]

By the sounds of that you should probably go back and restore to your last good configuration of your project

[floral solstice]

But how if the file inside epic won’t open

[thin tendon]

Unfortunately I have no idea what is causing your issue mate. Try asking in #lighting . That is the best place to get an answer for that one.

[thin tendon]

Well typically when working on a project you would use source or run regular back ups. Specifically so you can address project breaking issues like this.

[hollow kestrel]

Will a linetrace it if I start from Inside a collider and end trace lets say far away from collider. Will the line trace hit the Collider?

[fierce tulip]

@floral solstice the lighting channel suggestion wasnt for you :)

[thin tendon]

If your line trace for example uses the visibility channel. And your physics entity or collision entity is set to block visibility then it would block. You have to decide the best channel to do your trace on.

[floral solstice]

Oh sorry

[hollow kestrel]

Yes it is set to block visibility and my trace uses visibility channel.

[potent jungle]

hello, folks!

let's say I'm creating a cliff, which will be used for climbing in the game. therefore the collision of the cliff has to be quite precise
since I'm not going to simulate the cliff, can I use its lowest lod as a collider without expecting any problems in the future? by that I mean the lod collider has concave parts. won't this be a problem for a static rigid body?

[thin tendon]

Then yes your line trace would stop at your collision sphere

[hollow kestrel]

Ok I'm going to test it probably because of my compulsiveness

[thin tendon]

You want to use the highest fidelity version of your terrain for the collision. break it up into smaller parts for each collision box or convex. Reduce the quality as much as possible while keeping the basic shapes. And yes try to avoid a concave or inwards curve where possible.

[floral solstice]

What can I do

[thin tendon]

You could try verifying the project. Or deleting the caches, saved etc folders. All the usual steps. There is a chance you might have still corrupted something or had something save incorrectly. Alternatively ue4 does auto saves. So you could use some google and restore from your most recent auto save.

[floral solstice]

Okay

[thin tendon]

I forget how to do the autosaves because I use source. Sorry.

[floral solstice]

I accidentally installed c plus plus on it today

I blueprint

It was an accident

I think that’s why

Maybe

[thin tendon]

You should definitely look into setting up github source for your project once you get it working again.

[floral solstice]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7WsYsS3G3JI

[coarse jetty]

check for lightmap index and lightmap resolution

[coarse jetty]

ok i found the documentation about it but i want to begin record ingame, not switching window

[tame marsh]

Is there a way to open a UE4 project twice in a different editor instance?

[fierce tulip]

generally you can click the uproject file twice.
But keep in mind it'll mess up saving things

[tame marsh]

Of course, why didn't I think of tat

Sometimes things can be just as easy as that

Thanks!

I swear I remember there was a different program that had issues with multiple instances, I think it was Unity?

Like you had to make a virtual copy of the project if you needed to test multiplayer for example

[fierce tulip]

iunno, many apps have issues with it.
3dsmax tends to wipe all your custom presets/keyboard bindings/settings if you accidentally save a file that is already open in another instance.

[tame marsh]

Oh that explains that time years ago when I lost all my keybindings

[drowsy snow]

BTW you can simulate 4 player multiplayer in PIE, in one running editor instance

[pallid olive]

hi can someone help out been stuck for couple of hours

weaponmaster has a scenerender component, these items are renderd in default map outside SkySphere

after opening the next world i want the capture on movement be ticked off

if capture on movement is ticked on and weapon is wield, the image should be a weapon but you see the character walking

any ideas ?

[pallid olive]

where is everyone

[fierce tulip]

zombies ate em

[arctic carbon]

has anyone ever use Marvelous Designer for gaming ?

[timid notch]

Is a character blueprint more expensive than a pawn blueprint? If yes, how much more expensive? I'm trying to figure out if it would make more sense for me performance wise to have my enemy ai as pawn instead of character (the enemy ai is a just a simple chase the player ai and that's it).

[spice ruin]

A lot more

The character movement component is a beast

[timid notch]

Really! Did not know that

[spice ruin]

But depends on your number of AIs. If it's 10, probably okay. If it's 100, you're beyond screwed.

[timid notch]

I originally created it using a character blueprint.

The max number would probably be between 10 to 20.

So do I create a pawn without the "character movement" component?

[spice ruin]

You can't use the CMC with a pawn.

I would test it first.

See if it struggles.

[timid notch]

I was trying "AI Move To" and it wasn't doing anything

[static viper]

you need a navmesh

[timid notch]

Already added nav mesh. The original Character blueprint is chasing the player fine but the pawn is just standing still.

I'm probably missing a very rookie mistake

[spice ruin]

Pawns don't come with a movement component by default

I think there's a basic PawnMovementComponent

I may be wrong.

[timid notch]

Let me check

There is the floating pawn movement?

[spice ruin]

You don't want that

Unless you want your AIs to... float.

If they're just moving across a flat surface, I doubt it matters.

[timid notch]

lol

[static viper]

you need a character base class.

not a pawn

[spice ruin]

You don't need one.

[static viper]

a character is a pawn

[timid notch]

I'm trying to create a less expensive character by using a pawn. The ai just needs to chase the player, but it should not float.

Go up and down stairs, and should be able to fall.

[spice ruin]

Just use a character for now.

[static viper]

press P

and see if you have green

[timid notch]

Yes I have green

This is the AI controller of my original character blueprint

[static viper]

nono

dont call AI move to so often

its a closed system that works on its own.

you call it once

it does its thing

event happens

and you call it again

but not every second

[timid notch]

Call AI move to again on fail, but when it succeeds what then? If it first succeeds and the player escapes how should I retrigger it to start chasing the player again?

[static viper]

AI Moveto succeds when it has arrived at the location you give it.

then i would call the function again.

[spice ruin]

But that won't make it follow the player.

It will make it massively lag behind the player

[static viper]

not true

you see

the target pin?

if you plug the player into that

it will follow with updated coords

[spice ruin]

And ignore the destination pin?

[static viper]

ye

[spice ruin]

(unplug it)

[static viper]

its annoying tho

it will literally never stop then

location is better

[spice ruin]

Surely just call stop when it hits the player?

[static viper]

stop movement node yes

[timid notch]

I can't use the target actor because the player pawn is VR and it will stop chasing once it catches the "room", I have to make it chase the player HMD for it to work.

[static viper]

attach get player character.

[timid notch]

I'm testing it...

When I do this, AI stops at the edge of the "play area" so it never reaches the player

[static viper]

play area?

[timid notch]

VR play area

It doesn't chase the HMD

[static viper]

ah i see

unplug get player pawn

drag from it

get actor location

[timid notch]

That is the reason why I was calling it every second but I think that is causing it to overload and crash

[static viper]

and plug that into the destination

you can call it every second yes

but is there really a need to?

[timid notch]

When I do this then if the player moves, AI still continues to the original destination it received

[static viper]

now do every second

[timid notch]

if the player stands still yes it reaches the HMD location

and I'm back to my original blueprint

But this is I believe is expensive and causing my game to crash when the player is chased by multiple ai

[static viper]

do you have proof of that

[timid notch]

no

[static viper]

i bet

that you can place

[timid notch]

I'm shooting in the dark

[static viper]

200 of these

and wont have it crash.

[timid notch]

I don't have any other lead than this, i'm shooting in the dark like I said

I'm going by feedback that people are experiencing random crashes when multiple ai come close

[static viper]

its vr afterall

[timid notch]

multiple meaning 10+ probably

[static viper]

and it depends on what the ai consists of

and your game code

you need to find the exact moment it crashes

[timid notch]

that snapshot is my entire ai 😄

[static viper]

then it cant be the ai ^^

[timid notch]

it's random... I watched a twitch streamer playing my game and crashing live multiple times and can't even understand it why

[static viper]

well find it out.

[robust lintel]

Question - I used this tutorial for saving my game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJxYPJF6wzk, how would i have to change it if i wanted to have the same gamesaving style as Hollow Knight? (4 game slots)

[frozen junco]

hey, any help would be appreciated! I'm following a tutorial on how to make an endless runner mobile game (sort of like subway surfers), and i've followed everything to a tee.
the only issue is that the corridor that the player runs down loops horizontally??

Like i said, any help would be appreciated because its been 2 whole days now 😭😭😭😭

[young fern]

people in this server don't really like helping others out 😢

Help, so i want to attach multiple other player blueprints to each other so they have the same location/rotation and i want to be able to switch between them and every time i switch to the other player blueprint i want other players to be hidden have no collision and still follow the same location as the player im currently playing as

[charred snow]

how do i fade the edges of this?

[oak patio]

Please don't crosspost

[young fern]

ok sure but now im gonna wait for an answer that will never come since this channel is dead

why even make a seperate channel for ue5, like it's still the same engine, just better lighting and nanite support mostly

[oak patio]

Because things have changed in engine versions? UE5 has new bugs, new systems, has deprecated old systems,

[young fern]

and still the same blueprint nodes

[oak patio]

Looks quite simple. Just rotate it by 90 on the z

[oak patio]

Not exactly

And the entire engine isn't only blueprint nodes. There's a hell of a lot more

In fact UE5 added a fair few new nodes, as well as changing a couple of old ones

[static viper]

yee

ue5 works differently

they are deprecating the entire packaging system

they reworked the reference system

and rewrote alot of the material code

these changes are so core level that they cant be done in ue4

[frozen junco]

all fixed now, nevermind! had to break the node

[keen holly]

Is it possible to bake SphereReflectionCapture by chance I know its done on runtime but any ideas

[pallid olive]

Is ue5 overall better?

[neon bough]

yes

[orchid gorge]

Hey everyone! I am not really sure if I should switch to ue5. I can't use as many plugins, my shaders are constantly breaking. It crashes all of the time. The physics for chaos are clunky and overall I am not sure if its worth it. Could someone give me some reasons to switch? I am not sure if its worth it, I really need to decide since this will affect my workflow. The only thing I am really interested in ue5 is metasounds and maybe control rig. I won't be utilizing lumen, nanite, world partition, or any other random new features like temporal super res, what do you all have to say about this?

[real heath]

If you don't need lumen or nanite, or any of the new features, there isn't much point. Especially if it affects your workflow and plugins. Choosing an engine version is really a choice that needs to be made per project. You seem to have reasonable reasons to stay. The later in development you are, the less likely it is you should upgrade any version, let alone 4-> 5

Don't get me wrong, if I was starting a project today, I'd likely start in 5.0, but yeah, it's really a case by case basis

[hollow meteor]

does anyone have any tips for using different materials when packaging between desktop and android? I can't use the material switch expression node as it doesn't support switching between unlit and default lit, so i need to hotswap the two materials depending on the platform being packaged. right now i do it programically, but this is kinda a pain to maintain, is there anything i might be missing in configuring models that offers this sort of feature?

[orchid gorge]

Thanks!

[real heath]

Np. It drives me crazy people upgrading to latest preview just because "shiny". It's really got to be a well thought out informed choice to change any version

[orchid gorge]

Agreed.

[drowsy snow]

ngl I upgraded to UE5 just because of better animation tools, more stable DX12/Vulkan implementation, Local Exposure, MetaSounds, and some bug fixes.

Other than that, I can lie and say it's a UE4 game, and you would've believed me.

That being said, I'm still concerned about UGC support in UE5, since the old SimpleUGC plugin completely broke

[real heath]

this sounds like a list of valid reasons rather than just "because shiny" though...

as i said, it's a case by case basis, and your choice for that such as the animation tools, probably would be less of a selling point if you were later into a project

[drowsy snow]

Well, I was super hesitant to move to UE5, especially because things in 5.0 were yet to settle.

[real heath]

you are unlikely to change anim workflow on a game 75% of the way through for instance

[real heath]

exactly my point. It needs to be a well thought out informed decision, cos there are risks and also often significant rework involved to make the leap

and if there is no rework involved, then you probably arent' using the new features, at which point the question is: why upgrade at all?

[west merlin]

Is there a preferred method of profiling dedicated server performance to track down usage issues? I've profiled the game itself a ton but the dedicated servers struggle

[pallid olive]

hi came across something strange i have a widget with a button but when i click it, it does not fire off, anyone an idea ?

one button is 50% red other 50% blue, also 2 buttons for test purposes

but nothing happends

Zorder is fine, on other buttons it works, it set to 2

[topaz monolith]

Not sure if I am missing something really simple, I have a cube and want to click on it and for the print string to work. I make a actors BP, add SM, add clicked on for the SM and add a print string, nothing seems to work, even when I press shift+f1 for the mouse and click, does anyone know what is going wrong

[thin tendon]

Use some print strings on event mouse over. If they print and then your button press dose not, then something is in the way and blocking them.

[pallid olive]

hey Waffle, on Hovered?

this one

[thin tendon]

yeah that is the one

[pallid olive]

same results no print is shown

[thin tendon]

Not sure mate. If you can see the buttons and hover isn't working. Then most likely something is blocking it. Another widget something like that. Or your z order is off.

[half shoal]

Guys I have a problem, when I export the map in fbx to another computer the textures doesn't charge

How can i resolve that?

[coarse jetty]

how are you exporting?

[plush yew]

hey guys, i have a quick question and sorry to bother. im more of a sfm guy because i make posters but i love how ue4 looks and i have a question, can you make posters/pictures in ue4?(if yes, can you quckly explain to me how if its not too much to ask for?)

[drowsy snow]

Yes, workflow is indifferent to making cinematics, except it's just one frame.

[plush yew]

got it, thank you

[fallow elk]

can anyone help me please?! I've made an entire teaser trailer for my game but it's not rendering it correctly in the recorder. my intro widget plays perfectly then everything is super slow and lagging behind, and the camera cuts don't play for like a few minutes after the recorder has started! I've spent so much time on this what do I do?!

[hollow kestrel]

Hey can anybody help me. I have no idea why AddWorldRotation or AddLocalOffset are not working. But the code is being called.
I am stuck!

The actor is not responding to Add rotation or Add offset but it is being thrown away by impulse. Yesterday it was working perfectly. I don't know what's happening

[half shoal]

I am exporting with a USB, in fbx but the problem is the pack of textures doesn't export, i try to pass the textures individually but then doesn't charge

[sharp willow]

Have you tried stepping into the function to see if anything goes wrong in there?

[hollow kestrel]

Let me check!

[hollow kestrel]

Nothing goes wrong!

[drowsy snow]

FBX format by themselves doesn't contain texture/material information.
(But it does contain path to texture and material slot data)

[sharp willow]

Alright. Next thing: Can you show us the component as it appears in blueprints?

[hollow kestrel]

Yeah here it is.

[sharp willow]

So my first question is why are you adding offset to the component when it's the root component?

[hollow kestrel]

Actually, I was Adding rotation, but when it was not working then I tried offset, but it too doesn't work

[hollow kestrel]

I don't know why its not working.

[sharp willow]

My point is that you're adding offset to the component, but that component is the root component, so you could just be adding offset/rotation to the actor

[hollow kestrel]

Yes I tried that also, didn't work

[sharp willow]

Ok then - What about using Set location/rotation instead of adding offset?

[hollow kestrel]

It also doesn't works inside this function but outside this function AddWorldRotation and Set* all work fine

[sharp willow]

Okay - How about commenting all the other code in the function out and seeing if that fixes it?

[hollow kestrel]

Ok let me see!

It still doesn't works

[sharp willow]

What function have you put those calls inside that does work?

[hollow kestrel]

In SwapWeapon let me paste it here

[hollow kestrel]

{
    if (!Weapon || !EquippedWeapon) return; // Return if either of Weapon or Equipped weapon is null
    FDetachmentTransformRules DetachmentRules(FAttachmentTransformRules::KeepWorldTransform, true);
    EquippedWeapon->DetachFromActor(DetachmentRules); // Detaches this Actor's root component from any scene component it is currently attached to
    // EquippedWeapon->GetItemMesh()->DetachFromComponent(DetachmentRules); // Detaches *this (Skeletal Mesh) component from whatever it is attached to, i.e, It will detach whole actor if *this component is the Root component otherwise just detaches the component.
    EquippedWeapon->SetItemState(EItemState::EIS_Falling);
    EquippedWeapon->ThrowWeapon();
    EquipWeapon(Weapon);
}

[sharp willow]

You can specify a language after the ticks to add syntax highlighting

[hollow kestrel]

void AShooterCharacter::SwapWeapon(AWeapon* Weapon)
{
    if (!Weapon || !EquippedWeapon) return;
    FDetachmentTransformRules DetachmentRules(FAttachmentTransformRules::KeepWorldTransform, true);
    EquippedWeapon->DetachFromActor(DetachmentRules); 
    EquippedWeapon->SetItemState(EItemState::EIS_Falling);
    EquippedWeapon->ThrowWeapon();
    EquipWeapon(Weapon);
}

[hollow kestrel]

Here you go 🙂

Removed all the comments

[sharp willow]

Okay, so this is the call to ThrowWeapon

[sharp willow]

I mean this comment however

You said that you'd tested AddWorldRotation in a different function and that it worked fine

[hollow kestrel]

It doesn't works here either

[hollow kestrel]

Inside this function

[sharp willow]

Could you show me what you wrote so that it did work?

[heavy yew]

hello all.
I am working on a VR game and want to make a main menu, but not an "in game one" but a separate level with different pawn and different controls.

• My primary UI commands will be within the VR world, including load game etc. This I have sorta figured out.
• I also need to a top level menu (that is a step outside of the game world) where the user can be switched, higher level settings changed etc. this should be an abstract menu space with own lighting etc.
  -can I keep two levels in memory so that I could Pause "game level" switch to "menu level" do my thing and come back.

Any other approaches to acheive what I am after. If that makes sense?

[hollow kestrel]

Ok so here is what I found.
Its confusing
If simulated physics is on and If I call that function directly then everything works fine, actor rotates, but if I add a timer to call that function then it doesn't rotates but everything else works.
But if simulated physics is off then timer also works

I don't know why it behaves like this

[sharp willow]

wild

[hollow kestrel]

I have no idea why its behaving like this

[sharp willow]

https://tenor.com/view/unreal-unreal-engine-computer-smoking-computer-smoking-gif-24575019

[robust lintel]

it's unrealisticly intense

for computers

why is my UE4 crashing when i try to change a variable to string...

becouse it was an integer array 🤦

[unborn nimbus]

I have a single collision mesh that consists of hundreds of separate convex pieces. Is this good for performance? Or should I seperate these convex pieces into separate collision meshes..

[dull olive]

Can anyone help me out i don't know why these files are not there in my system's folder

[sterile rivet]

Hello all, I have a question regarding UE4. I am making a full cockpit simulator for work and I am trying to get the information out of a game in UE4 and to send it to gauges in the simulator. What's the best way to send live data from a UE4 game to another program or server?

The game is Mech Warrior 5. I know it's a weird project haha, I teach a class on simulator design and wanted something my students (army/navy/air force) could all get into without putting one element against another

[vagrant smelt]

What value do I change on a cube to make it more susceptible to impulses?

[light thunder]

What's the console command to resize the game window? sometimes the windows keys work but right now the editor is making it draw across multiple monitors

(the problem is I can't see my console commands as I'm trying to enter them - but alt/enter, window resize doesn't show it (it's dimmed so I know I"m activating it)

[ashen delta]

hi, I was wondering if you can kindly help? Google and the docs aren't clear and I was wondering if it was possible to turn painted foliage into individual static meshes? if so how? thank you

[half shoal]

And is some format that contain textures? Or I have to export and import individualy?

[viral dome]

help please?

Very happy if you help.

[calm acorn]

Hello! Anyone know of a quick guide on how to set up a (steam) controller for testing in the editor?

[oak patio]

definitely separate them. with that huge monolithic object you lose out on the ability to cull ones that aren't seen or that are far away. if you keep everything modular, you can make it so only things that are near you have collision

[thin tendon]

Just change your event inputs. To use mappings. Then make each mapping a steam controller button. Or even just change them to even input steam button whichever one you want.

[rotund jacinth]

Does anyone know how to get an unreal project built in a custom unreal build to show up in the project launcher? I just picked up an asset from the asset store an it appeas I can't import it until the epic games launcher is aware of the project/engine

[calm acorn]

Using enhanced input. Need to test analog inputs which digital buttons (kbm) can't provide. I got it. It's the weird setup valve does with steam controllers. It doesn't actually register as a hardware controller in windows. It seems like steam does some like input injection, but only for processes that are launched through steam. Adding UE to my library allowed it to work.

[thin tendon]

try finding the project file and right clicking it and converting it to a newer version of unreal

Back up first though

[shell compass]

https://i.imgur.com/PMTEbC8.png
Hey, does anyone know why everything is just white for me in Lit view mode?

I'm opening up an older project in 4.27 when it was made in 4.23

Ah it was some Post Process volume which caused it. Still not sure why but now its disabled and it works

[stray sapphire]

hello all, i am trying to push content with "git push origin master" but permission denied error: 403 is coming. I created new ssh key and uploaded to github in settings >ssh keys , but even then, same error comes. how can i solve this? thanks for answers

[stray sapphire]

thanks for reply, it is coming like this ..

same 403 error is coming bro

[stray sapphire]

my bad.. in windows credential manager, i deleted old one and logged in with the github mail and set ssh key ... and it is working

[drifting cloak]

Trying to use the camera attached to the main board, but whenever I press play it dissapears and the spawns my pawn wherever my viewport camera is, and spawns a first person camera on my pawn.
The coding was done from c++ then made into blueprints. Can show code if needed, just not sure the issue.

[spare trench]

Hey, whenever I overlapp a trigger volume it shoud hide the lock image in level widget.
How can I?

[robust lintel]

Quick Q: Can SaveGame save Structs? Cuz Structs are basicly 2d tables and i have a game with grid, where i need this.

[spice ruin]

It can.

A struct would represent a row in a table, not an entire table.

You'd need an array of structs for that, which is also possible. You can even have that array in another struct.

[whole abyss]

https://i.imgur.com/VlcIXMZ.png is there any way to make it so. Pressing right and left doesn't cancel eachother
So like, if i'm holding down D(for walking right) And then start holding down A(for walking left) the 2 buttons don't cancel eachother out

[oak patio]

sounds like you haven't changed your default pawn class in the gamemode

[drifting cloak]

I did, and its set to my player paddle. But my camera component is attached to just an actor @oak patio

Its creating a camera on the player position whenever its played

Since I dont want my camera to move with my player I figured id just attach it to the main "game board" to be static in the middle, I just dont know how to make it a default on play

[oak patio]

yeah, you cant possess a normal actor.

you could just have a blank pawn that doesn't move

and possess that

[drifting cloak]

I see, but then will I still be able to input on my other pawn?

[oak patio]

are your game pieces also pawns?

[drifting cloak]

No everything but my player is an actor

[oak patio]

if so you may be able to just have your game piece use that camera with a "set view target" node

[oak patio]

thats what i mean

you player

[drifting cloak]

I see. Ill look into set view target. We havent really got into nodes at all yet and we're supposed to just do everything in c++ for this assignment

[oak patio]

if you want your player to have that static camera view i suggest referencing that camera and setting it as the new view target, similar to how you would handle a cutscene

[oak patio]

ah that makes sense

[visual zephyr]

Hey, I am trying to mod a UE4 game, but nothing fancy, just wanna change the texture. However it is an executable and I can't find a way to change the texture. Can anyone help?

[drowsy snow]

If there's no official mod kit of the game available, then it shouldn't be asked here.

[visual zephyr]

There isn't, where can I ask then?

[drowsy snow]

Look into underground modding forums on the internet.

[visual zephyr]

Thanks

[drowsy snow]

Just abiding by the #rules

[plush yew]

whenever i kill some AI that area the person dies is somehow becomes an invisible wall xD

[frozen junco]

tried looking on youtube and all, but all the videos are really convoluted, so i'll ask here: how do you export a game in unreal engine 4 to an apk file?

[drowsy snow]

Try looking on guide for packaging for Android.

If you have trouble, ask it on #mobile

[frozen junco]

ill look that up rn, ty

[arctic plover]

So this bug with the status "Won't fix" effectively means I cannot under any circumstances use tesselation on my landscape materials? Surely this can't be true? https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-94535

[bold swift]

Hey everyone! I am new in this engine and I wanna make a basic Top Down game but I can't seem to find any tutorials on that...I want a simple character controller with WASD movement(which I implemented) and rotate with mouse where ever mouse is pointing(this is where the real challenge comes for me...most tutorials are rotating the camera with player making him look forwards all the time) I wanna make the camera just follow the player and not rotate with it...just like in The Ascent(game)....using Blueprints

[scenic gale]

Hey,

I'm trying to add multiple Build Targets to package for certain Platforms (Oculus / Pico in my case, both Android).

To do so I copied my Target.cs and renamed it OculusUEVRTarget (the previous being UEVRTarget) and also renamed the name of the class to OculusUEVRTarget.

When generating project files, I now get this error:
ERROR: Not expecting project E:\Workspaces\UEVR\TrainChase\Intermediate\ProjectFiles\UEVR.vcxproj to already have a target rules of with configuration name Game (OculusUEVRTarget) while trying to add: UEVRTarget

Can I not have multiple BuildTargets of Type Game?

[mortal frost]

anybody interested in helping me with a research I am doing about online shopping by taking a quick survey I made (it's ok if you don't want to I understand)

[pallid olive]

hello there, have some issues with Integer mappings. its a Int:object mapping but when i try to select the object it doesnt get added ?

in the structure the weapon master is the object, trying to add childeren to the mappings

[arctic plover]

Thanks, well in UE4 it's not working at all anymore with my landscape/materials. So, virtual heightfields are usable in UE4, too?

[rotund sorrel]

How should i give collision to a 2D wall?when i import it from blender it doesn't have one

[arctic plover]

Well and UE5 is barely "alive" so I have to constantly update and work around things while it's in its "early development stages". Which is why I chose developing on the last stable UE4 version 😏 Also I doubt my blueprints will simply work out of the box after transferring to UE5 😐

[drowsy snow]

If you really want details on your landscape, consider helping it with static meshes sprinked around

[arctic plover]

I did, in addition to tesselation.

[drowsy snow]

There is Parallax Occlusion Mapping, but for landscape, it's absurdly expensive.

[arctic plover]

It works fine on my machine, too. Just when other people test it, it always crashes.

The whole cooked build works fine for me, no bugs, no crashes. Except that, always crashes for other people 😞

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, Tessellation Tears Tuesday is next week.

[arctic plover]

😏

Would you guys recommend starting over in UE5?

I have several assets which are for 4.27, too. Will they work?

[drowsy snow]

Well, I migrated to UE5 just fine for the most part.

Some exception being C++ functions (and in my case engine modifications), but as far as asset goes, nothing dealbreaking

It Just Works™

[arctic plover]

Hmm, interesting 🤔 Would you just migrate your project into a new one in UE4 (so that the size shrinks to only the used assets) and then "port" it over?

Don't have any custom C++ functions, but a few assets may depend on this.

[whole abyss]

https://i.imgur.com/eUXVhTN.gif how do i set up jiggle ears?

i want them to just jiggle a bit when character is moving

fall behind like an antenna

[drowsy snow]

If you use 4.26 or newer, you can use Control Rig and a Verlet function to make the jiggly ears

Though it won't react to gravity, just springy

[whole abyss]

where do i add that

[drowsy snow]

Wait, you want springy ears, right? Like RC antenna?

[whole abyss]

yeah

https://i.imgur.com/Knu2qgh.gif

i kinda got it, but it's kinda weird

[drowsy snow]

Just making sure before I proceed to the method.

Because I linked a video on making antenna in Control Rig over on #animation
#animation message

Though I don't recall it going into depth on the verlet implementation, but the antennae is springy.

[whole abyss]

can i use this together with premade animations?

it already has a rig, with animations

[drowsy snow]

Yes, just put the Control Rig after the poses in your anim graph

[whole abyss]

okay thanks

[slate jungle]

i have hdd and it takes 20 mins to complie a cpp class

[static viper]

wth is this o.o

how many bones do those ears have omg

[drowsy snow]

With code base as large as UE4, yeah, that's expected for an HDD

Consider getting an SSD

[slate jungle]

ye ig i have to buy it

till then i m a use blueprints

[drowsy snow]

Use BP for prototyping or getting proof of concept, once you're happy with it, you can translate the functions to C++, and have the BP subclass to it.

[static viper]

if you really need to that is

[drowsy snow]

Note that some things are actually better done in BP, like asset referencing.

Hardcoding reference/path to asset in C++ is a recipe for project management hell

[vivid totem]

Im planning on upgrading to Windows11, Are there any common problems on UE4 on this OS I should know?

[slate jungle]

ye i m gonna follow that

[drowsy snow]

Nope.

Windows 11 to Windows 10 is pretty much what UE5 is to UE4.

[dark venture]

Hi! I want the AI character to stop attacking after the player is dead how can I do this?

[whole abyss]

https://i.imgur.com/mMYtzBv.png how can i add variables to control rig?

specifically i wanna tell it the characters current spd and direction btw. If there's a way to do that inside the control rig

[whole abyss]

i saw in a tutorial vid, that they plugged params into the control rig, but i can't see how

I got it now, i had to press the eye icon on my var inside the control rig

[whole abyss]

i am making a control rig, but it doesn't affect the mesh at all

[plush yew]

If a project is corrupted, is it a bad idea to migrate Blueprint classes from the corrupted project onto a new project?

[arctic plover]

I need some help: why is my "Default" level map almost completely white at start?

It should like like this, should it not?

[dawn gull]

Could somebody help me with a math related problem? I have this code set up so that a component in my actor can rotate towards my mouse pointer but the catch is that I am on a circular planet so I need to use my ground axis variable to cancel it out. The problem I am having is that it works for 180 degrees of all the circle around the player my mouse could go, is this a problem with the adding and subtracting?

If it is that how can I fix it? I've tried a rudimentary system of just seeing if the value is negative and if so do the reverse versions of the operations but that didn't work. It made it so there was like 45 degrees on each corner before it did the weird opposite side thing

[dawn gull]

Fixed my problem with this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOjAaskzquc

[plush yew]

Hi, one beginner question. Can I use UE4 character movements instead of UE5. This is just for me to get started. Than I can move to UE5 animations later

[drowsy snow]

And you're using UE4?

[chilly crow]

hello I found this disscussion because I cant solve my problem when I package my client side and wanna run it I get black screen and error , like this so turn off windows defender will help? It never happened before

[paper island]

HELP! My physics asset is broken?! any ideas?

[grim ore]

@chilly crowthat doesnt have anything to do with that, windows defender will slow down your compiling is what it does as every file that is compiled and written to disk will get scanned

[chilly crow]

ah so then my mission still not at the end ah 😦 I cant find any information regarding to my problem after 1years firs time error like this

[plush yew]

I am using UE5, however my character is made in UE4, I dont know would it behave ok in UE5 style, thats why I would try UE4 first

[opal nexus]

https://youtu.be/ghpi5XWCt_o

Thinking of making a game…

[latent sonnet]

i have an issue with my game. i am making a vr game. and the way it works is that theres a motion control component that represents your controller or headset transform in game space. when i attach an object to it, that object moves with the motion controller just fine. but if i instead of attaching the object just set its location to the motion controller on event tick, a delay forms, and the object drags behind the motion controller. now just for the transform its not an issue. but i want to combine the location of my motion controller with a custom rotation that for now i am only deciding on event tick, which means that if the object is parented to the controller after it got grabbed, When i twist my wrist the object kind of sways out of its intended rotation in the direction im rotation my controller. my current solution was deparent the object entirely and set its location on event tick aswell, but the delay is still there. this is fine as it is, but i was really wondering if theres a way to set custom location rotation of an object higher in the code hierarchy using c++ code?

make it "tighter"?

[plush yew]

How to make Thumbnail from editor action blueprint utilities

[west merlin]

So confused at this, seems like an engine bug but not sure

The actor being rotated is a simple actor with a static mesh as the only component, and it's the root

When it runs, on clients the visual of the mesh rotates, but the collision doesn't, but on the server/listen server, the collision and the visual both rotate

The server's rotation is set right before the multicast

[plush yew]

can someone explain the math behind this for me please? T_T

[trim belfry]

it spawns an actor 500 units in the forward (eg facing) direction of self

[plush yew]

might need help. whenever i kill one of the AI on my fps game they produce an invisible wall. help

[west merlin]

Need to change the collision on the capsule after they die

[plush yew]

oh,,

we can do that?> how?

[west merlin]

Is your game single player or multiplayer?

Jump in the Feedback & Support voice chat

[plush yew]

single player

[plush yew]

nvm. i found it by dragging the capsule into the blueprint and found set collision and its fixed now. thanks @west merlin '

[west merlin]

[spring abyss]

Hey Guys

How To Create Solo , Duo , Squad (Multiplayer) Thing in the Game??

Can Anyone Help?

[mental crow]

Hey

[floral solstice]

Do you really need the state machine or I heard you don’t need it so what would I need to do instead of using the state machine

[mental crow]

Will power IK be supported for UE4.27?

[floral solstice]

Why won’t anyone answer my question

[drowsy snow]

No, the creator has joined Epic Games and doing stuff in UE5, but if you happen to still have 4.26, you can download the plugin for it

[mental crow]

How the hell am I supposed to make foot IK now?

[drowsy snow]

Give up and move to UE5

Basic two bone IK should do the job. You could also have pelvis offset to follow furthest IK trace of the foot

[timid notch]

The weapons in my game are projectile based. I'm considering changing them into line trace based assuming that this will be a cheaper option. Am I correct on my assumption? and how much more expensive are projectile based firing?

[round salmon]

Why did I think it would be a good idea to try learning programming, animating, and modelling, all at once

[light thunder]

I can be done but you need to be realistic and understand the concept of DEPTH - so start very shallow - learn how to model and texture a box, make an animation of it, then trigger that animation based on an event in the game

[spark steeple]

Hi, Sorry, I was just wondering if there was any chance anyone would be willing to help me figure out how to finish my project? I just need to figure out how to make an actor detect when it's touching another actor/projectile, but this is my first time using Unreal so I have no idea what to do

This is the code I have to detect collisions

It's on a zombie enemy, I'm trying to make it so when it's hit by a bullet it gets killed

[surreal prism]

Honestly, after 25 years of development this engine could have a built-in solution for Fog of War. 🫤

[light thunder]

You need to watch a video on collision chalnnels

They can be very difficult to debug if you don't know what you are doing -

[spark steeple]

I figured it out now! Ty though!

I'll try to remember in the future since I still don't have an exact grasp on it yet

[rotund sorrel]

do casts keep going with the first exec pin even if the cast is failed?

[oak patio]

no

[gaunt saffron]

Hello everyone, could anyone tell me if i override an parent event, does it still have the same replication as the parent event ?

[rotund sorrel]

explain this then pls. unreal bug?

the exec goes on even if the object is from an other class

[oak patio]

Possibly a bug. Not sure.

[plush yew]

its probably visual bug, ive had branch firing both conditions at same time

[low vale]

Does anyone have the UE fighter template by rare encounter?

[plush yew]

If u override the event, whatever the parent function was gets cut, however, you can still click on the event, and select get parent function, and then add whatever functionality u need after that

[plush yew]

you can't ask anyone to share marketplace files

[gaunt saffron]

Thank you ! So basically i have an actor where i intialized some events, so that i can use them on child Blueprints.

For example : from my character im casting to my item_master, and call the "event use", so that the event gets called on any child actors, without having to cast to the specific actor.
But initally the event "use" doesnt habe any logic in my item_master.

But i need the event "use" to run on the server. Any idea how i could set that up?

[low vale]

i was not asking to share marketplace files. i wanted to know if anyone is familiar with the template i had questions pertaining to the template

[thin tendon]

most assets will have their own discord or support channels. Your best bet is to ask in one of those.

[rotund sorrel]

Unfortunaltely it really happens, the cast goes on even if it should fail being an actor from a different class

[modest trench]

This method is magnitudes faster

As you can just do them all in your own parallel loop

[plush yew]

Whenever I press Alt + P the game plays but I'm on my free camera not on my fps character... Wtf did I do help!

[modest trench]

It needs to be auto possessed and you probably want that set on the pawn?

In this case

Could just be unset gamemode

[plush yew]

Wait what? Forgive me but I'm dumb
☠️

[slow rover]

Hey guys uhm

So I’m still on ue2

[plush yew]

But when I right click and press play from here it works.

[thin tendon]

As @modest trench said trace is much faster. Projectiles is more for if you are trying to make your game have more realistic gun play.

[slow rover]

How can I upgrade to ue5?

[thin tendon]

You can right click the project file. and change the version to Ue5

[slow rover]

Ok

[plush yew]

Wait what does this mean lmfao

[thin tendon]

You should back up first though

[slow rover]

Ue2 is pretty old

Yea it’s time for an upgrade

Nah I’m jk

I’m on ue5

Idek if you can still use version that old

[modest trench]

You should look up what a gamemode is in unreal

[plush yew]

I found it and no that's not the case.

[plush yew]

This works tho.

[modest trench]

Are you using a player start or a pawn in the world?

[plush yew]

Player start

[modest trench]

Are the world settings overriding the game mode or the project settings?

[plush yew]

.. ah.. ermm.. wha?

[modest trench]

I'm not at my computer to make screenshots, sorry

[plush yew]

It's ok.

[modest trench]

Your best bet is to follow the beginner unreal stuff covering gameplay code

It will hopefully explain how gamemodes choose default pawns

And how PIE chooses a pawn to possess

[plush yew]

Oh.. ok I'll try!

[plush yew]

Yes my game mode chooses the right pawn for as default pawn class if that's what u meant.

[modest trench]

Could even be the player start being too far in the ground

[plush yew]

Ooh

Let me see.

[plush yew]

Nope not that xD

[plush yew]

Anyways I found the fix. My active play mode was simulate @modest trench thanks for the help! 😝

[spring delta]

Anyone know Gfur?

[dapper linden]

Hi, I try to create multiplayer game. I have a problem
When I want to kill enemy from server - its okey, but from client - its work only at client.
Replications in enemy blueprint included. When I debug my code, I release that the problem is when I want co cast my weapon blueprint to enemy blueprint - its does not working. But I can cast to third percon character from weapon blueprint. How to make when client kill enemy - server know about it.

[drowsy snow]

Try asking in #multiplayer

[pallid olive]

hi

ive a structure in the gameinstance and those variables are changed in the character bp

do i need to set structure or set members /

also do i need to promote the variables from the gameinstance to character bp ?

[grim ore]

@white hinge#instructions

[white hinge]

instructions are clear .

[modest trench]

You need to use the jobs channel

[white hinge]

i cant post there or no permit

the post is for 4.27 so it also for u4 incase , i got few asking for 5.0 wont do any work and that so i not sure

[white hinge]

so you reported me ? to your botty there

pathetic person if you cant do a job dont keep other from getting paid

got people here doing nothing but keeping others back all day i mean they dont do anything all day but troll and take any opportunity they can get

[white hinge]

or was this guy

not one else but these 2 acted but they cant handle the task there here maybe to lay eggs

he did not like my smart reply so i got reported to the bot woopie dooo i got muted

[thin python]

Just end the convo, its doing more harm than good at this point

[white hinge]

jerk who ever did all i got to say

[white hinge]

yeah when i am right and speak like this it trembles reality

[thin python]

Cool,

Now end it

[fierce tulip]

lol

he's gone.

[thin python]

He left? or kicked lol

[fierce tulip]

kinda looney toony, but it looked like a hammer fell from the sky

[thin python]

Dam these magic hammers that appear and crush the annoying people

[fierce tulip]

ikr, wild times.

[static viper]

fucking rammed that guy into the floor!!!! HE SCREAMED IN PAIN

heck yes

[bleak zodiac]

is a troll i guess

[fierce tulip]

no need for cursing.

[static viper]

sorry 😦

[lapis ore]

Can the Scalability settings be used to have an actor use different static meshes? I want to use lower res geo on lower spec platforms.

[grim ore]

I want to say yes but in the way you can force lower LOD levels at different scalabilities?

[lapis ore]

and I would want to force the higher LOD on the higher scalability setting.

[grim ore]

it looks like you can call the r.ForceLOD console command as well and force a minimum LOD level at runtime

alternately static meshes have a per platform LOD setting you can set on them to force minimum LOD levels per platform

[spring delta]

hi so im trying to add a Uasset in the content folder but it keeps saying unknow extension

[fierce tulip]

uasset is already a usasset, so you'd need to place it inside the project manually trough explorer.

if its in another project, migrate it instead

[spring delta]

oh boy

ok here we go

[fierce tulip]

else you'd break all references

[spring delta]

break references?

[fierce tulip]

if the file is originally in
content/xxy/thisfolder
and you just place it elsewhere any other file that uses it wont be able to find it, because the reference still expects it to be in "content/xxy/thisfolder"

hence its best to fix redirectors, then migrate it from one project, to your new one

[pallid olive]

in the widget if you have a text how can you make that the text goes under and not in one line

[drowsy snow]

There is auto wrap option in the details panel

If you're looking for manual line break, press Shift+Enter when typing in the Text box in Details panel

[pallid olive]

thanks alot

[vagrant ermine]

Hello guys. I've started study UE recenlty Could you help me please. There is Health component of character. I need him to decrease health when he runs. How I can implement it by C++.

[spring delta]

it's a download file

[fierce tulip]

where did you obtain it from?

[surreal prism]

Get the character movement component, get the velocity, and if it matches the MaxWalkSpeed that you set for running then adjust health accordingly.

[static viper]

If i wanted to remove all the assets of a project but not the core code with the core assets, is there a way todo this?

I will try migrating my code folder... but i have doubts

[drowsy snow]

So you're hardcoding path to asset? 🤔

[static viper]

i want to extract just the core game

i dont want any levels

and not the art assets

just the framework

[drowsy snow]

If you're not hardcoding path to assets, you can just start from blank project and bring over the Source folder (and rename if necessary)
Of course it would be easier if you're making it a plugin.

[static viper]

its blueprints

and some c++

oh god

i forgot that i have c++

[drowsy snow]

Heh, I thought you're doing most of the logic in C++
But even that, making it a plugin would make it lot easier.

Plugins can have its own content folder, unlike project level modules

[cunning marlin]

Hi guys, anyone has had any issues like this? Apart from crashing, which I thought was due to Alembic/geo cache

The right click menu is coming black after a while of use.

The tessellation material on the character is looking like that.

[magic helm]

I'm having this problem where sometimes in my game, the mouse sometimes still appears for a brief second on the left side of the screen.

Any ideas how to fix it?

The mouse isn't in the game btw. I've tried a few things but it's still there.

[coarse jetty]

do you hide it ingame? do you posses player?

check for possesing player

[magic helm]

yeah it's hidden in-game. where would possessing player be?

in the gamemode?

[coarse jetty]

yes

or in the player start there is a auto posess player

and if its hidden in game try to put it in game instance

[magic helm]

ahh yes, i use a player start!

[jolly jungle]

Assertion failed: UnscaledViewRect.Width() > 0 [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Engine/Private/SceneView.cpp] [Line: 739]

what does this error mean

in the context of a scene capture 2d

[timber scroll]

Lets hear a hura for the 3d Text component :/

it does this every frame

[magic helm]

Hmmmm, yeah it seems that the cursor isn't meant to be there, but if you move left (or maybe right), sometimes the cursor will suddenly be briefly visible.

I thought it might have something to do with the UI/Game mode etc but I don't believe so as that's working as intended.

[magic helm]

I think it might be triggered by me pressing the Shift key, but I'm not sure.

Another person had the same issue here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73424472/whenever-i-move-the-camera-on-the-left-side-of-the-screen-the-cursor-appears-in

[pallid olive]

if a button is in the overlay it cant have a zorder ?

[primal prairie]

then it will just use the hierarchy order

and overlay itself has the zorder

[magic helm]

Is there a way to make mouse clicks and key presses more reactive? Sometimes it feels like I have to click/press a couple of times before it does anything.

[robust lintel]

Sooo if i input 8 and 3 inside the int/int what does it output if it outputs an int and not a float? Does it round in down? Does it round it?

Got the answer - if anyone else wondering, it rounds the resoult down (8 / 3 = 2,666..., it returned 2)

[grim ore]

that seems correct as it should use the FloorToInt function

[zealous ginkgo]

hey guys i cant get a wagon pawn to move using chaos. i posted a 4 min video going through some of the bps and stuff and it just dont work. anyone know chaos vehicle and maybe you see something out of place? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc8CUYR-L3Q

[woven panther]

someone knows what this hidden collision is?

I can't find a way to get rid of it. destroyed the actor, components, set collision channel to ignore

wtf

even turned on in-game collision but nothing to be found

[pliant cave]

how do I use ue4 content in ue5 if I didn't get it from the marketplace?

[sage coral]

Got a small issue where I have a set of curtains with cloth sims but they do not react when the player walks into them. I tried looking up how to fix this but all I keep finding are videos on cloth sims on characters. I just want the curtains to move when the player walks near them

[summer verge]

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directstorage-1-1-now-available/

Hoping this makes it's way into UE5

[pliant cave]

can I send you a dm please?

[void palm]

Hello guys, I cant bring back the shadow for my main character.... skeletal mesh is the problem, but the shadow settings are same as the other meshes.... what should I do

[void palm]

found the culprit

[rotund sorrel]

Noob question: what is the difference between adding a simple collision to a mesh and "Collision Complexity: use complex as simple"?i notice the latter works even without a collision shape attacched to the mesh

[drowsy snow]

Only simple collision works for physics simulation on the static mesh

[rotund sorrel]

Oh ok. I wasn't using physics, just keeping the player to go trough them and it worked. But i noticed very poor performance when having hundreds of this walls with "use complex as simple". Is this wrong?

[pallid olive]

Hi for a widget if you have a button can this button be universal

Or do you need on click event bunch of branches

[wooden apex]

yo funny problem but urgent one

cant launch

[static viper]

show the full error log please

maybe post a pastebin

[wooden apex]

wait my ue lagged out

this @static viper

[static viper]

no the log

[wooden apex]

https://pastebin.com/wiwyVt8s

here

[static viper]

not the error message

/Game/MODELS/menuBackground/classroom/pencil3.pencil3.

can you show me your folders please

for the game

and what is that item

this is all a bit odd

[wooden apex]

ok ok

[static viper]

odd

[wooden apex]

hm?

[static viper]

can you just show me the folders under content?

[wooden apex]

second pic content

[static viper]

ok cool

is like a student project?

[wooden apex]

yep

private game thing

[static viper]

any plugins?

[wooden apex]

megascans

i can show you the folder

[static viper]

no that isnt it

can you show me one of the models that is brokebn

[wooden apex]

hm which one>

?

[static viper]

you are using datasmith

these meshes came from blender

[wooden apex]

well i downloaded them

[static viper]

well they are bork

[wooden apex]

these are the models from the classroom

but but which one? exatlcy

if you can pin point

[static viper]

pencil

pen1

pen2

[wooden apex]

in the classrom? wait gona search it

and

i cant build lighting btw

[static viper]

just the mesh

open these meshes

[wooden apex]

it gets stuck

[static viper]

so we can look at them

[wooden apex]

cant do anything cos its stuck

okay restarting it

[wooden apex]

okay im searching for them

nothiing

its empty

[static viper]

show me

[wooden apex]

pen 2

pen 1

[static viper]

do you not think that is a problem

[wooden apex]

yea i think that is a problem

[static viper]

and you got all these assets from where exactly?

[oak patio]

(me too)

[static viper]

i dont think broken assets are on megascans

[wooden apex]

the web cant rememeber where cos i donwloaded them one year ago

[static viper]

ok...

do me a favor

in the mesh

you can see the import details