ue4-general

[static viper]

and you can trust the timer, its serialized and more accurate then the delay

[opaque seal]

👍

[queen shuttle]

Those things I sent you to check, are good to always check as you import new stuff or to check what you already have. It keeps Everything running smooth and optimized as you build. I didn’t do that and I put myself in a bad spot hahaha😅

[dawn flint]

i ll learn more about how to use them well,

thank you

im trying to fix why it gets darker when i look away at light. haha one problem after another, garra learn it all

[queen shuttle]

Can try a post processing volume and set the exposure manual. I think it’s auto exposing

[dawn flint]

yeah im watching a video thats showing me that

thank you

[drowsy snow]

Asking for underground modding (without official toolkits) is against the #rules btw

[oak patio]

We don't support modding here

[static viper]

we support modding

but not ripping assets

[spice ruin]

Do we, though? We don't support game-specific stuff.

We're not going to teach you how to mod a game. Unless you randomly find someone who's done it. More likely you're going to find someone in a modding community.

[drowsy snow]

It's more like this:
Games with official Unreal Editor mod kit can be asked here, but those that don't and as a result requires reverse engineering the game can't be asked.

The problem is that reverse engineering one UE4 game can be applied to other UE4 games, even if the developers strongly against it.

[spice ruin]

But you probably still won't have any luck asking about the mod kit or the game specifically, only about basic UE.

[drowsy snow]

In that case that can be ignored, but I've seen many UE mod kits shares a lot in common with the regular UE.

[spice ruin]

#macos 😦

[rotund sorrel]

Maybe not too much related. I (being an idiot) mistakenly clicked delete on the folder of my project, than quickly canceled the deletion. Did canceling it restore the files canceled until then?how could i make sure?i'm on Windows btw

[rotund sorrel]

Yeah i checked and it should be fine

But what if .git folder would have been the first to die😬

Yeah i have it on github of course

Just didn't want to re download the whole project

[fallow hornet]

is there a way to use a cine camera as an ortho camera?

[placid cedar]

hey, does anyone know if there is a way to access/edit or get a reference to a WaterWaveAsset inside a blueprint?

[thin urchin]

Is there a way to fix level references after migrating your content to a new project? My old project was broken and wouldn't allow me to successfully package my plugin so I have migrated the content to a new project which usually fixes the issue. But when I open the level in the new project everything is missing

[coarse cypress]

can anyone give me tips on behavior trees. im just trying to make this enemy move so i can set up patrol

[median rampart]

Hello!
Im trying to check UE4 Sample Shooter project and i am stuck in main menu. It is now allow me to host anything, double click or Enter not working there. What i am possible doing wrong?
UE version is 4.27.2

[potent reef]

Hey everyone.. can UMG button triggering level sequence animation?

[grim ore]

it should be able to as long as you can get a reference to the sequence player

[wild crag]

the legend themselves

hella useful tuts 👍

[potent reef]

Thanks! Is there any video on your Youtube about that? I watch several on your tuts but dont find any.

https://youtu.be/W-UWNNRuPwQ
I watch this but its running via editor utility widget, not via BP widget.

[grim ore]

Its the same code

[drowsy snow]

Make a new button widget, execute Play Sequence (or Play Level Sequence) on the On Click event of the button.

[grim ore]

one just runs in editor, one doesnt

[drowsy snow]

The only difference is you're doing it in a User Widget subclass, as opposed to Editor Utility Widget

No, that's where the usual evil plans monetization scheme comes in.

[potent reef]

There is no such node in Widget BP. But with editor utility widget, is there.

[drowsy snow]

You can be a prick developer by adding in-game ads bugging the player, or paid in game currencies and gambling mechanics gacha that affect gameplay.

No

If you want to publish a freeware, you don't expect money coming from it.

No.

Mobile game market is crap anyway, so I don't know which one is the best

[potent reef]

I can do it with editor utility widget, but not with Widget BP.

[drowsy snow]

I would not repeat myself.

[grim ore]

@potent reef

works as expected and this is in the docs

you need a player, and you tell it to play. if you dont have the level sequence in the world then you do it above. if you have it in the world, then get it and then the player out of it and play

[potent reef]

@grim ore @drowsy snow It works! Thank you so much!

Once again, So now it works, i want to make a step by step animation, like “procedure how to get X”

Let say 2 buttons:
Button 1: play 1-5 frames
Button 2: play 5-10 frames

Is that possible with same sequence level asset and start with x frame? So it continous.

[grim ore]

There is a set play range node that should work

[potent reef]

On the other hand ive got a problem with this, after it end, asset position came back to 0 frame position, Already checked “pause at end” in level sequence setting. But it reset to 0 frame after it finished.

[grim ore]

works here when I set it to pause on end

[potent reef]

Hmmm.. dont know why it doesnt work. I will try making new level to test.

[grim ore]

code

and running https://i.gyazo.com/9458d96af787ba9a5fd14b75139118c3.gif

the sequence is 120 frames total, I only play the first 60 per the code

yep and works the same for the code that grabs the level sequence player that is in the level if I do it that way

[real stratus]

How can I switch to full screen mode in "Play" mode, in a separate window? I set the resolution I need in the settings, but after launch, my resolution settings change.

Because there is a resolution cropping due to the window

[drowsy snow]

It's not possible with new window PIE, but it's possible with Standalone, and Selected Viewport PIE

[real stratus]

there is no Selected Viewport PIE here.

[grim ore]

its the first one

PIE is just inferred since its the viewport in the editor

F11 I beleive is the full screen toggle

[real stratus]

If I understand correctly, then in full screen mode, I click on the Play button and the game is not displayed in full screen, but still in a small preview window.

[grim ore]

choose selected viewport, hit play, hit F11

[real stratus]

unfortunately nothing happened

[potent reef]

Sir, which node is this? I dont have full setting like that.

Set play range works!

[grim ore]

thats the create level sequence node, I just expanded the options struct

but it should work if you check it on the level sequece in the level as well

@real stratusweird, you might need to just use standalone then and use a console command to make it fullscreen at the resolution you want

but F11 should maximize the viewport, you can test it inside of the editor as well

[potent reef]

I dont understand with how to expanded the options…

[real stratus]

This works in ctrl+F11, but only with the editor.

[grim ore]

so when you are playing in edtor, in the viewport window, that hotkey doesnt maximize?

@potent reefright click the options input pin and there is an option there

[real stratus]

nop
Only the editor window itself.

[grim ore]

but thats not the fullscreen you want? @real stratus if so you have to launch standalone then

[real stratus]

Okay thanks

[grim ore]

because I end up with this

[real stratus]

wtf

[drowsy snow]

WTF indeed. Ctrl+F11 to fullscreen the editor, with the viewport active press F11 to make it occupy the whole editor window.

[potent reef]

Now everything works! Thank you so much!

[real stratus]

or rather shift + f11**, and it does not work

[grim ore]

if you go to the hamburger menu in the viewport, what does it show for immersive mode?

[real stratus]

this?

[grim ore]

yep so its F11, if you check it does it do anything?

[real stratus]

yep

[grim ore]

welp you could try going into it that way then alt-p for play mode

[real stratus]

The fact is that I am working on a pixel game and the wrong screen resolution can break the display of pixels on the grid.

[grim ore]

im curious if you might have a shortcut for your F keys instead of them being F keys

[real stratus]

I think don't worry about it, thanks for the help. I'll just lower the resolution to compensate for this.

[trail cloud]

Hi! Had no idea why, but I can't modify geometry throught Brush Editing....

[potent reef]

If i click the button multiple times, The position got weird. Not resetting to start frame.

Any idea? Thanks!

@grim ore @drowsy snow

[dawn flint]

how can I make the shadows in the ceiling look better without turning them off

[potent reef]

Problem:
It turns out a problem with sequencer out of sync state/frame jumping. “Restore state” or “Keep state” things… i dont know why it happens and how to solve it.

Checking:
I create cube animation in Blender. 5s. Exported it as fbx anim and then assigned 2 widget buttons. It’s working as it should, Sadly i want to animate directly via Sequencer.

[potent reef]

Are you familiar with Lightmass and Light-Baking? Start there if you don’t.

[spare trench]

Hey,
I want to change the functionaly of "back" button according to diferent menus. Let me explain.
I have 3 menus - MainMenu, Settings Menu, PauseMenu. When I go to settings menu from Mainmenu, then the back button should create widget to main menu. But when I go to setting menu from Pausemenu, then the back button should create pausemenu.
I tried doing this from boolean but as I am a beginner Iam having some problems.
Can someone domenstrate this thing to me how can I do it

[spare trench]

Button in the left bottom

[real stratus]

Does the number of "Event BeginPlay" nodes in one Blueprint affect performance?

[autumn flame]

Don't crosspost and #work-in-progress

[rotund sorrel]

Where can i see/debug physics assets in game like i do with collisions in player collision?

[devout dome]

i have a big problem i designed like 8 maps/levels in one project but i can no longer see it in my project list after signing into to epic games and updating this is so much work to be lost any solutions or ideas?

[oak patio]

why dont you just open it via the .uproject file

also don't crosspost

[pallid olive]

hello if you spawn 100 zombies with this begin play

will have it have to much impact on game performance ?

[wooden eagle]

does anyone know how i can make a bendy themed game like with the black and white style in ue

[elfin steeple]

is having blueprints with animation blueprints on them placed in the world in my game bad for performance?
even if is just a gun?

[drowsy snow]

Depends. It's not escalating that quickly, but you have to estimate based on how many concurrent player visible most of the time.

[elfin steeple]

so basicly not having to much weapons with animbps on them placed visible

?

[sudden escarp]

Hii

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, even in full 150 player session of Warzone, it's rare to have them all visible at once

[oak patio]

Figure out your game mechanics. Make meshes in the art style of your target. Assemble the two. Finishing touches and bam! 2 years of dev condensed into 2 lines of text

[wooden eagle]

i mean just the style

[oak patio]

that all depends on your art skills

[spring delta]

does anyone know how to remove the auto light when it's dark?

?

@shy nacelle this?

It says requires compute shader to construct 64 bi histogram

[odd swan]

set max brightness and min brightness to the same number and it will stop correcting the brightness

[spring delta]

@odd swan @shy nacelle ?

[spring delta]

like i set it and it's still going bright

[mortal jacinth]

hop in guys...

[potent reef]

Hey guys! is there a workaround for using UMG for subtitle in sequencer? i found on youtube but it needs a paid plugin and only UE5.

[drowsy snow]

There is, but you'd either build one yourself or intercept the native system in C++

(I'm currently working on one, based off of Source engine subtitles)

[late parrot]

Hey guys im using function Get Actor of Class, how to check if the function succeeded in getting the actor ( im using this with event tick since the actor that needs to be found spawns midgame ).

I just need a simple check if the actor was found than continue

[thin tendon]

there is a setting in the editor settings or project settings. Called something like auto eye exposure. Try turning that off.

[thin tendon]

Is an is valid node

[potent reef]

is there anyone know about this? right now workaround is to animate outside Sequencer and bring FBX Anim. But i want to animate directly in sequencer.

[dawn flint]

not much but how can i even go about it? i watched some tutorials about lightmass but i dont see how it effect that.

[real stratus]

My character is looking to the left side, but UE thinks he is looking to the right side and doesn't give me the option to change that?

Can I safely remove this item?

[drowsy snow]

You can't. It's hardcoded in Character.h and Character.cpp, and you can't modify engine code with vanilla launcher builds anyway. So best to remake it with it's parent class, Pawn

[real stratus]

Do you mean choose another class?

Would it be an adequate solution to change the size to -1?

[drowsy snow]

I honestly don't know, I'm not dealing with Paper2D

[rotund sorrel]

Why are the names of the actors different in dubug compared to their names in the scene in editor? how can i trace back who's who?

[spare trench]

How to count and show in a widget that how many times an event was fired off.
In my case how many time I died.

[thin tendon]

From the event increment an integer by 1. Then bind the widget value to that integer

[drowsy snow]

Increment an integer (can be owned by something like GameInstance) and tell the UI to read the value everytime your player character died

I won't recommend using bind function as death counter doesn't need to be updated every frame.

[pallid olive]

Hello guys if you have a large map which all is renderd does this consume alot of processing power

[dawn flint]

how can i reduce my foliage light building time ?

[thin tendon]

Quick answer yes. The more that is there the more it will cost.

[pallid olive]

This is ticked waffle

In the render section

[thin tendon]

Yes you want things to be occluded whenever possible

[cyan pine]

I would like to print the user's name on a wall in the background in the main menu (in a certain font). I know how to get the username, I figured it would have to be linked to a decal but I'm not sure how to do this. Anyone who can point me in the right direction? Just printing it on screen wouldn't be sufficient as the wall has a slight lateral view. I've been googling but I can't really find any useful answers unfortunately. Help would be very much appreciated👌

[thin tendon]

I think what you are looking for is a render text component in your decal material

[cyan pine]

I think so too, thank you for the quick response! Im a bit of a beginner so it's sometimes difficult to know what I'm even looking for haha.

[thin tendon]

My first guess was wrong. I did a quick search. Here is a link to the only thing I could find.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/rendering-text-in-a-material/18556/24

[steady vale]

how do i differentiate from this S key to CTRL + S key?
Both event are getting called apparently, even if i press CTRL S

[drowsy snow]

If you're trying to save the project in editor, there is different section for editor shortcuts in Editor Preferences.

[steady vale]

no its a runtime save feature for my game

what i want to do is, not fire the MoveUp/Down event as i press CTRL+S at runtime

S has been bound with both the events

[drowsy snow]

A hacky way to do it is to determine whether Ctrl is being pressed or release, you can set a bool in it and gate your input action events with the bool before running the logic.

[cyan pine]

Thanks! I found this video as well; https://youtu.be/vHf286UfoPU , might be useful. I'm going to do some trial and error

[steady vale]

yeah i already did that, was wondering if there was a better way

[foggy narwhal]

Hey Folks im new around here 🙂 nice to meet you all, if i need some help with something is this the right channel to post?

[spice ruin]

Depends on your problem.

Most of them should go in their appropriate channel.

Also hi!

[foggy narwhal]

What would UE4 Crashing due to PhysX be? 😓

[spice ruin]

#legacy-physics probably

And it'd depend on your callstack ofc

[foggy narwhal]

HA! Thanks i didn't see it i was looking for something like that

[runic fern]

In EOS we have this Can i use it as a savegame ?

Database **

[spice ruin]

I mean, if you want a save game, surely you'd use the player specific one it mentions?

[runic fern]

And if i want to save global variable like Map Stage or map mode etc

is it enough ?

[spice ruin]

Shrug

[runic fern]

Shrug

[hollow tusk]

Hey everyone, does anyone know of any FPS arena maps that are available for purchase? I am looking for something like this, preferable super basic, not very big and with not a lot of different levels of elevation.

Exameple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJdOhDmUdl0

[rotund sorrel]

For what do you guys use level blueprint?

[spice ruin]

Generally it's a bad idea.

Whatever you do in the level blueprint is probably better done in a re-useable system and put into the level as an actor or some other sort of object.

[queen shuttle]

Hello, is there anyway to test if a static mesh is causing performance issues but in a level by itself?

[spice ruin]

Put it in a level and see?!

[queen shuttle]

I thought about that but the issue is, since it will be empty, I don't think it will cause it. I think it is only an issue when I'm at my limit on performance. I could be, being stupid. Hahaha

[spice ruin]

You could put 1000 of them in.

Compare that with 1000 cubes or other asset.

[queen shuttle]

OHHHHHH that's smart! Thanks!

[spice ruin]

Or use the lighting and shader complexity view modes

[rotund sorrel]

What to look in those view modes?

[spice ruin]

In the editor viewport, at the top left, one of the dropdowns has them.

[rotund sorrel]

Yeah but i mean, once active what to look for performance in those views?

[spice ruin]

Oh.

Erm, not sure? I don't use them. Certain colours are bad. Google it?

[rotund sorrel]

I Will thx!

[queen shuttle]

Depends on which one you use

[queen shuttle]

Both, closest you can get to green is better.

Light shader should be blue but with lights on it, it will turn green

Between my door and frame, I have 54 Mesh draw calls. That's a little high huh?

[rotund sorrel]

How can you see that?

[queen shuttle]

click the ` key and then type in Stat SceneRendering

[hidden dew]

Hi all.
I have a C++ Actor class, call it Planet.
Now I want it to use an object of another C++ class, call it WeedManager.
I don't want WeedManager to be an actual Actor that can be placed in a scene, but instead just something another object can use.

Does that sound like the right thinking for creating an ActorComponent class? Pretty fresh with this stuff.

[edgy roost]

is it posible to mod Satisfactory game to be capable of doing LAN without internet conection on two laptops? or to uhh authentication and communication server what ever that is?
im looking at a solution so i can play without needing to have internet 😐

i suck at coding btw so please dumb stuff down

[spice ruin]

We don't do mod/game support here.

[edgy roost]

what? isnt this general discusion about UE4 tho? .-.

[spice ruin]

Not to that extent, no.

We don't offer support for specific games or modding.

You should post on reddit or find a satisfactory community. 😦

[edgy roost]

so what channel do i ask in?
and idk if its tooo game specific since this is a engine specific part, not the game code that is the issue

[edgy roost]

game discord cant help cause this is engine/back end specific problem, the devs of the game have zero control over the server aspect

[spice ruin]

The devs of the game have complete control over the engine/back end. 😦

If it forces you to use steam or whatever for MP, you're screwed. Blame the devs.

[edgy roost]

CSS (devs)
dont control the multiplayer aspect since its outsourced to epic/ue4 servers stuff cause they signed an epic exclusive contract that forced them to use the epic auth thing or what ever the term is and have zero control over that

im way out of my league here ngl

as for steam you need to still be linked to epic acount even if you own it on steam to play the game online

could you maybe help out with ue4 and how it does server stuff?
any info would be amazing at this point

[spice ruin]

Then still blame the devs.

It's entirely dependent on what they enable.

[edgy roost]

they have 100% fully enabled every thing they are allowed to by epic games, its rly out of their hands

[spice ruin]

Then blame them for signing the contract.

Either way, you won't get support for your random ue4 game (though it's a good game) in this server.

[edgy roost]

soooo you wanna talk about how UE4 handles multiplayer in general? non game specific stuff just engine functionality/capability

[spice ruin]

Sure. The options available are based on the online subsystems they make available. The null one is probably for lan play. If it's not available in the options, you're screwed.

[edgy roost]

define online subsystem?
is that something you make from scratch? is it interchangable or if i make a game one way to handle MP/Lan and then later on wanna fully change it, it will brake the game?

wdym null one? the one stock with ue4?

[spice ruin]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/Online/

[edgy roost]

is there like a version of this kids could understand? like 8-12 yr old range.
cause from reading this i... feel like im a hobo from florida trying to speak chinese, on saturn, with 4dimensional beings. like woah this is complex.

just fyi i once took a coding job and after 2 weeks i quit and had to go to therapy... drank like 8 coffees a day by day 3 and had constant panic atacks due to not being able to understand or work with coding at all no matter how hard i tried and forced myself so id say me even trying imo is a huge step but asume i have 70iq when it comes to coding stuff

or should i just give up again and asume this isnt something i will be able to even understand enough to work with?

[edgy roost]

welp time to give up, read that whole linked page 40 times slowly and still dont get it

[pallid olive]

hi is it possible to only render when its in certain range ?

[gray tundra]

Hello,

I have a question about poly count guidelines.

Are there any good ballpark estimations for poly counts on different systems available/known?

In particular, I wonder if I should worry about having say 100 000 - 1 000 000 polys on screen on the Nintendo Switch? I'd also be curious if that's considered a lot for iOS.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers.

[pallid olive]

Will cull distance volume reduce render pool?

[rotund sorrel]

Is it a lot if i get an average of 547 mesh draw calls when looking at my whole level?

[queen shuttle]

It really depends on the size of your game but I’ve seen that around 2,000 is shippable for Xbox

[oak patio]

If coding gives you panic attacks, then modding games, no less trying to change its multiplayer is probably not the best.

There is no ELI5 for this

Multiplayer is complex. Modding a different kind of multiplayer in an existing game is infinitely more so.

And you won't get support for that here anyway

[drowsy snow]

If you're really unable to grasp it, then game dev might not be for you. Admittedly it is not for everyone

I will say though, as a gamer, don't be ignorant about what goes into your favorite games.

[potent reef]

Hey everyone… asking for help again. I made a Blueprint Actor and assigned a widget button to it. When i drag it to the level, the widget button turned out black.

I do create a fresh new level and the button looks normal. Why the widget black in certain levels?

Thanks before!

[potent reef]

Hmmm…

[ripe carbon]

What would be the best way to set controls to a USB controller, in addition to the keyboard and mouse?

I tried hooking a USB controller, but I can't seem to register it with Unreal Engine.

[drowsy snow]

Just use the built-in input mapping, you can assign more than one keys per action/axis, and you can put gamepad buttons in there as well.

[ripe carbon]

True, but I can only assign keyboard and mouse buttons.

So how do I add a USB controller to the list of usable peripherals?

[drowsy snow]

Route your USB controller through a software-level XInput translator

[drowsy snow]

Yeah, the SunSky system was meant for archviz uses, and they will complain about accuracies if it's not set to insanely high number (for games) like 75K lux.

BTW consider taking direct screenshots from your computer instead of taking photo of the screen with your phone. The added clarity will be appreciated

[ripe carbon]

I have a Logitech Dual Action controller. I'm sure I'll sound dumb for this, but how do I route that?

[drowsy snow]

https://www.x360ce.com/

I used to use it before using a real DualShock 4 (and subsequently used DS4Windows)

[ripe carbon]

So I should download the one for 64-bit games, since my laptop has a 64-bit processor?

[drowsy snow]

I mean, 64-bit is the norm these days anyway, so yeah. It'll work with older games you have lying around.

[ripe carbon]

Okay. I'm just a bit confused on which one to pick, so the 64-bit option at the top of the page?

I've clicked on the Download for All Games option.

[drowsy snow]

That'll do.

[ripe carbon]

Okay. I'm now installing the software needed for the virtual controller emulation.

The program's not responding. Which means I should give it some more time.

(And hope I don't have to force-close it.)

[ripe carbon]

Okay. The buttons are all set up. So will Unreal Engine detect this controller, next time I open the project?

[drowsy snow]

As long as the controller emulator is active, yes.

It'll detect as yet another Xbox controller

[ripe carbon]

Okay. So the program would need to be open, too? The Xbox emulator one?

[drowsy snow]

Yes

[ripe carbon]

Okay. But what about when actually running the program after it's been packaged? I'm really asking because one friend who tested the recent version was telling me he'd rather use an Xbox controller.

[drowsy snow]

The emulator is entirely on your side, it doesn't affect the packaged game whatsoever.

[ripe carbon]

Okay, sounds good.

Thanks!

[hidden dew]

If I have a C++ Actor that I don't want rendered (and its collision is disabled), what's the right way to say "Spend no processing effort on this"

Is it just MyComponent->SetVisibility(false); ?

[drowsy snow]

Disabling tick and setting the visibility is what you need.
It may still receive function calls though.

[hidden dew]

Thanks

On that note.. if this actor is only being transformed around the level, ie., basically a mesh that other stuff moves around, can its Tick() simply be disabled the whole time?

Its own Tick() will be empty either way

[vivid ether]

Anyone where /how to access FGraphAStar in engine files ? I can use it but not view the code

[sudden escarp]

Hi somebody have a tutorial video of infinity runner?

[drowsy snow]

Or look into the source code on GitHub, but you do need to link your GitHub account to your Epic account (and it might not go through first time around, in that case, repeat the procedure)

[real stratus]

Hello, I have encountered some very serious error in the program.
After I try to run my level. When I close the window, I start to have very strong lags and slowdowns in the project.
Where do I start to understand what could be the matter?

I restarted my computer and everything is fine now. But it was very scary. I'm tired of solving such problems in Unity, I hope such bugs are a huge rarity in UE.

[drowsy snow]

If in doubt, always check the stat commands

stat unit is a good starting point for your troubleshooting. that's something won't provide out of the box.

Narrow down to what thread taking up the most time frames

[real stratus]

Are you talking about this?
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/TestingAndOptimization/PerformanceAndProfiling/StatCommands/
Okay thanks, next time I'll try to do something about it.

[drowsy snow]

Yup, that one

[normal oxide]

Does anyone know why this is happening? 😅 I'm using the base UE4 mannequin and a couple of root motion anims for attacking, for some reason the characters jump/fly off when they overlap...

[drowsy snow]

Looks like your root motion ignore collisions somehow, and causing solid colliders to overlap

[normal oxide]

Any idea what I should check to fix it? This happens with pretty much every RM anim and has plagued me across several projects

[drowsy snow]

I don't know for sure, mine works just fine

[normal oxide]

This is what I have on the enemy NPC, if it helps...

Enemy/player also gets stuck at weird angles after overlapping 😓

Edit for anyone else that has the issue - it was the collision on the sword itself, not the pawn 😅

[real stratus]

I'm answering my own question in case anyone has a similar experience.
I'm working on a pixel game and didn't think it could work that way.
When I opened "Play" in the "Secect Viewport" mode everything was fine, but when I used the "New editor window (PIE)" mode, when I closed the game mode, my UE started to lag and slow down terribly.
The reason was the resolution ratio of the camera. (I'll point it out in the screenshot) And this happens even without any objects on the screen. That is, with a completely empty project.
Does anyone know why it works like this?

That is, it would be a LOT logical if the lags were in the game window. But the lags only start in the UE interface, after closing the window with the game.

[flat trail]

So when i have a second viewport, why cant the show settings keep the way i set them? I have main viewport where i do selections and changes to the scene, and i want a second viewport which doesnt show selection or the gizmo tool, but for what ever reason when i disable this in "show" settings under the viewport, it resets the settings i changed in the second viewport and shows selection + gizmo again..

[hidden dew]

Hi all. I have this code in a C++ class's header. It's a child of AActor.

    UFUNCTION(BlueprintImplementableEvent, Category = "Cell Functions")
    void TestCalledFromBP2();

I'm expecting to be able to right-click inside a blueprint and find an event node called "TestCalledFromBP2".
But I'm getting nothing...context sensivity on or off.

Any ideas?

[strange bear]

I'm not really sure where this question fits best (please tell me if I have to move this)
In Unreal, it's possible to import a file by drag and dropping it in Explorer into a folder in the project. Unreal will then detect a new file and ask to import it into the project.
Is is possible to import new files added through explorer using CMD without having to load the editor/project?

[hidden dew]

I'm after an Event node though. This kind of thing:

UFUNCTION(BlueprintImplementableEvent, Category = "AI") 
void StartPartrolling();

ah

I'll try that

[rotund sorrel]

is there some option to autoformat blueprints spaghetti?

[hidden dew]

The only thing I know is the Q key

aligns nodes you've selected, if they're connected

Will always move the 1st selected, to line up with the 2nd selected, if you select with Ctrl+clicks instead of a drag

[rotund sorrel]

👍

[gaunt tide]

So I understand that upon removing a specific index from an array of objects that it shifts the other indices inside the array up. What Im failing to understand is how editing an object and switching it with another object in that array causes the array to keep removing indices with each iteration of switching the items until there are no longer any indices in the array. After picking up 4 objects you can see they are in the array for my inventory. If I than proceed to move the objects to different slots and assign them to array elements not only are they not assigned to the proper value but there previous indices are removed all together. Am I misunderstanding "Set Array Elem" node?

[sharp willow]

Show your code please

[night birch]

How can I use Marketplace URL's e.g. com.epicgames.launcher://ue/marketplace/content/1d2dc261d8124217ab2f2023c7ea54b6

I can't just copy paste them into browser

[gaunt tide]

Yeah sorry didn’t wanna post too many pictures. I found what was causing the issue after more digging but the “Remove Index” didn’t appear when I searched for some reason.

[digital lynx]

what's the best resource for learning the basics of ue4 now that learn.unrealengine.com has been replaced by dev.epicgames.com?
and that is completely ue5 focused

[sharp willow]

Often you'll find the issue to your problem right after you explain it to someone else lmao

[oak patio]

Honestly if you are just starting go to ue5

[gaunt tide]

Yeah. I had done searchs using Find Result as well as visually and couldnt find it at first. Also doesnt assigning a property image using a Texture 2D not work either?

[gaunt tide]

Yeah. Also this is in the wrong chat lol.

[keen holly]

Can you convert beam module particle data to a mesh?

[pallid olive]

is it possible to bulk edit lod in static meshes

[strange bear]

Anyone got any idea? ^^'

[wary gyro]

I'm making hand poses for my vr game. I want to layer them though, like when you touch trigger, and hold grip, each one of those has their own animation, but they overlap on each other. How could I do this? Whenever I try to play multiple at the same time, only one of them plays

[neon bough]

you have set your screen percentage to 400% which renders everything at 400% and scales it down to your PIE window... (you usually don't want values above 100%)

this probably doesn't happen in PIE because PIE has it's own screen percentage setting

[timid notch]

Hi all! I'm working on creating a map for my randomly created mansion. I want the map to be created as the player explores the mansion. My plan is to have a collision box for each room so that when the player enters a room it'll trigger to show the room on the map. However, the mansion has approximately 52 rooms. Will having so many box collisions cause a performance issue? How expensive is a box collision?

[grim ore]

its not

[timid notch]

Hi MathewW. Are you the Mathew Wadstein from youtube?

[spice ruin]

The engine is pretty optimised when it comes to collision and traces.

[timid notch]

I practically started learning Unreal Engine from your youtube videos 😄 those are great 😄 thanks a million for those videos 😄

[grim ore]

Awesome, glad to hear they were useful 🙂

[hidden dew]

What's the sensible way to use the C++ API documentation? I just never really know what I'm doing with it.
For example, I know there's a functions along the lines of "find actors" by class, tag, whatever.
So if I go here: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/API/, I don't know how to look for it. The search feature seems to just go all over the place.

Or is it just me?

A good example is that searching for "getactors" returns 1 result, which is deprecated. And doesn't find "GetActorsFromWorld"

[grim ore]

how do you know that function exists?

[hidden dew]

blueprints

[grim ore]

so that is how you should go about it

look at the code for that blueprint

it would give you the C++ code

[hidden dew]

Good advice

But still what about using the documentation?

Like, just in general, how do people use it?

[grim ore]

it is what it is, API references are just that.

well what do you mean by how do they use it?

[hidden dew]

Hmm

[grim ore]

there is a getting started page that gives you the high level overview of the API, you would just browse and find something you wnt

API references are normally just hierarchial lists of "stuff"

[hidden dew]

That's probably my issue

[grim ore]

the documentation itself would be all the stuff NOT in the api reference

and then, you might not find anything C++ specific as it might be an editor thing or just no code in C++ for that topic

it might be weird to say but when programming for something like unreal C++ its less about learning what you are doing and more about just finding what you need to do what you already know how to do which is why the API reference is just a reference. That and you just kinda jump in and go.

[hidden dew]

So let me pose what is probably a dumb example. If I want to check out the functions that are in in AActor, is that webpage a good way to go about it? Or is the typical approach to go into the code itself (or something else?)

[grim ore]

the API reference is pulled out of the code itself so both would work.

in your case since your not going at this blind, but from the blueprint side, going at it from that direction would work better since you can do a 1:1 comparison

5.1 even lets you see c++ header code for blueprints in the editor now

[hidden dew]

That's pretty cool

[grim ore]

so kinda like now you have an actor in blueprints, then you drag off of it and it gives you what you can do with it, you would do something similar with C++ code by looking at the actor header and seeing what functions it exposes to you. theres alot more "work" involved in C++ which blueprints hide

[hidden dew]

I hadn't seen the Getting Started page, that looks helpful too.

Yeah, that I get

I think half of my issue is I was probably hoping the search feature was better; ie., trying to use it to just search for a term and perusing what comes up.

But it's not very effective, so I guess (and from what you've been saying), that's just not a good way to go about things

[grim ore]

well thats kinda the issue

it works, just while you think "get actor of class" the actual code behind it is ```AActor* UGameplayStatics::GetActorOfClass(const UObject* WorldContextObject, TSubclassOf<AActor> ActorClass)
{
QUICK_SCOPE_CYCLE_COUNTER(UGameplayStatics_GetActorOfClass);

// We do nothing if no is class provided
if (ActorClass)
{
    if (UWorld* World = GEngine->GetWorldFromContextObject(WorldContextObject, EGetWorldErrorMode::LogAndReturnNull))
    {
        for (TActorIterator<AActor> It(World, ActorClass); It; ++It)
        {
            AActor* Actor = *It;
            return Actor;
        }
    }
}

return nullptr;

}```

of which well TActorIterator<AActor> It(World, ActorClass); It; ++It this is the actual part that is doing the heavy lifting of getting the actor

which basically involves you knowing the underside of the engine and how it stores stuff and how it keeps track of stuff for you to write this code to "just get an actor of a class"

the nice part is since its exposed to blueprints, you can either steal the existing code and make your own local function(s) for it or if you are lucky its already there for you to use in a helper library

[hidden dew]

Yeah, i's just something I want to use, nothing complicated. My focus in this chat is more just about trying to use the webpage API reference

[grim ore]

but yes, if the docs had pages like "how do I do XXX in unreal engine" with C++ and BP code, your search would probably work like you wanted. Unfortunately thats a huge undertaking 😦

[hidden dew]

For example, a search for "Getactorofclass" gives no results.
A search for "get actor of class" gives 50 results... without a clear winner and a lot of unrelated stuff

[grim ore]

honestly its a cop out but the docs for C++ is the source code, for example I generally just use github search lol

this is what I did for example

[hidden dew]

Ah yeah I hadn't thought of github searching

[grim ore]

the source is going to be the ground truth for C++, its part of the job when doing code work

[hidden dew]

yeah

I guess my impression then is to use the API reference page when you either know what you're browsing towards, or the Getting Started page can help guide you there

[grim ore]

you can also double cheat as the BP nodes will give you the class the node is in in the tooltip

[hidden dew]

Ah that's a tip I didn't know

ta

[grim ore]

it could be but I personally never use the API docs page. Its always literally github

[hidden dew]

screen clip, paste in notes hehe

yeah, I think that's understandable

[grim ore]

I used to use it, but in the end is just a scrape of the actual C++ code so no real use for me

it is nice to see the hierarchy of classes, but you can see that in the editor so shrug

mm... ok I take that back, it IS useful to see the required modules section

I guess I do use it when crap breaks when I forgot to include modules, like this for example

lets me easily know I should have added UMG as a required module when I need CreateWidget

lol I guess using C++ in unreal is just knowing all the places you have available to you to find what you need 🙂

[hidden dew]

yeah

I always seem to run into difficulty with that. Just learning my way around still

I don't think to just jump into the code often enough

Thanks for the advice & tips

[grim ore]

yep and if you ever get actually stuck #cpp has some really smart people

[hidden dew]

Cheers for the youtube stuff btw hehe, it's really good

[ripe carbon]

I'm thinking of creating an animated material, like one to create an illusion of moving water through a pipe, for instance. What's the best method?

[grim ore]

material + uv + time + magic?

epic has a water material course, it's old but the code checks out, https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/Zd9/unreal-engine-creating-a-simple-water-material/61K/creating-a-simple-water-material along with some other stuff. example content samples has some water as well.

also #graphics if you get stuck

[ripe carbon]

I'm sure it still has relevance today. I'll give that a look.

[neon grove]

why when enabling fullscreen mode in a packaged build using the Set Fullscreen node in BPs the user interface becomes buggy?

like the mouse arrow wont click the buttons on the ui

[queen rivet]

I am working on a project and my task is to add a new character and replace it with default manequinn. I successfully replaced it and retargeted the animbp of the project. The default animations like jump, crouch and sprint is working but other animations which were added by other person before I added a new character is not working which are animations like death, grenade throwing, stabbing, etc. I did everything I could in the blueprint and animbp but its still not working. If anyone know how to fix this please let me know. (I am beginner in unreal engine)

[thin tendon]

You need to be more specific mate. What about it is not working. How is it not working?

[queen rivet]

Most of the animations are not working after retargeting to new character. I can see the function works after pressing the button but animation is not working. And then "accessed none trying to read property" error pops up.

[thin tendon]

If it comes up as "accessed none" then the thing you are trying to access hasn't been set yet. It holds no value.

You need to give it a value before you can use it.

[hallow glade]

What are the better drivers for Unreal stuff? Just the latest gaming driver or the Studio driver? (If it's relevant, asking for AMD cards, RX 6900 XT specifically)

[drowsy snow]

#hardware

[hallow glade]

Oh! Didn't see that channel! Thank you!

[tame marsh]

Trying to change a value in a .ini file in a packaged game but I can't remember how I do that

I tried changing Game.ini in WindowsNoEditor/<PROJECTNAME>/Saved/Config/WindowsNoEditor but that doesn't work and my changes get wiped out after running

Ah I was forgetting the double white space on the bottom after the end of the ini

[thin urchin]

Would there be any reason why I can't see the spline editing handles in the viewport?

[tame marsh]

Press G to disable game view?

[thin urchin]

Literally just realized it was that as you sent this 😄

[tame marsh]

Haha, I've had the same thing before countless times

Sometimes they do just disappear and pressing G twice brings them back

[thin urchin]

Any way of snapping spline point to the ground?

[west merlin]

Destructible mesh issue, anyone has an idea?

The fractured faces have random mapped materials, the texture is a map with a bunch of stuff on it

[tender rose]

are the forums broken?

how do I report a bug on the forums? this is way less than ideal :(((((

[strange bear]

Is is possible to import new files added to the project through Explorer using CMD without having to load the whole editor/project?

[slow rover]

You can move the downloaded files into your projects content folder. Go to
documents>unrealprojects>your project>content
Hope this helps :)

[strange bear]

Right but doing so requires starting the project to actually import let's say FBX or other files into the project.

[slow rover]

Nope

[strange bear]

I'm wondering after putting such files in the project folder you described, if i can somehow import them without starting the project

[slow rover]

If you have the fbx files you can do it without it being open

[strange bear]

I cook my game using CMD, but non-uasset files don't get cooked. PNG/FBX files etc only get imported after clicking Import when I have the project open (sorry if i misunderstand ^^')

[slow rover]

Yea man idk I’m not that advanced in unreal

Sorry :/

[strange bear]

All good! thanks for trying ^^

[visual zephyr]

How to allow cooked assets to my project?

I am a complete newbie to UE4

[unique knot]

I think in the project settings for packaging

[wild crag]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/WorkingWithContent/CookedContent/
that and there is a needed manual ini change

    [/Script/UnrealEd.CookerSettings]
    cook.AllowCookedDataInEditorBuilds=True
    s.AllowUnversionedContentInEditor=1

That being said, if you're new, this is something to generally be avoided

[night birch]

How can I deal with such errors?

I remember that someone once said something about downloading debug points, or something like that, so it would be less useless

[oak patio]

yes

debug symbols, can be installed in the launcher

modify your ue install and tick "Editor Symbols for debugging"

should be 20 - 50 GB

[night birch]

I'm using source version, are these installed by default?

Also, I can't find much information about these, aren't they just breakpoints?

[oak patio]

editor symbols?

and not sure on a source build. is it a github source build or a launcher build with source added

[night birch]

github

[oak patio]

hm not sure about getting them on a github build. i would have assumed the pdb's are included/generated when building.

but the editor symbols aren't breakpoints. They are function names. they map the memory address of the function that is being called to a name. Without those symbols it's just gibberish

[night birch]

If this article is speaking about debug symbols, I should package it for debug/debug game, right?
https://michaeljcole.github.io/wiki.unrealengine.com/Debugging_How_To_Debug_Packaged_Games/

[oak patio]

are you debugging a packed game?

[night birch]

yup

[oak patio]

then i would follow those steps

[ripe carbon]

Anyone know of any good tutorials on how to make a water particle system?

[coarse jetty]

hi, why when i add a new action input in project settings -> engine -> input, then unreal have to compile 200/300 shaders, which is the relation?

[visual zephyr]

How can I import .uasset files into my ue project?
It says that .uasset extension is not supported

[drowsy snow]

Put the file in your project's Content folder

[visual zephyr]

It doesn't show up when I open my project in unreal

Like it is not there

[pallid olive]

anyone tips how to check crash logs

[wild crag]

This only works for uncooked content by default

[visual zephyr]

I have cooked content enabled, is there another way to import cooked assets?

[wild crag]

Did you do the needed manual ini change, also what engine version are you using?

using cooked content is not possible in every engine version, and for some of the earlier ones, you would need to make source changes and recompile

[desert umbra]

hello does anybody know how to fix this error. it just keeps happening when im opening the level that im editing and i really need to fix this for my project

[potent reef]

Hi everyone! Its a umg button again.

Can we have 1 umg button but fire 2 actions at the same time? I want to click the button to play animation and move the camera position.

Thanks before! 🙏🏼

[drowsy snow]

Yes. Same as other BP events.

[potent reef]

Thanks! Can i get some keywords? I do searched it, but i just found for “hold” button only.

[drowsy snow]

Well, On Click is the same as any other events you find/make in BPs, put functions in sequence for the event, and it'll gladly do it (or foolishly, if the code is bad, but I digress)

[proper dove]

disable actor

[visual zephyr]

4.27.2

Also never heard of manual ini change

[hallow glade]

Soooo... I did a compile of a small scene and the compiled game is 7,5Gb.. On UE5 that very same scene was only 1,5GB. Did I do something wrong?

[sharp willow]

Probably starter content

[hallow glade]

UE4 Puts everything into the compiled game, regardless if it's being used or not?

[spice ruin]

No

It works the same as ue5 in that regard.

You've probably just linked to something accidentally and it's pulled in a load of extra content.

Like you've got extra maps with starter content or whjatever that it's packaged.

[hallow glade]

I do have the Starter content enabled.. but I don't remember pulling anything from that folder... I guess... I'll just delete and see what happens >.>

[spice ruin]

Apparently you can use unrealpak to view the contents of the pak files. Go check what was packaged.

[hallow glade]

Thank you! I'll take a look to see how that UnrealPak works

[spice ruin]

I just happened to read that the other day, so that's all the info I have. 😦

[hallow glade]

Found the UnrealPak on Github. Let's have a look

Also.. deleting the starter content leads to a crash x3

[spice ruin]

Lol

[honest spire]

guys how do i change world origin point?

[fierce tulip]

#profiling might be your channel XD

[unborn nimbus]

oh will try there, thank you

[fierce tulip]

• removing the unpacking tool post.

[hallow glade]

Oh? Bad tool?

[fierce tulip]

nah, but its generally being used to rip content

[hallow glade]

Aaahh~~ Double Edged swords. Fair!

HUh ... appearently it's part of the standard install anyway :o

[spice ruin]

Like world origin rebasing?

[honest spire]

yeah

[hallow glade]

Okay.. so the UE4 packer really did compile everything that was in the content folder -.-

[dusk ingot]

Hey guys, is it possible (in the interest of both my games and other games) to (with existing tools) inject cpp code and paks into a running game while leaving the main binary untouched? I'm exploring the possibilities for both official and unofficial mod supports

[drowsy snow]

It's possible, but it's way hacky (literally) and not supported

The only real official way is to distribute the editor and project files as mod kit through Epic.

There is SimpleUGC plugin that could ease things a bit when it comes to making content mods

[dusk ingot]

Ah, and would it be possible with regular dll injection?

[drowsy snow]

Probably? That'll be out of the realm of this server though.

But yeah, giving away Unreal Editor and project files through Epic is the supported, official way to provide mod support for your game.

Even Fortnite will go this route later on.

[dusk ingot]

Okay, thanks a lot

[glacial oak]

Hello,
If I wanted to share an image of my UE4 marketplace assets that are on sale at the moment, which channel would be best for it. Released or Marketplace?

[drowsy snow]

I legitimately didn't know about this

Is that a thing in the engine API?

[dusk ingot]

I'm also evaluating options for modding a certain game I don't have the source of, but this is most likely what I'll use for my projects, thanks for telling me about that

[drowsy snow]

I guess one would still need to know what header in the game code to call and stuff

SimpleUGC was limited to content only, but can UnrealEd serving as mod kit for the game compile C++ classes?

Guess that was side effect of UE being open to the public

also SimpleUGC broke in UE5 anyway, so yeah...

Guess for UE5 we'd have to wait for Fortnite to do it first

[wild crag]

I talked about it when you first brought it up, and it was also in the docs I linked lol

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/WorkingWithContent/CookedContent/
try giving it another readover 👍

[drowsy snow]

inb4 not reading it again

[hallow glade]

Okay. Got the Project down to 1,14GB. Installed "safe Delete" and deleted everything, including the old Compiles

[wild crag]

afaik there's nothing stopping you from uploading the compiled mod build to github under a proper fork, just have to make a nice gitignore

[rustic bramble]

is it possible to override On Component Begin Overlap events?

[drowsy snow]

Uh, it's always overridable

[rustic bramble]

i kind of got it sorted. Mine wasn't overriding the way i wanted it to i guess. it was doing event fron the parent and the child. so i just duplicated the parent and changed it instead.

[dusk ingot]

So back on the topic of modding, where can I find documentation of a "Modular Unreal Engine build"? I was told Satisfactory uses that nowadays, and that it's standard UE stuff

[ripe carbon]

Can anyone point me to a good tutorial on how to make a water particle system? Like, spraying ones and flowing ones?

[dusk ingot]

I mean like that you can put a file in a folder and it will automatically load it as a mod

[drowsy snow]

Depends on how you implement it.

[dusk ingot]

Without a special implementation by the game developer

Not necessarily as a functioning mod, but as something that can execute code

[deep eagle]

Hello guys. I have a model with a body & armor but id like to separate each individual piece of armor from the body to make it modular, without losing the morph targets.
I've looked online but cant see how to do that. I can only separate it as static meshes.
Can anyone help please? I can do the BP part once i have them all as static meshes, i just cant see how to seperate them from the FBX

[ripe carbon]

Bump.

[hidden dew]

Character can run over an animated surface flawlessly, then I wanted to add grass.
Now I just need to add about 1000x more grass and make it literally hundreds of times faster.
To dos (that I know of):

• disable collision entirely (character doesn't use colliders to track the surface, but they're still switched on in this .gif)
• shift all surface vertex movement to the shader
• and grass transforms to the shader
• and use Instanced Static Meshes
• oh and turn off grass shadows
  Any other large optimisation moves spring to anyone's mind?

This is the same thing, running over terrain that's a bit more messed up

[sage coral]

Why do my blood particles only collide with the landscape?

This is the setup

[sage coral]

Nvm Figured it out make sure you check your particles have both world static and world dynamic under actor collision

[thorn river]

any easy way to convert cascade assets from 4.18 to 4.15? or does it have to be done manually

[drowsy snow]

No, Unreal assets are not backwards compatible.

But I'm more surprised to see someone using 4.15 in this year.

[thorn river]

ah well its a 'special' project, im mostly working in 5.0 these days but um yeah

old project i still keep updating

i remember i remade one FX from scratch and holy shit that was annoying at least considering i dont really understand how they work much so i had to eyeball everything real close to make sure i copied everything correctly

[dusk ingot]

Hey guys, what special considerations does one have to make to make it possible for mods to prefix/postfix the game's methods?

[regal elm]

Is there a way to set unreal app fps limit (not game in viewport, just unreal editor, like when looking and blueprints and stuff)

[sharp willow]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/ue5-fps-limit-ue5-editor-capped-at-60fps/265708/4

have you tried this?

[drowsy snow]

t.MaxFPS ##
The editor is basically a whole Slate window

[regal elm]

not working, tested and after I switch to another blueprint tab (viewport not visible) fps goes up

[regal elm]

I believe those fps settings are meant for game - saw them and accessed in other ways, but it didn't work either. I basically wondered if there is some separate setting (like you know, i might wan to cap may game at 13 fps and my editor at 21 separately). Thanks for the ideas tho. I achieved wanted result (kinda, it was not perfect) by playing arround with nvidia driver but after some more search Im positive that unreal wont allow me to set this from the app itself

[pallid olive]

anyone an idea how to get refference of a widget inside a actor

i get accesnone from this node

[serene oak]

Hello, how can I get a Sims game style graphic as seen in the photo?

[visual zephyr]

I think my .uasset file is broken, is there a way for me to fix it?

[drowsy snow]

Bring out the backup.

[amber shuttle]

cant i remove this message? it says it doesnt support but it clearly does and that node fixes my problem 😄

[visual zephyr]

I am using a downloaded asset my friend (not friend anymore) sent me

[drowsy snow]

Whoa, a deep lore of friendship and betrayal out of the blue?

[visual zephyr]

Kinda

[drowsy snow]

But anyway, if you don't have something to revert to, it's pretty much done.

[wild crag]

if you want to dynamically load content you can use asset registry to get a custom primary data asset class, and have people load their custom content in through data tables with different kinds of structs for different mods

[wild crag]

you can dupe it in the editor if you enable cooked content, depending on the asset type

[visual zephyr]

I am not sure if the asset is cooked, but I enabled cooked content anyways

Or maybe it is the problem with my ue, since when I click umport I can not see any .uasset files. And when I try to drop it in it says something like, .uasset extension not supported. And when I drop it into my contents folder it doesn't show up

[wild crag]

if the asset is from a packaged game pak it is -cooked

you should maintain the hierarchy of the folders when you put it in content, but iirc it should still appear, just not work properly until a move/rename then a fixup

[visual zephyr]

I'll try when I get home

[drowsy snow]

.uasset files are placed inside the Contents folder, no need for importing through the editor

[visual zephyr]

It is located in my contents folder but when I open my project it is like it isn't there

[wild crag]

which content folder did you place it in exactly?

the main root or one of the sub roots?

[visual zephyr]

Project name- contents- asset file
I don't remember exactly but something like this

Main root ig

[wild crag]

Are you sure you're using the same engine version as the asset?

[visual zephyr]

100% sure

[wild crag]

How are you sure?

maybe they upgraded the proj or something

[drowsy snow]

Who knows if the former friend bumped the engine version at the last minute out of spite

[visual zephyr]

He sent me the game, which I found an asset I like, and by what it says on the exe file it is 4.27.2

Which I use

[potent reef]

Does anyone know how to fix this? I export animation from blender to UE4, but the animation is not exactly like in blender. I can export every keyframe with .DAE. I baked with fbx.

It turns out the exported file is having gap like this after export. You can see the white boat is actual animation and red boat was the exported one, the exported file is always sliding when the actual animation was stopped in place.

Thanks before!

[drowsy snow]

Perhaps the framerate? I recall it having issues with anything but 30 FPS

[potent reef]

Still got the gaps… changed it to 60fps. It seems baking was the issue, but i cant export my animation without baking it first. Hmmm

[drowsy snow]

Try 30 FPS

[potent reef]

Video above was 30FPS

I think this is the same issue

[hoary inlet]

would it be good if I used "Animation Starter Pack" and a gun pack together?
cause that's what i've been using

[thin urchin]

Any idea why the viewport just goes bright white when changing to topdown with the lit shading setting?

Presume it's the environment blinding me

[drowsy snow]

Ortho views are broken in Lit shading

[thin urchin]

Ah poop, I wanna be able to see my decal placement better. Oh well

[sage coral]

Anyone know if a website exists for looking up the best values for making materials realistic? I swear i saw a guy use something like it in his youtube tutorial but I cant find the video

[dusk ingot]

Hey guys, how probable is it for a medium-sized codebase to have no constructor with parameters?

[fierce tulip]

prolly the dontnod pbr bible. should be google-able

[plush yew]

how do i hide these widgets on the viewport

[drowsy snow]

ohh brb

[lusty niche]

I built my game this early today, everything worked fine, and some time later I suddenly get this error : "ObservedKeyNames.Num() > 0". I didn't change anything in my bt nor ai controller. Anyone knows how to fix it? I really tried everything but can't get rid of the error

[fiery flint]

Hello! Is there a way to access the oldsite "learn.unrealengine.com"?

[real heath]

No, it was decommissioned in August and they migrated any newer stuff they still thought applicable to the new dev hub

[drowsy snow]

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning

Sort through official Epic courses if you're looking for one.

[wild crag]

try looking at the bounds in the details panel of the mesh

[sage coral]

No idea if this is possible but I'm tryin to figure out how to remove only some decals from the map that spawn in with an emitter and only if they overlap to much but I'm not sure if this is possible

Example I have a blood emitter that works and spawns decals but eventually alot of them overlap depending on the splatter effect besides giving a lifetime I'm trying to make it so that if to many decals overlap that it despawns the overlapped decals

[wild crag]

In unreal engine, you double click on the mesh in the content browser, then type bounds in the search bar

The way you package your content is irrelevent to your problem unless you somehow packaged files incorrectly

This flickering you mentioned, the problem would be easier to identify in video, than a picture

[sleek field]

Oh ok I’ll grab a video and I’ll try the bounds thing again, I can send short videos on here?

[wild crag]

long as they're relevant/follow the rules yeah

[fiery flint]

Thanks for answer!Altouh, a shame. The organized way in which the "learning paths"
were found made it easy and intuitive to navigate and follow... On the new website,
I find the content a bit scattered and a bit chaotic, do you recommend starting by
reading the DOCS? ? before any learning path of the new site?
Since the old website is no more, I don't really know where to start...

[real heath]

On the new one it is slightly different, but I think there is the same sort of thing if you search/sort by course

[fiery flint]

Thanks for the tip!
I was looking into the DOCS of UE5.1, but don't see docs related or about Films/Cinematics... Any other place where I can see

[real heath]

William faucher on YouTube has some decent vids in that area

[wild crag]

a lot of the docs are still under 4.27 and still applicable

[drowsy snow]

Just a heads up, underground modding is not supported on this server.

[west merlin]

Assuming that I'm trying to make a data table / struct where the info is always going to come from a specific table, is there a way to remove the step of selecting the table and have the only input needed be the row from said table?

[potent reef]

Found an answer to this.. need to put simplify to 0 when i export fbx from blender. So it export every frame. 🙏🏼

[potent reef]

I tried this and its works! Thanks!

[thick rover]

Good afternoon, what could be wrong. Everything works in ue4, but when I packaged the project, walking and moving the mouse does not work at all. The character cannot be controlled.

[compact timber]

alrighty boys, I'm about to have a mental breakdown. Having an issue with displaying a health bar. moving the progress percentage makes it fill, but upon playing I'm getting a blank bar

[thin tendon]

Cha ref > is valid ? > Return float value

That will fix your error messages

[compact timber]

Am I hooking Cha Ref straight into Is Valid ? or am I connecting the pin on the float / float to it?

Oh wait I figured it out. Ok, error message is gone but progress bar still isn't filling up. Just as an fyi I'm positive I'm actually controlling the correct character and not the default 3rd person one

it looks like the health bar is bound to the function I'm using too

[thin tendon]

@compact timber try "current health" / "max health" > * 100 > clamp 0,max health

[potent reef]

Hey everyone! Is it possible to change sun position with UMG button? I’ve got a tuts with slider but it doesnt work when i change to a button.

Thanks before!

[compact timber]

nah we still chillin with no actual progress on the bar itself. I've made sure every variable is defaulted to 100 just in case

[thin tendon]

If you follow a tutorial for a day and night thing. Then just adjust the angle using the slider instead of a tick it should work fine. So instead of incrementing by like 1 each time it ticks. You could increment by slider value on slider value change.

[thin tendon]

The math was wrong and should work with what I posted

[compact timber]

If you're talking ab the edits I waited until you made your last one before I tried it, still nothing. could it be an actual issue with my UE4 itself? A reinstall wouldn't take me long but feels absolutely unecessary

[thin tendon]

Probs not mate. It will either be your math. your widget or your references.

[compact timber]

That's just where I'm confused. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong but 30 videos later after copying every step from a new project it just will not fill. I had done this no issues a few months ago

[potent reef]

Sorry forgot to mention, i tried it and it works but ive got Widget in another widget etc. sometimes it doesnt work, widget BP need communicate properly. Thanks!

[compact timber]

Even doing something as simple as removing the max/current health math and just plugging straight current health into it doesn't do anything

[thin tendon]

so if you make it do something simple like display max health. Still doesn't work. Then the issue is your widget or your character references. But the fact you were throwing none errors before tells me it was probably your character references. And you need to set them before calling them.

[compact timber]

ohhhhh my god

[thin tendon]

take your event construct code. Drag out from your bind's is valid failed part. Put that code there in a do once. Then once its valid again reset the do once. Then drag out from both chains and return a value.

[compact timber]

I fucking found it, excuse my language, no regrets. It was, for whatever reason, an issue with the Accessibility tab that I've never touched before. The moemnt I turned on "Override Accessible defaults" it worked with no issues

[potent reef]

Is multiple event construct possible? It needs event construct but my current widget blueprint already occupied that.

[drowsy snow]

Why not split it with a Sequence node?

[potent reef]

Forgive my brain… now it works.

So my button now can do: move position, play animation and set sun position.

Thanks!

[hidden dew]

Question... creating a new C++ class. When do I use an Actor Component?
I want it to be a class that can have members that are editable in the Editor, but I don't want it to be a full blown Actor / thing that can go in a level.

Does that sound like the right use case?

[spice ruin]

Depends entirely on where you're going to use it.

You can edit any uclass pretty much, depending on where it's placed, rather than what it is.

[hidden dew]

Ok
I have a Planet::Actor C++ class; that's the main object. The planet will involve thousands of plants... they'll be using an InstancedStaticMeshComponent themselves, but I want a class that manages all that; the logic of the plants and the ISMComponent with it.

If I just have a UCLASS Foobar, and the planet contains an object of Foobar, will Foobar's UPROPERTYs be visible in the Editor?

Haven't tried it before

[spice ruin]

Yes

If it's set to visible*

[hidden dew]

Right, thanks

[young axle]

Guys when i try to import from daz to unreal engine 4,27 i get this error it says error on creating materials

any help?

[cunning hatch]

Good morning, I’m trying to design a ledge climbing system which encompasses climbing sideways, but some how need to handle scenarios were the character needs to follow an uneven surface. Currently the player can hang and climb sideways using root motion, but I have no way of handling vertical deviations. How could I solve this issue?

[sage coral]

Is there anyway to limit how many decals will overlap?

Or I should say is there a way to tell the decal if it collides with another decal to not spawn

[exotic vortex]

I need some help. I have no idea what is going on. I've been using UE4.27.2 just fine for while now, and then suddenly I start getting the dreaded "D3D11-compatible GPU is required to run the engine" message. BUT only sometimes. Graphics drivers are up to date. A fix I saw online was to add r.GraphicsDriver=1 to one of the console config files, and to add -dx11 to the end of the shortcut arguments. This lets the engine run, but it is unusably slow and is running 100% GPU. I've looked everywhere. Any ideas?

[fierce tulip]

would be more something for #hardware

[rugged fjord]

Me when I hit the max material things for the landscape mats and I'm not even halfway yet 😅

[real heath]

Texture samplers? I think you can change the samplers to shared which allows you to use more

[drowsy snow]

You can go nuts with shared samplers, and the caveats are insignificant

[drowsy snow]

Had you're using UE5, this would've been taken care of with motion warping.

[rugged fjord]

yeah, did this now

ty for the advice

this is how it looks so far 😂

[drowsy snow]

🍜

いただきます

[rugged fjord]

Believe me or not, I'm actually trying to organize it

[drowsy snow]

PROTIP: Use Named Reroute to wirelessly transmit node outputs in the same material graph

[rugged fjord]

Interesting

I'm really trash at materials so yeah

This is how it looks

[rotund sorrel]

an actor literally blocked my trace channel even though its response to that trace channel is set to ignore(i checked in the editor). Unreal bug?

[wild crag]

Most likely you missed something in your setup

[marble iris]

how to import a uasset without migrating?

it's literally just a single uasset

[fierce tulip]

if it does not have anything connected to it like materials, links to other blueprints whatever, its fine copy-pasting it trough explorer.
but if it has dependencies, they will break.

[cunning hatch]

OmG I meant to post in UE5 channel. I’m an indeed. Thank you. I’ll look into it!

[marble iris]

it's not even popping up, I tried compiling through IDE but nothing

[fierce tulip]

what kind of asset is it?

[marble iris]

uasset

@fierce tulip

it's a bp

[fierce tulip]

not my forte, but migration would prolly be best, with the reference viewer you can check for dependencies.

[marble iris]

I can't migrate it, I downloaded it from somebody

[wild crag]

Is this a cooked or uncooked asset?

[marble iris]

idk

maybe it got corrupted or something

wait nah

even importing a font doesnt work, looks like I'll just migrate that then

[potent reef]

Hey everyone! How to connect a progress bar when level sequencer is playing? Is it possible?

Thanks!

[drowsy snow]

So the progress bar is meant to show the length of the sequence? Or is it for a loading screen (judging by the var name)?

[potent reef]

I want to give a feedback progression, when:

A button is pressed, it plays level sequence from 1-20 frames but player dont know how long the animation right? So the progress bar is my answer. So i want when my button press, the progrss bar filled as animation goes.

[drowsy snow]

That's not how it's done in other games, usually cutscenes are skippable.

Also that's a bind function, get a reference to the level sequence instead of creating it, that'll execute every single frame.

[potent reef]

Alright thank you! I will try again 🙏🏼

[rotund sorrel]

is there a way to have an actor mimic exactly position(with some offset) and animation of the player in every moment?

[thin tendon]

Use this and make the acceptance radiance your offset value

[rotund sorrel]

I need to make a mirror. I heard a trick old games used to make it with almost no performance loss. It was to just duplicate and invert the room, the mirror is just a see trough surface. The player reflection is actually an actor which does EXACTLY what the player does but mirrored on the other side. So my question was: how do i create such a mesh that mirrors everything the player does?

[orchid lodge]

Maybe an event dispatcher on the animations then update the transform on a tick whilst player is in the load zone of the mirror?

Then just use some funny math to take the center of the room. - vector some stuff to get it 0.
Then take the relative position of the player to that - vector 0 and multiply it by -1 to get the exact opposite location (of x and y but not Z)
Rotation is just opposite of players x and y again

[thin tendon]

I can't imagine any techniques being so much of a difference on performance they would be worth the effort. But I would probably do something like use a scene capture output it onto the surface using a material or something like that and just inverting the image when placing it into the material.

[rotund sorrel]

I tried it. In UE5 performance is bad

[drowsy snow]

Use raytracing lmao

I haven't actually tested this but one thing you could do is to have the impostor character copy the control movement variables and flip the X scale to -1 (scale is always in local space)

[rotund sorrel]

Yeah that's the easy part i guess. The hard one is copy all the animations in real time lol

[drowsy snow]

I'm sure that's already taken care of by flipping the actor itself

[rotund sorrel]

Oh the "controls", sorry missed that part. I think that might by the way to go

[orchid lodge]

I thought ue4 would do the funny and somehow desync if you just invert the controls

[thin tendon]

you know if the things you are trying a really performance heavy. You could always set some code up. So whatever your try shuts off when the player is a certain distance away. And instead of doing it in real time. Just slow it down to update every 0.1 or 0.2 of a second.

[orchid lodge]

tho I guess that depends on the complexity of the enviroment

[rotund sorrel]

Guess i'll find out, even though i actually will use 5 i think

[rotund sorrel]

Ray tracing would be cool, but then i would have to force ray tracing always on in the game

[orchid lodge]

Gl to ya fella, if all else fails try doing some c++ functions to speed the big per frame bits up

[pallid olive]

Static mesh actor has NULL StaticMesh property

anyone an idea how to give the staticmesh its property

[fierce tulip]

means there is an actor in the scene without a static mesh applied to it.

[pallid olive]

i read that 10 times but how is it fixable

[fierce tulip]

find the static mesh actor that does not have a static mesh applied.

it should have an empty slot

[pallid olive]

here ?

[fierce tulip]

well, that actor does have a static mesh under the static mesh tab. find the one that doesnt

[pallid olive]

sendone also have one

i have deleted it multiple times and replaced it into the world but still get the error when building lights

[marble iris]

why is the search details bar completely bugged lol

[exotic elbow]

Hi!

Where is the project for this game?

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/Resources/SampleGames/ShooterGame/

I can't find it.

Thanks!

This?

[marble iris]

yes

[exotic elbow]

Thanks!

[marble iris]

np

I dragged 3 different .uassets into a folder in ue4. None of them show in the engine...

maybe it's because they are from a different version?

[exotic elbow]

I don't know a lot about Unreal but, have you tried to import them instead of dragging them?

[oak patio]

Just migrate them...

Unless it's going back versions in which case there is no option

[marble iris]

it's not in a project

[marble iris]

Nah doesn't work thanks for the suggestion though

it's likely because the engine versions though

[oak patio]

Ah

[pallid olive]

does someone know how cinematic tutorial is made to have player set his character name and explain test or buy items before game begins

[spare trench]

How can I market my mobile game with no budget (or I cannot)?

[deep eagle]

Does anyone know why when I switch to mobile mode my skeletal meshes are only rendering when I check "Render Static" in their optimization settings? I don't get why they arent showing up normally

[astral haven]

Is there anyway to get my Xbox output into ue4 onto a texture?

[orchid lodge]

Maybe a media texture?
It'll definetly need some C++ and some internet fuckabout

[oak patio]

Your only real options are spreading word of mouth. Avenues like YouTube/tiktok/Reddit/Twitter and praying you go viral

Otherwise there isn't a lot you can do with 0 budget

[pallid olive]

ouch how do you event set a variable text at runtime

[spice ruin]

From what source?

[pallid olive]

dakesh u meant my question ?

[spice ruin]

Yes

[marble iris]

ask your friends to tell their friends to tell their friends

[night birch]

So, my project is crashing when I want to change the level, and it fails assertion at

FORCEINLINE void MarkPendingKill()
    {
        check(!IsRooted());
        GUObjectArray.IndexToObject(InternalIndex)->SetPendingKill();
    }

In UObjectBaseUtility.h

How can I found which object/actor is failing this?

[spice ruin]

Launch with/attach a debugger like VS or Rider

[night birch]

And make brakpoint at this moment?

[spice ruin]

The check will automatically cause a break

(in debug configuration)

[night birch]

Which one is this?

[spice ruin]

Where it says "Solution Configuration" select Debug Editor.

If that isn't available, well, you aren't using a source build and you can't get that particular check to even do anything. check only works in debug configurations and DebugGame doens't compile the engine in Debug.

[night birch]

Am I blind or it doesn't show object's name

[spice ruin]

Check the local tab.

[night birch]

There are only these tabs

[spice ruin]

I don't use Rider. That's Rider, right?

[night birch]

yup

[spice ruin]

Ask somebody who uses Rider how the debugger works. Or doesn't. #cpp

[magic helm]

what do i do if my mouse keeps glitching into my game?

like it's set to not appear.

but as i move it, the cursor sort of glitches and appears flashing on the side of the screen for a second.

[night birch]

I think I figured it out

It shows me different variable states during different function calls

[livid wolf]

anyone know how this works? it's definitely been more than 7 and a half hours

[night birch]

What's this?

Source version?

[livid wolf]

it's from the epic games launcher

in the library section

[drowsy snow]

I would've clocked more than 35K hours if that thing existed since I starting up lol

[runic needle]

hey, i made a character in blender and exported it to unreal, nothing problem. But then I've done an animation for it with a different export for each animation. And then i tried to import them to unreal but unreal just crashed while loading the fbx. What can the problem be?

I named the armature to "skeleton"

[regal mulch]

No crossposting please.

[regal mulch]

Is there any error message you can provide?

[runic needle]

no, just the crash screen

[tame marsh]

you could consult the logs, they should be in <ProjectName>\Saved\Logs

[tame marsh]

I don't immediately see anything, but I also don't see anything related to an FBX import

Have you started another instance of the project after the crash?

[runic needle]

are we sure that this shows the crash report?

[runic needle]

I didn't tried different character, but all animations for that character crashes

when importing them seperatly

[tame marsh]

Often the log still documents what happens before a crash and might even show the error before it crashes

[drowsy snow]

Try again, and send the call stack reported by the crash reporter

[runic needle]

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_INT_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO

libfbxsdk
UE4Editor_UnrealEd
UE4Editor_UnrealEd
UE4Editor_UnrealEd
UE4Editor_AssetTools
UE4Editor_AssetTools
UE4Editor_UnrealEd
UE4Editor_UnrealEd
UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_Engine
UE4Editor_UnrealEd
UE4Editor_UnrealEd
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
kernel32
ntdll

this is all in the crash report

[drowsy snow]

I guess it opened a black hole from that division by zero

[tame marsh]

Don't worry, your animations are being imported correctly in a different dimension

[runic needle]

if I can't fix it, I'm gonna try another skeleton mesh

[tame marsh]

When does your import crash? Before or after the import dialogue?

[runic needle]

oh right why should i worry

[runic needle]

I just pick my file drop it and boom

idleanimation %100... crashes

it's like a terminator

[wild crag]

make sure nothing is at scale 0 before import

[silver agate]

Hi, I'm using BP_GoodSky for a Dark Night with Clouds and Rain.
In the simulation it runs fine.
But when I render the video the Rain dissapears, but the fog and other effects do work.
Does anyone have an idea what is wrong and how to fix it?

[lucid kite]

why do I spawn a character? I want to make a scene with a menu, but a character appears. How can I remove him from this scene???

[mystic barn]

Hello. I would like my materials in my level to match how they appear in their material and blueprint viewport. They appear within my level (and in Play Mode) washed out. I'm looking for less realistic lighting and more stylized art appearance. I'd prefer colors not washed out by lighting, the environment, etc.

The first image is the material as it appears in a blueprint's viewport. The second image is how it ends up when placed in the world.

[silver agate]

not sure if i understand your question well. but in the BP editor you will have different lighting then in your game world.
If you want the tiling to be different you can stretch or shrink the texture with a Text Coordinate node inside the material itself.

[mystic barn]

I'll try to clarify. I'd like the lighting in my game world to match what I see in the BP Editor. In Game World, shadows created by normal map are too dark, colors are washed out/desaturated. I'm playing with the light intensity settings for the Directional Light, The Skylight, and even the settings in the PostProcessVolume.

I was hoping there was an easy way to exactly mimic what i see in the BP Editor within the game world and am feeling a wee bit frustrated with playing 'hit or miss (usually miss)' with the light settings.

I've searched online for different solutions, have messed with tone mapping, light intensity, even tried messing with lightmap resolution settings for a mesh but not having any of the desired effects.

[dusk ingot]

Hey guys, any idea what could cause this?

[blazing topaz]

Hello everybody ! I have a problem, I am trying to make a flight from the surface of the planet to space, but something is blocking me as in the video, I cannot find what the problem is, I thought it might be a collision of the planet and clouds, but they are turned off, please tell me what the problem might be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xit32QUEDTg

I turned the collision display mode, there is nothing from the outside to prevent the flight, but still, when I gain altitude, the plane crashes into something

[silver agate]

I'm no expert at all, but i see you have a Sky light, Directional Light and a Postporcess material. maybe make a new empty level, with only 1 directional light, and your object, see how that goes?

[mystic barn]

I appreciate the attempt! I've attempted with just a directional light and object and the shadows are harsher and the colors are even more desaturated. It behaves more realistically (the lighting) but it isn't the stylized, vibrant colors I am going for.

The Sky Light and post process material gets it closer, as does tampering with tonemapping in the world settings and changing some of the properties in the project settings for rendering, but its very much hit or miss. I'd be less worried about tampering with the project settings if I knew how to reset it to default if i mess it up.

(There's a lot of settings to try and remember which I tweaked)

[silver agate]

I see, yeah i had kind of the same, but for a cinematic. I made the big mistake by lighting and texturing everything, and then setup my camera in the end. So then i had to got back and adjust all my lights etc. because the camera reacted very different, than the in-editor work camera so to say

[pastel latch]

Y'all, I need help.... I tried to move some folders with BPs and assets to new subfolders, but UE4 did not delete the original folders (the assets were not inside, just an empty folder in the browser).

So when I try to go and delete these empty folders, I get an error saying I am deleting object redirector assets

With a force delete option

[silver agate]

@pastel latch hmm not sure, but i always hit this one when im restructuring things:

[pallid olive]

hi guys quick question everytime i have to set asset editor open location to mainwindow and when i reopen the project it goes back to default

many other things are set to default if i reopen project, any suggestions ?

[latent sonnet]

Hey there. I simply want to have a string of actors along a spline for the player to collect. Anyone know how to do this?

[plush yew]

Hey. You could use Get Location at Time and Spawn Actor From Class.

[main tulip]

How do you deselect a layer in Unreal Engine? I want to deselect Post Process Volume so it doesn't get deleted. I am a beginner so I literally don't know how to do the simple things

[plush yew]

Ctrl + Left mouse

[main tulip]

I tried that but it doesn't work.

It seems like every time I get help, the opposite happens

[silver agate]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BuildingWorlds/LevelEditor/Details/Properties/Basic/

[main tulip]

I figured it out, It was Command+Left click

I tried that the first time and it wasn't working. Unreal engine fraustrating

[silver agate]

that same control will work cross platform, like ctrl+v and ctrl+c

[main tulip]

Yeah Control+Left click was not working for me for some reason

[knotty owl]

Unable to load plugin 'OnlineSubsystemSteam'. Aborting.

getting this when trying to open a packaged build

[wild crag]

You can't open a packaged build

oh, when I inititally read this, I read it more as in, you were trying to open someone else's packaged project in editor
not when your packaged project is loaded it results in that, not sure actually

[drowsy snow]

Maybe the plugin is disabled in the project? There are handful of mandatory plugins, I think online subsys is one of them

[knotty owl]

it IS enabled

advanced sessions and advanced steam sessions

[knotty owl]

i've noticed something weird

when i enable advanced steam sessions and package my game

it skips the build command

[urban sapphire]

Hey, I've just got a new laptop. These are the specs, do you think it will be able to run ue4 smoothly enough?

[oak patio]

what gpu does it have

[wild crag]

No definitely need a better one, even though you clearly just bought it

[urban sapphire]

oh...

[urban sapphire]

hate to bother you but... what pc would you reccomend? hopefully in the price range around 1200-1400...

[grim raft]

how do i fix theses dark walls

Light radius is big enough to reach the last wall, but side walls are getting that weird darkening effect

[main tulip]

Why is my rectangle light not working? It doesn't light up

[wild crag]

I was joking but for that price range and for a laptop https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09127DDVT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I actually have this one myself, and it stays cool which is great for gaming laptops

also seems like the better cpu option for the link above is only 7 usd more rn, maybe some sale stuff but def worth the 7 usd

[grim raft]

so, do i do

[main tulip]

Your having the same issue?

[grim raft]

is this your issue:

[blazing drum]

Was hoping someone could explain to me how this happens and why. Any tip appreciated, been at it for some time now. This project uses the Monolag asset "MRPGv2" so I'm going to try and ask the question without referencing the Custom Events and such that it uses. Basically I am trying to simulate just "knocking out" a character and then having them "wake up" after so many seconds. To do this I used copies of the npc death code with my own bool check to split a KO from a KILL. On a KO the only bits I used were Simulate Physics, Add Impulse To Bone [used pelvis bone], and the Pause Animation bool to drop the body in place on KO like in death but without any of the code that "kills" the NPC. All of that works fine.

The issue is when the montage to "get up" plays and the NPC stands. The animation is playing right and the NPC resumes their aim and at rest stances, but it seems like the mesh rotation is whacked somehow. This is the stumper for me...there were some before and after differences but you can see that this will (should?) occur a little because of the rotated position of the knocked out mesh before wakeup. I would appreciate any nugget of wisdom as to how this may have happened so I can better understand what I seem to have broken and set it right...

[earnest robin]

Who can tell me how to solve the following problem: I made an animation in blender, I wanted to transfer it to UE4, but this tab (screen) is shown when transferring, and when I try to import, the engine reports errors and writes "mesh contains default bone as root but animation doesn't contain the root track" . How to solve this problem and transfer the animation?
Is there any tutorial? Game - first person view.

[unique knot]

Hey I had this problem once

You have to name your root bone "root" in blender

Or make another root bone named root to put everything on

[sleek fable]

Hello guys I have a question about materials, I have this Master material for our characters, it has emissive, dynamic patterns, invisibility, elemental effects etc.. Every time I want to change my effect I need to create a new dynamic material instance so which one is more proper, creating different materials for each effect and set this material for the character or using single master material and create effect functions in it and changing parameters only, thx in advance

[rich girder]

Hi guys. Is it possible to implement PayKickstart Licensing API (https://docs.paykickstart.com/#licensing) into UE4? If it is, how do I learn to do it? Where do I start?

[cursive sky]

How come animations I import to ALSv4 project aren’t working when I try to use them, the look fine when watching in the editor but at runtime they don’t play

[lethal oyster]

If I were to make a 2D gun sprite bob as I move (I'm using Blueprints BTW), how would I do that with something like a Timeline? I'm developing a boomer shooter, inspired by games like Doom and Blood. I tried using sequence player, but it's experimental so it works half the time.

Mind you I am not using a skeleton mesh or spring arm considering it's a 2.5D FPS

[drowsy snow]

If you're not using temporal AA, you could do the bobbing in materials, and adjust the value with exposed scalar material (or in material parameter collection)

[lethal oyster]

That sounds interesting, I'm new to UE4 so I'm not too familiar with what you're saying, could you provide a screenshot or something?

[lethal oyster]

Alright, I think I understand

I'll check it out

[silver agate]

Is there a thing like Mixamo, but for MetaHumans face expressions?

[drowsy snow]

No.

[lethal oyster]

So I created a world position offset in the event graph targeted to my pistol flipbook or am I supposed to be in the view port/materials section of my pistol?

[drowsy snow]

In the material graph
Ideally you want to put the bobbing WPO code into a material function

[lethal oyster]

I understand now, thank you, I've spent nearly 2 weeks trying to figure this out. I'm tweaking the material expression scalar parameter values as you said. The gun bobs, but it vanishes in and out when I move. What values do you recommend?

[lethal oyster]

Okay, so when I pick my pistol up, it clips in and out depending on what direction I am looking, what could be the problem?

[magic helm]

Is there a solution to the mouse cursor escaping in fullscreen mode? Apparently it's a common problem?

[lethal oyster]

Okay, so after placing the vector parameter and transform vector in the material graph, and editing the RGB values, the gun doesn't bob.

[lethal oyster]

I'm not sure I quite understand, I'm editing the RGB values but my weapon remains static, how do I make it bob? I was using the Scalar Parameter and that worked, but it was wild and clipped on and off when I turned in a different direction.

[magic helm]

What happens if I don't build lighting? Will it just package the game in it's current state?

[autumn flame]

I imagine it builds it when you package

[lethal oyster]

Okay, thanks for the help 🙂

[vocal rune]

what console command shows you how many skeletal meshes are loaded into memory at start/

?

[rough olive]

why is the animation invisble when i import the fbx?

[gleaming linden]

Timer vs Event tick for turret projections of bullets

[rotund sorrel]

How to make a pawn go trough doors, but not floor and walls

[pallid olive]

Is orbital market url offline

[pallid olive]

Maybe set collision of the door too ignore pawn

[rotund sorrel]

I made a custom type for the Door so the door normally blocks pawns. But the pawn i'm interesed in ignores doors

[slow hornet]

Where do i set the default analytics provider?

[gloomy crystal]

So I got a command console for gotham knights and one of the console commands is "Summon [Class Actor]" anyone know what would be an example of that or where I would be able to find a list of this? I don't even know if this is even a command to be spawning/ summoning npcs in front of me

[oak patio]

This isnt really the place for discussing console commands in games

We are more focused around creating products here

[plush yew]

Why is my model big after importing but when i put it's animation on it gets super small

[plush yew]

Well i half fixed it, the scale is constant now but switching to the animation moves the model downwards.

[drowsy snow]

Blender?

[plush yew]

Yeah

[drowsy snow]

Make sure the unit scaling is set to 0.01, and scale everything up 100x (and apply it) compensate for it

[plush yew]

Seemed to have fixed it somehow, think i was setting the armature up wrong.

[peak hare]

@rough olive possibly makoto advice is relevant to you as well

[nimble dragon]

Hello, I keep getting this error everytime I try to open a project
How do I fix it?

[earnest robin]

Who faced the same problem when transferring animation from blender: "FAILED TO MERGE BONES:

This could happen if significant hierarchical changes have been made
e.g. inserting a bone between nodes.
Would you like to regenerate the Skeleton from this mesh?

WARNING: THIS MAY INVALIDATE OR REQUIRE RECOMPRESSION OF ANIMATION DATA."
How did they decide?

[drowsy snow]

This happens if the bone name hierarchy is shifted. You can omit bones from your model or add new ones, as long as the hierarchy of the other bones stay intact.

[fast bobcat]

I just reinstalled my windows and got a few projects for my UE, are there any way i can load them into the 'my projects' tab faster than opening them all one by one?

[marble iris]

how can I create input actions for ui?

[drowsy snow]

If you're using the built in focus system you're going to need a little bit of C++, but it's not super hard to implement
https://dev.epicgames.com/community/snippets/7Wy/custom-remappable-slate-navigation-config

This will make use of the existing input action system

[marble iris]

And this will automatically apply to all widgets?

[drowsy snow]

As long as you use the focus functions, yeah

[marble iris]

Alright thanks

[limber pebble]

Can someone help? Whenever I try to simulate physics with this pawn the collision doesn't not allow it.

[earnest robin]

Thanks

[spring abyss]

Hey Guys how to create - Buying a thing( cloth) from shop and adding it to inventory?

[exotic elbow]

Where can I find this menu?

Thanks!

Everything is explained here: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/Resources/SampleGames/ShooterGame/

[azure shore]

[azure shore]

well that very much depends on what step youre at

[limber pebble]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcTxSyk8Vks

[night birch]

Hi, is this possible to export whole character's mesh with other meshes attached(e.g. clothing) as FBX at runtime?

[marble iris]

... @drowsy snow is there anyway I can close the ui without having to implement a game instance via C++?

I literally just want to close the ui

but it consumes the players input (obviously)

[long garnet]

Hi everyone!
Does anyone think it is possible to achieve something like Unity's CCD in unreal? Essentially, what I would like is, to let my players be able to download their avatar models from cloud and play as them so that I don't have to include all avatars in my packaged game.

[drowsy snow]

You could implement Assimp (yes that's the real name) for importing models at runtime, but it's not built in

[long garnet]

great I will look into it and see what I can learn, thank you

[marble iris]

@drowsy snow

[drowsy snow]

Depends on what other workaround you want to go with

[marble iris]

examples?

rn I am setting input mode ui only

[drowsy snow]

With the C++ code I made snippet off of, it's the matter of binding the back event to remove from parent the widget

(though GC with that in BP can be quite iffy)

[limber pebble]

Anyone know why physics doesn't work when I have complex collision on a static mesh?

[faint bone]

I have problem in casting. when casting it is showing twice. I have checked content folder there is only one pawn. I can't understand this bug.

[rain badger]

Looking for opinions:
After defeating enemies, you receive money/score. However, one of the enemy types is a 'mine' (so if you trigger it, it will chase you until you destroy it or it gets you, blows up, and damages you).
I am wondering what you think would be better for the player and their experience as to whether or not they get money/score from the mine enemy when they get hit by it?

[steel leaf]

Do you think it's better to have a bad translation in a specific language using an online translator or no translation in this language ?

[fierce tulip]

i think that depends on the kind of game and how funny the translation ends up being. but iirc there is at least one gdc video about it.

[steel leaf]

It's a pretty simple game, nothing text based / stories

[steel leaf]

I'll search for the video

thank you !

[drowsy snow]

Depends on how accurate the translation you want it to be. GT is not accurate, but you can use it to comedic effects.

[steel leaf]

I don't want it to be funny but it won't be a real issue if it is (the game isn't very serious), and yeah GT is kinda bad I would use DeepL

[drowsy snow]

If you want to be accurate, do consider hiring a translator.

[steel leaf]

I'm not planning on spending money for this game that's why I asked if having a bad translation is still better than english

but yeah if my translations doesn't make sense it's better not to have anything

[drowsy snow]

IMHO just having it on English is far more tolerable. Bad translation will put off native speakers.

I know because I had to witness one in my native language, a game that's shoddily translated. Not exactly GT, but it's cringe worthy with awful wordings and unnecessary text emojis.

[steel leaf]

Okay yeah that's understandable and that's less work to do, thank you!!

[real heath]

Yeah while Google translate is okayish with sentences, UI's tend to have lots of single words or phrases with no context. I would imagine that trips up automatic translations big time

[fierce tulip]

in saints row 1 you could get a blunt. which is slang for youknowwhat.
the dutch translation turned it (when translated to english again) into a blunt weapon.

not sure what that dutch translator was smoking, but it wasnt that XD

[jade hemlock]

Hey..How can I have nav mesh on wall to my AI walk on Wall?

[deft sparrow]

Is there a way to do a search in content browser along the lines of "all assets in this folder with reference to X uasset"?
I can filter in reference viewer by the path name but you can't make a collection with just your selected nodes (which seems an oversight) so I can't make a collection with my filtered list of referencers.

[inner mesa]

Hello. I haven’t started with unreal engine yet. I have only done unity but from my research I see a lot of people using blueprints for unreal engine. Doesnt unreal engine use c++? Why are so many people using blueprints isn’t actual scripting better? I have always been skeptical about visual scripting but I’m starting to think maybe it is not as bad as I used to think.

[inner mesa]

Thanks. The article helped a lot.

[smoky timber]

Hey there guys! I'm getting this issue: " LowLevelFatalError [File:Unknown] [Line: 2915] RecastNavMesh
RecastNavMesh-Default was found in memory and is an export but does not have all load flags" and the game crashes after I die (packaged version). Anyone got any idea?

[spare kernel]

whats the console command to dump loaded assets

i am mind blanked right now, and not on my work pc

[plush yew]

anyone know if unreal supports animatedpng. files?

[fierce tulip]

not out of the box. i think there is a plugin of sorts that can handle animated file formats.

[glad eagle]

Just had a quick in case anyone knows, volumetric clouds are practically washing my shadows out to the point they are not visible. im wondering if theres any particular setting where i can make them not impact the lighting of my scene

[drowsy snow]

You can disable cloud casting shadows in the volumetric cloud actor itself, if not on the directional light

[west merlin]

Is there not a 'remove action' to go along with remove action mapping? Can't find a way to remove the entire action when it's not longer used in a project
Once the input action map is removed, it has no binding, but can't find a way to remove the action altogether when resetting the keybinds

[spare trench]

Will this help to recommend my game to other playstore users and getting my game on top when searched?

[drowsy snow]

It won't be on top but at least you got some downloads

[marble iris]

probably not, you'll realistically have to pay for advertising unless you have some god tier idea and get exposed by youtubers

[drowsy snow]

||RAID Shadow Legends||

Consider that top mobile games have very aggressive advertising and/or alluring waifus

[marble iris]

😂

If I showed like any of these mobiles ads I get in here I'd get warned

[spare trench]

Which platform will be best to display advertisment on?

For (low budget)

[mighty copper]

Not sure if anyone knows but for UE4 for there was a content example which shows a metal ball you can heat up with a flame thrower and cool down with water? as well as a wood ball you could burn and catch on fire and put out with water? Does anyone else remember this? and which one it is?

[fierce tulip]

kinda sounds like something that happened in the UDK release video.

[oak patio]

Before that, realistically what is your advertising budget. If it cannot be quite high it probably won't be worth running ads

[glacial yarrow]

Hey, does anyone know if Instanced static meshes support culling in 4.27?

[opal walrus]

I don't think so

I know hierarchical instanced static meshes support distance culling though

[spare trench]

500 Rs (6.16 $). Bro I am poor🥲

[spare trench]

Will an't it worth even 10 downloads with this budget?

[drowsy snow]

And you think mobile games is cheap and profitable

Well, profitable, maybe, but you'd need agressive marketing prior and after release.

Otherwise not many people will download it, let alone buying a microtransaction.

Consider that Genshin Impact is backed by agressive marketing and following from miHoYo's prior game Honkai Impact. Not to mention the characters give enough incentive to gamble for.

Similar goes to other hit mobile games like Arknights, Call of Duty/PUBG Mobile, etc.

[oak patio]

You might get 10 impressions but that doesn't mean 10 downloads

Advertising costs thousands

$6 worth of ads is not worth your time honestly, it won't even get you a full day