ue4-general

[thin tendon]

I have no idea mate. I don't know VR and I usually just balance performance with the visualisers. But figuring out how to turn off an extra render could be a good idea.

[dreamy wasp]

its why im stuck. I thrown off all the ballast I can. Now I'm down to throwing over the passengers.

I am literally finding 0.0015ms, and removing it.

And then still seeing 100ms of stall wait sleep

[thin tendon]

I found 2 interesting links

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/cpu-stall-wait-for-event/483898

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/bhh4zo/i_am_trying_to_profile_my_game_but_its_hard_to/

[dreamy wasp]

like I said. not much info. most is people asking questions, and someone telling them to check out the crappy Unreal page, which has everything listed with the term as the definition. like 'Self" - A term referring to self. "wait" - when the CPU is waiting.

in the profiler, the best thing to click is Inclusive. It lists out everything, and you cna even find funtions, and events that you called, and it will tell you the times called, and the ms it took to complete.

Problem is.... it's like stacking legos to build a tall pillar. I got like 8 0.0001ms things that need to be done in order, and everything is waiting for those.

so you would not be looking for a 8ms event. You need to find the thread, and figure out how all those things are draining the cpu

like this. Things start on the bottom, and go up.

So TickTime is waiting for all 7 of those other things to finish, before it does it's thing.

[woeful wedge]

Is there a help somewhere how to map all Steam Deck buttons in UE4?

[tranquil ruin]

Hello, I'm newbie on UE4 and i want to change the mannequin of my project is it possible without redoing the set animation for that?

[plush yew]

And if I create such a FPS limit in the Level Blueprint of the main menu, it will work on all other maps and everywhere in general, or only on the map where I created this logic?

[oak patio]

Game user settings applies everywhere

I think you need to apply the settings afterwards though

Don't quite remember

[random pike]

hey, how do i stop things like this from happening?

it wasnt like this in blender

[oak patio]

your normals are reversed

[random pike]

how do i unreverse em then

[oak patio]

flip em in blender

or you can recalculate the outside

that sometimes wont work tho

[tender bobcat]

does anyone know why the engine version button in the launcher gets greyed out? tried some old fixes but none work

[random pike]

why does it keep flickering whenever i go more close

[umbral gate]

Does unreal have the ability to manipulate frames sent to the monitor? For example say I purchase a 240hz monitor and render my game at 120hz. Can I send a solid black screen for example every other frame using unreal? I would like to tell unreal to say double each frame and apply a blur to the odd frames. It would not have to render twice but just use the last render if that makes sense, Can Unreal manipulate stuff like that ?

[random pike]

like

whenever i go to a angle and shit

it just doesnt want to show up correctly

[dreamy wasp]

yeah. use the same skeletoon on the new mesh, and all the animation should be useable. you can also assign the animations a different skeletion. You can find these step by step on YT.

[heady quartz]

am I tweaking?

[real heath]

is it the same unreal version? maybe copy just a few objects, maybe theres one that's invalid that is causing them all to stop

[harsh ginkgo]

has anyone encountered the problem of no languages other than English in "Create localized asset" and know how to solve it? I found several "solutions" but none of them work for me. I have languages added in Localization dashboard, compiled them, manually added a folder with the right name to L10N but still only English.

[late wraith]

Anyone know why migrating a level with a blueprint in grabs my entire project to migrate with it. Is there any way of limiting the dependency or references. ? Thanks.

[tranquil ruin]

I see. Can you give me a example reference? Since i'm hardly find a applicable one in my end. Thank you

[hallow dove]

hi there, I currently using pixel streaming and i have a ui widget button that will call a javascript function to redirect the user to a link in a new tab, this is done by window.open, it has been working fine but until recently it has stopped working for ios safari due to “block pop-ups”. I was wondering if there is a way around this or is it just best to have an alert message saying they the have block pop ups enabled

[sage coral]

When playing games what corner of the screen do you guys think the UI looks the best in?

[sage coral]

Thats really strange cause I do that now for making more maps or grabbing an item that I liked placed in my other map with its loc/scale. Its really strange its not copying any of the info over even being in the same editor window.

[pallid olive]

hi was wondering for rpg style game, should the weapon be a mesh component or a variable

[plucky shale]

🎉

[solid quest]

what template should i pick up to make a top down 2d type game on unreal?

[ripe carbon]

This question applies to both UE4 and 5. What's the best way to make a program with more than one language option? Like, if I made a widget that opens at the beginning and the player chooses one of two languages, then the program would pass the data on to the game's maps by means of an enumerator variable. I'm not sure what's the best way to approach that, though.

[oak patio]

the bottom left

[oak patio]

unreal's built in localization

[ripe carbon]

I’m able to type in more than one language. But what I mean is having the program display messages in one of two languages, depending on whether the player chooses English or Japanese in a widget.

[oak patio]

yes

that is what the localization does

it doesnt generate the language for you

it just lets you change the text of a text var based on the language

[hybrid rose]

I'm trying to make a dungeon level/map for a Project at college and want it to be similar to dark and darker, does anyone have any suggestions on how I should make it (building Wise)? Idk whether to make it piece by piece or just make a full map on blender. (Or a different way).

[oak patio]

piece by piece

make yourself a modular kit

[hybrid rose]

Whats a madular kit? like a Tile set but 3d?

[oak patio]

kind of

you make a wall, a floor, a wall with a doorway, a corner wall, a wall with a window, etc, etc

[hybrid rose]

Ah ok, Thx for the help!

[lean flume]

I seem to have locked myself out of all the panels in a blueprint I'm working on for a tutorial. I think I did it with a hotkey but I'm not sure. Any advice to fix it?

looks like this

[pearl coyote]

hi, how are you guys? I'm having trouble creating a parkour system in blueprints could someone help me?

and what would be a chat to ask for help?

[lean flume]

I'm pretty sure my issue is that I was simulating 😄

[ripe carbon]

How do I set the game up to show dialogue in only the chosen language in the same program? That is, my program opens with a widget that allows the player to choose to play in English or Japanese. So how do I use the answer and enumerator to carry the data to other maps and widgets?

[crisp marsh]

the sound of my nightmares

[jade surge]

for some reason my editor doesn't make these sounds anymore, I miss them :'(

[patent stone]

sounds good😆

[finite flame]

hello mates, i've got a question about rpc. how should i move an actor on a server, by giving input on a client? i succeeded moving the actor in server side and confirmed that it blocks character's movement, but trying the same input does nothing on a client side.

thanks in advance!

[marsh loom]

Hey, quick question. My mouse axis binds are not working until i press any of the mouse buttons. Seems multiple forum posts about this but no solution so far.

[smoky flume]

Anyone familiar with Unreal Insights for memory profiling? Trying to find a way to launch it within the editor rather than using Additional Launch Parameters in Editor Preferences -> Level Editor - Play ignore me! Figured something out

[latent verge]

Ehi folks! Do you know how to move lights for animations? I'm making a video where lights move all the time and I can't understand why UE5 doesn't have the "position" keyframe for lights. To resolve this issue, I'm moving the model and the camera, but you can understand how limited is this method. Any solution? Thank you!

[oak patio]

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/zwPJ/unreal-engine-localization-in-depth

[teal basin]

does anyone know why the tree disappears here, it probably has something to do with the lod

[timid olive]

could somebody tell me how to get my scene back, I closed Unreal Engine 4.27 and this is what happened

[zinc topaz]

Should i transfer from ue4 4.27 to 5.1/2?

[real heath]

That's a big fat "depends". How far into the project are you? How much work is it to upgrade and how much will break in upgrading? Are you limited by 4.27? Will the project benefit from lumen or nanite or anything ue5 introduced?

[random pike]

ok so, i copied and pasted the regular 3rd person shit

onto a ninja character

for controls y'know

and it didnt work

how do i fix this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPpkfUpx5p8&ab_channel=Quadmension

i followed this

why isnt it working?

anyone help?

[obsidian kestrel]

Hello. I am trying to learn C++ in Unreal Engine from Udemy and I tried to download files tat I need but when I tried to open the project and try to rebuild project, it gave me this error. I really need help at this point.

[copper bobcat]

You need to put the codes in the character class not in the game mode

[copper bobcat]

Open your project in Visual Studio and rebuild it

[obsidian kestrel]

Thank you I'll try it when I arrive home

[spare trench]

Hey I have a 4 wheeled vehicle, I want to increase its pickup speed because it catches its top speed very late. I tried changing the value of torque, rpm, gear ratio but nothing worked. What can I do to increase the initial speed of the vehicle??

[wide crag]

what kind of vehicle is this...? custom asset?

[spare trench]

yeah I imported a vehicle from blender, Im using vehicle movement component.

[spare trench]

does anyone have Idea how to do it?

[harsh field]

Is there somebody that might be able to point me to a place where i can find a tutorial on how to install older engine versions? And maybe some recommendations on which might run semi smooth on my :

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU ram 32 gig ddr3 Nvidia geforce 1060 6gig

and i did manage to install the 5.1 and i do have a option for installing 5.0 but i think with my dated setup maybe i better look for an older version :p

thanks in advance!

[harsh field]

i'm guessing i need to remove ue 5 first before beeing able to install ue4?

[viral python]

No, you can have both installed as long as they are in different locations I think you'll be fine. I've got 4.2, 5.1, and 5.2 installed

[harsh field]

got it on the top right it only asked for installing 5.0 or 5.1 but first needed to go to library click on the + in the engine version and then i was able to choose older versions

but thanks for confirming both where possible else i would have unstalled it for sure 😅

[runic fern]

hello guys i have a problem in VR scenes when i Open level from main menu the Navmesh dissapearing player cant move anyone got this issue before how to fix ?

[rose flicker]

I need some advice or help from you how to stream skeletal animation from UE4 on the first computer to the second computer that receives skeletal animation in UE4 in Real-Time like Maya Live Link or MotionBuilder Live Link. The first computer is used for MOCAP and it streams skeletal animation data from UE4 to the second computer in UE4 as a VR production system. I appreciate any help to solve this issue.

[sturdy lynx]

I am trying to play my packaged game and I keep getting this error when I try to open it then the game closes before it even opens.

Can anyone help me I tried duplicating the project and repackaging but it always shows this (Im using ue4.27)

[spare trench]

My game crashes a lot of time while switch betwee levels or restarting it on mobile. Any optamized way to it?

[hybrid rose]

Is this a good layout for a dungeon?

[trim belfry]

No. You have way too many connections between the rooms and some of your rooms are stupidly big

Usually for dungeon stuff you might look into using wave collapse to generate them so you don't end up with these sorts of weird problems and if you did they would be ezpz to fix

[hybrid rose]

ok 👌

[hybrid rose]

I am trying to resemble something like this but my procedural dungeon maker is being weird.

[trim belfry]

The one in the picture probably had a bunch of people design and revise it. Copying a dungeon doesn't make sense since almost all of them are designed specifically for the game they are for. If you don't understand how dungeons work you are going to end up with convoluted mess of hallway spaghetti like you had

[hybrid rose]

So what would you recommend doing then? I have looked at using wave collapse but I'm getting a similar result.

[trim belfry]

Get good basically. Study how dungeons are made and how they work. Find out what they do and what you want from your dungeon. I suspect that your results with wave collapse are probably because of your misunderstanding of how dungeons work, or how wave collapse works. Study, make, iterate

[hybrid rose]

ok man 🧙‍♂️

[fierce tulip]

@hybrid rose check this out, its an extensive analysis on dungeons from Zelda, Dark souls, metroid, and others
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc38fcMFcV_ul4D6OChdWhsNsYY3NA5B2

I'd start with the oldest video. Mark uses some charts that keep updating, else it gets a bit confusing.

[hybrid rose]

Thanks man, I’ll check it out!

Been looking for tutorials but I was struggling to find any good ones so this is perfect.

[wide crag]

https://watabou.itch.io/one-page-dungeon refresh for new

[hybrid rose]

Thank you 🙏

[wide crag]

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/12/21/rooms-and-mazes/

[timid vortex]

Hey friends
Is there any one that got any experience with the game ability system (GAS) for UE4?

[valid inlet]

hello quick question - is there a way to add some bounciness to Physics Constraints? The one I have set up works pretty well but when the object connected to the end falls down it is very rigid instead of having any bounce

[echo walrus]

Hi. Because I have pretty weak pc and I want to use Unreal Engine, I have to use version 4.27.2. So I have to compile it myself. I ran Setup.sh. Output was

**********  SUCCESS ****************```
Setup successful.
Then, I ran GenerateProjectFiles.sh and output was

```Attempting to set up UE4 pretty printers for gdb (existing UE4Printers.py, if any, will be overwritten)...
    updated UE4Printers.py
    found necessary entries in ~/.gdbinit file, not changing it.

Setting up Unreal Engine 4 project files...

Fixing inconsistent case in filenames.
Setting up Mono
./../../../Source/Programs/UnrealBuildTool/UnrealBuildTool.csproj: error : /home/student/UnrealEngine-4.27.2-release/Engine/Source/Programs/UnrealBuildTool/UnrealBuildTool.csproj: Input string was not in a correct format.
Cannot open assembly './../../../Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool.exe': File or folder does not exist.```
What should I do?/What I did wrong?

[spice ruin]

You might find more help in #linux. It definitely shouldn't be looking for an exe.

[echo walrus]

Ok, thanks

[plush yew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB0CGRw0XV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9i_P9fVTb4

[sage coral]

Just a quick question, I dont plan on using many displacement textures but was curious do the displacements actually physically make more verts on the mesh the mat is placed on or is it all camera trickery?

[real heath]

If using tessellation, yes it creates more tris. If using wpo, it just moves the existing tris. If using POM, it’s trickery

[tranquil pumice]

does anyone know how to record UE with OBS? Recording main window with UE is simple, but opening new ones like for example blueprint does not record :/
Sure, I can always capture whole desktop, but I would rather not record taskbar

[digital crystal]

Did anyone posted HTML5 game using ue 4.23.1 in itch? I was facing some issues.

[stray smelt]

How do you get true fullscreen from editor? F11 still gives me the top application border

New Editor Window also doesn't work

Standalone game + launch parameter works

[wide crag]

if you want to play in fullscreen then it's Launch Standalone. If you just want fullscreen screenshots, use the Hi-Res Screenshot function from the menu in the top left

[spare trench]

Hey, I have a button on many widgets when I click it, it opens main menu.
I use same blueprint code for these button to open main menu.
Means I just copy paste the blueprint code for these button.
Is there any optamized way which would conzume less memory?
(I tried blueprint interface but i cant connect target of the inferface with the on clicking event)

[fast zealot]

Anyone got a sample game built with ue4.26.2 along with debug symbols for Android arm64 (64bit)

[grave isle]

Why doesn’t this work

[main bluff]

where do I go for someone to help troubleshoot packaging error for unreal 4.27 for ios?

is there a specific channel for this?

[fierce tulip]

#packaging probably

[sand heron]

Hello im totally new and want to ask someone who has experience in making games to suggest me a good ROADMAP for learning C++ in order to make games in UE.

I will be so thankful for any links/courses/mentoring/coaches etc.

Just YOUR WAY to teach NOOB for his good start

[thin tendon]

This guy has some good tutorials to get you started. https://youtu.be/s_NCxSH9ZG0

[azure shore]

does anyone know of a specific console command that spawns a player? I have a distinct memory of accidentally spawning a copy of the player in a game, and it made it splitscreen, but havent been able to find that ever since

searched through the whole commands list couldnt find it
yeah I dont expect anyone to know this

[rapid wyvern]

Is there any way to adjust the brightness of multiple textures at once, sort of like an adjustment layer in Photoshop?

Like, I'm interested in brightening or adjusting the contrast of every one of those maps in the material slots, but doing it one by one seems suboptimal if I have a whole bunch.

[dreamy wasp]

QUESTION: Is there a way to have different AI enemies use different Nav Mesh settings?
I know I can set jump height, step up angle, etc, but I'm talking about where certain enemies can walk over hot areas, and others can not. I tried just putting a Blocker, there, but the AI will just walk into it, and get stuck, unless I check EffectsNavigation, but then all AI will go around it.

[gentle carbon]

Does anyone know why my mesh would do this?😅

[dreamy wasp]

The weighting is wrong.

or the model is not stitched at that seem.

[pine remnant]

i need a tutorial on adding menus please, and camerca control

[coarse jetty]

i really need help with this, does anybody know why is this happening?

monitors:

• 1 hp z32 (3840x2160)
• 1 hp z27 (1920x1080)

Widows 11 pro insider review

example in obs

[pine remnant]

yes, your scalability might be set to high, trying lowering it.

[coarse jetty]

which scalability? 4k monitor low from 150% to 125%? i left all the recomended options... and if i do this the windows have a different scale depending on the monitor and it bothers me

[placid reef]

Hi, i am new to unreal made some project with couple diferrent free assets. problem i have that all the assets are in own folder. example: tree001 have in content/something1/mesh/ and in content/something2/mesh/ yet both are different looking trees and i wish to move them in content/mesh/ both but to not owerwrite one with another but to have them both and to keep there dependencies to a textures because populated on the level already. Offcourse not with the same name. is there some plugin or a way to automate that to not need to do migrate every single asset one by one?

[tame marsh]

So what do I do when building a project in Visual Studio is succesful but launching the UProject file still says that some plugins need to be rebuilt and it fails

Ah right, even if the UProject launcher builder quickly closes, there should be logs..

Ah, someone's been messing up our P4 source control

||it was me||

[agile sigil]

Hi everyone, I want to confirm something about the substance to UE plugin. Is there a way to utilize blend node from substance in unreal by having it combining two or more texture inside unreal?

This is my current setup and giving the input an image did not change the material, so I wonder if there's something wrong with the one I make

[plush yew]

anyone know of a good free alternative to substance painter

also should i choose blueprints or c++, is there any downside to either?

[autumn flame]

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

[oak patio]

Armor paint is free if you build it from source. You can use quixel mixer too but imo its meh

Other than that, i'd just save up the money, and get a steam perpetual license or something, if you don't want to be tied down by another adobe subscription

[plush yew]

i dont have any adobe subscriptions , also whats a steam perpetual licence

[oak patio]

on steam you can get a perpetual license for substance painter

you only get updates for that year, but i prefer it to a subscription

[tame marsh]

Those are still available? I thought Adobe put the kibosh on that

[oak patio]

thankfully no

[plush yew]

lol

[plush yew]

r/screenshotsarehard moment

[tame marsh]

Screen2Gif has a permanent spot in my swiss army knife set of digital tools

A lot less to fiddle with than OBS for those quick captures

[plush yew]

gyazo

[plush yew]

what is the profiler

[autumn flame]

You can use console commands for random dumps or just use Unreal Insights or any other working profiling software

[tame marsh]

does gyazo still require you to upload to their own servers

Though when I tried it out, being able to copy-paste images into your message was unheard of

[plush yew]

https://i.gyazo.com/7facc612b598bbeb0029cec56ba90eca.mp4

[willow solstice]

Any idea why opening unrealpak.exe crashes immediately? I can't get run commands without opening it

[sage coral]

Had a question that I wanted your guys input on, I have been having a slight creative block with figuring out how to spruce up the textures and stuff for the hospital, it looks nice in the photos but it really doesnt scream I'm a hospital on an island resort to me, I really wanna make the look more appealing and unique insted of just flat textures, I do plan on adding door sings and such but I'm just really not feeling the wall and floor textures, if anyones got any suggestions or even example photos they find online or have its greatly appreciated. I have the level itself more or less fully built even with some special secret surprises and hidden levels around and thouse I like they way they look but because the hospital is such a big part for the intro/demo I wanna make it look more like a nice well kept hospital on the upper floors and as you decent to the lower floors it's just drenched in blood and gore to ease the player into the madness, but as I said the walls dont feel very hospital like I feel more like I'm in a office/mental institution lol

[devout perch]

Fun little palm trees, other plants. Also if it want it to be like a hospital, consider a more industrial white/mint green colour scheme

[wide crag]

windows.

[sage coral]

You were so right thank you so much I think I was trying to over complicate the textures before I went for more simple ones and Id say its looking more like a hospital that it was before 😄

@wide crag Windows exsist the camera was just facing more the mid section of the hospital 😄

[pallid olive]

hi guys

for array to get first index i need to minus one ??

[real heath]

Yes. Arrays are start at 0. You can think of it like an offset. The array points to somewhere, and you want to access the item at index zero you are accessing somewhere + 0. It's the first slot.

[pallid olive]

i have some items in the array like 0 is empty 1 item 2 another item, but i need to minus one to get the 0 index ?

Boris if i have a structure in a game mode and use the same structure in the character, does this receive acces none ?

structure ingamemode is default value

[devout perch]

Haha no worries.

Glad I could help

[plush yew]

can someone tell me why my skeleton isn't importing correctly and not letting me use my own bone names

greyed out

and they dont bend either

[sage coral]

How can I change My baked shadow res from 512 to 1024?

I was looking for it in the settings but I feel like Im going in circles

[dreamy wasp]

there should be in the light map.

[dreamy wasp]

You can set the lightmap in the Mesh, or set it in the BP under Over LightMap Res. you can also set a default in the project settings.

And only static meshes will bake. The crap-colored are dynamic meshes, and will get their lighting during the game.

[sage coral]

That's prob why I couldnt find it in the settings I was typing in shadows insted of lightmap lol

[queen rivet]

I am working on sniper rifle shooting system. How can I add delay after shooting 1 shot?

[oak patio]

Exactly as you described. Use a boolean to signify if you are able to shoot, check it before you shoot, shoot, set it to false, then after your cooldown, set it back to true

[queen rivet]

I think I did as you said but while shooting first shot, it is taking delay as well. I want to add delay after a shot, not before. I think I did something wrong here @oak patio

[oak patio]

Nowhere there are you checking if you're allowed to shoot again

[queen rivet]

how can I check? where do I check? would you mind explaining? @oak patio

[oak patio]

You check with a branch before you shoot

[plush yew]

Greetings everyone, how can i keep gameplay tags after a character respawns? I followed this tutorial and added a simple respawn system , yet when the bots respawn they don't attack each other because they lost the gameplay tags for teams, i tried setting the tag at event begin play but to no avail, the way i have it setup is there's multiple child bps of the bot like in this video, and each one is assigned a team color

https://youtu.be/Xy9zArrp-v4

[queen rivet]

So I need to create branch and get boolean "can shoot" and set it to true to shoot function? Sorry I am just a beginner so I am having a hard time. Can you explain in detail of what and where booleans need to added by looking at my above screenshot. @oak patio

[oak patio]

Unfortunately I cannot. I do not have the time

[queen rivet]

you can reply here whenever you are free

[rotund sorrel]

How can i make unloaded actors still react to an event they should be subscribed to?

[thin tendon]

I am pretty confident if they are unloaded you can't make them do anything as they are not loaded into active memory.

[thin tendon]

If you assign tags in the blueprint in the editor instead of at runtime, then they will keep those tags.

[rotund sorrel]

Ok so maybe i should store the event somewhere. Then on begin play of the actor, check if the event has been fired while it was unloaded and do the stuff there

[plush yew]

I've put them in the event begin play yet to no avail, the cast for the tags is done to the parent bluprint btw if that helps

[thin tendon]

You misunderstand mate. You aren't going to add them with code in the blueprint begin play. Open your blueprint in the editor go to the details tab. Search for tags. Then add the tags manually.

[thin tendon]

yeah I kind of get what you are saying and that is the general idea. Save the information you need when you despawn your actor. Then retrieve the information again later when you need it.

[plush yew]

I'll try it when i get home, thanks a lot

[dreamy wasp]

Create a Game Instance. It lasts as long as the game has been loaded, even through level changes, death, etc.
It is also very light to dump to, and take stuff from it, unlike a save.
I normally put stuff in there, then when the player dies, I dump it all into the save: distance traveled, enemies killed, obstacles avoided, unlocks, etc. For unlocks or events, you can just have an array of Bools, or even s struct.

You'll see videos on the gameInstance for having music play across levels.

[full bobcat]

finally UE4 😅

[plush yew]

I did what you suggested but it's the same problem 😔

[full bobcat]

ERROR: Platform Linux is not a valid platform to build. Check that the SDK is installed properly.

i'm getting this error while building engine from source on arch linux

[cloud plover]

Anyone have a clue how I can fix this? The arms are rotated 180 degrees wrong way, but the spine is following the AimOffset correctly.

If I increase the blend depth, the arms go in the correct position, but the aimoffset no longer has any effect

[weary ember]

in this component blueprint, i'm looking to add types of actors to an array, and then check if the owning actor of the component is one of those types. How do you go about creating a list of types to iterate over? I don't wanna create objects of those types

[quartz pebble]

Is there a way for me to rename my project without breaking it because I just tried it and it wont let me package the game

[real heath]

You'll need to choose a base class, like lets say actors, and when you choose the Actor type for the array it'll give 3 options, you want to choose Class Reference

or whatever it's called, should be the bottom one in the list of 3

You could equally choose a scenecomponent or actor component as the base class

[weary ember]

oh shit i posted this in ue5 general too and got an answer. Should've deleted. Thank you though!

[real heath]

oof, and that's why you don't crosspost kids

[weary ember]

!

[real heath]

It's a very tedious process. Most people settle on just renaming in the project settings, without renaming the uproject or modules

Plenty of games have "ShooterGame" in the title bar or game files for that reason

Even valorant

[quartz pebble]

yea but when I package it and try to rename it then it breaks the game so I want to be able to have a different name show up in the packaged version

[real heath]

yes. So your options are: undo the rename and only change the name field in the settings window, which should change most user visible names. But to properly rename means a long process of renaming something, opening the project, seeing whats broken, updating that reference, closing the project, opening again, see whats broken. Then the same with packaging. It's a VERY LONG and error prone process

most people don't deem it worth it

IF you insist on renaming it deeply, you can post specific errors. But you should look into things like CoreRedirects to help renaming stuff

changing it only through the settings window will not break anything

[quartz pebble]

ok so in project settings it says Project name, if I change it there will the name appreare in the packaged version?

[real heath]

in MOST places. You'll probably still see some references

atleast give it a try and then see if the remainign things are really that much of a concern

[quartz pebble]

Yea renaming is a must do cause for now it is appearing as teast
Its not even spelled right

[real heath]

Ok, so try to see just the project settings and see what references are left

[quartz pebble]

ok thanks for your help, Im packaging it now and will let you know if it works

[quartz pebble]

so ya it's not working and the packaged versions are breaking so thanks for your help i'm just gonna have to figure this out later

[earnest prawn]

Has anyone here implemented HWID bans in their game? Interested to hear anything about how it was done

[wide crag]

I wonder if it's possible to Migrate the entire Content folder into a different project (with the desired name)

[spice ruin]

Why not?

You could, in fact, just copy the entire content folder in explorer.

[real heath]

That may worked, depends on a few factors though. including whether it's a source project. Give it a try.

[rotund sorrel]

It's very annoiyng to spawn actors at runtime since you cannot set all their properties in editor like actors that are already there. To avoid this, is there a way to put them still in editor but make them "inactive" until they would have been "spawned"?i'm talking about ai characters, so they shouldn't run any logic until "spawned" and shouldn't be visible/collide of course

[proud narwhal]

Is an "Instance" just mean that it's a reference to a blueprint?

[oak patio]

It's not worth it imo. HWID bans just inconvenience regular players that get false banned, and anyone actually worth being HWID banned, knows how to spoof it

[wide crag]

the Object Pooling pattern allows you to set this up. Have your characters exist in the world at some inaccessible location (below the map) and set their properties as you wish, and never actually "kill" or "spawn" them

[sturdy smelt]

Well , if u get Serials or the UID of the Hardware of like the Importants part, it should be Easy i think, and ofc the Check should be very Clean, because if u make an Mistake u get False Banns, but theres everytime an Way to Spoof or Bypass aswell , so prob wasted Energy.

[tame marsh]

Just like the corpse room in Skyrim games, only that one is for dead characters

[tacit rapids]

Hi I have got gamemode airsim. I would like to add Replay Spectator Player Controller. But I cant edit, add anything in Selected GameMode. What im missing ?

[spice ruin]

Is your game mode a c++ class?

[fair meteor]

Suppose I build a game in a 32x32 landscape with 10 tiers of cave underneath the map. Just in terms of level design, what are the most important things to know for optimization? Would I still render things with netcull even though its single player?

[wind mantle]

Is it possible to trigger widget (button) onclick without clicking on it? Let's say I have a test that should automate some UI configuration and I want to validate that the result has the correct configuration after the buttons has been triggered.

[sturdy smelt]

Why not just an Custom Event with FAKEONCLICK, and trigger how u want?

[wind mantle]

Yep, I did this now 🙂

thx

[tacit rapids]

Yes

[spice ruin]

That's why.

[hasty epoch]

Hello. I'm trying to do a localization test. But I'm having trouble. Does anyone know what to do?

[hasty epoch]

Switching is not working. If it works, it only works once.

[tacit rapids]

And can I change that ? Like write another row and recompile plugin

[sturdy smelt]

i remember in the Past u need an C ++ Code and an Blueprint Function Libary for that .

[spice ruin]

Create a bp from your game mode and use the BP.

[tacit rapids]

Its not my gamemode. Its plugin gamemode

[spare pilot]

How to Disable Building static mesh render data, i rename filex and ue always building

[split tundra]

I had worked on my project this morning, everything was fine, I pushed the changes in my repo and went on with my day until I had opened it about an hour ago to see this pop up, out of the blue. I've been trying to fix it to no vail. I don't know what's going on, I've tried validating data, verifying UE4's installation, disabling and enabling the CommonUI plugin, yet nothing works. The funny part is, none of the mentioned things are referenced in "DemonDatabase"... I can manage to reload data and the project works, but as soon as I quit the engine and reopen the project, the same errors pop up.

[plush yew]

should i use ue4 or ue5? which one is better for game development for a indie

[oak patio]

No reason to stick with 4

[edgy parrot]

hey
i have scene that have only 2 react light and a little bit of other meshes the scene looks great in pc view but when i switch to ios preview the lights presets get changed and the scene start to look bad, so any one know how i can make the scene in ios look like the pc ? (in any cost i don`t care about the performence)

[heady ridge]

how similar is UE4 and UE5? If I'm new, can I start learning UE4 and then switch to UE5 later on?

[oak patio]

Just start with 5

[toxic wagon]

I have a project on 4.26 and I want to merge some of the assets to UE4.25, can I just copy the relevant .uassets?

[errant dagger]

hi! did you find what was cause such behavior?

[night birch]

I certainly did, but I don't remember what was it

[night birch]

I think I knwo

This was the error log from rider

Here you have the object, and its name

[errant dagger]

was UTransfrerManagerConfiguraton your custom C++ added to ROOT ?

[night birch]

I don't remember what was causing the crash

Btu from the screen I see it was some blueprint

What is UTransferManagerConfiguraton?

Google doesn't see it

[errant dagger]

ok , thanks , will dig it more.

[sage bane]

Hello!

[split tundra]

Apparently 3 of my assets (which use CommonUI) seem to be corrupted. I don't know what to do, I've literally tried everything. They work as long as I reload them, but as soon as I restart the editor, they get corrupted back again. Also when I reload them, even though they work, a message saying "Failed to load parentclass" appears. Also by trying to delete one particular asset among these 3, I get the following error: "One or more assets were partially consolidated, yet still cannot be deleted for some reason. It is highly recommended that you restart the editor without saving any of the assets or packages."

I've already searched through the Discord but nothing helped sadly

It was literally working fine the morning before \:

[real heath]

Have you got c++ in this project? Do you use hotreload?

Compile with the editor closed

[split tundra]

I do use C++, and nope, never hotreloaded

It was working fine the morning before, I pushed my changes to the repo and when I opened the project back in the afternoon, I was greeted by the image I posted before

[real heath]

Ensure your plugin is still enabled and also verify the engine through launcher

[split tundra]

The thing is, even if I delete my local copy and redownload from repo, it doesn't work anyway.
Also, I've tried copying the corrupted files (which actually happen to work after reloading, which means the local copy does indeed work) in another blank project and I get no error at all there

It appears as if something's wrong with the project iself

[split tundra]

Already did this as well

[real heath]

Alright well then open the log and read it thoroughly before those failed to load messages come up

Log usually reveals more

[split tundra]

Other than that I get the following:
[2023.03.31-08.41.43:155][ 0]LogDerivedDataCache: FDerivedDataBackendGraph: Pak pak cache file <ProjectDir>/DerivedDataCache/DDC.ddp not found, will not use a pak cache.
[2023.03.31-08.41.43:155][ 0]LogDerivedDataCache: Unable to find inner node Pak for hierarchical cache Hierarchy.
[2023.03.31-08.41.43:155][ 0]LogDerivedDataCache: FDerivedDataBackendGraph: CompressedPak pak cache file <ProjectDir>/DerivedDataCache/Compressed.ddp not found, will not use a pak cache.
[2023.03.31-08.41.43:155][ 0]LogDerivedDataCache: Unable to find inner node CompressedPak for hierarchical cache Hierarchy.
[2023.03.31-08.41.43:171][ 0]LogDerivedDataCache: Display: Pak cache opened for reading ../../../Engine/DerivedDataCache/Compressed.ddp.
[2023.03.31-08.41.43:172][ 0]LogDerivedDataCache: FDerivedDataBackendGraph: EnterprisePak pak cache file ../../../Enterprise/DerivedDataCache/Compressed.ddp not found, will not use a pak cache.
[2023.03.31-08.41.43:172][ 0]LogDerivedDataCache: Unable to find inner node EnterprisePak for hierarchical cache Hierarchy.

Which happens before the uassets errors

Also, in the log it does say the files failed to be loaded, but also that they cannot be found, which's odd because they're there, they do appear in the content browser

And also I get this as well:
[2023.03.31-08.41.45:603][ 0]LogLinker: Warning: CreateExport: Failed to load Parent for BlueprintGeneratedClass /Game/3D_Test/BattleSystemScrollingTextStyle.BattleSystemScrollingTextStyle_C
[2023.03.31-08.41.45:603][ 0]LogLinker: Warning: Unable to load Default__BattleSystemScrollingTextStyle_C with outer Package /Game/3D_Test/BattleSystemScrollingTextStyle because its class does not exist
[2023.03.31-08.41.45:605][ 0]LogLinker: Warning: CreateExport: Failed to load Parent for BlueprintGeneratedClass /Game/UserInterface/BattleLogMarquee.BattleLogMarquee_C
[2023.03.31-08.41.45:605][ 0]LogLinker: Warning: Unable to load Default__BattleLogMarquee_C with outer Package /Game/UserInterface/BattleLogMarquee because its class does not exist

The ScrollingTextStyle's and Marquee's parent classes are both from CommonUI.
This as well is strange because I've got other BPs that derive from the aforementioned BPs' parents and they do work

[split tundra]

I've also already tried to compile yet again to no vail

[wind mantle]

How can I setup a structure using . instead of the tests using the path? The current path looks like this...
Project.Functional Test./Game/Functional_Tests/Animal... etc I want it to be
Project.Functional Test.Animal......

[plush yew]

I enjoy 4, it feels snappier and faster than 5, it also feels more fun to use overall

[stray sapphire]

hello, is this still relevant with UE5 ? or can we access state machines/ states from c++ ? thanks for answers

[green phoenix]

is there a way to apply the culling systems to affect blueprints in scene?

I've managed to get it working on a static mesh, but not bps

[split tundra]

I just tried to delete and remake the corrupted files, under different names, yet once the editor restarts the same errors show up, now referencing the newly created assets that replaced the "corrupted" assets. I'm completely clueless

[snow dirge]

Hello everyone! First of all nice to meet you. I’m VED, multidisciplinary Italian artist.

I have some problems with the Vertex Color node in Unreal.
I exported an alembic from Houdini with some attributes, especially the "Cd" node, which I also used in Cinema 4D as a vertex map (mask) to mix two procedural materials made with Octane. on Cinema 4D the map works correctly, but when I import the alembic into Unreal the Vertex Color node doesn't work and makes my mesh completely black.

I tried exporting the alembic file by changing a few parameters: I promoted the Cd attribute from points to vertices but it didn't work, I tried generating an UV mapping (flatten) and removing unecessary attributes but it still didn't work!

the animation works in viewport, and other native software materials work correctly, so I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I've followed a few video tutorials in the hope of solving it but nothing... it doesn't work.

this is my first time using Unreal. I've been commissioned to do artwork for a holographic project. It doesn't matter wich program you use to create the mesh, but it is important to import it into Unreal to fit in the holographic space. the version is 4.27.

hope you can help me!

[oak patio]

Why did you ask the question if you already decided lol

[spare trench]

can some one help me with the selection,spawn and respawn system of vehicle please!!
I am stuck at this point at my game project because I can respawn the player I have select

this is how I take the value of the selected vehicle in the variable named "Vehicle" which is present in car_instance .

this is how I spawn the selected vehicle into the level in LevelBlueprint

but here is the main problem where I want to respawn the selected player when the vehicle gets destroy. I dont know how I will attach that Vehicle variable to the restart player node.

[cloud plover]

Why not just migrate the files from the editor?

[toxic wagon]

I only wanted to do specific files + references and wasn’t sure if a partial migration was a thing

[split tundra]

Not even reinstalling UE4 worked \:

[cloud plover]

My guess is that things most likely will break if you just copy the .uasset files. If you right click an asset in the content drawer and click "migrate" you can select what to bring over and not

[gleaming lotus]

The most bizzare thing is happening here:
One of the niagara system particles is showing up in the localisation window. There's no flag for marking it as non-localised. Anyone have a clue how to prevent localisation?

[sand edge]

hey how do i parent a niagara emitter to a specific bone in a skeletal mesh

[normal breach]

hey y'all!
I'm trying to disable gravity when loading sublevels, I call

    const UWorld* World = WorldContext->World();
    if(World)
    {
        AWorldSettings* MyWorldSetting=World->GetWorldSettings();
        if(MyWorldSetting)
        {
            MyWorldSetting->bGlobalGravitySet=!bIsGravityEnabled;
        }
    } ```
But doesn't seem to do anything. Also, I tried manually setting the Override World Gravity checkmark here but that too seems to not be doing shit.
Does anyone know why is that and/or how can I disable gravity for a whole world temporarily?

[rancid flame]

Hi everybody. I am having a problem to understand the process of localisation.
In the localisation dashboard I can have more than one game target.
So I want to have one game target per Level of my game, to have it easier managing the textloads.
How, and where can I set the game target to be used in the current level ?
I once changed the name of my actual game target and it wasnt used anymore …
Anybody has experience with this ?
kind regards
stucki

[spare trench]

Can someone help me?

[astral stratus]

i am facing a issue in macos
Showing All Messages
unable to spawn process '/Users/macbookpro/Downloads/UnrealEngine-4.27/Engine/Build/BatchFiles/Mac/XcodeBuild.sh' (No such file or directory)
even i checked the directory is existing .

[iron rune]

does anyone know if theres an option to disable collision/physics on playerstart?

i have a water map and wherever i place the playerstart is where the water level will be and i want them to be separate things. could anyone help

[astral stratus]

Showing Recent Issues
Command CodeSign failed with a nonzero exit code even this error too in another setup even

i setup the certificate and profile corretly

[spice ruin]

@astral stratus try #macos

[split tundra]

What might be a possible cause for certain blueprints to lose their parent class on startup?

[grizzled phoenix]

I'm at a serious loss guys. I've been importing skeletal meshes for days for a modular character and now for some reason the name of the head bone has gotten a 1 at the end, something none of the other did and it's from the same work file. So can't do a proper merge with the ue4 skeleton because it's missing the head bone because the name is not the same. Halp!

[rotund sorrel]

What can i use to visually differentiate actors in editor (of the same class) based on wether i set a property to true or false in editor?

[oak yew]

Anyone know how I can debug this error: LogglTFForUE4Ed: Error: The class Is not supported! DataTable I've literally no idea what class it's on about, or where it is, I have a lot of data tables and this has seamingly randomly started popping up.. It absolutely floods my output log whenever I have a data table up (any, doesn't matter which)

[real heath]

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Acode4game%2FglTFForUE4 The class Is not supported!&type=code

I started by searching the plugin source for that error. Seems it's trying to check if it can reimport

does your datatable struct have a gltf related field? or are there a bunch of hard references to static meshes?

[oak yew]

There is one table that has thousands of static mesh entries yeah

None have gltf

[real heath]

Well that error exists in this function: bool UglTFReimportFactory::CanReimport(UObject* Obj, TArray<FString>& OutFilenames) which to me says it's checking if a mesh is able to be reimported. So probably it's running against every static mesh as the table loads them

you might be able to fix that by changing to soft references

or, modify the source to not logspam that

or you can even just turn off that log category in your config files

[oak yew]

i think that link really helped

I remember trying GLTF like 3 months ago or something but stuck to FBX, not sure why my UE has started bringing that error up, maybe an issue from a crash, but I do have that projects plugin installed.

[real heath]

yeah, if you aren't using that plugin on this project, disable it

[oak yew]

That has sorted it, removed! 😄 thank you so much for finding that

[real heath]

np

[lament basin]

can you export metahuman ue5 to ue4? thanks

[trim belfry]

Let me github that for you

[violet turret]

@hollow trench Hey what's up buddy?

[thick prawn]

Hi, I'm trying to open an old project and when I click the project file (because i don't have it in the unreal's vault) it says "Failed to Launch editor". I'm not sure what to do, I'm afraid is because i don't have the proper version of the project installed or any plugins, but I don't know how to see in which version was it done and its plugins, is there any way to know it?
Thank you so much ^^

[copper bobcat]

Open the .uproject file and check the EngineAssociation

[thick prawn]

How can I check that? ^^'

[copper bobcat]

In the project folder you can find the .uproject file

[thick prawn]

Oh, got it, thanks ^^
However I have that version installed, any thoughts of what can be the error of "Failed to Launch editor"?

[copper bobcat]

For the first step, you should verify Unreal Engine files
In Epic Games Launcher, select the engine version and verify it

[flint sleet]

Why does my model look weird when i export it and open it in blender?

[spare trench]

can I give my forum link to get solution?

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/respawn-the-selected-vehicle-class/837378

[weary breach]

Hello guys maybe someone of you had similar problem, my mouse is bugged for "some time" on top of slider, as you can see on gif firstly my mouse is just default mouse i have to click some time( sometimes its less sometimes its more) untill it changed to Cursor slider any idea why? https://i.imgur.com/a8opq7q.gif

This is probably some random setting i change cause it works perfectly when i migrate the project to other empty one, but cant find which one it was ;/

[frozen ridge]

Whats the best engine to start learning for a project? ue4 or 5?

[weary breach]

Well if you just starting take UE5 and find some videos yt there are many of usefull

[frozen ridge]

so ue5 is more nooby friendly?

[weary breach]

there are many of improvements in ue5, but if you just starting ue5 in my opinion will be the best choice. You can easly find some yt videos about comparison and pros/cons

[frozen ridge]

cool, ty

[topaz arch]

hi guys, any recommendations for quick cleanup (deleting unused assets,materials, meshes, etc) of project

[ember plover]

hey im planning on putting a character with a coat from blender to unreal, i read that for the cloth simulation to work you just need to weight paint it, but does it still need any bones for the rig??

[solar valve]

not totally sure what channel to put this in, but how can i make my confetti (left) in lit mode look like unlit mode (right)?

i've noticed this with a few other things but some sort of post processing is making everything look totally blurry, even with motion blur off. i'm totally missing something and im super new to ue4, so i'm not sure where to look..

text also becomes super blurry and unreadable from just a small distance but im not sure if that's just my monitor or something

[tame marsh]

You can adjust the confetti's material to be unlit

lemme check how

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/where-is-the-unlit-option-for-materials-in-unreal-engine-5-solved/259211/2

[autumn flame]

Blurriness could be ghosting from TAA

[solar valve]

how do i edit that?

[solar valve]

prefer it lit

[autumn flame]

There's some settings around that may help, look into TAA cvars, don't remember much since currently using TSR

Depends if you use forward of deferred too

In forward you have MSAA

There'a FXAA too for both but let's ignore its existance

You can visualize velocity passes with a command that i always forget, lol

ShowFlag.VisualizeMotionBlur 1

[autumn flame]

It may already look okay but the ghosting would be making it look awful btw

[surreal cloak]

Been anoyed recently because I want to master UE, and cant figure out a path to get there.

Where is the starting point?
And does the starting point exist in the real world?

Yes theres youtube videos, but wheres the in-person / lecture oriented courses?

Look at all these studios making ground breaking results in UE... the studios are made up of indivisuals. All the skill is just an agregation of indivisual skills.

Where are these people going to learn this stuff?

(Theres no way they just browse the docs and bindge youtube)

[grim ore]

why is there no way?

and there are live training available around the world for Unreal Engine if you look for it, there is an authorized instructor program that epic has

[surreal cloak]

Are these classes held anyhwere near massachucets?

(Usa)

[grim ore]

I couldnt say for sure, but https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/training-partners is a good start along with other section under Learn at the top

[raven escarp]

Should i delete autosaves and the caches and temporary files in the project files before packaging?

[grim ore]

it wont package those

[raven escarp]

I was just wondering as an asset i deleted showed in the output log procrss

While packaging

And it failed

[harsh tiger]

Hi, in this UE forum post I can see this node in the top left. Does anyone know what it's called please?

[grim ore]

thats just a scalar, a single value. its just a very small value @harsh tiger sorry it looks like a vector 2

i didnt notice the comma

[harsh tiger]

Any idea how I can replicate it? Including the E just removes it

[grim ore]

but it looks like that due to being in scientific notation

https://calculator.name/scientific-notation-to-decimal/2.05e+003

looks like it just might be 2050,2050

[harsh tiger]

Genius!

The next task is to figure out what "level" is. As it's no longer present in UE5

[grim ore]

its not even in a recent version of 4, I want to say that was mipmap level

[harsh tiger]

I'm using a texture atlas, but I'm getting a bit of bleeding from the next texture. From the research I've done it's mipmap related, but no success just yet

[grim ore]

you need to adjust the texture itself to stop that

[harsh tiger]

everything is mapped to 64x64, wouldn't changing that mean it won't fit into the 1024x1024 texture?

[grim ore]

no its a setting on the texture itself in the editor

try changing the filter on that texture to nearest

[harsh tiger]

WOW

that fixed it!

Thank you so much

I've tried so many different types of shaders in the past hour. When my first one was fine with that change 😅

[sand edge]

Hey i have a camera in a BP in my scene how do i set that to be the camera i get when i play?

[grim ore]

set view target with blend

[sand edge]

how?

[grim ore]

you use the blueprint node, set view target with blend

or if your using a pawn, you can set it as the possessed by default in it's properties

[sage coral]

Need a little help I have 3 progress bars 2 work using the same method however the one for the growth refuses to go up for some reason. Im assuming its because Im spawning the actor in and the variable is not on the bp itself. Bescailyl without over complicating my text here, I have a simple plant growing system I created and eveything works fine except the growth bar never seems to get a value.

Thouse 2 are in the same BP and this one is in the plant that spawns in from spawn actor from class

[hallow void]

Hello
Yesterday I met a weird issue, can someone tell me if it's normal?
I moved a folder inside the Unreal Engine, it was a 3 GB folder, and the process not only took 2 hours and a half, but afterwards the whole PC was so slow it was unusable, even ctrl+alt+del took more than 2 minutes to respond, and it's not even the first time it happens
My specs are i7 10th gen, GTX 1650, 16GB RAM and I run Unreal Engine 4.27
Is this normal?
Should likely note that I had VS open at the same time, which caused identical issues when I worked with C++ in UE5

Also, I apologize in advance if I won't be able to send any screenshots or won't respond for a hour or two, I am away from my PC at the moment

[fierce tulip]

moving a massive folder can be slow yea, as it also potentially needs to redirect files to their corresponding referenced content.

[hallow void]

I can see that well, but I'm puzzled by how much it impacts the overall performance of the PC
After completion of the process the whole machine is unusable unless I turn it off, which is a challenge since the OS itself starts to lag

[sudden zinc]

manny

[cloud plover]

Is it common practice to swap out animBPs during runtime for swapping weapons?

[hallow void]

Wait, you can do that?!

I thought you couldn't

[cloud plover]

You can, but I'm not sure its the way you're supposed to do it 😂

[hallow void]

I think it's indeed how you do it, specially if you are like me and you want to make your game moddable or at least easily modifiable, so you have to avoid hardcoding as much as possible

Or you can do it another way and include a character/arms mesh in the weapon actor, so that each time you equip a weapon you show the character/arms mesh attached to that specific weapon
It feels stupid tho

Old games used to do it I think
Take UT or COD WaW

ADDENDUM: I googled and the multiple Anim BPs is indeed the way to go

[fair meteor]

I have a trap blueprint, and I have a trigger box blueprint. I want to make a blueprint of a room, and put the trap/trigger box in the room blueprint. I can simply use a spawn point.

How do i bind the trap to the trigger box after spawning?

[pallid portal]

basic question i think
how can i make the text selectable and you can copy it just like discord's texts?
i want the players to be able to select and copy text but nothing i can find to work

[scenic lodge]

anyone know how i would add a trigger event that makes a text render count up by one when the trigger event platform is stepped onto

[modest trench]

think about it in smaller pieces first

first focus on just showing some text, then calling... something after pressing the platform

[scenic lodge]

i wouldnt really know since im fairly new to ue4

hmm

seems easy enough but i know i would probably fail

do you have any tutorial online?

[modest trench]

<

also unreal's official learn stuff is great for beginners

FWIW any unreal 5 stuff will... mostly apply to UE4, there is little difference

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/ZpX/your-first-hour-in-unreal-engine-5-0

[scenic lodge]

thanks

[ebon osprey]

A quick question, that hopefully someone can point me in the right direction for a solution.

UE4 / Steam Deck - On-Screen Keyboard
Does anyone have any good pointers or ways to trigger and pop up the on-screen keyboard on the Steam Deck for a text input box in UMG when selected with a controller? Is there a console command or is it an API hook with steamworks? Any pointers / further reading would be appreciated!

Getting so many different articles on Google I'm feeling a bit info-overload.

[wicked linden]

If I'm using EOS (Epic online services) for matchmaking and voice chat, will players in my game have to have an epic games account and log into it?

[autumn flame]

No

[mint raptor]

I'm now getting this in UE5 but it is in VectorVMLegacy.h line 207, I add a vector array to a niagara FX and now I have it

[faint wagon]

where do i ask for help

[sage coral]

Just a little pro tip I wanted to share for everyone, If you are having problems with code, blueprint, or anything else another team member recently introduced me to ChatGPT (Its Free powered by OpenAI) its a really cool AI Text bot

as an example you can tell it to

"Help me make a inventory system in ue4 blueprint"

and it will give you a step by step guide that it generates, You can also elaborate on the code by asking it to change vaules and to be more specific with what you want from the system. Just thought this was a really neat and useful tool thats been helping me out alot and I wanted to share I figured someone else can also get a use out of it 🙂

[faint wagon]

i need help scaling materials because it isnt displaying correctly

[sage coral]

@faint wagon Do something like this in your material and than make an inst of it so you can scale the size with the tilesize peram

[faint wagon]

o-o

can i have a full screenshot to see how it all goes

[sage coral]

If its a texture that only shows on the floor only use the Z if its one that you need to see on all sides use XYZ and if only on the walls use XY

[faint wagon]

i just started using ue4

do you need screenshots of what is happening?

[sage coral]

ignore the crossed out reds you wont need thouse, they were extra nodes I was playing with

[faint wagon]

k

[sage coral]

using this method youll have to make sure your texture you use are seamless other than that all should tile fine 😄

If you want a more precise roughness just do the same for the base color minus adding the multiply with the color node thats just to change the base colors color across muti meshes

[faint wagon]

what is that color thing at the top

[sage coral]

To make an inst right click the material and click create material inst than apply this to the obj you need the tex to tile on from here open the inst and play with the tile size

[faint wagon]

i cant find it

[sage coral]

hold 3 and click

[faint wagon]

does the color matter?

[sage coral]

Not really its more for just chaning the base color if you are using a white base to change the base color across multi objs

to make a param hold 1 and click same way you did to make the color

for these values Right click them after making them and set their value to something other than 0

also give them a name example TileSize

the names will reflect in the inst so you can easily identify what the vaules change

[faint wagon]

where it says texture object do i put the material texture

and how do i add the tilesize thing

[sage coral]

get a texture object by right clicking in some free space and place your texture in the details pannel on the left

[sage coral]

to make a param hold 1 and click same way you did to make the color

It should be green and not yellow

Right click the green block and click make Paramiter and give it a name and set its base value to 100

Than hook that green block into texturesize for both the world alligned texture and the world alligned normal if your texture uses a normal

[faint wagon]

how do i get roughness

[sage coral]

Same as making the tilesize Param

keep this value only between 0-1

as a base I reccomend keeping this at 0.5 and changing it in your inst to your liking

[faint wagon]

it didnt work

its just black and isnt textured

nvm

fixed it

how would i scale it

[sage coral]

Use the inst and change the value of the tile size in the inst and the value should change as long as the mesh you are using is assigned the Inst material

[faint wagon]

inst?

What’s an inst

[sage coral]

right click the material you made anc click create material inst. Its basically a child class of the material that loads faster than the normal material and will save on your preformance

[faint wagon]

it doesnt work

[faint wagon]

how would i make a melee weapon

like how would it do damage and how do i make it show on your screen

like this

[oak patio]

You make it appear by spawning and attaching it. You make it swing by making animations for the character. You make it deal damage by any method you want, overlapping the enemy, a short line trace etc, and then using unreals damage system

[faint wagon]

i have no clue how to do any of that

[oak patio]

Then I'd suggest looking into each of the areas specified

[faint wagon]

ok

also how would i make it so the character only has one arm

[sage coral]

@faint wagon Id recommend getting to know the engine a little better cause it will get a little complicated later on when you need to do things such as line traces and AI if you plan on having AI.

As for things such as having one arm youll need a 3d modeling program such as blender to edit the mesh you want to take an arm off of

To get better antiquated with ue4 I recommend checking this video playlist out also dont be afraid to follow along and copy what she does thats why shes made the video to help teach new users

https://youtu.be/iTwxuahe5B4

She explains things in detail that are easy to understand and to follow along

[faint wagon]

Ok thanks!

[sage coral]

Np 🙂

[faint wagon]

Also how would I give back the arms if I deleted them in a first person one

[sage coral]

@faint wagon When you get better antiquated with everything I also suggest checking this guys channel out he has alot of useful tutorials to help you get a base for your project also dont be afraid to explore around on you tube alot of helpful resources are on there 🙂

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

What youll be looking for in the future to reattach stuff is modular character building

[faint wagon]

K

[sage coral]

Look for something like a dismemeberment system as reference

[faint wagon]

Thanks!

[round light]

hey everyone, if i wanted to remove only one random actor from the world, instead of all the actors of that class, what might i need to alter in this code?

[molten lava]

is there a way to connect model bone angle and camera, for example, to make player model point flashlight where you look

[sterile badger]

Use Random Array Item, connect out actors pin to Random Array Item nodes input pin, then connect it's output pin to destroy actor.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Utilities/Array/RandomArrayItem/

[little star]

hey guys, I need some quick help: How do I make it so that my line trace can detect box collisions? At the moment the trace just goes through the box and hits the actor behind it, any help would be much appreciated 😉

[harsh tiger]

I just opened my project and I'm getting a weird visual glitch. Restarting the project didn't fix it. Does anyone know what it is? Thank you https://gyazo.com/d96929c02abdf7599716aa53c8a69e8c

[copper bobcat]

Box collision should block that trace channel

[tribal hornet]

best assets for make car game ?

and link tancks

tx

[oak patio]

any assets

honestly though

most car assets aren't suitable as theyre branded

i havent seen many gam ready cars that dont have a logo on them

for such a game you're going to have to make a lot of your own assets, unless its some low poly racer type scenario

[heady ridge]

by AI you mean enemies, NPCs and stuff?

[round light]

this sounds like the ticket, trying now

[neon wedge]

whoa unreal acknowledged paper 2d exists on their yt chanenl

[spare trench]

when I switch from one level to another or even restart the current level, game crashes on my android mobile. What could be a solution?

[ocean pumice]

hi how can i get better DPI in high res screenshot in ue4

[tame marsh]

shoot higher resolution?

[ocean pumice]

with a higher DPI because now it's only 72

thanks for your answer

[tame marsh]

Haha, sorry

For a longer answer, DPI is relatively meaningless actually

Do you require to export an image to be printed which is generally at 200DPI?

You'll have to work backwards starting from your required DPI and target image size

So say, you need to print an image at 10x15 inches at 200DPI

You would need to capture an image at 2000x3000px

Digitally, a 2000x3000px image at 200DPI is virtually identical to one at 72DPI

It's just at 200DPI, it's a 10x15inch image and at 72DPI it's 27.78x41.67inch

@ocean pumice

[ocean pumice]

ok i understand thanks a lot for this detailed explanation

it's just that my screenshot looks blurry in the end eventhough i put 200 scale screenpercentage + 3 in highresolution screenshot

maybe it has to do with some of my settings in the project ?

[tame marsh]

Is it possible a post process effect is affecting the image?

[ocean pumice]

no i removed post process

it lacks sharpness i would say

[tame marsh]

Care to share a small snippet of the image? Try to keep it in png if possible

or just the image if it isn't sensitive

[tame marsh]

no problem, all it took was digging up traumatic memories from my days at the art academy

[split tundra]

There's this weird thing going on in one of my Widget BPs where a CommonText just straighout disappears from the Widget, breaking the BP and everything it references. I can simply right-click onto it to Reload it and it works fine, so the file is actually working, it's as if the CommonUI Plugin isn't loaded yet before this BP is being created or something. I've got other BPs in which I'm using CommonUI but they do work fine.

[faint wagon]

how do i open modeling mode in ue4

i wanna make a hole for a door

[split tundra]

@faint wagon That's an UE5-only feature

[faint wagon]

oh

how would i make a hole in a wall in ue4

[split tundra]

Blender or any other 3D modeling software

[faint wagon]

also how would i add textures

[split tundra]

Apply a material to an object

[faint wagon]

k

[neon wedge]

whew almost broke my project 😢

[tame marsh]

a rite of passage

[warped heart]

The daily process

[faint wagon]

how do i open the place actors menu

[grim ore]

Window -> Place Actors

[faint wagon]

my decals arent showing

nvm

how would i get this image to show correctly as a material

[spice ruin]

Texture sample -> connect to baser colour.

[silver hearth]

does anyone know how to move the depth mask? I'm just trying to take high resolution screenshots without the sky and mountains and such but i dont know how to move the transparency wall

[strange mist]

Hi, why my AO texture exported from substance painter is showing wrong in UE4? this is combined ao-roughness-metallic texture

[latent sonnet]

I'm trying to change the behavior of AI base on an Enum state but it only runs the default state. Am I doing something wrong?

[swift jay]

hello i really need help please someone

[oak patio]

No one is gonna be able to help you unless you explain your issue

[swift jay]

ah sorry someone already did on the call

forgot about the msg

@oak patio actually

is there a way to export a project and give it to another computer so you can develop it on the other computer

like so it comes out in editor mode

and not as a game

[thin tendon]

You are wanting source control. Ask your questions here #source-control

[dreamy wasp]

So I'm digging around to optimize my game, and Isearch in the Details panel 'opti'
And I see a button for 'generate optimized blueprint component Data'
I can find no information on line about this.
the little helper that shows up says "Weather to cook additional data to speed up spawn events at runtime"

anyone ever use this? know what it actually does?

[unique yacht]

Does anyone know if you can bind mouse buttons with keys? Like for example "ctrl + mwheel up"

[quiet marsh]

any one have a clue why the spline mesh deforms like this ?

[forest valve]

You can give me your documentation (books, courses) for ue 4.27?

[undone bough]

anyone know how to get rich text to wrap properly when it comes to inline images?

each inline image has a 'space' between them, but its like it ignores the space from the text to the inline image to the next inline image.

[undone bough]

🦗

[plush yew]

How do i change a pawn's walk speed during an event?

[oak patio]

change the max walk speed

[plush yew]

Yeah ik but how do i do that with an ai moveto node? Sry im new to unreal

[oak patio]

you don't. you change the max walk speed in the movement component.

[oak patio]

you really shouldnt be using the level blueprint for this

[plush yew]

Aren't events supposed to happen in the level blueprint ?

[oak patio]

no

they can, but they don't have to

any actor can have events

tutorial creators use the level blueprint often because they're lazy and it means they don't have to teach proper referencing

[plush yew]

Well this event is basically the player walks to a dead end and when he overlaps with a triggee the ai comes running to where he is

Yet the trigger is automatically registered in the level blueprint

[oak patio]

yeah that could be done absolutely anywhere, the level blueprint is not a good fit for such a method.

[undone bough]

level blueprint comes in handing for triggering event things like... say ... your on your menu and you want your widget to swap cameras... you can setup a simple level event that your widget can use to swap between cameras in the level without having to do casts, bpi calls etcs.

[plush yew]

Oh ok, and what about gameplay events? Like spawning an enemy when you enter a room or smthing

[undone bough]

triggers, overlap volumes, there are several different methods to do that.
like your example above, i'd just use a overlap actor that triggers a npc to move from point a to point b.

[plush yew]

Yeah but when i click addonoverlap event for triggers they're automatically registered in the level blueprint, that's why i thought it's the appropriate place for them

[undone bough]

so i figured out my issue with the richtext box and it not wrapping for the images, but i haven't found a solution for it. from testing it appears that for wrapping the richtext box is ignoring spaces, so the 'space' thats inbetween the images is ignored and they are treated as one long string of text.

[undone bough]

yeah if you put a trigger in the world it will but if you make a blueprint -add a trigger / overlap object to it, then add the overlap event inside that blueprint, it will add it to the blueprint not the level blueprint.

[plush yew]

Oh i got it now, so for every event i make a blueprint and put its code and triggers right?

[valid raven]

hey all, i want to make a menu that lets me change control of the 2 characters, i want to know how i might do that entirely in the widget (apart from loading up the widget itself in the character)

i plan on having a lot of different switchable characters in the future, but i think if i can get switching between 2 then that's a solid start

the end game is making the menu in-world (as like a screen to walk up to) and accessing the player's inventory to choose characters they'll use for a 1v1 battle

so like they have 300 characters in their inventory (just an example)
they select 6 to use in the battle
and then furthermore select 1 to possess. if it dies they lose that one and choose one of the 5

that's the end goal

so ideally if anyone knows of a good method to maybe create an actor, possess it, then delete the previous actor

ok i have an idea but i have a question about it. if i have a parent "character" and i have a child of that parent, if i cast to the parent (when targeting the child) will it be a success?

wait why am i asking that's a quick test

[spice ruin]

Yes.

A object can be used in any place where any objects its class or any of its parent classes are needed.

Polymorphism at work.

[valid raven]

gotcha that's helpful so when changing characters i can cast to the parent which will have basic information (most importantly the code to create then possess a new character, then delete itself)

thanks a ton that saves a lot of headache

and as long as all playable characters are children of the parent they'll all be able to do that

[steel pasture]

Wots going on here ?

[obtuse stump]

Do you know how to make proper screenshots for steam page? On unreal it doesn't let me choose the size of the screenshot so I have to take it and then resize it only which stretches everything and is so bad. Do you have any special trick?

[grim ore]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/en-US/taking-screenshots-in-unreal-engine/ , you can specify the size using a command

or you overshoot the screenshot and then crop to the correct size (not resize)

[obtuse stump]

Oh

thank you legend

😄

[valid raven]

hey guys! i have a mechanic i want to create which i really liked from ultrakill. the terminal. it's not a HUD menu, but you can left click and even scroll wheel.

it pulls up a different visual when you're looking at the screen (finger rise) which I wanna do but isn't crucial

also just making a menu of any sort not inside the HUD and instead on a "screen"
it also switches menus depending on what you click on (i assume it creates a new widget and loads it)
and lets you use the scroll wheel (which will not be used for anything) or the scroll bar to scroll by left click dragging.

i assume this uses a trace which i have no knowledge of how to use tbh, but i want to make something which uses most of the mechanics:
a screen that's in the game world that you can navigate by left clicking buttons which loads up different screens such as a main menu, a list of items, and an options tab.

i feel like it would be hard to search up a tutorial saying something like "how to make an interactable screen in ue4" and that is why i am asking here for maybe an existing tutorial or some help on putting a widget on a surface in the game world that you can interact with

it'd be nice if i could also have a 3D effect with the text and buttons like they have, but i think i could achieve that just with 2 layers

[mental horizon]

so am having this problem that, i dont have screen space reflections on my project even tho, on my post process volume, i have it turn ON, any idea whats going on?https://streamable.com/20e3r5

[late girder]

Is there a way to search (in this case in a widget) more specifically? For example, I'm trying to search only buttons, not any other type and not the entire hierarchy.

[tidal lance]

can anyone help me with importing an fbx from maya to unreal?

[tidal lance]

how do I create a rest pose or bind pose?

do I do that in maya or unreal?

[surreal eagle]

https://youtu.be/Vf85UzUjw8o

How do I improve upon this

[rancid meteor]

Hello

How i can mod a unreal engine game

I want to edit the umaps and clean them

To remove as many roadblocks and obstacles to foam freely in the vr maps

[merry stone]

why are there 4 controllers?

[cloud plover]

Can anyone help me out with a decent formula for damage falloff with linetrace?
Math is not my strong side... 😅

[spice ruin]

Linear falloff?

[oak patio]

We won't help with modding here. Best off asking in the community for said game

[cloud plover]

Yeah, linear falloff is fine!

[spice ruin]

((MaxDistance-DistanceToTarget)/MaxDistance)*Damage.

Assuming you want the falloff to start at 0 distance.

[cloud plover]

And what if I wanted the falloff to start at 2000 units?

[spice ruin]

<= 2000 units, 1. > 2000 units, use the forumla but take 2000 off the max distance and distance to target.

((MaxDistance-MinDistance-Max(DistanceToTarget-MinDistance,0))/(MaxDistance-MinDistance))*Damage.

Something like that.

[cloud plover]

Like this?

[spice ruin]

^ 😛

[cloud plover]

Thank you!

[rancid meteor]

why not?

[oak patio]

It's not our area of specialty, as different games have different implementations.

Not to mention most games don't officially support it, so it's not something allowed here

[plush yew]

Is worth still developing in UE4?

Or should I transition over to 5?

[spice ruin]

Depends at what stage you are in your project's lifecycle.

[plush yew]

Pretty early

[spice ruin]

Probably best to use ue5 then.

[worn minnow]

I'm trying to get into modding, but am brand new to everything. I want to make a background music mod, but all the music files are titled as numbers. I'm trying to export them so I can listen, but whenever I export any sound file, they don't appear. But when I export a visual file, it appears in the UE export folder.

[oak patio]

ask in the community for your game, we dont do modding here

[still pivot]

hi, i try for some hours to merge this 7 seperate meshes (on the left) to one mesh (like on the rigth side the SK_military_chr). anyone can help / guide me how to do that? i need the 7 ones as a skeletal mesh, not as a blueprint

i use the UE4.27

[valid raven]

hey i wanna make an item that will have no visuals in the game world (it will be an icon in the inventory and store some variables)

what object/file type would be good for storing data?

it will be instanced (so that multiple of the same file can exist with different variable values)

it will store floats, maybe some strings, a texture variable and an object variable.

It will not have functionality itself.

[tidal lance]

when I click the play button how do I make that display my animation

[peak hare]

me profiler

why it take so long for discovering buses

[cloud plover]

Hey how can I make a "bullet drop" with linetrace? I'm trying to make a new linetrace from the "trace end" location that drops a bit in Z height for every iteration

But what do I set as the end location of the new trace?

[real heath]

You can fake it if you want and just drop the z by some amount, or you can go physically accurate and look up the ballistic trajectory equations.

[cloud plover]

Found a node "Predict projectile path by TraceChannel" that works great for this

[real heath]

That'll do it

[rain gale]

uhhh i have a question when im on unreal 4 editor the graphics is 70 fps
but when i build the game its 1 fps when i run the compiled game

anyone encounter this issue?

[nimble ibex]

i have a question

how can i add (something like endl;) but with print string and with blueprints

[marble shoal]

Im having a stupid issue with creating an aim offset. I followed the Official guide here! https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/AnimHowTo/AimOffset/ But Im getting the wrong results and I have troubleshooted the hell out of this. I am creating the aim rotation from the AI controller because its for AI BOTS , But they are keep aiming in the wrong directions or opposite to to where I am. Here is my setup. from the ai controller. the animation BP,

[mighty jetty]

Hello guys

I have a situation

I have a really simple character controlled by AI, flying from one checkpoint ot the next one

But if i increase the distance between the character and the floor it ignores the AI behavior tree where it finds the checkpoints and just fly towards a random location

¿any ideas what might be happening?

Like this it works like a charm

but this messes it up

[tidal lance]

how can I achieve a good depth of field effect

not sure if im using it wrong but this isnt doing much

[plush yew]

my enemy ai has a random roam custom event, and i want to call it after this move to node, i think it should be done by casting to the enemy ai bp but idk what to put in the object wildcard

[oak patio]

when casting, the object is always a reference to the thing you are casting to. which shouldnt be necessary, since you have a reference from the spawn ai node.

but learn behaviour trees. It's what ai is meant to run on for stuff like this

[plush yew]

yeah you're right i changed the method and assigned an array containing waypoint references for the ai to go to, and it works fine when i manually assign the waypoints when i place the ai, but i want to change the waypoints during events where i spawn the ai, so i created an event bp that has an array which contains waypoint references, and i want to set the waypoints in the ai bp to the ones in the event bp, i did this , is this correct?

[oak patio]

test it. if it works then it works.

[plush yew]

yes its working correctly finally

thank you

[plush yew]

one more question , how do i set the ai walkspeed during an event?

[oak patio]

set it's max walkspeed

[plush yew]

yes im doing it like this yet the speed isn't changing

[mighty jetty]

You are casting to enemy AI, not to the pawn controlled by that AI

Try this:
From the cast to enemi AI "as enemy AI" node drag a "Get controlled pawn" and from there use the SET max speed

[upbeat spruce]

Why does GetComponentBounds return {0,0,0} on an HISM component that has instances?
Is there any way to get the bounds of the HISM instance?

[plush yew]

The pawn is named enemy ai

[brazen haven]

hi guys, anyone know about charactermovement

    UPROPERTY(VisibleAnywhere, BlueprintReadOnly, Category = "Movement", meta = (AllowPrivateAccess = "true"))
    class UCharacterMovementComponent* CharacterMovementComponent;```

does this seem right

[frosty wolf]

how the hell can i remove transparency from a multilineditabletextbox

[umbral gate]

Help! So I have a problem where the default VR project crashes when doing anything. Im forced to convert the fps template to VR and everything works great except for 15fps on a 3090. The Vr template gets 200fps. I was advised to copy and paste the render setting between the projects to get 200fps in the fps project for Vr, and it works great...

Long story short the solution makes everything look worse. Which one of these settings are the culprit so I can discard the rest? What settings should I keep and what settings can I discard?

[fierce tulip]

@umbral gate could you please post it into a pastebin and then link it here?

that'd be appreciated

[sage coral]

Not sure what setting I changed but for some odd reason my standalone player now snaps to the top left of the screen when starting

[kindred barn]

Hi everyone, I am making a game where I want to do an action based off the mouse's input (as a curve, not x and y values). Similar to:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/track-mouse-movement/768823

Would I make an array of x and y values and get the curve of them, then make that determine the arc of the animation?
Or translate the mouse to a world location (to get current mouse x, y, and z), and then compare that with the future x,y,z value to get the curve from there?

[mellow crystal]

I have a question may sound stupid but how do I generate rsa keys for my ue 4.18 game

[split delta]

hey, would someone be able to give me a hand in feedback vc? needing some help with textures

[plush yew]

How do i change the walk speed in a behavior tree from an event bp?

[oak patio]

try what you did before, but increase the value a bit more. I'm betting it is changing, it's just not that noticable given the default is 600

[plush yew]

Nah I've put it at 20000 and it didn't change

[oak patio]

but in your example last night, (sorry for the lack of response by the way, it was rather late for me :P) you changed it as the next thing after the ai had spawned. meaning you had no baseline to compare it to

[plush yew]

I think its bcz the behavior tree takes priority

Nah it's cool thanks a lot

[oak patio]

nah its defo not that, it still moves via the movement component...
I've changed speed like that before and it works fine

could you show me your current setup?

[plush yew]

here

[oak patio]

i thought you said you were using a behaviour tree?

and also are you expecting that speed to change while the ai is moving?

[plush yew]

yes im using the behavior tree for the patrols, but this is supposed to be an event where you'd walk down a hallway with a dead end and when you reach the dead end the ai will come running at you

[plush yew]

no just as he spawns i want him to come running straight at the player

[oak patio]

i think you're getting your wires crossed here.
You say you want to change the speed in the behaviour tree. but you want the speed to change when he spawns, which it does.

[plush yew]

yeah i said that because i think the behavior tree is taking priority lol

[oak patio]

it isn't

your code is doing what you've told it to. the ai spawns, then it's speed changes, then it moves to the player.

no where in there is anything to do with a behaviour tree or patrols

[plush yew]

then why is the ai still at the same speed😔

is there smthing wrong with the cast?

[oak patio]

check. drag off the cast failed bit and print string

[grim ore]

make this easy, in the enemy blueprint on tick have it print their current max walk speed

just do a simple "is it working" check

[oak patio]

^

if that value doesn't change then its either changing the wrong one, or something down that line is failing

[plush yew]

the cast to the enemy bp is working however the speed isn't changing

[oak patio]

so the speed isn't updating it's value?

[plush yew]

yep its still the default one

[oak patio]

i take it you found that out from what mathewW said?

[plush yew]

yeah it was a good idea

[oak patio]

do you get any errors when quitting play session?

[plush yew]

not at all

[oak patio]

this is very odd

and the enemy executes the move to?

[plush yew]

yeah

everything works fine just the speed isn't changing

[cedar kernel]

i got a simple ai code

i could share if u want

[grim ore]

set the max walk speed in the begin play for that enemy AI, see if that works.

[cedar kernel]

its ue 5 tho

[cedar kernel]

wait u work at epic!

[plush yew]

it doesn't

btw i have this behavior tree service to change the walking speed

i think i should change it here instead of in the enemy bp

[oak patio]

that would have been handy to know

[grim ore]

yep so your overwriting the walk speed every tick in the AI...

[plush yew]

my bad sry😆

[oak patio]

thats why your speed isnt changing. because as soon as you spawn it, you change it's speed to that variable every frame

[plush yew]

ah i got it now

and how would i go about changing the walk speed in the service?

[oak patio]

rather than setting the speed every frame, you could just have something that updates it once when called

alternatively change that max walk speed variable

[plush yew]

i think that would be done using a cast to the service changing the walk speed right?

what object wildcard would i need to put in the cast?

[oak patio]

your object wildcard is always the thing youre casting to

always

i would opt for option 1 though, creating something you call to change the speed

much cleaner

and you arent setting it unnecessarily every frame

[plush yew]

so a custom event instead of the event receive tick ai right?

[oak patio]

yeah

[plush yew]

i changed the service to this and the ai stopped moving completely lool

[oak patio]

i wouldn't even do it in a service honestly

no need

[turbid osprey]

Hello,I've been debugging and looking online for info on this error and have not found much, could anyone point me in the right direction?

LogPhysics: Warning: PopulatePhysXGeometryAndTransform(Convex): ConvexElem is missing ConvexMesh
LogPhysics: Warning: ForeachShape(Convex): ScaledElem[833] invalid

[fiery swift]

Hey, kind of a dumb question, but how do i downgrade ue5 to ue4 lol

[cedar kernel]

i dont think u can

[cedar kernel]

i tried to do it because lumen is weird for my game but i wasnt able to figure it out and i ended up just disabling lumen

[fiery swift]

Yeah i read you can disable lumen and a couple more things to run like ue4

I guess I'll just try to download ue4 directly then, just haven't found it yet

[cedar kernel]

wait

@fiery swift try uninstalling ue5 and install the latest ue4 and do the open with and select ue4s unrealeditor-windows.exe

that might work but the new ue5 features would prob be removed

[fiery swift]

Yeah I don't care about ue5 really, my machine can't handle it

I'll try, thanks

[cedar kernel]

what machine do u have

[cedar kernel]

yea ofc!

[cedar kernel]

i got ue5 workiing fine on my reallllllllllly low end laptop

[fiery swift]

Acer nitro 5

Ue5 runs like a slug lmao

[outer moss]

can anyone share youtube channels that create UE content for Android Platform?

[dusk helm]

Hello,everyone! I’ve got one small question. I am making a vr scene. I dont have reflections on the floor from the environment. Is it vr limitation? Thank you! If I ask it in a inppropriate channel, I’m sorry.

[shell quest]

hey can other people use a project where i have paid plugins without paying for them or downloading them

?

[verbal trail]

do we have something for shaders because i have problems with a shader

[valid raven]

can i store a texture as a variable in any way shape or form? I want an item that can be instanced and then referenced that stores stats (integer variables) a class reference to what will be the player character, and a texture to reference when making a button to click on it

[high plume]

If I understand correctly, you want to store one texture in a variable ? You can use the variable type "Texture 2D"

[valid raven]

i'll check it out later, thank you

[coarse vector]

Is there a difference between using in-engine version control tool for git vs externally using git (or github desktop)?

[real heath]

functionally? no. If it doesn't error out, anything you update or check in will be fine. But workflow wise, yes theres a difference.

Personally i'd use a mix. I use P4, but same deal.

It's convenient to see status, checkout, and check in stuff from the editor, so use the internal integration

But sometimes you want to close the editor, and check in your latest work, pull down latest changes etc. Here using an external tool is essential

[coarse vector]

Oh ok thats nice to know.

[tame marsh]

The in-editor interface also allows you to diff Blueprint changes which is nice

[real heath]

yes, that's a huge advantage too

[hollow falcon]

Anyone know how to fix the 'stuck in 18% initialising' thing when opening a project? I've seen it mentioned a couple of times on the forums and it seem to be something to do with shaders. I left it alone and went to bed and it's still stuck on 18% almost 10 hours later.

[past sedge]

hii

[past sedge]

helloo, I'm not very experienced in Unreal. I have a problem, can someone help me T-T this is a texture I made, and this is how it looks like before I import it onto Unreal

When I get it onto Unreal and hit play, the texture gets darker and loses quality like you see in this screenshot

how do I fix this

[rare hawk]

disable mips, change compression settings to something higher quality and check if there is a color space mismatch

[coarse vector]

what does that do?

[tame marsh]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/diffing-unreal-assets

It lets you compare two versions of a Blueprint and see where you screwed up you made changes

[past sedge]

thanks

[coarse vector]

Thanks

[obtuse stump]

Do you know how it's the exact name of the sound effect from sekiro when he kills someone and he slits their throats? Throat slit sound effect? Blood splash?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtA_gd59KcQ&t=42s
Like here at 2.20

[neon wedge]

why do people hate print screen so much?
i see it all the time on the reddit

[autumn flame]

What

[fierce tulip]

/IhatePrinters reddit? :p

[neon wedge]

"Guys i have a problem with unreal"
Image of monitor from a phone camera

[spice ruin]

Saw one with a legitimate reason for that. His work PC was on a network without convenient discord access 😛

[autumn flame]

Government PC :p

Can't stop the grind

[tame marsh]

Taking photo's of a government screen with your phone? that sounds eerily familiar

like every single headline in the papers

[glacial wyvern]

Is there a way to apply a texture settings to selected textures?

[spice ruin]

Select them all and use the property matrix? You'd need to change them all at the same time, not copy from one to another.

[barren pagoda]

Two star games inspired me to continue unreal engine, I got UE4 like a year before

Anyways my phone is 1%

Bye

[glacial wyvern]

is there a way to have this as an editable variable?

like you can do with this

i cant set the variable

[rotund lance]

Hello, i have a question, i would appreciate it if someone could answer it, thanks.

With a spline mesh i can achieve a curve like the one on the left. I can roll, twist and curve it however i want. But i wonder, is there a way for me to apply other types of deformations to the spline mesh? For example, could i achieve the same result as the one on the right? What i mean is, is it possible to deform a spline mesh in a way that the mesh is curved around the forward axis of the spline?

The image i gave is just an example of what i want to achieve. I know i could just create a mesh that has that kind of deformation, but i want to know if it is possible to do it throughout the spline mesh within unreal.

The only idea i have is if there exists any way to apply vertex transforms within unreal, which i guess must be possible but i dont know how it is done in unreal, like, whats the name of whatever functions i would need to call to be able to apply shearing and stuff like that. Tho i dont really know if this idea i have is even what i would exactly what.

[plush yew]

Heya everyone! Lovely to be here. I just wanted to ask for a bit of help and guidance.

Im a second year university student and Im planning ahead for my third year project and for what I want to create independently. Im looking to create a Paper Mario-style turn based RPG and Im looking for some help and guidance getting started. Ive been struggling looking for tutorials and guidance online so I wanted to join here and ask if thats okay? So far the only thing I really found was a $75 "Heres the whole thing" pack on marketplace and thats not really what Im wanting. I want to be able to work on and create the mechanics and evrrything to do with it but, as said, I just need some help starting out.

If anyone can offer help, guidances, some tutorials etc. I would appreciate it so much. I really wanna start creating and learning about what I want to make so I thought asking here would be a fantastic first step

[round light]

can anyone help me here? im trying to have this widget update on the price set within an actor blueprint but it always seems to return the first actors price i.e. index 0

[odd swan]

because you’re using “get all actors of class”…you need a reference to the specific actor you’re dealing with, this is getting all of them

[round light]

fixed it a bit but getting an error

[round light]

here i set in door bp a reference to the widget and made a variable in the widget for the price and on tick update the price of the hud based on the door

and it works but i get this error

[odd swan]

that’s because the interacthud variable hasn’t been set so it doesn’t know what the target should be

[round light]

beautiful, back to error free

created the widget and hud on begin play, before it was only when you entered a box collision

so it was being called later

replaced that with the reference node

[odd swan]

and that doesn’t seem like something that will be changing very often, i’d suggest finding a way to handle it without tick

[round light]

tried a custom event but it was odd

actually works a lot better now

i think before i had my delay before the set and it was switching prices back and forth every .2secs

[odd swan]

glad to hear it

[round light]

thanks for the insight, i really appreciate it

knew i was just missing something simple

[odd swan]

you’re very welcome

[dark axle]

Hi, I have some issue about converting the (projectname.uproject), when I try to switch version then build it in the VS it went error (see the screen shot), how to resolve this?

[earnest prawn]

Pretty specific question but is it not possible to create a C++ class in UE 4.16 and previous inheriting from type PrimaryDataAsset? I want to do this as I need it to create certain mods for older UE games

[dark axle]

So meaning its a high chance for build to error after switching versions right?

[earnest prawn]

No, I'm using it a game built with UE 4.16

[dark axle]

Ahh I see

[desert widget]

Hey peeps, I cant see unreal engine 4 version to install anywhere any solutions?

[real heath]

Hit that little down arrow next to 5.1.1

[torpid hinge]

Good morning, does anyone in here have any experience animating a dodge/roll and then importing it into UE4? My issue is (I believe) I am rotating my root bone 360 degrees over the course of the animation, and this is fine but when the animation finishes, the idle animation root bone has a rotation of X=0 instead of X=360 and so it "snaps" back and causes artifacts when it goes from roll animation to idle animation (even though the ending frame and beginning frame look the same, the root bone has been rotated 360 degrees). But how am I supposed to do a roll without rotating my character? Or how can I "reset" my bone rotation without having UE4 interpolate a movement from it? Or is there another way I am missing?

damn, I tried GPT4 and one of the things it suggested was messing with Blend Out montage settings and setting the value very low seems to work fine 🤔 😆 🍻

[vague snow]

am i high or did ue5-general channel suddenly disappeare?

[neon wedge]

Click on the "general tab".
There's a option to hide if there no new posts

[vague snow]

thanks a bunch

[desert widget]

it onlu shows unreal engine version 5, I don't see any other version

[real heath]

It should list every version ever. Did you press the correct arrow? The triangle thing right next to the number

[vocal rune]

its the plus button, right to the Engine Versions

[merry pine]

Sup y'all, I'm having some performance issues with UE4. Whenever I hover over a folder, try opening one or when using dropdown menus, my PC just starts lagging and my audio from other apps goes all robotic and stuff. In TM I'm seeing lag spikes when hovering over folders alone, which is extremely concerning. I've set the editor scalability to the lowest option but that doesn't seem to be helping out a great ton.
I have 16 gigs of ram and a ryzen 7 5700x. I'm running UE and the project off of a hard drive because I have more space on that.

if anyone has any ideas, feel free to ping me

[analog ridge]

Bruhs I use ue4 but am not sure how to make an event graph for death, or a function for it. Currently I have my computer off, but please help if possible on DM tomorrow afternoon (consider IST).

[analog ridge]

Just a second, please tell me which ue4 version u use.

[merry pine]

uhh 4.26

[analog ridge]

Bruh.

I suppose we should talk on DM tomorrow

Ping me now

I'll try

[merry pine]

what?

[analog ridge]

Which game are u working on?

[merry pine]

how's that relevant, it's just a project

[analog ridge]

Oh ok my bad

See

U use production level lighting?

In ur project?

[merry pine]

nah, I doubt it's even graphics related

[analog ridge]

It might be

[merry pine]

CPU usage spikes every time I:

• hover over a file or folder in the content browser
• try opening a folder
• open one of the navigation dropdowns and hover over buttons

[analog ridge]

My computer is half the performance of urs

[merry pine]

I don't know what else causes the spikes because I wasn't patient enough to test more stuff

[analog ridge]

Just reduce that lighting quality

That might help

It worked for me as well

And more importantly, CLOSE CHROME IN BACKGROUND

[merry pine]

I've always had performance issues
my CPU is idling on 200k handles and my ram is idling on 13 gigs
that idling includes webstorm usage because I have it opened atm

[merry pine]

from where though

[analog ridge]

Oh wait.

Are you on computer

Then just slam open the shit project

[merry pine]

obviously, what else would I be using for UE...

[analog ridge]

Send me a pic of the window

Ok ok

[merry pine]

uhhh I gotta close some stuff first

[analog ridge]

U have build drop down at the top right

Not corner

[merry pine]

if you're leading me to change the engine scalability, I did that and it didn't help

[analog ridge]

Not scalability

Just send me a pic of the win

Pls

[merry pine]

one min

[analog ridge]

Take ur time

[merry pine]

ok so you need a pic of what?

this?

as you can see, large usage spikes when opening folders and stuff

the blueprint editor itself seems to be working fine...

[analog ridge]

That build part

[merry pine]

seems like it's primarily a content browser / navigation issue

[analog ridge]

Left side of the play butt

On

Click ot

[merry pine]

the build button or the dropdown besides it?

[analog ridge]

And send the pic of the droppey

Yep the droppey

[analog ridge]

Lighting quality

Pic again

[merry pine]

it's on preview

which ig is the lowest setting?

[analog ridge]

I'll DM you tom

[merry pine]

dm me for what

[analog ridge]

Cuz I have to devise a cure and my computer is off

[merry pine]

what? 💀

[analog ridge]

Pls

Sowwy

Tom

Pls

[merry pine]

ok so turns out any overlay causes CPU and GPU usage spikes

and I mean any overlay inside the main UE window

tooltips, file info, etc.

additional windows for blueprint editing and stuff work butter smooth, but any overlay inside the main window lags out my pc

[analog ridge]

yeah im back on comp

[plush yew]

I am trying to make a decal that is just the letter C.

I have created a PNG with GIMP and assured it had a transparent background including when I exported it.

I made a material in this fashion following the following youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOKlG0i4Lh0

I even removed the UV Coordinates node.

It just isn't showing up at all.

[analog ridge]

Seems like beamng drive

[plush yew]

I tried adjusting the size of the box, moving it, rotating it, restarting it.

Anyone have any idea what to do?

I have money.

This has been driving me up the wall for a long time. I will send you PayPal money to help me get this working.

I hate unreal hahaha

[gray oxide]

watching a tutorial video

why is my variable look different than the video?

mine is the first video si 2nd