ue4-general

[tired matrix]

Why is this still giving blueprint errors despite having the redirects in the defaultengine.ini file

[opaque seal]

hi guys i have question about lightning
can not merging cubes with together cause light bleeding?
i have a house and when i increase attenuation radius of my light, it causes light bleeding under my wall
and sorry for bad english :D

[royal arrow]

Anybody have any ideas why my navigation mesh bounds would build paths fine in editor, but in a packaged dev build only some of the bounds are actually building?

My entire world is filled with a bunch of navigation bounds, but only these few seem to be building. I've fixed this before but I don't remember what I did.

[lusty dew]

Hi there, I'm Danilo nice to meet you.
We are developing a virtual assistant powered by AI in unreal engine but when building got this message:
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): LogAudioCaptureCore: Display: No Audio Capture implementations found. Audio input will be silent.
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/help-with-microphone-not-working-on-build-audio-capture/1373649

Anyone can help?

[mossy tangle]

Sooooo any way to recover a lost Unreal Engine Project File? I only delete the entire folder to delete a map too, so I cant explain why only that file seems to be missing.

[spice ruin]

Create a new project in a different location. Copy the uproject to that folder. Edit it in a text editor to make sure it's correct.

[mossy tangle]

Thank you! That worked. Its funny how simple a solution can be sometimes. Have a great day, and Thanksgiving if in the US.

[charred bramble]

Hello guys!👋
Does anyone know how to change the Waves Assets (from the original UE's Water Plugin) dynamically in blueprints?
Thank you in advance!

[karmic seal]

Quick question: i made a big map for my game but everytime i make slight changes to the terrain the nav mesh rebuilds from scratch. Is there a way to not have it reset each time?

[tough thicket]

yeah i believe theirs an option for it to only rebuild nav when you click the build all button

[opal steeple]

Disable automatic navigation in project settings. Search after selecting all settings

[karmic seal]

@opal steeple i'll give it a go in the morning!

[scenic nebula]

I am getting crashes because of moving files (adding & deleting) in windows (inside the project folder) and now scripting functions for example are not working and result in crash, importing assets is showing issues, my question is wheter there is a way of resetting without losing much, by for example deleting some .ini files or some save states or intermediate states in the project folder.

Thanks

[scenic nebula]

Seemingly found culprit files, functions seem to work now, however I want to mod these files and everytime I try to add them the function breaks again, need to reset the UE cache or memory somehow? Which file do I need to delete?

Assertion failed: Owner->IsMeshDescriptionValid(0) [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Engine/Private/StaticMesh.cpp] [Line: 2569] Bad MeshDescription on /Game/Inventory/Bear

[verbal shuttle]

why cant i pass through here?

[oak patio]

Because you probably imported that as a single mesh, and unreal doesn't do concave hulls.

What you would need to do is import it in pieces and assemble in engine, or make the collision in the software you made that in

[verbal shuttle]

uuuuuh

so like

every wall and roof separately?

[oak patio]

You'd still run into the issue with that front wall, because collision cannot be concave

I.e. no holes or dips

[royal arrow]

Does anybody know if a blueprint loaded sublevel has to be loaded at game start, even if it's not loaded until later?

[royal arrow]

You can pretty easily create some simple cube collisions in the static mesh editor for this. Or if your polycount is pretty low, you can just switch it to "complex as simple" for the collision mode. Just keep in mind that that's pretty expensive and you don't want to do it everywhere.

[verbal shuttle]

here?

[royal arrow]

Nah. You have to change it in the static mesh editor. Open the mesh file by double clicking it in your content browser.

Sorry. "Collision Complexity" is what you're looking for.

[oak patio]

Don't use that

That will treat every single polygon as a collision primitive

Way overkill when you can do it properly

Very expensive too

Ah I just read you pointed out the drawbacks already :P

I would say it's definitely worth the time to learn how to do collisions in your modelling software. It will be useful when you make more complex meshes

[inland dagger]

Hey I'm magma, Apologies if this isnt the right channel to ask but im interested in game development and ive been looking at different engines, Unreal came across my rader and I was wondering what would be the best play to start as a beginner. Unity quick starts werent really helpful to me and godot im still iffy on.

I dont know anything about programing or programing logic but im willing to learn that to, just looking at making hobbiest games as a hobbyist artist.

nothing complicated like

[spice ruin]

Why not start in ue5 then?

[tough thicket]

find a template in the market and read it a bilion times

[verbal shuttle]

is ue5 really that much more demanding than ue4?

hardware wise

[inland dagger]

I’d rather learn how to make something rather than just do a mindless template

YouTube videos kinda help? But I’m tired of juggling through them cause a lot of them are from years ago and use older versions

[oak patio]

Market templates are mostly well known to be awfully written so good job avoiding them :P

[inland dagger]

So what are my options for learning, I’m not against YouTube videos or learning to code but I’m just tired of getting bad advice about game engines

[oak patio]

the best astarter advice would be to look into the official pathways on the epic dev community, like the first hour in unreal engine.
they also have guided projects like stack-o-bot.
once you have a feel for those, just jump in and try and make things, you can watch tutorials when you get stuck, but keep in mind it's a 80% chance that it's a bad way to do it

[inland dagger]

Ok. I’m just setting a goal atm to make a Mario 1 platforming level. Nothing complicated

[tough thicket]

yeah ok show us your game then

[tough thicket]

hmm you can try following someones video series if you prefer but they move pretty quickly through the tutorials and might be a little hard to follow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-tCCtkX1sk&ab_channel=MathewWadstein

[oak patio]

how is that even an argument?

telling someone to read well known bp dumpster fires a billion times requires you to have made your own game. odd

[tough thicket]

as you can see some people dont want you to learn the secrets of Unreal and will try and stop someone slightly helpful with troll comments

[green acorn]

are you serious? 🤦

[oak patio]

though i will most definitely point out that MathewW's channel is a gold mine @inland dagger

it's a great reference for specific nodes, or engine concepts if you get really stuck

[inland dagger]

I’ll check it

[tough thicket]

thats not what you said

Thats right I only took the gait system from ALS

and a few calculations for acceleration/decell and rotation

[inland dagger]

I’ll shop around for game engines. See which one is right, I’ll check that first hour in unity

I’m torn between Godot and unreal atm for different reasons

[toxic sapphire]

Hi all is it not possible to have a child actor component assigned to a layer for composure?

[modern sluice]

hey guys, could anyone help me out with the IKS element in UMG? I'm having a weird issue, described thoroughly in this link that i've posted to the forums:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/cant-change-no-key-specificed-text-of-input-key-selector-on-4-27/1420868

[cloud nebula]

https://tenor.com/view/crash-spongebob-pain-gif-20708528

[neon badger]

Heya, does anyone know if it's possible to use a low poly material / change the default into low poly with the water plugin? I'm creating a prototype game for my college project and the buoyancy capabilities of the plugin seem perfect but it wouldn't fit the visual style im going for currently - I've tried winging making a custom material and such but with no luck, thanks 🙂

[fast lion]

Hello. I am once again having some problems with getting my rigged mesh imported into Unreal.

How can I fix it?

[green acorn]

Your bone hierachy don't look to be correct even in the 3D software

Unreal just reflect on what you have.
I suggest to fix the rig in the 3D software first

[onyx viper]

how do i make ai go backwards when i hit them ?
btw i can already hit them but just don't know how to make them go back while facing me ( i have also set a backward animation in negative in 3d Anim graph )

so insort i just want ai to go back while facing me.

[honest moth]

Does anyone know why this is happening? When I import the 3D model, the shape key looks different in Unreal, it looks like this and I have no idea why, does anyone know? ??????

[fierce tulip]

@honest moth if your vertices are super-dense, they might be merging.

there's an option for that on import you can disable.

thats all I can think of with just those two images.

[honest moth]

what is the name of the option?

[crystal musk]

Hey, does anybody know of any good ways to make pathfinding work without a navmesh?

I have a situation in my game in which an enemy is meant to be able to crouch down into a vent the player is hiding inside of, then follow them whilst crawling, but it seems like both the vents with and height is too small for the navmesh to be able to properly generate a path for. Does anyone have any tips that might help me solve this?

[honest moth]

I still don't know what it is, does anyone know what this option is?????

[upbeat cloak]

Hello, is there any material on how to optimise, or make trees that perform halfway decent in a game, I've been using lods on trees from megascans, but they are still demanding a lot from pc-s

[north gull]

should one download 4.27.2 or 4.24-chaos?

[fossil socket]

Those are completely different versions?

Chaos was super experimental during the 4.x timeline too

[spice ruin]

I think the general idea is that eventually they become 2d flat planes rather than trees. Do your lods go that far?

[oblique marten]

Hey guys, I have a question regarding materials in UE4 and Substance Painter

I have been working on texturing a modular stylized castle wall kit for the marketplace for a while now, but no matter how the texture looks in Substance Painter or as a plain PNG, when importing into Unreal it becomes low quality and pixelated. This is occurring in UE4.

I have been working with a new Substance Painter product I purchased from Gumroad, that being this stylized diffuse material ( https://nhanceschool.gumroad.com/l/SimpleDiffuse?layout=profile&recommended_by=library ). It is advised you work within the base color channel in Substance Painter while using this material. It might have something to do with it, but I doubt it, as importing into UE5 does not generate this issue. It looks fine there.

I have tried exporting with every single possible setting I can think of, and nothing really helps or changes it aside from disabling the gradients I have on my materials in Substance Painter. This changes the pixelation, but does not solve the problem- only changing the pixelation pattern. This leads me to believe it could perhaps be a lighting issue, but I am not entirely sure. Exporting at higher resolutions does not help either. UVs are seemingly fine, materials are seemingly fine. Just can't quite figure it out. My texture map is 2k, and I am only exporting the base color map as an 8bit png, dilation infinite. Any advice or help is appreciated! I have attached photos that I think would be helpful, but if you need more photos, let me know. I am happy to provide more context and info as well.

Here are the photos.

1st photo - Without gradient in Unreal Engine 4
2nd photo - With gradient in Unreal Engine 4 (what I would like to have eventually work for me)
3rd photo - Substance Painter file, general
4th photo - Model with gradient in Substance Painter
5th photo - Model without gradient in Substance Painter
6th photo - Model in Unreal Engine 5.2.1, with no pixelation issues whatsoever

For extra context, I am working in UE 4.26 in order to maximize my customer base upon completion of the modular set. That is why I am currently against working in UE5 for this project, although it seemingly fixes my issue by default (Lumen maybe?).

[quasi creek]

@charred bramble You can't do it from blueprints, but I made a custom function in C++ to expose it to blueprints 🙂

[charred bramble]

Thanks for your reply @quasi creek ! 🙏
I see! Im very glad to know that at least you someone found a solution!
Can you please share any useful information or sites that will help me with creating one as well? 🙇‍♂️
I would appreciate it a lot!

[quasi creek]

I will share some information next time I’m at my computer, but that might actually be in a couple of days 😄

[charred bramble]

Thank you so much!
No worries, I can wait!🙇‍♂️

[dull geyser]

Hi! someone knows any Unreal engine modding discord?

[oak patio]

No, and we wouldn't be allowed to discuss it

[dull geyser]

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[oak patio]

well that was a short stay

[honest moth]

...

[quasi creek]

This should be the stuff needed 🙂

[upbeat cloak]

I didn't know they are used that far, that's pretty smart, I'll give it a try. Thanks

That looks like a good read. Thank you

I'm more into unreal 4, as my brother uses mostly blueprints, which I came to understand are better converted into c++, and run faster

From visuals, I'm guessing 5 can be better optimized, but I don't have that much experience

Yeah, that's the one

I'm spending most of my time doing 3d models, so the issue really came when I tried to get the trees to run well

From what I gathered, nativization does well when you work with it long enough to know which things are buggy, so it cuts down on troubleshooting

But once again, I'm doing more of the environment so I don't know where does which code run faster.

[oak patio]

Nativisation does not work well

That's why it doesn't exist anymore

Nativisation also won't affect your tree performance :P

[oblique marten]

I have virtually been able to mark out compression settings out of the potential causes

As well as mipmaps

[oblique marten]

i have deduced that it is an AO and gradient issue.

Involving either of those in Substance before exporting will cause the pixelation to happen in Unreal.

From left to right

• Gradient enabled, AO disabled
• both disabled
• both enabled

exporting at 8k even doesnt help (just tried to see if it was linked to resolution, it isnt)

[mental helm]

Has anyone messed around with faking dynamic shadows? I got a chain link fence where the shadows alias too quickly and too much with cascade shadows, so I thought I could try to fake it with shadows that blur out, but it doesn't look like what I was hoping for. Left is what I was hoping for and is just a texture, right was going to be the "hidden" shadow casing mesh and you can see what the shadows look like

[fierce tulip]

how are the texture packed? what compression settings? care to show, just in case?

even show the material :)

[oblique marten]

Yeah I can tomorrow for sure, I tried going from 4.25 to 4.27 and it ended up working better after that. Still has some of the issue, but most of the pixelation cleared up after that

[fierce tulip]

great!

[oblique marten]

@fierce tulip

just default. I tried switching it up to each other preset and checking all the boxes, changing values, HDR settings fixed it, but made it significantly more bright. Changed the colors entirely it seems as lowering the exposure doesn't help.

[still reef]

Im tryna setup Steam Cloud for my game and since UE4 saves into the LocalAppData on Windows, it also saves on the drive_c proton path for it on Linux/Steam Deck. How would I point the path to there on the Steam cloud page

[craggy swift]

How do you exclude a material or mesh from all postprocess/tonemapping so it just looks like the base unlit texture?

[tough thicket]

looks like a more saturated color, dont see any pixelization but maybe try setting your scalability settings or anti aliasing types

[tough thicket]

yeah lighting issue but maybe check aa settings too

[tough thicket]

hmm not sure exactly but maybe this node will help you

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-use-custom-depth-selectively-for-certain-objects/842232

iirc custom depth worked but dont know the specifics

[craggy swift]

👍 I will try that out

[graceful flicker]

Hi guys, I was wondering if it is possible to use TWO or more keyboards which are connected with USB.

for example: Player1 uses a keyboard and Player2 a different one - both are connected to the same PC

Means: How do I identify which keyboard pressed the key?
Can I get any device information out of the key events?

[olive rain]

How to get this Blueprint code? pls

[solid matrix]

Hey, gang. I have a first person character (no meshes). I know how to implement head bobbing, and I know how to implement footsteps. How can I get these two things to work together? I want the headbob to match up with the footsteps properly

[round light]

hey everyone, was having trouble and looking for advice

any insight on how I could attach this Get Copy from an array to a boolean to see if the npc im interacting with is the the 1st index on that list

[honest moth]

I've tried to find out what the problem is, everyone says it's related to LOD, but even when I deactivate it, it still gives me the error, does anyone know why this is happening? I've been trying to solve it for weeks...

some people here have said that it's an Unreal option that merges the mesh vertex, I just want to know what that option is.......

well, I can do this "animation" in another way, but I don't know if it will look good......

If there is no solution, is there an alternative?

more than just using skeletons

[drowsy jacinth]

Im pretty new to ue, and im trying to make a timer that after a random amount of seconds activates something, this is what I have right now

[fierce tulip]

that was me. Just didnt have time to open the engine at the time.
"Remove degenerates"

[magic marsh]

Hello. The game ive been working on for the past 2 years is in its alpha testing stage, and whilst almost all bugs so far have been fixiable there is but one that remains a reccuring problem, for which I cannot find a solution.

The bug is this - Sometimes, for reasons I cannot discern, nav meshes stop working. If i'm in editor, and I enter a level, everything will load but the nav mesh will still be calculating on load, however, once in play the loading of the nav mesh gets stuck and will only finish loading when play is closed.

in my game there are 60-70 areas, and one thing ive been doing is loading them all up one after another before a project packaging to try and make sure all the nav meshes are loaded... however, this is a laboureous process and does not guarantee they will all work.

Is there a way to force nav meshes to load? Maybe a box to be ticked in project settings or a node of some kind which references the navs in the level blueprint?

Thanks - I use blueprints only and work in UE4.6

[magic marsh]

Thanks, what would this process of 'backporting' entail exactly?

[oak patio]

Even when you started you were super out of date

[magic marsh]

Do you suspect that updating from 4.6 to 4.7 would cause significant problems?

indeed, ideally what i'd like is a workaround. a way to load nav-meshes in real time, or force the level not to load until the nav mesh is calculated

I have this option

Its been set to static, perhaps setting this to dynamic might work?

[oak patio]

I'd really try to make sure everything is in source control, and even another safety backup and try a hail Mary upgrade to 4.27

You're really shooting yourself in the foot by using such an ancient version

[magic marsh]

Okay thanks, one thing I'm not really familiar with what source control is

[oak patio]

Then you're shooting yourself in the foot even more with a 2 year project :P

No idea if 4.6 has the built in integration, but you'll want to look into a provider like Azure DevOps.

I do hate the integrations as well, but they seem to make the setup easier for people to get their heads around from what I've seen :P

[magic marsh]

luckily, your previous advice about dynamic generation seems to have worked.

where should i start looking into it?

whats the best approach

[oak patio]

You can even run perforce locally

[magic marsh]

okay, thankyou very much, i'll look into all of these when i return home from work

[oak patio]

Though I do reccomend pushing to a remote occasionally, it's basically a free backup

[magic marsh]

pushing to a remote?

okay, thanks for all your help

[honest moth]

thanks a lot, but that's in the import settings, isn't it?

[fierce tulip]

yuz

[karmic seal]

Im trying to set up proximity chat and this is my setup as of now. For some reason it works fine for the server host but the attenuation settings dont work for players that join, so they can hear every other player from anywhere in the map. Any idea how to fix this?

[spare trench]

can I use Ik power plugin in UE 4.27 anyway?

[charred bramble]

Thank you so much Ted! 🙌
I will try to test things out with this! I will let you know how it goes! 😉

[wind siren]

Hi, I'm having trouble with an old project "Try rebuilding from source manually" can someone help?

[spare trench]

I am having a weird problem where a part of my mesh is invisbile from inside but visibile when I go outside

how can I fix that?

[oak patio]

you'll have some reversed normals. fix it in the modelling software

also fwiw importing rooms as one like that, when you plan to go inside them aint great

[spare trench]

idk but my model does not shows any normals and even after recalculating it, it doesn't fix

[oak patio]

recalculating doesn't always work

you might need ot manually flip them

[echo vessel]

@magic marsh I love Perforce so much and use it almost exclusively for my unreal projects. I'd definitely recommend it, it's not hard and it's a life saver.

@spare trench if you can't fix your normals you can make your material "two sided" as a band-aid (unless you want a two sided material)

and cuppa is right, you should break it out into modular pieces, your collision will thank you

[spare trench]

okay thanks bro!

[north gull]

any1 know how to use geometry collection cache and how it differs from chaos cache?

[lavish nest]

Why is my lighting just unamusing to the eye.

I messed around with the auto exposure but it gets pretty dark at night and I do need it to change brightness

I'm using UDS

[scenic nebula]

I rembemer being able to uncook a mesh and open it up in editor, changing it's materials collison etc. However when I try to run the uncook editor utility blueprint it crashes unreal engine.

This all started after I had deleted, added stuff to the content in windows. I suppose causing some desynch. Then i started having corrupt fbx crashes, not being able to see uassets in the engine, tangent errors, smoothing errors, failed imports.

I have tried reinstalling UE several times, different versions, what is going on, can someone help?

[keen hearth]

my first instinct is that there's way too much skylight in the scene compared to the directional sunlight's intensity, in fact are the cloud shadows on or something? Needs more direct lighting, bit less skylight and no cloud shadows imo.

[drifting girder]

Hello
Has anyone here worked with UnrealPakTool here?
If yes, reply me cuz I want to share my question in your DM (for it to not spam over the channel)

[oak patio]

We generally aren't allowed to discuss that

[drifting girder]

Okay I had read the rules and the main red flag regarding it was piracy
(I'd guessd it'd be sketchy, but AFA it didn't involve piracy it was fine)
Sorry again

[oak patio]

To expand on it, it's mainly because the same techniques are used for cracking games, as well as their legitimate uses :P

[drifting girder]

(also only for explanation)
My particular usage was for "ripping" image and text out of a pak for an Android game, which is free on Google Play
Thanks again for respond

[oak patio]

Ah yeah, that definitely isn't allowed to be discussed here :P

[near osprey]

Hello, I made this model in maya, but when I import it into unreal parts of the mesh are missing

anyone know a fix?

[near osprey]

My problem is resolved

[karmic seal]

Anyone got any tips on this?

[green acorn]

Might be the normal, or maybe how your material is setup (alpha)

[rare marten]

can someone help me, I made first person camera in maya and exported arms and camera to ue4. it works well in maya but when I import models into ue4, it camera clips. ofc I changed near clipping plane on project setting

[forest valve]

rlly? I have a rtx 3050 4gb. In ue 5, my vram it's full, in anyone project!

[forest valve]

What I resolve this problem with 4/4 vram on the default project in ue 5?

[oak patio]

Idk what docs you're reading. The 4.27 docs do

[tight steppe]

Is there a reason Physics isn't showing up here? I'm trying to add Kinematic physics to a static mesh. I set up collision and I thought I would be able to set the physics for the static mesh without having to put it in the level, that way I wouldn't have to add it for every mesh in the level

[full mist]

I feel like I'm asking a really stupid question here but is there literally any way to deal with the backfaces of a two-sided material being black after a gpu lightmass bake?

my context is im making an office environment with a ton of papers, manila folders, etc. that need two-sided materials to light properly and have decent shadows, etc.

the only real solution i can find is literally duplicating the mesh itself in maya/blender/etc. and then flipping the faces and rejoining into a single mesh. you end up with double the geometry but now have separate geo/lightmaps for each "side" of the paper. it seems insane to do this and i have no idea if there's an easier/smarter/overall better solution im not considering.

[ocean pumice]

If some people are going to play my game on lower end pc's should i create a graphics menu ? thanks !

[manic pecan]

I'd check the lightmap resolution for that asset and try increasing the value

[junior siren]

Its physics constraint
If you still need that lol

[fair lagoon]

Yes , sorry. Version is 5.3.2

I'll change channel, sorry

[spice ruin]

Well if they got their answer, why would anyone else need to know it?

[green acorn]

She said UE4 supported DX12
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/dx12-command/341375/5

[valid raven]

Hey so this is sort of a preliminary question before I put some work in getting a video out which better explains what I want, but if anyone could give me a rough estimate on what I should reasonably pay for someone to make a combination deck builder fps, where you collect "scans" (functionally cards) that represent a few things from creatures to items to locations, the developer would handle everything from the items themselves to things like the deck builder, the creatures individual attack decks, the battle board (what you might call a play area in MTG), trading, a shop, acquiring the items, storing them, and otherwise extracting data from variables in the items themselves for use in combat or exploration

They'll be making the base items and systems that use them, as well as maybe the first few items, but after that the individual item creation will largely be on me

I'm mostly just looking to see roughly how many thousands I'm looking at

Also, similarly, I'd like to get an estimate what you all think would be reasonable to spend for someone to work on movement for things like crouching, sliding, wall running, jumping, mantling, wall climbing, wall/ceiling walking, swimming (again, I'll post details when I have the money in hand) but I was hoping to have the movement be momentum based, like Apex or titanfall

[solid warren]

Does anyone have any novel ideas how to solve the following:

I am using browser widget to show a drawing program that is hosted online (machine learning, don't ask, has to be online).
I have buttons written in java that can be clicked on the widget - but I also want to get a mouse click event in that same space (actually a touchscreen, but it is acting as mouse so that's fine).
However, the widget always eats the click and always takes the focus of the mouse when its clicked on.
Has anybody ever tried something like this and found anyway to get two click events when clicking on a browser widget?

Taking a general on mouse click doesn't work (widget eats the focus, doesn't return a click).
Firing a trace has the same issue, as far as I can tell.

[full mist]

it's a really minor thing but does anyone know why hitting the focus hotkey for blueprints always seems to go really far away? like i have some small props set up in a blueprint and when i hit f to snap the camera over to them its really zoomed out?

not a gigantic deal ofc but i wanted to know if there's a way of changing those settings somehow

[solid warren]

Do you mean in the viewport of a blueprint? Not the event graph, yeah?

Are the objects you're zooming to parented to anything other than the root?

[gloomy cloak]

Hello. Im trying to get a boolean from another blueprint. I cast and I can get it but after I compile, it says that the property associated with the boolean cannot be found in my other blueprint

[oak patio]

compile the other bp

then compile that one

also if you're new, read the first pin and switch to ue5

[gloomy cloak]

i have 16 gb of ram

its too big

[oak patio]

?

what is

you can run ue5 with 16gb ram

[gloomy cloak]

can i use my ue4 projects on it?

[oak patio]

yes

back them up though, in case something does break

look into source control

preferably Git

[gloomy cloak]

is 16gb good enough? to make games with?

[oak patio]

depends what games you wanna make

if you're looking for a dedicated server multiplayer rpg then no

if you're making a platformer then yes

[gloomy cloak]

ok thank you

[toxic lily]

got a question if any one could help me

Im trying to make a "AOE Buff effect" (think of like, a cleric, emitting a healing aura for allied NPCs near him)

ive able to grab information on all actors that leave and enter the sphere collission, but i cant seem to reference those specific actors when inside the collission to change their stats, (health, accuracy, etc...)

doesnt anyone know how i could actually get to that information from here?

[tough thicket]

if the blue pull off from the event isnt specfic then you will need to use a cast to node to that class

[toxic lily]

let me try and clarify

I need to get the instance of every NPC that walk's in that collision, and change their values, (health, armor rating, etc...) to higher values, and when they leave the collisions, change those values back to what they were before.

The problem i'm having, is that i don't know how to get the reference for each individual NPC that walks in that collision, in order to adjust those variables.

I can make a cast to node, for the class, but i cant edit its variables with that node

[modern sluice]

why are u casting to the class for that? here is quick messy demonstration of how u can do that

[toxic lily]

So I have a parent class for a base AI enemy, and a dozen child BPs, for variants, using different weapons, gear, etc… but using the same Behaviour tree.

[modern sluice]

Okay, that should work

[toxic lily]

And I was following enas example as an explanation

[toxic lily]

Interesting, would it make sense to add a “do once” and a sequence to both the begin and end overlap? I suspect that it could just keep looping if more then one enters that collision

[modern sluice]

No. What happens here is that when a child of the parent "BP_AI_Base" enters the collision, the stats of that specific child "actor" will be divided by 2 and a boolean will be set for that specific actor. When it leaves the collision, the stats will be reverted and that boolean will be set to false so that it can enter again and have the same effects

When a child actor of the parent AI class overlaps the collision, all you need to do is cast to the parent and then you can use the variables that you've setup there. However if you're not working with a parent (base) class for your AI, things will get harder and messier.

[modern sluice]

I whipped this out real quick so there might be some issues however this is a decent foundation for what you're trying to do :)

[toxic lily]

This is tremendously helpful and your explanation was very clear and precise, thanks for taking the time man I appreciate it 🙏

[tulip trellis]

trying my hand at devlogs on yt for more exposure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3wG8d-pH9s Anyone got any tips for making them better?

[opaque seal]

hi guys i have question about draw distance for my object
i set desired max draw distance of my object to 10000 and when im on high graphic its ok but when i get into low graphic my draw distance get on something like 200 or 300
how can i fix this? i mean i want both of graphics have same draw distance but they are not
and sorry for bad english :D

[outer spruce]

Hey, just wanted to ask why https://unrealcommunity.wiki/ is almost dead? There are so little edits its literally abandoned. There seems to be very little documentation on so much themes. Why docs are not developed in unreal community? Also why original wiki was shut down? The official unreal forums are not very active either. This discord though appears to have so meany users. How come?

[opal steeple]

I have better luck asking Chat GPT unreal questions than I ever had with the official forum. I’ve never had a question answered that I’ve posted either. I don’t know why it’s so dead but I hope their support gets better through AI in the near future

[pastel ocean]

QUESTION: Is there a way to specify data table rows instead of the names?

[neon grove]

huh im curious how is chat gpt able to learn about unreal when theres no documentation 🤣

but yeah i agree u barely get any answers anywhere about unreal

not their forums, not the discord, not the reddit,

its either some youtube tutorials, maybe some forum question that maaaybe got answered 8 years ago, sometimes 1/10 someone will answer your question here, but most of the time you have to click on random buttons in unreal to see what it does, or reverse engineer the code if you are using c++.

[tight steppe]

Does anyone know if there is a way to bulk name assets? For example if I want to create 100 assets and name them all based on data in a json or text file I have

[onyx sparrow]

Guys I am using a package but I want to use all those functions on my character. Keep in mind my character has a different skeleton. Just give me keywords for what I need to look for.

1. what do you recommend, I swap skeleton mesh and how do I do it. I know about retargeting but it only retargets animations but what about the blueprints.

2. Copy paste Animations and blueprints on my new character and how?

[regal mulch]

If you retarget your Mesh onto the one you want to use, you should also be able to simply use the AnimBP

Cause those are matched to the skeleton

Hm, or maybe not retarget but assign Skeleton

[gloomy cloak]

i have a problem with my interface

somehow its not working?

the first pic is from thirdpersoncharacter

and the second one is from a another blueprint

and the damage is not setting?

[regal mulch]

Also you are calling that interface on self?

[gloomy cloak]

idk i am new to this

started couple of days ago

[regal mulch]

You might want to check #blueprint and it's pinned messages. There is a post with a video called "Blueprint Communication"

Might have to scroll a bit

[gloomy cloak]

this better>

?

[regal mulch]

No

Doesn't change anything to be precise

[gloomy cloak]

then what should i do?

[regal mulch]

You need a reference (a valid one) of the abp

Other BP*

[gloomy cloak]

how do i do that?

?

would this work?

[regal mulch]

Please check the pinned video I told you about

[gloomy cloak]

its 2 hours

can you just help me?

[oak patio]

Just watch it. You're missing fundamentals those two hours cover. Gamedev is slow, and not all of it is fun sadly, but this is something you need to know

Telling you to watch the video is helping you.

What isn't helping you would be telling you the sequence of nodes to solve this problem, as you will only encounter it again and again.

Might as well bite the bullet and get it right

Though if you're new, read the top pin, there is basically 0 reason to be on ue4

[sturdy matrix]

Not sure if anybody is familiar but I am using the airsim simulator on a custom environment to fly a drone. I am trying to edit the json file in order to change the resolution of the drone camera however no matter what I do its stuck into the default values of 254x144 or something. Does anyone have any similar experience? No matter what I change I cant seem to change the camera resolution

[potent jungle]

hey-a folks 🙂
any tips and tricks for selecting the empty actors in the world outliner?
I deleted an asset from the content browser, but its "empty ghosts" are still wandering in the outliner though

[short cipher]

↑Left Rolling

[potent jungle]

huh?

[raven bane]

Hey guys, I have a question. When should I use blueprints and when should I use C++?

I know it's recommended to use them together but for specifically what should each be used for?

[austere swan]

Hey so...

Ya know how Smash bros games like Smash 4 and Ultimate, the character models have alot of different meshes for stuff like their Face?

Each being multiple experessions as seperate meshes?

I've been wondering how to "Animate" them in UE ina way

It's something I notice in some of Nintendos games like 3D World or even Mario Galaxy for the Hands

I saw a video for smash modding doing a thing called Mesh Visibility editing...
So..How would I make it work in UE?Or will the FBX data has it in and I don't have to worry?

[keen violet]

Hey everyone I need help I need help I want to make car reverse when it's stuck and get unstuck how do I do it? I'm also using pawn sensing please help me

[next dust]

Someone sent me a text file with code inside it that I'm supposed to open in UE, so that it will spawn me assets that are already in the Content. Where do I put that code into? A BP?

Starts with "Begin map Begin Level Begin Actor (data) Begin Object (data) End Object etc."

It is supposed to spawn BPs in the level, any idea?

[karmic seal]

Im working on a shield bar system and the way im updating the shield bar is by getting a reference of the owning player, then binding the progress bar to the shield variable of the owning player. This seems to work well for the player hosting the game but for the client the bar doesnt update. Anyone know how this can be fixed?

[olive rain]

How to fix the light build error?

[hardy nacelle]

Hi I have specific actor1 that has overlap collision (player can interact with him when aiming at him). I am attaching this actor1 to another actor - actor2, but i loose those overlap collision - interactions. Can I make this somehow work?

I mean I want to have thoose overlaps on actor1 even when attached to actor2

[raven nest]

erm, how do you get the current system IP?

[toxic lily]

quick question, ive got a camera on a spring arm component for this over the shoulder shooter project.

THe collission is working but im trying to figure out how to get the camera to move offset to the right a little bit as the boom length shortens to it doent just shove the characters shoulder into the camera. but i cant seem to figure out how to do this

does anyone have any pointers?

[raven nest]

add a scene node and put the offset there

[toxic lily]

(im walking back up against a wall)

[raven nest]

oh if you want it to be dynamic you have to raycast and get the vector length and adjust it by that, I think

it does have a built in probe that can reference an arbitrary channel, so if your collisions are set up right, that should do it

kinda looks like that's already working

you could use the raycast to control the offset to one side

[toxic lily]

I see, im not sure though how to have it dynamic though with the raycast, for example, setting it up like "as camera boom length shortens, move to new offset location", i can make the raycast but how would i plug in for it to dynamically change to that location as it shortens?

sorry im just now getting into camera management and its totally greek to me

[raven nest]

one way is to make an animation or event loop, get the vector length, then use that to set the relative position of the node used for offset

[toxic lily]

okay i think i understand

ive added a scene component (Coom Collission Offset Location), and placed it about where id like for it to be, ive plugged it into my function that shortens that boom length

[raven nest]

how's it work?

I guess the target arm length isn't really the current arm length, so you'd need a raycast for that, but that might be another method

whatever works

[oak patio]

what for? I can't think of any reason you would need to manually get the user's ip

[raven nest]

to display it to the user for troubleshooting, to add it to reports for logging, to direct services or events that aren't built around native replication, etc

[toxic lily]

Didn’t work, the way I set it up, I’ll give that timeline you posted a try 🙏

[toxic lily]

hmmm, still not doing the trick, gonna have to dig around deeper,

[raven nest]

Did you substitute the raycast vector length for the target arm length being input to the remap?

The component heirarchy would have to be similar too

[steady hawk]

Hey! i have a problem with high-resolution screenshot. When i do screenshots with viewport angle it renders a custom dept mask and alpha is ok but if i use the camera it leaves a green color in place of alpha? what am i missing? 😦

found solution. i was using default viewport instead of cinematic! 🙂

[toxic lily]

That did the trick!

thanks a ton for the direction 🙏

[raven nest]

glad you got it working 👍

[plush yew]

hey guys , how do i execute more than one on only one node

[civic vapor]

Hello, currently thinking about installing Unreal 4.X. What versions do you guys recommend? Been using UE5 for a while but It runs poorly on my PC (UE4 ran okay)

Huh, true

thanks

[grim shadow]

what game genere should i make??

[tough thicket]

i was thinking about beyond my BETA

maybe another genre of game would produce a more impressive line up of code and features

._.

[past quail]

Hey question do game devs or people still use unreal engine 3 or no, because I don’t see it to download for free?

[past quail]

Retro zone?

[oak patio]

Unreal engine 3 is not free either

UDK is, but is not for commercial use

I'm sure epic would be more than happy to take your money for a ue3 license

[toxic lily]

question, ive got a "bullet impact" deferred decal with a slight glow that im trying to get the glow to fade using a scalar parameter,

however, it cant grab the value for some reason and im unsure what im doing wrong

Material

error

then it sounds like it isnt create a dynamic material instance

as that should be the variable its referencing

[past quail]

Why did they not import mass effect to UE4?

Oh but, if they made another mass effect in the UE4 or UE5 will it still run fine and look good?

[past quail]

Oh no I’m just wondering because unreal has different engine versions and wondering which one will work for making games with better gameplay, cintamatics, cutscenes, graphics all that, but yeah would a new mass effect would run fine in the new versions of unreal engine?

[past quail]

What about a call of duty game or something similar?

[oak patio]

ue would be capable of anything if you bend it to your will enough

well, technology permitting

no vr space mmorpg that accurately simulates the universe, all planets being fully fleshed out with bespoke content

[keen violet]

I want to make an auto save and load meaning when I play around and stuff and I close the game and open it it will load exactly where I was And it can save my location and time of date cars that I drove and that I bought money system all this stuff And I don't want one that makes you press a key to save game and stuff

[tranquil isle]

What was it?

[ornate rock]

Hello developers! I am a beginner using EU version 4.27. I have a simple game (actually, like an art gallery) with multiple audio resources in the virtual space and also video. After packaging, the sounds work but the media player does not. Actually everything works on my PC, but not on other PCs. I tried copying my movie files to the content\movies folder and changing the URL patch, I also put the movies into 'Specific Movies to Package' in the Project Settings.
Any idea? Please 🙁
Thanks!!

[fast lion]

Hey. How out of date would a 2016 book on UE4 C++ be, and would it be easy to swap out anything that would have been deprecated?

[oak patio]

Extremely put of date, and no it wouldn't be easy, and will be full of bad practice for modern ue c++

Dont get a book for the unreal API, it moves too quickly for formal publications

(especially seeing as you should be in ue5 :P)

[idle dragon]

honestly, i wouldn't bother much with that. so much has changed, even unreal c++ tutorials from yesteryear are causing problems

you're better off focusing on a few select up to date tutorials that are simple. it will take less time to hit the ground running and getting out of tutorial hell, which is what you really need.

[crisp birch]

Curious question if anyone knows but is the youtube music library music actually allowed to be in a unreal engine commercial use game throughout the levels for it?

[oak patio]

Ask a lawyer

[crisp birch]

Ty Anywhere you guys go for commercial use video game music

[crisp birch]

Ty noted

[lunar pendant]

can someone help with getting a reference to a material instance that is not attached to the player character through the player blueprint?

[echo vessel]

I've used Adobe and SoundSnap and have no complaints.

[echo vessel]

Where does the material instance live/get created/get applied to?

[lunar pendant]

it is applied to a particle system that runs on certain animations (pretty standard sword trail thing) through anim notifies.

It's one of these. I have added a color parameter to the material and it looks proper when I change it manually, but since the material / instance isn't used in the character BP, I have no idea how to reference it to change the color parameter inside that blueprint

[lunar pendant]

The YouTube Music Library terms of use state that the music CAN be used outside of YouTube, BUT you specifically have to request permission from the author of the track/s you wish to use in any project outside of YouTube. Probably not the answer you were hoping for, but it's better than "no."

[shrewd obsidian]

Hey all,
I need help figuring out what third party notices I need to include in my iOS game (using UE 4.27).
I’ve run the UAT command “ListThirdPartySoftware." Though this did seem to narrow down my search, it seems like there will end up being 30 to 50 unique notices I’ll have to include? Not to mention I found some viral share-alike licenses, though maybe those only apply to the editor itself? I’ve read and re-read the forums, but proper documentation for this is non-existent (and Epic's lawyers say that they legally cannot help).
As a side note, it seems like basically no one is complying with this requirement. I’ve checked the terms and credits of several UE4 games (PUBG, SpongeBob BFBBR, The Baby In Yellow) and at best they only have the trademark notice for Unreal itself 🤔

[oak patio]

I've never heard of needing to disclose every single third party thing used. I'm dubious as to whether you've interpreted this "requirement" correctly.
However, I'm not a lawyer, so go speak to one :P

We can't give you legal advice

[shrewd obsidian]

I suspect you're right, though it seems like Epic's staff has said otherwise in the forums: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/third-party-ue-components-in-our-final-product/389442 ; https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/eula-and-third-party-licenses-questions/376917

And I was hoping someone could at least provide technical advice (like what the first link is asking)

[tough thicket]

sorry only red first 4 lines but wondering

wtf do you mean by third party software everything becomes a uassest after imported?

[shrewd obsidian]

Notices like the ones Epic provides at the end of this sample EULA: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/html5/unreal-match-3-unreal-engine-4-eula-android

[tough thicket]

server?

[shrewd obsidian]

sorry, I don't understand the question. I'm not using any servers or backend for my game, I'm fairly sure (unless you count Apple's store stuff)

[tough thicket]

do you even know what your asking?

[shrewd obsidian]

I'm just trying to follow Epic's release checklist and the Unreal EULA, which /seem/ to require including a dozen text-notices in my own EULA

Figuring out exactly which notices is dependant on my target platform and other engine settings. But the method of "figuring out" is obscure to me, and I doubt a lawyer could help with that (even if they specialize in IP, contracts, etc.)

[tough thicket]

apache is related to multiplayer and if you arent using id imagine epics dedicated server you would need to provide information of yours

[shrewd obsidian]

Ah, that makes sense for that one

[onyx sparrow]

can anyone please guide me

Im using DynamicCombatSystem package. When I package it for webgl and run the game, it plays well but when I try it with my character, my character wont show. I can still see the bow on the back and move but cant see the character.

things I have tested

reduce the vertices count
reduce the size of the character
use basic materials

Image is the what I see in the console.

and I have also tried using different skeletons. I have also used the mannequine's skeleton but it wont work

[oak patio]

The Apache license is not related to multiplayer. It's just a software license

It's literally just an open source license

[spice ruin]

Hey may mean it's related to part of the software which details with multiplayer.

[silk flare]

how does collision work in unreal?

I mean on a low level

does unreal check every collision mesh against every collision mesh per frame or what?

I'm very curious

and I couldn't find any resources about it

[spice ruin]

That sounds extremely inefficient.

...So maybe?

In UE4 it's probably physx. So check that out. In UE5 it'll be chaos.

[silk flare]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-no-gif-23437635

physx it is then...

[opal steeple]

What is the best file format for a main menu background that has a looping animation?

[plush yew]

How do I uninstall Universal Unreal Engine Unlocker?
https://framedsc.com/GeneralGuides/universal_ue4_consoleunlocker.htm I installed it from here following a website guide for a photo mode in Hogwarts Legacy, basically I don't understand how to use the plugin and it also uses far too many hotkeys that some of my mods are also connected to, so I can't use my mods properly. I looked through the readme and googled, but I wasn't getting answers that made sense and they seemed to be talking about the launcher, not this plugin.

[crisp birch]

thank you for that btw did not go unnoticed and i took it into account and made a decision accordingly based off everyone who answer thanks for all your combined efforts

[bronze compass]

wanted to check this part of ue's aswell

lets see

[oak patio]

You won't get help with that here

[silk flare]

I'll let you know once I find something

[karmic remnant]

wondering if anyone knows how to avoid the momentary black screen while the game is starting? I'm seeing a sequence like:

custom splash screen shows (~1 second) => black screen shows (4 seconds) => game instance initialized (probably earliest time I do anything) => streaming level shows my custom loading screen

what I would like is to either:

1. show the custom splash screen longer, until the loading level has opened (just text)
2. add a user widget over the top of the black screen
   does anyone know how to do either?

[oak patio]

you would be best off using a real solution for the loading screen in this case, rather than a streaming level

most real loading screens do not suffer from this issue

check out the CommonLoadingScreen from Lyra

Async loading screen also has support for this

[karmic remnant]

I just tried CommonLoadingScreen and it suffers the same problem, you can see in the logging timestamps there's a full 7 second gap before commonloading screen is even initialized:

during that time it's just a black screen

looking through engine source I think there is something like a PreLoadScreen, and EPreLoadScreenTypes::EngineLoadingScreen is the phase I'm interested in

[south whale]

How do I add game instance to a map

[oak patio]

you don't

what are you trying to do

(also if you're new, read the top pin, there is no reason to use ue4)

[south whale]

I have to use ue4 because the game I am trying to mod is built in ue4

[oak patio]

that makes sense

though you don't add a game instance to a map

a game instance stays for the duration of the play session and is configured via the project settings

[south whale]

Why does the map so dark? I just copied it from the game.

[oak patio]

my guess would be that you didn't copy anything over like the skysphere and lighting

[south whale]

u are right, I didnt copy other folders

So for example if I want to add thing to a map as a mod, do I just copy the map from the game, or I link it in other way

[oak patio]

Unfortunately, not something I particularly know that well. The only thing I semi knew about it, is you package it into its own chunk which the game can use.

Modding isn't my forté

[south whale]

I think I found it

[mild gulch]

Hi everyone! My team and I are building a UE4 game packiging it as HTML5 and I'm looking for advice/solution to my problem. I need to find how to mute/lower the volume of the game when the client minimized/non-focused the game tab/window in the browser. What would be the easiest soution to do this? Thanks in advance!

[azure shore]

wow so is the old apex destruction just broken past 4.17? whatever you do, you CANNOT use a different material for the inside of the mesh, the newly created geometry to fill in the gaps of the fractures. this is ridiculous. I just want to break apart a damn cube

[finite nest]

i got back to ue after a few months and well

for some reason quixel bridge does not detect my UE

maybe i have the wrong directory or something?

(tried searching in plugins)

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

[karmic remnant]

I found for 1. you can use the command line flag -NoLoadingScreen and for 2. you can use FPreLoadScreenManager with EPreLoadScreenTypes::EngineLoadingScreen, although it requires a separate module/plugin with "LoadingPhase": "PostSplashScreen"

[keen violet]

Anyone have any idea how to fix this? I'm trying to convert my ue4 to ue5 and this appears

[spice ruin]

PhysX isn't a thing in ue5 any more, so you can't really use it?

[long axle]

Ue4 don't launch, When i launch he says can't launch shadercokpilerworker.exe, I tried reinstalling, don't working.

Please help

[spice ruin]

And you're cross posting? <@&213101288538374145>

[past quail]

Hey guys, I have a question, I’m trying to figure out how do friendly NPCs rapidly respawn when one or more NPCs die in the game? https://www.xbox.com/play/media/fyFpfrxdLH

Is there a respawn blueprint that makes NPCs respawn when one or more die?

[muted dew]

Does anyone have a tutorial where I can make a multiplayer game with the use of steam?

Because I searched everywhere and I could not find a tutoria

*tutorial

[past quail]

Hey did anybody got my message ?

[oak patio]

If you're in the tutorial phase you don't want to.
No one will make a good tutorial for that, it's too complex and lengthy of a process

Avoid multiplayer until you know what you're doing

Especially avoid shipping multiplayer until you really know what you're doing

[vivid rain]

so if youre trying to create a config file for a game. are the variable/keys (like "r.DefaultFeature.LensFlare=False") the same for every game? or could fog be defined by something completely different in a different game.

and how would you find out the section name for a specific game? (like "[/script/engine.renderersettings]")

could it be just one of these?

[vivid rain]

actually yeah i think i just need to know how to find the section names

i have no idea what im doing

[pine glen]

Hi, sorry to bother you I would like some advice on how to do a Call of duty similar weapon system I mean with primary, secondary, melee and throwable class.
Is it better to create a general weapon master before creating each other or I create Melee Master, Secondary Master etc..

[spice ruin]

Why would the primary and secondary have separate master classes? They're basically the same class, just in multiple slots.

[pine glen]

Well maybe with enum since the weapon list will not be the same

I mean like the old Call of Duty one

[spice ruin]

Why does the weapon class itself need to know about the weapon list?

[pine glen]

Ah xD

Well to link it with the Data Table (don't know xD)

[spice ruin]

Use a Name.

(FName)

[pine glen]

a string variable ?

[polar knoll]

Hello,
I keep getting this crash when trying to take a high resolution screenshot in my scene or use a cinemacamera. Any ideas what can cause this and how to fix it. I have the newest version of the graphics driver and uninstalled the old ones. Any help is appreciated.

[oak patio]

Yeah no, you aren't going to get help cracking games here

[restive ingot]

💀

[fierce tulip]

it isnt

and we do not allow discussion about it on this discord server.

[restive ingot]

ah very sorry.

[robust marten]

Change it to overlapped actor instead of other actor

[brittle vine]

How to port a project from ue4 to ue5? I can't install ue4, I wanted to explore an old project, but when I try to open it using ue5, it shows a bunch of errors

[queen rivet]

has anyone integrated in-app payment system in unreal engine for mobile without any plugins using in-built unreal engine blueprint? google pay for android and apple pay for ios.

[mild gulch]

Hi, so my team and i built and packaged(shipped) our HTML5 game. Opening it with the UEWebHelper works like a charm. But put it on Xampp makes this error pop up and the game won't load. Any tips or guidance would be really appreciated. Thanks! (And no, we didn't change any of the files after Unreal packed the project)

[oak patio]

No, because that's not possible

Either use a plugin, or dive into the c++ sdk

[slender egret]

Hi there, it seems as though certain inputs have stopped working for me. Numerical inputs seems fine, but keyboard letter inputs are not working. I was trying to use my Interact input ( E ) for something, and since it wasnt working, I created a fresh input that's not used elsewhere ( B) and that didn't work either. I created an input action within my character blueprint with a breakpoint, and clicking B didn't even toggle that. So I don't know what's up!

https://tenor.com/view/tobey-maguire-sad-wah-wahh-cry-gif-15729067800335956216

Oh, I should note, my movement inputs on the keyboard are fine ( w, a, s, d, )

[brazen haven]

hi

anyone have any advice of an API or way to get links to images in Unreal based on a keyword

e.g. egg

and I get a link to an image of an egg

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7614/production/_105482203__105172250_gettyimages-857294664.jpg

egg

e.g egg

(which is then used on a widget image)

[oak patio]

pretty sure you already got help with this one, in the form of using the google api to perform an image search, and use the first result, into a texture 2d

granted, you really don't want to do this

because you have no rights to use the images as such

and, you'll be footing the bill for the api calls

so yeah, tl;dr, don't

you can't just go around violating copyright left right and center

your actual best way would be to have a large library of images you hold the rights for, associated with some keywords, and perform the search on your images, with your own method

[brazen haven]

have u guys never heard of clearview AI????

you dont need rights

they didnt

it's like saying google is violating copyright as images they dont own can be seen on google images

(that was their argument)

[brazen haven]

that is pretty limited

[brazen haven]

yeah IK

but that is the hard part lol

[oak patio]

your only option is limited, because you don't have the rights for the non limited option

[brazen haven]

why?

my game is basically acting as a search engine

search engines are not illegal

[oak patio]

you aren't a search engine though

you don't have the rights to the images

[brazen haven]

the game is

[oak patio]

it's really that simple

[brazen haven]

google images have the rights

so i do\

[oak patio]

no it isn't, you said it yourself, it's a game

No, you don't

If you think you have the same rights that google does with it's huge legal team, and myriad of licenses, you are sorely mistaken

[brazen haven]

ok so best case i download like 1k images
then I need some vodoo C++ that convert a keyword to find the best match

[oak patio]

you download 1k images *you have the right to use

not just going to the front page of google and grabbing whatever

hell if needs be, pay for a subscription to a stock image library

one that covers commercial usage

[brazen haven]

so like tag the images?

ok

i will get images with a creative commons license

[oak patio]

and some are incompatible with commercial projects

[brazen haven]

https://tenor.com/view/rock-one-eyebrow-raised-rock-staring-the-rock-gif-22113367

[oak patio]

this sort of task is going to be landing you in some legally troublesome waters.
Make sure you've got the budget to consult a copyright attorney

[brazen haven]

ill represent myself

[oak patio]

your lack of knowledge of copyright law thus far ensures that this will not end well for you

seriously, before this ever catches wind to the public, pay for a consult with someone versed in IP law

You don't want to step on the wrong toes, and some company decide they want to make an example of you

Purchasing an appropriate license to a stock image library will likely be your best, and easiest bet.
The downside of course, being they are stock images

[valid raven]

how do i report potential scammers?

[brazen haven]

but if the images arent downloaded

is it technically infringement>?

ok technically they are

but they arent like downloaded as in like downloaded outside the game

not in the game files

so you can say they are being streamed

ill ask chat gpt

to be my lawyer

is this like hotlinking

YES

I can do it!

why not

fuck

[oak patio]

I'll make this real easy for you. Pay for an applicable license for an image library, or give up on the idea entirely

You don't really have another option.

[valid raven]

he has another option

he can get sued

that is an option

just not a good one

[brazen haven]

i might just ai generate them all

[slender egret]

Tl;Dr big fight and I got no help

https://tenor.com/view/will-gif-2553459115951539861

[sage coral]

So I have a weird issue thats been bugging me, I have a simple sprint system however the player will still continue to do the sprint anim and take stamina away if I let go of the W key but continue to hold the left shift, Tried setting a small code to check the players velocity on the X which I think im heading in the right direction but it still only will do anything after the left shift is released, Prob the best thing I can think to do is somehow make the bind only trigger and release if both keys are down. Any suggestions?

[tough thicket]

need to add some sort of bool Is Running

[nova imp]

So ios build crashes (SIGSEGV) when it load slot anyone how to fix it? or encountered similar problem?

[spare trench]

Hey I am having some lightning problem in my level where my Island looks okay with some wiered dark patches and when I build the light it becomes completed darken Idk why
I tried changing the Light map resolution but it doesn't work, I faced this problem before also but changing resolution does work but in this case it don't

[short cipher]

Is there a way to determine whether a specified location is included in a certain trigger box?
I'm creating enemies that fire line traces randomly and teleport to that location, but I'm having trouble because they sometimes fall into the underworld. I would like to implement this to prevent this.

[tough thicket]

maybe somewhere navigatable?

[spice ruin]

The box will have a 'is point in' or something method somewhere.

[jade surge]

EQS would probably be good for something like this where you can do a query to check find the safest spot to teleport without relying on line traces

It'd also be pretty hard to fall out of the map assuming you set your queries up to make sure it only generated possible outcomes in areas where navigation existed

[short cipher]

thank you. I certainly forgot about EQS and "only generated possible outcomes".
Try immediately.

[short cipher]

I apologize for the continued questions. Due to development circumstances, I cannot use the behavior tree, so I would like to use EQS in a Blueprint macro. Is it possible?
Currently, I can only find a way to use custom events, and I am having trouble using macros.

[muted dew]

does anyone know how to add a sound only playing in one place and not on the whole map?

[brazen haven]

look up attenuation

[muted dew]

where?

where should I look it up?

[primal dove]

Hello
How can i change als (advance locomotion system) camera spawn location??

[idle sparrow]

/job freelance

[plush yew]

I haven't checked in a while but I think it's in the camera's ABP

[austere swan]

So um...I'm trying to learn blueprints atm
And wanting to make a player with fps and third person camera and make a doom and quake like
Hud with armor hp,weapon slots ,and item inventory.
Also give it quake movement

I'm told should roughly follow the quake movement file to translate in blueprint
https://github.com/myria666/qMovementDoc/blob/main/Quake_s_Player_Movement.pdf

[primal dove]

So how can i make camera ADB and also use ALS camera system

[viscid nymph]

yo does anyone know how to make a procedural reptilian scaly skin material in ue4 cuz i been searching but cant find a tutorial

[scenic tartan]

Try Ultra Dynamic Sky, it's a plug in that can help with that

[untold reef]

hey guys im a massive noob and im desperate for help

someone. anyone

i have spooled through tomes of lore and cannot find the answer

[scenic tartan]

Hey

You Need help?

[untold reef]

yes, desperately

ive been searching for ages but cant fidn a solution 😅

[scenic tartan]

What's up?

[untold reef]

So, the issue im having is quite basic apparently. Ive learnt how to make a WASD movement system for an fps. my issue is that when i move forward and sideways the player moves faster than it should

apparently i need to normalise the vector but i have no idea how to do that

[scenic tartan]

Okay well the thing is I have no idea how to "normalize a vector" but I have another way

You can just cap the walk speed if your character to a certain amount that should stop it from going faster than normal

[untold reef]

ill happily take any solution

oh nice! how do i do that?

[scenic tartan]

Give me a moment

Okay

You have to get a reference to your character movement component which has a max walk speed variable that you can change

[untold reef]

hm

[scenic tartan]

Yeah, that also works

[untold reef]

so, does sprinting mean it changes dynamically?

again, im a massive noob i barely know anything

[scenic tartan]

Yes, your gonna have to change it if your sprinting

[untold reef]

what do you mean by getting a reference to my character movement component? what is a reference?

: (

[scenic tartan]

Basically getting the properties of a blueprint inside another blueprint

Kinda like casting

?

@untold reef Try this for reference: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.26/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/ProgrammingWithCPP/ReferenceAssets/

[untold reef]

ah, thanks ill look at this now : D

[scenic tartan]

Okay but why then can i cast to a actor in my level and pull a variable from there?

Yeah and I can get it from the right one

Okay that makes sense

Thanks for clearing it up for me

[austere swan]

Well following a Fps tutorial but some reason when I tried to follow one part, the mouse input locks me in a 90 Degree rotation kind of mouselook

[primal dove]

How do I choose the default camera actor??

[prime tulip]

Does anyone know why search is so unreliable in 4.27? And what I can do to get better results? Oftentimes I'll select a variable, do a search on it. What comes back is a single set or nothing. So I think "Ok, this doesn't seem to be used, I can remove it". Then later suddenly, a compile error "Variable is missing". So the variable WAS used somewhere, but it didn't come up in the search results. This is incredibly frustrating from a cleaning up point of view and it also makes me super cautious and sceptical when using the search function. The result of this is, is that I more often than not just leave variables even if I think they're not used anymore just out of fear of breaking stuff. :/

Other times I'll get an even weirder issue where the search just keeps searching endlessly and seems to get stuck at like 90%. Only fix is restarting the editor.

Is there some kind of setting or certain philosophy I can follow to work around this or get more reliability? Or is search in 4.27 just really buggy?

[prime tulip]

Myeah I know

Eventually I'll make the jump to UE5, but for now I'm still too comfy with 4

[oak patio]

5 is basically the exact same.

It's the same engine, just with a UI change and more features

[elfin reef]

I am getting this error when I try package my UE4.22.3 project for Android. Do you know the solution? UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): ERROR: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe failed with args /c "C:/NVPACK/apache-ant-1.8.2/bin/ant.bat" debug -Djava.source=1.7 -Djava.target=1.7

[spare trench]

Iam having a wierd issue my stream level are not loading after clicking on button. On editor it is working successfully. Also some materials turned black idk why

[lunar pendant]

Been fighting with this for a few days now and I think I am just not searching the right terms or something. I have a weapon trail fx asset from marketplace that works as I want it to, but I cannot figure out a way to change the color at runtime.
The trail fx are set up on the animations with custom AnimNotifyStates, as one would expect. The fx themselves are Niagara particle systems with a “start” and “end” variable that are sockets added to a mesh at the tip and base of the weapon. I added those sockets to the mesh of the character (not to the weapons themselves), if that is relevant.
The particle system uses a material that I have made an instance of in hopes of changing the color of the material itself at runtime, but I couldn’t find a usable way to reference that within the character blueprint. I also added a User Parameter to the particle system directly called “UserColor” in an attempt to change it directly, but I cannot find a way to reference that within the character blueprint, either. I have used this approach on some other particle fx within the character without issue by having the other particle systems parented to the character, but the weapon trail fx are not inside of the character blueprint so that approach falls short for me, again, because I don’t know how I would reference that from within that blueprint.
There is also a blueprint for the notify state, if that would be something I could reference within the character blueprint, but I don’t know how that would work or if that would even help. If there were a way to get a reference to the player character from within this blueprint and assign the color, that would definitely solve the issue, but trying to cast to that blueprint gives a node with a “world context” pin that I can’t figure out what to plug into.

[austere swan]

So if I wanted to use a plugin thats made for UE5...long as it isnt nanite related It work?

Im using 4.27

[oak patio]

Not necessarily, minor API changes occur between that.

Plus it may be another new ue5 specific feature.

For example anything using UE_LOGFMT wont compile outside of 5.3

[austere swan]

I see.

It's kinda irksome ya know?Compatiability problems and what specific thing is made for what version

Sigh.It kinda bugs me

Maybe if known Ue4 by now Id of had modified these things abit myself.

Im still struggling to get basics of blueprints and such in my brain.

So long as it dont have those specific exlusive things it will work?

[austere swan]

All I tbh currently want to mainly acheive and start foolin with is have a Smooth quake like character movement for a SP character with a first person for guns and third person for melee weapons.

And thr Third person would be akin to older games like Jedi Knight academy,Enclave,etc.

[oak patio]

If you're in basics just use ue5

You're limiting yourself for no reason

If it's performance concerns check the first pin

[austere swan]

Sigh. Alright then.
I tbh didn't want to given I been investing to fooling with Ue4.27...
But fine.

[grave pasture]

By "performance" you mean the in-game performance or editor performance? Because UE5 is mostly unusable on my PC, it just runs worse than UE4 (+ it takes 100GB storage instead of ~60GB for UE4)

[plush yew]

Are u good with liquids?

[pliant condor]

Hi guys! I can't package my little app for Android in ue4.27, because of a graddle issue. Anyone familiar with it?

[spice ruin]

#mobile might have more info

[oak patio]

Both

[bitter edge]

Can someone confirm this for me.

• Any non soft object reference variable reference in/on a blue print actor is automatically loaded into memory when that actor is created not when the variable is used. Correct?

Ok, that's what thought. Thank you for confirming that.

Makes sense 🙂

Is it possible to load an entire structure in an asynchronous fashion? I assume its only possible to create a structure with soft object references within it that can be loaded asynchronously.

[bitter edge]

They do have issues. To which are you referring to? Just curious.

Structs in Unreal https://tenor.com/view/jenga-ouch-ow-gif-7383094

[oak patio]

Sums it up pretty well

Forget packaging; I couldn't even open my project once!

[bitter edge]

I have a structure checklist of all the things you cant do in order to safely use a structure when modifying it, and it feels like a joke, because it is.

I loved the atomic waffle gif.

This is why I come here.

And it still might. Thank god for source control.

[oak patio]

Unfortunately source control doesn't save you if it won't build

Source control is great, but it doesn't fix a fundamental engine flaw

[limber root]

I am currently using Unreal Engine 4, but I encountered a problem. My characters were created based on ue4 mannequin skeleton, but some characters were wearing skirts and some were wearing high heels, so I added extra bones to those characters and imported them. When a new skeleton is generated. Then I encountered that I couldn't use the animation of ue4 mannequin. The bone level and bone name were obviously the same. I saw the skeleton-compatible function in Unreal 5, which solved my problem very well. But I don’t want to upgrade my project to Unreal Engine 5. Is there any way to port this function to Unreal Engine 4?🙂

[floral solstice]

Hey how can I add a locomotive system from marketplace to my new project where my city is in ue4 I'm having trouble importing it into my city folder

By the way the assest is a create a project not add to project

In unreal engine 4

[oak patio]

create the project. migrate the assets over, with the migrate tool

[floral solstice]

It will work if I do that

What website can I rig characters

[teal tulip]

hi there never used the volumetric clouds at all until now, but noticed that when look from top view to landscape or other actors, the clouds render under them, someone knows how to solve this ?

[sturdy cave]

I dont know where to post this but - My characters weapon dosent appear when playing, all visibility settings are correct, but the weapon isnt visible. Ive checked with other meshes and none of them show up either.

[stone dune]

can anyone suggest me a landscape tutorial

[austere swan]

No.

[floral solstice]

Hey I've downloaded an fbx model from sketchfab but I'm not sure how to texture I don't know where everything goes

[azure shore]

are there keyboard shortcuts for any of this? and any way to click another brush surface and immediately apply the previously clicked material

cant believe I never even knew this existed, Ive been making new material instances this entire time

just so hard to get advice for specific things like this

also when I select a face I just. cant see it

[floral solstice]

Can someone please help

[azure shore]

doesnt sound like its related to unreal so much as modelling software

[floral solstice]

It's unreal related

[azure shore]

just add the texture into base colour then

[floral solstice]

Okay

[oak patio]

you'd be hard pressed for that one, becuse you shouldn't use brushes outside of greboxing

your actual textured level shouldn't be BSPs

[azure shore]

ok so, for example, if I want to apply the same material to lots of faces (for example, the left onto the right) do I have to manually-

well

then how else?

because modelling it all in blender is hardly practical

I was asking in reddit the best way to actually build maps, and was recommended unreals brush tools actually

[oak patio]

yeah your mistake there was asking reddit

I've seen people there say hot reload is fine, that bp structs are wonderful, etc.

[oak patio]

That is how you do it. You make a modular kit in blender that you snap together

it's 1000x more practical than not doing that

[azure shore]

modular can only take it so far. I mean, Ive been trying to make modular meshes but how would you make an area like this, Id be restricted to making everything on a grid based on how big each chunk of wall or something is

its so limiting for every use Im thinking of

[oak patio]

that looks insanely grid friendly

it's not uncommon by the way to have 1 unit and half unit walls to break up the "grid"ness

most of what you've done there is aligned on a grid. You can see the grid on the things :P

[azure shore]

I see what you mean, I just still cant help but feel like itd be really limiting

although ironically Ive been wanting my maps to be as modular as possible so that I can get them done quickly so

[oak patio]

Pretty much every game is made that way, and the non grid elements are static mesh props

so it's not all grid based, just things like interiors, and sometimes even city buildings (though houdini procedural gen is good for those too)

say those pillars, those could be a split up into a base, middle and top mesh, then to get your varying height, you make a spline bp.

The walls and slopes and things could all be a modular kit, but maybe have the pillars as manually placed props

[azure shore]

yeah, maybe Ill start working on some modular chunks then, thanks

[oak patio]

Find your balance between the two, and what works best for your modularity. 🙂

[azure shore]

now I dont know where to start though

because most of it could theoretically still just be textured cubes, when its nothing important

[oak patio]

A good start is to go through the level, and define what you might want to make things up as. Define your asset list, imagine what can be broken down into a grid and what can't

Though if you're going for really low definition assets, textured cubes can work

You could probably even get away converting the brushes to static meshes

but I wouldn't reccomend it, it's generally a bad workflow

[azure shore]

tbh I thought the unreal reddit was the better place to ask for specific things since a lot of questions I see here seem to be mostly beginner stuff, although theres some there too

it seems that a lot of my problems are too specific somehow

[oak patio]

I rarely see anything super useful on reddit, and not much from the new posts

[oak patio]

you find that a lot with unreal

[steep steeple]

Anyone know how to rotate physics body? The X axis is stuck the wrong way on my buggy

[dusty sandal]

Same skeletal mesh in UE5 (top) and UE4 (bottom) - imported from the same file and same settings. I tried changing normals settings in UE4 but it doesnt help. What is interesting, I have 3 more skeletal meshes from the same project and they work fine.

[floral solstice]

Hey I imported smart locomotive system but why are there errors in its event graph

[opaque seal]

it seems that you dont have these input actions in your project setting

and the third picture is not an error its color of the comment

[floral solstice]

Okay I've got rid of the advanced locomotive system now I'm doing it manually

I have one problem I placed the gun right in my characters hands and in the in the skeleton socket I added it and I am following tutorial series on YouTube and I have to use the ue4 animestarter pack mannequin and despite doing that it's like I have 2 mannequins one is the one I'm supposed to set as default pawn class it's not holding a gun but the blendspace animation I did with the mannequin is working he holds the gun perfectly he runs jogs sprints but what will happen with the one I'm supposed to set as default pawn class

Why isn't that one showing the same result holding the gun like every other one

[zinc topaz]

Hi I was installing a source build of UE 4.27, and now whenver I launch it, it says "Failed to launch editor", can someone help with this?>

I watched a youtube video on how to do it

[gloomy orbit]

Does anyone know of a way to make a hollow static mesh solid besides doing it in blender? I've got some rocks that are hollow on the inside and has no bottom to the mesh. Reason it's an issue is that I want to use them as mineable rocks, so when they explode it looks like a bunch of 2d planes. I tried merging a plane to the bottom of the mesh but that didn't work either, and the solidify tool in blender didn't work either for me.

[slender egret]

Anyone have any good resources on Saving/Loading across Levels? Im having a hard time with it.

https://tenor.com/view/help-gif-16594158287227153364

[slender egret]

Why not do it in blender? That's the only way I personally am aware of, however I don't have much info on this topic

[azure shore]

cant you use the destructible mesh thing for this

[obtuse stump]

Any idea on how to make this level less laggy? I'm at 15 fps right now

Thanks legend

[wary gyro]

This is super weird to explain, but how can I move an object so that its child is in the same position as another object? For example, I have a grabbable object with a hand pose visualizer. I want the static mesh (root of grabbable) to move to my hand. The only issue with this is that my hand pose visualizer isn't at 0,0,0 relative to the root. I want my hand to be lined up with the visualizer.

[gleaming axle]

Hey I've been wondering how viable it is to ship a UE4 game using experimental plugins. I'm wondering about using the whole water setup unreal's got going but I've heard Experimental Pliugins don't package well and therefor are unusable in a real, finished game

I'm talking specifically about the experimental version of the water plugin in Unreal 4

[plush yew]

you naughty

[fierce tulip]

testing and debugging. one could argue that any game gets shipped in a very experimental state XD

[gleaming axle]

Sorry if I was unclear. I have been told by some co-workers after a lot of trial and error on both my end and theirs, that the built in water plugin in UE4 specifically is a no-go because of its experimental status. As in the engine cannot package or build it correctly, or something.

This plugin specifically

Has anyone in here shipped a UE4 project using this plugin before, did it work? Were there any major issues? I'm being told it's not usable in its entirety

[dire zealot]

you have a high chance of running into strange packaging errors that might only show up when you're making your final build the day before it's supposed to ship

[gleaming axle]

I see

so the more foolproof route would be to make my own water setup, more or less?

[dire zealot]

what kind of water do you want

looks like that plugin is just surface water

easy to make a material yourself

interactions and simulations are a bit more fun but u can script ur own ripple simulator

dont think you need any c++ code changes

it really depends on what you want to achieve

[gleaming axle]

Give me a second I'm gathering my references

[dire zealot]

im not saying you can't use the plugin, just make sure you have a backup solution and u can easily remove if it doesn't allow you to ship and u have to test that everything still works a bit more

[gleaming axle]

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxnawjO79B5F0CZ2g7sTd5y6MiP00Z1DiW?si=RX82uEVg3ERuKRdA

The main thing we're after is rather standard surface ripples created by characters and objects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbJS6TAK1ms&t=966s

Second example is literally unreal 4 on switch

[dire zealot]

seems like this guy does it in 6 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj7Tkw-QweY

when i was doing water stuff in unreal people were scripting their own ripple solvers with the custom HLSL node

there's many ways

[gleaming axle]

I will check this out, thanks

But I have more to explain

https://youtu.be/AfU9uibdSa8?si=VNTzCcO_XpmVqgqP
Here was my first attempt, porting over the render texture waves from the content examples and learning how they work

[dire zealot]

basically u just have a material with a signed distance field that can influence some render targets

seems like that's a solid base, u can add more layers to the effect

[gleaming axle]

https://youtu.be/0qViVFQ2qKk?si=pGswracyezqGW7XW
My second attempt was done using the water plugin and had much more straightforward setup and worked over any size of water

Then we looked into it and found out that the water plugin is unshippable

[dire zealot]

why, does it not package

[gleaming axle]

Also have expeimented with my own render texture solution

[dire zealot]

this is what u need

[gleaming axle]

I could ask our programmer to discuss if that would help

[gleaming axle]

I'm interested in this too

[dire zealot]

why is it unshippable ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHugDXx6c5c

it has been experimental for a long time 😂

[gleaming axle]

If fortnite uses it in production then it should be shippable, as fortnite is a shipped game

Right?

[gleaming axle]

I do not know, that isn't my area of expertise, I'm asking the guy who told me it can't be packaged about this right now

[dire zealot]

im just wondering if u get any specific errors when packaging , it might work better then 4 years ago 😄

it's just my own experience that it was working fine for our project

until we decided to try a build that wasn't developement but shipping and then it refused to package

u should consult with your local programmers to see if they feel like being experimental

[gleaming axle]

hmm, I see

Aah apparently it packages seemingly fine, then when you play the water is either invisible or the visual of the water is higher up than the actual interactive water level. That's weird

OH that's fascinating

Very interesting, thanks for letting me know there's a bunch of weird X factors that are hidden, I didn't know that at all!

!

I do appreciate all the help, this has been the most straightforward breakdown of the water plugin's caveats I've gotten so far, it's been a huge help

[gleaming axle]

I'm going to look at the stuff you sent and see if I can create my own water material for this. The big hangup when I was doing it manually was making the effect work on arbitrarily sized bodies of water and making the ripple projection area follow the player so players couldn't "leave" areas where ripples can happen

[dire zealot]

there's a lot of other plugins in the tsore for water

[gleaming axle]

yep, I'm aware, there's a big one that a lot of folks use

[dire zealot]

im sure there's ways to solve that or work around it but those are the traditional issues, you can try to figure out how other ppl have solved those issues

[gleaming axle]

Yeah I spent a lot of time looking into those when I was making my own and found out along the way that the included water plugin can do that stuff out of the box, which is why I started checking it out

https://youtu.be/3fW5xjiDm-A?si=rEgBTNa7ZtjDju_U

Considering this as well to let me make more involved and stylized ripple behaviors

[dire zealot]

you can take this very far https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bLldOj9V48A

[gleaming axle]

I really appreciate the help, I'm going to check out the vids provided and see how far I can get

sure seems that way!

I'm sure I'll figure something out knowing that the included plugin is off the table

Thanks again for the pointers!

considering that

[real heath]

Choose TAA not TSR in UE5 and it should be the same. UE5 defaults to TSR

you can try a console command, i think it's r.aa.algorithm 0 or r.temporalaa.algorithm 0

something like that

autocomplete in the console should show it

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/gen-5-temporal-anti-aliasing/152107

yeah this one

[cerulean swan]

How much smoother does ue4 run in comparison to ue5, and would y'all recommend ue4 over ue5 for beginners?

Running while creating in the engine

[grim ore]

theres no direct answer since it depends on your hardware, your use of the editor and engine, and uh.. the time of the day when you work in it. For me I have no difference in the engine except higher end stuff runs better in UE5 due to nanite

and if you plan on using UE4, then learn UE4. If you plan to use UE5, then learn UE5. Most info you learn from 4 or 5 is interchangable at the core level.

[cerulean swan]

I noticed it ran a bit better in my, admittedly very limited testing. Were also smaller maps

[cerulean swan]

Good to know, thank you!

[real heath]

The base requirements haven't changed, but some of the default settings have increased in UE5. You can get most/all of that performance back in UE5 by changing scalability settings and tweaking render settings

[cerulean swan]

Thank you!!

[real heath]

NP. Search for a message by Laura about it in either #ue4-general or #ue5-general . She's documented most of the important changes

[cerulean swan]

I appreciate it, thank you!

[fleet tiger]

wheres a good channel to ask about clothphysics/physics assets?

thanks

[north juniper]

Hi guys can anyone help me? Im getting this error when Im trying to export my Unreal Engine 4 Android game.

"A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade"

[spice ruin]

Maybe #mobile can help

[vague granite]

Does anyone know how to clear the cache of data loaded with soft references in UE4?
Since the editor only displays data that you've seen once (e.g. icons), I can't figure out the load timing issue until I package it.

[supple maple]

Does planarreflection work the same as the other reflection captures, and sets the reflection on nearby faces?

[patent apex]

hello, i'm having a weird problem, in my fps game in 4.27 when i look down and make the mouse go either to Y = 0 or Y = Screen Res Y i stop being able to use RMB and LMB, like it loses focus. I believe this only happens in borderless window and not fullscreen. Any idea what could cause this?

[placid dirge]

Anyone know of a way to export my UE4 landscape as a mesh for blender? I've tried converting to a static mesh but the mesh was empty for some reason, then I tried exporting the heightmap but the scale is wrong in blender...

I keep finding things saying the i can go "file-->export" by clickingthe landscape but I dont see that option anywhere...

[placid dirge]

Figured out the export but the .obj is 15gigs and wont open in blender....

[muted dew]

hey so i have a problem

I use my character but his animation blueprint is not being used

[north juniper]

Guys does anyone know how to create UI (User Inteface) Sway in Unreal Engine 4?

[spice ruin]

Put all your widgets in a parent widget. Move the parent widget?

[wooden apex]

this is a info post for people that are going to search for it ,

If you have problems building your lighting because you cant connect to swarm

if you have problems like this
Starting up SwarmAgent ... ... registering SwarmAgent with remoting service ... registering SwarmAgent network channels ... initializing SwarmAgent ...... checking certificate ......... certificate check has failed ...... initializing cache ......... using cache folder 'C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.24\Engine\Binaries\DotNET/SwarmCache' ......... recreating SwarmAgent cache staging area ...... initializing connection to SwarmCoordinator ......... using SwarmCoordinator on RENDER-01 [PingCoordinator] Determined that we couldn't ping the coordinator [PingCoordinator] Coordinator ping failed ......... SwarmCoordinator failed to be initialized ...... initializing local performance monitoring subsystem ...... local performance monitoring subsystem initialization failed
then change this two options to the things you see on the photo
tags(swarm,lighting,build,shaders)

then it will use standalone mode and it will build it

had problem with swarm for a year now, couldnt bake any lighting because of this , now that i changed this small thingy it works, and no, reinstaling ue4 DOES NOT HELP

[wooden apex]

and for a fact i switched drives and it didnt help so , yea here is the anwers on how to fix it

[placid dirge]

Could someone help me understand my "dumpticks" log? I get like 100fps when I start my game, then in slowly lowers to like 20fps over time. I'm hoping to be able to identify the issue. Also, does anyone know if actors in unloaded streamed levels would effect my fps if they are using tick?

Right now it seems like my particle systems are the issue but most of those get loaded via level streaming so there's not too many at a time, i think...

theres lots of there

they say "Persistent Level" but i have all of the blueprints that include them in a seperate level so maybe I'm missing something?

[placid dirge]

Update: figured it out, I had some heavy niagra system that weren't included in the streaming levels.

[olive vine]

silly question. how do I get the yaw and pitch offset from a line trace's hit result? I'm setting this to the rotator on the projectile.

I've been experimenting with grabbing these vectors and converting them to rotators to no avail.

[bright sigil]

cant you "get look at rotation"?

[peak hare]

what is the best channel to ask questions about steam

[gusty anchor]

is it impossible now to download ue4?

[peak hare]

cheers

[gusty anchor]

bro how could i be so stupid

you're a lifesaver

[olive rain]

HOW TO FIX LIGHTING BUG???

[viscid nymph]

does anyone know how to make this type of style by Mike Klubnika?

[slender egret]

Hi there, been working on an open world game, didn't realize that world composition isn't retroactive, as in, landscapes that are created prior to enabling it, won't work.
I'm wondering if it's possible to enable it, copy my landscapes, delete them, and then paste them, kind of tricking world comp? Will this work?
I'm probably just going to try it but let me know.

[slender egret]

Looks mostly just like post processing and stuff. Also non-dynamic lighting, vertex shading, etc.

This video kinda runs through how to get those PS1 kinda graphics, but more importantly why PS1 graphics and that era looks like it does

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

[slender egret]

Please describe the problem?

[olive rain]

The light looks terrible, even with build light it didn't fix the terrible shadows on the walls 💀

[obtuse stump]

Why am I getting this bug where decals don't show without light and if they do they are transparent?

[viscid nymph]

thanks og i preeciate it

[slender egret]

No problem yeah check out that video its pretty dope, definitely highlights all of what ur looking for

[slender egret]

Is there shading on your material? It looks to me like the edges/corners of your material have painted shading

[slender egret]

Do you have any lights in your scene?

[slender egret]

Tell me what you're trying to achieve then we can diagnose the issue from there

[obtuse stump]

I'm trying to achieve what I've always had. Which is this.

But now the decals decided to become transparent without touching anything. Last time I fixed it by building lights in production but now it doesn't work

[obtuse stump]

Yes and decal always worked

[slender egret]

When you go to the material for your decals, has it changed? Is it like a blank grey material now or is it still showing your blood material?

[obtuse stump]

The decal as you can see it's there. It's just transparent. And totally invisible without lights

[slender egret]

Im unsure, sorry

[stray smelt]

if you don't want to do it yourself, you can check this out: https://marcis.itch.io/psxfx

[viscid nymph]

i love you gang 💋😘

[celest hill]

I'm wondering if someone might be able to help me understand something as for the life of me I can not understand what's going on here.
I've been trying to set up hair physics and the ponytail section is all working as I would expect it to. The main bulk however seems to have a life of it's own.
I would expect to have to rotate the constraints downwards (2) but when I do it then rotates everything 45 degrees in the opposite direction. Instead the default rotation (1) seems to give the results I'm after. Is this something I'm missunderstanding? UE 4.26.2 is the version we're using.

Thanks for any advice it's greatly appreciated.

[gentle quail]

Hi guys, Is there any way to turn off "Auto Save" in unreal engine? Thank you

[dusk tartan]

Hello. Im trying to rotate valve handle, which is constrained to 1 axis., by moving my phyiscs handle on player BP. The handle doesnt quite rotate all the way. any suggestions?

[buoyant robin]

Hello. How to get rid of ghosting behind the car? Somebody know? 🔥

[stark talon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2RFgo41wEE&ab_channel=LastIberianLynxGameDev

made a small performance comaprison between Sprite Group and ISM

it seems ISM beats Sprites

[austere spade]

While packaging/building

Building n actions with 12 processes...

Is there a way to limit count of processes (threads)?
cpu is burning

[finite flame]

more powerful coolers

with cpu status check app, how hit it is?

also, cpu model?

[austere spade]

It’s i5-12450h
Laptop one, so I can’t increase cooling power
While compiling it’s from 89 to 102 according to aida64

Yeah, wasn’t sure about it
“MaxProcessorCount”, not really obvious naming, imho
If it’s even about logical processors, not sure
Anyway, thank you

[rigid yacht]

What is it for my model that doesn’t make it able to use new skin textures, doesn’t show up in play test, maybe i forgot to uncheck or check something

Any help?

[finite flame]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/limit-set-the-number-of-parallel-jobs-when-compiling/305777

yes your cpu definitely is burning...

hope this works but not 100% sure

[royal arrow]

I'm in 4.26 and when my players go from full screen to windowed mode, the game is missing it's title bar so they can't drag the window around. Anyone know if there's an easy way to fix this?

[zinc topaz]

I’m thinking of making a game like Wii sports, do you think it’s worth it

[royal arrow]

In VR or using motion controls of some sort?

I think there's a market for it in VR for sure. Not sure how big motion controls are these days. I haven't seen any hype around them in a long time, personally. But I'm really out of the console market loop.

[zinc topaz]

I was looking to use just controllers, like Xbox or PlayStation. I have an idea for it, and it’s not perfect or similar but I just thought of the idea of a bunch of sport games like Wii sports together

[inner shale]

Not sure if it's the right place to ask but if a game is not allowing you to swap buttons, how hard is it to make a mod that swap those buttons? Is it also possible to edit keybindings (the ones you do in Project Settings) without having the project files?

[royal arrow]

There are controller mapping tools that do that for you already

[inner shale]

You mean tools like DS4W that make you swap buttons?

They work, sure, but if you swap buttons on your controller the UI will not change and it becomes confusing.

[karmic seal]

Could someone help me out with something?
I'm having some trouble trying to get videos to get exported when packaging my game. This is where I have the videos currently.
Any tips?
Right now when playing the packaged game videos play properly on my pc but not on other peoples PCs

[lost depot]

Hi fellas, how are you? Where can I ask a quesion regarding Microsoft AirSim plugin?

[lunar hornet]

Hi guys, i need, help, how to make the View Distance changer with slider?

Like this

[karmic seal]

I have a setup like that on my project, i can show you when i get home

[lunar hornet]

Sure, thank you

[karmic seal]

i actually have it set up with buttons on the widget, but i assume you know how to change it so its a slider instead.
Depending on the value of the slider you execute the command 'r.ViewDistanceScale 1', but you can change the '1' to whatever value you want. I believe if its '1' its jut the standard value that you have currently, so if you set it to 0.5 for example it'll be half the distance, and if you make it 2 its twice the distance

[lunar hornet]

Thank you!

[pallid knoll]

anyone have any ideas how to fix the lighting here? UE4, white-boxing as part of my uni project

[pallid knoll]

How do I change that?

[charred raptor]

How hard would it be to make an endless walking sim of the Poolrooms?

[oak patio]

Decently hard

[pallid knoll]

Where am I going wrong here? I swapped lighting quality to high

[slender egret]

Project has been "coverting map to world partition" for about 3 hours now, and based on my CPU and memory, something is happening, but the progress bar has stayed at zero. I'm able to hover my mouse over cancel and see the button change, so it's not frozen. Any ideas?

It's an incredibly large level, something like 240sq. km of landscapes and stuff

[slender egret]

Not really hard at all to be honest. Procedurally generated environment + custom locomotion if needed + some post processing if you want

[oak patio]

the procedurally generated environment is the hard bit

endless generation with streaming the cells around you.
it's clear the person asking has relatively little experience, which makes a task like this very hard for someone new

[slender egret]

Search " Endless Random Procedural Worlds (With Level Streaming) " in the marketplace, it's available for $50, or if you want to learn how to do it, there's a lot of tutorials like this one out there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ASgfwzNvL8&list=PLyL5ZNukfVqskz_OkMdrLamiYg1sITyic

If your game primarily is focused on just being a backrooms walk sim, you could have that game done in a few hours

[slender egret]

"The UnrealEditor.target file does not exist. Would you like to build the editor?"

[heady ridge]

I'm following the tutorial of unrealsensei, and at the blueprint part for some reason my manequin does not trigger the death event on collision, how could I debug that?

[slender egret]

Breakpoints

You can right click on any node and set a breakpoint, when the breakpoint is triggered, the simulation will focus to it, meaning your nodes are being activated. If a node with a breakpoint does not cause the simulation to focus to it, it means the node is not being triggered

Make sure if it's a collision event, that it's casting to your character. Feel free to show your blueprint I'd be glad to help you.

[heady ridge]

thank you!

this is the character BP

for the event

and this is the obstacle

[slender egret]

set a collision box around the cylinder, and set that as the "On Component Overlap" object

your player and the cylinder may touch, but not be overlapping, so it's likely the collision isn

isnt happening and isn't being called

[heady ridge]

ohhh, I added the on component overlap bp on the object not the collision cylinder

thank you!

[slender egret]

Yeah that should do it, but also what's with the F input as well as the custom event?

I ask because if F enables collision on your character, does that mean collision is disabled before hitting F?

[heady ridge]

I'm just following the tutorial, he just made that to show buttons work as well I guess

F just kills the character

[slender egret]

kk

lmk if it works

[heady ridge]

I will test it in a bit, thanks !

[slender egret]

Im assuming you're setting up a system where your character dies if it touches certain objects?

[heady ridge]

Yes! It works

Yeah, that's the idea

[slender egret]

A better way to do this would be to do it within your characters blueprint exclusively, setting tags on ANY enemy as "enemy" and then in your character BP, having an "On event overlap" "get all actors with tag" "enemy" and any enemy you touch will kill you

then you dont need to rewrite the code in every enemy, you just tag enemies as enemies

and within that you could have branches for different enemies etc.

just my two cents 🙂 )

[heady ridge]

that's a good point, I will keep that in mind when I actually start making a game, but for now I'm just learning basic concepts

[slender egret]

right on

[heady ridge]

appreciate the advice :)

[slender egret]

https://tenor.com/view/band-of-brothers-gif-27205452

[oak patio]

Making it with tags is a much worse way of doing things.

Instead have an enemy base blueprint that implements the damage logic, rather than the player checking

Then any subclass of this base will inherit the behaviour

Work with OOP, not against it

[slender egret]

True yeah that is better!

Also I moved my unreal project files/folders to a different harddrive and recieve this error now

"The UnrealEditor.target file does not exist. Would you like to build the editor?"

I edited the unreal local app data notepad document to redirect where it should look for files, and it only seems to find some of my projects but not all? Despite them being in the same file location?
Any help would be appreciated

[oak patio]

Did you move the engine or just the project

[slender egret]

I moved my Unreal Projects folder

From one integrated HDD to a second integrated HDD

And if I click Yes on "The UnrealEditor.target file does not exist. Would you like to build the editor?", nothing happens, and if I click No, it does start it (seemingly) normally?

Odd to me. This stems from me upgrading to UE5.32 from 4.27 and making a copy of my project, didn't have space on my # 1 Integrated drive so moved my projects to # 2

[oak patio]

You should just be able to reopen the project if you've moved it

Verify the engine perhaps?

[slender egret]

I'll try that thanks!

[tough thicket]

why dont my animation montages ever work?>

[fresh osprey]

Hello, I need help solving a crash I'm experiencing in U4 😭 can I post it here?

[HELP 😭 – Unreal 4.23 crashes at 18%]

I'm receiving this error (https://i.imgur.com/JnvizWM.png) and I have no idea how to fix it. It opens a tall pop-up that doesn't let me copy the text or even see the entire error – it's super weird.

I wonder if anyone went through the same.

Flow:

• I'm just trying to open the Unreal 4.23 editor

Specs:

• Macbook M2 Max with Ventura OSX
• Code 15.2
• Visual Studio 2022

Thank you so much!

`Error
1688 Shader compiler errors compiling global shaders for platform SF_METAL SM5:

/tmp/
UE4_3872_2681970534_119041_1205138208_2723/2219_4252214381.me
tal(0): Shader TSlateElementPSFontfalsetrueA, Permutation 0, VF None:
Failed to compile locally to bytecode /tmp/ UE4_3872_2681970534_119041_1205138208_2723/ ShaderOut3F2F3DF3A643DD2EBDEE80AC491A30A9, code: 1, output:
error: PCH was compiled with module cache path '/var/folders/_9/ gnl65d217bl1_9p3dnm1tf200000gp/C/clang/ModuleCache/ 3HCX0RA9I484W', but the path is currently '/var/folders/_9/ gnl65d217bl1_9p3dnm1tf200000gp/C/clang/ModuleCache/S524E9NAF4L' 1 error generated.

/tmp/
UE4_3872_2681970534_119041_1205138208_2723/2481_2092719843.me
tal(0): Shader TSlateElementPSLineSegmentfalsetrueA, Permutation 0, VF None:
Failed to compile locally to bytecode /tmp/
UE4_3872_2681970534_119041_1205138208_2723/
ShaderOut01B61307604F96CF1ADF77BA429088BE, code: 1, output:
error: PCH was compiled with module cache path '/var/folders/_9/ gnl65d217bl1_9p3dnm1tf200000gp/C/clang/ModuleCache/ 3HCX0RA91484W', but the path is currently '/var/folders/_9/ gnl65d217bl1_9p3dnm1tf200000gp/C/clang/ModuleCache/S524E9NAF4L' 1 error generated.

/tmp/
UE4_3872_2681970534_119041_1205138208_2723/2853_3018639672.m
etal(0): Shader TSlateElementPSDefaulttruefalseA, Permutation 0, VF None:
Failed to compile locally to bytecode /tmp/
UE4_3872_2681970534_119041_1205138208_2723/
ShaderOutB7B76A3D704F6E55CD2978B1410EC5C9, code: 1, output: error: PCH was compiled with module cache path '/var/folders/_9/ gnl65d217bl1_9p3dnm1tf200000gp/C/clang/ModuleCache/ 3HCX0RA91484W', but the path is currently '/var/folders/_9/ gnl65d217bl1_9p3dnm1tf200000gp/C/clang/ModuleCache/S524E9NAF4L' 1 error generated. `