ue4-general

[fresh osprey]

Thanks @shy nacelle! 🙏
After researching a lot on the internet, I realized that that's the exact problem. It just doesn't support it. I will update my macOS to Sonoma and try one more time but I guess I will have to migrate to UE5.

[near sundial]

Hi, does anyone know how can I get number of currently connected Game Contollers? Either from C++ or BP.

[lilac stirrup]

Does anyone know where the default value of the far clip plane is being defined in? (Or at least what value is it being set to?)
I see the near clip plane in project settings, but I don't see the zfar.

[lilac stirrup]

I see 🤔
Let's say, I would like to map the depth value starting from the camera position up to let's say 10 meters in front of it, map them within a range of 0 to 1.
Was assuming that I can do this by doing some distance comparison with the zfar, but not sure how to do it with the far plane being infinite.
Any suggestion what I can do to perform this?

[lilac stirrup]

CMIIW, my terminology and knowledge is a bit limited here.
I got DeviceDepth value from a SceneCaptureComponent, from what I read it returns Z value in 0-1 range, I'm assuming this is the value for each pixel/entry in the depth buffer after processing all the rendered objects?
0 is when on the near plane, 1 at the far plane?

I would like to get those depth values, and map them into a range of 0 to 1 (0 at the camera, 1 at 10 m).
Thought that I'll be able to do this if I knew the zfar, but I assume that's not the approach here.
Any idea?

[lilac stirrup]

The DeviceDepthInRGB seems to be 0 near 1 far already from the vusualization I did, the further the whiter, not sure why it's not reversed.
That aside, I end up using SceneDepthInR instead, it provides metric distance, so I'll just use that.
Thanks for the help @shy nacelle .

[heady ridge]

Is there more to landscapes than creating the map, adding mountains/valleys and then texture/buildings? Or it's one of the simplest part of making a game?

[charred raptor]

Alright how hard would it be to make a procedural generation subway train routes that will go on forever, and have every few stations look different depending of which area you are in.

Like one station will look dirty and run down if in a low income area or a station will look clean in a high income area, and or if one station look abandoned in the abandoned area.

I want to make a walking sim of the subway and ride in it without it being in a loop.

[olive vine]

Good evening. Anyone able to help with some weird dependancy issues?
I've been working with the player and AI controller for the past few weeks. Until now, everything's been compiling fine.
I created a new C++ class, Room, and decided to include the Player and AI Controller headers. Including them creates a mess of compile errors. The header and .cpp file for Room is otherwise blank.

[olive vine]

Because this seems to be isolated to Room.h, does this mean I should be fine if I just create a new C++ class?

Thank you for the info. So it sounds like my Player and AI controller work with each other, but at some point got corrupted and won't work with new C++ classes?

[onyx viper]

does anybody know how do i prevent destructible mesh chunks from flying off on hit ?

[obsidian quartz]

Hi! My scenecapture blueprint captures the niagara system as it should and which is a child of the scenecapture but I want to use it as 'Only owner see' at which point it disappears from the scenecapture2d. Does anyone have any experience with this?

[mild agate]

has anyone here ever done a press kit for their game?

[spice ruin]

http://www.dontasktoask.com

[errant blade]

I moved all my project files into a new folder (in-engine) and every single reference in my entire project broke

I thought I had a backup, but I forgot to click "paste"

Is there any chance whatsoever of fixing this, or is my entire project just gone like that?

I do not have any version control software

[errant blade]

I wish it was at least that but no, I knew the dangers, I just didn't realize I hadn't clicked paste and copied something else, so I found myself with no backup while I thought I had one

So its just a bummer, not even a lesson

[glacial parcel]

hi, how can i use glossiness texture on material?

[errant blade]

I managed to just about fix it!!!!

What I did was move the files to their original locations in the file browser (out of engine) BEFORE opening any files up... Managed to trick lots of them into recovering their old references

Some are still broken, but my project is no longer fully gone

[wary gyro]

Is there any way to fix this? It's a node from an old plugin, and I tried defining the module as Developer and UncookedOnly in the file, but it didn't work

[gusty sequoia]

hi, i notice that the "Positive Bounds Extension" option on Skeletal Mesh editor dont actually change the mesh bounds of the object is on the world, do i need to something else to apply that new bounds or it is bugged?

[olive vine]

I think I've resolved my issue by reverting a few commits and recreating some blueprints. Thank you.

I also enabled live coding.

[summer meteor]

Anyone know why a change of about 50 floor panels to block all in a blueprint is taking like 3 hours plus?
I made a mansion to the wrong scale and made it into a blueprint a year ago so I could scale it without distortion, all works great but it takes forever to change anything in it.
Anyway to speed it up?

[mental gust]

Is there a way to disable the rollover popup that shows mesh/material information? It is constantly getting in the way

The answer is this:

To disable ALL tooltips use console command "Slate.AllowToolTips 0" (not recommended).
You can just delay tooltips by using command: "Slate.TooltipSummonDelay <DelayTimeInSeconds>"

[teal flint]

this isn't strictly related to development but i'm unsure where else to say this: i was messing with global shaders in my own project, and later i tried opening several different ue4 games, all of which no longer open because worldgridmaterial shader map isn't valid anymore

i have no idea how me modifying global shaders in a completely unrelated project broke every ue4 game i have on my machine

okay, so one game didn't break, being deep rock galactic

that's a thing?

should've realized

that's probably what i broke then

i didn't edit the editor asset myself, i just made new global shaders and the shadermap recompiled

wait, are ddcs even used in packaged games?

i'm talking about packaged games that i didn't write myself

that somehow broke because of my experimentation in my own project

hm

[raw heath]

Hello, does anybody know why i cant get my virtual texture?
(height and material maps are correctly done in the right corner)

[subtle marten]

question, what does this mean? ```LowLevelFatalError [File:Unknown] [Line: 130]
MallocBinned2 Corruption Canary was 0x3941, should be 0xf317

Crash in runnable thread FAsyncLoadingThread```

[tough thicket]

I wanted to try and remake the knife fighting system from Resident Evil 4, so i made a blend with swing hi mid and low but i cant seem to figure out how to fire off an animation given an aimpitch

I can do it with a blend inside the animation states, but its kinda ass
(with no loop on and reset on blend change)
Maybe someone knows what im talking about

[raven nest]

is adding/subtracting a DateTime and Timespan broken or is there some trick to it?

[raven nest]

oh, it's actually Date Time from String causing me grief.. the data seems correct though 🤔

[tiny pawn]

im a somewhat beginner in ue4

i dont know what to start learning for my game

i want to learn how to make hitboxes, healthbars, animations, etc. but i dont know if i should just jump at it or find some kind of step by step

ping me if you respond lol

[pallid knoll]

is this easy to fix?

[pallid knoll]

is it easily fixable or?

[analog ridge]

I think you can safely ignore that if that error doesn't spoil your lighting or even bothers your game quality cuz that's what people do

[lavish kernel]

Yo was wondering if I could get some help with using visual studio with ue instead of blue prints

I’m pressing compile then pressing play but I’m not seeing basic prints, I think I’m using it wrong ?

Is there a step im missing

Thanks

[heady ridge]

can I remove these if I'm just learning UE?

i dont want to make linux/ios stuff

I saw it

it's 90% of the same as UE5, and doesn't take up 500gb, so im fine

[oak patio]

don't expect hololens to be gone forever

it's like a wart

[heady ridge]

yikes

also why is 4.7.2 the latest version in epic? I can't get 4.8 lol

[oak patio]

it isn't
5.3 is

don't go to ancient ue4 versions

start on ue5

[heady ridge]

I mean for UE4

[oak patio]

it still isn't, 4.27 is the latest

you don't want to be on 4.27 though

you want to be on 5.3/5.2

[heady ridge]

I just explained that I dont want to use ue5 for now

did not mean it literally..

[oak patio]

Yes but the reasoning is not based in reality

[heady ridge]

there is 0 reason for a total beginner to do ue5 over 4, the stuff im learning is the same in both engines

[oak patio]

There is no reason not to.
If filesize is your concern then Unreal is certainly not the right engine. It's massive, the projects are massive, it's all massive

[oak patio]

You got that the wrong way round

[heady ridge]

no

[oak patio]

the stuff you're learning is not the same, and no new materials can apply to you.
you're also locking yourself into engine issues that can never possibly be fixed and in general missing out on a ton of great things

[heady ridge]

I will swap when I feel like it, for now im fine on 4

[oak patio]

🤷 you're just handicapping yourslef for no reason

but whatever floats your boat

[heady ridge]

im doing this as a hobby, there is nothing to handicap

im having fun, thats all i care about

[oak patio]

most people here are doing it as a hobby. using a less powerful, less complete version of the engine is just artificially limiting yourself.
Even the people doing it for fun are on ue5

and good luck if you have a ue4 specific issue, this channel is hella inactive

and god forbid you run into a 4.27 engine bug that will never ever be fixed

[heady ridge]

i will live with that

dont need any of the ue5 features for now

[bronze compass]

wdym there's 4.28 👀

[vale abyss]

Hey everyone, I have an issue with my landscape material and have no idea what's going on, has anybody seen this before? https://youtu.be/32PFKLCVYQw
For more context, the material changes as I move closer/father from the landscape.
Fixed by messing around with LODs

[pliant isle]

got banned from unity discord. this is why unreals better 🙏

[fierce blaze]

hey

i want to make vr shooter game and i want to make pistol in vr in ue4 can someone suggest me some videos(tutorials) PLZ!!!

[oak patio]

you won't get any good tutorials for things like vr shooters

[plush yew]

does anyone know how i can align multiple objects?

[halcyon bough]

In what regard? Could be as simple as a construction script function that linetraces and sets the objects position at the impact point with its normal being the objects UP vector

[plush yew]

i just wanna align multiple objects to have the same Y location

because when i select all of them it says Multiple Values there

no because they gonna merge all into one

something like this

[oak patio]

Did you even try it

Because that's how you make them all have the same y value

[plush yew]

yes

[rare tartan]

Does anyone know why all of the megascans materials are just black in UE4?

Unreal Engine Version: 4.27.2-18319896+++UE4+Release-4.27 for macOS

Quixel Bridge Version 2022.0.8 (2022.0.8)

I created a new third person blueprints project, then opened bridge, downloaded and exported the assets into the project.

But everything is black, and double-clicking the material to edit it shows that it's definitely not setup right.

Does anyone know why this happened, or how I can fix it?

[halcyon bough]

That’s kinda how coordinate systems work? Do you mean Z but come from unity? Otherwise all I can recommend is giving them enough spacing on X to ensure they don’t clash on Y when they all align on the axis…

[azure shore]

I cant believe my game that looks like THIS consistently makes my fans louder than any game I play. no one can even run this, its ridiculous

I must really just suck at optimisation THAT much but even just having unreal editor open in a map does the same thing I just dont get it

[azure shore]

capped it at 120fps, as that actually improved performance for my friend, but I’ll check that too

[plush yew]

Does anyone know why my lights are randomly switched off whenever i open/close the editor

they switch on, only if i move them

[azure shore]

I think Im having the same thing actually, if you open the map twice do they come back on?

[peak hare]

holy fuck i thought i had accidentally corrupted my whole project just then

[peak hare]

yeah i am using usb sticks :/

I'm sure you are right+
I was too lazy to figure the github stuff out so was relying on a usb, problem being when I try and back up from the USB I get clashes with same file names so isn't very useful method

[azure shore]

thanks, couldnt find an option anywhere

dont think it changed anything though, probably wasnt even enabled

oh this is insane I literally barely have to touch anything and the fans just crank right up

[azure shore]

but as I said I capped at 120, and it never drops below that anyway

[azure shore]

man, a whole discussion about this but no actual cause of the problem https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/unreal-engine-4-makes-my-970-buzz-loudly.2227559/

its 100% a buzzing for me too, not just fans loudly spinning

[tough thicket]

so why is it so common to see games with custom servers like ARK, Pantropy, Palworld compared to idk maybe the same idea of small sandbox servers but a inventory/stats shared on all the servers?

like diablo i guess

[oak patio]

Because shipping servers for your community to run is a lot cheaper than implementing the backend needed to have shared inventory on all servers

Plus for a lot of games it just simply doesn't work

Imagine if you could just build up your army on a low player ark server, then join a comp server and stomp everyone

[tough thicket]

Shouldnt this be easy on steam? im not quite there yet lol

[oak patio]

no

steam doesn't give you the server you'd need to pay for to sync the data across all servers

it also doesn't write the code needed to do that

[tough thicket]

ah so maybe just plan 4 official servers and see how it goes

[oak patio]

don't plan any official servers if you're just going to "see how it goes"

you will go in the red

you don't do something like that without a proven interest and funding

[tough thicket]

money isnt the issue

[oak patio]

money is always the issue

[tough thicket]

already 10k invested

[oak patio]

That's not a lot to guarantee the success of a game using official servers

[tough thicket]

just asking questions on server cause no one can actually answer it properly

like you dont even have your own game and talking like you know

"brr its expensive"

[oak patio]

lmao

you know how much marketing campaigns cost right?
you know the success rate of indies right?
you know how much it costs to guarantee a userbase that recoups your costs right?

unless you have the mega bucks, or get that proven interest and community, ship community servers

otherwise it's too much of a gamble

[tough thicket]

yeah i mean that might be hard for someone like you

those are all winnable topics

[oak patio]

lol

[azure shore]

gotta admire the confidence though

[lost isle]

I have these issues with my unreal 4.27.1 angelscript build

[plush yew]

hi

can anyone find some Comprehensive education to use python in ue4?

[valid raven]

hello, I am trying to make a cooldown timer for a game i'm making. in this, the cooldown is a float, and depends on the ability used. Functionally, I have no issues, but visually i'm struggling to think of a way to cleanly auto-update the text on screen with the accurate cooldown information. Specifically, If i use a timer, or a delay, at no point do those nodes have an output for what number they're at right in that instance.

I want to update relatively accurately, down to roughly a hundreth of a second

does anyone have an idea for how I could either set up a new timer which can output a float and display that on the hud, or otherwise find some way to get that information accurately displayed to the user?

this isn't exactly what I have, the full version is really messy and includes other code, but this is functionally how it works

all of the tutorials i've seen use world delta time which i'm not really sure works for my use case

since I don't want to update based on when the world started, just when a button is pressed

something tells me I can use deltatime from tick to slowly subtract from a float, and update that every tick

but i'm unsure how expensive that is, if anyone knows of a better way please advise

[inland silo]

Igot FPS locket at 30 i tried t.maxFPS 120 is there another way to remove that ?

[lilac cipher]

Hey, tell me please - maybe someone knows. Is there any way to select all needs review in translate in one move?
How and where is this saved in external files?

[valid raven]

did not know that but i'm already doing my own thing 😭

[azure shore]

WHAT

since when wtf

I dont get what you mean

[raven bane]

Does anyone know a good tutorial for an online leaderboard?

[oak patio]

You won't get a good one, no

Especially not something that hints at a game being taken to shipping

[tough thicket]

i think you can use like sql or something

[raven bane]

I found this plugin so I think Ill just use this

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/leaderboards-integration/reviews

Thanks tho

[tough thicket]

Goodluck!

[royal arrow]

Hey guys. Today I tried duplicating and renaming a project to use as a base for a new project and I'm running into an issue. I got the project to compile in VS (it's a C++ project) and finally got it to launch, but I'm getting a crash at around 90% load time that gives me a ton of these errors:

SNMAS is the old project name and StarlightBuilders is the new one. Anyone know what step I'm missing to get my .uassets to properly reference the correct project scripts?

[royal arrow]

How/where do I go about doing that?

Yeah. I was just coming back to say I googled it and thanks. Lol sorry.

[royal arrow]

Got it! Thanks again! : )

[olive vine]

Good evening. I've run into an issue where my game is crashing even while paused. Any ideas?

thx

is this the proper way to add a second command? the UnrealVS doc doesn't say.

ty

[azure shore]

alright

[jaunty matrix]

hi im on an older version of ue and i have no idea what could have made this happen but suddenly my animations just dont change to anything anymore. all the bones are still the same and the animations, with the model that is used, can be placed but for some reason animations wont switch

it doesnt show the tab but im clicking on the other animations

[nova kayak]

Anyone got any idea what would cause this strange lighting effect?

Unfortunately not in this case 😦

I think I found the problem though, it's the hair

Not sure how to fix it though lol

Yeah, it doesn't help that i'm using grooms, not the most stable of things on Unreal

I think it's due to voxelising the groom but I'm not going to turn that off, the artifacts look better than not properly shaded hair

[nova kayak]

Thanks for the help either way! 😄

[blissful wharf]

hi, i have a problem

i tried loading an old 4.27 project but i cant load any of my uasset and umap files anymore

my only guess is that they depend on the Bridge plugin

when i install bridge and install the plugin to 4.27 it installs a megascans plugin and not a bridge plugin though

so i basically cant open any of my blueprints and maps anymore

"Failed to load map!
LVL_Main.umap appears to be an asset file."

this is the error i get

and all my blueprints and uasset files simply dont appear in the editor, but they exist in the folders

this is the error i get first time opening the project

wait the project says "EngineAssociation": "5.0"

facepalm

that makes sense ofc

hm but iam pretty sure i didnt use 5.0 for that project

weird

but it has

    "Plugins": [
        {
            "Name": "SQLiteCore",
            "Enabled": true
        },
        {
            "Name": "SQLiteSupport",
            "Enabled": true
        },
        {
            "Name": "Bridge",
            "Enabled": true,
            "SupportedTargetPlatforms": [
                "Win64",
                "Mac",
                "Linux"
            ]
        }
    ],

in it

so i guess i actually did use 5.0

cause i dont think Bridge was even in 4.27

is there any way to make it go back to 4.27? i somehow dislike 5 with abandoning physx and stuff

sadly i didnt make a repo cause there were too many files exceeding space limits 😐

github has a filesize limit i think

[rigid root]

Hi, I have a problem with a StaticMesh component in a blueprint, what settings in a project could be influencing the Current Max Draw Distance, since it seems not to be able to change past 1500 on maps, on blueprints it works flawlessly though, why is that?

[blissful wharf]

the camera

clip plane distance

although every camera can have different clip planes

so maybe theres another setting somewhere

actually 1500 is pretty far

[rigid root]

I can't see the clip plane distance parameter in the camera component, is it somewhere else?

[blissful wharf]

the problem is that you get floating point errors at higher numbers

unless your near plane is pretty close

[rigid root]

oh, forgot to note that I am using a perspective camera

[blissful wharf]

oh wait in unreal 3000 is only 30 meters right?

[rigid root]

not an orthographic camera which would have the clip planes

[blissful wharf]

wait

that isnt draw distance what you have there

[rigid root]

1 unreal unit is 1 cm, 100 uu = 1 meter

[blissful wharf]

that is the distance until lod level changes

[rigid root]

yes

we use it like culling actually (don't judge, it's too big of a project to revamp xd)

[blissful wharf]

https://tenor.com/view/crazy-oh-yeah-insane-gif-3571476595804301266

if you are unlucky those vals are hardcoded

[rigid root]

https://tenor.com/view/bruh-meme-gif-26978290

gitlab has a higher filesize limit

[blissful wharf]

doesnt git push also require some extra plugin or so to push large files? git lfs was it right?

[rigid root]

yup don't forget to git lfs install once per PC user

well actually it's optional if you have unlimited space, if you use third party hosts like github/gitlab it allows you to put more large files into your project, because they have a special additional storage for split up large files

[dark ginkgo]

I want to ask how can I uninherited the static mesh component and make the default screen root the root component

[rigid root]

Found the solution for the problem if anyone is interested:
In UE4.27.2 the current max draw distance is not being updated if you set the desired one through entering it with the keyboard. If you set the desired max draw distance with the slider, it also updates the current max draw distance

[tiny pawn]

curious about what begin-playground vc is

[winter vapor]

Hey! I need some help, when packaging my game, the save stuff stops working, but works in editor…

[jagged patio]

The UE4-MyProject5 Editor has crashed and will close

Assertion failed: ResourceTableFrameCounter == INDEX_NONE
[File:D:\R-W\UnrealEngine\Engine\Source\Runtime\Windows\D3D11RHI\Private\D3D11Texture.cpp] [Line: 2260]

ANyone knows how to resolve this?

[oak patio]

Nope. Not enough info there

We'd need a full crash log with debug symbols for an idea

As a general rule of thumb

[jagged patio]

Does this help?

[spice ruin]

Looks like d3d11 failed to find a texture and threw a hissy fit.

Or, rather, the d3d11 rhi Epic has written.

Does it crash again when you restart and it tries to compile shaders again?

[jagged patio]

yes it crashed when i restart

[jagged patio]

Anyone?

[trim glacier]

Hey,

you can I set a per platform LOD via the device profile.ini? I want to cut out all LOD0 for a specific platform for a quick test. However manually editing each asset is out of question for a quick test. Is there a useful cvar for this?

[brazen aspen]

Hello, does anyone use Rider with UE 4.27? Anytime I try to open a BP function in C++, it does says "Reading C++ Symbols", but never shows it in the IDE. I have tried to set the Source Code Editor in Editor Preferences to Rider 232 ... UProject (experimental), Rider 232 ..., and UProject (experimental), however, none of them seem to work. To open the IDE I'm using the uproject, so I would imagine that one of the variants with "UProject" in them would work 🤔

[steel kelp]

nvm

[oak patio]

Do you actually have the source code installed?

[brazen aspen]

Do you mean the debug symbols? Currently I don't have them, but I'm downloading them at the moment

[oak patio]

I don't mean the debug symbols

There's a separate box for "Engine Source"

[brazen aspen]

It's there, so it should work

[oak patio]

Wait for those debug symbols, and if it's still a no, then chalk it up to the system being very broken :P

(It's already very broken, so don't worry)

[brazen aspen]

It works in UE 5.3, so it shouldn't be broken 😔

[oak patio]

What functions are you trying to open?

[oak patio]

not all the time. it gets lost and points incorrectly very commonly

[brazen aspen]

Like AnimInstance's JumpToSection

oh, downloading debug symbols got it working 😄

[dusty wave]

hello, i just joined and i need urgent help with a very begginer level project im working on, where can i post the issue?

[dusty wave]

my issue is that i am creating a very basic shooter game with very simple AI, i did the ai from a blueprint help video and it worked fine (it was supposed to follow the player) I think i pressed something with my unreal engine because now when i start the game, the camera doesnt lock into the first person character it was supposed to lock into until i press possess on the top right, also my ai is just standing stationary even though i did not change a single thing in their or my characters blueprint.

[onyx viper]

how to prevent some clusters of geometry collection from breaking in ue5 ?
like we could select clusters to not break in apex destruction in ue4

[oak patio]

You're on Simulate mode. there's a drop down on the play button to switch to play mode.
Also, since you're new, switch to UE5 and read the top pin 🙂

[onyx viper]

oh yes thanks

[dusty wave]

Thank you i will try it once i get home

[dusty wave]

THANK YOU SO MUCH IT BUGGED ME SO MUCH NOW IT WORKS

[boreal crown]

How could I set a value in a data asset of a specific static mesh component found in a blueprint, such that if it’s renamed it doesn’t break anything?

[boreal crown]

Or I guess a better question is how does unreal uniquely identify a static mesh component in a blueprint without using its name, as those can be changed?

[olive vine]

Is there a way to both view blocking collision and the navmesh? I understand there are ways to view them individually, but I'd like to combine the two.
I'm finding areas where there are elements that have collision but don't affect navigation. I'd like to expedite the process of eliminating these without having to go back and forth between views.

[fierce blaze]

hey

i want to make a vr gun reloading system can someone help me PLZ!!!!!!!

[dusty wave]

can anyone help with an issue

this is the blueprint of my bullet from the first person game unreal gives me

this is the part of the blueprint of my enemy that is supposed to make them die but it doesnt work

any idea why?

you don't need to fix this btw the thing im trying to do is that shooting the enemies makes them die, any suggestions on how i can do it will help alot

although fixing it would help alot 😢

[dusty wave]

also why does my firs person gamemode bp open like this, i want to add stuff but its just a grey screen, any help with this?

[dusty wave]

solved both ty

[fierce blaze]

hey
i want to make a vr gun reloading system can someone help me PLZ!!!!!!!

[rigid yacht]

Is there a help part of the server

can someone help me with a material

[olive vine]

Good evening. I have a parent actor and three child actors. I'd like the parent actor to rotate without affecting the child actors. When the parent moves, I'd like the child actors to also move. Any recommendations how to go about this? Currently, when the parent rotates, the child actors are moving to match the rotation.

[runic fern]

Goodday
How to fix these errors Please ?
when I cook the content or package same errors .

I've tried to refresh all nodes
delete Intermediate , saved, binaries , build
Also Tried to Remove World Context from BPL Files Same errors
Tried to disable the datasmith .
Version : UE4.27.2
Solved : Was Deleting any Unconnected Functions have Errors or missing Inputs even if not executed

[tough thicket]

2d? 3d? Are those child actors or child components because if they were spawned by the center actor then you could just go to the movement component of those "children actors" and set the rotation rate to 0,0,0 , or maybe orient rotation, camera direction to movement might do it

Child components? all in 1 actor? maybe if you see the transforms at the top of the component set mobility to static

[olive vine]

3d and child actors. when set to static they remain stationary.

[olive vine]

Here's an example video. I'd like them to stay stationary when the player character is rotating, but move when the player moves.

[olive vine]

solved it with this!

[little crypt]

Is someone down to help me with 3d widgets for a game called dead by daylight, please, if Yes i would be very thankful

[toxic lily]

question, probably pretty simple but cant seem to find out how to do this.

I have a melee weapon and a "cancel/blocked hit" animation i want to play if i swing and hit a wall or solid static object, however im not actually sure how to actually check if im hitting specifically a wall or static mesh

does anyone know how id check for that?

[oak patio]

a wall is a static mesh

[toxic lily]

yes, but im unsure how to check if im hitting a static object only, so i can set a branch/bool check to play the cancel anim for that

i understand the logic, but im unsure of the order of nodes or how to actually write that

[ruby bridge]

packing error, please help...

[dire zealot]

seems like niagara is telling you this LogSlate: Only BGRA pngs, bmps or icos are supported in by External Image Picker

[ruby bridge]

i used a lot of niagara effect.... how can I check each of those...

[ruby bridge]

i can say it sloved ....I import too many stuff from marketplace lol. and i didn't add those maps i want to pack in the game, after I select all levels, it works. Most likely the error is caused by something I'm not using.

[steep flame]

Hi, is it possible to have an instanced static mesh component have a diferent material for each instance?

Not true, but yeah

[olive vine]

Good morning. May I get some advice for static meshes that remain after calling DestroyActor?

[oak patio]

the easiest one is to double, triple, and quadruple check that there aren't aany stray duplicates or mishaps happening ther

[olive vine]

you know what, I think I see the actor count going up significantly higher than it should in that video

the object is currently setup to spawn on detect overlap of assigned character.
I'll change it so that there's a bool on overlap. if false, spawn the object then set to true. if true, don't spawn.

[quasi flume]

Good evening ! I have an issue where my localization assets only shows English even if I have multiple cultures, gather/compile text works fine and L10N folder (localization one) is created with the cultures. Any suggestion / help will be super appreciated, can't find the solution over unreal forums:

[summer meteor]

Anyone got any ideas as to why that square is lighter than the others? (its only that corner too?)

[inland silo]

Hello
I have a unreal project working on for up to 9 month now it says out of video memory when trying to open it (im using RX 6600 XT 8gb) in a game with stylized rendering most textures like 512

[summer meteor]

have you put up streamingpool? check google on putting up your streamingpool size

[inland silo]

i fixed the problem inside windows there an option called virtual memory ( using rom as ram ) i turn this off last day now i set it back to on and its working fine

[limber pebble]

Genuine question: Why do people still use ue4 if there is a ue5?

[oak patio]

some people have projects they launched, some have projects too far through to update the engine safely, and some might not want any of the shinies, and the extra storage space that comes with

I mean the debug symbols alone from 4.26 - 5.3 have gone from 30GB to 80GB

There's also people that will be modding UE4 games

for example, Ark's modkit is modified UE4

[limber pebble]

ahh, all good points

[placid dirge]

I'm trying to make a UI that shows the current song playing in a Sound Cue. Can someone point me in the right direction?

[olive vine]

Any advice for rough edges where environment pieces meet the floor? Is the secret adding dirt skirts to everything?

[real heath]

A common technique is to use RVT for the landscape which you can then read in your rock materials and blend for some distance above the landscape

Otherwise using scatter and such to break it up

[bright sigil]

SSAO

[olive vine]

I'm not familiar with RVT or SSAO. May I get a tl;dr while I'm working on something else?

[prime tulip]

How do you fix auto exposure from going batsh*t crazy in your actor viewports? I mean like the viewport thingy windows you get when you for example click open a static or skeletal mesh. For some reason all my stuff goes supernova quantillion sun brightness intensity. (I don't want to disable auto exposure completely as in-game it's actually nice)

Not exactly handy to preview meshes and stuff

I found this. But this doesn't save, so each time you open a new mesh, it resets to enabled.

So yeah, pretty much useless that setting

[vagrant pagoda]

Is the MAX mesh uv channels still 8?

[green phoenix]

is there a way to disable mesh distance field from 100 meshes, beside doing it by hand one by one?

[vagrant pagoda]

Check out Property matrix you can do batch change of properties. @green phoenix

[green phoenix]

Oh nice, i didn't knew about this, but still, you can't modify the mesh distance resolution scale from here @vagrant pagoda

[vagrant pagoda]

Yeha it's got mesh distance fields on off

only turn off and on suppose

[green phoenix]

Nope that only works if you have Off by default in your project

since mine is everything ON, i can't use that

[vagrant pagoda]

If you just select the 100 meshs cant you change it in the details. cause it will have it as multiple no?

[green phoenix]

everything has tthis option deactivated

so activating it its pointless, because the mesh distance field are already ON

I asume you can use this way to activate mesh distance field in a project with mesh distance field Off by default

see, the checkbox is disabled but it has mesh distance field resolution

[olive vine]

Hell yeah, lads. Just got off a call with head of production. They're impressed with my squad ai project. They're encouraging an idea of getting me a mentor to transition into an SDET role to help alleviate the workload of engineers who don't have time for small, low risk tasks that would improve the quality of life in other departments. Thank you for all your help.

[west oasis]

hello all!
I have an environment pack that was designed for UE 4.26, Eastern Europe Slums.
However when i copy the assets into the content folder in a different version of the editor, say 4.27, then load my project, the assets do not appear in my content drawer.

What's going on?

I have also tried this with the version it was made for, 4.26, with the same results.

edit:
well i'll be dog-gone.
I just tried copying all the source folders into my content folder instead of using a subfolder and it worked

[fierce tulip]

install it trough the launcher into 4.26, then either update the project to 4.27, or migrate all the content trough the content browser into a 4.27 and up project.

and yea, it needs the exact same folder structure, else stuff breaks.

[west oasis]

all the content just magically appeared when i copied the source folders directly into the content folder instead of using a subfolder.

Weird.

at least i figured out my issue

its strange though. when i load the demo umap it came with it only loads the basic landscape, no meshes or anything

i will try this experiment on 4.26

ok i just tried it.
still having the same issues

[west oasis]

ok got it to work.

[kind moon]

Hello good! Does anyone know why when trying to export my game on Android I get this error?

I am using Unreal Engine 4.27

[native sparrow]

can anyone tell me how can i add knockback to enemy with while enemy in animation

[dull fulcrum]

AddImpulse() should work if you’re looking to knock a physics-enabled thing back

[native sparrow]

i will try bro

[brazen aspen]

Hello, does anyone know whether it's possible to use C++20 with UE4? It looks like it's impossible to do so using the binaries downloaded from Epic Games Launcher. Do I need to re-compile the engine from source using a newer compiler?

[tough thicket]

why is my ai so slow to respond on my landmass compared to a new level

id imagine it has to do with the height of the actors

no idea what to do must be the easiest fix in the world though

[errant blade]

any idea why i dont get the same options on my simple mesh as a friend does?

[tough thicket]

I have this really big level and can only see my traces from a certain angle, they work but kinda hard to debug inside my game world

[peak hare]

Is it imported?

[errant blade]

Migrated from another project

[trim glacier]

Hi,

is there any kind of guide or tutorial for Epic Store Achievements? There seams to be nothing useful at all on this topic.

We have existing Steam, Playstation, Xbox and Switch titles we would like to release on EGS but we need to match Achievements. However we struggle to find Informations on how to pass them trough so that Steam and Epic Achievements work at the same time, if there is any special setup required and basically the entire workflow.

Anything around?!

[floral onyx]

Hi, I don't see the option of cooking and packaging the project what should I do

[oak patio]

click the launch button instead near the play one

[floral onyx]

Thanks

How do I cook a certain asset

[wooden apex]

hey this isnt a problem but what is the diference between this and this?

what can do the upper node and the lower?

so if i wanted to make a simple check if there is any widgets visible i would use the class one ?

im having hard time figuring it out how to check if there are any widget visible

how would you do it?>

hm

[runic fern]

Hello guys I have a question please , If im creating a custom app launcher..
What is the best practice to connect the app with unreal to update and check the version ?

[crisp delta]

anyone knows how to fix standalone mode opening in this res?

editor preferences says its set to 720p but still opens like that and i'm annoyed because i have to press alt enter 2 times so it'll stay 720p

[ocean moth]

add this

[crisp delta]

ty

[ocean moth]

r.setRes 1280x720 is the command

I hope it works 👍

[oak patio]

don't handle game user settings in the level bp

handle it in a settings menu

or on begin play of the game instance or something

[ocean moth]

oh you're right

[silk heron]

Hello!
A newbie here and wondering if anyone might be able to help:

I'm simply looking to ADD TEXT to a STATIC MESH "sign" prop that has been created.
The goal is to simply add different slogans and colors to the SM sign to save out as different props for attaching to metahuman hands. Nothing fancy.

Is there a straight forward way to do this in ue4.27 (sadly, stuck in legacy!).
Any pointers & tips much appreciated!

I've somehow had a hard time locating a basic tutorial on this! 🤯

Thank you Laura! I've been looking for a tutorial as I haven't gotten it to work. Totally not familiar with BP's

I've gotten this far, but not sure where to go from here to add Text to the Static Mesh. It doesn't need to do anything fancy. It just needs to move with the Static Mesh.

Not sure what to do next (super newbie). 😕

[silk heron]

Okay. Thank you. So, I can type a this basic text, and also move/adjust placement. However I cannot change the material or color of the text (as shown, I tried to make Text Render Color black). Any changing of text material or font and the text just disappears.

[silk heron]

Thank you, Laura!

[dull fulcrum]

https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/epic-games-store/services/epic-achievements/achievements-setup ?

[olive vine]

Can iphone games be programmed in c++? I think I've heard ios apps are programmed in Swift. Guessing that's a language exclusively for apple software?

[real heath]

yes. Swift is the default/common language for apps. But unreal games are built and deployed to ios regularly

[olive vine]

Thank you. I'm thinking of building a game for the gf as a gift. Do you know if touch input is fairly easy to test with PIE? I don't have my own iphone to load the app onto.

[real heath]

Haven't worked with mobile for ages, but from memory there used to be an app by epic on the stores that passed through touch controls

[real heath]

^

[olive vine]

thx

[trim glacier]

Yeah this was waht I found and it does not help at all with the setup. It covers only the EGS part but not the unreal engine part.

[dull fulcrum]

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

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

[trim glacier]

Yeah there is still the issue that it's overwriting the default Online Subsystem. Which would cause the Steam version to no longer work correctly.

[old tinsel]

Can someone help me with this project..? I'm kinda new to this (VR things) I watched YouTube videos but not help full kindly gimme some idea of this project how I can make this. i want to develop a small basic game for my kid. she is 10 years old a do gymanstics, i want her to work with AR on Balance Beam and Uneven Bars in order to deal with her fears. do you think that you can develop a game that will simulate those?

[manic pier]

Anyone knowledgeable about Navmeshes that understand why triangular holes are generated sometimes?
Apologies for the shoddy water ontop of it, can't hide it, but there's a detached bit of triangle in this specific area that I believe is causing movement issues during gameplay

[manic pier]

This is UE4.26.2 for reference

[sleek fable]

Anyone know how to prevent pixelation on UI in Unreal, I have this selection cursor in 4K(just in case) my import settings has no compression in texture settings but I got those pixelations in the widget

It prevents creating dynamic health bars(increasing max hp) for me because the smaller the tiles the pixelation got worse and since unreal does not support any SVG format I cannot draw vector images either

So if anyone can help it is much appreciated, thx in advance btw if anyone interested

This is the pixelated one, they're the same resolution btw

[sleek fable]

Hey guys I just figured it out it was about photoshop setup, just in case if you are drawing really small things like that try to use ppc(pixel/centimeters) not pixel/inch, it causes bleedings because pixel/inch is not pixel perfect

[brazen aspen]

Hello, I'm trying to use Live Coding, but it fails to do anything. Previously, it was working perfectly, however, it stopped working accidentally. Anytime I try build the project, it builds exactly 64 cpp files, all related to the RiderLink. I only try to use it when editing source files, not headers. This is the whole log I have when I try to build: https://gist.github.com/Tonetfal/3ecc66433d66d2aff9ffd9058aa733de

Does anyone know what might be the issue?

Hm, I've tried to remove it previously, but it didn't work. Can't recall what the log looked like, but I'll try again

The thing that it was working like 2 weeks ago in the same project. I haven't updated anything since then

I mean, the live coding didn't work, not that I couldn't delete the plugin 😛

Deleting it doesn't seem to work. I tried to edit one line in a small source file, but it tried to re-compile 3 source files, which took like 20 seconds, even though previously it was taking at most a few seconds to recompile bunch of them.

  Building 3 actions with 16 processes...
    [1/3] SharedPCH.UnrealEd.NonOptimized.ShadowErrors.cpp
    Detected compiler newer than Visual Studio 2019, please update min version checking in WindowsPlatformCompilerSetup.h
    [2/3] Module.NodeGraphAssistant.gen.cpp
    [3/3] Module.NodeGraphAssistant.cpp
  Total time in Parallel executor: 18.29 seconds
  Total execution time: 19.74 seconds

I can't change that header with the engine build from the Epic Launcher, right?

Alright, can you please remind what is the property I have to change in the build.cs to change it?

Where can I find this file? I need newer compilers since I work on UE5 as well

Yeah, I do have one, which has only two lines. Actually though, isn't it global? I guess I should modify the one that is inside the project, so that it doesn't affect other UE versions

[alpine sluice]

Does anyone here use Unreal Engine with Rider on Linux? I'm trying to get blueprint nodes to take me to the c++ source when I click "goto definition", but it doesn't do anything besides showing "reading c++ symbols". I have the rider link and rider integration plugins installed but still no luck.

[olive vine]

Good evening. Does anyone have advice for using the foliage tool? It seems it's not working on surfaces that are more vertical.

[carmine magnet]

Anyone here that can help me with a problem Im trying to figure out in blueprint/ actor hierarchy's

is it possible to find a actor inside another actor? that was attached to that actor prior I cant find a answer anywhere so I came here as a last resort

this is what im basically trying to do

[peak hare]

What is your 'max' value for groundslopeangle?

[peak hare]

Pretty sure a mesh is an object not an actor

Give more information about what you are trying to do

[olive vine]

Min 0 max 359

[peak hare]

I'm not sure if align to normal overrides random pitch angle but try turning that (the latter)to 1 or 2, or off
Try putting max slope to 180

[carmine magnet]

Nah the actor I'm trying to find is connected to one of the meshes sockets but it doesn't show up there yet because a another blueprint moves it to the character mesh actor

If that's not possible is there a way I can have a Boolean added to the actor and basically read from it there instead of the actor inside?

[proven peak]

Hey, I have a quick question. I have a nav mesh bounds volume in my scene and these destructible blocks. After I destroy some of them the nav mesh doesn't fill in the gaps. How do I change that or is it not possible? Thanks

[tiny zodiac]

its this damn thing that should be off by default 🐺

[oak patio]

and "Enable Reinstancing"

[olive vine]

An alternative to this is to also implement navlinks.

they bridge gaps between the navmesh.

[proven peak]

I don't have any of the settings mentioned above but I have navlink settings

what should I do

[olive vine]

I'll boot up my project. One moment.

[proven peak]

thanks 🙏

[olive vine]

Option 1:

[proven peak]

that works for me. Is it optimised well tho? Like does it impact performance significantly

[olive vine]

I wouldn't know anything about how it affects perf.

Option 2: nav link.

AI can path between navlinks

In my project, I tell them to interact with an object and blow it up. They can then path to the other side using the navlinks. You don't have to tell them specifically to use them. They'll just path to their intended destination as if the navlink was part of the navmesh.

@proven peak Did these solutions help?

[proven peak]

thanks for help man, I appreciate that. The thing I was looking for was the option 1. It runs on set tick so performance shouldn't be a problem. again, thanks

[carmine magnet]

I looked deeper into the problem I'm having and it seems it's not detecting on the overlap event because I have no collision setting on the actor I'm trying to detect. But I need it disabled so it doesn't interact with anything on the player character. Is there anything that I can do to detect the actor with no collision enabled?

[north gull]

wheres the ai controller

[raven nest]

how can I fix this? =\

[alpine glacier]

Wait, am I blind or is the ue5 general chat gone?

[sick trail]

Anyone knows if there is a possibility to change UI scale in game using console command ?

[oak patio]

It's not gone, and you're not blind either (probably).
You either have the general category not expanded (The arrow should be pointing down, rather than towards the category name)
Or, it's discord's great feature they rolled out that hides most of the channels by default for some unknown reason. You'll want to tick this box to unlock all the channels

[valid raven]

hello friends, I am having an issue that i would like another set of eyes on.
I am spawning an actor where the player looks, perpendicular to the surface you're looking at. so far so good, that part works perfectly.
Then, the spawned actor is spawning a lot of projectiles in a straight line. that part works, no issues.
Then, I tried giving the projectiles some variance so as not to shoot in a perfectly straight line. there seems to be an issue when spawning on the ground (or otherwise a surface looking straight up)

yall will not believe it but it fixed itself while i was demonstrating

and i have no clue how

classic game dev

[upper crypt]

Hello can somebody help me with this? my Ammo counter ist also clipping i gave it already the "DontClip" Material function i also decreased the scale in depth parameter but it doesnt help very much

i also tried "two sided" and created an material instance of it but also doesnt help

nvm i fixed itttttt

i increased the bounds scale of the widget to 80, i tried 2 it didnt work so i had to directly go up to 80😂

[valid raven]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1154687997250379867/1208628092692594778/2024-02-17_23-11-47.mp4?ex=65e3f9a0&is=65d184a0&hm=4b474691953a45d7b15d756734d1663db2ed12e7784a06ba953bd079f19bde7a& not asking for help this time, just proud of my gloopy lava (they are actually a collection of spheres, shooting about 150 a second, with a shader put onto them that makes them attracted to each other, stretching like really powerful gravity)

[analog ridge]

I want to know whether there is a bp script for the recoil system of i follow virtus videos for fps shooters using tps template

If so pls send it

I found this for unity sorry but can anyone rep it in blueprint (not cpp):

1. Attach empty game object to the recoilMod transform;
2. Attach weapon game object
3. Set maxRecoil (This current setup assumes your rotating on the X axis)
4. Change recoilSpeed to suit (currently it is set to return to original rotation at half recoilSpeed)

Code (csharp):

var recoilMod : Transform;
var weapon : GameObject;
var maxRecoil_x : float = -20;
var recoilSpeed : float = 10;
var recoil : float = 0.0;
 
function Update() {
    if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
    {
        //every time you fire a bullet, add to the recoil.. of course you can probably set a max recoil etc..
        recoil+= 0.1;
    }
 
    recoiling();
}
 
function recoiling() {
    if(recoil > 0)
    {
        var maxRecoil = Quaternion.Euler (maxRecoil_x, 0, 0);
        // Dampen towards the target rotation
        recoilMod.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(recoilMod.rotation, maxRecoil, Time.deltaTime * recoilSpeed);
        weapon.transform.localEulerAngles.x = recoilMod.localEulerAngles.x;
        recoil -= Time.deltaTime;
    }
    else
    {
        recoil = 0;
        var minRecoil = Quaternion.Euler (0, 0, 0);
        // Dampen towards the target rotation
        recoilMod.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(recoilMod.rotation, minRecoil,Time.deltaTime * recoilSpeed / 2);
        weapon.transform.localEulerAngles.x = recoilMod.localEulerAngles.x;
    }
}

Ping me if you can

[proven peak]

Hey, I've been having some issues with get hit under cursor by channel. The problem is this weird jittery effect. I using this to rotate the player towards my mouse pointer but I noticed that it jitters. I made a debug sphere and indeed it jitters. What can be cause of this? I made blank project and it works just fine. Would appreciate any suggestions.

Same happens if I try to make a line trace that goes from camera to the cursor location. It moves super jittery and weird I have no idea what's causing this

[tiny zodiac]

cant find that one

[proven peak]

I made a new player blueprint in the same project and the issue is the same so it isn't any setting inside my character blueprint

[fathom saffron]

anyone here know how to make maps?

can I dm?

[valid raven]

brutal but mad respect

[valid raven]

hey guys, is there a way to take a float, round it to the nearest whole number, and then store the remainder?

i want the player's damage to be multiplied by a number taken out of a logarithm, but I want the health to look like a whole number

and yet I don't want to remove any decimal damage they do

alternatively, if there's just a way to round a number, which i can google, I might be able to just display the rounded number

while keeping the actual number under the good

hood*

found it thank you @valid raven

[rigid yacht]

can someone help with a foliage material?

[rigid yacht]

So i extract a tree model from a game and it comes with four separate textures though i’m not sure where to plug in when i make a new material

Ok i’ll show now 👍

Done

[worn viper]

Hey all, wondering if someone could offer some input on an issue we're curently seeing in packaged android builds (not occurring in editor). We have a persistent level and are streaming in sub-levels containing other sections of the game world.
We are noticing that occasionally random static mesh actors within these levels are offset visually from where they should be appearing. What makes it stranger is that leaving the level and then re-entering the assets are often back in their intended location. This is happening in multiple levels throughout the game with no apparent commonality between them.
Anyone experienced similar? Thanks in advance!

[tough bear]

Hey Everyone,

I am unable to install ue4. I had it sometime ago - but as I changed my PC, i am trying to find how to intall the ue4 (any version would work)

but all i get is this.

got it , thanks

i opened a ue4 project in ue5 - why does everyone looks like a horror character 😆

[analog ridge]

I want to know whether there is a bp script for the recoil system if i follow virtus videos for fps shooters using tps template

Pls help it is urgent

[oak patio]

couldn't you very easily verify that by just looking at the videos

He's either going to make it in blueprints or not

[hollow pilot]

hi I just wanted to know how to close a widget with a button right now I can only close it with the mouse cursor pls help its urgent

[oak patio]

Do the thing you do for closing it with the cursor, and hook that up to the event when you click a button

[hollow pilot]

@oak patio ok will try that thank you

[analog ridge]

He doesn't do the recoil system

Moreover I need procedural recoil not baked

[hollow pilot]

hi does anyone know how to set up an AI enemy in a 2d game in Unreal 4.27 YouTube just has a 3d game tutorial I'm not sure if that same blue prints code applies to a 2d game? I'm very new to Unreal Engine please help.

so those videos still should work?

[lyric flare]

hi

[fathom saffron]

I need some help putting a space skybox in the game

[fierce tulip]

if we consider the 4th dimension to be time, UE already got you covered.
About a year ago someone was editing the engine to do 7 or 8 dimensions, showed their stuff in the voicechat occasionally. quite mindboggling.

[fathom saffron]

any help

[jade surge]

Learned this the really hard way. Really wish unreal made that known somewhere in the template

[white thicket]

Does anyone know commercial games using Lightmass? I asked chat-gpt-4 that and it trolled me by listing Fortnite(, which doesn't use static lighting at all), and Hellblade(, which uses Enlightnen).

I think so too, but any specific titles would be helpful if you know. Do you think Hogwarts Legacy uses Lightmass?

it' easy to find games with Englithen because they credit it, but for lightmass I dont know.

ok Thank you!

[hollow pilot]

S

[manic pier]

Still looking with any assistance to this issue 🙌 There are other areas where this happens in the navmesh, but no movement issues during gameplay are present.
I'm not entirely sure if the movement issues have to do with this or not, but the thought is there. I also suspect the issue may otherwise be due to the landscape's edit layers.

The landscape in our project's level has two edit layers: one default layer and a second layer on top for sculpting and painting in areas with water, this was set up by the previous level artist and I don't know how fully how they work together, it seems like the landscape collisions between them conflict sometimes when landscape sculpting is done on both layers in the same area for example.

The player character walks in the air above the landscape in the problematic area. If you keep going, the character falls down an invisible one way "ledge", which blocks movement from the other direction and prevents you from going back the way you came from.
I can't show in-game footage of this issue due to NDA unfortunately.

[candid grail]

I am sorry :)

[azure shore]

is there a way I can start ripping stuff out of an unreal project I have tried so hard but I really dont see any other way I can optimise my game

for a start the player and all enemies use a custom physics controller, but the game has basically no graphics so its nothing to do with graphics causing awful performance

[real heath]

well before you start ripping stuff out, the best thing to do is checkout the guides in #profiling . Theres are variety of tools available to narrow down where performance issues are coming from

[azure shore]

yeah I have tried that a bit but none of it made any sense to me. its like a bit of everything all adding up together, not any specific things being the most taxing

I was wondering if by default unreal has anything that would unnecessarily slow it down (like that isnt needed for a non realistic game) but I assume its not that simple

[real heath]

well, yes, theres a bunch of plugins enabled you can disable. There's a bunch of cvar settings you can tweak. You can reduce tickrate on actors that don't need every frame updates. Just running the game without the editor can also be a signficant performance boost. Unfortunately though, without learning the profiling tools, it can be hard to objectively quantify and judge what the slowdowns are and exactly what imprvoement you are getting with each change

[azure shore]

but Im sure it was just a bit of everything, which makes sense because of how much I got going on with the player and the npcs at once. I cannot see any way to work without tick events

maybe I just suck at programming more than I even realise but what DOESNT make sense is how loud my pc gets when just building a level in the editor, the fps is fine but what would even be causing the fans to boost up like that with nothing going on

[real heath]

I didn't say no tick events. I said reduce tickrate. Surely theres things happening 100m away that won't be that problematic if updated every 2-3 frames

[azure shore]

oh no I just reminded myself of that, since thats the only thing it could logically be, as I have a lot

[real heath]

the editor constantly renders, so the CPU is constant sending draw calls to the GPU and the GPU is constantly rendering. You can limit FPS or turn off realtime updates so it only updates when you change a setting, drag an object etc

[azure shore]

those are what I saw in the profiler but I cant really see any I dont need, they all go straight to single branches so are often doing nothing anyway though

I tried disabling realtime but it made it hard to work with. there should be no gpu problems from a game with no textures or any materials more complex than solid colours

[real heath]

except that it tries to render as fast as possible, so it's not doing nothing just because you have a basic level, it's just doing it really fast. Perhaps limit the fps to 60fps in the editor

[azure shore]

interesting, I can try that

but still, the game runs great for me in a packaged build, like 10 times better than in editor of course, but some of my friends cant even hit 100fps on their pcs which arent great but should be capable

[real heath]

editor adds a bunch of overhead, so it's expected to be slower than the game.

But honestly mate, you are shooting in the dark without profiling

I know the tools seem unintuitive, but It is very much worth your time learning them

[azure shore]

yeah but as I said, it seems to just point to all my tick events. which makes sense but I dont know what to do with them. most of them arent suitable for timers either

since its my custom physics controller I think most of it is just unavoidable

[real heath]

is this all in BP or are you using c++ here too?

[azure shore]

only bp, I was wondering if c++ would help, I dont know a bit of coding (was learning it for 3 years in highschool, none of it would stick) but at this point Im willing to give it a try since it should be familiar enough

[real heath]

Move expensive stuff to c++ if you can, otherwise you will just have to accept the fact that you only have a given amount of work acceptable per frame. You will need to identify the expensive stuff happening in tick and either reduce the tickrate for certain actors, or work out what can be cached and only updated every so often. Theres usually a bunch of things that need to happen per frame but you can calculate the end result once, cache that and just lerp on tick etc. Work out what can be cached

[azure shore]

how much difference does bp usually make? is it really that heavy?

[real heath]

BP is great for event based stuff, but yeah tick stuff and tight loops can see big benefits in c++

[real heath]

it's interpreted, it's quite expensive. Usually doesn't matter in the slightest for event based stuff.

but yeah, stuff that runs regularly can add up a lot

especially concerning is the fact you refer to a custom physics controller. Thats potentially a lot of math to be running in the VM

[azure shore]

oh yeah I didnt mention my game is 2d perspective so its a lot less than itd need for 3d, but theres still a lot of little things for specific cases and little corrections, theres also things like ledge grabbing, rope swinging, dodge rolls etc just a bunch of mechanics that add up

[rustic panther]

https://youtu.be/V707r4bkJOY old but still relevant

https://youtu.be/_VmsUXQbzhY

[azure shore]

oh wow

[real heath]

That's a pretty good indicator, but it was run in editor. AFAIK should run faster in game mode, although still quite slow

[rustic panther]

https://youtu.be/yk2J1sdQ-5I

here's built

[azure shore]

so what I should do from here is start converting whatever scripts I can to c++ functions? honestly learning coding is very daunting to me and as I said none of it would ever stick for me but if its gonna help that much then looks like Ill need to

most things should translate over fairly obviously right? like blueprints are still kinda coding

[real heath]

now that's great. Still slow AF, but shipping build 10x faster than PIE is also good info

[rustic panther]

ya it's really interesting

[real heath]

Theres a decent getting started guide by epic on the learning center. You can start by just moving individual functions to C++, you don't have to reimplement whole actors, change parent hierarchies etc

[rustic panther]

it's important to note these examples are extremes... if you're just flipping a bool or setting a float in BP that's fine

[azure shore]

yeah I noticed just from those videos that it works together. I assume most of the time you can just freely combine it

[real heath]

and thats absolutely the way to do it. Both have advantages. Theres plenty of stuff thats annoying or outright bad to do in C++ vs just using the BP tools available

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/qO/c-for-blueprinters

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/NGA/unreal-engine-balancing-blueprints-and-c/e9xq/unreal-engine-balancing-blueprints-and-c-overview

[rustic panther]

thinking about looping through even 10 things in BP gives me heartburn, these examples are looping 500+ times

https://twitter.com/GameDevMicah/status/1759423035294314972

GameDevMicah🔥Berninghausen UE5 Video Games (@GameDevMicah) on X

Blueprint TIP OF THE DAY for Unreal Engine Gamedevs
Node Calls/Counts have a big impact.
Just using an array, to pass data between events within the same blueprint... will save you overhead.
Here is UE5 Unreal Insights of 1,000 debug points being spawned. With 1 call vs 1000

Twitter · Feb 19, 2024, 3:41 AM

here's another related tip

[real heath]

The error'd ones most definitely hit the 1,000,000 instruction counter for inifinite loop detection

[rustic panther]

ya which you can change now

not that you would lol

[azure shore]

funnily enough, my game has a level editor which has to go through a bunch of loops to load levels every time, which is already pretty quick but Id love to see how fast it is as code instead

[real heath]

if you hit it, the first thing you should be doing is going "oh wow, what did i do wrong?", not "hmmm, i better change that" lol

[rustic panther]

Starfield loads levels with blueprint

(jk ofc)

[real heath]

depends on the details, could be absolutely fine, especially if that loading is just kick stuff off to c++ anyway with load streaming level etc

[gaunt abyss]

@vital boltWrong channel, check out the #rules
#instructions

[proven peak]

So I attach an actor to my component. But how do I detach it? The only node I can find is detach from actor that seems to have no effect

[peak hare]

Well a component isn't an actor

[proven peak]

? I attached an actor to a component and the only thing I can do is this

which is not working

[peak hare]

Yeah because you attached an actor to a component, not an actor, and there is no detach from component node

Try attaching it to an actor

[tranquil apex]

Hey, do any of you know how I can set in UE4.27 that placed objects (build) can be canceled again? So back into the inventory? Does anyone know a guide/tutorial for this?

[oak patio]

That highly depends on the build system

[robust lava]

Hello how are you doing today? 🙂

[oak zinc]

Hello. I have one question. I use the ue 4.27 and I'm working with it in full screen mode, but if I open a blueprint window it doesn't go all the way down

[tranquil apex]

like placeable

[oak patio]

yes I know, but it depends heavily on your implementation of said system

[tranquil apex]

i want create a mod for a game so i can do it in the bp?

[oak patio]

we can't possibly know that

It depends on the game, and modding games isn't something we really do here anyway

No tutorial will teach you how to implement that feature for a very specific framework in an existing game

[tranquil apex]

ahh sadly

ty anyway

[dusk tartan]

Hello. I have.. child actor. And when i delete it from the content browser, it crashes unreal engine. 4.27.

it is not used in levels, not open in editor window, i just tryna move or delete it and it crashes the editor.
any suggestions?
"fix redirections" didnt do anything

upd: it seems to crash editr with simply rightclicking that actor in the content browser now

upd2: i just deleted that object in windows explorer, while UE editor was closed. hopefully tehre are no hidden links or rreferences i cannot see, and it wont gib me issues

[azure shore]

Im honestly gonna give up my whole project Ive been working on for over 2 years because I just cannot optimise it

Ive tried everything man its hopeless

it looks like THIS MAN

WHO MAKES A GAME THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS AND CANT RUN IT

all these enemies here, have their tick events literally disabled, simply them just EXISTING kills the fps whatever I do

they are made up of multiple skeletal meshes for customisation, tried taking that out, doesnt affect anything (I have a similar system in another game project that can easily run with at least 30 enemies at once), Ive tried removing any unnecessary components, when I profile it I check GameThread and it just takes me down the list down to literally just all the tick events, WHICH IVE DISABLED TO TEST IT

nothing is HAPPENING

WHAT IS SO DEMANDING

oh yeah checked anim graph too btw, not that either

[tough thicket]

I would screenshare and look

otherwise idk

Lighting is the biggest monster

maybe anti aliasing next

also check scalability settings at the top

[azure shore]

no, look there is basically nothing to render here

if there are no enemies placed I get maximum fps

[tough thicket]

Hmm idk unless those models are double sided / high poly

[tough thicket]

hmm

2d?

No idea then

[azure shore]

I am just never gonna find out

[tough thicket]

im looking at your instagram and not sure how your having issues

[azure shore]

huh

[oak patio]

Are they using the CMC?

and default animation setups?

Because they kill you at scale

[azure shore]

they use a custom physics controller but thats only a few tick events since its 2d, and theyre also disabled while Im testing here with no tick events. cmc still exists within each actor but it doesnt seem possible to delete it because they have to be character class to use montages properly, but I dont know if its doing anything while inactive

and their animation blueprint is the same as with any 3d game but it didnt make any difference with that disabled too

[sick escarp]

I've still managed to hit 55 FPS in packaged with more AI's on screen, about 35 with a lot more on screen

[azure shore]

yeah as I said my other game which is 3d can handle at least 30 before any noticeable fps drop. this drops to 30fps with just 20

[sick escarp]

The difference in editor and packaged can be huge though

[tough thicket]

if your in your editor you probably still have real time thumbnails enabled

kills your fps

[unreal comet]

When I server travel from lobby to my level all players load and it's fine, but for some reason when I server travel back to the lobby, 90% of the time clients crash with a fatal error. They see the lobby but it crashes. Why is this?

Also note, my lobby uses a different game mode and player controller than my actual levels.

Also, is there a way to fully reload the current level so that all player controllers are wiped? I currently just server travel to the current level, but variables in the player controller don't reset, and widgets like the hud don't reset.

[sturdy matrix]

Sorry for the random question, I have a player starting point in my environment I rotated the player to face the direction I wanted, however after packaging the project and run some player commands the orientation is all wrong. Is there a way to make sure the orientation I set on the component will be its 0,0,0 orientation?

[open laurel]

Hi ! I hope you doing well ! I imported models but they are too small so I would like to enlarge them. So I can use "Build Scale" to scale down or scale up. My question is if I use this, could I have complications later when I spawn a static mesh or whatever? (PS: I don't have the original models so it's impossible to re-import them)

[tough thicket]

Hmm not sure what Build Scale is but the only issues i know with that are if you try to use sockets and physics

[open laurel]

Hmm, yeah that wouldn't surprise me... Thanks for the answer!

[robust lava]

Hi, i have a question, does some here use app blackbox for code. Is it better than chatgpt?

[oak patio]

none of the llm's are particularly good for unreal code

[spice ruin]

They're all massively outdated

And tend to invent a lot of imaginary code.

[thick haven]

how would i make fighting game style motion inputs?

[solid holly]

Can anyone give me a short explanation of how to use interfaces to share a variable between 2 blueprints? I can't seem to work it out.

Firstly I have to find out why when I call the function from BP_A, the second BP doesnt respond, help? (BP_A EVENT BEGIN: Function --- BP_B EVENT Function: Print String)

Is this not how it works?

[frigid gate]

Ahh mb

[native sparrow]

mm anyone can tell me that how can i make headblast in unreal

[low lava]

I'm trying to figure out how to async save. I understand I need to bind a UObject FAsyncSaveGameToSlotDelegate:

OnSavedDelegate.BindUObject(this, &UMySaveGame::Internal_OnAsyncSaveFinished);
Where do I do this? In the constructor?

Do I need to unbind somewhere?

[thick haven]

But yeah, finding fighting game stuff for unity on yt is rare so any ideas?

[tough bear]

Hey fellas -- is there any free chat plugin for ue 4 ?

anyone aware of this ?

just want to create a chat between player and npc

[rich reef]

https://www.google.com/search?q=unreal+engine+dialogue+system

[north condor]

anyone familialar withe the physically accurate quadcopter template?

[plush yew]

Anyone know how to usually indie gamedev recruiting people for their project? I don't know much of it since I never done one and I'm a loner too

[rich reef]

Game jams could be a fun start https://itch.io/jams

Each jam usually links to some forum or online chat where you can find teams. I would recommend trying to find a team with members that have shippped some previous projects

[plush yew]

Thanks for the help!

[half grove]

Never took part in any jams, but can solo devs take part in most of these or just small teams? Usually you just hear about small dev teams taking part and winning in them.

[rich reef]

Sure, some jams have special awards just for solo devs

[half grove]

Didn't know that, I guess it's work keeping an eye out for those jams.

[brazen egret]

the heck is that box

[oak patio]

UI docking guide

If it won't go, close and reopen the window, editor, or reset the layout

[tough bear]

actually these are all for ue 5, i need somebody who has some sound experience and can help trouble shoot

[oak patio]

If you want personal troubleshooting from an experienced individual, you're probably looking for #hire-a-freelancer

[sharp cove]

hey, did you found it ? ^^

[thin tendon]

I never found a way to access what was implemented by Epic. I had to come up with my own solution.

[sharp cove]

have you tested this one

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.3/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Interchange/Node/Camera/GetCustomFarClipPlane/

[brazen egret]

how does matinee camera shake differ from the camera shake base?

[loud flicker]

hi, anyone can tell me how to add third person character to the player start ? thx

[loud flicker]

yeah but how can i have this ?

[slow violet]

The PlayerStart doesn't have a mesh because it's meant to be generic (you may not know what kind of player you are starting there).

If the goal is to have a visual representation of the Character/Pawn you are spawning at that slot (if that is fixed) you could override the PlayerStart Class add a SKM Component to it that only draws in the editor.

It all depends really on what you are trying to achieve.

[sharp cove]

can i ask what solution you found?

[marsh valley]

I really wish we could create text blocks for commenting/documentation in Blueprints. I know we can create create comments from selection, but there's only so much text you can fit in those boxes before it starts to become unwieldy, and nodes tend to create a lot of white space that could be filled with handy notes if we could create text-blocks ^.^

Amazing, thanks for the info!

[full mist]

does anyone know why hitting f to focus/snap the viewport to a blueprint seems to be very zoomed out regardless of the size of the meshes in the blueprint? im wondering if there's a setting i can change

[spare trench]

its possible a small part of the mesh is floating somewhere farway in the same bp, so when you press f it focuses on both from a zoomed out view to take both in

[arctic plover]

Probably a stupid question but - is there a way to add "favourites" in the UI somehow? There are some blueprints I need to edit now and then and I always have to search them again by typing part of the identifier etc. Is there a way to maybe "pin" certain blueprints or assets that I reuse all the time?

[late girder]

they are called Collections

[arctic plover]

Ah, thank you very much! 😊

[hollow fulcrum]

guys I am having an issue with custom version of unreal. not sure where should I ask for help

When I import the mesh in unreal, the normals get weird. why? how do I fix this?

It's not an import export setting problem.

My system, my friend's system or coworker's system. No matter the project, or 3D software. No matter from where I get the FBX, it imports with wrong normals in custom version of ue4.27

If I export a mesh from this custom ue4, and then reimport the same mesh back into it, the normals get weird

I tried reinstalling the engine too but it didn't work

I tried in my coworkers system, but for their unreal it imports correctly, so they exported their mesh and send it to me, then again it didn't work on mine

can anyone help with this?

[pseudo void]

Not sure on the best channel to ask this. For someone completely new to unreal engine and game development. I have read some mentions on reddit that ue 5 is more drag and droppy and stuff just works than ue 4. For that reason, is it actually better to start learning with ue 4 to have a better general knowledge of things or is that stupid and you should to start with ue 5 and avoid learning deprecated things?

[oak patio]

check the first pin

the engines are the same, ue5 just has more stuff

[hollow fulcrum]

well, I am not a beginner. Been using ue4 since 5 years now. It's just that this is the first time I have used a custom build version of ue4 but now it doesn't work

[charred bramble]

Hi! 👋
Can you specify what do you mean by normal maps "getting weird"?
There might be a possibility of it being the "Inverted Y/Green Channel" issue? (its a DirectX/Open GL format issue)
Did you try enabling the "Flip Green Channel" in the texture settings?

If that's not the case,
It might be worth copying all the engine of your coworkers system to yours and retesting it that way.

[thin tendon]

I created a macro to set the render distances of meshes at runtime.

[sharp cove]

ha ok with volume culling like and draw distance

what was interesting With the far view plane was the fact all the landscape is disapeearing also , interesting for opti

[thin tendon]

So the engine has built in for every mesh a desired max render distance value. You don't need to do anything except set this value to what you need. You can also use this for landscape foliage etc (if needed). By putting it into a macro you don't have to rewrite the blueprint code 100 times. All you have to do is decide when to call the macro and set your render distance.

[sharp cove]

understood thanks 👍

[hollow fulcrum]

not normal map, the vertex normals of the mesh. if you see in the screen shot, they are not poking outward perpendicularly as they should, instead they are all pointing in one direction

[mossy hearth]

Hey everyone. Honestly its always been my passion to create video games, but i cant seem to learn fast enough to make anything. I can say i've dabbled in materials and created terrain using heightmap data, really fun btw. But not any game, just maps i should say. I found a tutorial on how to make a diablo style game but the tutor who sold the classes bailed out and took away all of the content off the platform, which really sucked, I found another one but it was in portugez and lets say i tried. The point of all this is that im looking for long term friends to share knowledge and help each other learn how to make games! Time zones and busy schedules can be a deterrent, but I assure you I will give all that I can and would put time asside for small projects. Here are some examples of the work ive done overall in UE4. Thanks for everyone contined support and have a great day!

@shy nacelle Thank you. Ill look into these different sub genres and continue the hunt.

[lilac star]

I feel annoyed about this... well the story is I'm trying to put a child widget landmark into a parent widget map, and the landmark has two buttons, and i want to set its second button to specific events, so there are about 20 landmarks in the map, each one needs to bind with specific event, and thus these red lines created lol

trying to figuring out a better way to bind it, but seems didnt work out

all things running normal, but these lines... braindamage lol

[solid holly]

https://tenor.com/view/shocked-surprised-gasp-what-cat-shock-gif-635629308990545194

[gilded lion]

yo does anyone know why when a random integer node chooses a random integer, the integer it gives remains the same the rest of the game? how do i make it give me a new integer each time the command runs?

[solid holly]

Not really sure but, make a new integer variable, after delay set int to random
Then to condition int == 1

[solid holly]

Try it

[gilded lion]

im not sure what u mean, do i put another random integer after the delay and connect it back to the branch?

[solid holly]

1. Create new integer
2. Set integer to random, using that function
3. Whenever you run the command it will set it to another random number
4. In the condition instead of the random number generator put the integer

[solid holly]

Yeah I think so

[gilded lion]

ah i see so like this?

[solid holly]

Perfect

Did it work?

Branch
Work >true > cipher happy
>false > cipher cries in pillow

[solid holly]

Your code is kinda messy
Friendly advice to make it cleaner
Double tap the lines so you can move them however you like

[gilded lion]

it WORKED

thanks bruthuh

[solid holly]

No problem! 👍

[gilded lion]

lol i generally leave it messy while i still work on it and just clean it up after its all good and working

[solid holly]

Ah good to know

[vale abyss]

what would the best way to go about updating text values on a widget when pressing either left left/right arrow keys or using the D-Pad on a gamepad? I'd only want to update the value that is currently highlighted, like so:

[short canopy]

Someone know how to make fn mods with pak files like skins and stuff

[hollow fulcrum]

@stoic quiver

[solid holly]

Hello
Is there like a file I can download online that explains all nodes in UE4?
Like what they do, how they work, how to use them.

[oak patio]

No

There would be far too many nodes for any one person to document

[solid holly]

Oh :<

[oak patio]

It would require intimate knowledge of the entire engine which just isn't possible

[solid holly]

Thanks anyway

[oak patio]

If Mathew Wadstein has done a video on the node you're looking for, he's normally a good resource.
Other than that it's mainly experience, playing around, contextual guesses, and as a fallback, reading the source code of the node.

[opaque seal]

hi guys
i have problem in reatargeting a animation that is created for my mixamo skeleton for metahuman skeleton
my chracater looks like this when i play retargeted animation
can someone help me?

[finite stratus]

Is it possible to make a 2d/3d hybrid game on ue4?

Ty I'll try it

I want to use ue5 at home but my school uses ue4

The pcs can't handle ue5 sadly

That's what my teacher told me

[brazen egret]

how to perfectly align wall actors?

[sturdy matrix]

really dumb question but does anyone know why i cant see the loaded map? 😭

[molten solstice]

Hi! I started a project with the TopDown preset. When I use left mouse, my character moves to the location and if I holding left mouse, it follows the direction of my cursor. I would like the character to move ONLY when the player hold the left mouse button and no moves automatically to the clicked location. Is it simple to do?

Because when my character is respawned he wants to reach the previous location of the left mouse

[neat stratus]

Hi guys! Can you help me out with this? I black corner just popped on my screen when i hit play, even when i package the project. Also is happening with other projects i open (Its a Vr project, Im opening it with the Quest 3)

[vale abyss]

Hello, I'm trying to use CommonUI framework in my game but seeing the following error in the output log when using CommonActionWidget

LogUIActionRouter: Error: Cannot create action binding for widget [UI_InteractTextPopup_C_0] - no action provided.```
Can anybody help? I found the same error on the forums with no answer https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/no-action-binding-for-widget-error/1315295

EDIT: Resolved by Project Settings -> Common Input and refresh my Input Data blueprint. Literally all I did was select "Clear" and then select the exact same blueprint and it started working.

[pliant tangle]

i changed targeted RHIs (among other things) and now i can't open my project.
making a new project works fine. is there a way to change RHIs in like an .ini file or something?

[oak patio]

Yes. DefaultEngine.ini contains the RHI info

What's your gpu though? Nearly everything supports SM5 so that's concerning

[opaque seal]

someone help me about this?

[azure shore]

is there even a proper paste at cursor function in the editor? I dont even know what "paste here" is doing half the time

[pliant tangle]

excellent! yeah i'm pretty sure that error message is just a bug in unreal because i'm running a 3060 and i can run anything on steam afaik. i'll go find the RHI seetings in that ini file

[pliant tangle]

you're a bloody legend, thank you. i took the whole [/Script/WindowsTargetPlatform.WindowsTargetSettings] chunk out of the ini and that fixed it. i owe you a homemade loaf of old fashioned brown bread my good sir.

[strong oxide]

Is it possible to add a force or impulse to a Cable Component? I've tried almost everything in ue4.27 and I keep getting this "Invalid Simulate Options: Body (.CableComponent) is set to simulate physics but Collision Enabled is incompatible"

I've tried all this ```cpp
CableComponent->SetSimulatePhysics(true);
CableComponent->bEnableCollision = true;
CableComponent->SetCollisionEnabled(ECollisionEnabled::QueryAndPhysics);
CableComponent->SetCollisionResponseToAllChannels(ECollisionResponse::ECR_Block);
CableComponent->SetGenerateOverlapEvents(true);

[spare trench]

Save Game not working after packaging the game on Android. I've even checks Use DIR files option from the project settings and used external storage permission. Still not working on Android but working fine on Editor

[oak patio]

Glad it worked for you!

[tight steppe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_UQYuM1RWU

I saw this video on how to spawn rain around a player, but this adds it to the Character's blueprint. Is there a way to make particle systems like this follow a player around but only in a certain level? And have different levels have different particle systems? For example, a rain level, snow level, blowing dust level

[tight steppe]

Was under the impression that the technique would attach to the character and persist between levels. sorry

[neat stratus]

Could anyone help me with the question i asked earlier? Im truly lost

[tight steppe]

Attaching it to the character is the point. I don't want to place it in the map, I want it to follow the character around the map wherever it goes. Having the particles cover every square inch of the map isn't what I'm trying to do

[tough thicket]

if i have 3 skeleton mesh for modular character what node is it so they all use the same anim bp?
its a node you use on event tick or begin play

SetMasterPoseComponent

[orchid void]

Can I use PakFileUtilities within editor?

[heady ridge]

anyone got a good guide for basic combat w bluepring? cant find any at the pinned msgs

[proven lake]

could anyone tell how can i reference ActorA in a component on ActorB ?

like in unity we can just drag drop other gameobjects inpublic field of type GamObject ?

is anyone alive ?

[valid raven]

hello everyone, I have an idea for an ability/attack in my game, but need some help on how to achieve certain functionality.

the idea for the attack is to spawn a bunch of cones around the player, say 40, which are floating around in space but anchored to their position relative to the player. some time after they spawn in, one by one they are unanchored from the player and shoot towards wherever the player is looking.

I have a rough idea on how i want to do the rest of it, but i'm not sure how to anchor them to the player

if there is a way to spawn in a blueprint and then achor it to another object, and then unanchor it, please let me know. thank you in advance

[valid raven]

ooooooh perfect thanks

[valid raven]

also, this is a materials question, but i have an attack that utilizes spheres with a lava texture on them, and i was wondering if there was any way to have the material not rotate with the sphere itself

[valid raven]

once again here to ask for your help, I have a line trace, it works the way i want it to, and then pushes up a location (either the hit location if it hit something, or the end of the line trace if it did not hit something.

the goal is for a bullet to be spawned anywhere and go to the target (which is where the line trace is)

for that, i have a cone with no physics or collision

I set 2 vector variables, 1 being the line trace location and the other being the bullets current location. I also set the rotation to point towards the line trace location

then i set the 2 interp points and set the duration

the rotation works correctly, however no matter what i do it seems the interp is instantaneous

no matter what the duration is set to

well actually, sorry. it points towards the right direction and then seemingly disappears

i don't know where it goes

this is how the cones look when spawned in the world, and for now i'll only have it rotate and not interp

as you can see it rotates fine

which tells me the location vectors are fine

so something is wrong with how i interp them

upon closer inspection they're teleporting to 0,0 ish

using this method the values in the array are being set

[sick crane]

Anyone know if I can keep my game in unlit mode when packeged in ue4? I cant seem to find anything online saying it or anywhere in ue... I like the way it looks so I wanna use it with unlit.

[tough thicket]

you would need to use unlit materials

[sick crane]

Ok I will look more online lol

Thank you

[tough thicket]

if you open a new material its one of the final options, by default its lit and its how you switch it to things like post process unlit and translucent i believe

[sick crane]

Is their a way to just make everything unlit easily? If not they I will just go through each texture/material

[heady valve]

https://tenor.com/view/dual-survival-cobra-snake-looking-cobra-snake-gif-24520479

Guys, I've been trying to figure this out for days but can't find any info on how I'd do this. Could anyone point me in the right direction. I want to create a snake character that will look (aim) at the player character (like the gif) and shoot venom. Any clues what tutorials, etc, or things I should read about to figure out how to do this? Trying to figure out how to do this. Thanks for any help y'all can provide. 🙂

[tough thicket]

set a master material next time

[heady valve]

Ah, thank you. 🙂

[sick crane]

Ty didnt think of that lol

I will look into master materials now.

[pale elbow]

Is there somewhere I can ask questions about Unreal Engine 2?

[gentle quail]

oh, got it. I'll remove my message

[thick sluice]

is there a specific channel for cooking error help? I cant find my specific issue anywhere 😦

[oak tapir]

Türk var mı?

[sturdy trench]

Türkçe konuşan var ama burada İngilizce konuşuluyor

[oak tapir]

biz arkadaşlarımla ue4 te birşeyler yapmaya çalışıyoruz ama bilmediğimiz için birşey yapamadık bende türkçe konuşan birinin bize yardım etmesi için buraya geldim ingilizce az biliyoruz

[sturdy trench]

Bu sektör maalesef İngilizce olmadan seni bir yere götürmüyor, sunucu kuralları gereği de İngilizce konuşmak zorundayız 🙂

[oak tapir]

yardım eder misin ?

[sturdy trench]

Sunucunun dışarısında özel yardımda bulunmuyorum, ilgili kanallarda İngilizce olarak paylaşırsan benden daha yetenekli insanlardan da yardım alabilirsin

[oak tapir]

tamam teşekkürler

[steady hawk]

Can somebody help me, please! How do i set up sequencer to render a looped image sequence? i tryed everyhing and it renders ok in sequence preview but in movie render que it renders from 1-150 frame and it isnt looped. 😦

[tough thicket]

I have no idea

[quaint beacon]

How can I scale something inside scroll box?

[sturdy matrix]

Is it safe to download environments from other sources besides the marketplace?

[sturdy matrix]

its https://unityunreal.com/unreal-engine-assets/ue-environments/
I just need set environments to do some robotics tests and the marketplace didnt have that many free

are there any other sources besides marketplace ?

[sturdy matrix]

would you be kind enough to tell me some?

[quaint beacon]

Ok, I figured it out by using Size Box inside Scroll Box.

[tame stag]

Is it possbile to change the Camera sensor width/height in runtime? maybe with a slider widget?

[fierce blaze]

hey

i have this problem in my vr game

as you can see my character walks over the knife and attaches but if i go to pick up with my hands just dont follow me the knife.Can someone help me with that

i have 2 diferent types of code

and this 2 types has the same isue

[paper island]

PLEASE HELP! This has me stumped.... Probably an easy solution, but i just want to get back to work..

After using a 3d program unreal has started doing this in my viewport. Its like a strange orthographic view. It starts by default now after a engine restart and even a PC restart? What have i done? I was using combinations of ALT+middle mouse button in a 3d application while unreal was running and now this has happened? Also i know that F will focus on an object, bu im only doning this to center my viewport. WASD no longer works either. This is really annoying as i want to continue my dev work after my normy job. Any help would be appreciated.

heres the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adPcHz-_xlA

[opaque seal]

hi guys
i have problem in grooms of my character
i have a sequence and an animation for my character, when i play animation on my character in sequence this happens to my groom
how can i fix it? can someone help me about it?

[hushed bluff]

Is it possible to export a material from a game and then import it into UE?

[hushed bluff]

Any guide on the subject?

[oak patio]

none we could share here

[hushed bluff]

Maybe share it somewhere else then? 😄

[tame stag]

Hey guys, I need to tell my packaged game the position of the game window. I know there are command line arguments for the editor like "WinX" and "WinY". But how to do it for a packaged game?

[oak patio]

No, I mean, reverse engineering is against the #rules

[hushed bluff]

Guess I'll just forget about it then...

[bold apex]

I have question, generally if I wanted to replicate gameplay of Snowrunner in UE4 (or UE5) - that is, slow-paced driving of off-road trucks through difficult terrain... what would be a good starting point? I tried the car blueprint that comes with UE and a couple of blueprints that are for free on marketplace, but they all seem very simplistic or designed for racing and driving over rough terrain makes the cars go nuts, not to mention driving over things like logs does not work, because the wheels are usually single raycast

I did some game development in Unity including rigging some not-too-complex vehicles, but things work a lot differently in UE and I am a bit out of my depth at the moment

[quaint beacon]

Hello,
I've just found a great tip about Unreal. The Epic Games launcher opens up every time we open any Unreal project. In order to stop it from launching. You've to create an empty text file in (Unreal Dir) / Engine / Build and name it PerforceBuild.txt

[olive vine]

Good morning. Is there a way to hide/filter collections? I want to only see my local collections; not shared collections created by colleagues.

[obtuse stump]

Is there any NavMesh legends who can help me to have a decent navmesh? I tweak the values but it only gets worse even with videos

[olive vine]

Not a legend. I would only advise that you check your collision settings. What specifically would you like to fix about this?

[tough thicket]

what about you use some nav bounds

and raise your settings again

dont really need that couch navigation though so set it to floor, and change the couch cannoy be step on or cannot generate nav

[obtuse stump]

My AI goes fine but.. sometimes he does goofy stuff

not everytime but when it happens he gets glitched in door arches or walks sliding along the wall

breaking the experience

[tough thicket]

navigation has always been shit

[obtuse stump]

How do they make good AI in proper games then? like idk.. madison

or RE7

Like I just want a puppet to not do weird stuff

that's all I ask hahaha

Not asking for mr. x from RE2 Remake

[vocal rune]

alot of bools 🤷‍♂️

[fast cradle]

Im curious if anyone here has ever got PSO caching to work with android/Meta Quest. I can't seem to get the documentation to work for me in UE4.27

[solid holly]

Hey guys
So with terrain generation
I heard in large open spaces, the objects from a far have decreased faces so that it increases performance
Do I have to code that or does the engine do that automaticaly?

[obtuse stump]

https://tenor.com/view/kurt-kurt-angle-100-yard-stare-what-are-you-serious-gif-4081464694509837388

[solid holly]

https://tenor.com/view/mad-angry-anime-drawing-surprised-gif-16819980

[tough thicket]

for what? trash blowing in the wind?

[cunning rock]

Is that per enemy, or including a management system?

[outer epoch]

Hi

[boreal crown]

how can i call the function/event attached to one of my axis mappings?

[steep steeple]

hello does anyone know what is causing the terrain to do this?

[steep steeple]

Thank you!

[steady tree]

Trying to add a streamed level instance with baked light to another level with baked light, however, as soon as its turned on or loaded into to the level all moveable static meshes turn dark.

The only thing that worked was rebaking the sublevel inside persistent, but I can't do that since it will cause light artifacts intersecting with the persistent level because I can't move the sublevel due it being loaded multiple times at different locations ( when opening the door the basic room level is loaded behind the door ).

[sick escarp]

Any ideas how to lerp linear color in a range like this where 0 & 1 are the same but .5 has a different color?

[steady tree]

thank you!

[steady tree]

Still a bit glitchy when loading the level in but much better then before

[gilded lion]

Hey does anyone know how I can properly texturize a 3d object I made? I have made this material but it doesnt really work how I want it to when I apply it somewhere.

its kinda stretching the texture rather than just covering the model with itself

[tough thicket]

i think you need a text corn node pulled off your uv on the texture sample

text cord

[gilded lion]

Whats a text cord

[solid holly]

If I remember corectly, it was how many faces u want the texture to repeat
Or idk

[heady ridge]

what corrupted my project? the map doesnt load anymore

nope

I made this following a tutorial and didn't do anything after

[sinful tendon]

I'm following a advanced unreal engine tutorial and i was able to get the source setup and running after fixing the Commit.gitdeps.xml problem and in installed the UnrealVS.vsix for VS2019

ill try and set it up and see if it fixed the link errors and problems with unreal engine 4 linking and working with Visual studios.

[oak patio]

uh oh

I'd expect nothing less from a tutorial 😔

[sinful tendon]

top pinned message?

this?

i don't see UE5 to UE4 mode unless you are talking about graphics and speed setting witch I'm not worried about. i want to make sure i follow along with the tutorial in a way where i don't have to worry about updating any code yet.

[oak patio]

screenshot of a screenshot lmao

[sinful tendon]

I'm not interested in graphics settings. 🐼

[oak patio]

those are what kill you on ue5 though

[sinful tendon]

whenever i work with UE5 i always turn off all the graphics settings and leave the texture quality on high

how do i find out what failed?

I figured out the problem i was having. i somehow missed setting the project to C++ and it didn't link when create ting a Blueprint project. it works now

[whole cedar]

does anyone has this already build so i can use it?
https://github.com/SpeculativeCoder/UnrealEngine-HTML5-ES3?tab=readme-ov-file

i need for the 4.27

[sinful tendon]

STUPID RED SQUIGELY LINE!

https://tenor.com/view/its-not-real-peetah-hunger-games-gif-8771126

I'm venting over the nonexistent red squiggly line

its not a problem but its still annoying

the tutorial is fine.

I plan to move back over to UE5

[solid holly]

Hey guys
I can change the default and startup level to any level the engine comes with by default
But I can't change it to a level that I created, what am I doing wrong?

Nvm I found the problem

https://tenor.com/view/hitting-someone-with-a-bat-hitting-a-guy-into-a-screen-hitting-and-breaking-the-screen-gif-24414471

[sinful tendon]

same

[prime tulip]

Hello. I have a strange issue / bug that makes it so my gridlines always disappear in my non-3d viewports. How can I fix this?

Sometimes they are visible and sometimes they aren't. I can't pinpoint when or why they appear and disappear. It seems to be very random.

[mossy hearth]

Can my assets from UE4 be used in UE5? I have allot and when I purchased assets it specifically labeled for unreal 4. etc. Just worried that ill only be able to use them on UE4

[faint hound]

Could please someone help me with a smol issue.

I'm using physics asset for given meshes that the character has. This physics asset is also used for hit detection. Now when the character is running, and someone tries to shoot at him, the physics asset capsule collisions are correctly positioned as is the mesh. The issue begins when the character is lying down and moving (no issue when standing still), then the shooter sees the mesh correctly as it is, but the physics asset's capsule collisions are rendered below the mesh by a certain margin. Because of that, the shooter isn't able to register a hit, even tho when trying to simulate the linetrace on both simulated and authority proxy, the character is hit, but the autonomous (shooter) proxy, doesn't register a hit.

Any help is greatly appreciated. 🙏

[fossil socket]

UE5 should be backwards compatible with almost, if not all UE4 assets. It just doesn't work the other way round

[valid raven]

hello, having an issue with alignment on attached actors. i am trying to spawn an actor that attaches to the player, which then spawns another 40 actors that hover around the player. however, when they spawn in, not only are they not spawning together( which means something is moving differently than others) but they're spawned rotated horizontally

[tall osprey]

where is the settings in the editor to increase this zoom limit form 10cm to 20cm ?

solved, found

[jagged apex]

Hey! Did you find any solution for your problem? I need make a simple protection for my offline app and adb device ID number would be very useful

[steep steeple]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/871316682507943976/1220320588984352800/2024-03-21_11-34-44.mp4?ex=660e831c&is=65fc0e1c&hm=a6959d81d153488c293aa3783fa07ce4f993deb958e79cbfbc78b332be61d14f&

Does anyone know a solution to fix this dodgy foot IK?

i just don't know why its tracing to 2 locations...

this only happens on weird angles

or not even weird really

works like normal on a slope

[mossy hearth]

Does anyone know of a good automaterial tutorial? I just imported a heightmap and cant seem to find a decent tutorial

[toxic lily]

Question

Working on some cloth attatchments, and i have an issue where an upper arm is pulling the back head cloth with it, despite the headpiece not being weight painted to the arm, and not having a collission capsule to interfere with it

does anyone know what might be causing this?

[toxic lily]

nvm

tuning off tether stiffness fixed it

[drifting geode]

Hey @jagged apex no I haven't found anything. But thinking again about this, maybe the MAC Address?

[dry marlin]

Hello can someone help me/us? we are o 4.27 and someone even if i don't have internet is hacking into my computer where I have the project on

Because all of a sudden things change

and I cannot do anything about it

[gilded lion]

hey does anyone know a way to make a ui displayed on a physical mesh. I have this computer 3d model and I want to make a ui that will be on its screen for the player to interact with

[tough thicket]

they shouldnt be able to modify files while unreal is open so dont close it

[gilded lion]

how do i display a widget through it

[dry marlin]

Who might be who attacks me ? And why?

[oak patio]

I highly doubt someone is hacking you. First of all if you aren't connected to the internet someone can't remote in and change things.

If you're concerned about a virus, do a virus scan.

Neither of those things affect unreal projects though in subtle ways. You typically get one of two things, they go nuclear and encrypt everything and demand a ransom, or they are as stealthy as possible and inject phishing links into places, and steal passwords and such

No one's hacking people to subtly change an unreal project

[devout temple]

so i had one question, is there a bit list of unreal engine 4 graphics stuff i can use in the Engine.ini ?

example:

r.FXAA.Quality=0
r.TemporalAA.Quality=3
r.TSR.History.R11G11B10=1
r.TSR.History.ScreenPercentage=100
r.TSR.History.UpdateQuality=0
r.TSR.History.GrandReprojection=0
r.TSR.ShadingRejection.Flickering=0
r.TSR.Velocity.Extrapolation=0
r.TSR.RejectionAntiAliasingQuality=0

[real heath]

Under the menus of your version of unreal, I think help maybe, there's "Console Commands" and it will list every one available on your version including any comments for it

[devout temple]

is there a list already made online some place?

[real heath]

probably someone has uploaded it, but it changes every version

easier just to generate your own

it's 1 click

[devout temple]

i ask because my pc cant run the engine :)

if its one click, if u got time think u can generate a list for me?

txt

[tall osprey]

why player spawned even if the level is not loaded 100% ?

but the AI spawned when the level loaded 100%

the behavior makes the player to leave the landscape and fly in air

[floral edge]

Hello to all! I have a little problem with organization quest state. Here is the issue: I have n quests and their state in map - it's ok. But! I want to save more then status: 1. Executor(Who accept the quest), 2. Days to expire, 3. Executor's fraction 4. And status as well.
I tried to create base c++ class for this and work with him in mad like TMap<int32,QuestState> questState, but UE refuse to compile with reason like "class must be UCLASS or something". Have any tips on this?

[foggy pivot]

Quick google search found this thing. https://framedsc.com/GeneralGuides/ue4_commands.htm

Ok. Seems like it's just an online re-post of what you can get directly from the engine when you click "Help > Console Variables"

[devout temple]

thanks,

[humble sonnet]

Hello guys I have published my steam game months ago and it was a fail I want to remake it all on unreal ( it was on godot ) and even make it new concept a 3D platformer game not 2D with new concept , I can push it and change everything on the old game version ? I don't want to pay 100 dollar again

[oak patio]

You sure can, but it won't succeed if it's already failed. If it flopped in it's first few months, it won't get revived. Steam considers those pages dead mostly

[humble sonnet]

I got 100 daily visits without even marketing the game

[oak patio]

That's great!
It doesn't change the fact that you only get one go at the store page though.

[tough bear]

please please help 🙏🏻

[tough bear]

Hi all,

can you please help here : While packaging a build in UE4.27 all has been done. I got the apk but while installing on my android 12 device, I get the error message ::

"error while parsing the apk"

would u know any solution?
Thanks

[rain venture]

is it true that unreal engine 4 has higher cpu usage than unreal engine 5? 🤔

[rain venture]

hmm

[opaque seal]

hi guys
i have a problem in my metahuman face control rig
in seuquence when i move my metahuman face it doesnt move
does anyone know how to fix it?

[tough thicket]

youll need to plug in the montage group to your anim bp

or whatever your using

[neon aurora]

Hi everyone, I'm having a problem where a character will weirdly jitter when standing on a moving platform, but only in the packaged build.

I checked with breakpoints and it seems that ACharacter::SetBase is called over and over again because the character is switching between being on the ground and in the air constantly.

Again, this only happens in the packaged build, in editor everything is fine. Anyone have any idea on how to fix that? I tried enabling CCD, but to no avail.

Edit: This question might be better off in the physics chat, I'll repost it there

[gray fox]

Anyone know how to fix glowing hair cards in unreal engine 4?

[obtuse stump]

I've imported a premade map but the fps are f***ed... How do I find out what's causing this fps lag? (Especially when I look in a wide angle)

[copper kestrel]

Anybody khow how to fix that. When i am adding animation in blendspace its showing animation should be non additive

[tough thicket]

i only know how to do it from the matrix property editor or whatever

right click the animation inside the explorer

open with matrix whatever

then probably animations tab on right

and set to non-additive

[plush yew]

mostly high detail meshes, are you using LODs?

or high resolution textures

like 16k textures

or even 4k