ue4-general

[stiff notch]

if uses it you're learning the wrong way

[rustic panther]

there's nothing inherently wrong with using delay nodes

[oak patio]

Granted people do misuse them, but yeah, what Qwigs said

[spice ruin]

He makes a good point about "using delay node to fix order of operations stuff" is pretty wrong. You should fix the actual order or use events and such.

But it doens't mean the entire node is wrong.

[hidden dew]

I noticed a weird copy paste in my BP, I think.
This isn't meant to be possible, right?

[oak patio]

Sometimes it can be handy for that as a super bandaid fix. I remember quite a while ago in ue4 I had a level with world composition, and the player start would spawn the player before the landscape had loaded meaning I'd fall out of the world. I had no idea how to fix it, other than to delay loop activating the character until the world had loaded.

Thinking about it, I have no clue how you'd even handle that now. Probably something in the game mode 😆

Or binding to OnWorldBeginPlay somewhere

[oak patio]

Why not?

Nothing there looks out of the ordinary

[hidden dew]

Oh, I thought you couldn't have multiple exe paths from one output

Guess I'm just brain farting

[oak patio]

Oh shit I didn't even notice that

No, that's a bit odd

[hidden dew]

😄

I am guessing I did a Ctrl C Ctrl V without noticing. The nodes were hiding beneath each other

[oak patio]

Ahhhh

That makes more sense

[hidden dew]

But yeah, now I can add stuff to each exe path and do whatever

[hidden dew]

... And this doesn't really work, now that I tried.
Shrug. No idea how it got there. But it's been working for months.

[oak patio]

I do know you can do some funky things with the node graph in such ways.

You used to be able to break it in certain ways like connecting execution pins to variable pins and such.

[hidden dew]

ah heh

I know you can force it to break to VS just by making a segment on a line then deleting it (UE 4.27)

[tough thicket]

yeah thats how you do it but if i recall i set bone groups and had only that group inside that path

it worked even better but sorta forgot

[full mist]

I'm not sure if this is the correct channel to ask so let me know if I need to move the question.

I'm in 4.27 and when I have a planar reflection capture (bathroom mirror) it runs totally fine normally, but when I turn on raytracing it severely drops my framerate. I'm very confused.

Shouldn't planar reflection captures essentially be disabled and not actually do anything if raytracing is enabled?

I can't seem to find any settings to fix this and I'm at the point of jut setting up a blueprint to delete the actor if raytracing is enabled, but that seems like a really silly solution here.

[hidden dew]

lolll... 4 hours later, I just realised why this seemingly impossible thing was possible

[rich rain]

I'm making a top-down shooter game and I want to rotate my character with my mouse, but since my mouse rotates according to the position in the 3D world, it doesn't give me exactly the gameplay I want. My camera angle is 0, -60, 45. It works fine at 90 degrees, but I couldn't find how to solve it at this angle. I tried many different methods. Does anyone have a good solution?

[hidden dew]

Been in there for months

[hidden dew]

I do something like this:

Well... not "something like". That's what I do.

Gives me this. The laggy camera is a deliberate setting, and maybe not even applicable to yours anyway unless you have the camera childed to the character in some whay.

The main principle is that I'm just saying "Get me the raw X value from the mouse's movement. Now add that much rotation to the character around its own 'up' ".
I'm avoiding any thought about the camera's orientation.

[plush yew]

Hi!
I am creating a global strategy (country governance)

There are almost no necessary manuals on this topic on the Internet.

I have a pixel map with regions of countries and seas.

1.How to make sure that when uploading my pixel drawing, a map divided into regions and borders is automatically created.

2. How to set a certain color value. For example, Black is the border, white is the regions, and blue is the sea.

3. How to make sure that all white regions are not 1 model, and each region separated by a black border is an unrelated object

[spice ruin]

1/2/3: you code this yourself?

[livid token]

yesterday forcaset was great

[foggy marten]

is this where u can ask to have a person to work on a game with me?

[real heath]

You are looking for the job board. Instructions for posting there are in #instructions

[foggy marten]

cool thanks

[hidden dew]

Starting to get this really frequent issue in UE4.27. When editing a blueprint, eventually things like right-click, or dropping in a variable, stop working. It just flicks onto the screen for a split second then disappears. Tooltips do this too.
Getting to the point where I have to restart UE about once an hour. >_<

[real heath]

Look in the pinned messages here. There's a fix from Nvidia. Just gotta run a .reg file

[hidden dew]

Oh awesome, ty

Odd that the first pinned message is "Don't use UE4 over UE5 for performance reasons"

UE5's physics is buggered. Need UE4 for performance reasons. The difference is gigantic.

The message should note that exception

[worthy elbow]

Hi, I'm a newbie. Anyone knows why the blender "root" is different when I upload the character to unreal engine?
apparently, there's another root bone appearing in my skeleton "rig" thus I can't create root motion animations.

[real heath]

I remember something about it specifically needing to be called Armature in blender.

Try renaming the rig

[worthy elbow]

I successfuly renamed the "rig" to "Armature" and this is Unreal's Error

[worthy elbow]

I'm thinking if I should buy Autorig PRO or Eufy for automatic rigging so that I don't have to use Rigify.. Is it worth it? Can anyone tell me if I should get it?

[hidden dew]

Anyone know what I'm doing that causes this change, and why/if it matters?

[acoustic coral]

Hello, I'm having trouble with game instance not updating the default values during runtime.
I tried compile and save, but nothing works.
Any help would be much appreciated.
edit: problem fixed

[hidden dew]

What was the solution?
Always good to put answers to your own questions you put on the internet.

[old sun]

yo, once i found the solution but don't remember it. I cannot interact with my editor view (below), what is the reason? any clue?

google is not helping at all 😐

[broken stream]

How can I force the editor to pack a mod even when there is an error? It incorrectly thinks the text parameter Name is constant when I know it's not.

[oak patio]

You don't. It's an error for a reason.

The code won't compile, that means it won't compile, which means it doesn't work or package

[broken stream]

Are there any guides on how to automate the "save to mod" (copying a file and it's path into ModOverride folder) in an editor utility blueprint?

[storm lake]

hello, my ps4 controller no longer is detecrted by unreal engine, how do I fix this?

I used to be able to move the camera with the controller, but not anymore

[oak patio]

You'd be better off in an actual nodding community

[plush yew]

how can i turn a texture cube file into just texture

so i can use the texture in a material

[thorny narwhal]

Hi, when i use the Anim Dynamics node, my mesh decreases drastically

[hidden osprey]

Cool character

[thorny narwhal]

thxxx ^^

[valid raven]

i'm in ue4 on the top down shooter template. i want to replace the character with a cylinder but the game doesn't wanna go easy on me

i can't have a movement component if i don't have a character

and if i add a character i am given these things. the first 2 aren't really an issue but the third one just requires me to have a whole mesh in there and animations

until i find a fix the mesh will just become invisible and i shall ignore it

[thorny narwhal]

Does unreal engine 4 support Dualsense ?

[steady siren]

where do I ask questions related to Perforce issues with ue 4.27?

nvm I asked in source-control

[hidden dew]

Hmm. I have a BP function I wrote in C++.

When I run my project, the function is fired but execution doesn't make it back to the BP that called it. Return value (just an int32) looks good in the debugger, but then the game closes before BP execution continues. I can continue stepping through the engine between the end of my function and the closing of the game, but it's out of my depth. Appears to loop for a long time.

The function itself does some line tracing. Runs fine with other meshes. Only 1 mesh causes the problem.

The problem mesh works fine in a different project using the exact same function code, to the character.

So I feel like it's not the mesh, or the function that has the problem, but something else I've done wrong.

But with the way it just closes, I don't know how to debug it.

[sturdy star]

how on earth do you supress the "errors" message in the editor - like yes i'm aware there is an error, i am not the one fixing it so i don't want to see a giant fkn box every time i test something, holy

[plush yew]

Hello i need someone who can make a game trailer for my game htmu

[wary sentinel]

i got problems with unreal engine 4 and i dont know what else i can do

[wary sentinel]

i have updated my graphic drivers ive done the TDLR ive allocated virtual memory ive downgraded from dx 12 to 11 in render and i still get this

[wary sentinel]

guess no one knows

[fringe drift]

Ok, so, random optimization-related question:

I have heard that running C++ is more performance-friendly than running blueprints. I have also read around and found people offering to build custom blueprint nodes.

If I have 'a relatively large amount' of vector math and float shenanigans running in EventTick, then would encapsulating all of that in a single custom-built node be better for performance?

If so, I should probably be organizing and commenting this eldritch monstrosity of a blueprint that I'm building.

[wary sentinel]

i give up with UE4

[grim flame]

They seem to be errors related to the GPU, your machine might be too low spec for Unreal

[wary sentinel]

I'm running 32gb ram i7 3770k Asus p8z77 with storm x pc gtx 1650 4gb

GPU drivers and directx up to date I can do blueprint after a few mins it crashes

[frigid mauve]

Hey guys! Can you please help me with packaging?
I'm testing html build of 4.23. First, the size of the Puzzle template (very simple project) had size 900 mb, what was a nut :) I changed building type to shipping and exclude startet content folder and specify a map to build. So the size of .data file dropped from 500 bm to 20 bm. But there is still .bs file that keep it size of 230 mb. What is this file? How to make it lighter?

[livid token]

it's a window and nivida problem that is a bug for all of them.

[wary sentinel]

i think i sorted it caused by gtx 1650 have to undervolt it so it was stable due to bug in hardware with unreal engine software

[livid token]

upgrade your grapic card too 3070 ti

[wary sentinel]

if i had the money i would brother i cant even afford an rtx 2080

😢

[livid token]

yeah that is only way to get it to be stable.

[wary sentinel]

i know gotta use what i got i guess

[livid token]

go to the project settings and type in windows. you want to change the dx11 or 12 whatever works.

[wary sentinel]

im struggling to get this model meshed

dx11 works fine its hates dx12

[livid token]

okay

i cannot help with that

[wary sentinel]

gtx 1650 says it supports dx12 but the driver for it is buggy and hates engine

so it runs dx11

[livid token]

so that is good and fine nothing worries about that.

[wary sentinel]

nope

[livid token]

model meshed

[wary sentinel]

i tried to find a real life version of the model and i cant mesh it O_o

tried import as image came up blank on plane

[livid token]

look up a video on that have no knowledge on that

[wary sentinel]

i might use blender and manually build it take longer

[livid token]

you can go that route

[tiny zodiac]

I imported a fbx with a skeletal mesh to unreal.
Then later imported it to blender and made some changes on the material.
Now i imported it to unreal, and it says the skeleton is not the same.
So I said to "No to All" use the skeleton.
But when i clicked this new imported mesh, it asked me to regenerate the skeleton.
I clicked yes, and it screwed all my other meshes.

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-fine-gif-24177057

This should come with a warning that it can screw all the other meshes

[nimble gust]

unreal engine at its finest

[near vine]

Can anyone tell me what maximum resolution should be used for texture atlases?

[simple hemlock]

I have a plugin that is disabled in the uproject. I need to enable it only when building for a specific platform. What's the proper way to do this? I tried adding PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange to the Build.cs but doesn't seem to work. I have seen that you can do a DisablePlugins("PluginName") but I can't do the opposite (as in leaving it on by default and disabling for other platforms)

[spice ruin]

This should work in your uproject: { "Name": "...", "Enabled": true, "SupportedTargetPlatforms": [ "Win64", "Linux" ] },

[simple hemlock]

Unfortunately not. This is what I've done prior, but one of the platforms the project is supposed to be built for is built on another engine, that doesn't have the plugin. The engine then goes "idk wtf this plugin is, stop building"

[spice ruin]

Create a fake plugin just so it can be disabled? 😦

[velvet thunder]

how to make decal receive light on mobile ?
I already made r.mobile.ShadingPath = 1, opened DBuffer, and changed decal material's Blend Mode to Color, Translucent, Normal
When I open android preview, decal rendered with light, but it doesn't work on real mobile device

[onyx viper]

When i put "BSS HaveMelee" and "BSS HaveGun" in lower Selector they don't give any value and so things not work, but when i put them in upper Selector they work.
So the problem is solved as i can put them in upper Selector but i don't want them there cuz BB Service will run even when there is no use of it, so i want to put them in lower Selector to save CPU usage.
Any suggestion

[wispy relic]

Hi all... does anyone know how to reset your landscape material and painted layers back ... in essence to start over?

without having to rebuild and recreate a whole new terrain?

[broken stream]

How do I limit resource usage of UE4 Editor when packaging? I can't have it pinning my CPU to 99% for 30 minutes.

[oak patio]

You can and should want that.

Short answer is you dont

Why don't you want it using CPU while you package?

It's an intensive task that takes resources, if you don't want them being used at that time don't do it, or do it on a different machine

[spice ruin]

You could use task manager to set the process to a lower priority... but yeah.

[mental parrot]

I have some inputs set up. When I hold down shift (which I have set up for sprinting), I can't turn on the flashlight which I have mapped to F. But I can turn it on just fine and move around with WASD without shift being pressed. Is there a checkbox I'm missing somewhere?

[eternal ledge]

got an annoying issue that makes no logical sense... looking at nothing but the sky in my world, other than uds, frame rate is just as bad as looking at everything else... if i hide levels then the framerate goes up even though not actually changing what can be seen.... what on earth causes that behaviour and whats the best tools to try and work out what is causing it?

[bronze adder]

I dont know how your level looks like and what device you are doing this on, but if you have other objects in the scene you might be able to figure out if they impact the performance although they are nog directly seen by the player camera by using the freezerendering command to see if these still get loaded in

[bronze adder]

Next to that maybe, I am not that good with UE, soo dont trust me too much with this xD but look at how the performance works out in an empty level to know the max that would be possible, then compare with your level and use stat commands to look at how specific parts of the level are performing/how much time and ressources the different tasks need

Then you could go in and see if you can find the bottleneck, which task is taking up the most time per frame

Thats probably how I would try to figure that out

[eternal ledge]

a 5950x and a 3080ti, so 120 in empty is simple... not player cam this is editor, and nothing is running as its not in play mode...

once i hide levels then it goes back up, start adding, even though nothing is in view, it goes down

[eternal ledge]

this is why it doesnt make any sense and cant get across that its litterelty looking at nothing in the world, there littertly isnt anything in that area, so surly it shouldnt be high, what would cause all the meshes that are in competly the opposite direction and not visable make the frame drop,

[bronze adder]

Hmm that is very weird, not sure if I can help much there, Id say again, try to figure out what aspect of the performance seems to be causing the issue/s with the stats command or other performance tools

Also not sure about this one, but I realised that when testing for that, that at least for final performance of the game, it is way more helpful to test in play mode, that resulted in much more reliable information for me to work with when optimizing performance stuff

could have been for my specific performance problem, but Id say it could deliver more clear results

[errant kindle]

hello, hoping someone has any idea how to fix a random issue. in UE 4.27 I have two VR projects from the template, one I got stuck on and the player couldn't move anymore so I started a new VR template and began migrating the assets over. the assets are very simple, grabable objects. they don't do anything, you just can grab them drop them and throw them.

the drop part wasn't working in the new project, I checked all the settings and they seemed the same, simulate physics was all I could think of (except it was off in the old project but dropping worked in that one) but turning it on worked. however, after this the project started** "flashing"**.

the flashing is hard to describe, it's like flashes of the scene I'm looking at. I thought it was textures at first but the flashes are "flat", they're not warping out of objects or anything I can tell. just a flat, 2d flash of imagery.

it also started flashing in the old project. the flashing occurs regardless of where I'm looking, where I move to, or what I do in the project. it just randomly flashes every however many seconds.

the only settings I have changed are turning mobile multi view off, and changing anti aliasing from MSAA to Temporal AA, neither did anything. I also tried turning simulate physics back off on the placed asset, which also did nothing.

I can't find any videos that show any similar issue or any forum discussing an issue like this. I've found flashing and flickering but none are like what I have.

additionally, laptop specs are AAA worthy, headset is oculus 3, and software used to connect is virtual desktop. never had this issue previously and just updated all drivers, so probably nothing to do with my computer.

[viscid grotto]

Has anyone here done the Tom Looman Tutorial?

[serene plinth]

uhhhh what if i already made like half a game in ue4.27 and wanna transfer it to ue5 would it still run on potatoes like it already does? would i even be able to put it on ue5?

[eternal ledge]

even more performance hit when running in play, but thats expected as its when stuff is actually running, though when built out of engine and running as an actual game the performance goes up a little but still considerably less, and still when just looking at the sky its poor

[wispy escarp]

Anyone used the customized Homeworld 3 editior and if so how was your experience with it ?

[oak patio]

Why wouldn't you?
And why wouldn't it. It's the same engine. The UE4 stuff is still there.

Generally speaking though if you're late into a project stick to an engine version

[pulsar ruin]

i really need some developer that have experience with ue4.27.2plus "GitHub source" and android (google play).

[oak patio]

Post to the job board then or ask your question

[tough thicket]

Why does it say im missing 1 file

why cant i see the missing file

oh i think im still being trolled

[grand hill]

I have a question what's the difference between unreal 4 and unreal 5 with the blueprint I'm trying to create a 2d game but my computer runs only unreal 4.27

I'm trying to do an RPG 2D game

[thorny narwhal]

Why my character is glowing in a dark scene like this?

the material

[strange lily]

Anyone know how to fix this issue with manny 4 and the blender rigify rig?

[flint moon]

Does anyone have any recommendations for what version of unreal I should download?

[jade surge]

The latest version is pretty good

4.27 was good, I wouldn't recommend 5.0 - 5.2.1 at all

It's been long enough that most if not all active marketplace plugins have also updated to 5.4 by now

[flint moon]

Thank you!

[muted ether]

Anyone got a good yt video on how to make a ai rag doll the main character?

[muted ether]

I have a question if anyone knows so I’m making a football game and I’m trying to make it so when the ball goes in the net it resets back to the middle so I tried making a collision so when the ball hit the collision it would delete the ball but it won’t work?

[latent warren]

check that both the net and ball have its collisions set to overlap each other's type, do on the net, on begin overlap, cast to ball, if ball call a "reset Ball" function you add to it, then call this to reset its physics states and set the world location.

also call the function as run on server, and make sure your ball is set to replicate

[muted ether]

Ok thank you

[onyx viper]

hey ! i was wondering which one should i use BeginPlay or OnPossess in AI Controller.

[weary ember]

im 7 years late but thank you! My OBS recordings were super choppy without setting that

[last loom]

The 7-year @ one can truly appreciate

[spare trench]

is there a way to recover the corrupted ue project files?

[thorny narwhal]

My game use the left shift key in keyboard to character sprint in, i want to add a joystick (dual sense) input to run if the player press the L3 key, but with no need to hold this button, how can i do this?

[spice ruin]

Go back in time and use source control.

Or check your Saved folder.

[spare trench]

in the saved folder I have that file which got corrupted but in TMP format, idk how can I recover it from that

[spare trench]

ah they are paid if not then very limited storage

[spare trench]

damn bro you saved my life it worked!

[charred agate]

Morning. Still new to UE and learning as I go with all of it. I'm trying to figure out a weird import export issue. I have a Texture that I'm trying to export from one kit then import it to another. It's a texture in one. When I export it only gives me HDR as an option. Which is importing as a Texture Cube. I'm trying to figure out how to prevent that and to get it in as it originally should be. A Texture. Anyone have any ideas on this?

[oak patio]

No, just the shitty hosts are. Azure DevOps is what you want

Or you can host locally

[spice ruin]

Np. 🙂

Now get some source control set up!

[spare trench]

sure

[spare trench]

can we use azure devops for a small team for free?

[spice ruin]

Up to 5 people.

[spare trench]

for free?

[spice ruin]

Yes

[oak patio]

Post to the job board

[lilac cipher]

I released my own game a few days ago and encountered a strange problem. Some players who have computers with iGUP and dGPU are reporting a problem that the game only uses iGUP. With some the speed is OK, the game starts on dGPU and with iGPU it only uses VRAM(?) and with some it uses ONLY iGPU.
On friends' computers in this configuration, the former is the case, and I have no way to check this version using only iGPU.
I tried forcing the card by adding r.GraphicsAdapter=-2 or r.GraphicsAdapter=-1 in the configuration, but it doesn't do anything.
I am using UE 4.27, have any of you encountered a similar problem?
I don't like to bother people, but I've been sitting on this for a few days now and can't find or advise anything.
You are my last hope.

This is a link to a discussion on steam about this error (the display itself I solved, earlier I read the first GPU in the system, now I read all - patch 0.1): https://steamcommunity.com/app/2096030/discussions/0/4351121256518956352/

[onyx viper]

is "Chaos Editor" plugin used for chaos destruction ? or is it something else ?

[onyx viper]

and ye one more
how can we generate new thumbnail for particle system (cascade) ?

i clicked thumbnail which is on top of ribbon when BP opened but doesnt work

[dark bough]

Hey guys, does anybody have info on this bool? Seems to be little to no documentation on what this means and what is best practice?

[pine glen]

Hi, sorry maybe dumb question but my viewport start lagging when I reach the 6000 assets for the mapping and finally freezing each time I move the cursor or anything when I reach the ten thousand and more, is it necessary to upgrade the pc or is there something to unlock or to activate to ease it?

[grim flame]

@pine glen you are most likely running out of Vram, a better graphics card would help.

the only other option is to optimize, make textures and meshes just high rez enough

[tired matrix]

Randomly all of the windows that show when you click or hover over something just start flashing and not showing up. Once it happens the only solution I've found is to restart the engine, which is extremely annoying. Anyone know what the issue is?

[vagrant eagle]

i want to make a clicker game but making a blank project still has a player controller and stuff how to make a true blank game?

[rustic panther]

just change the gamemode?

[vagrant eagle]

made a new gamemode and player controller and its still the same, you start the scene and theres still a player controller

[rustic panther]

oh right you can't have no playercontroller... you need a playercontroller to mouseclick though

[vagrant eagle]

yeah but how to have it not use the default actions? i dont want that free cam mode

[rustic panther]

that's the default pawn

you don't need a pawn, you can bind actions in level blueprint if you wanted

and for a clicker you could just use On Clicked event on an object

[inland socket]

Hi all. Sorry, if this is wrong place to post this. I do not know where to post it. I did not see an animation section.

Anyway. Hi all. Hope everyone is okay. 🙂

Question: what is happening and how do I fix this?

https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExcjMzaHJ5dnQ1eTVlNTY5ZHltaGF5bjg1ZjZrY2s0cnZ0ZXZ1ZWR4YiZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/hkZJ1rnvx3GEvUEc9r/giphy.gif

Background:
I successfully 😄 import a Mixamo animation onto 5.3, onto the SK_manniquin but I get that.

And I do not know what that is called so I do not know how to fix it or what to research to fix it.

thank you.

[rustic panther]

#animation

[inland socket]

ty

[rustic panther]

this is also UE5

we';re in UE4 channel atm

[inland socket]

I don't see it. Sorry. Kinda new to Discord

[inland socket]

Sorry. How do I acccess UE5? I know stupid quesiton

[rustic panther]

must be the morning for you

#ue5-general

[vagrant eagle]

Thanks

[inland socket]

Umm... so I'll just post in ue5-general, eh? lol I do not see #animation odd

[rustic panther]

check id:customize and subscribe to the channel

[lament locust]

I was watching a video on how to wall slide (so you go down slower) but when i am for example sliding and the wall is to my left when i press A (the side of the wall) I slow down, which is what is suppost to happen, but when i press D i am still stuck on the wall and i can not move of the wall. Anybody who has some time to help me?

[spark spruce]

The only working packaging option for testing in iphone is project launcher is (do not cook)

Cook by the book does nothing it just load a bit and says canceled

While Cook on the fly just loads forever

[surreal ether]

How do i extract Dragon ball fighterz models and put them into blender?

[spice ruin]

You don't.

[hidden osprey]

It’s only copyright if you were to repost it I wouldn’t bother tbf

[broken stream]

How do I limit resource usage when packaging a plugin?

[finite bison]

How exactly can i add the color4 to the mask?

[real heath]

Your first mask has created a float2 or vec2, your colors white node is a float3. You need to either mask the color put the existing masked node into a make float3

[finite bison]

i also fixed it

[real heath]

so you need to add same and same

[finite bison]

i needed to add it to RGBA instead of rgb, whoops

wait that still doesnt work

[spice ruin]

You can't add a float 2 (RG) to a float 3 (RGB)

You have 3 choices:

• Get rid of that mask node (use the RGB from teh texture)
• Use the append node to add a float to teh float 2 (making it a float 3)
• Use another RG mask on the color4 output

[severe glacier]

i need help with a ue4 glitch

[kind dew]

any reason why a packaged android build would stretch some image widgets? Only happens on android packaged builds. the images are in a scale box

[hidden dew]

Meshes are importing without colliders. What am I doing wrong here?

Found it... it's this little mofo:

If I untick that, it generates no collider 😐

So clear, Unreal. Thank you

[hidden dew]

Just some random shapes I feel like sharing...

I have an Actor that moves around a sphere, and the sphere changes shape beneath it.

The sphere is a hexy icosahedron, so everything's a hexagon or pentagon in there.

The purple planet uses a few levels of subdivision within every hexa/pentagon. I call it Smooth Chunky heh.
The reshaping is smooth, but every tri has its own normals causing its lighting to be distinct from its neighbouring tris, so you can see the triangle chonkiness.

The khaki planet uses the minimal tris necessary for its hexa/pentagons. I call it Chunky Chunky.
The reshaping is as chunky as it gets, since there are only 4 tris per hexagon. And while the tris inside each hexagon are admittedly sharing normals and thus 'hiding' some harsh corners, it's still just a chunky sight to see overall.

But the green planet is actually smoother (ie., more subdivided) than the purple planet, yet looks like this: 😄

I call it Chunky Smoove.
The reshaping is smooth; smoother than the purple planet even, with more subdivision. And yet the hexagon borders appear super crisp and chunky, while the internal tri borders are basically invisible.

I just like howit (the green planet) gives this impression of an icosahedron that starts off looking exactly as chunky as the khaki planet, yet morphs around with a smoother shape than the purple planet... while maintaining that chonky look.

Achieved by simply using Simple division in Blender, instead of the default Catmull-Clark, so it leaves the shape in its chunky hexagon-ey form, and it sets all the tris' normals to maintain that lighting even as two neighbouring hexagons smoothly curve the same way.

I did something like...

1. Create hex-based icosahedron with Blender's included plugin
2. Edge-split all edges first while still looking like a bunch of hexagons.
3. Then subdivide, Simple, 3 levels.
4. Then Triangulate Fixed or Fixed Alternate.
5. Then select all tris and UV unwrap so that every tri is its own island in the UV map.

The last point is necessary so Unreal doesn't bin vertices it thinks are identical during import.

[slender bramble]

Hello I am a 3D Artist and an Animation student. I will make a game for my thesis project. Which is a game that has stylized graphics and a small map. I also want to develop it to a point where I can release it in the end of it. I want it to be playable for some lower spec pcs. Should I use Unreal 5 or stick with Unreal 4 for that kind of project. Are Unreal 5 games can be optimized like made in Unreal 4?

[hidden dew]

Regarding UE4 vs UE5, this: #ue4-general message

I use UE4 specifically because it uses a different (faster) physics system than UE5. Otherwise I'd be on 5.

[hidden dew]

^

As for styles... I wish I could think of more but the only things I can think of that kind of avoid the mainstream visual styles are things like Antichamber (minimalist look), Breath of the Wild/RIME (elegant cartoony look), No Man's Sky (gaudy retro sci-fi), Journey, ... there's also Tearaway (everything looks paper), Yoshi's Woolly World (everything looks woollen)...

Ufff there's so much more but I can't think of any.

[hidden dew]

Also this is free atm:

There's an indie game called... Screen Cheat or something... where the character is the same colour and shading as many of the backgrounds, so the gimmick is that you can often hide in plain sight (so two players playing split-screen have to screen cheat to succeed)

[fleet granite]

where can i get help in here?

with making uassets into pak

[spice ruin]

#packaging ?

[fleet granite]

yeah

that

ty

[spare trench]

yo I added you in my yt devlog video

[spice ruin]

Added me?

[spare trench]

I mean your messages on discord

[spice ruin]

Some of them are definitely wrong!

But okay.

[spare trench]

😂 I added the part when you helped to recover my corrupt ue file

It worked btw

[spice ruin]

Nice!

[spare trench]

you wanna see?

[spice ruin]

Why not?

[spare trench]

ah where I'll share the link?

dm?

[spice ruin]

Here is fine, I guess?

[spare trench]

I think so

https://youtu.be/vUfl4ABA54c?si=EEJ0slzzc6owxTtB

[spice ruin]

Hah.

I like that you got my sass in there too.

[spare trench]

hahh

Does anybody know how can we setup control rig for our own character in ue4?

[torpid pivot]

Mulitplayer

[nova canyon]

Does anyone know if it's possible to use noise to break up the blending on a Landscape Layer Blend?? The same way you would use it in a vertex blend shader

[ashen jackal]

Hi guys, I'm planning to make like this wall in unreal engine. Does anyone know which way should I approach to make like this wall shader?
I'm make this wall using unreal engine 4.27. is this possible?

I think wall feeling like subsurface scattering and little bit of translucent
I have no idea how to make it.

This is what I've tried.

[warped violet]

try this; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=527ZcxYnf_s

Does anyone have an older version of advanced locomotion system? Alsv1, 2 ,3?

[oak patio]

why?

[obtuse stump]

Does anyone know a full video to localization? I've no idea on how to do it

[tall tinsel]

I use ShooterGame from UE4 Legacy Samples. Compiling even small changes takes 10 times longer than usual. What could be causing this?

[real moon]

So, I am an absolute beginner

Are there any yt tutorials that can help me jumpstart making games?

I think I need c++

[tall tinsel]

Perhaps the tutorials from Ulibarri on udemy will be suitable.

[real moon]

No something that is free, and basically provide a foundation sort of

I know a lot about java and making apps and guis from it, but I have no idea about making actual games

[dawn heron]

Look for Unreal Sensei on youtube.

[real moon]

thank you

[spice ruin]

#cpp pins

[solid holly]

There any difference between Maximum Quality and Scalable 2d or 3d?

[quick grove]

Out of interest does anyone know what could cause the texture over budget warning to appear. I've noticed within the TSW editor after couple of start and stops of PIE it evetually appears and textures then appear blury. Is there something that can cause memory to build up at all to point where it's too much ?

[digital anchor]

the default budget is pretty low, 2-3 sets of 4k textures are enough to make it go over budget

if you already increased it, there is the stat streaming and listtextures commands which may be useful to see what textures are mostly being used

[cunning dew]

Hello all of you.
I am facing some issues when trying to load a pak file during runtime into my game.
The code works with desktop build but when I do the same in meta quest 2, everything loads up except the shaders/materials for my uassets/blueprints
I am following this tutorial :

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/7Bj8/unreal-engine-example-project-loading-pak-files-at-runtime

[tall tinsel]

For blueprint part wadstein https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOVfF7PfLbRdVEm0hONTrNQ is good.

[hidden osprey]

You could of asked him to join this server he’s literally in another server I’m in and helps loads of people 🤦🏼‍♂️

[oak patio]

?

[hidden osprey]

I was referring to @tall tinsel

[spice ruin]

He's in this one too...

[oak patio]

And it wouldn't have answered the question anyway. He isn't going to give a user a personal foundation, that's kind of the point of making a youtube channel

[fossil thorn]

Hey, My pc doesnot support UE5, is UE4 still viable to use in 2024 for small scope projects?

[spice ruin]

Yes

[bold forge]

Question :

Do I need to have internet in order to package 📦 ad exe. In unreal?

[covert sky]

I have a source build project. Whats the best way to share my project with a team. Will they all need the source build to work on it?

[spice ruin]

To make a package? No. To give that package to anyone? Most likely. You can always mail them a thumb drive.

[spice ruin]

If they don't have your version of the source, it may or may not work.

[covert sky]

darn but good idea with the thumbdrive

what would be the may work scenario? Do they just use for example 4.27 vanilla?

[spice ruin]

If you have a similar version of the engine, it may work. If you don't, your assets will be incompatible.

[covert sky]

Do I need to send team members the whole folder or can I send them parts of it to reduce size?

[spice ruin]

What have you changed and what do you have checked out?

If you just checked out thr same version as them from git (using the tag) then changed a few things, it should be fine.

Unless you changed anything crucial.

[oak patio]

Could always distribute the precompiled binaries via a rocket build if no one else needs to modify the source

[severe glacier]

i need help with animation

i can't add keyframes

[stone lion]

Hi, mi games suddenly start to crashing on Shiping mode after changing some assets, when I package on Development this message apears, what can I do? Thanks

[next echo]

Hey everyone, is there a way to unload a texture 2d that's been imported at runtime? After importing lots of textures they are never removed from memory, even when they're no longer used, and my texture pool runs out.

[tough thicket]

Whats better for performance

20 small models with 1 large texture

or 20 textures for 1 model

i guess once its baked inside unreal it doesnt matter

??

[late girder]

How do I mod unreal engine games?

[oak patio]

By using their official mod kit distributed via EGL.

Otherwise, we don't discuss it here

[late girder]

a modkit?

[oak patio]

Yes. Like Ark does. A custom build of Unreal Engine used specifically for that game

[crystal musk]

Hey, does anybody know why my game looks completely different when run in standalone compared to in the editor window, and how I might go about making sure this doesn't happen?

(Left is standalone, right is what its supposed to look like, ignore the outdated copyright date on this screen).

[hasty epoch]

Hello. I'd like to ask you a question. I'd like to make a simple VR mode in our game. With the player using VR instead of a monitor. Otherwise, the game would be controlled via keyboard and mouse. Is that possible?

[hasty epoch]

You need to add exposure to scene.

[crystal musk]

Could you elaborate?

[hasty epoch]

You need to add Post Process Volume to scene and set up manual exposure to similar light like Standalone.

[crystal musk]

That did not work

The game is still completely washed out while in standalone mode

What's even weirder is that if I go into standalone, then fullscreen the game, it fixes the problem temporarily, but restarting always has the game start off washed out, it's bizarre

[crystal musk]

Thanks for the response anyway though

[hasty epoch]

Try this: https://youtu.be/K2kIre_BHgA?si=CrI4VouPdZyFsqET

@crystal musk

[crystal musk]

Nothings changed ):

[hasty epoch]

Build lighting

[crystal musk]

Already did that but I'll do it again

Did not change anything

I don't think its a problem with the level lighting or post process because it looks fine when the game is played in any other launch mode, the problem is that the standalone launch mode seems to randomly alter the entire games visuals in every level.

Like even "New Editor Window" is 100% correct looking

[hasty epoch]

Oh, sorry.

Sorry, that I can't help you.

[crystal musk]

It's fine, thanks for trying anyway, I really appreciate it :)

[golden sundial]

Can I get someone to help me in the #blueprint ??

[golden sundial]

Moved my issue to #umg since its a widget problem~

[drowsy turtle]

honestly, I feel like c++ in Unreal Engine is a mess, because you still mostly need blueprints to set assets, create an UMG widget etc. 😔

[drowsy turtle]

https://tenor.com/view/rage-slamming-breaking-computer-gif-18379804

[hidden osprey]

RAM ISSUE

[drowsy turtle]

erm, no?

[serene plinth]

you know code wise, the brain is the while true loop, and the spine is just the referencers to the body parts that connect it to the brain

[crystal musk]

For anybody curious, I did end up fixing this!
I had to have the game automatically set the "Visual effect quality" setting to 2, I have no idea why.

[cerulean pine]

I need help. My water plugin isn't working, to the point where the example buoyant object doesn't float in the example water map

How do you reinstall or update a plugin?

[eternal ledge]

is this fluid flux?

if its the project files then just delete and re add them to the project (assuming you havnt made any changes to the files within the folder that you need to keep)

if its an actual plug in, then go to the unreal engine market place folder, delete the plug in in there, then redownload to engine

[cerulean pine]

@eternal ledge i fixed it. It turned out that the buoyancy simply doesnt start with auto-activate on

[eternal ledge]

ah makes sense

[cerulean pine]

That said, my next challenge is figuring out how to make a 2D harpoon sprite fly straight. But that shouldnt be hard to figure out, I just need to watch a video about arrows. While I'm here I'm gonna skip ahead to a more complicated thing, which is: How can I make a rope sprite that extends, and how do I make it so my poncho sprites remain connected when the arms move

I think I can kill two birds with one stone by learning this: How do I make a sprite stretch between two points?

[marble kayak]

Is there a safe link where I can download the Unreal 4 mennequin? I have a vehicle project and the 3rd person template is not in it. Thank you 🙂

I just need it for scale reference

Never mind I just added the Animation starter pack to my project issue solved 🙂

[frail river]

Hey, does anyone know how to enable "stat gpu" on a game running on UE4 ? I'm playng Conan Exiles, and there's a map that runs at 14 fps, and I got curious what's eating up the ms, but stat gpu isn't working, and r.gpustatsenabled=1 didn't help

Funnily, stat gpu works on other Ue4 games, like Mordhau 😄

[spice ruin]

We don't really offer support for specific games.

However it's entirely possible they just disabled all the stat commands.

[gilded mason]

I'm getting these very weird error messages when I try to build for HTML in 4.27 and google/stack overflow is giving nothing - anyone has any ideas? No errors come up in any of the blueprints either

[oak patio]

How are you building for html in 4.27 when it was dropped after 4.24?

[spice ruin]

Some brave souls did try to carry it on.

[oak patio]

oh no

[toxic lily]

got a question,

Im using a cel shaded outline post processing material, and i have a Exponential Height Fog in my scene with volumetric fog enabled,

Is there a way i can adjust the rendering layer for the fog? like apply after the post process material, or is there a way i can get it to blend with the post process, as you can see here, objects further away have the outline when they should be occluded by the fog

[hazy rose]

So I'm making like a boat system where an AI can get ona boat and move from A to B you know.
I am lookign for constructive feedback / alternatives to the following method:

I have a AI Character who, enters the boat by setting collision to query only (img1) and then setting a variable "on boat to true"

Then every tick I do this BS (img 2) just tping the plakyer to the boat location

And to exit the boat I just teleport the AI to the nearest navigable location (img 3) and he can resume walking to his destination

My main worry in this strategy is the need for tping the player to the boat location every tick. I will be having multiple AIs and i'm guessing its gonna be laggy af.

I have tried attaching to component / actor but for some reason No idea why but the attachment always ends up with player A on one half ot he map and player B on the other half of the map.
😭 and i disabled collisions.
Now the nodes are unattached but essentially I've tried every combination and to no avail

Solid 2 hours on this 💀

[noble olive]

I'm a passionate 3D character artist, illustrator, sculptor. I have experience in 3D modeling, UE, sculpting, texturing, rigging, and rendering. for games, movies and animation etc. I make use of software like Zbrush, Maya, Blender, UE. I can model 3D Dragon 3D Character model 3D Environment for you base on your ideal with Affordable

Kindly inbox me now

[solid holly]

How long does it take you guys to compile about 5000 shaders?

[oak patio]

Kindly read the #rules. To post a job offering you need to use the job board, #instructions tells you how

[noble olive]

Ohh thanks you sorry for that

[oak patio]

No worries!

[shell wren]

guys anyone knows whats happen to grass and how to fix this?

[spare trench]

sometimes when I bake lightning, it doesn't bake properly, some assets looks black or different color compare to if I switch light source to movable. How can we get the same light result when baked?
Also sometimes some assets needs to change thier lightmap values. How can we know how much lightmap value a particular asset needs?

[grim flame]

@spare trench this mode helps you visualize the lightmap resolution, each square is a pixel

[solid holly]

How can I make it so that when I change the text, the slider doesn't change size

[plush yew]

Does anyone know how to fix the annoying VS Studio bug that keeps opening the Save As Dialog while the intellisense is running?
I must wait a few seconds/minutes until the analysis finishes in order to Save or Build the code
This is a reported bug btw. I'm gonna link a page of someone going trough the same thing.
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Save-As-dialog-constantly-opens-when-a/10617511?sort=active&type=idea

[wild flame]

Hi, Im making a multiplayer game with a dedicated server. I normally built my server and launched it and I can perfectly connect to it. When I implement Advanced Sessions Plugin for steam I cant connect to my server it gives a PreLogin failure: incompatible_unique_net_id. How can I fix this can anyone help me? Thanks.

[solid holly]

||LoL found out||

[covert sky]

Has anyone experience this bug where delays don't work print screens don't go away?

[tough bear]

can anyone help me - figure why i have this third screen coming at (0,0,0) spawn location.

i have only added 2 player start

[candid sparrow]

can anyone recommend an fps tutorial without using templates?

kinda sucks to look up a tutorial for ue4 and they end up using the template

[surreal cedar]

i mean whats wrong with using the template

[candid sparrow]

i dont have it

[surreal cedar]

its installed with the engine

[candid sparrow]

i did not install it

i only installed the core engine

plus

i wanna learn how to make it

and not just use a premade one

[surreal cedar]

well whats a better way to learn then look at how others have made it

and you know the people who made the engine seems like pretty good teachers

[candid sparrow]

well where can i downlload only the template?

like as a zip file or whatever

[candid sparrow]

i cant download all of that

network limits

[surreal cedar]

well just download the templates then

[candid sparrow]

still thats like

3gb

sucks

well im gonna try to find the template

as a zip file or whatever

[surreal cedar]

the template is not going to be any smaller

its still going to be a large size

also how tf do u have network limits in 2024?

[candid sparrow]

idk its like 6gb a day

[surreal cedar]

why?

[candid sparrow]

had to split up the ue4 download into 2 days lmao

[surreal cedar]

also is there any specific reason u are using UE4 over Ue5

[candid sparrow]

smaller download size

ue5 would take 4 days to download

[surreal cedar]

if u care about download size why did u go for the most advanced public engine that is never goign to be small

especially if theres updates etc

[candid sparrow]

dude all i wanted was a tutorial which doesnt use the templates

im not gonna update it

[surreal cedar]

if theres updates to a specifc version u wont have a choice

[candid sparrow]

its not like other engines dont have large download sizes

[surreal cedar]

godot is less than a gig

[candid sparrow]

and it sucks

in all honesty

[surreal cedar]

no it doesnt

its a very capable engine

[candid sparrow]

for my use case it does

[surreal cedar]

what is your use case

[candid sparrow]

photorealism

[surreal cedar]

and have u ever opened ue4 before and made smaller working projects?

[candid sparrow]

well i have used unity for a year now

but not ue4

so im just trying to get a working fps controller

and see how the engine has its own ways of creating certain things

wouldnt downloading a template ruin that?

[surreal cedar]

not really

as the template uses the engine as its made by the people who made the engine its an extremely solid starting point

and any tutorial that doesnt use the template just remakes the template anyway

[surreal cedar]

wait so your trying to make a photorealistic FPS game... with no experience in unreal

[candid sparrow]

im not trying to make a photorealistic fps game.

im just testing things with the engine

and when i have enough experience i will start making that

[surreal cedar]

yeah so ur probably about 5 years off

[candid sparrow]

whatever bro

its as if i cant apply my years of experience into this engine

[surreal cedar]

well put it this way i have multiple qualifications in epic partnered unreal courses at my college and multiple university years and i still am learning

[candid sparrow]

and im still learning too

but seriously, this argument is about an fps??

an fps controller is one of the simplest things to make

[surreal cedar]

who said its an argument

[candid sparrow]

idk i just assumed

[bleak zodiac]

is okay, got both unity and unreal user here

[candid sparrow]

well i got everything in control now, got the hang of pawns and visual scripting..

didnt need to download 3.5 gigs of data

and my fps controller works just fine

[bleak zodiac]

what else?

[candid sparrow]

wdym

[fierce tinsel]

hey I have one problem when in the video the character and the camera are in correct position but when I play the game the every thing is mixed up please help

[solid holly]

There is no way, grass only spawn at >High Engine Scalability. For the last 2 days I've been trying to figure out why my grass just stopped working

https://tenor.com/view/rage-smash-destroy-keyboard-computer-gif-21886227

[iron folio]

Hey, I have a problem when packaging my project. The Output log shows:
PackagingResults: Error: begin: stack for UAT PackagingResults: Error: === Critical error: === UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffd3edf71b1 UE4Editor-Niagara.dll!UnknownFunction [] PackagingResults: Error: Fatal error! UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffdbee438c2 UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!UnknownFunction [] PackagingResults: Error: Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000000 PackagingResults: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffd3edf0ff0 UE4Editor-Niagara.dll!UnknownFunction [] PackagingResults: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffd3edfd79d UE4Editor-Niagara.dll!UnknownFunction [] PackagingResults: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffd3edefd39 UE4Editor-Niagara.dll!UnknownFunction [] PackagingResults: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffd3ede4169 UE4Editor-Niagara.dll!UnknownFunction [] PackagingResults: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffd3ee2824b UE4Editor-Niagara.dll!UnknownFunction [] PackagingResults: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffd3edf71b1 UE4Editor-Niagara.dll!UnknownFunction [] PackagingResults: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffdbee438c2 UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!UnknownFunction [] UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffdbeb9549d UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!UnknownFunction []

I've tried updating my graphics drivers, verifying my engine version, disabling and re-enabling niagara.. is there any way to tell further information about what could be causing this?

engine version 4.27.2

[ashen jackal]

I'm testing the playback of a streamable media source in Unreal Engine using the VLC plugin. I'm using this RTSP URL: rtsp://210.99.70.120:1935/live/cctv001.stream. However, the VLC plugin isn't working with RTSP, although it works fine with RTMP. Does anyone know why this is happening?

Engine version is 4.27.2
Error message : LogVlcMedia: Error: mmdevice: cannot initialize COM (error 0x80010106)

[azure shore]

why do you ping reply to every message immediately above your own

[fierce tinsel]

Bro In this video when I make our own animation class my animation our not working I have also send the photo of my blueprint please help

[tough thicket]

few issues

1 idk is velocity default? is Vector length correct? what are you trying to do

what kind of animation is it

also

thats the wrong anim graph

theirs no way the default manequin is using 3 node to output pose unless thats a pose driver thingy but doesnt look like it

[azure shore]

can I get some help with a light building bug, Ive asked in visual effects and on the reddit but both have been completely silent and this is really slowing me down

[azure shore]

[tough thicket]

posting question might help

[azure shore]

Ive asked in visual effects

[oak patio]

Not the best strategy to have people scroll through a different channel every time they need to refer to the original question

[azure shore]

I said a light building bug, if anyone here saw this and knows anything about light building, they could help, if they dont, thered be no point me describing the whole thing here

Ill just send the link if its easier #visual-fx message but didnt wanna send all the same messages in 2 different channels

and I mean because itd look spammy, not out of laziness

[spare trench]

isn't there a official way of exporting video of sequence in unreal engine4?

[tough thicket]

importing into or out of unreal?

[spare trench]

exporting the sequence out of unreal engine

[tough thicket]

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/1buvqlm/how_do_i_export_a_sequence_to_a_mp4/

i think this is the most informative thing you could read on the subject

some plugins in marketplace too

tldr you cant

[spare trench]

thanks dude, I figured it out using a plugin named Movie Queue as I remeber

[last current]

Hello everyone) I have a question. When I import a model with a skeleton into UE4 in .fbx format, everything is fine in normal viewing. But as soon as I apply animation the model becomes invisible (most likely it changes size to very small).
P.S. I noticed that this only happens with models that are bound to only one bone, for example head.

[tough thicket]

blend issue in anim blueprint or you have messed up keyframes

[last current]

No, the animation is fine. It works fine everywhere. I found a similar problem online but couldn't figure out how to fix it.https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/skeletal-animation-mesh-disappears/314641

[last current]

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/ekgrm4/help_adding_animation_makes_mesh_invisible/

[tough thicket]

nah you made a mistake

it might look fine in Maya

[proven monolith]

Hiii I'm making some render target stuff and I wanted to redraw RT with new values using material and drawing to render target. The problem is I can't seem to use render target in material, that ends rendered intu this same render target

[tough thicket]

Yeah theirs a node for that but idk its in the tutorial gimme a minute and ill look for you

[tough thicket]

sry ppl trying to kill me 1 minute

[proven monolith]

Don't worry I got plenty of time, hope you'll stay alive

[quasi jackal]

Is there a visual studio channel?

[oak patio]

This is an unreal engine server, so no

We have a C++ channel but it's not for IDE questions

[tough thicket]

So many are dead... Alright wait are you asking to reuse the render target for another purpose?

Known Limitations

You cannot draw to a render target that is being sampled as a Texture by the Material you specify. Either use alpha blending to modify a render target in-place, or go back and forth between two different render targets.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/RenderTargets/BlueprintRenderTargets/Overview/

right at the bottom

[proven monolith]

Exactly, I want to get 2 different render targets (base and mask) and perform MIN on them, which would be drawn do base render target

[tough thicket]

you would need to set up 2 cameras i guess im not sure if theirs a node for it, says right there you cant change render targets so im assuming that means theirs no node for it for camera component

[solid holly]

Anybody know any tutorials on youtube
About:

1. Change a character's outfit
2. Changing facial expresions

[tough thicket]

All that is done inside a 3d workspace

https://www.google.com/search?q=blender+clothing+weight+paint&rlz=1C1VDKB_enCA1072CA1072&oq=blender+clothing+weight+paint&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCDM0OThqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

https://www.google.com/search?q=blender+face+shape+keys&sca_esv=ea8345caca9cba8c&rlz=1C1VDKB_enCA1072CA1072&sxsrf=ADLYWILC8iHrolGzWbI8-h4LkBuMu3tMHg%3A1722276128146&ei=INmnZsjFCK2eptQP2Lvb-Q8&ved=0ahUKEwjI1crG6syHAxUtj4kEHdjdNv8Q4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=blender+face+shape+keys&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiF2JsZW5kZXIgZmFjZSBzaGFwZSBrZXlzSABQAFgAcAB4AJABAJgBAKABAKoBALgBDMgBAJgCAKACAJgDAJIHAKAHAA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

[solid holly]

Thanks

[gilded mason]

did you manage to figure it out?

[iron folio]

Yes, it was an issue with a specific particle system. I had to manually go through each niagara system and try to perform operations on them. Eventually I found a system that crashed the engine with the same error. I had to remove this problematic system using Windows Explorer as I couldn't take any actions on this system in the engine without it crashing. Once I deleted it I was able to build successfully

[gilded mason]

This actually worked!!! Thank you so much!

[fierce tinsel]

Hey when I try to drag our blueprint interfaces in by blueprint class an error is coming this function was not marked as blueprint capable and cannot be placed in a graph

[sullen star]

hey there all! hope everyones day is good and cool. does anyone know of any tutorials (i dont care what lanaguge its in) about how to get a cloth door to work and a blanket for ue4 i have looked at the internet i saw someones tutorial and there was two balls going around hitting cloth and making it move then i down load the example map to find they have removed that information from it now they spin which is great if you need that lol ive tried to figure it out i have tests they fly away or do strange things so i thought i would ask if anyone can help me that would be awesome 😄

[low kiln]

hello dumbdumb here. was wondering how to make this work? i want to measure basically clicks per hour but delta time is super fast and i thought that was normal speed? thats what it sort of says when i hover on the green part

[oak patio]

that looks like farts per hour not clicks 🤔

[oak patio]

delta time is just the time it took the last frame to execute. I'm not exactly sure what lead you down to the delay on tick path, but it's always wrong

You use it to normalize things

If you wanted something to move 10 units a second, you'd multiply 10 by delta time, and use that as the movement value

[low kiln]

i didnt really understand sorry

anyone who could explain to a beginner?

[oak patio]

everything in a game moves in frames. That what fps is. The delta time is how long it took the last one to execute. You use it when you want something to move in a specific amount of time.

Say for example, every second you want something to count up by 10. You can't just stick this on a tick itself, as you might be running at 20fps, 100fps, etc.
So instead, by taking the delta time, you can modify that amount to tell you how much you should move up per frame.

You multiply your 10, by the delta time. Say you stay at a stable fps, you take the 10 units per second, then multiply it by 1/60, to know how much you should count by in that single frame. Then all is well when you've counted 60 of them, because you've counted up by 10.

as for the actual maths of counting a certain amount of something per hour, might be better off in #game-math

[low kiln]

my jaw actually dropped for 30 seconds

[tough thicket]

Cloth paint in the mesh settings is easy to you just need to enable complexe collision on the sphere id imagine and thats all

[sullen star]

yeah i know the settings are easy but it just didnt work when i tried it

[sullen star]

thank you for getting back to me though

[fierce tinsel]

bro one problem is coming when I change my ue 4 mannique with the character asset and set the animation class the animation is not working in character but working in unreal 4 mannique help please I am a beginner in unreal 4.27

[plush yew]

do i need to put the reflection captures in the map with the geometry or lighting?

[bitter elm]

I'm running into an issue where anim notifies on replicated enemies do not trigger if the host is far away from them (it triggers for clients but not the host). The enemies are still replicated (always relevant) and can move, but no longer receive the anim notifies like usual. As soon as the host moves closer everything starts working again. Is there some kind of net relevancy distance for anim notifies? (UE 4.27)

[bitter elm]

I found the setting on the mesh: "Visibility Based Anim Tick Option"

[wraith wadi]

hello, i was wondering has anyone here got any experience with the RTS plug in available on github?

[spice ruin]

The RTS plugin?

[wraith wadi]

yes

[neon bough]

the one and only... RTS plugin

1.) provide a link to the plugin
2.) provide more information about what problem you got

this channel isn't very active, and adding more information to your question may raise the chance of getting an answer at all

[wraith wadi]

https://github.com/npruehs/ue4-rts?tab=readme-ov-file

its this plugin and i am not able to see any of the assets it says will be available, do i have to start using the assets, or will the assets already be ready in place to edit?

[spice ruin]

How were we meant to know it was that one? 😦

The assets may be in the plugins folder.

And that plugins folder may be hidden in the content browser. There's a settings button on the right... I think. Can't remember where it is in UE4.

[neon bough]

Show plugin content is what it should say in the content browser options

[wraith wadi]

where is the content browser option?

[neon bough]

can you show us a screenshot?

[spice ruin]

Should be a cog {o} icon somewhere.

[neon bough]

most of us didn't use UE4 for at least 2 years

[wraith wadi]

screenshot of what exactly?

[neon bough]

your content browser in UE

[spice ruin]

Don't use your phone.

[neon bough]

bottom right maybe

view options

[wraith wadi]

i checked it, but once its enabled nothing shows up

ok, i found it lol

[spice ruin]

I highly suggest enabling the folder tree too.

Whatever option that is.

[neon bough]

i highly suggest removing UE4, installing UE5 and getting familiar with it, and then trying to port that thing to UE5

which should be possible

you aren't doing yourself a favor with UE4 (as beginner)

[wraith wadi]

i did start a project in unreal engine 5, but came across an issue where i was trying to spawn players with random player colours that were assigned to UV maps in imported models

but unreal engine 5 only allows me to use up to 4 UV maps on imported skeleton mesh

[neon bough]

and UE4 allows more?!

also i don't think that you need UV Maps for that

sounds like a job for dynamic material instances and/or primitive instance data

[wraith wadi]

well im importing assets from an old game, i was trying to reuse all the assets from that game because the dev company no longer exists

and i wanted to basically port the game to new a new engine due to stability issues

i know i am new and it can be tedious to teach new people, but a little help would be very appreciated

[wraith wadi]

well i had something like that set up, but i dont know how to apply it to the player spawns

[neon bough]

well, you have to learn to provide the necessary context to your questions

as with THE RTS Plugin question, we can assume a lot of things when context is missing

[wraith wadi]

its this here

https://discordapp.com/channels/187217643009212416/221798862938046464/1268314674621845597

[neon bough]

you don't even have to change UV for that, as all color data is pretty much in one texture, this can be "easy" done in the material

[wraith wadi]

this is what i have in the material

[neon bough]

and to pick a random color, that depends on how random you want it to be, e.g. can colors be used multiple times or only once? if only once you want some global manager which manages the color

yea that's overkill

you can just remap the UV.x range for anything where UV.y is > 0.5 (as all the color stuff is in the lower half)

[wraith wadi]

yeah just picked once for now, until i am able to make a colour selection widget

[neon bough]

to make it easier you could split it into two textures

[wraith wadi]

its in the lower half and on the arms

and on the male version its on the chest arms and legs

[neon bough]

in the begin play of the player you would create a dynamic material instance where you set the scalar parameter of UVIndex to a random number

or you would use custom primitive data which you can also update on beginplay, they don't require a material instance

[wraith wadi]

this is what i have in the parent unit class

[neon bough]

yea the set scalar node is the wrong one

that one is for a material parameter collection, which you don't want to use for that

[wraith wadi]

like this?

[neon bough]

yea, there's also one which set's it by Name

and as target you have to plugin the instance that you created

and then you also have to assign the instance to your mesh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVKVXjaT6QM

that also applies to UE5

and at this point you may want to bring the convo back to some UE5 channel to leave this out of #ue4-general

[wraith wadi]

ok, i will do, just been struggling with this and you have actually helped more than i could have imagined

[warm hill]

Good day everyone please I have a question to ask
Have any of you recently uploaded a game on the Google playstore? I am having issues packaging my game with API 34 and 35 which is Google's requirement right now but if I use API 32 or 31 I will be able to package my game but Google console doesn't support any API lesser than 34 please do you have any questions on how to package a game to support API 34 or 35
I am using UE4. 27

[cold vessel]

Hello Guys

Am new here Best regard to everyone

[noble olive]

You're welcome

[modest ice]

Hi i am having problems with character movement

Basically my character moves fine, then i enter a car, unpossess the character, and possess the car (which also moves fine). I then exit the car, and repossess the character. Now the character no longer can run/walk or jump but for some reason my punch and dodge inputs still work.

Has anyone seen something like this before? I checked if it is still attached to that car (it was not), I checked whether inputs were being ignored (also no), so not sure what to do.

Thank you!

[crisp moat]

sorry but google sucks if you do not upload a project for a year they will close your account without any refund, i was planning to make a crossplay feature for a unreal project on android and though i'd have a placeholder like on steam, i was wrong

[oak patio]

That's just not true though. To be inactive you need to be over a year old, have less than 1000 installs combined, not used the play console in 180 days and have unverified credentials.

And you can easily keep your account too. First they email you to warn you, then you just verify credentials and push an update

That fee is also a one time fee of $25

[finite bison]

Is there a limit to how many active widget indexes there are for the widget switcher?

i can only go up to 3

[toxic lily]

got a question

working on a save game state, and im trying to store a weapon BP actor store in a player slot

here is the save, pardon the mess

ive tested extensively and it does accurately save the item, it even lists its BP name in a print string, however when i load the save it cannot load that item and acesses none.

im not sure i understand this, how can i get a reference to something that seemingly exists but cant be called?

[raw oak]

What you're trying to save is a reference to an actor. That variable is just a pointer to something in memory. Once you close your game and restart, that reference is no longer accurate. You'll need to save specific properties of your actor in something like a struct and then use those properties to update a new actor when loading your save

[toxic lily]

yeah i read a bit into it and saw making a sttruct was the best method, ive tried it and still no dice,

I wager i probably had set it up wrong

I saved the struct and try to recall it with a spawn actor, but its still reading as a none value

it did get rid of nearly all those errors except that one though so its progress

[toxic lily]

been able to nail it down to here, or atleast i believe so

[candid sparrow]

anyone knows why its blank? when i first made it there were some stuff on the right you could edit camera tilt, yaw, etc

[spice ruin]

Go to the window menu at the top and see if you can open stuff again.

Failing that reset your layout (at the bottom of the window menu)

[candid sparrow]

interesting, it worked, thanks a ton!

[fierce tinsel]

Bro when I open unreal 5 and make a project and when project is about to open these error are coming anyone can help me

[azure shore]

might wanna ask in #ue5-general then

[covert sky]

Is there a way to update the ue4 browser in 4.27. Websites hardly work now....

[sharp marten]

Are you running on a laptop any chance?

[fierce tinsel]

Ya I am right now running unreal in laptop

[sharp marten]

Most laptops have two GPUs. One integrated, that is really only good for watching 1080p videos and doing basic work tasks and doesn't use much power, the other is discreet (i think the term might be wrong), which is for hardware accelerated tasks (such as gaming) and uses more power

UE4 is probably using the integrated one. Depending on the laptop vendor, you might be able to set it so that it turns on the discreet GPU for UE4

[fierce tinsel]

I have an integrated gpu

Bro I'm using ue 4.27 I am using enhanced input action but it is not working help me

[oak patio]

jesus, can you not spam your question

you've already been asked

[oak patio]

You won't be able to use unreal with an iGPU

It doesn't work well, you're lucky if it works at all

[ocean pumice]

What do you think about my resume ? Thank!

[covert sky]

anyone's editor freezes up and wakes up if i maximize another window? Its a clean windows 11 and a new ue4 project.

[summer elk]

I know it's been a while, but have you had any chance to figure this out?

[blissful girder]

Has anyone ever worked with static VBDs to make a cloudy environment and all of the sudden out of nowhere they go from nice fluffy clouds to being sliced up into pieces and rearranged like some sort of weird tiling?

FIX: Not sure what the problem was, must have typed in a weird command because I created a new project, migrated the level, and all the VBDs were how they were supposed to be again.

[warm hill]

Good day everyone please has anyone figured how to package unreal engine 4.27.2 project for android using SDK 34 or 35? I can perfectly package my game with SDK 32 but Google console says I should upgrade my game by packaging with SDK 34 or above. Right now I am just stock and confused I don't have any clue on how to make this work please does any one has a clue on how I could package my game with SDK 34 or 35 in UE4. 27.2 please I need help 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[past oxide]

is there anyway to connect two integers to one create session node?

[candid sparrow]

i imported this scene from blender and its too dark.. its as if the sky is not emitting any light and the only source of light is the directional one.. what do i do?

[tough thicket]

does it have a skybox?

[candid sparrow]

yeah

[tough thicket]

if your scene has a skybox like a mesh for the sky then it can obstruct lighting

you can turn culling on and that works but

dont remember exactly

[hot arrow]

I just discovered the One File Per Actor in UE5 🤣
Is there a way to implement it for UE4 👀 ?

I don't see how complex it is

[kindred creek]

hey, im trying to import 2 skeletal meshes, and 3 anims. it's been about 1 hour and it's still doing this stuff. i exported as an fbx from blender. any help would be good

each anim is 2000 frames

[candid sparrow]

i actually fixed it, while importing the meshes i also had to check lightmap uvs

[tough thicket]

36,000 keys?

jesus you can reduce those keys somehow but it will reduce anim quality

[spare trench]

bro literally remembers a message written 3 years ago 🫡

[hot arrow]

Hello guys, for the ones that use the 4.23, do you know if virtual textures are supported by the HTML packaging ? 👀

[leaden hawk]

Search function be liken exists

[shy nebula]

I know this is a dumb way to do it but im just trying to figure out how to pass a variable to the server. So heres my issue. I am working within a widget and im trying to pass text to an actor that's in the scene. But its not replicating from client to server

and in theory it should heres my setup

when I pass that text variable to the actor which contains NewVar 1 text which has replicated selected in replication" It will only show on the client not the server

[rustic panther]

not a multiplayer expert here, but user widgets don't exist on server... you need to have the widget interact with a controller or something else that is replicated and have that actor execute to server

possibly check out #multiplayer for a better answer

[shy nebula]

I added an actor that contains the variable to the map

but ok ill go there thanks

[hushed moat]

Hello, i was new here, and i wanted to ask something about my project, i want to make a hole for my window at my wall (i'm using mesh for window and wall), sorry for my bad english and thank you 🙂

[green acorn]

how is the wall created?

you need to create wall where the window will be. Typically done in your 3D software.

If you are using BSP, get fammiliar with the boolean operator, that's pretty much how to make a hole when using BSP.

[hushed moat]

Well I use wall mesh from starter content, then give material

[hushed moat]

What is BSP?

[hushed moat]

So I shoulda make whole building in my 3d software then?

[green acorn]

that's the typical workflow

BSP can be used for "sketching" but in the end, you need static meshes

[hushed moat]

I see, then I shall start over again, thanks for the information

[finite bison]

Hi, Im trying to do the classic thing of having a 3d mesh in my widget so i can customize the object. So far, i cannot seem to get my 2d scene component to capture every frame. As the mesh is playing an animation that i need it to capture. help!

[spice ruin]

Don't scene captures have a 'capture every frame' option? Is it checked?

[finite bison]

Yes, its checked

[spice ruin]

Then I'm out of ideas! 😦

[finite bison]

I only see the animation playing through the preview

[spice ruin]

Maybe it's your ui that isn't updating, rather than the render target.

[finite bison]

How could I update the ui?

[spice ruin]

#umg

Assuming you're using UMG, that is.

[finite bison]

Yeah

[covert sky]

anyone know how to add luoshuang on 4.27.2 source build?

[fierce tinsel]

when I try to import the punching animation the error is coming please help

[strong lake]

thats no error

you got no skeleton in this "object" or mesh

you exported it wrong

Can someone remain me,how evnt tick works? If I dont activate event tick, it will tick in parent actor? and how to call parent tick ?

[strong lake]

i can't get parent tick to run 😐

[regal mulch]

You can get a parent node via the Right click menu of the given node

[strong lake]

hey thanks, Ye it took me some time but I actually found it 😄

[fierce tinsel]

So how can I fix it please tell me

[fierce tinsel]

So how can I get skeleton in this object or mesh please help me

[spice ruin]

I always forget how to do this.

[regal mulch]

A lot of people do. And even more don't know they have to add them to not break current or future Parent code.

I have lost hours to others not calling Parent :')

[strong lake]

export corectly lol

check in blender if this file is ok

[blissful latch]

Can someone tell me why, as listen server I can see the camera rotation, but as client the character doesnt change

the first image is playing as listen server

[regal mulch]

Cause the Camera Rotation is usually controlled by Control Rotation, which Clients only have their own of.

Use GetBaseAimRotation for the Anim instead

[blissful latch]

It made it stop working ?

Nevermind, it was just a mistake i made

It works now. Thanks a lot!

[fierce tinsel]

I am a beginner so I cannot understand please tell me step by step to that I can under stand it quickly

[strong lake]

How did you get that file? its corrupted, generate new one

[fierce tinsel]

I get that animation from Mixamo you means that I will download the animation again

[fierce tinsel]

Bro please suggest me a best video for retargeting Mixamo animation to unreal engine 4.27 please

[tough thicket]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHBD9YnX-jU

??

[fierce tinsel]

Thanks

[strong lake]

What is launch for ?

[oak patio]

Packaging the game

[strong lake]

oh f

abandon

😄

im only making mod haha

i can't tell if its squad editor so clunky or just eu 4 things

[wise mist]

I tried to install the editor (win 10), uninstall, reinstall, change directory, verify files, with Epic launcher but I always get the error of lights that do not rebuild. how to fix? tnx all

[obtuse stump]

How do I localize fonts???? I've put a font for this specific language but the game still runs the default one. Am I missing something?

[tough thicket]

Anyone know why their is so many 2d 2.5d visual effects in JRPGS, i doubt a couple of artists got together for a mediocre game and made thousands of unique effects.. Anyone know what im talking about? thanks

im just wondering what i should use to make the sprite sheets for flames and like magic

must be an easy way to do it is what im saying

i dont have the slightest clue

Years ago i went outside at night with a torch and made my own flames but that cant be it....?

[solid holly]

Uhhh, which file do I use to publish my game to itch.io?

[oak patio]

Well you need them all. Games don't just get built into a single file.

[solid holly]

Where is the option to do that

[oak patio]

?

Well you clearly have the option to upload multiple there given it says "upload files"

Alternatively you could just zip them up

[solid holly]

Ok thanks

[solid holly]

Yes
I love zip files

[valid raven]

hey gang, it's me again. i'm trying to move an object using a set relative location on component node. the object is having collision issues. i don't understand why it has collision issues. during level building i can move it into and through objects just fine.

ok nvm fixed it with the right collision settings oml

[oak patio]

Github

Not sure if they host binaries, probably means a source build

[valid raven]

having trouble rotating a rock based on the player's look direction

[finite bison]

hell yeah

[hot arrow]

When I started using this back in the time (2013) I understood nothing lol, 1 year later UE4 was released with BPs, I should have keep tryharding this lol

[strong lake]

How do you get value from map by key, to not play with index and looking for it ?

i just want to increase number per key

nvm its find

😐

[fierce tinsel]

Can Anyone help me when I try to import mixamo animation into unreal 4.27 this error is coming help

[valid raven]

is there a way to take 2 vectors (xyz coordinates) and turn that into rotational data?

so like lets say point 1 is at 0,0,0

and point 2 is at 1,1,1

a line trace will draw between the 2 but i was wondering if i could use that data to rotate an object to point toward the second point

[strong lake]

look at ?

or maybe just subtract and get forward vector

[fierce tinsel]

Can anyone tell me how can I use the character animation into unreal engine 4 Manniqueen

[eternal ledge]

no idea if this will get an answer but how do draw calls go up when looking at a blank space? as can be seen with levels hidden and levels visible, the draw calls of a blank spot in the sky which doesnt change between just the levels goes up and fps goes down and i really want to understand how to stop it as its dropping the whole project down a lot.... the only thing i can think of is either the way shadows work upwards maybe, or as a lot of the objects are based at origin to put them in the right place in the world based on plan data (so placed at 0 0 0 but could be 180m high, 350-700m in x and y) but i dont get why that should cause draw calls, unless its a very weird thing in unreal thats never been documented....

[spare trench]

how to I lock the Constrain in Physics Asset for one direction only?

if I limit the constrails, it limits the angle for both forward and backward direction

[spare trench]

Oh I got this, just by rotating the constrains hold ALT

[strong lake]

Construction script for my actors, seems not to work when I switch level.
It triggers(ring material goes to starting point of line tracing), but actors can't find level to properly place itself. so they float way too high.
Its UE4, it has multiplayer component, so I tried enabling replication,
I also have put initial code to BeginPlay, but that did not solved my problem.

I am doing LineTracing by Channel Vision to snap to ground.
I don't know how to apporach this.

[strong lake]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1074682143344705597/1274860415150592062/image.png?ex=66c3c9c8&is=66c27848&hm=1c4676350418bfc82807506b7b08dd1a336ab6e5f9921371d239fca893a3c3e1&

[chilly sable]

why not just make both your levels at a similar z origin ?

replication is only for networking

your trace isn't long enough and or there is too big a height difference between your levels and your trace fails

[marble kayak]

If you create an emitter class BP and place a particle emitter in there, it seems to activate with the set activate node in the node graph. However is you set it to not active or deactivate, the particle system continues to be active.
The only way I can get the particle system to turn off or on seems to make it visible and invisible.
Does anyone know what the deal is here?
Fake nodes?

[strong lake]

??? Why origin matters?

It is multiplayer gamer after all so I though I need replicate cause its not working

What do you mean trace is not long enough or height difference?

I call trace function later, at begin play and again when player spawns on server and starts playing

[strong lake]

Also Actor is fine when I compile it. Or move slightly and put back, so it kinda refresh itself

but on load it just freaks out

Also levels are different, that are not sublevels

[strong lake]

hit was detected.
Circles on ground was set to not offset, rest should snap, but it goes way too high 🤷‍♂️

this is after loading level

oh wait, i know what could be the cause 🤔

i move plane

not material

[strong lake]

fixed BeginPlay, constructions does not work, but thats fine

[steep solstice]

Hello can any one help me?? i downloaded character and animations from mixamo and when i played it in animation sequence the character is floating in air and i need it to align it to ground i tried to retarget animations,skeleton but no use . Thanks for Reading ...

[tough thicket]

the only way ive ever fixed mixamo issues was to add a keyframe to SCALE and LOCATION at fram 0

i might be wrong though

[chilly sable]

ah well there you go... you didn't give enough details for me to guess properly

yeah I think the mixamo rig does not have a root with UE nomenclature in it which might cause those problems

[strong lake]

what do you mean not enough details?
I load level, and line tracing go below terrain, that thich parts are just arrows

[chilly sable]

but they are not hitting ! your lines are red, when line trace hits landscape it should have a green square

make the traces longer, solved

the trace node has a start and end point, modify that

[strong lake]

no, its opposite

they turn green, after hiting

[chilly sable]

yes that is what I'm saying

[strong lake]

and as I said, this happend only on loading level. When I move actor, it hits properly

[chilly sable]

they are all uniform red, so no hits

well thats why I spoke of landscape height... maybe this new level is lower no ?

looks like the traces are not long enough

[strong lake]

What new level?

whats lower?

I don't follow you

[chilly sable]

you said you had two levels

[strong lake]

2 separate levels

[chilly sable]

I see that, thats why I said not enough details

[strong lake]

with 2 separate actors

I sait its not sublevel

you can find this

[chilly sable]

ok... but they spawn procedurally ?

[strong lake]

no

I placed them manually

[chilly sable]

so you think the traces just don't work because its a new level ? makes no sense...

[strong lake]

you got screen, its proof

[chilly sable]

I know ! but something is wrong in the setup

[strong lake]

I don't need to think

[chilly sable]

your traces seem to traverse the landscape

[strong lake]

they should work right ?

[chilly sable]

channel not set to block ? do a test with another trace BP &

[strong lake]

IT WORKS IF I MOVE ACTOR or RECOMPILE

No need for further testing

[chilly sable]

well no need to yell... trying to help you

no its not normal at all

never had this behavior after loading a map

[strong lake]

trace is way bigger than needed. Actors are spawned on ground

and tracing is around 10k above to bottom

[chilly sable]

well then your landscape is not blocking the hit, something must happen on construction script that shouldn't be there

indeed it will refresh if you move them or recompile

put the trace on begin play instead... anything construction script is only for level or game designers to make editor changes, its not meant for gameplay

[strong lake]

thats what I was suspecting, its my only guess, its either something changing level, or landscape is not available for line tracing in first few frames of loading

[chilly sable]

yeah probably your construction script fires off before the landscape even exists 🙂

simple

you could pull a landscape ref in the actor and then test if valid, if valid then trace

or just change the logic flow on begin play

what happens when you move or recompile is that they will retrace, and then of course it works because landscape is fully loaded

[strong lake]

👍 i wonder if this works in 5

[chilly sable]

sure, you mean if it does the same thing ?

[tough thicket]

am i doing this wrong

the bullets go to the X like coded too but the flash is straight from the barrel

uhhh i guess i can change it but dont think the bullets will hit the X point...

[tough thicket]

well its a bit better but still fucked dont think much i can do without alligning the camera down the middle and aiming over my head

[spare trench]

How can I change the root parent? I want the Box to be the parent of Static mesh comp

dragging box to mesh doesn't work

[tough thicket]

what kind of blueprint is it? should be able to delete the top one and replace it except on characters but could be mistaken

[spare trench]

its a actor blueprint, as I could remeber I made it the root component in place of defautsceneroot component and now can't delete it

[tough thicket]

i also remember being able to change it

[raven nest]

check the parent class maybe

[spare trench]

its a base class already

maybe I have to use cpp to assign the root component to box

[raven nest]

just put an empty transform [scene component]

[fierce tinsel]

Hey when I add enhanced input action plug-in in unreal 4.27 and make an input action the input action is not working please help

[strong lake]

Question UE4: Why after adding new parameter to base class, extra sound effect. All child classes have "None" value, and I have to recompile like 4 classes. Is it intended? or its fix in ue5 maybe?
There is arrow to reset to default, a bit confusing behaviour, it took me a while to fix cause its super weird.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1074682143344705597/1275469867222437989/image.png?ex=66c60161&is=66c4afe1&hm=aade3c07be2d65efd9dcd1dc17faf78a428f75ed29aea3393ebd501250c2e007& https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1074682143344705597/1275469867851448413/image.png?ex=66c60161&is=66c4afe1&hm=b8e942e095cb0f6b897441058003080fde8b01d1529ff0ee48426f6d73d4f8d2&

[loud berry]

this god damn discord does not have the channel I need!!!!! where is rendering help 😭

[compact halo]

just ask here

[oak patio]

#graphics ?

[loud berry]

does anyone have experience with pre-rendered backgrounds?

[west cedar]

I have a Steam+UE4 question- I have a project that I've reworked the .inis and people returning have to delete all local data (often thinking it's a control bug) is there a good way to reset that local app data .ini for all users?

[solid holly]

Is there a setting in which I can tell unreal to not load anything on x distance?
Because my game has a constant fog that won't allow you to see far anyway, and it would be better for performance not to load the entire landscape forest

[grim flame]

@solid holly distance culling

[solid holly]

Thanks, I will look into it soon

[grim flame]

you add a cull distance volume

and adjust it there

[loud berry]

okay now i have to find the channel i posted in

[solid holly]

Ain't nobody told me foliage also had cull distance 😂

[valid raven]

fellas i did a thing

rocks that spawn moving forward X amount of times, alternating left and right, slightly random rotation

funnnnn

[oak patio]

We don't help with data mining

[strong lake]

What was the name of BP block to play animation graph? And can be used in widget

TimeLine is in eu5 right ?

i don't know how to define animation for that

[barren adder]

ummmmmmm

help?

[strong lake]

dont use negatives

[barren adder]

wdym?

[strong lake]

its unsupported

[old yarrow]

a quick question, i understand that some things will be different but can you use the bluepritns froma UE5 project in UE4?

[strong lake]

thats usually not possible

you maybe could use bp4 in 5, and its called backwards compability, but I never heard of opposite way

[old yarrow]

okay, better question then, is there any reason to use UE4 over UE5?

me and a buddy are starting to draft a game project and ive got expeirence with UE4 but not UE5

[tough thicket]

left is ue4.27 and the other is 5

'id imagine you might get better performance on a lower end system

i dont see anything about so its up to you

if you look at like old bioshock thats just how the engine looked

[old yarrow]

aside from extra options there doesnt seem much difference truth be told

[tough thicket]

no idea im just gonna finish my game on 4.27 then maybe move up

[old yarrow]

fairs, cheers for the info though

good luck with your project

[tough thicket]

thx

[frail pecan]

*no. UE5 has more features and optimizations, and for the most part only benefits over UE4, UE5 does perform slightly worse due to the additional cost of the newer fancy features ofcourse, but you can manually turn all of those off and get similar performance to UE4 with all the added features and options of UE5 still available to you.

* unless you have specific requirements like 32bit support or you make use of code or features that "significantly" changed between UE4/5 and reworking it is too much work for instance.

[spice ruin]

Don't forget the scalability settings in ue5 are defaulted higher than ue4.

[old canopy]

is there a way that i can make unreal 4 use my blender nodes?

[worldly trout]

nope

[cunning rune]

Tfw your Steam account turns old enough to vote

[tough thicket]

my steam is like level 7 and had it for 20 years too

[spice ruin]

My steam level is over 9000.

[vital ether]

Quick question is it normal that textures in UE looks a lot more grayish that they should?

[tepid haven]

(skip to 28 seconds) Does anyone know what would cause the head to lose collisions when setting all bodies to simulate physics? It works on one skeletal mesh but not the other. They both use the same physics asset and skeleton all settings are the same in the details panel of the skeletal mesh

[plush yew]

how can i zoom in the editor

[tough thicket]

i just use WASD

i think shift makes you zoom zoom faster

[west cedar]

So one issue users are having is a screen going to black bug in full screen mode (not in windowed) any suggestions on causes? (Drivers?)

It’s using camera controller fade in and seems like only some systems have it “stuck”

[neon isle]

Hold right mouse button and use the C and Z key to zoom in and out

[fierce tinsel]

When I am packaging my project and when the packaging is going to be finish this error is coming help me in unreal 4.27

[green sphinx]

I need help with something that I think is pretty simple to accomplish but i cant find anything helpful online for it specifically. I have a widget blueprint, and I want to "tie" the opacity of it to the player's health (opacity of the image increases as the player's health decreases).

[green acorn]

You need to pass reference of your player to your widget.

Look for blueprint communication video by matthew, that should help you with references.

[patent quarry]

Hi. I am trying to create an ai vehicle for my mobile game. I've tried traces and nav mesh volume but still not getting the results i want. If anybody knows anything on this matter i would be greatly appreciated. Any tips would help. Just give something to create a decent ai vehicle.

[tough thicket]

i use splines for my vehicles

https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExcHlub2hiZmh6YTExczJ1NGdpY2psZTRpbXl4MGZ6NmthOXFnNW15aSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/tmE9yUmVmqMCNrz3Wy/giphy.gif

old but you could easily add logic to get them to do weird shit but maintain the roads

[spice ruin]

Do any of them ever turn?

[tough thicket]

uh yeah look at the turning lane on right hand side and top left

hmm just on right

[spice ruin]

Ah yes.

can't see them turning to cross traffic, though!

[tough thicket]

i dont drive so idk lol

[spice ruin]

😛

[tall osprey]

Games made with UE4 are more vulnerable compare to UE5?
focusing on security from all sides

[patent quarry]

Thanks for the respond. My ai vehicle need to be a little bit more advanced. Because the path is kind of random and other cars spawn randomly. Basically I'm in ai vehicle as a shooter and I'm shooting at other cars. Theres no saying that where other cars might be relative to my location. Any ideas?

[tough thicket]

1 sec

[tough thicket]

how can it be random theirs fucking roads so

if theirs no roads just use the simple navigation

Like twisted metal? i mean id imagine you would add the logic like waypoints maybe goals and strategies

[patent quarry]

By"kind of random path" i meant there would be two direction that ai could go and it randomly chooses which way

And I've already

Experimenting with splines

I need a way to avoid cars which for that i used trace lines but I'm looking for a batter way

[tough thicket]

lol it would probably end up looking like sphegetthi either way so dont get bummed out

its what your doing really

[jolly zodiac]

Yo guys do you know why the Sky light doesn't seems to work when the exposure is turned off?

[green acorn]

Just make a block chain game

[tall osprey]

perfect idea

[fair meteor]

Unbeleivable, just spent a few hours working on a tutorial level and duplicated it. I went into the duplicate and delete abunch of stuff, and it also deleted in the tutorial. Why and how do I make duplicates that dont share properties?

[tough thicket]

or just use all the steam features instead of some shitty block chain

Epic version of my game then the Steam version

How hard would it be to like set up tradable Crates like in tf2 on an indie game on Steam?

[solid holly]

Yo
Is ue4 customizable? Like the nodes and panels?

[sand wyvern]

I'm trying to refactor all my character input logic from my class based on ACharacter to the PlayerController but need access to a bunch of bools from the character itself ...what is the best way to access this. I feel like a cast in each indvidual function in ther playerController will be problematic

[tough thicket]

You can access the code used for alot of the nodes and remake them yourself if you wanted too

but yea do what you want man

[solid holly]

Hmmm, I hoped there was something build in
I don't wanna break anything so no

[tough thicket]

well what are you looking for alot of things in unreal are built in

if you mean "can i set up equipment slots and an inventory with just unreal?" then no that would require dozens of custom functions and widget intergration

you would have to buy or find a free template like this

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/jrpg-template

this is the sad reality of unreal

[pallid widget]

Is it possible to export a particle system(cascade or niagara, by selecting the emitter object in hierarchy and clicking export selected as for example gltf or fbx or whatever) from ue5 and import it in webgl so the particle emitting is continuous?
If not is there a way to change the particle system into a mesh with animations of those particles emitting?

[plush yew]

Hiya, dumb question but
How would I go about making a simple head bob system that only moves up and down?

[tough thicket]

idk could use a timeline, a timer a looping animation tons of ways

[strong lake]

2 player game with proof of work

[marsh ocean]

N/m Problem solved.

[solid holly]

Hey, can someone send me a youtube tutorial on how to make the player detect on which material he is touching (landscape)

[manic pier]

Our team recently upgraded from 4.26 to 4.27.2, previously there were no issues using the Water plugin, but after the upgrade there's a persistent message log warning across all our levels that I've had no luck in tracking down a solution for:

Landscape_WaterBrushManager Water brush Landscape_WaterBrushManager in package ... is out of date and needs updating for water to render properly.

This message has a little "Update Water" button next to it, clicking it does nothing as the message still persists and the button returns after saving/re-opening the level. Does anyone here know a solution for this?
I'm aware the Water plugin was still very experimental in 4.26 and 4.27, however we've been using it for 2+ years without issues.

[valid raven]

hey all, i've got a very small game i'm making in ue4 and it's done entirely in the hud. i really only need 4 widgets to be made i think, where each one does something different

the others are pretty simple, but the hardest one is the dialogue/choices widget

it's not hard it's just that i'm not sure how to have 4 different "presets" in the widget working

idk how to change the layer order, or disable a layer, etc

for example i have these 2 (i have 4 total but these for now)

how, in my code, can i either change the layer order or disable layers i'm not using while still allowing the player to click on the right layer?

also, for some reason only the dialogue cloud texture is invisible, when i change the texture to literally anything else it's visible again, does anyone know what can cause this?

[reef thunder]

Does anyone know the base size for BP_Manny or BP_Quinn?
X,Y,Z?

[oak patio]

Self promotion goes into #1054845218723209226, remove it here and post it there 🙂

[fierce tinsel]

Bro help me to solve this problem

[toxic lily]

dont know XYZ but i believe real world height is something like 183cm

approx 6 foot

handy chart