well
#ue4-general
cursive dirge
click that
go to visibility
there should be option for "show workplane"
one thing I do myself is that I also change the background color to be solid
instead of that default gradient
I think mines is bit darker too, more pleasing to eyes
those settings you set there are dependent on mode you are working
native tangle
yea i set mine darker too haha nivce
cursive dirge
if you want to do global settings, you need to adjust them from System/Preferences
but I mainly use Model and UV
and Game Tools now
as it has Vertex Toolkit and engine specific exports
(there areUE4 presets)
oh right, I do use topology too, but I'm not super good at it yet
(that's for manual retopo mainly)
random quartz
you know what would be awesome
if I could use .fon files as fonts in ue4
then I could use the VGA system font for header text in my UIs
random quartz
the windows command prompt uses a .fon file for text
cursive dirge
but haven't seen them used in like 10 years
it does?
I thought it used ttf nowadays
random quartz
well it did up until windows 8.1
native tangle
i thought they was .font
cursive dirge
nah, it defaults to "Consolas" TTF
there's raster fonts option though
on it's properties
random quartz
in win10 you can switch back to "Raster Fonts" in the command prompt settings
to get back .fon usage
cursive dirge
yeah
native tangle
yea but in windows 3.1 it was .font files i believe
native tangle
lol i pulled out the windows 3.1 hahaha
yea it was my first pc with windows. before that was DOS
cursive dirge
my first windows was windows 2.0
native tangle
i perffered DOS thou
random quartz
my first PC had Windows XP.
native tangle
haha
random quartz
I had it in '08.
random quartz
I'm 14.
cursive dirge
I used win98 almost until Vista came out :p
native tangle
35 and feel old as dirt
cursive dirge
I almost skipped XP
native tangle
i liked win 95 it was more stable than win 98
cursive dirge
yeah, 98 was really bugged
but it was still fast
and if I remember right, it multitasked bit better than 95
native tangle
i did skip xp ans win 7. win 8 sucked /cry
cursive dirge
win 8 is good once you disable all modern ui stuff and install classic shell menu
only part that is annoying is that windows settings still used the new thing
well some of them anyway
native tangle
yea win 95 you could set your background to a webpage and make it animated etc. win 98 killed that sadly
cursive dirge
there were security issues with it
it had to go
win vista also had desktop widgets
that essentially did the same thing but for limited space
native tangle
i loved it thou. i had it set to an animated movie that played in a loop
cursive dirge
I wrote myself a widget that showed me the time table for bus stop right next to my home
cursive dirge
it highlighted the bus under 5 mins right red
so I would know to not try even to catch it
native tangle
yea dreamscene became another app. i think they still have that
i forget the new name thou
I still have cube desktop. they removed that long ago when microtards baught them.
microsoft closed alot of cool apps sadly 😦
i think it is called deskscapes now
i don't remember
stark lynx
hi
quick question.. is there an issue with skylight in 4.13.1? i can't seem to get it do anything.. whatever i do, everything is dark
feral echo
what the hell should I change in editor so my mouse cursor would be captured always, not just when Im holding buttons
native tangle
meep try asking in the blueprints channel im sure you will get a quicker responce
native tangle
@stark lynx try adding a skysphere^
native tangle
lol im slow thankyou olento ❤
cursive dirge
cube approach works great indoors
cursive dirge
yeah, you can put cubemap there
stark lynx
so that the shadows are not completly black
native tangle
then use a cubemap ❤
cursive dirge
you can also capture cube with reflection cube I think
or was it some other capture tool
stark lynx
can the cubemap be just a white texture?
cursive dirge
I guess
lyric perch
Hi
native tangle
hello
stark lynx
thanks
lyric perch
My first time using discord and in this channel, nice to meet you all.
native tangle
welcome to the chat. there are channels for just about everything but porn. there are no porn WHY?
j/k
native tangle
yes. as long as it is not porn
cursive dirge
no NSFW content
lyric perch
here is a sci-fi cinematic I did with my team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgyznqzvDYc
lyric perch
Thanks, making the materials took a long time.
cursive dirge
@lyric perch we have #work-in-progress too
I don't think there's anything for finished work though
lyric perch
it's not 1 specific material, it's accomplished with compositing.
native tangle
oh this is sick bro
lyric perch
Thanks, I appreciate it.
cloud cobalt
Yeah, that's some nice work here
lyric perch
Thanks much. Anyone here into VR?
lyric perch
Let me grab another pic of the ship with it's actual texture
native tangle
native tangle
oh that is sick
lyric perch
here's an "enemy" ship: http://www.exisinteractive.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Savager_lp.jpg
I think Robert did both of those.
native tangle
wow you made these? these would sell really good in the marketplace
cursive dirge
they are for a game...
lyric perch
oh no, I work on the team that made these. They belong to our client.
lyric perch
I run the team, so I get to do art sometimes, but not as often as I'd like. Thankfully I was able to make the cinematic myself.
native tangle
i wanted them haha
lyric perch
glad there's a VR channel. I might post about the VR controller I made.
native tangle
nice
native tangle
yea
lyric perch
so, like if I wanted to show you the VR thing I'd still post it in the VR channel?
native tangle
same people just seperated as topics
native tangle
dies
earnest burrow
Soooo, I have 4 spritesheets that are all 2048x2048 and I need them all as one flipbook
Any way to do this without manually adding frames?
Right now if I select all of them, right click > create flipbook
it does 4 flipbooks
but I just want one 😦
and there doesn't seem to be an easy way of highlighting frames to copy/paste
foggy valley
nice cinematic @lyric perch
darkness look for a program called Texture Packer
it has a free mode, it'll do a better job of spritesheets
earnest burrow
Thanks
native tangle
18 hours sleep in 2 days!!! after 5 days no sleep. damn!
lol
i hate me sleep pattern :(\
daring trellis
Does anyone know where I can find the QAGame to look for coding examples?
pure jacinth
anyone here have experience with continious integration and UE4 projects?
pure jacinth
yeah, looking at jenkins primarily, i've gotten some references for GoCD as well though
polar hawk
GoCD looks like a solution to Jenkins no one asked for
I suppose... if you have multiple agents, GoCD would probably be the way to go
But if you have a 'master only' setup, imo Jenkins would be better
Is pretty easy to shove ue4 build scripts into a jenkins task
theres a blog post about it somewhere if you're not comfortable doing it all yourself
upper heart
anyone know the best way to implement shields that can only block certain types of damage types? In my mind there are 2 different types of "shields". 1) Ones that actually block the projectiles/traces/etc. via collision. and 2) ones that don't actually exist in the world, but are just a response to damage. so when i take damage i check the type and if it's not something that can hurt me with this "shield" on then I diminish the damage to 0
the only thing is that I'm not sure how to do #1, the collision based shields for different damage types. Would I really have to create a new collision object type for every damage type?
snow crown
there is a concept of DamageClass
in the TakeDamage code
create different DamageClasses for your different types
upper heart
I assume you mean DamageType
snow crown
and then in your TakeDamage() function on whatever actor has that shield, ignore damage (or reduce it) from different Classes
iirc, DamageType is a struct that holds the class but it's been over a year since I've touched that stuff
upper heart
yeah that's obvious and will work fine for #2
that's what I was talking about with #2
but some shields need to actually block projectiles and things themselves
for example
like a bubble shield in halo
snow crown
hmm
snow crown
I'm not 100% sure how best to do that
like, if you have a shield that blocks projectiles but not lasers
different collision profiles would work just fine
I guess it depends how dynamic you want your shield
upper heart
yeah it's probably going to get more complicated then that. Like a shield can only block fire projectiles. or something like that.
snow crown
yeah
all of the collision response delegates don't allow for you to ignore the collision
as far as I can tell (but I've also never looked)
I've been digging into the undocumented GameplayAbilities framework today, and there are a couple of perfect use cases here for it, but I do not recommend using it because it's both undocumented and intended for larger games
upper heart
Yeah I wrote my own ability system. I looked at that a while ago before I started, but decided that it would be better to write my own and understand it all.
snow crown
I came upon the same decision and chose to go the other direction, but yeah
you could just tag and filter damage and stuff
as for #2, I don't have a solution, sorry
and I don't want to discourage you because I feel like there MUST be a solution in the engine somewhere
letting some projectiles through a shield is like a pretty common occourance in games
upper heart
I assume you mean #1, the collision based shields. Yeah it seems like there would be a way without creating a ton of collision types
the only other thing I can think of is to make them generate overap events instead of making them blocking
snow crown
yeah, and then eat the projectiles on overlap
that could work
though, if you enable substepping, you will trigger a number of overlaps during a frame
but most people don't use substepping so it's not that big of a deal
upper heart
no I'm not using substepping
plush yew
did they remove the console variable editor from the editor? I can't find it and it's making me crazy
it was on device profiles, I was looking at the wrong place
keen pine
In regards to coding standards set by Unreal, this sentence makes it sound as if following this standard is not only recommended but mandatory for use, You can use namespaces to organize your classes, functions and variables where appropriate, as long as you follow the rules below.
maiden swift
Does UE4 have an equivalent to asset bundles in Unity? Someone asked my partner and neither of us really know.
native tangle
Its same as content packs/addons. just different name
cursive dirge
not the same thing
native tangle
i hate unity
yes it is. assets for unit are content packs. they include models and scripts etc. I use to buy their asset bundles before
snow crown
@maiden swift yeah, it has pack files
native tangle
but i hate unity so now im here
snow crown
you can create a "release" pack for your game
then bundle a "patch" or "dlc" pack
which is changes on top of the the release
iirc, they just autoload
but you can modify that in the engine class
maiden swift
Ah. I wasn't sure if pak files were the same.
snow crown
the modding tutorial has some tips on how to do it
since mods are pretty much user created DLC packs
plugins are also functionally the same thing as well
if you have content in the plugin
maiden swift
Thanks @snow crown
I read the docs for Unity asset bundles and I was a unsure of the equivalent based on what I read.
snow crown
yeah, no problem
i've been digging into the system trying to figure out how to do 'load on server join' mods
for Squad
maiden swift
I've also never worked on a game that required networking of any kind.
Ah nice.
I met someone from the Squad team while out for a walk a few months ago.
snow crown
yeah, that was me 😛
maiden swift
Oh haha.
snow crown
orchard park in hillsboro? 😛
maiden swift
Garret, right?
snow crown
yeah
snow crown
heh, yeah
foggy valley
I've just had 4.13.1 destroy every copy of a material I open, I think
it's ripping the node graph to pieces randomly
I am not a happy camper, this has a looming deadline and now it's completely broken
urban salmon
should be
urban salmon
I don't know if you can go back to 4.13 or not, but if you can, the handy thing about UE is you can just copy and paste and get a full text dump
i realize that is not ideal
urban salmon
might give you a clue why it's being mangled, though.
foggy valley
this is the first time it's happened
urban salmon
that's the first time I've seen anything like that.
foggy valley
all my other projects were ok
urban salmon
it seems totally random
like, usually, if there is a bad reference, there is still a proxy errored out node in its place
foggy valley
never seen that happen
I have a vague idea of what['s missing
some sin calculations
etc
foggy valley
like the nodes that are different between those two screenshots I removed manually anyway
urban salmon
you've started the apocalypse
foggy valley
bleh
urban salmon
it starts with nodes, it goes on to be trump
foggy valley
mechs are next
urban salmon
don't you fucking touch them.
foggy valley
best hide in the ceiling and start a diary
foggy valley
haha
grim sinew
@foggy valley If you really need to go back to 4.13 you can always just go on github, find an older commit, download and compile that.
foggy valley
I ended up recreating the material. No big deal in the end
toxic nebula
Sometimes a blueprint fails to load on editor startup and I get a load error, but the class opens perfectly fine. Any idea what's up with that? It happens unreasonably often.
urban salmon
well this is handy http://www.kosmokleaner.de/ownsoft/UE4CVarBrowser.html
with ACTUAL DESCRIPTIONS.
urban salmon
would or wouldn't
brave horizon
Sorry, try that again./
Any idea why the actor wouldn't be generating hit results?
brave horizon
Collision type is Pawn.
urban salmon
what kind of collisions isn't it receiving?
like a physical simulaiton hit or a trace or etc.
or query
brave horizon
Character, from Channel
BUT
I just fixed it by changing the Trace Channel to Camera
was on visiblity
urban salmon
neat
brave horizon
Not 100% sure why, so I may have to do some reading on what that all means
brave horizon
You did!
plush yew
Shaders, can somebody direct me how can i get the Instanced Static Mesh Index from shader code? And other translation informations / instance?
plush yew
Or to update the scale / instance from a material
faint horizon
hybrid scroll
Are there any free analytics services for desktop?
Everything I find is either for mobile or paid.
fickle dagger
Hey all, haven't been on the channel since we switched from slack!
kindred viper
welcome back !
plush yew
Has anyone had their virus scanner pick up a UE4 dll as a threat before?
Specifically, AVG has picked up the 4.10 version of UE4Editor-BlueprintGraph.dll as a threat
Apparently it has the virus Win32/Herz.B in it
burnt drum
hey does anyone know how does twitch integratyion work for unreal?
i googled but i kept getting Twitch about unreal engine instead of the twitch feature
fiery harbor
@plush yew you should always add ue4 directiories to the whitelist
plush yew
@burnt drum i assume twitch has some sort of API for that, though i haven't really done anything with twitch integration myself.
ashen brook
hey guys
anyone done gamepad input to umg?
basically I just want to do Press A to continue
foggy valley
there's a thread on this
ashen brook
wondering if I need to go through the pawn/controller for that or if it's possible to let the widget handle it
ashen brook
hanging on
foggy valley
🦄
you probably need to use the controller anyway
I remember trying something like this and being upset that I couldn't get an event in a widget at the time. or I might have just been a nub
ashen brook
meh, will probably pass events through from the PC
jolly void
jolly void
requesting assistance in case some one knows, it's been a while unreal doesnt work
cant find out why
cursive dirge
you need to put out better description than "doesn't work"
foggy valley
and nobody's going to follow that link
you gotta say what you're having a problem with and see if anyone is on who has experienced it
specific questions always work better
foggy valley
tbh answerhub is the right place for it
now you just have to win the do-i-get-an-answer lottery
and not just the generic userbot answers like "verify launcher, run as admin"
zinc bison
anyone familiar with IK setup? Im doing it for some arms and the elbows bend the wrong way, is this because i rigged poorly?
I dont know much about rigging, will rotating the bones in art software fix that?
or is it something else
ohhh wait I think I know
so thats what the joint location is for
kindred viper
@ashen brook when you press A to continue... are you pressing a widget or just a click anywhere thing? Either way, you can do it from both PC or UI depending on your Input mode. If it's UI Only, just capture the event in OnKeyDown (override function). If it's Game and UI, you can capture it with the PC.
the only thing to worry about is it if clicks a widget, I think the UI will take the input and handle it. In which case over-riding OnkeyDown would be better I think to avoid both actions firing (maybe)
foggy valley
hey guys, a user of mine is getting an error cooking content. some of my assets that he has deleted are throwing errors.
how can he clean up the references?
although it looks like they were also renamed somehow
he's deleted the entire Sample_Sharedassets directory
so the refs should be gone too
maybe he didn't delete the maps, hmm
knotty brook
Sometimes you just need to blow away those Saved/Intermediate and DDC folders to make sure things work
I've also had my package every once and a while seem to put old, bad assets in and doing a clean before build fixed it
burnt drum
@foggy valley I got that a lot too... i think the references will never go away
i do refresh my saved/intermediate at every major engine change
but i have references that are a year plus ago.
foggy valley
Haha good to know
plush yew
can somebody help me a bit with custom shaders?
I would like to modify some of the engine shaders
plush yew
awh FMaterialVertexParameters
finally got it working
took like 2-3 hours to figure this out :B
foggy valley
I can try
I only took a brief look at it though
I do a ton of programmatic material stuff thoguh
foggy valley
one of my asset maps is majorly fucked
I tried to move it to another folder and it goes on about "LandscapeMaterial890234289034Const" cannot be found
whatever that is
when I opened it after moving some materials were stripped, so I set them up again
it didn't help at all
this is on save
so it won't save and if it crashes or I quit, the level disappears
how on earth do I fix this
I really won't want to have to build the level again
it never finds the external packages
`Can't save D:/Dropbox/Work/Games/Projects/CelShaderClean/Saved/Autosaves/Game/CelShader/Maps/Sample_Auto1.umap: Graph is linked to private object(s) in an external package.
External Object(s):
LandscapeMaterialInstanceConstant_1393
Texture2D_1347
LandscapeMaterialInstanceConstant_1402
Texture2D_1356
LandscapeMaterialInstanceConstant_1413
...
Try to find the chain of references to that object (may take some time)?`
just for copy and paste's sake
time to google
plush yew
any idea how to force the engine to not to generate new random numbers for each instance when removing an instance from the instanced static mesh component?
foggy valley
I fixed my problem above. if anyone else ever encounters this during a map move (which I forgot to mention) just move the map using explorer instead.
UE handles it REAL badly.
cloud cobalt
Also, use versioning. Loosing work in 2016 should not be an option.
foggy valley
me? I use it
doesn't mean the map isn't corrupted every single time I go to move it
cloud cobalt
Okay, wasn't sure if you were afraid of losing work, or just pissed about not beign able to move it
foggy valley
nah just the sorry state of moving or deleting anything in the editor
it's like it's broken as hell and had zero attention in 14 major releases
if it's that bad, don't let the user move maps in UE
cloud cobalt
Deleting or moving assets generally works quite well imho
Never tried moving maps, other assets look fine
foggy valley
ever deleted a folder?
cursive dirge
@foggy valley you do fix up references after delete and move?
in past, unless you did that, they'll get all messed up pretty quickly
plus you get those ghost folders etc
and get redirectors all around
heh, no idea if that was even related to anything you talked 😄
I just woke up, that's my excuse
cloud cobalt
Redirectors are a necessary evil, in a team project you need to have a system like that avoid breaking everything
Fixing redirectors up is a good thing to do once in a while
But they do serve a purpose
cursive dirge
yeah, but if you work alone, there's no benefit of keeping them around
cloud cobalt
Yeah sure
cursive dirge
you just get messier directory structure
which is horrible situation for a person like me who likes to keep project files tidy and in order
(if the redirs for old directiories are still around)
cloud cobalt
Same here, just pointing out that it's hardly an issue with the engine
cursive dirge
it used to be
I systematically fix them
so I dunno if the redir chain still breaks when you do more things
they used to be less reliable on earlier ue4 versions
just moving things in editor could break things
cloud cobalt
Okay
cursive dirge
haven't had a single issue for 1.5 years or so though 😄
cloud cobalt
I know I move stuff around all the time and I've yet to meet any real trouble
Worse issue I have is how fixed redirectors sometime stay around as a stray 1kb file
cursive dirge
I just wish there was some project setting to do automatic fix up after move or rename
it's really tedious IMO
for example
you import a mesh and want to change the name
nobody else has worked on that asset yet, since it's never been committed to repo
there's still redir for it
or
if you do that
and delete the mesh
redir get's left behind, you don't see anything in editor
but if you then try to import the deleted mesh again, it throws an error of file existing already
cloud cobalt
You will see it in source control though, it's very easy to pick it up at that point
cursive dirge
yet you don't see anything
that's just tedious workflow imo, and I'd opt to force the fix up automatically if there were a choise
and I think most solo devs would too
which is probably still majority of the users
cloud cobalt
Well, it's quite far in my personal list of stuff i'd like to see change in Unreal, but fair point
Solo projects don't need redirectors
cursive dirge
well, I can live with it
but it's been annoyance to me ever since I've used ue4
I've designed UI/UX in past and making users click buttons same way every time in specific order is always a bad thing
anyway, this has been a long time in trello already
epic is aware of it
what's actually bit funny
did you know that skysphere we all use in unreal is actually a redir
foggy valley
@cursive dirge always. in this case it's dying DURING the move.
cursive dirge
someone originally made a typo there, the real asset is called SkyShere or something, well, one missing letter somewhere
foggy valley
I suspect it's just because it's a very, very old level
cursive dirge
it's been like that ever since
@foggy valley it's not some windows path limitation issue?
like have long path to your project and 255 char limit runs out on new dir?
or whatever the limit was
I tend to put dev stuff just into C:\Dev\ProjectName to avoid that possibility, but with unreal I also use the documents\unreal projects for secondary stuff
cursive dirge
yeah, just move the project dir somewhere else and test again
foggy valley
but also the name of the landscape material was long itself
I'm using a fairly deep path in dropbox :/
cursive dirge
well, the limit is total path + filename
cursive dirge
you could try renaming the asset itself to have shorter name
cursive dirge
oh
cloud cobalt
Windows has had a new file handler for a decade though, I hope Epic is better than that
foggy valley
it was an auto-generated asset
one of the landscape materials
tbh even by epic's own rules that name should be shorter
cursive dirge
@cloud cobalt oh?
cursive dirge
I still see lots of apps breaking on that
foggy valley
I'd say epic are probably handling it OK though
the command line prompt sometimes has an 8+3 filename limit
cursive dirge
heh, 8+3 was like in the 90's
cloud cobalt
Has been around since Vista, I think
foggy valley
the dos mode you boot into during recovery is 8+3
cloud cobalt
It's not.
cursive dirge
really?
foggy valley
the editor is 32 bit
cloud cobalt
Win32 = native C/C++ API
foggy valley
they need to get over this obsession with the number 32
cursive dirge
42 would be a lot better
cloud cobalt
They have been trying so hard to get rid of it, but no alternative has been an actual repalcement
So even very modern stuff like UE4, which uses edge-of-the-blade stuff like C++11, uses Win32
You just don't have an actual alternative for a game engine
cursive dirge
I dunno
cloud cobalt
btw, from MSDN ; " Starting in Windows 10, version 1607, MAX_PATH limitations have been removed from common Win32 file and directory functions."
cursive dirge
if you do super long path with unicode version, wouldn't that break the thing from all apps that still access it traditionally?
if that's the case, no wonder it's not been getting more traction
cloud cobalt
Why ?
Because other programs suck, you shouldn't fix yours ?
It's up to everyone to use the correct API
cursive dirge
yeah, in some idealistic world maybe 😄
we still need everything to function
and there are lots of apps that simply don't get updated for things like that
cloud cobalt
There is nothing idealistic about it, if you want your program to support more than 260 chars you have to use the Unicode API
Whether other programs do it is irrelevant
cursive dirge
well, I'd not go over that limit myself, even if it was possible
for above mentioned reasons
if you need to go back, it's not easy anymore
if you have all done on huge long directories
cloud cobalt
I mean, at that point why not stay with 3Gb of RAM and Windows XP ?
cursive dirge
not the same thing
cloud cobalt
Some programs also don't support more
cursive dirge
you can still run those 32bit apps on 64bit systems
cloud cobalt
Even today most programs are 32b
You can
And you can run non-Unicode apps as well
torpid charm
does anybody know hot to get set gameinputonly to work?
it seems bugged in UE, but are there workarounds?
timber relic
Mornin
agile echo
hey how do i change the default souorce control settings in UE4
always connect to a co-workers perforce
occassionally don't notice and break mouse
obsidian topaz
Does anyone have a general idea the performance difference between playing with play-in-editor and playing in a packaged game? I've heard you lose quite a few frames playing in editor compared to playing a packaged game, and I'm just trying to get an idea of how significant the performance difference is
faint cliff
Hello! Anyone knows what the next warning means when importing a skeletal mesh: "Mesh [Geometry have no name] in the fbx file is not reference by any hierarchy node" ?
agile echo
alex that is true but i would view it more as a bonus than as something to work around in terms of the overall impact
you can see some of the interface stuff measured in the gpuvisauliser etc, it is called SLATE UI
i think?
obsidian topaz
Alright thanks Martin!
neon berry
anyone know how to make compiles verbose? I see i need to add -verbose to the uat command line option, but don't seem to see where that's configured under osx.
worn merlin
Could anyoine help with an issue I'm having. So in university I work on UE4 on my C:\ drive but at home I work from my F:\ drive so whenever I open Visual Studio I get a bunch of errors
foggy valley
you can do it from inside the editor
just get the UE project loaded and regenerate the project files
it's under the file menu I think
you may have to re-create your VS solution filter structure though
but that's really only for display and navigation. won't stop you building.
foggy valley
best thing to do may be to commit your vs project then add the sln file and all of the intermediate folder to .gitignore
worn merlin
God I've been tearing my hair out trying to figure it out
foggy valley
then re-gen on every platform, losing no previous one
you using git?
all good bro
worn merlin
No not using a repo yet, I'm setting up SVN tomorrow
foggy valley
if you're not using git, that is THE way to work in different locations
aww man use git 😉
not sure if svn can ignore a file or not
worn merlin
I can't - uni 😦
foggy valley
what
worn merlin
You can ignore files
worn merlin
Haha
foggy valley
get the code in the repo but ignore things you don't want, especially the SLN file, and just have a local copy everywhere
worn merlin
How come the sln file?
worn merlin
Ah
foggy valley
everything in intermediate basically
if you still have problems ignore the sln file too
worn merlin
Yeah that's what I tried to edit before to change my vcxproj file from C:\ to F:\
but
foggy valley
haha I tried that
worn merlin
my vcxproj file was gross
foggy valley
it actually worked but it was iffy
worn merlin
I dont know what happened to it
foggy valley
they're just massive tbh
worst paths ever
I fixed some nightmare relative paths up
worn merlin
Yeah but my directories were just ugh
Like I dont know how that even happened
.. .. .. .. .. .. ..\ should've been either C:\ or F:\ lol
foggy valley
yeah that's how mine looked. I was going from 4.11 to 4.12, so I made it an absolute path to the new engine in the right place
mass search and replace
I didn't know about regening the project then, I thought it'd cause me too much work. I was a fool
worn merlin
haha
I'm glad I know about the refresh vs proj though from UE
that's pretty nifty
Anyway, back to work for me! Thanks again for your help 😃
foggy valley
no worries, have fun 😄
worn merlin
Will do!
velvet oyster
I'm not really sure where to ask for help, but this shouldn't take long.. anyone know why this happens to my mannequin? http://puu.sh/rxdf0/d42d0bfb5e.jpg
teal tulip
@worn merlin cause take as reference the location of the engine exe
foggy valley
@velvet oyster that looks like a GPU problem
try restarting, then try checking how hot its getting. new video drivers, etc.
verify your engine install also
kindred mountain
is there a reason why I can't bind an action to a blueprintimplementableevent?
can't get it to fire
ok binding is working but for some reason my event isn't firing in BP
kindred mountain
hmms. Have a simple BlueprintImplementableEvent on a C++ playercontroller class. It's called on input (that's working fine)
but the event is never fired in the blueprint child of the playercontroller
green spear
Anyone had the problem that the Editor almost freezes when having Realtime and Grid on?
Its like, as long as I see the grid with Realtime it forcebly set my update rate to 2 sec. And the FPS(shown by the in editor) drops by 20%. from about 100 to 80. But it is still a 1-2 sec delay on each action.
opal spindle
Ok, seriously
There's absolutely no documentation on generating chunks when packaging
Nobody answers answerhub either apparently
karmic thistle
Why cant I modify Sun Height? I want to set it on -1 to do a night scene
its always the same number
Solved
On Directional Light Actor i had to put none
velvet oyster
@foggy valley it wasn't happening before, and I'm not really sure I changed anything; my temps are fine and drivers are updated, also it was a clean engine install
frank escarp
im doing fake pictures for marketing purposes
you know, billboard style stuff
im using sequencer to do that
that way i can time the FX to be at the exact moment i can, and same with animations
i find it funny to use a animation tool for static screenshots
cerulean sequoia
I used after effects for color correction and post processing of screenshots....whatever works
cursive dirge
@karmic thistle that's wrong solution though
if you disconnect sun and directional light, they will not match anymore
you should just rotate the directional light instead and hit that "Refresh Material" from sky sphere
foggy valley
if you're going for a moonlit night then it's the right thing to do
as in faux lighting
foggy valley
I am not that impressed with how the skysphere and atmosphere handle night time
karmic thistle
I like the results, you can see them in progress channel @cursive dirge
cursive dirge
ah, so it's a night scene
warm lotus
whats the thing I saw, aren't they implementing basically a model poser in 4.14?
IK bone manipulator
or is that already a thing.
tough berry
warm lotus
Oh nice yeah
its free?!
i'll play with it.
Published on Sep 21, 2016 Allright Rig Free Full Version Released
ruby aspen
main menu for the platformer game i'm making. not a serious game really, just for learning mainly 😄
cloud cobalt
Use #work-in-progress 😃
ruby aspen
@cloud cobalt thx I will 😄
upper heart
has anyone done a decently complex shield system?
fossil socket
is there a way to enable EQS on the project side rather than getting everyone on the team to enable it in editor preferences?
north sphinx
Ehi guys, one little question...
How can i clean references from an asset? every time i open my project i got a bunch of errors from assets that are searching for a not anymore existing material, even if it is already saved with other materials...
Thanks a lot 😄
eager blade
@north sphinx Might be possible using the reference viewer?
eager blade
Hmm, don't know then... sorry 😦
north sphinx
I fixed it re importing the mesh and replacing materials... but that's weird
upper heart
Yeah I get odd stuff with references. Sometimes they seem to fix themselves. And other times they are a headache. I normally try to break all the connections before I delete something now lol.
alpine sorrel
Can DerivedDataCache be moved out of C: ? I put my UE4 engine installs in a different drive because my C: is only 95GB but I'm now down to 100MB free due to the 35GB of cache in that directory :/
keen pine
Is there anyway to override inherited colliders to different types? http://i.imgur.com/6K3dN55.png
alpine sorrel
Thanks! Didn't realize we could set that up to be shared. Even better 😃
tender violet
Very cool, didn't know that either, looking through the doc it doesn't really specify what type of share needs to be setup
safe rose
@ruby aspen looks nice
pallid compass
Guys for a Player char, do u recon its better sto store the Stats of the char like hp, mana, energy, attack, def etc in Variables in the bp or use a struct?
safe rose
Well, depends on you
There are some issues with BP Structs
You could also use datatables
which use structs
safe rose
You could just have a lot of variables and organize them by categories
OR, you can do what I usually do, and make components
There are just so many ways, and it very dependent on your game
and how you want to manage everything
pallid compass
Im trying to avoid any issues in the future
safe rose
But no, no time to educate 😃 Busy, but do your own research, Google stuff on the forums/docs/answerhub, won't be too hard to find
pallid compass
alright
gloomy pollen
i keep it in the BP, ive been using datatable for storing static data like list of weapons, their meshes, their damage, values, particle effects, attach socket, etc so its easy to manage from a CSV file.
pallid compass
I need to learn to datatable
Right now this is my animation state machine
The custom data struc stores the animation flipbook & any delay needed
But as u can see its rather messy
There must be a cleaner way to do this
Maybe creating an array?
gloomy pollen
i have no clue
pallid compass
figured it out! 😄
Guys is it hard to write to data structures?
Im guessing so?
I hear datatables are the way to go i guess?
gloomy pollen
not at all
pallid compass
Im struggling to think of a good effective way
to Store the Health, MaxHealth, armour, dmg, exp etc
for a char
gloomy pollen
i just use variables for dynamic stuff, but maybe someone else can chime in
pallid compass
hmm true
is there anything like a branch that can take in multi conditions and output depending on priority
If that makes sense
gloomy pollen
mean like AND/OR logic?
pallid compass
like atm
pallid compass
I have 4 branches that have priority order to check for condations but its abit messy
gloomy pollen
sequence?
pallid compass
oh?
Needs to be conditional
Is there anything like a branch but with more than 1 condition
See what i mean, it does 1 then another then another then another
the more i add the messier it gets
gloomy pollen
maybe a switch
whole quarry
I dont think this is a proper way to do it
If the IsMeleeLocal is true, falling and moving will never be addressed
gloomy pollen
yeah why not use a sequence
gloomy pollen
plus how far are you into what you want to do? if it works then great leave it alone, optimization/refactor can happen later
whole quarry
I used enums to finally decide which animation to play
pallid compass
Thats the point amsanity, if melee is true, needs to override other animation u dont want to be pressing the swing button in the air and having the jump animation overide it
I use enum system too,
gloomy pollen
or have one set animation state that reads in from a variable that is set from the tree of branches
whole quarry
Only "override" is the shooting while jumping
pallid compass
Intresting way to do it
gloomy pollen
ya like i said earlier, you can use switch
whole quarry
I almost forgot about this 😄
feral dirge
@pallid compass "Is there anything like a branch but with more than 1 condition"
Yes
you can use AND, OR and = nodes connected to the branch
They are boolean operations
gloomy pollen
what are you guys using for source control/versioning?
foggy valley
git
gloomy pollen
any reason in particular you chose git? Thats what im setting up but only because I know it a bit already
feral dirge
P4
foggy valley
like you I know it already. had bad experiences with perforce. svn is junk.
upper heart
@gloomy pollen how many people on the team?
gloomy pollen
only 2 right now
pallid compass
btw what is source control / versioning? Iv just started studying UE4 in uni
upper heart
bp or c++?
gloomy pollen
both
upper heart
we use git. git obviously doesn't parse binary files tho. so you can easily step on toes with assets/bps/etc
because it can't merge them
gloomy pollen
will it lock it when editing
upper heart
no
git does not lock anything
that is svn
so with git you just need to communicate with your team
gloomy pollen
i guess thats more concern with many people
upper heart
yeah locking is gross
pallid compass
Whats control / versioning btw? if someone could explain
foggy valley
it's where you write code and upload it to a server
each time you upload you attach a note about what you edited
the server can send you any previous version
also, if someone else edits the same code, it can merge the changes
pallid compass
Ah right, for when you have teams or issues when you update you can figure out what?
pallid compass
Ahh cool, okay thank you
upper heart
p4
gloomy pollen
gonna check it out, thanks
foggy valley
yeah git won't do anything for blueprint merging
upper heart
blueprint merging sounds scary to me anyways lol
cerulean sequoia
never got around on setting p4 up, thus we still use gitlab
plush yew
If you end up having files that break github's max file size limit you can always use https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/
It's compatible with all the existing git tools, and has no limits on file sizes/repo sizes/repo number.
And free as long as the number of coders on your team is 5 or less
fossil socket
i would recommend against using git for anything dealing with large binary files
i think perforce still has its 20/20 free license
ah it's 5 users now
foggy valley
just use LFS
for code/content projects git is easily the best choice
not sure if perforce handles blueprint merging or if all it does is lock the file
gitlab is easy to deploy on digitalocean.com as well
cheap to run
slim quest
Has anyone applied for the Angel program with Unreal?
cursive dirge
@sswires#0737 you'd need hosting for perforce though
why, discord, why?
@fossil socket ^
oh, now it works
vale silo
does anyone know how to see, in PIE, if actors are being culled ?
vale silo
@feral dirge isn't there some Editor checkbox or console cmd ?
feral dirge
Fuck knows I'm tired
floral pagoda
glass yarrow
how does one rotate an object but the object doesnt move? I want to rotate objects 180 degrees without having to move them again just to bring them back to the original position
foggy valley
are the object centers offset?
glass yarrow
yeah
foggy valley
that is a nice bomber
um, if the centers are off-center then you can't do anything about it
make better geometry in the future 😄
glass yarrow
aww
i feel like there should be a hotkey to change that, rotate an object but keep its center... centered
celest sundial
Why does my event tick fire in the editor in my player controller without running any game? Is that normal?
cursive dirge
I got that on skeletal meshes too (by doing custom class that inherited skeletalmeshcomponent)
terse tide
chilly geyser
is there a general consensus on storing item definitions in actors vs datatables or structs?
mild escarp
hi, anybody has the UE4 codes of the well famous game that called "LUDO" or "Parcheesi". I have finish the construction script beside to other thing in the graph script but I thing I need some help on it
Any other board game like ladders and sneaks will be helpful too.
I found this and I really benefit of it
fossil socket
@foggy valley LFS is also garbage
foggy valley
in what way?
fossil socket
@cursive dirge sure, but hosting it is easy
the fact it's still git and artists don't understand git
plus it's just text pointers for files
foggy valley
why would artists be coding
foggy valley
you use git for code projects
cursive dirge
You need vc for everything
foggy valley
when you run your project and start editing it you switch to perforce
fossil socket
so why did you even mention lfs lmao
foggy valley
neither solution is as good as both of them combined in the right way
because you still have content in your code project
anyway, LFS is fine
artists CAN use git if you decide to use it all the way
nobody can use git without learning how to use it
and anyone can learn to use it
fossil socket
well we tried that, artists cannot get their heads around branching and merging
foggy valley
it's a strawman to say that no artists can learn.
and unfair to artists.
you don't let the artists branch and merge
you nominate someone who can to do that
that happens even in SVN
someone manages the repo
fossil socket
except when you are behind the remote you have to merge if you have pending changes
foggy valley
you get a gatekeeper
fossil socket
we had the same problems with plastic scm which was meant to be more game friendly than git
foggy valley
again, artists aren't going to be modifying code, so they accept their version of their assets and the remote for everything else. and there's plenty of visual tools for git.
anyway, I need to go to sleep
2am
frozen magnet
The hit reactions are working perfectly! https://i.gyazo.com/d8928d73c41ed73c3b558f11a8099045.gif
cerulean sequoia
@glass yarrow not sure if you're still looking for a way to rotate around a center, but you can drag a scene component into your editor and parent the model to it, rotate the scene component and then unparent. same in the bp editor
kindred marlin
Anyone know how to stop the Epic Games Launcher from opening itself in front of UE4? It is really annoying.
spice moth
@frozen magnet Ship it!
frank escarp
ive tried using physical animations for hit reactions
it "kinda" works
but its super hard to get right
best would be generic "hit" animations, and enable physics on them to make them more varied
like have a few hit animations, and play one of them with physical animation
here you can see my test
that one has no extra animation at all
the head hits look great, for other parts im not sure
foggy valley
that looks alright
I'd consider using the new bone motors on it
so you can give the target location a shove and solve it with IK
frozen magnet
@frank escarp that looks awesome!
frank escarp
only works well on slowmo 😦
its too fast on normal gameplay
and just adding more drag or stuff doesnt work well
frozen magnet
just make baywatch: the game :p
frank escarp
ive stopped experimenting with that, but the next version will be what ive explained about using actual animations
but still keep them in physical animation so they react to bullets better than just the 100% pre canned animation
ill return with results once i have something, i want to put that in my VR game
wich uses the same skeletons
frozen magnet
sounds good
humble crow
I'm totally baffled. I have a few static meshes that can't be painted with the foliage tool
they are on the same layer, they are visually similar to other meshes
they have their own custom collision
but that can't be it can it?
tested w and w/o collisions
its as if unreal can't see the mesh
can't place static meshes on it with the auto snap that normally works
so odd
humble crow
narrowed it down to something on import. I can import objects that work, reimport them and they don't
well importing them from scratch not from right click re-import
4.13 seems to be broken
tested Bug. 4.12 painting works, 4.13 broken
reported
foggy valley
speaking of bugs, does anyone use the custom depth scenetexture?
I can't get it to work in 4.13
was previously working
humble crow
I did on a previous project but not now
keen pine
What part of UE4 automatically spawns the gamemode selected pawn/character? I've made custom everything but I can't find how to switch it off so I can use my homemade spawn point
foggy valley
if you don't have a player start or a pawn with auto-possess it creates the default one
you want to turn on auto-input for that player as well
kindred mountain
I just have a completely empty, do nothing pawn as the default....and spawn in the game one when I'm ready
chrome plover
Hello there
unreal editor takes ~20% while its open(edited)
how I`m keep it open but tell it also to "rest"
pallid compass
Anyone on? i have question about flow control
thick ridge
hi halcyon
pallid compass
Hello
Say i have input and when its held i want it to melee attack and take 10 energy away
Iv got it working fine however
U have to keep tapping the Input button non stop
U cant just hold it down
thick ridge
Could you set a boolean when pressed and unset it on release. Then do a check if the boolean is set. If set take energy away
thick ridge
ah ok
pallid compass
While X is held do melee attack process until release
wicked lotus
To make code loop you can go with Func A -> Func B -> Func C -> Func B.Both BPs and C++ allows this.
pallid compass
I only work in blueprints
I just want to make it so while melee button is held keep Melee attacking
wicked lotus
However you should add delay after Attack,otherwise it will run this logic at max fps. Like 60 attacks per second.
Also IIRC there was flow gateish thing in BP.
Gate or Multigate.
pallid compass
Yeah iv got one in because it fucks up the animatio n haha
How does this look?
I still need to tidy it up
I removed the can melee no point in it
wicked lotus
You should wire "Set IsMelee False" to complete loop.
Prefably Left Mouse check branch.
pallid compass
Sorted it forgot to say thank you dude!
ashen brook
shoot
plush yew
(will copypaste from #blueprint 😛 )
I am having an issue which corrupts my whole BP and I am sick of having to get the backup an re-referencing the whole BP and it's communications with other BPs.
Removing Splinepoint 0 during runtime chrashes the damn editor and corrupts the BP forever
plush yew
Well my idea is now to create about 20 clones of the original Porject, and in each clone try to fix it, so if a clone breaks I'll just remove it and test on another
ashen brook
wait
hang on
you remove the point at runtime - during PIE? - and it corrupts the project?
plush yew
Because otherwise I need to spend 30-40 minutes of re-referencing everything in the project each time it gets corrupter
@ashen brook both in PIE and in Standalone
plush yew
No in this particular project no, and now I am too lazy to set it up (even though it would only take 10-15 minutes)
ashen brook
slaps Pand
never not use version control
because
30-40 minutes of re-referencing EVERY TIME vs. setting up source control once for 10-15 minutes?
how is that even something you have to think about 😉
plush yew
😛 I know what you mean, but my third option is already done and took only 5 minutes xD
ashen brook
then the first and foremost rule holds true still: never not use version control 😉
anyway, sounds like you solved it?
plush yew
no the actual issue still persists, but now I don't have to hassle with a bunch of re-referencing if my trials end up in breaking the bps
ashen brook
hmhm
plush yew
Yeal well removing doesn't crash anymore but causes some strange issues xD
worn merlin
Is it possible to make BSP blocks update live? So when you scale or move a BSP Box Brush it'll do it as though it's just a static mesh. At the minute I have to guess
plush yew
@worn merlin Please stop using BSPs from today, not sayign BSPs are bad in every situation but they require much more performance cost