#ue4-general | Unreal Source | Page 50

kindred mountain Jan 10, 2017, 7:59 AM

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I7 5820k OC'ed to 4.2ish that I run is awesome value

cloud cobalt Jan 10, 2017, 8:01 AM

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It really depends what you'll be doing @candid smelt . If you plan on regularly working inside the engine, doing the shipping builds of the game, and have a great SSD that can follow for the build, then yeah, why not

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If you plan on actually working with UE and sometimes building it, it's useless

floral heart Jan 10, 2017, 8:01 AM

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Wonder where that 7950X is.

kindred mountain Jan 10, 2017, 8:08 AM

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hopefully Ryzen is going to force Intel to drop prices on these parts a little at least

cloud cobalt Jan 10, 2017, 8:09 AM

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Doubtful

kindred mountain Jan 10, 2017, 8:09 AM

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we'll see. Some more affordable 8-10-core from AMD alone will be nice

floral heart Jan 10, 2017, 8:10 AM

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AMD doesn't need Intel to drop the prices as much as they need to be able to charge Intel's prices.

kindred mountain Jan 10, 2017, 8:10 AM

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although I can't see me upgrading for years

cloud cobalt Jan 10, 2017, 8:10 AM

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I know I won't upgrade until I can get a 50% faster CPU

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Which is in 5 years at the current rates

kindred mountain Jan 10, 2017, 8:14 AM

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yeah not holding my breath on that one

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is there any roadmap for unified memory from either vendor?

cloud cobalt Jan 10, 2017, 8:16 AM

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Not than I know of

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I'm quite happy with my 3770K, it's like 3 years old and apparently it's still very good compared to new CPUs

robust tree Jan 10, 2017, 8:18 AM

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📎 footsteps.png

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hey @plush yew and @pallid root can I post it on twitter and facebook as a promo of my asset? Or should I blur your names and avatars?

pallid root Jan 10, 2017, 8:23 AM

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@robust tree by all means

robust tree Jan 10, 2017, 8:25 AM

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😃 great

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I probably need to wait for @plush yew

robust tree Jan 10, 2017, 9:19 AM

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I did it already I hope @plush yew be ok with it 😃 https://twitter.com/Bart_Kamski/status/818748984726618112?lang=pl

Twitter

@Bart_Kamski

Bartosz Kamiński

Footstep Sounds with BP Setup my best selling asset with PDF documentation and 2 tutorials. https://t.co/e330WBkRxX #gameaudio #gamedev #ue4

candid smelt Jan 10, 2017, 10:24 AM

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is it just me, or packaging a project created with a source build seems to take ALOT longer than when your using the standalone editor?

main lotus Jan 10, 2017, 1:05 PM

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How come there is no #ue-optimization channel??

fierce tulip Jan 10, 2017, 1:05 PM

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often fits in any of the other channels

main lotus Jan 10, 2017, 1:06 PM

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hmm, makes sense

fierce tulip Jan 10, 2017, 1:07 PM

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though, i do agree it would make for a nice channel

main lotus Jan 10, 2017, 1:10 PM

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I already made a list of things to look after when optimizing.. But would be nice to get the same from others

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Perhaps learn / share

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For example: I'm working on my first level with a huge amount of foliage. And right now, lighting is a pain

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Having a chat with someone that knows about that would be great

cloud cobalt Jan 10, 2017, 1:23 PM

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Optimizing for graphics can go into #graphics

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Few people do both graphics and programming

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I'd be happy to help there though

main lotus Jan 10, 2017, 1:27 PM

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Sweet, thanks!

sand nova Jan 10, 2017, 2:38 PM

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hey all, any ideas why a tiny subset of my meshes and textures are being rebuilt every editor load? (assuming this is the right channel for the question!)

fierce tulip Jan 10, 2017, 2:41 PM

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nooo clue

sand nova Jan 10, 2017, 2:42 PM

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heh fair enough

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it's weird, the derived data cache appears to be built fine, and it's not maxed out, but for some reason these ~100 assets never seem to be stored in it shrug

primal edge Jan 10, 2017, 2:50 PM

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anyone have documents or URLs about the rendering capiblities of XB1 and PS4. Like what is the best terrain size, or the ebst characters, poly on screen, ...etc

fierce tulip Jan 10, 2017, 2:50 PM

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they are often hidden behind nda/contracts afaik

cloud cobalt Jan 10, 2017, 2:51 PM

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You're going to want to get the hardware first and build on that

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Porting a PC game after the fact is painful

fierce tulip Jan 10, 2017, 2:52 PM

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^ you can tell our rad rodger coder guy that again

primal edge Jan 10, 2017, 2:53 PM

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🙄

cloud cobalt Jan 10, 2017, 2:55 PM

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@fierce tulip Actually I think level design is the most dangerous part

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It's easy to do a big open environment on PC and then realize it can't happen on console

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It's also costly to rework

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You can usually optimize code by good margins

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Though current-gen consoles have shitty CPUs

fierce tulip Jan 10, 2017, 2:59 PM

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luckily even the 30-ish thousand polygon tree's wherent a problem

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resolution was fine as well

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mostly just too much memory being in use

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so reducing texture size got us quite far already

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additionally I did some vfx optims, and the rest of the team did their stuff

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but it ran decent on ps4 before optimisations, so thats yay 😃

main lotus Jan 10, 2017, 3:02 PM

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I'm also working on a PS4 title atm. But that data is indeed hidden behind an NDA

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Plus, you definitely want to test everything on the target hardware, because you'd be amazed how different everything runs on console compared to PC 😛

wheat vapor Jan 10, 2017, 3:18 PM

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Anyone having issues with drag and drop in 4.14.2?

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Every click on a widget is registering as a drag and drop interaction atm

fierce tulip Jan 10, 2017, 3:21 PM

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@main lotus and besides performance, some of the rules and guidelines are either so outdated or just stupendous

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but.. well.. nda :p

main lotus Jan 10, 2017, 3:33 PM

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You should see the requirements for being allowed to show a PS4 controller 😂

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14 page document

tender violet Jan 10, 2017, 3:47 PM

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anyone know how much a perforce helix server license costs per user?

wheat vapor Jan 10, 2017, 3:53 PM

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Something absolutely nuts if I remember correctly

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like 170$ per month or something

fierce tulip Jan 10, 2017, 3:55 PM

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try digital ocean

tender violet Jan 10, 2017, 3:56 PM

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omg that's nuts

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using the free 5 user one right now and I really like it, only need a few users but I want to setup gitswarm with it for notifications and that requires some extra users to be created

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not worth that kinda $$$ just for some notifications

cloud cobalt Jan 10, 2017, 4:01 PM

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Perforce used to be fine (used it on previous project)

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It was 20 free users back then, which was more than fine, including some bot users for release systems

short dagger Jan 10, 2017, 4:02 PM

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has anyone had problems with git refusing to ignore _BuiltData files? i add it to my gitignore, clear out the cache, add everything back in, and it's still there

cloud cobalt Jan 10, 2017, 4:02 PM

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Today you're better off with Git. Gitlab provides free private hosting for large repositories

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And it's basically the most well-supported VCS anyway

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Sourcetree is not worse than Perforce client, and it's free too

tender violet Jan 10, 2017, 4:04 PM

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we moved from atlassian stash to perforce, git was just too slow and I really like how perforce is better integrated with the engine

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we have our own vmware system so dont need hosting

cloud cobalt Jan 10, 2017, 4:05 PM

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Yeah, Perforce still has its uses

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But generally I think people are better off with Git, Git + LFS with Github, or exotic VCS like Plastic

tender violet Jan 10, 2017, 4:07 PM

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I'll just stick with the free 5 users for now and not worry about notifications

thin haven Jan 10, 2017, 4:07 PM

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what even is Plastic?

wheat vapor Jan 10, 2017, 4:15 PM

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https://www.plasticscm.com/

A version control that will help you develop new features in parallel, go distributed, merge in time, and never break a build again

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That's plastic, I actually was looking into this

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Perforce used to have a 20 user, 20 workspace free licence trial

tender violet Jan 10, 2017, 4:18 PM

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emailing with a perforce salesperson right now, I think the guy is scared to give me the price, I've asked 3 times now and he's still talking about demos....I already have a working system, don't need a demo!

cloud cobalt Jan 10, 2017, 4:22 PM

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You what they say about when you need to ask for the price

tender violet Jan 10, 2017, 4:23 PM

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ask for quote is always a bad sign haha

cloud cobalt Jan 10, 2017, 4:27 PM

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I hate that Git sucks with big binary files

tender violet Jan 10, 2017, 4:27 PM

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ya, makes it pretty pointless with ue4

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unless you have a big source project

cloud cobalt Jan 10, 2017, 4:28 PM

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My previous project was git sources, p4 binaries

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Current project uses 4 Git repos (binary content, sources, sources of content, website)

sturdy kernel Jan 10, 2017, 4:49 PM

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has anyone got sequence recorder to work with ProceduralMeshComponent? by default it doesn't record the mesh 'growth'

plush yew Jan 10, 2017, 5:25 PM

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@cloud cobalt i thought you were talking about galaxy in turmoil there for a sec xD

tender violet Jan 10, 2017, 5:28 PM

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Fixed in 4.14.3

Fixed! UE-40294 Put fix for UE-39713 into 4.14.3 (Memory leak in GPURealloc)
Fixed! UE-40156 PhysX issue causing lag, high ping, and failures

where can I fidn the details for these? they aren't public in the issue tracker

short dagger Jan 10, 2017, 5:30 PM

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https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-40294

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40156 doesn't seem to be there, mind you

tender violet Jan 10, 2017, 5:32 PM

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no details on the mem leak tho

short dagger Jan 10, 2017, 5:38 PM

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it's possible because the API isn't available to the public they don't want to expose any function calls. who knows

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the physx API that is

sturdy kernel Jan 10, 2017, 11:10 PM

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asked a Q earlier but I had it wrong. what I really want to ask: is there a simple way to get sequencer to record user input (e.g. trigger press) rather than just actor/component transforms

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 12:44 AM

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@sturdy kernel You could probably add an event on trigger press, like the spawning of an empty actor, and then replace that key with something else?

sturdy kernel Jan 11, 2017, 12:46 AM

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@plush yew I'm currently doing something like that (manually recording input values into sequencer) .. just wondering if there's a builtin way of doing it

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 12:49 AM

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I'm unware about it if that's the case :<

fading knot Jan 11, 2017, 1:52 AM

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having some trouble with LowEntryJson. anyone have any experince that could lend a hand? Running into issues parsing JSON https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/low-entry-json

This plugin provides you with Blueprints to create and parse JSON strings.

humble crow Jan 11, 2017, 2:56 AM

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if I have a blueprint is it about the same to bring in 2 meshes and have one hidden or set the mesh component with the desired mesh as a toggle?

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I'll just make 2 sets

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 3:05 AM

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Have anyone used a tablet as a custom input device for Unreal? IE not rendering on the tablet, just using it as a wireless input device. All I need is a touch event and the X,Y coordinate of the touch

humble crow Jan 11, 2017, 3:31 AM

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I did back when I was messing with ipad developement. there was a remote app that helped you connect them I think

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but this is years ago now

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probably not that helpful

pallid root Jan 11, 2017, 3:46 AM

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@plush yew do you mean like a wacom tablet or cintiq?

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 3:46 AM

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@pallid root Nah, android. Coule be phone for prototyping

pallid root Jan 11, 2017, 3:47 AM

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ah

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speaking of wacom has anyone used those for editing meshes in the editor?

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 3:47 AM

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@pallid root Sculpting or actually modeling?

pallid root Jan 11, 2017, 3:47 AM

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sculpting terrain

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 3:48 AM

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@humble crow Connect the Ipad and PC or connect the Ipad and UE4 on the pc?

pallid root Jan 11, 2017, 3:48 AM

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Mostly curious if the pressure tip works with Unreal

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 3:48 AM

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@pallid root Hmmmm good question

pallid root Jan 11, 2017, 3:50 AM

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https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-16596 😦

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 3:52 AM

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Well, atleast it was recently updated ^^

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I don't think it's something a lot of people are after

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:23 AM

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anyway know how to do apex cloth?

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:28 AM

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Anyone familar with this build fail code? Program.Main: AutomationTool exiting with ExitCode=25 (Error_UnknownCookFailure)

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:36 AM

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i know how to read it

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open the output log and just search error

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those are the errors you need to fix first

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it would be helpful to also fix the warnings too as that would prevent bugs/crashing/freezing etc

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:39 AM

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@plush yew Here's a link to the answer hub post about it https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/547314/builds-fail-with-automationtool-exiting-with-exitc.html . I might be blind, do you see in erros in the log?

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@plush yew I'm using epics starter content so the project has almost nothing to it.

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:40 AM

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you have a few errors

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wait wtf

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:41 AM

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@plush yew What do you see?

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:42 AM

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you have a dialogue thing in your game?

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thats what i see is causing the issue

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:42 AM

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the game is called dialogue haha

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:43 AM

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oh shit wait hold on

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i read that wrong

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i thought it said uasset

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:43 AM

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its a test map to eliminate possible issues

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:43 AM

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i dont see any errors....

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weird

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:43 AM

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I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible. I've been trying to nail down this issues for a week.

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:45 AM

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weird

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:45 AM

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@plush yew I've hit a wall. This is like the 6th time I've compiled the engine from scratch...

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:45 AM

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the warnings are very simple too....

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i have literally no idea dude, i dont see any notable errors

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i had the same issue before, i just started deleting things one by one until i found the issue

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granted its unprofessional but i was stumped for months

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:46 AM

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I'm not even using my own content. I'm using epics starter content to iliminate other possabilites.

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:46 AM

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did you code at all?

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:47 AM

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I didnt.

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:47 AM

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hmmm

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and you are compiling for xbox one

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:47 AM

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I'm using a the toon shader engine model as a base and its worked in the past just fine for xbox one.

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Yup, compiling for xbox one.

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:48 AM

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ive never compiled for xbox one

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so i dont know what is required for it to work

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:48 AM

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I've done it before and its worked.

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:48 AM

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i dont know dude

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:48 AM

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well, you tried.

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:48 AM

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sorry pal

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oh while your here, when you compile for xbox one, cant you just stick it on a usb and plug it into your xbox one and play or do you NEED a dev kit

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:49 AM

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I have a dev kit

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:49 AM

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ah ok, well shit

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where the hell do you get those things

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:49 AM

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I just send it over ethernet

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Right from microsoft

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:50 AM

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you just request one?

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:50 AM

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register as a developer and they will send them to you for free

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:50 AM

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and its only for development, it cant play any games?

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im sorry im not familiar with dev kits

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:50 AM

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Just jump through some hoops

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They sent me two so ones for games and the other is dev work

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You can use them for both just not at the same time. If that makes sense.

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:51 AM

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well i could use one in 2020, after my first game launches

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well if they are still in production

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just saw the 4.14.3 patch notes THANK FUCK they fixed the physx fps bug

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:53 AM

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indeed haha

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:53 AM

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i would open a blueprint and i would get immdeiate lag, because most of my effects are physx based

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 4:53 AM

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That's a drag for sure...

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 4:54 AM

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well it runs better

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i just wish GPUOpen was used in unreal engine, that would make it easier for me

unborn matrix Jan 11, 2017, 5:44 AM

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Pokemon-like damage system?

Rock paper scissors but with damage types

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I can't find any good tutorials on stuff like that

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 1:12 PM

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hello!

Can anyone help me figure out how to configure my project for building properly? I'm having issues with the applocal prerequisites directory property. By default it points to $(EngineDir)/Binaries/Win64/. but when I try building the game it fails saying "Unable to deploy AppLocalDirectory dependencies. No such path: D:\Work\TrsTwinstickAssembla12$(EngineDir)\Binaries\Win64.\Win64". My project path is D:\Work\TrsTwinstickAssembla12. I can't figure out how the F'ck how this path that is reported is generated or which path should actually be there, the path to my project bin or to my engine bin.

thin haven Jan 11, 2017, 1:23 PM

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"D:\Work\TrsTwinstickAssembla12$(EngineDir)\Binaries\Win64.\Win64" what is that dot doing there?

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 1:25 PM

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no idea

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its a default that pops up when i set it to empty

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do you know what that field is actually for?

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 1:52 PM

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found the solution
https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/534817/unable-to-deploy-applocaldirectory-dependencies.html

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for some reason it wasnt working first time I tried but now its ok

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 2:22 PM

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Anyone familar with this build fail code? Program.Main: AutomationTool exiting with ExitCode=25 (Error_UnknownCookFailure). Here's a link to the answer hub post about it https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/547314/builds-fail-with-automationtool-exiting-with-exitc.html

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 2:37 PM

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thats a fuck you code

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look for errors above that

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 2:38 PM

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There are no errors...

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tears

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 2:38 PM

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damn

velvet fern Jan 11, 2017, 2:38 PM

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is there a way to reduce camera speed in the static mesh editor?

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 2:39 PM

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have you gone through the logs on your disk

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https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Locating_Project_Logs

Locating Project Logs

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 2:40 PM

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@plush yew I have not gone through all of them

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I'm using unreals starter content instead of my own project to eliminate other possible issues.

plush yew Jan 11, 2017, 2:40 PM

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relevant ones ofcourse

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good luck mate!

bitter edge Jan 11, 2017, 2:41 PM

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Thanks

signal sonnet Jan 11, 2017, 11:36 PM

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hi everybody!

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if i have an object with multiple materials on it at different parts of the model

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like say, using a rendertarget to draw materials onto an object

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is there a way to have a player object be able to return a different value depending on what material it collided with

humble crow Jan 12, 2017, 12:03 AM

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is there a way export objects from a level (meaning keep their placement) to FBX/ into maya?

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I have a few objects block places and want to export them all to maya to uprez into 1 asset

leaden perch Jan 12, 2017, 12:20 AM

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Does anyone here use Skookum Script?

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(Related: what plugins do you use?)

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Or does anyone here use another embedded scripting language (such as Lua?)

unreal sonnet Jan 12, 2017, 5:00 AM

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Why am I so stupid?

weary basalt Jan 12, 2017, 5:19 AM

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A question for the ages

unreal sonnet Jan 12, 2017, 7:13 AM

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Isn't there a way to collapse a struct blueprint node so that only the pins I need are exposed rather than the whole hodgepodge of pins at once?

modest trench Jan 12, 2017, 7:50 AM

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that would be great

bright aspen Jan 12, 2017, 8:47 AM

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Is there a way to make a global static singleton variable or class using blueprints?

thin haven Jan 12, 2017, 8:48 AM

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if you want functions that can be accessed from anywhere, use blueprint function library. for variables, maybe save game object?

plush yew Jan 12, 2017, 9:33 AM

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how do i connect to source control guys

thin haven Jan 12, 2017, 9:35 AM

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what source control system are you using?

plush yew Jan 12, 2017, 9:36 AM

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idk how it works

thin haven Jan 12, 2017, 9:38 AM

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do you have the $$$ or do you want a completely free solution? because there are several systems out there @plush yew

plush yew Jan 12, 2017, 9:43 AM

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Free

thin haven Jan 12, 2017, 9:43 AM

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then your only option is git. here's a tutorial

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https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Git_source_control_(Tutorial)

Git source control (Tutorial)

plush yew Jan 12, 2017, 9:46 AM

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Ty

thin haven Jan 12, 2017, 9:46 AM

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np

kindred mountain Jan 12, 2017, 9:55 AM

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perforce is free for 5 users as well

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but you'll probably find git easier to use/find help for if you've never used source control before

echo hill Jan 12, 2017, 10:40 AM

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Heh, weirdly enough I just switched from Git => P4 yesterday - seems P4 is way more supported in UE4 than git (for now)

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but im only one user - with more users p4 is $$$, and it's harder to find free hosted p4 servers 😃

thin haven Jan 12, 2017, 10:43 AM

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I don't think there are any free hosted p4 servers now

echo hill Jan 12, 2017, 10:44 AM

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there was Assembla but when i looked yesterday it seems not so much 😛

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someone on Reddit said you could hire an Amazon EC2 cloud server on its free tier to do it, but thats now a 1yr trial too

floral heart Jan 12, 2017, 10:47 AM

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Run it on an HTPC. 😜

echo hill Jan 12, 2017, 10:48 AM

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heh, to be honest it's not as crazy as it sounds 😛

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apart from if you wanted p4 as a sort of backup also, in which case if your house burns down.... lol

cursive dirge Jan 12, 2017, 10:50 AM

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Or someone breaks in and steals your stuff

floral heart Jan 12, 2017, 10:50 AM

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Hm.
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Store it in the blocks of some lousy cryptocurrency!

cursive dirge Jan 12, 2017, 10:50 AM

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Which is more likely scenario, probably

echo hill Jan 12, 2017, 10:51 AM

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haha cryptocurrency... i like it!

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but yeah, offsite is always better if you can do it 😛

cursive dirge Jan 12, 2017, 10:51 AM

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Buy a nuc/ small conputer and hide it to your parents house

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Make sure they have internet

echo hill Jan 12, 2017, 10:52 AM

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or host it on a raspberry pi and hide it under the floorboards haha?

floral heart Jan 12, 2017, 10:52 AM

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In a fireproof safe.

echo hill Jan 12, 2017, 10:53 AM

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haha perfect

cursive dirge Jan 12, 2017, 10:53 AM

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And waterproof

echo hill Jan 12, 2017, 10:53 AM

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so like a miniature bank vault

floral heart Jan 12, 2017, 10:53 AM

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A thousand years later: "We've found a time capsule!" "No, it's just someone's home perforce."

cursive dirge Jan 12, 2017, 10:54 AM

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Got water damage twice so far and people have stolen my stuff too many times

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Have very little faith in people not screwing things up for me

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So I vote for remote location

echo hill Jan 12, 2017, 10:55 AM

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jeez.. that's really unlucky 😬

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definitely remote then 😛

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i store my perforce stuff on my webserver, which is wrong for a whole other set of reasons 😂

cursive dirge Jan 12, 2017, 10:56 AM

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Why?

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(why it is wrong?)

floral heart Jan 12, 2017, 10:56 AM

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If the webserver is what the perforce is for...

echo hill Jan 12, 2017, 10:57 AM

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not sure, just seems a bit dodgy security-wise? maybe not though!

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and no, it's not haha

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okay i have a question not related to perforce or house fires!

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when are PlayerControllers actually created?

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i assumed when a level/match starts it creates new PCs, and when you change level it creates new PCs again - but it looks like they might be kept around on map change?

thin haven Jan 12, 2017, 11:01 AM

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player controllers are kept on map change, actual character blueprints are not, I believe

echo hill Jan 12, 2017, 11:01 AM

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yeah, i think that's what i'm seeing

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thing is, i have a main game mode which uses a certain PC, but there's a kind of "menu map" which uses a different game mode and thus a different PC

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so i'm not sure how it handles that does it keep a PC around per game mode?

thin haven Jan 12, 2017, 11:02 AM

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I think it's per mode - I'm in the same boat as you

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I use a main game mode for the game itself and a separate game mode for the maps which don't need the player moving

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so the main menu or the garage

echo hill Jan 12, 2017, 11:03 AM

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yup... similar for me then, mine has a character setup screen before the game where you have a character which you customise but no movement

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i guess same principle but yours is with cars? 😛 haha

thin haven Jan 12, 2017, 11:08 AM

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looks like, yeah

muted harbor Jan 12, 2017, 11:26 AM

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does anyone know why my media player keeps saying no media in the top left corner?

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i choose the file media source but after i play the game it doesnt stay there

rigid kayak Jan 12, 2017, 2:13 PM

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Anyone here managed to get the replay system to work? Im trying to test it in the shootergame project but the console commands dont seem to do anything, also trying to use it in c++ but nothing

shadow ermine Jan 12, 2017, 2:32 PM

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https://www.unrealengine.com/showcase/learn-unreal-engine-4-development-from-professional-aaa-devs-via-game-school-online

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Worth a visit ^^

coral folio Jan 12, 2017, 3:36 PM

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Holla guys !! I'm having troubles using the ease node in blueprint as I believe my alpha is incorrect. I basically need an animation to go from 0 to 1 when triggered. How can I do this through Delta time ? c:

golden quest Jan 13, 2017, 2:40 AM

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Moving assets between folders within a project is really dangerous. Think I will never do that or risk to see invisible duplicates on apparent empty folders that will float on memory forever.

fierce tulip Jan 13, 2017, 3:26 AM

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fix up redirectors and 99.9% of the time the problem is gone

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 3:32 AM

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Does anyone here know Max script?

fierce tulip Jan 13, 2017, 3:34 AM

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not many seem to do, as I have asked multiple times and never got a satisfactory answer

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 3:41 AM

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Dang

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Im really trying to figure out how something like this would be done in 3ds max

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https://a.pomf.cat/lixnsi.webm

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It would make a world of difference for level designers

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Since it would be the next best thing until probuilder or geometry tools 2.0 come out

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I might learn max script just to do this

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I know for a fact that its not complex

floral heart Jan 13, 2017, 3:52 AM

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That seems pretty simple. Extrusion and welding. But subtracting geometry would be tricky.
Also, Geometry 2.0 is probably canceled.

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 3:52 AM

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all Im aiming for is autoplanar uv mapping on extruded faces

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in 3ds max

fierce tulip Jan 13, 2017, 3:53 AM

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besides the uv's you can already do that

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 3:53 AM

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yes but the UVs are the important part

fierce tulip Jan 13, 2017, 3:53 AM

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uv's are frickin simple for stuff like that hehe

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 3:54 AM

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yes but when you are making lots of iterations and stuff it is very slow

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and tedious

floral heart Jan 13, 2017, 3:54 AM

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I'd assume if you're making a quad every time, you just put UV 0.0 and UV 1.0 on the right vertices.

fierce tulip Jan 13, 2017, 3:54 AM

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if you are making iterations its mean you shouldnt be wasting time with uv's anyways :p

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 3:54 AM

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so you would think

fierce tulip Jan 13, 2017, 3:54 AM

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thats like building light after every few meshes

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 3:55 AM

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but its quicker if everything is UVed automatically from the start you dont have to unwrap at the end

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plus you can see your results in real time

fierce tulip Jan 13, 2017, 3:55 AM

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you'd need to unwrap for lightmaps anyways, and you dont want floor/wall/ceiling as one mesh for collision complexity reasons

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 3:56 AM

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you split it up

floral heart Jan 13, 2017, 3:56 AM

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You could just use a triplanar material, instead of UVing it.

fierce tulip Jan 13, 2017, 3:56 AM

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then just apply a planar map lol

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 3:56 AM

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its still a lot more efficient to automatically unwrap

fierce tulip Jan 13, 2017, 3:56 AM

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and that

floral heart Jan 13, 2017, 3:56 AM

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Matcaps and triplanar everything!

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 3:56 AM

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in 3ds max?

floral heart Jan 13, 2017, 3:57 AM

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I'm doing shader editing in blender because its preview is faster. :x

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 3:57 AM

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Have you guys used the Source 2 editor?

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If you have youll know what I mean when I say building levels is much faster

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when everythng is unwrapped and easy to texture automatically

floral heart Jan 13, 2017, 3:58 AM

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I've used Source 1. Did they make hammer better?

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 3:58 AM

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Much, much better

fierce tulip Jan 13, 2017, 3:58 AM

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hammer been crap since day 1

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 3:58 AM

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that video I posted is Source 2 hammer

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And Luos thats an opinion

fierce tulip Jan 13, 2017, 3:59 AM

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an educated one :p

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 3:59 AM

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Its much faster to iterate and design levels correctly with hammer than a modeling program outside of the game editor

floral heart Jan 13, 2017, 3:59 AM

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In source 1, the automatic uvs were basically triplanar.

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 3:59 AM

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Yeah

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Its pretty nice and convienent was it not?

fierce tulip Jan 13, 2017, 4:00 AM

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http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/ccom-plan-unwrap

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anyways, afk switch stream starts

floral heart Jan 13, 2017, 4:01 AM

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Personally I preferred the align-to buttons.

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 4:01 AM

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Im trying to look for a script/modifer that unwraps in real time

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Well yes the align to buttons were useful, but they wouldnt be useful if the bsp wasnt automatically unwrapped

floral heart Jan 13, 2017, 4:02 AM

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On that note, I actually did have some issues with the world unwrapping, related to diagonally rotated pipes.

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 4:02 AM

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In hammer?

floral heart Jan 13, 2017, 4:03 AM

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For anything rectilinear it was fine of course.

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Somehow I worked out this crazy situation where I would alt-click from one pipe onto the opposite face of another pipe, so that the textures wrapped nicely.

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 4:04 AM

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yeah

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That is a super nice feature, used extensively

floral heart Jan 13, 2017, 4:04 AM

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Basically magic. I couldn't do it again if I tried.

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 4:04 AM

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I used to mod source quite a bit, used hammer for like 10 years

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http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/328/327236/1WE3L87.jpg

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Thats Agroprom (from STALKER) remade for gmod

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Although I dont quite like bsp anymore, the workflow is unparalled even today for prototyping levels and finalizng them too

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Mostly because of the auto unwrapping, auto lightmapping, collision, and since it was all built in editor

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rather than relying on external programs to design everything

brave horizon Jan 13, 2017, 5:04 AM

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Interesting to see an Unreal 4 game on the Switch

floral heart Jan 13, 2017, 5:06 AM

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Explains the early mentions of switch support in the UE4 code.

brave horizon Jan 13, 2017, 5:07 AM

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awesome.

kindred mountain Jan 13, 2017, 8:05 AM

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how do I get the TP to walk rather than run?

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TP character

safe rose Jan 13, 2017, 8:06 AM

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?

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go softly on the stick

kindred mountain Jan 13, 2017, 8:06 AM

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using MoveToLocation in an AIController

safe rose Jan 13, 2017, 8:06 AM

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k

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well, if you are using an animbp

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you should know the speed at which it go from walk to run

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and just reduce said speed in the charbp

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to under the threshold

kindred mountain Jan 13, 2017, 8:09 AM

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got it thanks

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really need to put a day aside to learn this stuff properly!

safe rose Jan 13, 2017, 8:27 AM

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not really @brave horizon

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There are probably over 20 games slated for it

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Ever since they announced UE4 support

cloud cobalt Jan 13, 2017, 8:39 AM

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Yeah game engines are always going to support any major new console anyway

safe rose Jan 13, 2017, 8:42 AM

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hmm

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not true

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well

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I was about to say Wii U

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but I think that was 2012

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and 3DS

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which I am still a bit shocked ue4 hasn't jumped on that

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especially with Unity all up in it

cloud cobalt Jan 13, 2017, 8:43 AM

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So I've worked on the 3DS

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Unity support for it is shit

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It's an ARM11 with a fixed-pipeline GPU

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You can't have UE4, or UE3 for that matter, on that

safe rose Jan 13, 2017, 8:44 AM

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damn

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well

cloud cobalt Jan 13, 2017, 8:45 AM

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The Wii U was a previous-gen console from Epic's POV

safe rose Jan 13, 2017, 8:45 AM

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here's hoping we will see New Super 4DS

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With UE4 support

cloud cobalt Jan 13, 2017, 8:45 AM

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That's the Switch

safe rose Jan 13, 2017, 8:45 AM

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Of course... it could be that Switch

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yeah

cloud cobalt Jan 13, 2017, 8:45 AM

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😄

safe rose Jan 13, 2017, 8:45 AM

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But...

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not really

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that thing is too big

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but small

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I feel that they can still compete in the "Mobile" dept

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with something smaller

cloud cobalt Jan 13, 2017, 8:46 AM

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I wouldn't expect another device

safe rose Jan 13, 2017, 8:46 AM

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really?

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Hmm

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I guess New 3DS came out pretty recently

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But I would be very surprised if they didn't come out with another one

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Unless they devote that side straight to mobile apps

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Which I suppose I could see. I mean Mario Run might have been a test run for them

cloud cobalt Jan 13, 2017, 8:47 AM

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tbh it looks like that

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They have a mobile-y device now, I don't see a new 3DS coming

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But well, I guess we'll see what they do

safe rose Jan 13, 2017, 8:49 AM

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Aye

cloud cobalt Jan 13, 2017, 8:49 AM

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I'd love to do a Switch game anyway

safe rose Jan 13, 2017, 8:57 AM

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Right

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But, I am pretty sure that's on lockdown

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For most indies anyway

tawdry quail Jan 13, 2017, 11:12 AM

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can I change a reflection capture's brightness during runtime?

golden quest Jan 13, 2017, 12:53 PM

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Can someone help me with a little issue with UE4? Apparently, from reading my crash reports, my editor is using my old HDD for computing its builds and other stuff (wich is assigned to D:\ ), and I use that one just as storage and nothing else. My question is, is there a way to change that so that UE4 uses my SDD, which is bigger and much faster for computing and stuff? (can't seem to find it within the Editor Preferences).

cursive dirge Jan 13, 2017, 12:54 PM

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just place the projects on SSD drive?

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and preferably install UE4 there too

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(and VS)

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there is DerivedDataCache etc folders under your Users/Appdata but it should always be in the system drive, if your SSD is not the system drive, then it requires specific settings on your ue4 config to change that

golden quest Jan 13, 2017, 1:04 PM

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My UE4 and all the projects are in my SSD (assigned letter O:\ ), that's why I found my crash report odd when I saw the address it was using for its computing was D:\ . I was wondering if it was related to how my Windows used D:\ for RAM but I changed that in settings to redirect to the new SSD after I upgraded to it.
And yes, my current Windows is installed in a SSD (and that one is C:\ ). Do I need to open the config for UE4 then?

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Oh dear, so many config files...

mellow obsidian Jan 13, 2017, 3:24 PM

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can also be that your UE puts temporary files in the D drive and that something went wrong in the temporary files

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 5:36 PM

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For anyone who was reading my comments before about max script and autoplanar mapping, I posted in the Wallworm forums about the idea and Wallworm responded back with a very useful video nearly covering exactly what I was asking for

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fr92ter63U

YouTube

Shawn Olson

Automatic Planar UVs

▶ Play video

wet berry Jan 13, 2017, 6:08 PM

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Does anyone have info on what 4.15 is going to be? I was hoping for overall QOL and bug improvements but the one specific feature I was tracking for 4.15 is backlogged now (smooth unload level streaming).

short dagger Jan 13, 2017, 6:10 PM

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https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwiNwuPt27_RAhVm9YMKHbumBH8QFggcMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftrello.com%2Fb%2FgHooNW9I%2Fue4-roadmap&usg=AFQjCNGzITjvk4Secl0aboiUn-ubKWenrg&sig2=JAOWOKgEKPbKxMKuENG0Gg

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On phone so can't get proper link but their trello actually has a list of stuff done in 4.15.

thin haven Jan 13, 2017, 6:24 PM

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proper link: https://trello.com/b/gHooNW9I/ue4-roadmap

Organize anything, together. Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, know what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.

cursive dirge Jan 13, 2017, 6:28 PM

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hmmm

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this is marked as done now

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https://trello.com/c/8Z0N60FR/618-done-4-15-blueprint-c-conversion-tool

Organize anything, together. Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, know what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.

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wonder if it mean that there are no known bugs in it or just that they don't want to keep people working on it anymore

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 6:29 PM

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I was wondering about that too

fierce tulip Jan 13, 2017, 7:56 PM

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@wet berry there was some verification that 4.15 wont be a QOL/Bugfix version.

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@violet cove oh man, i havent heard shawns voice in ages.

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keep in mind that that setup might not always work with complex shapes.

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for simple level planning it should be fine though

violet cove Jan 13, 2017, 7:57 PM

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Yeah it doesnt work well with some objects

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but for basic level geo its pretty good

thin haven Jan 13, 2017, 7:59 PM

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@fierce tulip: I heard they abandoned the idea of stability versions as such, not that they won't bugfix

fierce tulip Jan 13, 2017, 8:00 PM

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well, looking at 4.12, 4.13, and 4.14.. im wondering if they abandoned stability hehe

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hope 15 is better

golden quest Jan 13, 2017, 8:46 PM

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Playing Bioshock 2 and I got the feel I was on my UE4 Editor lol

copper swallow Jan 14, 2017, 1:49 AM

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I have these errors in my message log and have replaced all the refernces.

How ever these won't go away and do nothing when i click on them (Doesnt open any BP or Animation Blend)

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safe rose Jan 14, 2017, 1:50 AM

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@copper swallow how did you replace them?

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Did you fix up redirectors?

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click on the nodes in question

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it should take you somewhere

copper swallow Jan 14, 2017, 1:50 AM

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I used a back up from the saved>backup folder

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the nodes take me no wher

safe rose Jan 14, 2017, 1:50 AM

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So you've gone to each of those BPs

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and checked to make sure everything is good?

fierce tulip Jan 14, 2017, 1:51 AM

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shouldnt one need to remove the time/date stamp

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?

safe rose Jan 14, 2017, 1:51 AM

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I think those timestamps are autosaves?

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maybe not

fierce tulip Jan 14, 2017, 1:52 AM

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yea, but if you use them (move em back) need to remove timestamp

safe rose Jan 14, 2017, 1:52 AM

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But it's a strange naming convention if not

fierce tulip Jan 14, 2017, 1:53 AM

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yea, timestamps come from the backups

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need to remove em

copper swallow Jan 14, 2017, 1:53 AM

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Steam VR player controller - good, simulates fine
Animation- good, simulates fine
wand- good, simulates fine
shocking grasp- good

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timestamps?

fierce tulip Jan 14, 2017, 1:54 AM

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https://i.gyazo.com/66ba16abb814d7906f205751170f2224.png

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the _2017_etc timestamps

copper swallow Jan 14, 2017, 1:54 AM

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I mean I thought I renamed it already?

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let me check

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yeah timestamp is already gone from it

fierce tulip Jan 14, 2017, 1:55 AM

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never tried with blueprints though, not sure if they accidentally redirect to additional timestamp shit

copper swallow Jan 14, 2017, 1:57 AM

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Well for some reason our editor won't re open and it crashes. If I rename/replace WizardCharacter.uasset it will open fine, everything else we worked on is fine

I just get these errors

fierce tulip Jan 14, 2017, 1:58 AM

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see if that steamthing is looking for it still, fix up redirects, etc

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also, off to bed. good luck!

copper swallow Jan 14, 2017, 1:59 AM

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Thanks for the help tho! Appreciate it

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If I close and reopen if project it crashes at 93%

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Fatal bugs whyy

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Fixing up redirects didnt work either

tame token Jan 14, 2017, 4:22 AM

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Hi all

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Has anyone here worked with modding for ARK ???

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ok have a good night

split trail Jan 14, 2017, 9:36 AM

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https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/548860/svnssh-tunneling-checking-out-files-in-editor.html

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Thoughts anyone?

naive remnant Jan 14, 2017, 2:05 PM

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I've to give an architecture walkthrough to a client and want to make sure the build works just on one machine. I don't want them to be able to copy paste the build onto multiple machinces. Any suggestions on how i can do this?

jovial nova Jan 14, 2017, 2:06 PM

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Noob Question: What node is this? I've created a Material and functions etc are blended and plugged into this landscape master node, but I can't remember why it's collapsed.

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Ohh! I clicked "Use Material Attributes" heh. sorry yall!

plush yew Jan 14, 2017, 3:12 PM

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@naive remnant I would say in broad terms, set up communication to server, hold database in server, register UUID of computer,if unique UUID assign said computer UUID with unique key, wiht possibility to download the key as a file for offline use
if UUID has been used application can't be used

Also, you should have some form of registering not only the UUID and assigning a key, but also register the UUID and Key-status for offline usage

naive remnant Jan 14, 2017, 3:14 PM

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Thanks, @plush yew! This is the standard for most games, right? I might not have internet connection when installing though

plush yew Jan 14, 2017, 3:14 PM

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But simplest way would not be this, a simple way, (which can be bypassed though)

Woud be to just register UUID for offline use

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jsut keep the file secret, so users don't easily tamper with it and changed whihc UUID has been registered

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@naive remnant No the standard is just give a key to the user and input the key when starting teh game for the 1st time(or everytime) my solution is a bit more thorough

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also

naive remnant Jan 14, 2017, 3:20 PM

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How are you identifying each system though? Are you using a MAC ID? Or are you creating a UUID each time the game is installed?

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@plush yew Where are you storing this unique key?

plush yew Jan 14, 2017, 3:24 PM

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UUID is uniqie to several OSs so it's the best, so it would read the UUID of the installing computer, lin it with an avialable key

But all of this is theoretical, I have not needed to do anything liek this yet

But logically this would be the best way

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Also, store it somewhere the users wouldn't look

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atleast according to me, if it's in the actual folder of the build ,you make the risk of them finding and tampering with the stored key easier

naive remnant Jan 14, 2017, 3:26 PM

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Alright, thanks!

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Final question, do you know how I can get the UUID in Unreal?

plush yew Jan 14, 2017, 3:26 PM

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That would more likely have to be done outside of Unreal, or through pure code

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I think best would be to create a "third party" tool to handle this and handle the startup of the build if you are doign this

naive remnant Jan 14, 2017, 3:33 PM

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Hmm, this is trickier than I thought it would be!

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Thanks a lot for your help, @plush yew! Really appreciate it

plush yew Jan 14, 2017, 3:34 PM

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no problem, might be some easier way to get teh UUID, not sure if it is possible through the regular editor but I am pretty sure it isn't

plush yew Jan 14, 2017, 3:59 PM

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https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/229567/does-ue4-provide-a-hardware-id.html

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@naive remnant Found this

naive remnant Jan 14, 2017, 4:31 PM

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Yeah, this should do. Thanks @plush yew !

plush yew Jan 14, 2017, 4:31 PM

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Np 😃

vague prairie Jan 14, 2017, 7:47 PM

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How can I move a meshComponent so that its center is at a location, not its pivot point

old bone Jan 14, 2017, 9:58 PM

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Hello guys, when I transfered to a new version of engine, I am getting broken encoding in output log, is it known issue?

solid wadi Jan 15, 2017, 12:36 AM

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Im having some troubles with UE4 and i dont really know where to ask this. Everything is fine until project creation/selection where the UI becomes red. When a project is opened the UI is still red and the viewport is in anaglyph 3d and i dont know why or how to fix this. I have been looking around but cant seem to find anything about this. Im using Windows 10 and UE4.14.3
I have done a fresh install and multiple reinstalls and its still the same. Please this is stopping me from learning to use unreal engine,any help about turning it off so i can start learning unreal engine and i would be really gratefull

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lavish glacier Jan 15, 2017, 2:56 AM

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one day, we'll have redirect nodes in material editor

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one day

cursive dirge Jan 15, 2017, 3:53 AM

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@solid wadi but unreal doesnt even have anaglyph mode...

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If I had to guess, you have forced that on somewhere else, like from nvidia 3d stereo drivers

solid wadi Jan 15, 2017, 9:09 AM

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ok,but its only un unreal if it was the drivers shouldnt other programs be affected to?

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Thank you it worked, anaglyph 3d was eneabled in the nvidia controll panel and for some reason unreal seem to use that. I have never touched the settings on my grapihics card and never seen a program use anaglyph 3d without it beeing a option in some menu. And a last question is this a bug? or is it somehow my fault?

cursive dirge Jan 15, 2017, 9:24 AM

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it's not enabled by default

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are you only person who uses that computer?

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anyway, if you don't use nvidias 3d monitor tech for anything, you could just opt out on driver updates

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you can uninstall the 3d surround etc things it's installed now too

solid wadi Jan 15, 2017, 9:29 AM

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Yes im the only person that uses this computer. But its fixed now, in the nvidia controll panel there was a option called anaglyph 3d i disabled that and now it works

cursive dirge Jan 15, 2017, 9:29 AM

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yeah, that would do that 😃

solid wadi Jan 15, 2017, 9:31 AM

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But i still find it strange why did unreal use that setting when no other program do(of the ones i have installed except ue4)

cursive dirge Jan 15, 2017, 9:31 AM

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no idea tbh

solid wadi Jan 15, 2017, 9:31 AM

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is it a bug?

cursive dirge Jan 15, 2017, 9:31 AM

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could be, I don't even install those stereo drivers myself so haven't seen anything odd myself 😃

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wish they didn't install them by default too, now I always have to do custom install instead of express

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just so I can untick them

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only reason for anyone to use those drivers if they have nvidias 3D glasses

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there's that anaglyph mode alright but I doubt anyone would actually use it for gaming

solid wadi Jan 15, 2017, 9:33 AM

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so i should report it as a bug on the website?

cursive dirge Jan 15, 2017, 9:33 AM

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anaglyph mode should work on all 3d apps though

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if enabled as default setting

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I dunno, I usually do bunch of repros before reporting any bugs

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like try to find what triggers it

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if you have anaglyph mode enabled, only bug I can see there is if it doesn't apply it to other apps :p

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as is should

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well, ones that use directx for 3D anyway

solid wadi Jan 15, 2017, 9:34 AM

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but i have played many games and used many apps and never see them use anaglyph by default

cursive dirge Jan 15, 2017, 9:35 AM

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could be it's limited to some DX modes

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I haven't read about the limitations myself

solid wadi Jan 15, 2017, 9:36 AM

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well im just happy that i can start learning ue4 now and be able see stuff properly

cursive dirge Jan 15, 2017, 9:36 AM

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😃

solid wadi Jan 15, 2017, 9:37 AM

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Thank you again 😃

cursive dirge Jan 15, 2017, 9:40 AM

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np

somber condor Jan 15, 2017, 10:03 AM

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Guys I'm newbie to SVN, got a question. I have a project in 4.13 that is already being version controlled with SVN. Yesterday I converted to 4.14. just want to know how I shoud deal with the new Unreal version and my SVN repo ? should I make a new branch or just simply connect 4.14 to svn and check in ?!

old bone Jan 15, 2017, 11:13 AM

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Whe are you using SVN? I have not heard about anyone using it these days, because everyone is using git or mercurial

somber condor Jan 15, 2017, 11:14 AM

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@old bone well it's good enough for local version control. it does the job

errant lintel Jan 15, 2017, 12:17 PM

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Hello ! I would like to know if there is a way to get the McLaren project to make some test, or find a decent supercar model with some materials to prototype some stuff

cursive dirge Jan 15, 2017, 12:24 PM

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you can get the maclaren materials from marketplace

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that's about it

errant lintel Jan 15, 2017, 12:31 PM

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@cursive dirge, yeah I'm currently download it, thanks 😃

orchid coral Jan 15, 2017, 1:27 PM

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Can anyone help me, im trying to deploy to android however it says i need plugin browser to use the project, i have it active and installed, so im not entirely sure where i go from here.

supple lake Jan 15, 2017, 5:39 PM

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is it possible to import a model in sculptris i made into unreal directly, or do i have to bring it back to maya and then to unreal

thin haven Jan 15, 2017, 5:40 PM

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@supple lake what is the format?

supple lake Jan 15, 2017, 5:40 PM

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@thin haven sculpture file, i can export it though in a certaion way thjough

thin haven Jan 15, 2017, 5:43 PM

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try exporting to fbx or obj, ue4 reads both formats easily

supple lake Jan 15, 2017, 5:43 PM

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@thin haven ok ty

thin haven Jan 15, 2017, 5:44 PM

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np

sage grail Jan 15, 2017, 6:26 PM

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Anyone here using 4.14 with an AMD GPU?

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I was getting an error message about it not being compatible with my drivers (they were the latest) so I tried getting the old one that the engine recommended.. but same issue

frigid plover Jan 15, 2017, 8:16 PM

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Uh, so, if I see this happen, should I assume UE4 is doing something bad, or should I assume my video card is choking?

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/94151109563658240/270284834377564160/unknown.png

sturdy kernel Jan 15, 2017, 9:51 PM

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has anyone come across an error where UCX_..._ collision meshes (from blender) are found (eg Num Collision Meshes: 2) but don't display and don't work

bright aspen Jan 15, 2017, 10:56 PM

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Is there any way to set the color of boolean variables in the blueprint editor?
I have severe protonopia (Red-Blindness) and it's extremely hard for me to make out the hue of the boolean variables in my project, because it's the exact same value as the dark grey background.

whole quarry Jan 15, 2017, 11:12 PM

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@frigid plover Unless you're making a 8bit space-invaders, i think your gpu is dying

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@sturdy kernel have you checked https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Content/FBX/StaticMeshes/index.html#collision ?

FBX Static Mesh Pipeline

Setting up, exporting, and importing Static Meshes using the FBX content pipeline.

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@bright aspen afaik there is no way to change the colors in the editor ui, you might want to submit a feature request for that. I know there are more people with color blindness here that would benefit from this. https://forums.unrealengine.com/forumdisplay.php?24-Feedback-for-Epic

Tell us how to improve Unreal Engine 4!

sturdy kernel Jan 15, 2017, 11:24 PM

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@whole quarry yes, I think I got that part right because asset viewer says i have two collision meshes, but the meshes dont appear when i click show collisions

frigid plover Jan 15, 2017, 11:33 PM

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Fortunately it didn't do that again after restarting the editor once

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So I'm a bit perplexed.

whole quarry Jan 15, 2017, 11:34 PM

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I've had it too, also some artifacts in the content browser, soon after my video card was gone

frigid plover Jan 15, 2017, 11:38 PM

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I just got this gtx 1080 in September :/

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Still under warranty. But I haven't had any problems in any other games

mighty totem Jan 15, 2017, 11:40 PM

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Hey guys

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How do I make unity style lighting in unreal

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I want everyone to be able to play my game

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Not only a person with a good graphics cards

whole quarry Jan 15, 2017, 11:50 PM

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Bake lighting?

violet cove Jan 16, 2017, 12:29 AM

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Yeah not quite sure what you mean by unity style

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Baked lighting doesnt have any performance impact at runtime aside from loading lightmaps into ram, but thats less expensive than dynamic lighting

whole quarry Jan 16, 2017, 12:36 AM

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I doubt if many will even know what "unity lightning" looks like (i dont)

ivory gorge Jan 16, 2017, 12:39 AM

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unity style lighting.... you mean crap?

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 12:50 AM

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global illumination?

floral heart Jan 16, 2017, 12:55 AM

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Segue: How do you do vertex lighting in UE4?

violet cove Jan 16, 2017, 1:42 AM

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Maybe he means unlit

last badger Jan 16, 2017, 4:09 AM

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I'm guessing "low poly flat shaded"

hot sandal Jan 16, 2017, 5:58 AM

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Wow, huge bug in UnrealEngine's latest version. Some clients just can't move without console command: https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-39087

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Totally gamebreaking, we just figured it out awhile ago.

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 6:00 AM

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Huh, baked lighting can be even more expensive than dynamic one

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So I wouldnt go as far as telling it doesnt have perf impact

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If it's properly done, it should be cheaper though

tulip vault Jan 16, 2017, 6:03 AM

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That's interesting considering what I know about lighting.

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Or at least, from Source Engine. I just joined..

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 7:14 AM

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Is it possible to lock comments in BP?

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To not accidentally drag them

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@cursive dirge Would that be because of bad lightmaps?

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Or too high res

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 8:00 AM

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too high res I guess

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I haven't used lightmaps much, but I Iknow i had issues with the perf with them on my first ever ue4 game

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I have an idea what caused it but yeah, it would have been user error

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just saying it doesn't automatically give 0 perf loss 😄

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well, it never will, as it always has some cost

inland granite Jan 16, 2017, 8:54 AM

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Hello everyone :)!

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Phew, please don't try this at home: Create a Blueprint-helper library. In library create a function that is casting to a Game Instance.. Spend over two hours to solve the crazy mysterious crashing bug.. After removing casting to Game instance inside the helper-library, everything works.

worn granite Jan 16, 2017, 9:33 AM

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Wow

safe shoal Jan 16, 2017, 9:45 AM

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Sounds like the cast was just failing. Are you sure you're using your custom game instance?

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Also @hot sandal nice find... that was probably a wierd regression caused by this bug I found in 4:13 and below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yXRu4xP0xg

YouTube

TheJamsh

UE4 Answerhub - Shared Shadows in PIE

▶ Play video

hot sandal Jan 16, 2017, 9:47 AM

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@safe shoal Needs a fix. We fixed it by running the console command at start of matches.. but.. wew.

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It's bad! 😄

safe shoal Jan 16, 2017, 9:47 AM

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Yeah, definitely not good at all. Apparently the issues thread says it's fixed for 4:15

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So frigging glad I didn't upgrade to 4:14... feels like a total mess so far

weary basalt Jan 16, 2017, 9:53 AM

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Ive completely avoided it

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So unstable

hot sandal Jan 16, 2017, 10:03 AM

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It's fine, using it fine on my game.

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But you need to do that console command for multiplayer games...

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 10:07 AM

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@safe shoal Getting Forward Renderer and MSAA was great for a day... then when all the actual issues around your daily workflow that doesn't involve pretty art comes creeping... yeah no.

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Oh don't forget VOIP!

safe shoal Jan 16, 2017, 10:08 AM

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Be a nightmare for me in an MP-heavy game, or an already shipped title.

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 10:08 AM

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That was a good one, but also not necessary for core

safe shoal Jan 16, 2017, 10:08 AM

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I thought VOIP always worked with Steam anyway?

inland granite Jan 16, 2017, 10:09 AM

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@safe shoal Well, casting should have worked.. I cast it exactly the same way inside the class and the crash wont occur

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 10:09 AM

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I am working on an early access title already launched, and I can't push a single public build

safe shoal Jan 16, 2017, 10:09 AM

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@inland granite You got code to copy-paste? Might be a nullptr

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Yeah we stuck to 4.12 for our release

stoic halo Jan 16, 2017, 12:56 PM

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any idea when 4.15 drops? The master branch has been on 4.16 for a couple of weeks already

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 1:04 PM

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first preview this or next week

ivory gorge Jan 16, 2017, 1:05 PM

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@safe shoal is that a Cobra cockpit?

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 1:06 PM

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@stoic halo https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?128759-4-14-Released!&p=645966&viewfull=1#post645966

What’s New

Unreal Engine 4.14 introduces a new forward shading renderer optimized for VR, enabling crisp multi-sampled anti-aliasing in your games. The new Contact Shadows feature renders beautifully detailed shadows for intricate objects. We've also introduced a new automatic LOD generation feature for static meshes that does not require a third-party library.

We’ve streamlined the animation tools to help you be more productive, and added many new features to Sequencer (UE4’s non-linear

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that comment was little less than 2 weeks ago

stoic halo Jan 16, 2017, 1:06 PM

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oh! good catch!

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thanks! 😄

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 1:06 PM

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np, remembered reading it back then

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but things can change, hence guessing it could go to next week too

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after all, their initial plan was to get 4.15 out before the end of the last year

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but I'm happy that they didn't rush 4.14 any more than they did (it's still bugged)

stoic halo Jan 16, 2017, 1:08 PM

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yes, I'm having lots of problems with 4.14

tall pendant Jan 16, 2017, 1:08 PM

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i still hope for feb/march .. cuz more stability 😛

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 1:08 PM

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yeah

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release will be there anyway

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unless they just do one preview build this time 😄

stoic halo Jan 16, 2017, 1:09 PM

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I should be more patient and just wait for all the hotfixes and even then, it might not be worth it

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 1:10 PM

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my biggest concern is still physx 3.4 on 4.14+

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it's not even ready yet, still it's in the core of the engine

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I dunno if others feel it but I think we are guinea pigs here for nvidia

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I know they had to make the jump at some stage though

tall pendant Jan 16, 2017, 1:14 PM

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hmm just read nvidia is preparing for ~Feb for a final SDK release. yet its already in engine...

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 1:15 PM

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yeah, at least they are getting the SDK out eventually

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 1:57 PM

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I installed the Unreal Engine a few days ago and finally found the time to actually launch it for the first time, but an error is preventing me from using it:
Target platform manager was requested, but not available.

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No idea what causes this issue.

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Actually, not a few days ago, must've been months ago, as I am trying to run UE 4.9.1

whole quarry Jan 16, 2017, 2:01 PM

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Try 4.14.3

fierce tulip Jan 16, 2017, 2:01 PM

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also, what are you running it on

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 2:02 PM

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I can't update just now, limited data and no wifi for the next few months :^)

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I'm running it on Win10, Intel Core i5-2450M, NVIDIA GTX 520MX

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 2:03 PM

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well, that's only like 1.5 years old engine

safe shoal Jan 16, 2017, 2:03 PM

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@ivory gorge yeah, just using it for the prototype tho 😃

whole quarry Jan 16, 2017, 2:03 PM

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Is that a laptop @plush yew ?

wary wave Jan 16, 2017, 2:03 PM

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That graphics card isn't going to cut it

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 2:04 PM

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Pretty old hardware, I know, but it is supposed to be enough to run the UE

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Yes it is @whole quarry

whole quarry Jan 16, 2017, 2:04 PM

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Laptops are for office work, not for this type of things

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 2:05 PM

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I know tons of people who use laptops for UE stuff

fierce tulip Jan 16, 2017, 2:05 PM

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nontheless it should at least be able to open ue4 though

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 2:05 PM

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me too

whole quarry Jan 16, 2017, 2:05 PM

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Biggest problem is that usually a video card is not dedicated in a laptop and has shared (thus limited) available memory

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 2:05 PM

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people are weird

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I also know a lot of gamedev companies that mainly have laptops

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I've always wondered about that

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if they mostly sit on their desk

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 2:06 PM

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You can carry them around I guess

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Just in case, whatever

wary wave Jan 16, 2017, 2:06 PM

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Never heard of a game company developing with laptops.

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 2:06 PM

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yeah, that's their explanation

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 2:06 PM

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I have no idea how to fix that issue

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 2:06 PM

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@wary wave welcome to finland 😄

wary wave Jan 16, 2017, 2:06 PM

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I wouldn't take them seriously

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 2:06 PM

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yeah, it's absurd

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but they dev mostly for mobile and with unity

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so laptops are enough

wary wave Jan 16, 2017, 2:07 PM

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But no, I don't think the 520m is up to snuff for UE4

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 2:07 PM

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well, enough for the cpu/gpu power for it

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I'd still prefer desktop

wary wave Jan 16, 2017, 2:07 PM

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It's a card intended for browsing the web at the most, I don't think UE4 will even support it

whole quarry Jan 16, 2017, 2:07 PM

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@plush yew Can you make a screenshot of the error?

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 2:07 PM

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The 520MX has 512MB of VRAM

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 2:08 PM

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heh

whole quarry Jan 16, 2017, 2:08 PM

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shared RAM or dedicated?

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 2:08 PM

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dedicated

fierce tulip Jan 16, 2017, 2:08 PM

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@wary wave shadowriver's pc is way lower specwise than aileen's laptop, and he gets it running. just dont ask how it runs :p

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 2:08 PM

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but you know

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It's not the cause

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 2:08 PM

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I can't remember when desktop GPUs had that little RAM anymore

wary wave Jan 16, 2017, 2:08 PM

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Is the GPU lower spec or just older?

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 2:08 PM

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It's just older

whole quarry Jan 16, 2017, 2:08 PM

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I'm in doubt that the error is producerd from ue4 tbh...

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 2:08 PM

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but yeah, it might run the editor

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 2:09 PM

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Heck it doesn't matter

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 2:09 PM

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just don't expect to do anything with real game art

fierce tulip Jan 16, 2017, 2:09 PM

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its ddr2 era

wary wave Jan 16, 2017, 2:09 PM

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My Geforce 6800GT had more memory, lol

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 2:09 PM

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"Target platform manager was requested, but not available."

whole quarry Jan 16, 2017, 2:09 PM

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Can you make a screenshot of the error please

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 2:09 PM

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I doubt that error has anything to do with graphics card stuff

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Sure

fierce tulip Jan 16, 2017, 2:10 PM

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only thing i can think of is "update drivers"

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 2:10 PM

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It's showing a short traceback in the Crash reporter, I will just send it your way

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 2:10 PM

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what OS?

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 2:10 PM

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It doesn't appear to be related to the graphics card at all

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Win10

whole quarry Jan 16, 2017, 2:11 PM

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If I understand right, the Target Platform Manager is the thing that deals with the well... targeted platform (ios, android, windows, mac, linux etc), which seems to be missing tho (just based on the error given)

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either try to verify the installation, or go to the library for the free wifi and get the latest engine

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 2:13 PM

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yeah, that sounds like a good plan

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how did you install the 4.9.1?

whole quarry Jan 16, 2017, 2:13 PM

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So you should be able to start the Launcher, get to the point to open or create a new project, but when the editor starts - it crashes?

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 2:13 PM

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📎 traceback_ue.txt

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I can get to the Epic Games Launcher (ofc). Then I click on the big yellow Launch Unreal Engine 4.9.1 button, and then it loads till 18% and then crashes.

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It doesn't even get to the project manager.

whole quarry Jan 16, 2017, 2:17 PM

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I think your best bet is a reinstall or try to get the newest engine

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 2:17 PM

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Okay then ^^ How can I verify the installation though?

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 2:18 PM

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not sure if there's any option (never seen one), best bet is redownload everything (or newer version rather)

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if you are starting out with ue4, I'd get the newest engine and also content examples (for the same engine version you start with)

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although if you really can't afford the data transfer or can't get wifi/anything, I don't really know what to suggest

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it's not a situation most gamedevs have

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as good internet access makes things so much easier

fierce tulip Jan 16, 2017, 2:24 PM

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try and google for good local wifi spots perhaps

craggy nymph Jan 16, 2017, 2:27 PM

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There's a verify button when you click on the little drop down arrow next to the launch button in the launcher

plush yew Jan 16, 2017, 2:40 PM

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Yeah, found it but it requires a good connection so I might as well download 4.14 ^^

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Thanks @craggy nymph @fierce tulip @whole quarry @cursive dirge @wary wave :)

fierce tulip Jan 16, 2017, 2:42 PM

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good luck!

pallid talon Jan 16, 2017, 4:42 PM

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Question, we are using Perforce for source control. Every time I open the *.uproject" file, I am prompted update the files (even though nothing has changed and wasn't checked out by anyone else). Should this always happen? Or am I missing something?

upbeat valve Jan 16, 2017, 7:09 PM

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Why cant my hwk be ue4 work 😦

unborn matrix Jan 16, 2017, 7:15 PM

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I imported a level from my partners computer, but now after building lighting the BuildData.uasset, only loads partially.

📎 Demo_Fail.JPG

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So I can't save it and I can't package my game

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📎 CritError.JPG

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 7:18 PM

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@unborn matrix did you delete the builtdata and rebuild?

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Also make sure all the references of the assets came in as well

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fix up redirectors

unborn matrix Jan 16, 2017, 7:19 PM

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Cannot delete build data as it is referenced by the map

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 7:19 PM

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etc etc etc

unborn matrix Jan 16, 2017, 7:19 PM

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Fixed up re directs as well

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 7:19 PM

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delete the freaking thing...

unborn matrix Jan 16, 2017, 7:19 PM

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Force delete it??

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 7:19 PM

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duh

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Of course it's going to be referenced to the map it's supposed to be saving the data from.

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But, if you are having build issues...

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You should just start from scratch, since you're wanting to rebuild lighting anyway

unborn matrix Jan 16, 2017, 7:20 PM

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📎 SaveError.JPG

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 7:20 PM

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Are you using Source Control?

unborn matrix Jan 16, 2017, 7:21 PM

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Uhhh okay imma back up first

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 7:21 PM

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Also...

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Do you have more than one instance of the Editor open?

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As in, you may have two of the same projects up

unborn matrix Jan 16, 2017, 7:21 PM

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Nah I checked that

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 7:21 PM

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I would restart your PC also

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Just in case

unborn matrix Jan 16, 2017, 7:22 PM

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Just go through the PC flowchart? xD

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 7:22 PM

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Right

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You'd be surprised

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But sometimes there are things that get left in mem

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But really, after you delete the built data

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you can rebuild

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As long as all your references are 100%

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Not sure how you imported that map

unborn matrix Jan 16, 2017, 7:23 PM

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migrated the folder above

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 7:23 PM

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And it had dependencies right?

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And it brought those over?

unborn matrix Jan 16, 2017, 7:23 PM

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yeah all the data came with it

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i deleted the old one and am now building an old one

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nope I get this same error

📎 SaveError.JPG

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yeah it just looks like my lighting isnt fully loading?

fierce tulip Jan 16, 2017, 7:30 PM

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isnt it set to read only or so?

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i tend to see that message when someone borks version control

unborn matrix Jan 16, 2017, 7:31 PM

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Well I deleted it, so It should be making a new one yeah?

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 7:32 PM

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So, I asked though

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Are you on Source Control or not?>

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Can you save anything?

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In that folder

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put whatever you want and save it

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https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?133886-I-love-the-engine-but-why-is-it-so-bare-bones&p=651124&viewfull=1#post651124

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love UE4 and I'm so thankful to Epic for creating and releasing it. I am curious though about the choice to leave so many features that EVERYONE could use out of the engine. I'm talking about features like a proper menu system with the ability to adjust graphic settings, remap key bindings, adjust sound levels etc. Or a save game system, or a basic multiplayer system. I realize that some of these features are available on the marketplace - I even purchased one

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let your voices be heard

unborn matrix Jan 16, 2017, 7:34 PM

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I had it turned on but switched PC's with him.

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he didnt on that copy

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 7:36 PM

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What?

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Check to see if the map is actually read-only

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as in go into windows explorer and check

unborn matrix Jan 16, 2017, 7:57 PM

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Cant fidn the build data in explorer?

fierce tulip Jan 16, 2017, 7:58 PM

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we meant the map itself

unborn matrix Jan 16, 2017, 8:16 PM

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it's not set to read only

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 8:53 PM

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@safe rose replied 😄

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my biggest issues with ue4 has never been it missing features but existing features not doing things what I want + making it hard for me to change that

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and with generic purpose engine, it's just hard to implement full features on framework that would work properly for every users

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 8:55 PM

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Oh, I wanna see

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True in most cases

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But, there are things that just get implemented that are half-asses

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half-assed

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Like VR..

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 8:55 PM

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for example, I really dislike how splitscreen is handled

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or input

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 8:55 PM

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or networking

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 8:56 PM

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or many components that are too hardcoded

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like CMC, vehicles etc

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well, splitscreen setup is hardcoded too 😄

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 8:56 PM

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I agree, should definitely be a bit more decoupled

cursive dirge Jan 16, 2017, 8:57 PM

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unity doesn't force you into similar things

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you can put viewports anywhere you like

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use input controllers how you like

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although I admit unitys input system isn't perfect either

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 9:28 PM

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I approach from the back usually...

versed pawn Jan 16, 2017, 9:29 PM

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:)))) sorry I haven't finished my sentence and accidentally pressed enter

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So how would you guys approach a laser like in Portal 2 or The Talos Principle? Those lasers can be redirected into different angles and (I assume) they somehow simulate collision (they can ignite stuff).

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 9:31 PM

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?

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You just fake the shit out of it

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All they are are probably beam particles

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source and target

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source and target

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source and target

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That's what I would do

fierce tulip Jan 16, 2017, 9:32 PM

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^ that, or even just meshes that change uv-depending on scale and trace the fucker

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 9:32 PM

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You could also do a "mirror"

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But then you'd need lots of 3d math involved

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to get the bounces

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Just easier to fake it by getting a source and giving it a target

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And be done with it

floral heart Jan 16, 2017, 9:34 PM

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Ever notice the 'mirrors' in these games, the laser magically locks onto the center and then magically reflects from the center to wherever the mirror is pointing?

safe rose Jan 16, 2017, 9:34 PM

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Right

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I mean, if you want a dynamic mirror gameplay thing

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then you're going to spend a lot of time on just that part

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But that will probably be your core mechanic

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so you should

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I don't know, maybe it's not that hard actually

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You can probably just get the angle

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and bounce it to a certain direction depending on the normals

floral heart Jan 16, 2017, 9:36 PM

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I think the only game I ever saw that bothered to get the angle for mirrors was Duke Nukem 3D, when you shot them with the shrinker gun.

tidal lichen Jan 16, 2017, 10:06 PM

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Why can a print string node be outputting to the log but no to the screen? I checked "print to screen"

unborn matrix Jan 16, 2017, 10:38 PM

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@safe rose Well it's working now.... I literally have changed nothing

jolly void Jan 16, 2017, 11:17 PM

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is it possible on unreal to spawn particles accordingly to a texture grayscale map (spawn on whites an not on blacks)

placid kraken Jan 16, 2017, 11:17 PM

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hey, uh can someone please help me with an export error from maya to unreal?

unique flint Jan 17, 2017, 12:04 AM

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I have installed Unreal Engine 4 on 2 computers and I want to access my project on both. How can I do this?

fierce tulip Jan 17, 2017, 12:07 AM

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version control

safe rose Jan 17, 2017, 12:13 AM

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Dropbox

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Google Drive

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whatever

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OneLive, whatever

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SourceTree

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up that biotch to git

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which is SC

fierce tulip Jan 17, 2017, 12:15 AM

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put project on usb stick, attach to pidgeon, send pidgeon to other computer.

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or a gull for e-gull

safe rose Jan 17, 2017, 12:15 AM

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I remember playing X-COM by email

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those were the days

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(it was a multiplayer hack)

fierce tulip Jan 17, 2017, 12:16 AM

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or try and get a dropbox business account, break dropbox, get 10 helpdesk emails asking the same thing, then get email saying they dunno'ing and get money back.

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xcoming by email, thats like playing UT with the only visual feedback being a printer

candid smelt Jan 17, 2017, 4:02 AM

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do we have a rough date for 4.15?

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@fierce tulip - use version control (github, bitbucket etc). it can be confusing at first, but it's a good habit to get into

brave horizon Jan 17, 2017, 4:56 AM

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Can anyone recommend a good folder structure? The Folder structure on the epic wiki is kinda confusing.

candid smelt Jan 17, 2017, 4:58 AM

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do you mean for within your content folder? check out https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Assets_Naming_Convention and allars naming guide

Assets Naming Convention

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the only two big ones i know of is make sure your levels are in a root folder called Maps, and video files in a root called Movies

brave horizon Jan 17, 2017, 5:47 AM

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Well yeah that's what I'm referring to at the moment

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So the top layer I've got is like.. 14 folders?

candid smelt Jan 17, 2017, 5:56 AM

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current project i've got open has Audio, Blueprints, Fonts, Maps, Materials, Meshes, Textures, Widgets

copper swallow Jan 17, 2017, 6:15 AM

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Packaging my product results in a sucsessful build. However it crashes when I launch the .exe

copper swallow Jan 17, 2017, 8:46 AM

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http://pastebin.com/fVn2bEpr

Logs to crashed build

Pastebin

Log file open, 01/17/17 02:35:39 LogPlatformFile: Not using cach...

safe rose Jan 17, 2017, 8:46 AM

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@copper swallow posted on answerhub already?

copper swallow Jan 17, 2017, 8:58 AM

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Yes

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The important bit of that pastebin is

LogWindows:Error: Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000238

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It built sucsessfully. So I don't know if it'd help but here's my packaging logs.

📎 BuildLogs.txt

hybrid scroll Jan 17, 2017, 2:52 PM

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Hello. Since there was noone in #audio to help me, maybe I will find someone here:

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How should I go about making proper sound settings? not just float variable to volume of every sound, but using sound classes and mixes? There are so many places to set volume in, I dont get how to control it.

fierce tulip Jan 17, 2017, 3:10 PM

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4.15 preview 1 is available to test

grim sinew Jan 17, 2017, 3:12 PM

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awesome 😄

kindred mountain Jan 17, 2017, 3:28 PM

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ooh TSet is in BP at last

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material editor reroute nodes!

cloud cobalt Jan 17, 2017, 3:33 PM

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"engine compiling 25-50% faster"

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my body is ready

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Though one may ask why the fuck that obvious c++ good practice (include what you need) wasn't done from the start

plush yew Jan 17, 2017, 3:58 PM

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@cloud cobalt "compiling 25-50% faster"? ... let's build it 😌

cloud cobalt Jan 17, 2017, 3:58 PM

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We'll see about that anyway

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But any move in that direction is great

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Especially if that applies to game sources too

plush yew Jan 17, 2017, 4:01 PM

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I hope they will move to clang 3.9, too. While this might not be on prio list first.

plush yew Jan 17, 2017, 5:11 PM

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Hey! I was wondering if you have any idea why this happens. I have set up an animation with a socket and positioned it with a preview mesh. When attaching the same to the socket, it is a bit different. Moving the socket does not seem to make any difference. http://imgur.com/a/NiccA

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grim sinew Jan 17, 2017, 5:19 PM

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looks like it's attaching to the wrong spot of the device thing. make sure it's going to the center, not the origin of it, or just move the origin

plush yew Jan 17, 2017, 5:19 PM

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The pivot point is the same for the mesh and the generated blueprint. I have set both to the same position and they overlapped perfectly

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Is it possible that the lighter is aligned automatically because it's colliding with the hand?

plush yew Jan 17, 2017, 5:38 PM

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Even if i attach the blueprint to the socket it fits fine, the position is only incorrect when attached runtime

plush yew Jan 17, 2017, 6:05 PM

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Any idea?

pallid talon Jan 17, 2017, 6:35 PM

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Question - Does anyone know how to make a "OnClick" for a static mesh object work when the object's collision box is clicked instead of the geometry itself? Basically I have a headboard for a bed with thin polls. I have a "OnClicked" event that works, but the user has to click the thin polls for it to work. For some reason the collision box is ignored and only the actually geometry is what works for clicks.

plush yew Jan 17, 2017, 6:53 PM

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Looks like in 4.16 the FBX animation code will be restructured. Unfortunately, Persona still crashes.

ancient obsidian Jan 17, 2017, 7:10 PM

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Teriander, I don't have UE running right now, but, IIRC, raycast (trace) nodes had a bool check box that decides if to trace against complex or simple collision meshes. You may beed to uncheck it to do simplified collision test.

cursive dirge Jan 17, 2017, 7:20 PM

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https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?133621-Unreal-Engine-4-15-Preview

PREVIEW!

A Preview of the upcoming 4.15 release is available now on the Launcher and Github. We have made this Preview available so that our developer-community can help us catch issues before the final release. As fixes are implemented, we will release updated previews throughout the development cycle. Please be aware that the preview releases are not fully quality tested, that they are still under heavy active development, and that they should be considered as unstable until the final

plush yew Jan 18, 2017, 12:22 AM

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guys

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i need help

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i am literally killing the engine

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it is lagging SOOO hard right now, and ram usage is off the charts

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it came out of nowhere

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i mean its so bad it almost crashes windows

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it halts everything

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had to force stop it, its on all levels

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every map i switch to even a blank world, it just eats up like 6gb of ram for no reason

fierce tulip Jan 18, 2017, 12:27 AM

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6gb seems fine

plush yew Jan 18, 2017, 12:29 AM

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yah well ram usage is up to 90 percent

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basically halting the system

fierce tulip Jan 18, 2017, 12:33 AM

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how much ram do you have?

plush yew Jan 18, 2017, 12:36 AM

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12

fierce tulip Jan 18, 2017, 12:37 AM

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thats not a lot

plush yew Jan 18, 2017, 12:37 AM

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-_-

fierce tulip Jan 18, 2017, 12:39 AM

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that said, about 1gb would be used in an empty scene, so it might be wise to track whats going on

plush yew Jan 18, 2017, 1:15 AM

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but i cant

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i just go in and it lags right away

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any project

past pilot Jan 18, 2017, 2:02 AM

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Deleted and empty folder and UE4 locked up for 30 minutes... i7 6700k 64gb ram on SSD, is this normal? lol http://prntscr.com/dx0rjw

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plush yew Jan 18, 2017, 2:43 AM

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DUDE FUCKING SAME

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WHAT IS WITH THE RAM

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i say wait for a patch

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i was thinking about finishing off my build this year with a watercooler and an extra stick of ram, and im done for like 4 years

floral heart Jan 18, 2017, 3:05 AM

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4.15p?

plush yew Jan 18, 2017, 3:06 AM

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no

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4.14.3

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@past pilot whats your version?

past pilot Jan 18, 2017, 4:10 AM

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4.14.3

plush yew Jan 18, 2017, 4:10 AM

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dude its honestly so annoying

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i cant get ANY work done

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im at the main menu of my game and im gettling like 10-15 fps and im on my most optimized map and im getting around 2fps

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im gonna try 4.15 tomorrow

past pilot Jan 18, 2017, 4:11 AM

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i find that if i have a main window on one screen and an editor window on the otehr i lose FPS

plush yew Jan 18, 2017, 4:11 AM

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same

past pilot Jan 18, 2017, 4:11 AM

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but i get 120fps locked in general in editor

plush yew Jan 18, 2017, 4:12 AM

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i get generally if the game wasnt bugged around 100fps on my least optimized map

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at 4k, keep that in mind too

past pilot Jan 18, 2017, 4:12 AM

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if i got a heavy foliage area i lose a lot

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yea im in 1080

plush yew Jan 18, 2017, 4:12 AM

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well thats obvious

past pilot Jan 18, 2017, 4:13 AM

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with 4k you would need a heavy gfx card

plush yew Jan 18, 2017, 4:13 AM

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it seems one big object doesnt lag the engine but multiple small models lag it

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i have an r9 fury x

past pilot Jan 18, 2017, 4:13 AM

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are those really 4k cards? didnt think they were as fast as the new 480

plush yew Jan 18, 2017, 4:14 AM

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Its around 20 percebt faster than a 480

past pilot Jan 18, 2017, 4:14 AM

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hmmm... for some reason i always seen peopel talk down the fury x.

plush yew Jan 18, 2017, 4:14 AM

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Only for coil whine

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It was extremely overhyped

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Its cheap. I found one for 240 on newegg

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Just search sapphire r9 fury

solar junco Jan 18, 2017, 5:56 AM

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Not sure if this is the right channel can anyone point in the direction of some info on how to setup lockpicking and card minigames for my 3-d game in ue4?

unreal sonnet Jan 18, 2017, 5:58 AM

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Does anyone know of any open source UE4 games that have been put out? Maybe Game Jam entries of people who posted their project files?

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Because I was thinking that I'm at the point now with this Unreal stuff that I can look at a finished thing and learn from how they did stuff.

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I'm looking for projects people have done so that I can open them up and learn from how other people made stuff.

safe rose Jan 18, 2017, 6:11 AM

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@solar junco have you tried to Google anything?

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I am sure there has to be a few tutorials out there

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rOYuJ8fbx4

YouTube

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Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial - Lockpicking Minigame

▶ Play video

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took 2 secs

solar junco Jan 18, 2017, 6:11 AM

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Yeah but ill try again

safe rose Jan 18, 2017, 6:11 AM

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doubt youdid

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But anyway

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Google is your friend, don't neglect it

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Because that's what 95% of anyone else is going to just do for you

unborn matrix Jan 18, 2017, 6:52 AM

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finally found the bug that was breaking my game when i packaged it...

Apparently my map is corrupted. Which is weird because it plays fine when I play it in editor

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only breaking when I launch my packaged .exe

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Unless anyone can help me with that I guess I start rebuilding my level

thin haven Jan 18, 2017, 7:42 AM

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@unreal sonnet : apart from Tom Looman's survival game project and a couple of testbed/university stuff projects I'm not aware of anything

unborn matrix Jan 18, 2017, 7:53 AM

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@unreal sonnet Go check out the Content Examples

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it has most of what you might be looking for

sly inlet Jan 18, 2017, 10:34 AM

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hello people

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if anyone can help with this we would really appreaciate, we're getting desperate here

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each time we want to export from sequencer, the entire project corrupts, we can't open it anymore at all, so we have to reinstall everything in order to get it running again any ideas? has anyone encountered anything similar?

half yoke Jan 18, 2017, 11:05 AM

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I had the same bug when I tried the Sequencer on 4.14.3

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@sly inlet: to make it work again I had to delete Epic/Unreal files in AppData hidden folders, this kind of stuff. But as I just wanted my project to launch again and as Sequencer was not mandatory for me, I just deleted everything without thinking too much so I don't know which file exactly did the bug

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Maybe there is a bug to report to Epic here.

sly inlet Jan 18, 2017, 11:08 AM

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We found out the exact reason

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we wanted to override the game mode > that corrupted entire game mode

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Thanks for that tip, it might also be a solution 😃

half yoke Jan 18, 2017, 11:11 AM

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So exporting the sequencer crashes as soon as you have a custom gamemode?

sly inlet Jan 18, 2017, 11:15 AM

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yep

half yoke Jan 18, 2017, 11:20 AM

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ouch

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thanks for the info

thin haven Jan 18, 2017, 11:29 AM

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@sly inlet: report that to Epic, as it looks like you have a solid repro case

sly inlet Jan 18, 2017, 11:29 AM

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Ok thanks

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it's way to deppression when something just like, decides it will not work

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😃

burnt drum Jan 18, 2017, 1:02 PM

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hey does anyone know how I can use multiple arguments when opening a level

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i'm trying to open a level with both the argument of "listen" and "game mode"

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can't seems to get both to work

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I'm doing
OPEN MAPNAME?listen?game=survival

glacial belfry Jan 18, 2017, 1:13 PM

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So... Any idea what could have happened that would corrupt a project between two opens? I have done nothing but restart the machine. Now I get a empty crash report.

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📎 unknown.png

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Right clicking the project and say "Launch Game" works without a hitch

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Cast of LinkerPlaceholderExportObject /Game/Blueprints/Ingame/VRPawn.VRPawn_C:HandLeft_GEN_VARIABLE.HandLeft_GEN_VARIABLE_HandController_C_CAT to Actor failed --- Seems like either my VRPawn blueprint or HandController blueprint is fucked

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Yeps. Replacing them with a backup of the .uasset worked. Nice 😃

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aka. I really need to get source control up and running on this network

kindred mountain Jan 18, 2017, 2:12 PM

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you don't need a network to use source control

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you can use git locally

safe shoal Jan 18, 2017, 2:40 PM

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or perforce if you're OG :p

glacial belfry Jan 18, 2017, 3:31 PM

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Yeah I know, but problem is that my company wants everything on network drives for our backup system

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and the SVN servers I've used dont allow me access to network drives and IT has blocked me from installing it directly on our file servers - for obvious reasons

thin haven Jan 18, 2017, 3:37 PM

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can't you use git with network drives?

glacial belfry Jan 18, 2017, 3:37 PM

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I will be honest, I havent tried setting up GIT because my experience has always been with Subversion

pallid root Jan 18, 2017, 3:38 PM

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Git will work with network drives FYI. I used to do that in the past.

glacial belfry Jan 18, 2017, 3:40 PM

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how does it handle large binary files like FBX models, JPG/PNG textures etc?

thin haven Jan 18, 2017, 3:40 PM

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there is git-lfs for that

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on my end, the only files triggering the GUI client to recommend lfs are the maps themselves

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I'm storing models/textures in the normal way and seeing no problems

glacial belfry Jan 18, 2017, 3:43 PM

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hmm interesting. Are there different brands of GIT servers or just the one?

thin haven Jan 18, 2017, 3:45 PM

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not sure what you're asking about. the code driving them is the same, but there are multiple places where you could host the repo if you want a remote one