So many problems could be solved by getting SourceControl
#ue4-general
weary basalt
normal island
This is why people have home server racks with network storage 😛
kindred viper
but he pulled it back in a couple of weeks
@weary basalt I am 100% sure he is sick of me saying it. I literally say it everytime we speak :p
kindred viper
last conversation about it was me saying we could use source control and he said "it's too late now". I said "it's never too late, I just redid this code for the third time".
loud vapor
Valve just released a beta version of SteamVr for Linux
weary basalt
Its never to late to get source control lol
normal island
wew loonix gets better by the day
kindred viper
he can fire me but I don't get paid so I would only go somewhere else and make some money :p I'm doing this as a friend 😄
kindred viper
he has a plan, he is following it. If it was done my way, we wouldn't be as far along with development because I would have done things "too" right.
like no messy blueprints for one :p
more code solutions is another. It's mostly BP
kindred viper
also, I wouldn't be trying to get TrackIR to work. This thing is a mind-bender.
vale osprey
@kindred viper no luck with TrackIR?
kindred viper
not yet. I have compiled the code into a dll but I am trying to get debug information out of it to see where it's failing so I can rectify it. However I have learned C++ the hard way, via learning what I need at the time. So I missed out on core things. Right now I am trying to create a Delegate so my dll can fire a debug function and in the Unreal blueprint function lib, I relay the args to a UELog func. It's hella confusing though when I don't even know how to debug a dll properly :p
I am tempted to revise it as a shared library, maybe get some easier data flow going instead of exporting dll funcs
prime hornet
Does anyone know where highresolution screenshots are saved if you take them in a game that is run through steam? Does it even work in Shipping packaged games?
rapid pawn
Isn't there a console command to set the default location for the hires screenshots?
I think it's saved on appdata for shipped packages
cursive dirge
@kindred viper what's the licensing deal with TrackIR nowadays?
I'd want to implement support for it as well
kindred viper
still archaic I hear
I mean the SDK isn't much better. Im converting COM app code from 2005 to make it work right. Just stuck on some c++ issue that I really should have learned by now.
upper yew
@swift spindle ahh that makes sense. Thanks yo
still flicker
Hi guys, I have a capsule collider on my character with blockall but it doesn't collide with static mesh. Anyone has an idea why ?
steep trout
Hi everyone, have you ever seen this issue in UE4? A google search shows it happening in Unreal Tournament but can't find a fix for UE4. Thanks
steep trout
Yeah I'm not sure how to deal with this on a Mac though :/
pure stratus
Probably something obvious I've missed;
Im inheriting from the TP_ThirdPersonCharacter class to customize some of the inputs, and have made my own BP using my new class. However I cannot get it to move. I have set the GameMode in Project Settings to use it as the default Pawn, and have not overridden it in World Settings. I have its Pawn->Auto Possess Player set to Player 0, and same with Input->Auto Receive Input, but it just won't move!
A log in the function shows its calling the function, just not moving 😒
It's also worth noting its not even playing the idle anim despite its Animation Mode being set to UseanimationBlueprint and the Anim Class being ThirdPerson_AnimBP_C
south ridge
You didn't make the link clickable
wicked mason
Hi all! I'm moving a project from Unity to Unreal Engine and am having a bit of trouble finding my footing. Anyone have experience with the Community Ocean Project?
worn river
have anyone else had issues saving imported TGA's? I've imported a bunch, and I can't save any of them. I can however still use them in materials and whatnot, although they're gone after a restart of the editor
simply getting "The asset '/Game/Textures/AOE_Range'() failed to save." I can't duplicate them either, getting "Name may not contain the following characters:"
(4.15)
buoyant echo
Anyone know how to make the perforce main depot point to somewhere else? I have it set up already, but I want it to point elsewhere. (As in another project)
heavy flicker
Is there a way to copy and paste a particle emitter?
tall pendant
you mean from one to another particle system?
silent drum
@Neal can you open the project in Xcode and compile & run it from there?
@steep trout *
What I do on Windows is open Visual Studio and recompile from there, since usually compiling from the popup causes an error that has to be fixed anyway
steep trout
@silent drum I ended up solving the issue by doing this earlier- Thank you
silent drum
No problem
thorn forge
Hey, when I test my game with an xbox controller it picks up every button except the X and B keys on the right side does anyone know how I can add those to my input settings ?
A and Y are GamepadFaceButtonTop and GamepadFaceButtonBottom so I assume those would be gamepadfacebuttonleft and right but those events are not triggering
languid patrol
hello, besides adding the proper change into DefaultEngine.ini, do I need to do anything else to make sure DDC doesn't get stored on the default drive?
[InstalledDerivedDataBackendGraph]
MinimumDaysToKeepFile=7
Root=(Type=KeyLength, Length=120, Inner=AsyncPut)
AsyncPut=(Type=AsyncPut, Inner=Hierarchy)
Hierarchy=(Type=Hierarchical, Inner=Boot, Inner=Pak, Inner=EnginePak, Inner=Local)
Boot=(Type=Boot, Filename="%GAMEDIR%DerivedDataCache/Boot.ddc", MaxCacheSize=512)
Local=(Type=FileSystem, ReadOnly=false, Clean=false, Flush=false, PurgeTransient=true, DeleteUnused=true, UnusedFileAge=34, FoldersToClean=-1, Path="%GAMEDIR%DerivedDataCache")
Pak=(Type=ReadPak, Filename="%GAMEDIR%DerivedDataCache/DDC.ddp")
EnginePak=(Type=ReadPak, Filename=../../../Engine/DerivedDataCache/DDC.ddp)
that's what I added to the ini
upbeat fern
can we possibly get the content browser to be vertically stacked at all ? like this?
be awesome for single screen users
weary basalt
List works like that
weary basalt
Ohh probs not
astral pond
hi guys.. just a quick question... what are the recommend "max" draw calls per scene.. i dont have low test hardware yet... so i wanna ask for some experience. thanks!
south ridge
What platform @astral pond
And what kinda game
Are we talking about a game that must run anywhere or a game that is worth buying hardware for
If you fit everything in less than 500 drawcalls, you're golden
astral pond
for Pc.. and is its not a fast fps
its anime based.. so not complex materials.. but high tri/polys sometime
plain gazelle
for assets bought from the market of anything else, is it best practice to take out of them what you want and place it under your game/projects sub content folder of use them in place?
I want to take a blueprint from a market asset package, rename them to the style I am using.
weary basalt
You can do what you like with MP stuff. Generally i keep them in their own folders incase i want to completely remove it later on.
rapid pawn
Just finished building the engine on a 3rd Gen Core i3. Took 5 hours
plush yew
I use UE4 on a Intel Core M-5Y10c
and Intel HD Graphics 5300
I really need an upgrade.
plain gazelle
I use Linux.
plush yew
That's great.
I'll probably be switching to Linux soon.
All it needs is a little more applications like Adobe, and more games
Then I'm switchin.
I'm done with Microsoft and Windows 10 and all this crap they're doing.
rapid pawn
There some alternatives to Adobe software on Linux
weary basalt
@plain gazelle Just add an Camera to your Pawn/Character
plain gazelle
yeah it hit me after a bit, I was two overcompicating the issue.
weary basalt
😃
spare topaz
is it normal that visual studio likes to completely crap itself and start to be blinder than a deep sea fish?
loud vapor
I absolutely suck at the Material Editor, just never been able to create shaders in any language. I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me with a fairly simple shader? Basically I just need to get a depth pass and colour pass from a camera in the world, then block out some parts that conflict with another depth pass being fed in from elsewhere
Any help would be appreciated!
cloud latch
hi all, so I've got items that were removed locally from the vault cache, but the create project button is there, but there's no way to make them download again. It just silently fails.
Anyone know how I can force the download again.
Maybe related errorFItemRepository(or)::RequestById(a04d4db6fb2d4e6d863ef84ad068a862) - Request for Item unfulfilled because neither an enumeration has happened or on demand mode been enabled.
Actually - this is the one
[2017.02.23-06.12.59:265][936]FInstallVaultItemCommandBase: Download Error: Request Failed, AppName: UnrealMatch3_4.15
ah dammit - think I've figured it out. The 4.15 version is just missing from the server
cursive dirge
@cloud latch cant you just download again from learn tab or marketplace?
solar kelp
so yeh i am new to this game progamming in general and i would like to progam a game with the engine so any help with starting would be appricated
cursive dirge
4.15 was not missing a while ago when I downloaded it
solar kelp
unless this goes in help
cursive dirge
But then again, I always update sample projects from learn tab directly
@solar kelp if you face any issues, just ask in appropriate channel
solar kelp
kk cause i have never progammed a game and i thought might aswell try now
cursive dirge
Of course it's recommened that you try to solve the potential issue first yourself, that is part of the learning process
If you have absolutely no clue what is involved, you may want to watch some simple games tutorial, to get the idea what could be involved
green spear
I am using multiple monitors. When I open a new window, like to edit an asset it is rather radnom(from what I can tell) which monitor that it open in.
Anyone know if there is any logic behind this, a way I can do to make it open on a specific monitor?
Ex: I want my editor windows to open on my main monitor, and if they don't I move them there. But I open stuff in my 2nd screen as my content browsers are there. I obviously closes my windows on the main monitor as it where i have them.
Still 40%(or so) of the time the new windows open in 2nd screen and I cannot seems to find why.(This is of course only if there are no current edit windows open)
wet grove
how invite friend here?
fierce tulip
send em to unrealslackers.org
noble ermine
depends on the game, but i have similiar computers here running ue4 fine, slow... but fine
I like testing my project on those pcs to help find issues
that resolution would kill me though
heady root
hey in my project I've got 3 window fullscreen modes windowed, fullscreen and borderless everything works well but sometimes when I switch to windowed mode my window is sometimes in left upper corner and I dont see upper border and sometimes this window is in the center and I see upper border. How can just choose one option? game user settings .ini WindowPosX=-1 WindowPosY=-1
manic moon
hmm ok x.x, do shipped games work on Windows Vista and older?
because as far as I know the engine itself requires at least Windows 7 SP 1
spare topaz
does advanced sessions work with 4.15, seems like some people say they won't get any session results?
cloud cobalt
@manic moon What's your actual issue ?
There are plenty of reasons for some UE4 games to work, or not, on this hardware
You can go as far as XP 32b support, though it's not the case by default
manic moon
so the shipped games should work on vista and xp, even though the engine itself doesn't support it? or is it just the editor which doesn't support the old OS
I'm just curious
because I have some crashes on vista and such specs
cloud cobalt
Depends on how you do the build and how you setup the projects
But yes, you can provide support for XP or Vista
manic moon
hmm ok
cloud cobalt
Releasing a game isn't easy business anyway, even for W10
You need to make sure you understand what you're doing
manic moon
yeah
cloud cobalt
SImply put, pay attention to
- dependency installer
- 32 vs 64b
- Graphics API (DX10, 11, OpenGL)
I know I won't support XP or Vista or 32b Windows
signal linden
Anyone have the time to help me with an issue?
plush yew
depends on the issue
cloud cobalt
Ask the question, state the issue
signal linden
I have been creating material instances and then moving them to a particular folder in the content browser. I noticed that when it came to commit that these files were still showing up in my explorer file system, but not in the content browser. What am I missing?
cloud cobalt
There is a redirector file left
signal linden
I have fixed redirectors and even selected show redirectors
signal linden
from my explorer? OK
any idea why it is happening? So I can avoid it in future?
Am sorry but I am very new to all of this.
cloud cobalt
I don't know. Those files are harmless, to be honest
signal linden
so as long as nothing is referencing them, im good to delete them?
OK thanks for your help
whole wave
Hey all, just posted this problem both on graphics channel and unreal engine forum. Can someone help me, please?
https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?137757-Serious-performance-drop-on-4-15
Thank you.
I hope this is proper channel for this kind of question.
gilded silo
apologies if this is the wrong spot to ask tech questions! I've been trying to solve this for two days now and I've tried everything I could find from google. Every time I attempt to build from VS, I'm met with this
compiling from the editor works fine, rebuilding works fine, just the build from VS after the first rebuild that blows up
checked all permissions and the editor, VS, and MSBuild all have admin permissions and my entire project folder has every permission allowed
every attempt seems to dump more libs and DLLs into that intermediate folder along with this failed.hotreload file that appears every time the VS build fails (at bottom in this)
astral pond
hm looks strange.. did you update your unreal engine? what is your unreal engine location path? did you maybe use a outdated function/bluebrint?
ionic oxide
@gilded silo I'm having this issue too, just compiling from the editor atm
gilded silo
I wonder if it was introduced with the new 4.15 @ionic oxide
i'm using the 4.15 which is the "current" version, no outdated functions/blueprints since it's a blank project except for a single C++ Pawn derived class
i'm glad it's not just me at least
ionic oxide
4.15 here too
plush yew
I've filled in the physical surface members in Project Settings which I assumed would populate the enumerator, but this is my result: https://gyazo.com/ddb0a9842e0843937b2b174674308142
Whenever changing one of the surface types, the members are added under Physical Surfaces, but they don't return when getting the surface type
plush yew
An editor restart was required
placid plover
floral pagoda
@wicked lotus - I saw that. Looks interesting
Been reading the forums
They have a UE4 integration they will be showing off at GDC
gilded silo
it already works pretty smoothly in UE as long as you write the code yourself, no components
i didn't do anything fancy with geometry occlusion yet but just playing basic sounds through the C API from UE works pretty well
plain gazelle
can you attach cameras to actors? Or do they have to be pawns?
honest vale
you can attach camera components to any actors
past moss
Hi guys, when I creat a tiled world In UE4 my player cannot spawn outside the yellow square when I click play to test and have always to keep moving my heightmap inside the square , looks like I need to enable origin rebasing setting, which I can't find
Tried to google this and only get info on setting blueprint for multiplayer which is not my case.
green spear
Anyone got knowledge about the packing of imported assets? Or know where to find that info. What determines the resource size? EX: Why do a 69kb SM fbx become 640kb when imported?
kindred viper
because it's compressed/serialised within an FBX file and it needs to inflate it to get realtime data flow going I guess
green spear
Maybe, then. Any away to improve this?
south ridge
You can disable some stuff upon import
Disable extra generated data that helps tessellation etc
kindred viper
I couldn't really say but I presume yes as we have C++ at our fingertips. However if you are looking for optimisation routines I would ask around for people who ran through the Epic Game Jam in the smallest package category
green spear
You know where I can find info about them?
kindred viper
ummm I can't recall who entered it now. It was a couple of months ago at least.
I would just ask and pray
green spear
Where would you ask? 😃
plush yew
how do i disable discord autostart with windows, hate this thing poping up on screen everytime i turn on my pc, i barely use it 😦
grr found it nevermind
random mulch
I kinda feel like people are copying each other nowadays
Is one guy copying the other?
fierce tulip
they shouldget the "wow you used fresnel on a sphere" badge
random mulch
But textures and whole setup is identical
And here is another twist to that story
Guy who stole that material is getting robbed by another guy 😄
fierce tulip
O_o
random mulch
It seems this one is using Dean Ashford stuff from his other tutorials and selling them in his pack
fierce tulip
shouldnt you mention this to steph/adam on the marketplace channel?
random mulch
I just found it out on facebook, UnrealEngine4 Dev Community
tall pendant
make a tut based on a tut. love it.
best ones are when they share the same errors 😄
random mulch
And was curious what other people think, because I just saw the tutorials and the stuff that is in the video is suspiciously the same
fierce tulip
yea, send steph or adam a link about it. might be best
random mulch
I swear, if I auto subscribe to something like my last bug report on answerhub 😄
Is it Adam#2406 ?
fierce tulip
Unreal.AdamDavis#0146
random mulch
thx ❤
civic saddle
;-; I was messing around with my level, i made a new level and now i dont know what to do, to get back to my first one, im currently using the starter pack for firstpersonshooter
nvm LUL sorry
Facepalm I feel like i am stuck on something for 10 miuntes, give up because its something so simple and easy and i know it is but i cant figure it out, ask in the discord, .... then figure it out like 1 second after asking
fierce tulip
@random mulch @plush yew can you tell me what will happen with the pack once you know more? because if it is using stolen content stuff I'd like to remove it from any group im admin of.
random mulch
@fierce tulip Just send pm's to people, but stuff like that is difficult to say. Because if someone is using small stuff from other tutorials and it's pretty simple, how can you be sure it's stolen. If I go to all the tutorials that are out there and I put a small amount of stuff from all these tuts in my Marketplace Asset, it's ridiculous to claim that this particle system is yours alone.
Never thought about it, will give it another thought
vale osprey
@random mulch both of them are copying Overwatch 😄
random mulch
Maybe I'm just into my own stuff and all the other people in the world are doing what the engine is supposed to be used for... FPS... so, most people do Cover Systems and Paintball, because that will never fail to sell 👉
stable crest
hallo can Someone tell me where i can Set Intro Movie to Fullscreen
non of the Suggestions in Answer Hubs Work
echo marlin
Alright this bug has bene pretty persistent today:
Anyone have a solution?
Usually have to restart the engine for it to stop
light thunder
Is there a way to lasso selection a bunch of static meshes in UE4 from the window itself, and not the world outliner?
vagrant yew
i have strange problem with new 4
..sry accidentlal enter press. will type everything again in new post
i have strange problem with new 4.15. i have static actor mesh in the scene with material assigned. if i replace static mesh then materials resets to a default state. it can be reproduced in fresh project. small demonstration here http://imgur.com/a/lWR4d
any idea what maybe wrong? i dont see many people complaining about this so there is a chance it's my fault. please help
steady quiver
Is it common for the Y axis to be used as the horizontal axis in 2D games? I keep seeing it as the default.
heavy flicker
Is there a way you can check in UE4 for any holes or gaps in between your meshes? For example if im building a cave.how can i make sure that I cant have any directional light leaking inside?
kindred viper
there are modes for checking things like that. Best check out the Editor Debugging flags.
they tend to be based on F1, F2 etc
heavy flicker
Where are those located @kindred viper ?
kindred viper
the Unreal documentation on the website
robust garnet
Does anyone know what this exactly means?
/Game/Pro/Blueprints/BP_Background.BP_Background_C, but it was never saved as an export.```
hot sandal
Does anyone know how to LOD skeletal meshes yet? Do you have to have a simplygon license for that? Is there a way to get one? Can't even find a way to sign up on their site anymore...
@vagrant yew Check "override materials"
vagrant yew
@hot sandal, thanks for the tip, but every mesh actor i place in the level has materials assigned, and those materials become material overrides as well. and upon replacing static mesh with new one all overrides are removed.
manic moon
Got a strange problem with a shiped & installed game on a pc
when starting the exe i get a black screen
others can start the exe without anyproblems, no idea why i get a blackscreen with a i7 6700k , gtx 970, 16gb ram and Windows 10 Enterprise N
anyone know what can cause such a problem?
plush yew
So, I've got a PS4 DevKit and my game was approved by sony, how do I package it for PS4?
I keep seeing people saying to contact epic staff or something, but I have no idea who or where to look, any one know?
kindred viper
I only know one person around here with one. vblanco is his nick. Might wanna ask him when he is around
tall pendant
@plush yew http://help.epicgames.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2313998-how-do-i-get-access-to-ue4-console-source-code-?b_id=9727 after filling this out you should get contacted with more info about getting the console stuff from perforce etc
heavy flicker
Does anyone have ay idea how to setup this material so that the mesh is always in one consistent direction? Currently it bends around the camera to avoid being seen as a plane
plain gazelle
cinder nest
why the fuck do my projects keep deleting themselves once kite demo assets are added
storm venture
Sorry to interrupt, but I was wondering: Are we allowed to put stuff from, say, the Infiltrator Demo into our games?
Like, are we given permission to use Epic's demo projects in our commercial projects?
south ridge
Why?
I don't know the answer off-hand, but my counter question is why would you do that anyway
south ridge
Dunno
I don't really have a strong opinion about it, just seems like a nicer idea to at least remake a copy of the assets etc
storm venture
For most things I'd agree but I don't exactly want to remake common things like trash bags and whatnot
Partical effects especially
weary basalt
Anything that Epic provides on the Launcher is free to use in your games as long as those games are built with UE4
You cant for example, export the Character Meshes and go and use it in an Unity game
storm venture
Awesome, thanks!
acoustic pollen
how does one invite someone to this server?
tall pendant
@acoustic pollen just send them this: http://unrealslackers.org/
still bough
I'm switching over to a source build of the engine, and it looks like the engine content in my source checkout is old. I don't remember how I got it, but it's not stored in the git repo so there must be some download step that I can't find documented anywhere. Does anyone know how to get the latest engine content? My skyboxes aren't working due to some issue with the sky assets
wasn't out of date, was just straight up corrupted, deleting it and re-running setup.bat fixed it 😃
plush yew
lol, if you actually keep creating new themes in UE4 color picker, you come to the point of being unable to delete them.. the buttons disappear
lol
solar kelp
hey guys where can i send game concepts
plush yew
here, send it to me
solar kelp
ok lol
plush yew
im fine with doing it over discord
ps. maybe you should be more specific about your question 😉
solar kelp
i justed wanted to know what you guys think of a scifi fps shooter taking place in the trappist-1 system
i want to devlop this idea further but dont have the knowlegde to
plush yew
thats a whole different question from the one you first asked xD
well, you better ask someone else
solar kelp
i know i didnt mean to ask that question
plush yew
because my opinion on shooters is always the same: boring
solar kelp
kk noice to know peoples opions
plush yew
btw ask in the lounge if you have questions as casual as this one
cloud cobalt
Or #design-chat
I wouldn't say shooters are boring but it's definitely the most crowded genre in video games, so it feels very obvious
plush yew
its probably also the genre that has the least variation lol
pallid compass
Anyone got a clue why the foliage tool is screwing textures up on trees for me but if i put them in normally there fine :/ looks like tiling issue
pallid compass
Anyone know whats causing these dark areas?
pallid compass
Its just trees and i cant figure out whats happening with it
There is nothing wrong with the UVS
Lower light map resolution causes it to be worse hmmm
If only there was a lighting channel >.<
Ugh can anyone help me with this?
distant wraith
@pallid compass are these all speedtree trees? and you're sure they were all exported with the same lightmap resolution to begin with? this might be a convo for #graphics , wherever you respond just tag me
spice urchin
@pallid compass i'd try it static lightmaps completely disabled
spice urchin
just to reduce variables
there's so many things that could be
if it's bad light maps then you can focus on that
cursive dirge
as additional note, Speedtrees also have a node in materials that vary the colors per tree instance, but it doesn't affect the lighting (which appears to be the issue on that screenshot)
it could be part of the overal effect though
feral echo
what is general pipeline to make partially destructable mesh? Something like medieval ship, where cannonball can make hole in impact point and collisions will turn off in that point?
is this totally possibly in ue4 with any mesh or I should do something with model before in 3d studio?
Im dont know where to start with this..
plush yew
I think that might become possible in future
there is stuff about destructible meshes on the roadmap
pallid compass
How do i fix the issue of having trees close together, shadows from 1 tree shadow another and make it too talk?
sand spear
Hello guys i need a little help to import a skeletal mesh into ue4, I had a full character body then i removed all parts and i just keep the right hand, left picture is the pose hand that i want but the right hand is when imported into engine!
I removed all other bones
vale silo
seems like cull distance volume has no effect on skeletal meshes.. Is it a bug or a feature ?
heavy flicker
Ive switched to lighting only mode. Why are my assets looking like that some of them?
light thunder
I'm not sure if this is the right place but I have a particle emitter with a collide on actor module - it works great in editor but when I play it does not collide...did I miss a setting somewhere? I've changed number of collisions to very high and also made sure the lifetime of the particle is sufficient; I don't understand why it would be different in the editor vs. playihng
green spear
Is everything in the Derived Data Cache needed, or can I clean it?
green spear
I am not 100% sure what it does actually. Except taking up 22g on my disk,,,
(reading up now)
south ridge
It's a cache of textures, shaders, etc
green spear
I am not sure abouts its use when you are just working and don't intend to ship, especially not to other patfroms?
The Derived Data Cache (DDC) stores versions of assets in the formats used by the engine and its target platforms, as opposed to the source formats artists create that are imported into the editor and stored in .uasset files.
Why would I need anything other than the .uasset files?
south ridge
It takes time to compress your texture into DXT
Do you want to wait a few seconds every time engine loads to compress your assets into dxt or just store a cached version?
Few seconds per texture
green spear
So, the cache is like how the textures would be when you cook the game?
and uasset is uncpomressed?
light thunder
So, I must have screwed up, my world lighting is messed up, but I can't find the light in the world outliner? What common mistake did I probably just make?
south ridge
@green spear I don't know all that much about what is stored in uasset for textures etc, but it seems that it stores an uncompressed RGBA version
And the actual compression is done for cooking (and for editor, in the DDC)
green spear
Yeah. That makes sense. Thanks for the info. I am going to remove it and let it rebuild. I don't have 250k assets to compress. So I think it can be cleaned a bit.
south ridge
Removing it is totally fine
It shouldn't grow so big, but I guess if you opened a bunch of projects etc it might've got filled up with junk
green spear
Yeah. And removed old project versions.
light thunder
My map is SUPER bright yet when I search for lights in the world outliner I can't find any that are causing the issue
green spear
Any visual effect objects?
south ridge
Check postprocess for ambient cubemap?
green spear
Fog, PPV, Skylight
light thunder
PPV?
south ridge
post-process volume
light thunder
That helps, thank you
only other problem I can't seem to nail down is this
why don't they match???
spice urchin
your smoke cloud material appears to be able to take lighting from scene
it shows black in cascade because cascade doesn't add scene lighting
also i'd change your preview background, it can be deceptive
make it black and see if your clouds are actually that dark
light thunder
I changed the color of the lightsource to black and it is still white
Right now, I have a bigger problem though : How did this happen, I was working in another area and I come back and all the elevation has gone crazy
green spear
Maybe its z scale got changed?
spice urchin
looks like maybe you were using splines for roads and they got moved up
and they were set to "raise"
@light thunder i'd look at the actual Material for your smoke
see what the rendering setting is. does it have Emissive? is it Lit?
it should have ZERO emissive
it can be lit, but if it's lit, you'll want some careful settings or it'll look wonky from some angles
i suspect it has Emission
or a diffuse value higher than 1.0
clamp your diffuse to 0-1 and remove emission and it should be black if it's set to "Unlit"
unreal VFX are VERY dependent on material settings
post a screen of material network if you're still stumped
light thunder
@spice urchin My splines were in a completely different area--how could they affect landscape so far away
Also, I found the problem, I had two directional lights in my world (one got copied from a different map with a load of static meshes, when I deleted it, they went away)
I will go check on the emissive settings though
Here is the smoke material
cloud latch
hi all, anyone happen to know whether a call to Show Banner Ad will have that banner ad refresh as matching with the ad unit id, or do I need to call hide and show to force a refresh?
mint raptor
Does anyone know if there are threads for support with the ShooterGame Demo Project?
tepid steeple
Anyone tried the RawInput plugin for 4.15?
floral pagoda
@tepid steeple - Yes it is pretty good
tepid steeple
@floral pagoda Do you know if it supports force feedback yet?
floral pagoda
I do not think so
But I am unsure if it does because I have Non Force feedback devices
tepid steeple
Ok thanks
upper yew
Is there a reason why Epic chose to make landscape sizes non power of two?
Just curious
floral heart
There is. (I don't remember what it was, but I saw it once.)
last crater
Studini they explain the numbers in this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMKjIZMPJ0Q
I think it should be around 10 mins. in.
spice urchin
@light thunder it might not be an issue depending on whether or not any pixels in your SUBUV are more than 0.5 in value, but there's no need for the SUBUV node to exist or to add to the primary texture map. you can use the one texture node for alpha as well and completely remove that SUBUV node. There is a real risk that adding the two nodes together created a value higher than 1.0
tbh, i'm not really sure why the SUB UV node still exists, it seems redundant
regal spire
Can anyone help me with this?
south ridge
Did you cook the content?
regal spire
yeah, i cooked it
And there's a thread about this problem which doesn't help at all
i also ticked opengl and metal in shader cache options in mac package settings
Seems like its seeking for a non-existing binary
pure stratus
So I've made my own character inheriting from ACharacter, and made a new gamemode that references it as the default pawn, but when I hit play I can move the camera attached to it, but I can't move it directly. The MoveForward method is being fired with the correct values, it just seems the AddMovementInput method isnt doing anything, any ideas? Or if anyone has a link to a custom character implementation guide for 4.13 ? The only one I could find in the docs was for 4.9 and seemed inconsistent with what I was using
regal spire
Can you create a firstperson template and check the movement stuffs inside of it
You can also migrate these assets to your own project if you need
light thunder
@spice urchin ill try deleting the SUBUV when I get home and see if that helps
Is there a way to simulate light in the particle editor?
upper yew
@blazing shell as a workaround, you can right click on your object in the world outliner, then go to Edit, then delete
blazing shell
seriously
upper yew
I dont know any more than that. Dont shoot the messenger xd
spice urchin
@light thunder no, but it's sometimes good to just open a blank default level to test your VFX so you can isolate variables a bit
clamp your diffuse to 0-1 though regardless. if even 1 pixel goes over 1.0 you will experience glow, and that means darker scenes will make particles appear to glow
either clamp or only multiply against particle color/texture. don't Add
also be sure to set smoke particles to "generate spherical normals" and take a look at the other options for translucent lighting - like volumetric directional lighting etc
that stuff makes a difference
you don't have to even have good normals or anything, just good image sequence and those settings and it'll make shadows like this https://gyazo.com/aedf0d83ae8d75575fd1e8747c721cb3
light thunder
I'll play with that and let you know how it works THANKS @spice urchin
spice urchin
ya keep showin screens too
it's always easier to identify what's up when we can see
light thunder
Here's another simple question - I drag a blueprint emitter onto my scene... If open and edit it'd particle component, that does t change the template right? Just the instance of the particle in the blueprint, correct?
fading estuary
floral heart
For $4,000 per month? Yiss. Oh wait, "to complete".... crap.
swift spindle
is that each... or for a team...
modern root
Opened my project up today and I am missing the basic cube shape in the geometry section of the editor. Anyone had this before and knows how to fix it?
swift spindle
make sure it's your project not your install
modern root
Might be the install, just upgraded to 4.15 yesterday
swift spindle
yeah.. I'd check that
modern root
It's weird as every other shape is fine
swift spindle
most odd
modern root
Editor is running in debug game, so i'm gonna try and build it in development editor and see if that solves anything
swift spindle
ah.. a source version
modern root
haha yeah but it's a duplicate of release branch with changes to unreal game sync (doesn't touch the editor at all)
swift spindle
I've always found lots of random little errors like that in source versions myself
lunar oak
hello, is there any tutorial, guide or basic code i could use to start a new network enabled First Person Shooter?
modern root
@swift spindle it appears the cube in Engine/Content/BasicShapes can't be opened due to:
has been saved with engine version newer than current and therefore can't be loaded.
smoky whale
Kind of need help with this one, but anyone know how to create collisions in blender that move with the animations?
Like for characters for instance
unreal sonnet
@graceful marten I know very little of this, but I think you're supposed to do that in Unreal?
smoky whale
@jfaw same here, i did some googling around and i dont know how to create collisions for moving objects
@unreal sonnet
past pilot
Anyone know why i would be getting this error when i start my editor? My MainWidget and Compass work perfectly fine....
LoadErrors:Error: Error /Game/GUI/MainHud/MainWidget : Failed import for ObjectProperty /Game/GUI/Compass/UI_Compass.UI_Compass_C:MainUIRef
urban tapir
anyone experienced with blueprint / multiplayer free to give me some pointers? i'm pretty novice and i can't get some really fundamental stuff working right
sturdy ruin
Can someone explain the differences between montages & machine states? I've read the docs but still confused..they seem to be able to do the same things.
crude rock
Hmm does anyone know why UE4 is dedicating twice the amount of used memory? my level has 11gb of ram dedicated but only using 5.2gb :/
fathom elm
Anybody here packaged iOS game with remote build?
heady root
Has anyone experienced problem when using open level node that meshes is instanced static mesh component not spawning?
glacial belfry
Anyone else having problem with the Launcher not showing the marketsplace?
mint raptor
Yes
I just came here to ask about that
How long has it been down for and any info on it?
heavy flicker
Is there a command that shows the terrain collision?
and i dont mean wireframe, I mean something an overlay
upper heart
is there no way to rotate multiple selected actors by the same amount around their own pivots?
I see that there is Transform->Delta Transform
I want to be able to do that but for rotation instead of location
kindred viper
upper heart
I don't mean at runtime
upper heart
I mean in the editor
kindred viper
umm. good question.
upper heart
rotating multiple actors at once rotates all the others around the last one selected
I want to rotate them all around their own pivots
I tried selecting multiple actors and doing a +180 in the z rotation, but it didn't do anything since it shows Multiple Values
quiet falcon
Hello Sirs I really need help with creating indivual Charcters, i do not have money to use Maya, to rig my charcters from Mixamo, so i need help with creating Realistic people for my video game ! any ideas
Plz help me
plush yew
so i was told you can now put custom images on the background of your blueprint editors. anybody know where that is in the Engine?
upper heart
💩
fathom elm
Hey peeps
Anyone knows why the hell the locations are screwed up in a multiplayer game?
For example I enter with Listen Server and client
don't move even a tiny bit
and for my listen server's char the location is different both on server and client
only by a 0.1-2
but still unacceptable in our case.
Any ideas? 😮
sturdy kernel
anyone know how to disable a specific log category?
plush yew
anyone know how to add sound effects to a specific area?
plush yew
.....is it really that easy
upper heart
yes
plush yew
ffs
upper heart
plush yew
if i knew it was that easy i wouldnt have asked
upper heart
lol
plush yew
Well you leanr something new everyday i guess lmao. I just dont do sound effects that often
past pilot
Does the editor support sli or crossfire?
cursive dirge
nope
south ridge
The editor supports running and sometimes not crashing, that's about it
quiet falcon
Hello Sirs I really need help with creating indivual Charcters, i do not have money to use Maya, to rig my charcters from Mixamo, so i need help with creating Realistic people for my video game ! any ideas
past pilot
Makehuman
quiet falcon
makehuman?
upper yew
Its a free open source character generator
quiet falcon
ahhh cool so i could make as many humans as i want?working with un real engine Skeleton for animations?
sterile cairn
Mixamo is great for getting animations and it is entirely free too. 😄
quiet falcon
but how do iuse those animations?
i thought mixamo stopped making things for UE4
?
or is it just the downlaod?
upper yew
im pretty sure animations are universal for all engines, you just need to set them up for a specific engine
cursive dirge
you can upload modified ue4 mannequin to mixamo
and then download the anims with that
then retarget to stock ue4 skeleton once imported
@quiet falcon
past pilot
You can take mixamo animations and retarget them. I had ue4 mixamo anims and when they dropped support my sky started falling. But the retarget was super simple.
tidal elbow
Holy moly. Not sure how I did this, but my editor playback is stuck in super-slow-motion. All my particle effects are playing back at a very slow speed, and when I play a sequence, it plays very very slowly.
Any thoughts as to how to get it back?
PIE is slowmo too. Yikes.
quiet falcon
ok ty alot guys
plush yew
Hello everyone ^^ I have a question about laptops/notebooks and ue4 performance. I'm looking for a laptop so I can work on some stuff while I'm traveling. Do you have any experience with ue4 on laptops and which specs do these laptops have? 8gb or 16gb of RAM? Which GPU? Does Intel Grafics work well enough for UE4?
slim raven
@loud vapor When you said "Get(0)" what function were you talking about?
loud vapor
Get all actors has a return of an array, drag off that array and type in get
It'll give you a node that has an integer in it, just leave that as default
Drag off the gets return and set the TargetActor
@plush yew whats your budget?
slim raven
@loud vapor HOLY MOLY that worked, thank you so much!
plush yew
@loud vapor hmm well I have some money to buy something like 1,500€, but I'm a student so I would like to save some money, if I can. Maybe I don't need a 1,500€ laptop ^^
loud vapor
@slim raven welcome!
@plush yew yeah 1.5k will get you a decent one for sure haha
Try askin in #lounge
People are more active there
plush yew
@loud vapor I know, but I don't want to ask everything in the lounge xD
loud vapor
Oh well, we are a community for a reason
plush yew
@loud vapor indeed, but I try my best to put my questions in the right spot ^^ blueprint, mp, vr, ui, etc. ^^
slim raven
Hmmm. Okay, here's a new weird thing - I spawned cubes from a BP Class, but the spawned objects don't seem to follow the BP of the original object!
plush yew
parent em?
loud vapor
@plush yew totally understandable, just figured you'd get a better result rather than in here
@slim raven define not follow the BP? Like physically follow? Or not doing the same functionality?
slim raven
Oh, I think it might be that they're spawning in without the Physics or Collision boxes checked, so they're not calling the OnCollision event
loud vapor
@slim raven if they dont have it on by default, than yes that's probably the issue
slim raven
Yep, I assumed they'd inherit that from the original object, but I had to add that to the construction script. Thank you so much!
light thunder
Crap - I just discovered Mixamo animation pack and it's not compatible...does anyone know of a workaround?
sand spear
Guys how i can reset wireframe settings to default?
cursive dirge
@sand spear checked your viewport settings?
isn't there like small settings/properties button on the right up corner of it?
I don't have editor open atm
if it's not there, it's in the editor settings
sand spear
@cursive dirge I did a little change in engine config .ini from VR showdown demo after that this happened
alpine furnace
Anyway to have a spring arm inherit from a parent component, but not from the overall root component?
like basically just inheritng from a gimbal but ignoring the mesh rotation
plush yew
so ue4 devs added map variables, yet still no 'Select on String' node?
WHY isn't anyone interested in it? Its super useful fks sake
paper crest
do i have to make "armor" for each body shape? or theres a better way to do it
cursive dirge
paper crest
@cursive dirge thanks, man
wraith mauve
Can someone tell me where do I get this map?
Oh never mind its all in the learn tab
unreal sonnet
Whereis @wraith mauve ShooterGame exactly? Because there's no download link in the docs link you gave. I should really spend some time looking around in there
cursive dirge
@unreal sonnet open launcher, select learn tab
tribal silo
Anyone here with good knowledge of packiging that could help me out?
thorn forge
Anyone know if astroneer uses a custom planetary gravity or are they using some tricks to make worlds seem spherical on space view ? 😃
ivory gorge
how do i get around the 8192x8192 texture size limit?
cursive dirge
Why ?
ivory gorge
or is it a really bad idea and i need to find another solution
cursive dirge
8k is huge already
ivory gorge
it's huge, but it's for the surface of a planet
ivory gorge
yeah but it won't work in my case.... 8k shall have to do
kindred viper
streaming textures in is a possibility. I have read comments before that indicated you could over-ride that cap in code though. Bear in mind I'm barely remembering it though.
ivory gorge
i thought about breaking the planet up into segments and using some kind of LoD system
kindred viper
I would say that goes without saying. Something that scale needs as much optimisation as you can get
earnest briar
is the unreal gdc presentation streaming anywhere?
tall pendant
still lake
@earnest briar it's also streamed on youtube and on facebook 😉
earnest briar
@still lake thanks the stream had not started yet when i was looking 😊
topaz jay
question, did the problem from the vs 2015 update 3 happened again for anyone, between today and yesterday?
eager sparrow
how can I make that look pretty 😂😂
spice urchin
that black stuff is probably Mesh Distance Field
you can turn that off or turn it up in the static mesh editor
bigger meshes tend to get pretty ugly mesh distance field results
heavy flicker
where do i find that? Ive looked but honestly cant find it
tame token
cloud cobalt
Yep
south ridge
I do
real bolt
What could cause this ?
green spear
You might want to elaborate a bit.
mint raptor
How can I view the profiler?
upper yew
@mint raptor by pressing ctrl+shift+, (control, shift, comma)
worn mirage
Sooo... I'm kinda embarressed to mention this but I seem to be stuck in the viewport.... Normally I press w or use the scroll mouse to zoom, but that isn't working. Everything else seems to respond normally.
Any idea as to what I did and how to fix?
It might be worth mentioning too that I have the entire sky dome in view.
so I might be moving... but who knows at this point
hybrid scroll
Anyone used the new Actor Sequence Component from 4.15?
I want to have a simple animation and move a static mesh, but here is the problem:
I can only move it by editing values in the sequencer editor. I cant move meshes in the viewport by normal means. So, to put simply Autokey isnt working.
Am I doing something wrong or is that a bug / feature?
hot sandal
Hey guys, anyone else know why Reliable calls dont' work on clients? I mean basically zero net traffic - they just don't play sounds or emit a particle effect.
I get how they're supposed to work, but this feels like a bug...
Bah, nvm - looks like I was destroying my replicated actor on server before the clients executed the multicast.
cursive dirge
upper heart
I have a postprocess volume placed in the world. I changed the value of motion blur in it's settings in the editor. Is there anyway to get this default value? I am going to be changing it's value at runtime and would like to be able to reset it back to it's default that I set in the editor. I tried GetClass->GetDefaultObject but that is giving me the default value of the postprocess volume before I changed it's value in the editor (so .5)
eager sparrow
Can someone show me how to use Ue again please I actually can't remember squat 😂
Or at least point me to some YouTube stuff 😂😂
plush yew
If I want to migrate a whole project from 4.14 to 4.15 do I migrate all the things piece by piece or is there a unified method for that?
@eager sparrow I guess Epic has many Tutorials up on their youtube channel. You can jump right into some of their tutorials. But it all depends on what you (not) know (anymore) ^^
eager sparrow
Thanks :) plus it's changed a bit since I've last used it 😂😂
cloud cobalt
@plush yew Well, just open the project with 4.15.
Migration is automatic (except for C++ code)
Make sure you have version control so you can roll back
eager sparrow
I haven't used it for two years cus I've been on a massive mind block for what game to create
plush yew
@cloud cobalt is it really that easy? well, okay xD So I guess it will save the project as a separate 4.15 folder and not override the 4.14 folder?
kindred viper
Mind Quad VR !
cloud cobalt
@plush yew What you should really do is use version control software like Git, Perforce, SVN...
eager sparrow
But but I don't wanna learn vr just yet I'm only a hobbyist haha I just dabble at these things 😂😂
kindred viper
You dont really learn anything for VR. You just make up new stuff and everyone believes you
plush yew
@eager sparrow which version number do you know? 4.15 is the most recent one
cloud cobalt
Opening a project with a different engine version will convert it in place, so you need to make sure you can back it up
eager sparrow
The one from two years ago 😂
plush yew
@eager sparrow https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZlv_N0_O1gasd4IcOe9Cx9wHoBB7rxFl maybe you should then just have a look at this
eager sparrow
Thanks :)
kindred viper
ahhh 4.7. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
plush yew
@eager sparrow and here are several other playlists to get started https://www.youtube.com/user/UnrealDevelopmentKit/playlists?shelf_id=17&view=50&sort=dd
eager sparrow
Yeah I knew where to find the tree thing too in that version but it's upgraded to the latest one
plush yew
@kindred viper the blueprint essentials playlist even claims to be 4.2 ^^ that's also pretty old
kindred viper
I have to say, after being an avid Github user for most of my UE4 time, I recently switched to perforce and it's just so much better all around. Slightly more complicated but well worth the extra initial work to learn it
eager sparrow
But could UE bring the best out of the game I have in mind
kindred viper
depends on the game
cloud cobalt
I have never heard of someone finding Perforce more complicated than Git
plush yew
@eager sparrow I think it depends more on the person who uses the tools than the tools themselves
eager sparrow
Well I was hoping to make a new breed of an equestrian game and give the option to player where they can build their own horse yard
kindred viper
Git is just so straight forward though. You do like 3 things with it. Perforce has a slightly different workflow but has better DIFF with blueprints and when integrated with the Editor, gives you a multi-layered pull system
eager sparrow
Seeing as there hasn't actually been an equestrian game released since like 2009 maybe
plush yew
I did't use source control because my workspace didn't have enough free space for that.
kindred viper
I did. It is terrible :p
cloud cobalt
Git is way more powerful than Perforce, and way more complicated imho
Not to say it's better
But you definitely don't do "3 things" with Git
eager sparrow
Mmm no if s, no buts and no coconut's?
cloud cobalt
@plush yew Also you need to use source control, it's really not an option if you're building an actual game
Buy a disk
kindred viper
well you do. You fork, branch and commit really. As a basic user that is :p Im not saying Git is bad, I just prefer Perforce now. I mean the Git app doesn't even let you install by tag
kindred viper
github for windows
cloud cobalt
Don't use that
kindred viper
I dont anymore :p
cloud cobalt
That's a very limited client for beginners
That's not Git
Git is much much much more than that
cloud cobalt
Sourcetree is what you should use
plush yew
@cloud cobalt this here it the workspace of my bosses office so I don't think that I should tamper with that on my own ^^ He maybe doesn't like it, but I will hit him up about that
eager sparrow
My machine is windows ten so would git hub be okay on that?
kindred viper
yes
plush yew
@cloud cobalt at home storage is no issue for me
cloud cobalt
Nobody should ever use the Github app, it's shit
plush yew
having plenty of that
cloud cobalt
Use Github with Sourcetree
kindred viper
@cloud cobalt ill check out sourcetree next time im running a git but then, I could use perforce with a git so it's all gravy :p
cloud cobalt
Perforce is okay
Not saying you should move back to Git
Just saying you judged based on 1% of it
kindred viper
I would like them to add 4k DPi settings to the perforce client tbh. I have to climb into my monitor to read anything :p
yeah Im a fan of git, Im just impressed with Perforce after the extra learning curve
its all sweet in a UE4 workflow
cloud cobalt
@plush yew I don't know what your company is but like I said, version control is the obvious thing you should always do on any project that you care a bit about
Maybe you're okay with losing the project or something
But if you're not, use VCS
eager sparrow
But what sort of graphic design should I go for?
plush yew
@cloud cobalt I backup most things manually so I don't think that we lose those projects. But I know that there are better methods than doing stuff manually everytime.
@eager sparrow doesn't that depend on the design, style and idea you want to go for?
cloud cobalt
Like I said, as long as you're okay with losing work, it's fine to not use VCS
kindred viper
I have just worked for 2 years on a project with no source control. Would you like me to give you an estimate of hour many hours I have wasted waiting for full projects to copy/paste? Or how many times I have had to repeat work because copying the entire file would negate merge changes?
Source control. use it or gtfo :p
as Luos said the other week. "Im gonna start charging a tax for clients who don't use source control".
plush yew
Very understandable ^^ I'm working for nearly half a year with no source control.... and it's kind of tedious, but I didn't lose any data/projects yet
kindred viper
we lost 3 months work once because the boss' kid dropped his backup drive
plush yew
I did a backup of my 4.14 project. So should I open my project in 4.15 with "open a copy" or "convert in-place"? I never used those. Having a 25gb project, which one is the better option? ^^"
cloud cobalt
If you backed it up you can convert in place
I understand you're not going to change your mind but I would never do a day's worth of work without committing it to some kind a source control. Having half a year of work with no history of changes, no online backup for all those days of work... It's like leaving your car keys on the ignition, doors open on a parking lot and saying, until now it's not been stolen
yet
I'm not saying that to be mean or anything, I know that VCS is something programmers do and it's not natural or obvious to artists
But it's definitely worth spending a few days setting it up
kindred viper
The best thing is you get to leave yourself notes everytime you commit an update. then in 5 years when you look back at your code you can see a message that says "If you are reading this, then I haven't made a million yet".
plush yew
@cloud cobalt I think you get me kind of wrong. I would love to use source control here, but I'm currently not able to, because I have to figure out how to save some space on this small ssd which is the only storage here. I took all previous project states and did a backup of each on my own, so they will not get lost or something. We will not lose this half year of work. Many things have to fail for that to happen. But I see that you can definitively improve that
kindred viper
you will save space with source control over space used to keep backups so there is that to consider
the source control will only keep changes and those are often compressed
cloud cobalt
Like I said it's not my problem, @plush yew
It's just completely egregious and no professional work should ever be done that way, but it's up to your company
kindred viper
hah you would hate my job then Stranger :p
and I totally agree. 2 years I have whined about source control to fall on deaf ears
this game would have been finished and bug free 6 months ago if not more if we had used it
plush yew
yay, after some plugin jumble 4.15 does compile the shaders ^^ I guess you can't and shouldn't really do anything when it is compiling shaders can you?
I never really dared to do anything besides xD
cloud cobalt
You can do work
It's just a bit slow because the CPU is compiling everything
But it's okay
kindred viper
I find that compiling shaders only uses 15% of my cpu. Not sure why
plush yew
Hmm I have an odd issue. I have an BP actor which has a 3D Widget. This BP actor is designed to be a child actor for a static mesh or like. This 3D widget should always face the player which it does most of the time. But when I make some changes, like to my Character, this 3D Widget kind of breaks and is no facing the player anymore and is not firing it's buttons. But oddly enough the animation when hovered on or clicked works. Any ideas?
eager sparrow
@plush yew sorry forgot to reply earlier my WiFi went bad. Yeah I guess it does I'm not going to make it look childish of course I'm hoping to give it that nice contemporary feel to the game
kindred mountain
VCS is much more useful than just saving your work from being lost. Just being able to knock up branches on the fly to do refactoring, try things out....merge them back in when it's finished/works or throw it away if it was a dead end
cloud cobalt
Yeah, though that only really works for code
Branching assets is broken since you can't really merge textures or materials
kindred viper
doesn't perforce take care of textures/mats?
cloud cobalt
Perforce, Git, doesn't matter
You can't merge binary assets
You can decide which one to keep
If you have a grass texture that has become a moss texture, you can't say that you'd like to merge that
kindred viper
there is the Binary DIFF tool in UE that gives you the changes in a blueprint/graph type format though. I guess it's easy to pick out changes that way
cloud cobalt
Sure, for Blueprints
But you're still losing out on 90% of the functionality of merging
A large Git project will typically see all code be merged at least twice, because you work on a development branch, then import your modifications by merging into the master branch, then merge again into a release branch for testing
That's not a realistic workflow on game content
At least not in UE4, because all assets are binary. If your engine stores materials and levels as (for example) XML files, then it can, sometimes, be mergeable
Version control for software code is really amazing because you work with changes, instead of working with versions
The guy building a patch is going to say, "i'll take this particular change that fixes a bug, and this one that patches a color, but not the one between them because it's a new feature", and actually have this be a point & click process that will be traceable in 10 years
plush yew
Working with Lighting Scenarios: Do you put a sky light in each scenario or do you just put one into your level? I tried the first and it tells me that there are multiple sky lights "active", which isn't true if the sky lights of the other lighting scenarios, which are deactivated (not loaded) do not count.
just realized that I should ask that in #graphics
feral echo
someone used more than one nav mesh agent? I cant get it working with more than one agent
navmesh is generated only for first one, no matter how much I add and turn on\off
eager sparrow
Ugh im gunna give up on UE 😭😭
worn mirage
nooo.. why!? @eager sparrow
eager sparrow
UE officially hates me dude
I've played a little with unity but ugh I dunno 😛 I'm at sorts with what software to use
worn mirage
I was too but I finally settled on UE
plush yew
@LadyWolfa#5716 you just stepped back and many things may have changed, so just take your time and be patient, because there is sooo much too learn and discover ^^
violet cove
Does anyone know why when you turn on game view and enable detailed light the entire screen turns white?
eager sparrow
yeah I know I just can't get my head around anything the only difference with UE is that I can bug you lot haha
also how can I make games compatible with windows 10 as my windows 7 games don't run anymore 😦
light thunder
I accidently migrated assets twice into a project....everytime I try to delete them from content browser, it hangs and crashes...can I just delete the actual windows directory?
eager sparrow
Okay I've added a plane shape into my map how do I change its material??
cursive dirge
drag and drop
eager sparrow
Thanks so what about creating new materials??
The demo kit doesn't have what I need
I need to cover the ground with grass I can find it but I'm not sure why the tool is being weird lol
light thunder
Anyone know where I can get a model of an airplane on the cheap?
tidal dawn
so anyone get the launcher to launch with vulkan or opengl rather than directX?
spice urchin
@eager sparrow right click any empty folder, then select Create material. i think you're going to need to watch some tutorial vids and back up a bit
sterile jolt
Is it possible to have the procedural foliage spawner spawn on certain textures that are applied to a static mesh?
neat galleon
Does anyone know how to make a static mesh follow the viewport in the character blueprint?
split summit
Add it as a component infront of the player's camera?
Maybe a screenshot or more info on what you're trying to do, not sure what your aim is
neat galleon
@split summit I've now added a camera component and it will not rotate upwards...
split summit
what won't rotate, the camera? as in you cannot control the pitch with the mouse?
neat galleon
solved it nvm
split summit
cool
neat galleon
thanks for helping xD
mint raptor
Does anyone know details on unreal AR support?
plush yew
Does anyone have a basic fps template with a enrmy ai armor and a ammo inventory that i could examine?
lusty spire
Hi, can find epic broadcast about NavMesh generation settings 😦 it's gone?
lusty spire
ohh, it's hided, available only by link on youtube 😉
eager sparrow
Videos like to grow legs and hide 😂😂
plush yew
hey whats up, i need some help trying to figure out how to run 2 or more packaged game instances
without one closing the other
anyone got a clue?
loud vapor
You can do that without an issue?
Pretty sure aslong as they arent fullscreen
You can run as many instances as you want
@plush yew
If you don't know how to exit full screen just make sure they're a Development build on 64bit and then in console type "fullscreen" without the quotes
plush yew
everytime i try it, it just closes the previous window
like it overrides it
i'm trying to host a listen or dedicated server on my pc and then run multiple clients on it all on the same pc
agile sluice
Hello all, does anyone know if there's a way to place meshes like rocks/trees in a "brush" type manner, where I can paint on the terrain and the meshes appear?
agile sluice
Thank you, it worked.
cloud loom
Is there a way to hide the little camera preview windows when you select an actor with a camera in it?
I cant find it:(
split trail
Does anyone know where the bEQSEditor boolean is stored in the config files? I have a project on source control and I want to make sure that is set to true for all users in the SVN.
fluid tide
@everyone Any ideas why Unreal crashes? P.S. Trying to launch any project
slim quest
Need some help with a custom hit box for button in umg
The only video I found is in russian
slim quest
I want to create custom shaped buttons that if they were rect box hit boxes would have overlaping areas
@kindred viper
topaz jay
I need some help plz. For some reason when i try to package my plugin it now creates alot of other stuff along starting with a folder named "HostProject". Did i activate something by mistake or was this due to some update? It's cause now my plugin is giving errors when packaging cause it feels the need to make this avaiable for android platform instead of just windows.... the error is as follows
ERROR: AutomationTool terminated with exception: ERROR: GetBuildPlatform: No BuildPlatform found for Android
topaz jay
nvm solved, i changed the type of the plugin x-x
old hazel
Alright I have a slight issue with unreal and low frames. Anyone available to help?
light thunder
Is there a blueprint mechanism to record audio from Unreal and save the output as an audio file?
willow holly
is there anyone who have a problem with downloads via the epic launcher? It's doing this thing where it's stuck between 40-45mb downloaded, it looks like it's downloading and then suddenly jumps back to where it started
quartz ether
Is there anyone who can show me the Star Wars Ewok Lake Village on map? 🙏
still bough
the ewok villiage was constructed in the redwood forest in northern california
it's not there anymore
quartz ether
Yeah, was just wondering where the exact spot is on the map.
eager sparrow
does making trees go under under animation or game design???
quartz ether
I can't see how that can be related to animation or game design.
It goes under Environment Art.
molten tusk
Quick Question: Anyone here ever tryed setting up a public test beta of their games through unreal forums or this unreal discoord server? Did you get any partisipants ? collecting feedback ?
worn mirage
Isn't that how most indie devs test their games?
loud vapor
I think @molten tusk is asking on the success of posting it in the Unreal community
mint raptor
Looking for a cross of Post Processing help and potentially C++ help where should I aks?
versed pawn
Is there a way to detect if an object gets hit by a Line Trace?
plush yew
@versed pawn yea.
versed pawn
@plush yew How?
plush yew
@versed pawn oops i misunderstood your question.. obviously. Sorry
brisk moth
Anyone have experiance with the "The Unreal Engine Developer Course - Learn C++ & Make Games" course on Udemy? Is it worth it?
kindred viper
apparently yes it is.
cursive dirge
it's definitely worth the 10-20 money it costs
I've just looked at some of the topics covered there and he seems to cover lots of things that would have been useful for me when I was starting out with ue4
also, he covers basics of c++
things that many new c++ coders here refuse to learn beforehand
kindred viper
there is just so much to learn at first. Impatience and wanting to crack on with it made me skip a lot. When I come back to need it, I learned it then. Not the best way but I teach myself so I have to guess the best advice :p
vale osprey
@brisk moth course is quite good, even if you have c++ experience already it helped a with learning engine API
brisk moth
Thanks man, bought it like an hour ago, gonna go through it tomorrow.
slim raven
Hey all. I'm following a tutorial on how to pick up physics objects and it works perfectly but I'm getting this error every time I try to pick something up:
Error Blueprint Runtime Error: Accessed None trying to read property PhysicsHandle from function: 'ExecuteUbergraph_FirstPersonCharacter' from node: Set Target Location and Rotation in graph: EventGraph in object: FirstPersonCharacter with description: Accessed None trying to read property PhysicsHandle
Anyone have any ideas what might be causing it?
valid agate
Hi guys, do anyone know if crosshairs/recticles on red dot sights or holographic sights should be done in material or like a hud element?
spare quarry
@brisk moth Let me know what you think. I actually bought it also and started running through it a few days ago. So far it's awesome for a beginner like myself.
brisk moth
I'm probably going to rush through section 2 since I already know C++.
plush yew
anyone any good with coming up with hub area idea's im kinda stuck on how i should block it off from the world
spare quarry
@brisk moth Oh nice, I don't but he seems to cover it really well.
@polar hawk It''s Bens
brisk moth
@polar hawk Ben's course
polar hawk
Ah
storm oar
hey guys,
just a random question here.
OnPressed or OnClicked,
which one do you prefer?
floral heart
That's a terrifying question. What's the context?
Or rather, it depends on the context.
storm oar
@floral heart im creating a button btw
spare quarry
@storm oar I think "OnClicked" is a event generated when a mouse button Pressed & Released and "OnPressed is a event generated when you push down the mouse button (Even before it's released).
storm oar
@spare quarry well, i know that.
but i kinda curious what ppl usual use.
not as a dev but as an user.
floral heart
I thought OnClicked was for when an actor is specifically clicked on with a mouse cursor. OnPressed is available for any axisless input. There may be something else entirely for touch events.
midnight socket
Hi is discord a place for help?
oblique sorrel
Well, here it is folks. The weirdest bug I experienced so far.
I set a progress bar to have fill drawn as a border, and I got a set of Unreal's icons displayed instead.
plush yew
Hey everyone. So I was wondering if there was a possible way to export a scene as an fbx but preserve material differences.
When I export into Maya, everything has a "world grid material" on it.
I'm ultimately trying to put it on Sketchfab, so I have a tedious process of selecting stuff, grouping it, and placing it under a new material so sketchfab can read it right.
winter dove
Hello, I have a blueprint with a number of child actors, and each displays with a giant sphere indicator in the editor
is there an easy way to disable this?
honest vale
how can I fully load assets in content browser? I seem to remember there was a button for it but I can't find it. Trying to delete/save assets but the editor won't let me :\
winter dove
It's been a few hours, i`ll try again lol
I have a blueprint with a number of child actors, and each displays with a giant sphere indicator in the editor
is there an easy way to disable this?
brisk plover
@winter dove In the blueprint you can create a Scene component and overwrite (drag it on top) the DefaultSceneRoot
winter dove
Cheers man 😃 thanks heaps
brisk plover
np
winter dove
wait, that didn't work for me
do you mean on the child actors? or the bluprint which features a number of child actors?
I tried both anyways. and still no luck
brisk plover
@winter dove Both works for me
reef spire
im trying to follow an older tutorial for blend spaces but when i get to this part i dont see this panel anywhere.
http://prntscr.com/eg9orf
http://prntscr.com/eg9p15
anyone know where it is?
light thunder
If I wanted to simulate endless cars (like backed up on the freeway for miles) should I consider making a static mesh of a vehicle As a foliage component? I was led to understand that those instances is less resource intensive
still bough
@reef spire it's in the asset details under "Axis Settings"
mint raptor
Is there a way to rename the exe of the package game? Or an easy way to rename the project for C++ via a tool that doesn't involve going through all the source and files to rename them manually?
south ridge
Remove project, rename the uproject file, re-generate solution files
And I think rename the core game module
mint raptor
So what is confusing is my .uproject file has the name I want but my builds are coming out as ShooterGame.exe why would this happen?
Oh editing the .urpoject show it says "Name": "ShooterGame"
But why would this not cause issues? I'm sure if I rename that to be MyBuildName things would break right?
kindred viper
I renamed a c++ project a couple of weeks ago and it went perfectly with the guide I used
still bough
Is there a UObject that represents a level, or is there only the asset?
honest vale
why wouldn't a particlesystemcomponent be visible in simulate mode but it's visible in editor and in PIE?
shrewd phoenix
maybe hiddeningame? xD
honest vale
it's visible in play in editor mode
shrewd phoenix
ah, then weird
plush yew
If I get an asset built for UE 4.14 (a character which is designed to work with the UE mannequin), will I be able to use it in 4.11?
have there been any changes which could screw me over? I have 4.14 installed alongside 4.11 - so I'd be able to do a migration - just curious if it will actually work though
still bough
there a way to move the pivot point of a static mesh in editor, or do I need to do it in a modeling program?
plucky crow
still bough
I need something programmatic
but I guess it should be possible for me to establish my own virtual pivot point and the translate that to the real one before applying the transform
slim raven
Hey everyone, I'm getting an error running a BP, I was wondering if anyone would be willing to help?
Here's the BP:
It functions fine, but I'm getting this error:
Error Blueprint Runtime Error: Accessed None trying to read property BoredomMeterRef from function: 'ExecuteUbergraph_EnemyCube_BP' from node: Set CurrentBoredom in graph: EventGraph in object: EnemyCube_BP with description: Accessed None trying to read property BoredomMeterRef
gloomy apex
hey, can I ask how to make a simple bullet trail here
i understand i need to use a particle
prefferbly a ribbon one
and i want to attach it to the bullet itself, i have done that, but how to i make the partiles to be in a straight line after the bullet
zealous salmon
@slim raven hey there, I took a look and I think you are trying to cast a variable from another blueprint. If the blueprint you are trying to cast from is ThrowinCube, then you should get the return node from your cast and do a get to the variable: Cube Cooldown, instead of calling this, if this is the case, it should work.
slim raven
@zealous salmon The cooldown variable actually works! The problem I'm seeing is that it's trying to get a variable from another Blueprint - BoredomMeter, which is a widget.
"Boredom Meter Ref" is returning as None - it can't find the variable CurrentBoredom, which is defined in the BP for the Boredom Meter widget
reef spire
im teaching myself ue4 right now because i have a lot of time. my current goal is to make a simplistic character and have run walk and turning animations made/edited and put into ue4. heres the inspiration/reference: https://youtu.be/NP4AuKdb_dA?t=8s what software should i use to model and animate the character? also if you can point me in the right direction on what i should research that would be great. thanks in advance
cursive dirge
@reef spire unless you really want to learn to be an artist, you could just use something like mixamo fuse etc for character and their 2000+ free animations for it, at least for first stages of your project
you could always replace them with your custom ones later on
if you are still learning the engine, it might be a good idea to not try to do everything at scratch at first
reef spire
@cursive dirge ok well i would want to start learning the character creation process. i have some modeling experience because i came from cinema 4d so im not as worried about level design. im still trying to find the best way of making a cartoon-ish/stylized character like in the ref.
also i use mixamo and fuse already. i could see fuse working as a base character for remodeling but idk about rigging or animating
cursive dirge
mixamo has autorigger
that's the whole idea behind their pipeline, you create the char in Fuse, run it through their autorigger and then you can use all their animations for that rig
of course, it'll not be as good as manually skinned character
I dunno, personally, I'd have some kind of prototype of the game before doing anything that requires weeks of work for individual asset
reef spire
@cursive dirge didnt mixamo stop offically supporting ue4 btw?
cursive dirge
only the old blueguy rig
their regular fbx format has always imported into ue4
it's just not retargetable into ue4 skeleton
which is what some are worried about
well, not easily retargetable using ue4's build-in tool anyway
reef spire
where is the blueguy rig? ive seen it in videos but idk where its at @cursive dirge
cursive dirge
blue guy is the old mannequin
they replaced him around 4.8 for the mannequin have now
it's got slightly different skeleton rig
(besides the improved visual looks)
cursive dirge
from the old engine, but why would you want that?
reef spire
cuz u said mixamo worked on that right?
cursive dirge
I said it used to work with that, their UE4 support
but they dropped it
they never supported the 4.8+ ue4 skeleton
reef spire
is it even possible to make custom animations?
reef spire
ok i said that in the wrong way
cursive dirge
btw, they showcased some new in editor animation tool on GDC
reef spire
the way i know people do it rn is mocap
cursive dirge
mocap is the new trend for realistic animations
but for stylistic game, you'd still animate the things manually
reef spire
yeah
only if i knew how
im so in the mood to learn right now so i need to figure it out before my inspiration dies
cursive dirge
well, it's your game and all, but I'd still do the mechanics first, art can come later 😃
even the stock mannequin can be used for prototyping but you'll get limited by the animations soon
reef spire
ok i can take your recommendation. i was trying to figure out some mechanics earlier
do you see how in my ref its a sidescroller but its not in a straight line?
cursive dirge
if you really want to go down the rabbit hole for char art, there's a tons of tutorials on youtube etc, I just wouldn't start on something that specific
you can make the char follow a spline for example
there are examples how to setup such system too
reef spire
would that be inside ue4?
cursive dirge
using unreals spline compoennt so yes
there are other ways to solve that too
that's just one example
reef spire
would that be after rigging? because right now in my head i imagine using zbrush to make the model like clay, and then use something else to make a skeleton and then somehow to animations and then somehow get that into ue4 and insert blendspaces and blablabla i havent got that far lol
cursive dirge
oh you are talking about the char modeling
that would need external tools
zbrush is overkill for inside level of detail characters
any traditional 3d modeling tool would do
blender, modo, maya etc
reef spire
when u said char did u mean the player or did u mean object?
reef spire
and then the camera could be connected to the character and could that also follow a spline? (eg: when character moves to next area the camera moves higher)
cursive dirge
how you'd implement your camera, path following etc, it's all up to you
reef spire
ok i could probably figure that out. back to the modeling part. ive had cinema 4d for awhile. is there anything id need from maya for example that c4d wouldnt have?
cursive dirge
you can do that with c4d
just use the tool what you already know unless you really has a reason to change
maya probably has way better animation tools though
but for char itself, it wouldn't matter
btw
reef spire
well the reason i asked that is because i saw maya had a ue4 plugin or something
i think it was for skeleton
cursive dirge
that's for the ART tool
if you want to use it
it's not mandatory
anyway
you could still use mixamos autorigger even with your own custom char
they have a service where you ccan upload your model and it creates the skeleton + skinweights and lets you put their animations to it
reef spire
oh ok
well thats one step down i guess
but i should get mechanics first anyway. right?
cursive dirge
that's how games are usually built, you'd first make a prototype for the thing, find what works - and what doesn't, when you have something that is fun to play, you start working on the real thing (usually you'd scrap the prototype or only take small parts of it as it's supposed to be throwaway thing where you can do all kinds of bad practises to save time)
reef spire
btw im going for more of a story/adventure thing if that changes the situation at all
lavish glacier
steam is always running install script on every launch on steam
on my game
what could be causing this?
Last release was in 4.10.2, and this didnt' happen. Started happening after 4.13.2