ue4-general

[plush yew]

Please welcome @blissful burrow to the community! :beers:

[sharp crest]

Hey new guy

[final owl]

Hey

[cunning umbra]

oh no... this is terrible... I took allergy meds and it is making me drowsy. I can't muster the energy to work.

[polar hawk]

time for hard drugs

[cunning umbra]

I don't do drugs...

[polar hawk]

Apparently you do allergy meds

Allergy meds, speed, no difference

As long as you get it through your doctor

[safe rose]

So, I just reinstalled 4.16 to a different drive other than C and I'm good again. F**k Microsoft

[worn granite]

Usually things fuck up because they're not on the C drive w/ MS......

[safe rose]

Heh

I mean, I know the issue. I've even found solutions online. But none of them were working for me.

[polar hawk]

Aye, everything I do in Unreal be like

https://i.gyazo.com/dc729337e65599e7394fcdae804fa028.png

d:\

[safe rose]

Yeah

That's what I'll be doing from now on, it WAS working before though

Not sure when it started going to poop

[digital anchor]

i just changed from D (hdd) to C (ssd)

pray for me

[safe rose]

lol

[sharp crest]

@frank escarp Just finished watching the video you sent, very interesting, got some ideas too :P Thanks! <3

[short onyx]

Hey guys..... Unreal Engine 4 won't load my .uasset

What can i do? :/

😢

[worn granite]

Don't try to import it in the editor

Just put it in the folder through your OS

[short onyx]

I do that

but don't work

[worn granite]

reload editor?

Either that or use migrate from the other project

[short onyx]

Load gonna be too long 😦

[worn granite]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[short onyx]

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

[worn granite]

ue4 can load uasset from disk, but can't recognize it if you try the import path

[short onyx]

I just gote simple .uasset for some PestProcess effect

[sharp crest]

Just put it in the actual windows explorer and restart the editor if it doesnt show

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[worn granite]

load gonna be too long

Is it the outline one @short onyx ?

[sharp crest]

Everyone gets that material from the internet lol

[worn granite]

yeah lol

[short onyx]

It's just a simple color for see object through wall

ok i'm done for today, i just gonna sleep, maybe it's gonna work like i want tomorrow x)

[plush yew]

Please welcome @lilac hill to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @languid raft to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

@worn granite sample text>placeholder name

[safe rose]

Print S is op

[plush yew]

Hey guys

[plush yew]

Please welcome @plush yew to the community! :beers:

[muted kraken]

https://youtu.be/toIlEERD3Ik

i know it's not related but it's still important

https://youtu.be/K88BU3kjZ-c (cynical brit)

[worthy ether]

@muted kraken have all of my euro strength americans

(is there any actual way us eurotrash can help though?)

[muted kraken]

https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/

@worthy ether

[worthy ether]

thanks 😃

[polar hawk]

Is Fortnite still nda'd?

Er, yup, on the 20th its lifted

[polar hawk]

https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+stan

[toxic wagon]

http://i.imgur.com/Csciq4X.png

ue4 grids are kind of

bad

2.5 grid spacing and it doesn't space evenly

[kind pumice]

nah its perfect. what you have here is a 2 then a .5 then a 2 then .5, etc

😛

looks more like 2,1,2,1 though, whatever

[plush yew]

Please welcome @modest breach to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @left pivot to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @rose shell to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @quartz flax to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

Please welcome @vale tide to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @cursive coyote to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @tight cape to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

Please welcome @solemn merlin to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @vague spire to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

Please welcome @hearty glade to the community! :beers:

[sacred crater]

Whia

Hello people

That's a lot of people

[plush yew]

what's the material to make floor look like checkers?

[lost ember]

Pretty sure no material gives you the default checkers material

[fierce tulip]

engine/enginematerials/defaultmaterial is the generic checkers base material

[weary basalt]

WorldGridMaterial might be what he is after

[plush yew]

Please welcome @high oriole to the community! :beers:

[high oriole]

Hi everyone.

Anyone know how I could make my grid brighter in UE? The Red and Green part that marks the center points?

Ironic, you'd be talking about grids the moment I come here.

[safe shoal]

@cloud cobalt congrats on Helium Rain EA 😃 I'll probably pick that up

Looks fun

[cloud cobalt]

Thanks !

Still lots to do

[plush yew]

Please welcome @simple kelp to the community! :beers:

[coral folio]

Heyaa I wanted to try an experiment where I am livestreaming a 360 from youtube straight in unreal, do you know of there is a way to do that yet ?

[next badger]

Net Neutrality still in flames? When this hype fall down?

[toxic wagon]

What is "flat" in unreal? For normal maps?

128 128 255?

[next badger]

@toxic wagon should be

[noble ermine]

I think technically it is remapped to -1:1 range. Like a normal pointing up is 0,0,1

... I could be wrong 😛

[plush yew]

Please welcome @viral flint to the community! :beers:

[wary wave]

it can't be -1:1 because textures space is from 0-255

128,128,255 does sound about right though

[noble ermine]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/12235/questiondifference-between-flat-normal-texture-vs.html

yeah it says its remapped to -1:1 range in UE4

0 = 128, -1 = 0, 1 = 255

at least that is from an epic staff member, not really any docs i could find.

... I got curious enough to look it up 😛

[plush yew]

Please welcome @fiery moon to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

Please welcome @plush yew to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @plush yew to the community! :beers:

Hey I am new to game creation and looking for an experinced game developer to make me under his wing and colaborate on a game with me please message me if interested

[tribal pebble]

DOES anybody here do anime style animations??

[plush yew]

Please welcome @near stream to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @oak schooner to the community! :beers:

[oak schooner]

Cool

[plush yew]

Hi cory and shiro

[near stream]

Hello

[oak schooner]

Hi

[plush yew]

Do you guys have experince in ue4?

[near stream]

A few years ago I used it, I'm getting back into it as a programmer

[plush yew]

Please welcome @crystal oracle to the community! :beers:

[crystal oracle]

Hey everyone

[digital anchor]

hey

[plush yew]

hey guys,
anyone have experience with localizations? I could use some help.

[sharp crest]

@plush yew
Do you guys have experince in ue4?
You are in an Unreal server, ovs people will have experience with it xD

[plush yew]

he just joined

Please welcome @austere arrow to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

Please welcome @tough orbit to the community! :beers:

[vast pine]

Not sure if it's just a my computer problem or pie etc. lately when I first hit play whenever a particle effect or umg is loaded for the first time some good frame drop. It's not even that complicated thig loading. Like typical 100 burst of particles at a location

Or small things like that

[regal drum]

Does anyone here know of any good tutorials based around a climbing system or cover system?

[safe rose]

@regal drum I assume you've already done some simple Google searches?

[regal drum]

Yes

[plush yew]

Please welcome @stuck skiff to the community! :beers:

[stuck skiff]

Hi, I have a very quick question that maybe by any chance someone knows the answer to - I'm trying to gather all the text with the localisation dashboard from my datatables, but no matter what I put in the "extensions" be it .datatable .Udatatable .csv it gathers zero text

anyone has an idea how the extension should look like? I did have it working a year ago but no I cannot seem to make it work

aaaaaaaaand the answer is, simply .uasset -_-

[vague spire]

hey maybe you guys know
how would one go about doing scrolling text
like banjo and kazooie and conker, or animal crossing
I'm kind of a newb, sorry in advance

[plush yew]

Please welcome @glad onyx to the community! :beers:

[stuck skiff]

you mean like in opening of star wars?

where the letters scroll through the screen ?

or you literally mean text that you can scroll because its longer than the space you have on screen ?

[halcyon marsh]

my window disapear when i change resolution setting :/

i maybe (not sure because i cant see the difference) have a solution

by changing it to "1920x1080wf"for windowed fullscreen

what is the difference if someone know ?

[ashen brook]

ooh... didn't know that new AMD CPU would come with 16 cores with HT

[cloud cobalt]

Comes at a price though

[maiden swift]

Wow. Talk about cores.

You talking about Threadripper?

[ashen brook]

1k dollahbills

yeah

[maiden swift]

Ooooof.

That price.

[ashen brook]

might be worth it

[cloud cobalt]

Still cheaper than a dual core Intel.

[ashen brook]

for a workstation I've been planning to build

[maiden swift]

That'd be epic.

[frank escarp]

definitely worth it

they are undercutting intel HARD

[maiden swift]

My workstation is pretty great, but not pro level. I'd love to build a ridiculous pro rig someday.

[ashen brook]

yeah

[frank escarp]

try to buy an intel 16 core last year

[ashen brook]

I already have two intel desktops

[frank escarp]

they have had to lower price a TON

and then amd still undercuts them hard

[maiden swift]

Btw... does anyone know why disabling any default plugins makes my project require Visual Studio to package? 😦

[frank escarp]

i think a xeon 16core was like 5000 dollars

or more

[halcyon marsh]

btw because you talk about cpu it is interesting to have more core or more hertz for ue4 ?

[ashen brook]

maybe the built-in projects are compiled into the default game dlls?

[frank escarp]

more cores

for compiling and lightbaking

but more herzt gets you more FPS in-game

[ashen brook]

@halcyon marsh more hertz 😄

well

let's put it that way

more cores gets you faster compile times

[frank escarp]

ue4 does scale cores in some areas. But other areas are lacking on PC

[ashen brook]

for engine and shaders

[maiden swift]

@ashen brook I'm hoping it's just an issue with 4.17 preview 1. I only disabled the SteamVR plugin and this wasn't a problem before.

[frank escarp]

PC cant do multithread rendering for example

like ps4 does

[ashen brook]

more speed is just a general speed boost

[frank escarp]

and game thread is single thread

[ashen brook]

yeah

[halcyon marsh]

because i bought an amd only for the cores to use it in 3D and ue4 😅

[frank escarp]

old amd wasnt good

even if more cores

if you mean ryzen, then those are really good for ue4

[ashen brook]

not sure how well common 3d apps deal with more cores

[frank escarp]

linearly @ashen brook

[ashen brook]

if you do any offline rendering you'll see boosts

[frank escarp]

on raytracing stuff, it scales linearly

[ashen brook]

houdini sims or vray render stuff

[frank escarp]

a few of the tools also run multithread. Like some modifiers

[ashen brook]

but there's a lot of options for using the GPU for that stuff nowadays too, so it's not always a straight upgrade

but more cores are definitely more interesting for dev than they are for gaming

[halcyon marsh]

btw i bought the ryzen 7 1700

[frank escarp]

ah, good one

[halcyon marsh]

i dont have it right now

[ashen brook]

for a gaming PC I perhaps wouldn't even bother with an i7 and just go for a straight up i5

though the price difference is so marginal nowadays I'd probably get the i7 anyway

[frank escarp]

the ultimate gaming cpu is the 7700k

well, now 7750k

the 4 fastest cores in the market

[halcyon marsh]

for me it is more for software but sometimes games and streaming/recording :p

[ashen brook]

I run a 6700K in my dev machine

OC'd to 4.7GHz

tis a beast

[frank escarp]

i have a 2600k

overclocked to 4.5

currently no overclock due to summer heat, i would boil myself

well, i still overclock, but its lowered

[ashen brook]

this laptop I'm on has a 7700HQ

[frank escarp]

right now its at 4 ghz

[ashen brook]

can't complain about it

[frank escarp]

yeah but laptop chips are throttled as fuck

they arent the same as the pc version

[ashen brook]

hey I'm just happy I can finally dev on a laptop

my old one had a pre-DX11 onboard gpu

ue4, substance, quixel, etc would all crash the graphics driver on load

[halcyon marsh]

i am running ue4 in a 400$ laptop x)

but the only problem is that i can't *make a big project

and sculpting in blender (not the best but i only sculpt for fast stuff)

[maiden swift]

We just recently got a dev-capable laptop.

Alienware 15 with a 7700HQ and a GTX 1060.

It's really nice for doing dev work on the go. Quite capable of handling UE4.

[tall pendant]

If someone here is licensee maybe interesting: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-07-14-autodesk-will-no-longer-sell-game-middleware

[plush yew]

Please welcome @velvet wren to the community! :beers:

[unborn matrix]

Is there anyway to get the sound from a playback device?

Like how Tilt Brush gets all audio devices and then checks which ones are playing

then uses the audio from that playback device

[ashen brook]

https://twitter.com/LouisaGallie/status/885820352298971136

Louisa Gallie (@LouisaGallie)

The more experienced I get, the more overwhelmed I feel by all the stuff I don't know 😓 #gamedev #gameart #indiedev

Twitter

@unborn matrix yes, via using an ancient technique called programming

😄

[unborn matrix]

@ashen brook thats a good tweet lol

and yeah I was asking if anyone already had some ideas on it.

[ashen brook]

not me, sorry

[unborn matrix]

I've looked into it with a friends game and his blog post here: https://bvisness.me

but he was getting services running and not the playback devices

I want my players to have spatialized VoIP and that was the most straightforward way I could think of

is have something like a cue where its getting live audio from a communication device

[plush yew]

Please welcome @warm sage to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @nocturne plaza to the community! :beers:

[nocturne plaza]

Howdy everyone

[pallid compass]

Is there anyway too thicken the boarder widget? even on full margin on border mode its tine

its tiny*

[plush yew]

Please welcome @hidden dust to the community! :beers:

[clever carbon]

Hi everyone we were making a star wars game under UE 4 for now the project is going no where because we need dev to work on it 😃 if you are interested contact me on my facebook page 😃 https://www.facebook.com/raphael.savoie.3 or by email at this adress [e-mail] dont be suprise if my post on my facebook are not in english it's because im french Canadien lol 😃

[pine shell]

omg who changed my name

my name was Autistic Midget and someone mod changed to Neuroatypical Small Person wtf

[plush yew]

Please welcome @acoustic turtle to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @plain shore to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

Please welcome @amber frigate to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

Please welcome @analog wagon to the community! :beers:

[spice urchin]

seems like a vast improvement

[plush yew]

Please welcome @blissful ingot to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @fast ermine to the community! :beers:

[mortal grail]

i dont understand, when i launch my game with 2 players to test it, the objects that are moving in the level are completely different from server and client, how's this possible?

[heady bridge]

Hey everyone, I'm designing 1700's - 1800's guns, and would it be better to use projectiles opposed to ray tracing? like Flint pistol, musket, etc

[floral heart]

It's viable. A Source engine mod did it.

[midnight mantle]

oh shit I thought I was in general lol

but yeah the $500 devkit from Nintendo or something

[summer verge]

Can someone clarify how instanced static meshes work? Is it only a performance improvement if the meshes are in the same instance component? Or can I have classes that all have their own separate instance components with a single instanced mesh inside them and still receive a performance boost?

[tall pendant]

the 500$ for the Switch DevKit is just a rumor spread by someone in the Nintendo Forums. Rumor as i can't read the text from the linked sheets. Still doesn't change the fact that you can't buy devkits atm...you need to pitch your project to Nintendo so they can decide if they unlock your account for Switch. @midnight mantle

[unborn matrix]

This may sound like a dumb question, but are Characters Pawns?

[heady bridge]

Nintendo announced the price of the dev kits of $500 a few months ago.

@unborn matrix Characters are a specialized version of pawns, a humanoid pawn, but a pawn can still be controlled.

[tall pendant]

yeah the sheets were from Game Creators Conference 2017. Still you can't buy devkits as of yet 😛

[unborn matrix]

Ok where I got confused is "Get Controlled Pawn"

If that ends up being a character reference and I possess it that would work fine?

[heady bridge]

No the Devkits will be accessible to public Nintendo indie devs by Q4 this year or Q1 next year possibly, or so that's how the rumors go

[tall pendant]

yup. ~March '18 last time i heard something from people.

[heady bridge]

Oh damn, that's a little while

@unborn matrix I think it would work the same

[tall pendant]

lets hope they offer shipping from EU this time 😛 cuz all the extra costs from their devkit shippings from the US in the past added sum money to plan with.

*for EU based Devs that is 😛

[heady bridge]

I hope it won't cost an arm and a leg shipping to Canada

[tall pendant]

shipping from US to Canada is probably quite easy. at least i think.

idk about the laws tho

[heady bridge]

I paid more in shipping for an item from US to Canada, than I did from Japan to Canada lol

[tall pendant]

lol

[heady bridge]

Bought a $40 game from US market, and paid $80 shipping, from Japan, $2.80 on a $24.99 controller lol

so I don't buy from US anymore

unless I have to

[tall pendant]

makes sense 😄

[heady bridge]

I'm off to bed, 5 am and dying, Night @tall pendant

[tall pendant]

night @heady bridge

[viscid bone]

Anyone know how to make the whole shooting system? (I think it called Raycasts in Unity)

[frank escarp]

@viscid bone search about "Trace"

thats your raytracing

[plush yew]

Please welcome @floral frost to the community! :beers:

[viscid bone]

Ok thanks

[cursive dirge]

I'll make it even easier

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Gameplay/HowTo/UseRaycasts/Blueprints/

[plush yew]

Please welcome @golden sierra to the community! :beers:

[dapper patio]

anyone want to come together and make something i dont mind if it means buying assets to use and create with.

so if your up for it drop me a message @dapper patio

thanks 😃

[sharp crest]

@dapper patio You mean a small game for learning?

[dapper patio]

any it doesnt matter

[sharp crest]

Well you got an idea? And source control setted up?

[dapper patio]

not just yet thats why im gonna try and get people set up they know what were gonna make and do so people are ready to get working ?

[versed pawn]

Hey guys! Did anyone started to work with the Unreal Match 3 template? I'm trying to figure out how to detect the GEM color

[plush yew]

Please welcome @south bluff to the community! :beers:

[warm mountain]

i was watching a stream on science fiction just now

[sharp crest]

Hmm when I open my project..? http://prntscr.com/fw17fp
If I press no then everything works but it's annoying

[warm mountain]

is it true that science fiction related assets are rarely bought because most studios do the designs in-house to avoid association with other franchises?

[short onyx]

Well... my pc have freez for 30min now... i just have build the light, but my pc wont x)

[buoyant echo]

@warm mountain More or less, yes. Although you can always be creative with bought sci-fi assets.

[tall pendant]

most studios that want a original look and feel dont buy assets from packs anyway. sci-fi or not doesn't matter.

[warm mountain]

gotcha

most assets these days are sold through packs though?

I do see some individual pieces arpund

around*

i'm looking through assets that exist in a contempoary setting atm seeing if I can sell a few of em

[plush yew]

Please welcome @tight garden to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @tropic oracle to the community! :beers:

[clever carbon]

hi

is someone know how to use unreal engine 4 here?

[glossy flame]

Well, that's the server you're on 😃

[clever carbon]

yeah lol 😛

[tall pendant]

wait.. this is not the gamemaker discord? oh well

[sharp crest]

xD

[sacred crater]

This is a discord meant for the sole purpose of discussing anything related to coffee.

[plush yew]

Please welcome @patent plank to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

Please welcome @fallen bridge to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

Please welcome @plush yew to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

Please welcome @plush yew to the community! :beers:

[shy heron]

anyone know about graphics cards ?
i want to use 2 different graphics card
one amd 5870
and amd 5850 will this work?

[glossy flame]

Looks like it http://support.amd.com/PublishingImages/Support/crossfire/5K - 7K Series Crossfire Chart.JPG

If you're asking in the realm of UE4 though, not sure how much performance you'll get :p

[shy heron]

no just in general @glossy flame 😃

@glossy flame will games run smoother with 2 gpu ?
cause i know nothing about this stuff ,
i just happen to find one on the street ,
do i have to do anything to make it talk to each other when playing games ?

[glossy flame]

You will probably get better performance, though not all games support multiple GPUs.

There are even some very specific scenarios where having multiple GPUs can diminish your performance.

Looking at the chart, you will need a Crossfire bridge for it to work

[frank escarp]

its not worth it. Also you cant really buy another amd 5XYZ right now

gpu sli has never really been worth it

right now, VR Stereo (one gpu per eye) might make sli actually useful. But few games support it.

[glossy flame]

I was under the impression they already have both cards and are just wondering if they'd work together, not sure

If you have both and have the wattage to push them, I don't see why not

Though even if you got a game that worked well with stereo VR, 5000-series AMD cards aren't going to push it unforunately 😄

[shy heron]

@glossy flame @frank escarp i just happen get another free graphics card , so i was hoping to get my games and render time to dobbel speed

[frank escarp]

wont double speed

and the mayority of modern games cant sli 😦

the few games that do have sli use alternate frame rendering. This adds a lot of latency

and can cause microstutter

[plush yew]

Please welcome @sharp shadow to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

Please welcome @civic gull to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @tender zinc to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @surreal sinew to the community! :beers:

[surreal sinew]

I've got some all-over-the place questions. I haven't really been able to find a great answer yet. I'm wanting to build in a gameplay loop akin to Stardew Valley's. ie: Day starts at X time -> ends at Y time -> Display a Screen -> Repeat.

I'm trying to understand how I should build this out. I'm not looking for a how-to with blueprints, I can figure that out on my own. My questions are on where this logic would go and what UE concepts to utilize ie; Should I use multiple levels or just one and display a UI widget? Should I store things like money, etc. on GameInstance or the player. I'm a little lost on the best practices on where I should build these pieces

[glossy flame]

Will this be a singleplayer game? If so, you can be a little more lenient in where you put your logic (though that's not a suggestion to completely disregard the standing practices. It's just a little bit easier to "cheat" at things when you don't have to worry about replication)

I would say putting it on something like the player doesn't make sense though. The player is in the world, yes, but it isn't the world.

[surreal sinew]

Yes to single player... for now... 😁 -- Would it be possible to build it on a multi-player foundation, but not really worry about any of the actual multiplayer stuff?

[glossy flame]

My suggestion is that if you think you might want to run it as an MP game some time in the future, build it as one.

It'll still work fine in singleplayer, it's just that getting around all the little hacks you can use in SP is such a pain if you have to convert it to MP later

[surreal sinew]

Well, since its just a little indie hobby project, I think I can say I'll stick with a SP game for now.

[glossy flame]

Fair enough, sure. Building for MP is a learning curve to say the least, but keep in mind it's a lot easier to learn it in the beginning of a project than in the middle 😄

If SP is fine though, that's cool too

[surreal sinew]

Welp, I haven't given too much thought to how MP would work. So maybe we just plan on that as a stretch goal. 😆

[glossy flame]

Yeah, I don't mean to push you too far either way. Building for SP is completely fine, but if you're thinking you might want to put MP into it at some point, I wouldn't wait to implement it in that fashion.

Then again, you can always just go build fast and break things and worry about it later 😄

[surreal sinew]

I'm gonna go with the build, break and worry later. 😃

[glossy flame]

Hehe, I can respect that

[surreal sinew]

So, where would I put some of this logic for that Stardew type of gameloop?

[glossy flame]

If you have a lot of things tied to this mechanism, it might be worth looking into putting it on its own actor

Doing it in the level BP is "easy" since you can access things in the world directly, but you can't use it in other levels

I say it's "easy" because it is easy at first, until you realize you want to put it on another level or abstract it to be a more generic piece of functionality :p

[surreal sinew]

Right, that makes sense. So in this instance a level might be Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter - you can change some stuff, and then carry that Mechanism Actor ( for lack of a better term ) between the Levels?

[glossy flame]

You can have separate levels for it if you want, sure. You could also just change things in the same level, that's up to you

[surreal sinew]

Okay sweet. That helps too.

[halcyon marsh]

do anyone here use substance painter :/ ?

[spice urchin]

Yes, most 3d artists do now

it's a must-have

[halcyon marsh]

i know that but i have a question on it, i just start to use it but i dont find help in google

i wanna do a follow path with my brush alpha with a spacing and 0 without overlapping

i spent hours without seeing how can i do this

[frank void]

how does ue4 handle meshes in regard to using them as part of a skeletalmesh?

is the third person view of a mesh the same as a first person one?

if it's just loose on the ground as a regular mesh, is it still a skeletal mesh component?

i'm trying to figure out weapon pickup/drop you see and i'm a little confused what i'd use for it

since the example only deals with first person stuff, to my knowledge

[plush yew]

Please welcome @old hinge to the community! :beers:

[spice urchin]

@halcyon marsh change Spacing until it matches up. also Hold Shift if you want it to go in straight line

under Brush settings

[halcyon marsh]

i found this

[spice urchin]

https://i.gyazo.com/e8f61bf0d3059c25e1ae62a3616cc6d7.png

[halcyon marsh]

to do it automaticly

[spice urchin]

sure that's another option too. there's a few ways to do it

if you just mess with spacing it'll work, but it'll vary depending on scale of brush

i haven't tried zipper so i don't know if that addresses the scale variance issue

actually nvm spacing is same even with scale difference my bad

[halcyon marsh]

yes but i use this follow path a lot, if i do it always manually it will take me so much times :/

also the spacing depend on the size

of the brush

[plush yew]

Please welcome @plush yew to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @plush yew to the community! :beers:

[spice urchin]

i think there's some really cool tutorials that cover some of this stuff, i'd try some that aren't specific to what you're doing

because they tend to cover a lot of useful topics

like the space crate tutorial

it'll get you much more grounded

[halcyon marsh]

yes the only problem with this software is the number of people of in the community not that much :/

[pallid compass]

Say i wanted to adjust the opacity of a texture in a material in a section where there is overlap for it, anyone has any idea how id do that? ie getting ripple on force field at x coords

[halcyon marsh]

you can find only common problem (not always but ..) x)

[spice urchin]

this thing is amazing btw https://tutorials.allegorithmic.com/courses/65c7df0c2da0938d0a92654b7b1af4bf/youtube-V24Fe6F_jFA

80% of it will probably seem like "ah maybe i'll use that in future but not now" but a lot of it you'll find immediately useful and unexpected

[halcyon marsh]

i watched they tutorial on youtube they are amazing, but i am talking for advanced stuffs

like animals

[spice urchin]

i did crate one then i used a lot of the techniques in it to do advanced gore regions on characters actually

the layer-stuff

being able to really work with layers and layer masks to their maximum potential really helped with that

[halcyon marsh]

yes this is the power of this software x)

ahhh

i have to do it mannually again x)

[spice urchin]

whatcha makin?

[halcyon marsh]

sci-fi corridor

[spice urchin]

ah classic

[halcyon marsh]

yes but i am doing the height map now

and this spacing is killing me

🤣

[spice urchin]

you might be able to safe some time and texture space by finding any heavy-repeating objects and only adding it in once on the low poly

like one bolt

then edit the low poly mesh and duplicate that part

kinda situational, but it's something to think about since anything that's 100% identical that you can re-use the UV space for, means more resolution you can get out of your texture map

1000 bolts subtracted down to 1 bolt = 1000x resolution increase

this is one of my favorite things i ever did with SP btw

before https://i.gyazo.com/168cf175159f431209cb8e665bef9d2f.png

after https://i.gyazo.com/ff2bb9d87d6e2db6566a133bef81063d.png

[halcyon marsh]

wow really nice fur x)

how did you did it ?

[spice urchin]

just freehand painting in Substance painter with soft height brush

[polar hawk]

dafuq is that

[spice urchin]

lol it gets more gross - in-game this gore stuff gets turned on and actual intestines fly out

then they are physics assets so they flop around a bit and brownish red goo shoots out of both ends

[halcyon marsh]

btw can you do this dynamically in a game ?

[spice urchin]

turning on the gore like that - yes

[plush yew]

looks nasty 😄

I like it

[spice urchin]

i have 2 sets of textures and i use a mask texture that activates the gore parts in different regions depending on where damage happens

this includes dismemberment

i do VFX but i really love Substance painter for when i need to go above and beyond what the character artists are interested in working on

[halcyon marsh]

i will try to do it one day

btw i found a video example with gore stuffs

let me find irt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WSSngyMnvY

[plush yew]

Please welcome @dusk flicker to the community! :beers:

Really basic question that bothers me. I added a C++ component to a mesh in Unreal editor, then VS pops up . What I'm doing is FString ObjectName = GetOwner()->GetName(); The problem is the error that the editor shows me http://prntscr.com/fw6gr6 and because of it, the autocomplete won't work. Anyone knows a solution for this ? PS: the code compiles and works

[weary basalt]

Intellisense basically tells lies most of the time when used with the UE4 code base.

If it compiles fine then your all good.

I disable Intellisense completely

Most people use an 3rd party solution

Such as VAX

To replace Intellisense.

VAX has support for UE4 macros and preprocessor usage.

[plush yew]

sounds good, i'll take a look. Thank you for the prompt response

[weary basalt]

VAX is not free however. But its an one time payment for an perpetual license

[plush yew]

it has a 30 days trial, I'll give that a go

[weary basalt]

No worries. It is well worth the price

Majority of the devs at Epic use it

[plush yew]

100$ personal, reasonable

[weary basalt]

As well as alot of people here use it

[ornate hamlet]

there doesnt seem to be an "effects" channel. So where should I ask questions about fx stuff?

[glossy flame]

I'd say #graphics is porbably the most relevant

[ornate hamlet]

heh okay

[plush yew]

@weary basalt VA is working wonders, took a bit to index everything though 😄 any other neat tricks like this ?

[weary basalt]

Make sure you disable Intellisense.

[plush yew]

done

[weary basalt]

Dont use the Error Tab however try and learn to work with the Outout Log instead, it gives you more detailed and accurate information about compile errors.

Output log*

[plush yew]

Aye, following a tutorial on that now, UE_LOG is the one you mentioned I suppose

[weary basalt]

No im talking more about the tab in VS called Output

UE_LOG is posted to the Output log when its called

When you compile in VS and it fails with an error. The exact error will be posted to the Output Log tab in VS

[plush yew]

I see

[weary basalt]

I change my VS theme to dark, its much easier to work with, especially at night as its not as bright as the default theme. Its an personal preference thing really.

[plush yew]

flux helps as well

[plush yew]

Please welcome @pure bronze to the community! :beers:

[pure bronze]

Can't snoop around anywhere in peace these days :(

[plush yew]

Please welcome @spark sandal to the community! :beers:

[high oriole]

How do I get the Vertex Snapping to snap correct? It's not working..

It always goes past it..

[safe rose]

So, this should be an interesting discussion...

But... What are the benefits of using Unreal Engine 4 over any other engine?

[weary basalt]

Open source. Enterprise quality engine. Its free. C++. Amazing scripting engine. Awesome portability. Robust network architecture. Lots more reasons haha

Depends on the engine your comparing to i guess.

An engine is an tool that should be chosen based on the application its being used for.

If i was building an mobile game i might choose Unity over UE4

For example

[safe rose]

It was pretty generic.

Trying to write up a financial analysis

Needed tech benefits

[ashen brook]

morning you lot

@safe rose I'd argue that most importantly, it provides a top of the line suite of artist-focused tools

[safe rose]

@ashen brook Speaking of which...when's the next blog update on your site?

[ashen brook]

yeeeah

[safe rose]

And I am pretty sure...

people are still waiting on that math logic

for the rocks

part 3

😃

[ashen brook]

haha yeah that'll be anticlimactic

"look you just rotate things"

seriously though, I haven't had time for any personal work since uh... January

probably not going to get better when I start a fulltime studio job

we'll see

[safe rose]

Oh?

Where are you going?

[ashen brook]

Hamburg

[safe rose]

What studio?

[ashen brook]

Deep Silver Fishlabs

[safe rose]

Mobile

Very interesting!

[ashen brook]

exciting times 😉

[inner mountain]

Which channel is for particles questions? #graphics?

[spice urchin]

@safe rose if you want a business case for Unreal 4 over Unity - i'd actually focus on the nature of the built in features of Unreal 4 versus the Marketplace assets of Unity, which are similar on the surface, but have one fundamental difference

Unity marketplace assets often break during version updates of Unity

so if you rely on a node-based shader system like Shader Forge in order to utlize Unity, you will face a 1-3 day down time as the one singular developer behind Shader Forge updates the plug in to function with the new Unity version

as these types of features are built into Unreal, they tend to be a bit more stable in new Unreal 4 releases, which means less random downtime

also, the more complex features that one might find in a well developed Unity Plug-in are going to create learning-time downtime for any devs on your team

[cloud cobalt]

The counter-argument to this is, Unrela tends to have decade-old features that haven't been touched since their creation

[spice urchin]

so if you get a custom particle system upgrade, people have to first learn it, then learn it's limitations

i think that's an argument against Unreal 4 if you're comparing it to an in-house custom engine

or something else other than Unity perhaps

my last Unity project, we tried to adopt PopcornFX, and it had some really cool things going on, but it took like a month before we realized how many of the actual features were lacking on real substance. like - no GPU particles, no realtime collision with scene objects, no dynamic lighting

it was freakin brutal - had to go back into Shuriken and start over from scratch on a lot of stuff

[cloud cobalt]

Yeah, but at the same time, dynamic particle lighting in Unreal is something that just doesn't work, even if the feature is there. No lighting channels, catastrophic performance

[spice urchin]

when you want your lightning in a thunder storm to do something as simple as "light up the trees where the lightning hits" - and you find out that the previews in Popcornfx were just lies that didn't translate to Unity at all 😦

oh no i've found great use for dynamic particle lighting but good god do you have to be careful

[cloud cobalt]

Spawning a light by yourself separately from the FX yields 10 times less performance impact

[spice urchin]

like i've put it on little torches and stuff, and it gets a great flickering etc which looks awesome - BUT i set the particle LOD to totally kill that stuff from a very short distance

the trick is to utilize very very very few particles that actually do the lighting

like 1-3 max

[cloud cobalt]

We had basically ONE light on a FX that was fired pretty often - the FPS drop on a GTX 970 was considerable

With just a few instances, we would spend 10ms in particle lighting

[spice urchin]

1-3 particles getting lit, and use them just for lighting and nothing else, then LOD the lighting features to turn off completely at real aggressive distances

[cloud cobalt]

Without shadows

[spice urchin]

trust me it can be done but it requires caution i know

[cloud cobalt]

The performance is just completely catastrophically bad

Because it uses an old rendering pipeline

[spice urchin]

no i know what you mean, i profiled the shit out of it - i had like 40 torches running in realtime full open world, online, with multiple players, all lighting things up at once. i know this very well 😃

[cloud cobalt]

The only real fix is to spawn it yourself, do the same thing, get 10 times less render time

[spice urchin]

no read what i said, LOD carefully and 1-3 particles spawn max. i tested this against bundling actual lights in BP

it's comparable

[cloud cobalt]

Yeah I'm talking about 5 instances of a FX with one light

10ms cost on a GTX 970

[spice urchin]

frankly ALL dynamic lights do that

that's the core issue

[cloud cobalt]

They don't, that's what I'm telling you :/

The particle lights, specifically, have terrible performance

Ask @frank escarp

[spice urchin]

weird, i guess when i put in 12 dynamic lights in a scene and unreal 4 says you've reached max lights and won't let you add more that was me doing something wrong?

the engine caps it, that's how expensive they are

try throwing down a dozen within like 4 feet of one another

engine caps it

[frank escarp]

that happens if they are Stationary

becouse it needs to encode the shadowmaps

fully static and fully dynamic lights are unlimited

[cloud cobalt]

That's just wrong

@spice urchin

[spice urchin]

fascinating, i'll have to try that again and see why it happened

[plush yew]

Please welcome @past bloom to the community! :beers:

[spice urchin]

i'd love to be wrong on that front

[frank escarp]

its becouse the lightmap for the Stationary lights isnt really the light data, but the shadow data. Thats why it can change intensity of the light, or turn it on-off

[cloud cobalt]

The entire reason UE4 moved to a deferred renderer was to allow hundreds of dynamic lights in a scene

5 dynamic lights in a scene is Half-Life 2, 2004, performance

Also UE4 particles, 2017

[spice urchin]

i'm fairly certain my project has static lighting disabled and that i was only using dynamic lights since they were all casting dynamic shadows, but maybe my memory is incorrect

i'd love to be wrong

oh i don't mean "in a scene" i meant in an enclosed space

in a warehouse, yes you can keep going, but if you try to jam 12 together in a bathroom-sized space - poof

[frank escarp]

shouldnt be a problem at all

apart from performance fom 12 fullscreen lights

thats just a lot of overdraw

[spice urchin]

perhaps this was 4.14 or earlier issue?

when was this resolved exactly?

[cloud cobalt]

Now of course shadows are off here - point light shadows are extremely expensive

But try doing this with particle lights instead - you're going to 30fps

[spice urchin]

yes i tested similar to this with particle torches

[frank escarp]

particle lights go into a different pipeline than normal light

[cloud cobalt]

^

[frank escarp]

i think they use tiled deferred or similar

if had my game running to shit from ONE particle light

one

but im on vr

[spice urchin]

i might have to get back to this subject later, unreal updater wants me to restart comp and it's too late for that

[cloud cobalt]

The point is, dynamic point lights are expensive, but particle point lights are twice as expensive

[frank escarp]

im currently compiling ue4 as there is a corruption bug on 4.16 forward renderer for ps4

i suspect its precisely due to particle lights

given where it appears

[spice urchin]

yes they are very expensive, they're still usable in-game IF managed correctly

[frank escarp]

the thing is that particle lights are meant to be small

and a bunch of them

you arent supposed to use a particle light as a big light

[spice urchin]

i use them as smaller emitters with 1-3 particles that actually glow up a fairly large region, but LOD down to nothing from about 30 feet

the main emitters have entirely different shapes, the light parts are just tiny glow circles

i would have used lights honestly - but the flickering effect was just too cool

programmer preferred it

again, this is for torches/campfires. in very few situations would i say this is similar

[cloud cobalt]

Yeah it's much more convenient, and for fires it just looks amazing

[spice urchin]

i'd never suggest them for anything else really, maybe a welding torch

[cloud cobalt]

The point I was making is - the fact the feature exists is cool, but it should also be maintained

And it's not

[frank escarp]

when my game was still Deathwave, i used them a lot of the time, and i was aiming 120 fps

[spice urchin]

yeah i'd love for it to get some love from Epic to be more optimized

[cloud cobalt]

Another crippling issue of particle lights is the fact that they ignore channels

(Because, again, old code)

[spice urchin]

you know Unity only just added on Particle lights like i think 2 or 3 months ago

[cloud cobalt]

Not everyone needs that, but it just shows how Epic adds features, and doesn't update them after the fact

[spice urchin]

the way Unity does it is bad ass tho

they make it so it actually utilizes a light

and the light steals the color info from the particle system

[frank escarp]

unreal has the features they need for their projects

thats the stuff that gets mantained

wich i think is alright. It makes sense they develop features for their professional games

[spice urchin]

but you could probably mimic the way Unity does it via Blueprints anyway

i haven't tried to modulate lights much that way

[cloud cobalt]

We still use particle lights, btw - example here https://twitter.com/HeliumRain/status/886505184897228800

Helium Rain (@HeliumRain)

Capital ship engagement in #HeliumRain ! #indiegame with @UnrealEngine, soon on #steam ! https://t.co/uE0NzUCMbP

Twitter

[frank escarp]

looks good, i dig those explosions

[spice urchin]

yea those some nice image sequences

[cloud cobalt]

Explosions are from a pack, btw (Explosion builder) with some optimizations

It's one of the two assets pack we used x)

[spice urchin]

probably worth it, doing explosion simulations is a bit of a specialized pain to mess with

[frank escarp]

how 3d they are @cloud cobalt

[cloud cobalt]

Basically we used the pack for giant explosions, and more optimized versions that we did ourselves for the more common effects

[frank escarp]

i could use some better explosions

but if you say its slow, then i cant use it for ps4 with vr xD

[cloud cobalt]

They're not that complicated but the guy does use 8k texture maps

For the flipbooks

[frank escarp]

damn

[spice urchin]

holy hell

i guess he's going for 1024x1024x64 frames....

[cloud cobalt]

We do use a few 8k textures too, sometimes it's just what you need

But well, on the FX, it's a bit much

We lowered that a bit

[spice urchin]

yes i think 4k is on the high end for that tbh

at 1k per frame, that still means one single particle would have to stretch to fit entire height of monitor top to bottom to utilize 1080p monitor resolution

i can accept bigger textures when they're being forced to wrap around objects a lot so you only see a tiny parcel of it

[cloud cobalt]

Yeah, we use 8K for sky and planets

So it's like 6 textures in the entire game

[spice urchin]

ya that's totally cool

we use an 8k for the terrain height map in our game

and that's it

we've got more stuff onscreen at once tho - foliage and so forth, overdraw nightmares

space games are cool as hell

[cloud cobalt]

Foliage, also known as let me drink your salty tears while I melt the GPU

[spice urchin]

yup, but survival games just don't give many options unless you go full desert

[past bloom]

Someone help me, please, I'm gonna go crazy.

UE4 tells me to download Android stuff to make my game work on android in his shitty "quick guide" https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Platforms/Android/GettingStarted/index.html?utm_source=editor&utm_medium=docs&utm_campaign=tutorials

I can't find the setup file, it's nowhere to be found : I can't even find UE4 installation folder, I'm lost, it's driving me nuts, help please @here

@wicked tiger Your software is shitty as hell.

[weary hull]

right click the ue4 launcher and see where its installed

[plush yew]

Please welcome @old pollen to the community! :beers:

[weary hull]

the android codeworks installer is always in the place its meant to be

[plush yew]

stationary light can be turned off and on at runtime, right?

oh awesome. i hit "build light only". it decided to rebuild navigation as well. it'll take an hour, great. ffs.

why?!

[ashen brook]

@frank escarp since you mentioned the forward renderer... Have you tried using it with more than one directional light? It seems like only the first one works here.

[frank escarp]

@ashen brook i dont

becouse the inmense mayority of my light is static

i use one directional with light channels, it only lits the enemies

i use it to make them brighter than the environment around them

[ashen brook]

Oddly couldn't find any mention of that limit when I looked at the documentation

[pallid compass]

Does anyone have a clue about effecting the location of a material where an collision event happens?

[plush yew]

Please welcome @plush yew to the community! :beers:

[pallid compass]

!gameidea

[plush yew]

A role-playing game where you lob ghosts on Mars until the end of the world.

[pallid compass]

!gameidea

[plush yew]

An action game where you shatter zombies because you were outcast by your family in a lush rainforest but the game won't stop scrolling up.

[pallid compass]

!gameidea

[plush yew]

A strategy game where you wave at nature to live forever but you have no legs.

[sacred crater]

Thank you Engine for randomly disconnecting a wire in a loop I haven't touched in months

[pallid compass]

That happened to me recently 😂

[sacred crater]

yeah i thought i was going crazy

[silent chasm]

what is the lates stable version of ue4 ? the one where the core functionalities works and the build to platform too

[sacred crater]

Engine is rather stable since 4.11

But imo started to decay in 4.15

[silent chasm]

yeah, that was my fealing, because in 4.16 i can't build

[pallid compass]

i tend not too complain too much as the engine is normally just amazing as it is

[tall pendant]

still ♥ 4.9.x

[pallid compass]

for what it does, and being free

your on 4.9? omfg

[tall pendant]

yup

[pallid compass]

may i ask why

[silent chasm]

i think because ... it works 😄

[tall pendant]

we dont want to update the engine whithin a project

better to stick what works

[pallid compass]

i would guess some core functionality was built brittle

ahh fair enough

i follow that as well

to some degree

[sacred crater]

I have been able to update 4.9 to 4.15, but then another project won't go from 4.12 to 4.13 so I tend to not spend time updating unless I really need a feature

[pallid compass]

so far iv had no major issues, so i guess im lucky everything still compiles lmao

[silent chasm]

you got lucky 😉

not like me speding 14h tring to compile in last game jam day and fail 😄

[pallid compass]

i havent altered much stuff engine wise

omg

ouch

[silent chasm]

then i realize that i can't compile blank projects , that's why i;m asking which version should i get

[pallid compass]

I feel 4.15.X was rather stable

but when u go to 4.16

alot of stuff changes

however with the new 4.17

Plugin shaders are cominggg

i wonder what version paragon runs on

[buoyant pine]

Hey! I got a question about animation, if anyone's available, do check the aniamtion area!

[frank escarp]

@pallid compass paragon runs on the paragon branch

they develop features FOR paragon, and then they end up in the main branch of ue4

[pallid compass]

ooo

Oh yeah like the abilitysystem plugin

god i love that

But its so complex

[polar fossil]

Hello lads, when I have my wireless controller plugged in and try to run a project based on the Basic Vehicle sample the car accelerates on its own and keeps turning to the left. Did any of you encounter this and found a fix for it?

[pallid compass]

ur issue

is your deadzones

right away

[polar fossil]

Is that something I should edit in Windows or something that should be handled and fixed by the game?

[pallid compass]

Id handle it with the game

You know what deadzones are?

for triggers and stuff

triggers and sticks

I might be wrong but its deffo the first thing that comes to my mind

i guess ud need something like

If input from X is greater or equal to value

[polar fossil]

If I recall correctly deadzone = part of the movement range that is to be ignored

[pallid compass]

yes

so something like this

[polar fossil]

that's something I haven't heard for a long time

since I played flight sims

back in the late 90s early 2000s

[pallid compass]

Something like this

would be my guess

not sure what the scale is for controllers tho

Did you fix your issue?

@polar fossil

[viscid bone]

Guyees

I need help

[polar fossil]

Sorry, I was AFK @pallid compass I'll try now

[pallid compass]

no worries man

What u need help with MisT

[viscid bone]

Basically

I have a third person blueprint

And I have one camera on the right shoulder and other on the left

[pallid compass]

Im no expert in cameras but go on

[viscid bone]

Do you know how, when I press "v" it switches between them

[pallid compass]

oh yeah

ermm

[viscid bone]

lol

[pallid compass]

1 sec

looking for the node

i forget its name

[viscid bone]

K thx

[pallid compass]

So u need to use set view target with blind

[viscid bone]

Hmm

[pallid compass]

Your new view target is the new camera

so if u wanted to toggle between them

U could use a flipflop

[viscid bone]

Oh ok

That's what I need

[pallid compass]

i cant remembr how to use this node off the top of my head

[viscid bone]

Hmm ok

[viscid bone]

I'll try

I have basically just started with Unreal lol

[pallid compass]

Thats not correct, but its a good example.

Its fine dw

Been there done that.

[viscid bone]

lol

[pallid compass]

I think u may have an issue with linking the camera's

as i just tried to link mine up

[viscid bone]

Yeah ik

You need a camera in the scene 😦

[pallid compass]

there must be away to do it

it might be through camera manager

[viscid bone]

Hmm idk

That's why I asked here lol

[buoyant echo]

Are you guys trying to toggle a flip/flop on cameras with a press?

[viscid bone]

Ye

[buoyant echo]

Are you doing it all in level bp?

[viscid bone]

Nu

In character bp

[pallid compass]

He wants to flipflop through 2 camera's

on his AChar

[buoyant echo]

You can't do that.

[viscid bone]

What rly

[buoyant echo]

You need to reference the cameras in lvl bp

[viscid bone]

Urgh

[pallid compass]

Maybe change the translation of his chamera?

[buoyant echo]

And then through that, make references into gamemode

[pallid compass]

camera*

[buoyant echo]

And then into the character.

I was just working on this, too.

[pallid compass]

Did you say it was on the shoulders ist?

mist*

[buoyant echo]

One second

[viscid bone]

ye

[buoyant echo]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohryo0uORkyan0lkA

[viscid bone]

Like a side view

[pallid compass]

u know what u could do

[viscid bone]

Kinda like in Battlegorunds ya know?

[buoyant echo]

Only difference is I use buttons

[pallid compass]

Write down both camera locations

[buoyant echo]

Here, I'll post some of the bp's

[viscid bone]

I'm confused

[pallid compass]

U could write down there X Y Z

inside ur bp

[viscid bone]

Hmm that could work

[pallid compass]

then move the camera location.

[viscid bone]

But wouldn't

[buoyant echo]

That's another way

[pallid compass]

U want it too be instant right?

Its nice simple way and softly brings you in too using XYZ

[buoyant echo]

If you don't want it to be instant you need a timeline lerp

[viscid bone]

Idk anything lol

[pallid compass]

Do u want it too be instant or?

over time

[viscid bone]

Instant?

Over time?

hlp

[pallid compass]

Pop from left too right

[buoyant echo]

Instant means there's no transition.

[pallid compass]

or the camera to swing over

[buoyant echo]

Yeah

[viscid bone]

Oh

[pallid compass]

iv never played PUBG

[viscid bone]

Idm

[pallid compass]

just go with instant for now

Can tweak later

[buoyant echo]

Basically like in racing games.

When you switch view it's instant

[viscid bone]

In PUBG I think it just switches immediatly

[pallid compass]

Yeah so thats what u want then

[viscid bone]

YEah

BUT HOW

[pallid compass]

Go inside your char viewport

[buoyant echo]

Using the XYZ of your character.

[pallid compass]

Click your Camera 1

[viscid bone]

ye

[pallid compass]

You will see the camera has a XYZ

Note it down

do it for the second one

[viscid bone]

o, o ,o

I'm using spring arm

lol

[buoyant echo]

But @pallid compass why not attach it to a socket on switch?

[pallid compass]

Trying not to overcomplicate as hes new too ue4

Well we can move the sprint arm then

[buoyant echo]

😅

[pallid compass]

Grab the spring arm coords

[viscid bone]

ye

[pallid compass]

(easier too do this too get him started than explaining inserting sockets, and parent snapping)

[buoyant echo]

This is true.

[viscid bone]

Ok

[pallid compass]

U would want to swap the camera reference out at the setrelativelocation

For the spring arm

so tldr

[viscid bone]

.

[buoyant echo]

Y'all have fun 😅

[pallid compass]

write both spring arm locations down
delete one spring arm
hook the spring arm up too the Set Relative Location(drag and drop it from your component list in the top left in too the graph)
set the new location values too that of each spring arm location you wrote down

Make sure you are using Relative Location and not World location.

[viscid bone]

uhh

Hang on

This might take a while

[pallid compass]

You got this

[viscid bone]

Wait why do I have to delete a spring arm

[pallid compass]

I am assuming you have 2 spring arms

1 each with a camera

or do u have 1 spring arm and 2 cameras

[viscid bone]

Yeah

2

[pallid compass]

Then if we are moving the spring arm

You will not need 2

[viscid bone]

Hmm

True

[pallid compass]

We are going to be moving it between the 2 points basically

like a slider

but instantly

[viscid bone]

Oh ok

Wait so I just drag the spring arm into the event graph?

[pallid compass]

Yes

You will get a little node for it

[viscid bone]

ye

[pallid compass]

This is a reference node

[viscid bone]

Oh cool

[pallid compass]

Away to reference the component as a target for other things

[viscid bone]

Ok

So I've got the reference node

Now what

[pallid compass]

You can hook it in too the target of the Set Relative location nodes

Since we wont be moving the camera, we will be moving the spring arm

[viscid bone]

This?

[pallid compass]

You have an actor node

[viscid bone]

Oh yeah

[pallid compass]

We are wanting to do this for a component

So the best way for you too filter

Would be too drag off the spring arm reference and type in SetRelative

if contex sensativity in the drop down menu is on

[viscid bone]

This?

[pallid compass]

Then it should appear

Yes

[viscid bone]

k then

[pallid compass]

Use this ref image from before.

[plush yew]

Please welcome @cerulean falcon to the community! :beers:

[viscid bone]

Wait

But if

I set the location surely It will always go to that one spot

@pallid compass heelp

[pallid compass]

Well you have two different locations dont you.

and the flip flop node goes, A then B then A then B etc

[viscid bone]

Yeah but say I was at co-ord x60 y 120 z 42 (for example) then pressed v wouldn't it move the camera to where I set the location, which wouldn't be on my shoulder

[pallid compass]

Why would it do that

You wrote down the spring arm coords

for each shoulder

then you just put the locations in each

[viscid bone]

Oh ok

Doesn't work lol

[pallid compass]

well what happens

[viscid bone]

WAIT

IT DOES

[pallid compass]

and show me what u got

[viscid bone]

HAYYAHY

[pallid compass]

u might have the starting values back to front

if first click does nothing

[viscid bone]

Hmm

So it works

But the anims aren't working

[pallid compass]

what animations

[viscid bone]

Like when I move right the animation shows it going forward

[pallid compass]

Show what u did in the graph

[viscid bone]

I think it was what I did earlier

[pallid compass]

well show me now

and idk what u mean by animation

[viscid bone]

I wanted to make another one where when you press "c" and it goes third to first person vice versa

It works

But makes the anims weird

[pallid compass]

oh ur trying to swap from first to third

prob cus ur too close or clipping or something

[viscid bone]

Hmm idk

It does work perfectly

[pallid compass]

then ur all good

[viscid bone]

That's what I mean about the animations

@pallid compass ^^ fixes?

[pallid compass]

no ide man looks fine too me

[viscid bone]

No but I was walking left

And it was playing the walking forward animation

[pallid compass]

iv got no idea man

honestly u need to go do basic ue4 videos

u cant just jump in too it like this

[viscid bone]

Yeah I guess

Now I want to make shooting

lol

[plush yew]

Please welcome @icy narwhal to the community! :beers:

[viscid bone]

Hello

[polar fossil]

@pallid compass All I managed was to disable input. I clearly wired it wrong. Maybe this wasn't what you meant? Meanwhile I have found that there are dead zone settings available on a per project basis, but setting them for the thumbs and d-pad did not help.

I set the ones in project preferences at 0.25 because the others that were set had this value.

[tropic oracle]

then have a seperate arm+gun anim that you toggle visibility on/off and vice-versa for 3rd-person one

oops wrong chat

[jade moon]

any clue on that, anyone?

[polar fossil]

@jade moon Predator Vision, it's a feature not a bug lol

[jade moon]

😄

goat predator vision

[polar fossil]

insert clicking noise and then a baaaah

[plush yew]

Please welcome @plush yew to the community! :beers:

[whole quarry]

Does someone know why the particles on the right ship are being visible, but from the players own ship not? (its the same actor.. same setup etc)

[fierce tulip]

depends on the bounds, but could also be messy code

[whole quarry]

I've added it as component in the actor

I'm aware of the bounds, to be sure I threw the player actor in the world to see if the particles would spawn or not (and they do), just not when you press play, then you get the result as on the screen shot

Even on the tiny preview window they're being spawned

Nvm, found the problem -.-'

[dim arch]

hey I just installed 4.16

do you need to enable LPV/Dynamic GI through the .ini file still?

[tall pendant]

lpvs are kinda obsolete now since they're not in active development anymore

but they should be still in 4.16. and if yo then yes .ini is the place to go

[viscid bone]

Same...

[dim arch]

are there any plans to implement dynamic GI? I guess enlighten has taken over that project?

[placid kraken]

anybody here who bought COD Black Ops 1 and wants to do me a small favor? 😅

[round quiver]

What's the general way to organize an Unreal project?

[tall pendant]

we had DFGI but that got delayed. i dunno about new plans for GI.

as for Enlighten good luck getting the $1m production budget 😛 @dim arch

[pallid compass]

oh wow is there no air trails particle effect tutorials on youtube at all 😮

[fierce tulip]

what kind of air trails are we talking about

[pallid compass]

Erm i was looking for the type that come off high speed objects, we could say plane wings and rudders?

Just something simple.

Apologies for the slow reply @fierce tulip

[fierce tulip]

those are often done with very simple ribbons or animtrails

[pallid compass]

Iv just been looking in too ribbons, the wiki is pretty dry and so is youtube

I guess its pretty much trail and error

[teal tulip]

@placid kraken haha are you the guy of the C4 animation

all cods use the same animation so anyone with COD4 to COD BO3 can help you

[placid kraken]

@teal tulip maybeeee XD

no worries vori is already helping me

[frank escarp]

@fierce tulip do you have any low performance 3d explosion in your packs?

im looking for a new explosion on my game as current one is shit