ue4-general

[bleak copper]

Painter paints materials onto models... but designer is the tool you'd use to make those materials (if you don't use from the library).

B2M is like CrazyBump.

If you're going to be using library materials, then Painter is the one that's "usually used"... but it's entirely possible that you'll need all three... or at least Painter and Designer.

[buoyant echo]

🤔

I figured they're all used in conjunction.. Thank you for the help!

[plush yew]

Please welcome @vivid veldt to the community! :beers:

[vivid veldt]

I'm a beginner, and I pressed a button on accident, and now instead of moving objects, it scales them. How do I revert the axis arrows to movement?

[south ridge]

Press E

I think

[vivid veldt]

Okay

thanks

Nope

Thats rotation

[south ridge]

Press R

Or T

They switch between different modes

It's also top right of the screen

[vivid veldt]

Thanks

How do I set a render texture target for a camera? I can't find the setting in the camera

There's no scene capture settings

Nvm

[stark lynx]

how do you guys interpolate material functions?

I have created an interpolate function, but i think i might have done it wrong, because my landscape above a certain height looks weird

(i'm importing the layer heat maps from world creator)

[plush yew]

Please welcome @subtle wharf to the community! :beers:

[stark lynx]

fixd it

turns out i had Layered instead of Additive in landscape import

[plush yew]

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

[grim juniper]

thw I make this

then learn this exists

[polar hawk]

I'm high on potenuse

[thick ridge]

😀

[next badger]

https://twitter.com/watchyrstep/status/890251723553615872

Jay (@watchyrstep)

More spiderbot! Still clipping and twisting to sort out, couldn't resit a basic art pass. #gamedev #ue4 https://t.co/WcHiYCCc09

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[plush yew]

Please welcome @boreal magnet to the community! :beers:

[next badger]

why, discord...why?

[tranquil bone]

what chat would i use to ask how to join legs to a torso in blender?

[next badger]

@tranquil bone #graphics or #animation ...but this is UE4 related discord, no promises

[brisk osprey]

Any1 played citadel : forged with fire yet ? Beside the server problems damn the game is pretty good

[plush yew]

Please welcome @viscid totem to the community! :beers:

[lament barn]

Does anyone know how much Revenue the Dev gets on Steam?
AKA How much is the split between Valve and Steam upon a Sale?

[cursive dirge]

?

you mean steams cut?

[lament barn]

Yeah pretty much

[cursive dirge]

there's no public figured due to NDA

you can just assume steam wants 30% and you get 70%

[frank escarp]

@lament barn 30% of all sales go to steam

[cursive dirge]

of course there are taxes

[frank escarp]

70% for you

but some taxes are added to your 70%

[cursive dirge]

yeah

[frank escarp]

after everything, you can expect around 55% for you

so if you sell a game at 10 dollars, you will get beetween 5 and 6 directly to your bank account

[cursive dirge]

also do take into account the regional pricing

[lament barn]

I see, Gotcha. Alrighty.
And do you fully decide the Price for your game or does Steam Discuss that with you?

[cursive dirge]

you'll not sell the game at full price on every region

you decide the price

[lament barn]

Alrighty, Good to know. Thank you guys.

[cursive dirge]

I dunno if steam suggests prices anymore to indie devs

[lament barn]

Yeah, I read they do when Steam Greenlight was there.

[cursive dirge]

I think they used to at some point but I don't really see that as option for them anymore

[frank escarp]

regional price is auto

[cursive dirge]

they've tried to automate everything

[frank escarp]

you put the price in dollars and it fills the full matrix

you can then edit stuff if you think of doing it

[lament barn]

Oh I get it, You are able to set prices for other countries manually?

[frank escarp]

yes

[lament barn]

Gotcha

[frank escarp]

you put the price in dollars and the whole thing fills up automatically, but then you can modify individual ones

[lament barn]

ah I see.

Are you a dev that has a game on steam?

[frank escarp]

yes

[lament barn]

What's it called?

[frank escarp]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/520750/DWVR/

Steam

DWVR

DWVR is a fast paced virtual reality action FPS where you fight waves of enemies using firearms and magic. It uses motion controls to put you in the shoes of an action hero. Don’t just click a button to shoot, but extend your arm to aim your gu...

Price

$14.99

▶ Play video

this one

[cursive dirge]

I only now realized what those letters stand for 😄

[lament barn]

Wow, Very nice.

The game costs around 5$ in India

[frank escarp]

also costs less in russia

as if i have a single sale in russia or india lol

people dont have money to get a VR headset there

[lament barn]

Why don't you increase it?

[frank escarp]

america is half my sales

[lament barn]

And we have money to buy VR, Just there is no one here that cares to get VR.
80% of the Indian Teenagers here play CSGO

[cursive dirge]

$15 is nice price point for indie game

[lament barn]

20% have mobile phones

[cursive dirge]

it's not too expensive to not buy it as impulse buy and if it goes 20 or over, people start looking elsewhere

unless, it's some hyped AAA title

[lament barn]

I'm planning to price mine around 12$

[cursive dirge]

there are some indie games that sell for like 30 but I doubt they get more sales with higher price tag

[frank escarp]

i think its the correct price for the game, given its content

im releasing it for that same price on ps4 btw

Sony gets similar money to Steam

[lament barn]

Is it difficult to put it on PS4?

[frank escarp]

yes

[cursive dirge]

that really depends on the person you ask about it btw

[lament barn]

What's the Process?

[frank escarp]

much harder than steam

[lament barn]

Yeah I imagined that.

[frank escarp]

or oculus store

mostly becouse the sony review is fucking brutal

[cursive dirge]

some people here say that getting past US tax documents is somehow super difficult (which you have to deal when you sell on steam)

[frank escarp]

and you need to get PEGI review and the like

[cursive dirge]

some say it's super easy

[frank escarp]

the tax thing is equal in all stores

very similar

[lament barn]

I'm in India so I'm guessing the Tax Document process will be a pain for me.

[cursive dirge]

I wouldn't worry about it

[lament barn]

yeah?

[frank escarp]

did you know, sony europe is the one selling games on australia

[cursive dirge]

I'd first worry about getting the game in release condition

that's where you need to put most of your efforts in

[lament barn]

Well that's a fact I can't do anything with...There goes another Brain Cell. (Talking about vblanco)

[frank escarp]

games are never in release condition

just good enough to ship it

[cursive dirge]

😄

we could debate about that too

[tall pendant]

sometimes not even that

[frank escarp]

you can allways patch it later

[lament barn]

My game is gonna take another year to finish

Unreal+Multiplayer

;-;

[frank escarp]

as a noob, you are fucking done trying to do that XD

multiplayer aint easy

[cursive dirge]

you can buy steam direct and get all the paperwork done well in advance too

but if you plan to have a company when you sell, you better wait until you have that up and running of course

[frank escarp]

its actually the good thing to do

[frank escarp]

becouse then you can use steamworks

[cursive dirge]

lets just hope that you started with multiplayer prototyping

[frank escarp]

to do your betatesting and play and all other

well, its all 3 at once

the A less than the others

[cursive dirge]

and not try to slap it on later on

[lament barn]

I was thinking to do this...

Work on my Singleplayer version, Release it on steam for free
Start adding multiplayer while fanbase grows
and then release Multiplayer

[cursive dirge]

no

just.. no

[frank escarp]

lol no

[lament barn]

xD

[frank escarp]

i failed at that

twice

[lament barn]

Rip me

[cursive dirge]

you failed already

this is the reason why I said you better start with multiplayer prototyping

you don't just slap it on later on

it has to be well thought and tested from the beginning

it's like you make a fps game and then think you'll just slap VR support to it afterwards

[lament barn]

omg xD

[tall pendant]

if you want to have MP in your game, plan it, keep it in mind right from the beginning. otherwise its going to be very very rocky ..to say the least.

[frank escarp]

wich i did lmao

i did "just add VR" to a fps

thats literally what DWVR is

[cursive dirge]

but your game is VR only

[frank escarp]

i had to remake pretty much everything

[lament barn]

Alright I need some help and advice with what Im going through...

[frank escarp]

the whole player logic/pawn/etc

to the trash

remade brand new

and the enemies also had to get their AI tweaked

so the aim at your head location and that kind of thing

[lament barn]

I have progressed my Game ataround 9%
I barely know anything about Unreal.
I planned everything out how I want the multiplayer system to be

But how in the hell do I add in Multiplayer when I barely know about Blueprints.
I got a friend helping me with most of the game mechanics being built.
He implemented the Steam Sub System in his Game so he can help me with mine

Though I seriously need to start learning about Blueprints more

He told me that everything for multiplayer needs to be in sync and the same results has be to outputted which is managed in Blueprints

[cursive dirge]

you got 9% of the game done without knowing how ue4 works? 😃

[lament barn]

yeah, pretty much

I tried everything I can and did what I know how to do and failed many times

Got a lot of help from several people

I seriously don't even know how to add in a character, I chose the Template and deleted everything but the character.

then built on top of that

I really need someone who knows about Multiplayer in UE4 to help me :/

[cursive dirge]

or, you learn that yourself

[lament barn]

UE4 is like the 6th Software I'm trying to learn

[cursive dirge]

there's plenty of info around

UE4 was probably like 100th for me

if that's even possible the figure is that low, probably not

depends what you count as sw though, I count even windows calculator

[lament barn]

Most of the Tutorials are out of the question for the game I'm making.

If you count the Calculator as the Types im talking about then of course, Im around the 100th as well xD

[cursive dirge]

you don't watch tutorials to teach you specific things, if you want to learn something in tutorial form, you just watch them to understand the concept behind it

[lament barn]

Yes, That I take on account.

[cursive dirge]

there will never be a tutorial or doc for the exact thing you are making

nor there has been for the people who have gone through this road

it's just research and trial and error mainly

[lament barn]

Yeah, I know I'm not the only one 😃

[crimson sigil]

source code, official documentation, official api

or as I like to refer to them: the father, the son, and the holy spirit

[humble rivet]

I've created a working turret, that rotates etc. Is there a way to visualize the radius it can fire and the field of view it has (everything that enters a certain area gets shot at but staying out of it will do nothing?

like using a cone in pawnsensing for enemy AI to visualize it

[vast pine]

I started my project single player and it's a mp game.. Bahaha wish I had a pic of my face first time I tried "2 clients and everything didn't work

[plush yew]

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

[misty falcon]

hi

[plush yew]

🍻 Cheers

[misty falcon]

http://prntscr.com/g23u20 Very new to unreal, why is this not possible?

[lost ember]

#gameplay-ai and im p sure you're telling it to move to itself

that's why it's not possible

@misty falcon

[misty falcon]

target actor is where it should move to right?

[lost ember]

You can give it a pawn to move to, a 3d vector or a target actor

It'll do it's best to get there

[final owl]

Thinktank i like your honesty

a lot of people would not admit to that

and i am the same

[paper kernel]

this makes no sense

why does function stop mid-execution if I call it from GameMode beginplay

gives no returns

just stops

[plush yew]

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

Please welcome @clever eagle to the community! :beers:

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

[humble rivet]

I've got a trigger box with turret fire when something enters the box right.

http://imgur.com/a/vGWRC but my turret also fires when something (ME) enters the area in the red box

the only collision box is in front of the turret

anyone know what can cause this ?

[plush yew]

Please welcome @neon shuttle to the community! :beers:

[neon shuttle]

hello everyone. its good to finally find a community for game developement like the old IRC but have VoIP option

with a much better UI

[humble rivet]

Hi

Fixed btw had to change the trigger area to ignore projectiles

[slim mica]

Any idea why this is happenig?

https://gyazo.com/40249ed928ea3b206ed1e36dc6015feb

I'm ok with this happening but not in so small distances

[plush yew]

Please welcome @quasi star to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

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

[fierce tulip]

@slim mica looks like very strong blur mipmapping

[slim mica]

I set it to sharpen

And also to none

[plush yew]

Please welcome @willow prawn to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @lean rivet to the community! :beers:

[thorny kayak]

So many people

[plush yew]

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

[humble rivet]

How Do I stop my turret from tracking me when I leave the trigger box ?? I have OncompomemtBeginOverlap + OnComponentEndOverlap setup but it doesn't work...
It keeps firing after I leave the triggerbox and area..

[humble rivet]

http://imgur.com/a/9DD4e

[grim ore]

so the boolean works fine when you enter, it only starts tracking then, but when you leave it keeps tracking? If so maybe see if anything else is still entering after like maybe one if it's own bullets or something else

can easily add a print string to the enter and exit and have it print out the actor that is causing the trigger. check for any weirdness this way.

[plush yew]

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

[inland minnow]

Has anyone used maps + structs in 4.15+

and is there anyway to update that struct

nvm

Calling add on something that already exists updates it

neat.

[tender dome]

hi! there are every C++ classes for UE displayed in my Editor. it wasnt there last time. can i somehow hide them

[inland minnow]

Do you have show engine content ticked off?

Idr where that option is

is it on one of these dialogs?

[tender dome]

i dont know, those classes werent there last time.

@inland minnow i found ans. its inside content browse's view option then show engine content. now i cant see any view option

dont worry it was at the bottom right of CB and i had enabled show plugin and engine content

[plush yew]

Please welcome @severe mirage to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @clever arch to the community! :beers:

[tender dome]

where should i ask about camera problem

[plush yew]

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

Hey Guys My am Moses from Nairobi,Kenya thanks for the invite

[bleak palm]

hello, I really wish UDK was broguht back to the unreal website, im starting to see quite a few games being developed in udk

[halcyon marsh]

hello is that true that we can use more than 5 layer in a landscape ?

because i spent 6 hours to create 10 layers to finally get a default gray ><

[quartz ether]

@halcyon marsh Hi, Select every texture in your landscape material and set it to Shared Wrap. You will be able to have more layers (up to 16 I think in theory) but in practice with 5-6 layers you already lose so much performance.

[halcyon marsh]

@quartz ether oh ok :/

where can i have find this option ?

[quartz ether]

Inside material, left side of the screen.

(While having a texture selected).

https://forums.unrealengine.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=46249&stc=1

In there.

[halcyon marsh]

because i find it in my master material

but not function materials ><

[quartz ether]

There is no difference. That drop down should be there if you select your texture.

[halcyon marsh]

let me show you

oh sorry i find out why x)

i convert it to texture object

but you advise me to not use this technic ?

because of performance ?

[plush yew]

Please welcome @rocky kite to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

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

[buoyant echo]

How many members do we have now?

[lost ember]

Evaluation

(Context.Guild as SocketGuild).Users.Count```

Output

3117

@buoyant echo

[buoyant echo]

Oh wow

[plush yew]

Please welcome @late sundial to the community! :beers:

[late sundial]

Hai ^_^

I should have come on here a long time ago but better late than never

[glossy flame]

Well hey, that's the spirit

[median bronze]

ok i swear 3d programs and game engines are a freaking pain to work with. "oh its easy " nothing ever easy. corse doesnt help if the dang thing has bugs like crashes because oops some feature is causing a hard crash in this version you just installed but hey we got it fixed in the next one but you still gotta migrate all your crap, first of all importing 3d models is a pain in the ass. for some magcal reason i got it to work with one model one time. then i did the same model the Same import settings and nope stupid unreal coudnt find the textures for the model even though it was RIGHT in the folder and i told it to select the parent folder. NOW "magically" though i never had this problem before the selection thing is gone even when i restart. cant freaking drag on an object, i.e. transform rotate, whatever.

checked show transform widget, nopoe

nope

load another map. nope .

well glad lethal you had fun here. cuz usually no one ever replies to me on chat anyways. story of my life guess ill figure it out all on my own just like i always do ........bye!

[plush yew]

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

[toxic vale]

can u rename a project without it exploding into pieces ? :p

[heady bridge]

Yes, I followed this way, and it worked fine, I'm still working in the project I renamed

http://worldofleveldesign.com/categories/ue4/ue4-renaming-your-project.php

[dense patio]

https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-45947 how is this not a bigger issue.... any game that is MP will have this issue.

[toxic vale]

Thanks pingu, that worked

[glossy flame]

@dense patio 4.16 has been pretty rough for MP. 😦

There's another bug floating around about delayed replication in 4.16, and that's been backlogged as well

It's pretty odd

[dense patio]

yep

why would those be backlogged? and does backlogged mean its not coming to 4.17?

[glossy flame]

IIRC the other one has 4.18 targeted

[dense patio]

you telling me for 2 - 5 months, we wont have a fix for this? thats nuts

[glossy flame]

Can't say for sure, but that's what it seems like at this point

:/

[dense patio]

we need to rally and fix that, unacceptable.

[glossy flame]

A few people were talking about the other bug, it seems like there's just something that happened in 4.16 and nobody knows what

It is a pretty rough situation unfortunately

[dense patio]

yeah

[glossy flame]

I think your best courses of action here would be roll 4.15 or watch out for a PR sometime here soon

[toxic vale]

and now i get build errors, rip

[glossy flame]

Hopefully a community PR will come up soon enough, unless an Epic one pops out of nowhere

[dense patio]

Well, ill try and push for it to get fixed!

huge issue for our multiplayer farmer game 😦

[glossy flame]

👍

Gonna vote it up

[dense patio]

if not, we can fix it ourselves with custom code

ty for the info @glossy flame you are cool in my book

dont car what they say about you in that dive bar near Tintun

[bleak copper]

Huh

Might have a lead on why I can't close the editor using File->Exit after doing a build.

Just noticed my output log is being spammed with "Cmd: CLOSE_SLATE_MAINFRAME"

Took a screenshot. Will talk more after my stream.

[bleak copper]

http://imgur.com/a/ox8td

So it seems like after I build and save, I can't close the editor using either file->exit or the close button. I need to kill the task. Trying to do so spams my output log with this.

(I noticed it when I was packaging a build after a failed attempt to shut down the editor.)

That said, this level has literally thousands of lightmaps.

Ranging from like 64x64 to 512x512

[toxic wagon]

http://i.imgur.com/IbdrlRs.png this mesh tool a guy is making really kicks ass

[bleak copper]

Sweet

[toxic vale]

Anyone able to help? Changed name of Project, Then now compile is giving a error about Key already exists in compiling, and its blueprint only project.

[toxic vale]

got it solved thanks to pingu

[plush yew]

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

[median bronze]

ok i think it may be a bug with using the rift

without the touch controllers

in vr mode or something

lol i just unplugged mine for the moment

[bleak copper]

@toxic vale Glad to hear it. Sorry I didn't respond... never experienced that.

[median bronze]

i wish i could peak at the dragon quest XI unreal files 😦

[brave horizon]

Man the Fortnight website is awesome.

[late sundial]

holy heck yeah, who did there website, thats some pimp functionality

[brave horizon]

It wasn't in-house?

[late sundial]

Oh yeah derp derp, prolly was

Boom done! 14 hours in of polish and debugging. 3 weeks ish to go until deadline scury and excitin. Hope everyone has a shiney evening ^_^

Lesson of the day. print to logg messages are life savers

[plush yew]

Please welcome @fathom lotus to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

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

[plush yew]

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

[plush yew]

Please welcome @viscid sky to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

Please welcome @wide isle to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

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

[plush yew]

Please welcome @gilded jetty to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

Please welcome @tardy cove to the community! :beers:

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

[plush yew]

Please welcome @covert tangle to the community! :beers:

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

[covert tangle]

im kind of noob in UE so im looking for someone who can help me make a 2.5d camera and also 2d character in 3d

[sterile cairn]

Does anyone know how to do an additive only version of a blendspace? I'm trying to get look at working as it would effect more than just the head. Right now it overrides any movement that the head is already doing.
Apply Additive turns the mesh into something from a horor movie.

[tender sigil]

@covert tangle for the 2d char your going to want to go into jobs idk about the camera

[remote beacon]

afternoon all

[bleak palm]

@everyone Does anyone know if SweetHome3d works with UDK? I was going to use it to make a house and import that house into UDK, then apply textures to it

or do I need to use blender to apply textures

or should I get sketchup

[fierce tulip]

you mean udk or ue4? for udk-stuff I suggest the udk forums

[bleak palm]

UDK

[heady bridge]

I didn't know UDK was still available for download

[bleak palm]

its not, but if you grabbed it before they removed it its yours

[fierce tulip]

you can trough less-official means. the udk forum has a whole database for em

[heady bridge]

the licensing still applies to UDK as it did before UE4?

[bleak palm]

i know google sketchup works with UDK for making houses

@heady bridge yep

[fierce tulip]

anything that can export as obj or fbx should work

[bleak palm]

ok

[cloud cobalt]

@heady bridge Yes, the same shitty deal is still in place

[heady bridge]

Ue4 is a better deal, licensing wise, 5% instead of 25%, why use UDK?

[bleak palm]

lately there quite a few games coming out from UDK, like: outlast 2, subsitance, Black Squad, etc

[cloud cobalt]

UE4 is 100% a better deal than UDK

Also UE3 != UDK

[bleak palm]

i like udk, tried UE4 it was to laggy

[languid shard]

[cloud cobalt]

UDK basically has a non-commercial license

It can be commercial, but it costs too much to be of any value

[heady bridge]

unless you pay $100 to be able to sell your game

[bleak palm]

but there are plenty of games coming from udk

[cloud cobalt]

No they aren't

They are UE3 games

[bleak palm]

yes there are

[heady bridge]

Actually, modifyed versions of UE3

[bleak palm]

UDK aka UE3

[cloud cobalt]

UDK != UE3, again

[heady bridge]

UE3 is enterprise version of UDK essentially

[cloud cobalt]

UDK = 25% royalties, meaning you won't ever make a cent with it

[bleak palm]

well there is no download for UE3, there was for UDK

[heady bridge]

you have to ask Epic for UE3

[cloud cobalt]

UE3 = commercial only, pay half a million to get the license and source

UDK = free, huge royalties, no source code

[heady bridge]

I did love UDK back in the day though, but switched to UE4 back in beta days lol

[cloud cobalt]

Very few commercial games actually used UDK because it doesn't make any sense

So when you get UDK, you're not getting what some commercial devs used to create their game - you're using a closed-down, non commercial version

[heady bridge]

Mortal Kombat X uses Unreal engine 3.5 lol

[cloud cobalt]

@bleak palm You also need to consider than such commercial games were in development for years, so picking an engine now shouldn't be based on that

[bleak palm]

do you have to pay for UE3

[heady bridge]

Yeah

[cloud cobalt]

Hundreds of thousands

[heady bridge]

$500,000.00

USD

[bleak palm]

thats a bit extreme

[heady bridge]

It was made for professional studios

Indies mainly went for unity or game maker

[tall pendant]

UE3 was indeed ~500k

they had other license offers tho

[cloud cobalt]

Also they didn't sell it to anyone with the money

I know people who were turned down as "too small"

[tall pendant]

yup

[paper kernel]

it might be steep price but that licence was permanent, thus we saw many sequels for those games

[cloud cobalt]

@bleak palm basically people shipping UE3 games paid a huge sum some years ago - maybe a decade ago. So they keep working with that because they paid for it and have no royalties to pay now

Picking UDK or UE3 now would be completely crazy

[paper kernel]

so the investment probably paid itself back with 3-4 games

[heady bridge]

Most studios who still use UE3 have modyfied it so it has better graphical capabilities, updated physics, etc. like Mortal Kombat X for example

[cloud cobalt]

Or Outlast 2

[heady bridge]

Yeah

[tall pendant]

Injustice 2 still runs on their custom UE3 aswell IIRC.

[heady bridge]

Yeah, I'm sure several more games from Netherrealm studios will run on their custom UE3, until they dive into Custom UE4 lol

[tall pendant]

if they need to switch to UE4

[bleak palm]

ue4 doesnt have directx 9 though

[merry violet]

hello 👋🏻 i have a problem with blender-unreal 😦

[tall pendant]

tbh i think thy're fine with their mod. version

[merry violet]

this happen when i attach a mesh to a bone socket

[tall pendant]

UE4 has quite some problems when it comes to fighting games

[merry violet]

and the scales are right so probably a bone problem but i applyed rotating scale etc allrdy <.<

[tall pendant]

mostly the netcode. also i heard about input frame lag

[heady bridge]

Ue4 has DX11 and DX12

[cloud cobalt]

@bleak palm That's only an issue if you target Windows XP

[tall pendant]

afaik yes

[cloud cobalt]

Which you shouldn't

[heady bridge]

LOL

[tall pendant]

dx12 tho could be still experimental not sure atm

[heady bridge]

I'm not sure, I just remember when it was announced

[cloud cobalt]

DX12 support is shitty and probably never will be any good because Vulkan is a better replacement for it

[tall pendant]

except for xbox one 😛

its the default renderer on xbone afaik

[cloud cobalt]

Except it's not the same DX12 the engine uses for PC, and is in a fork on Microsoft's servers

PC DX12 isn't going anywhere

[tall pendant]

yup. its the new dx 10.1

[heady bridge]

PC Dx12 looks interesting to work with, without an engine, just in the framework

[cloud cobalt]

@bleak palm Seriously though - DX9 is only useful if you have a really old computer (10 years old), OR Windows XP. Windows XP is less than one percent of the gaming market and it's in countries where piracy is really high too

So basically there is no serious reason to base your engine choice on that

[heady bridge]

unity does dx9 still...

[cloud cobalt]

Yeah, that's also a valid option

I mean Unity is a much better choice than UDK

[heady bridge]

and I would suggest DX11 with it instead though

[bleak palm]

ah, I see it cost $99 dollars to get a liscense to sell a UDK game

[tall pendant]

plus 25% royaltys after your first 50k IIRC.

[bleak palm]

yep

[heady bridge]

yeah

[bleak palm]

but all i neede to know what the $99 part

[heady bridge]

tbh the 25% after 50k isnt that bad

I forgot it was after 50k

[bleak palm]

yeah

but you can still sell your created game which is a plus for me

[tall pendant]

yup 50k is more than what most indie games make nowadays 😛

[cloud cobalt]

You can sell it and get 10% of the money

But well anyway, pick what you want

[bleak palm]

yeah

[heady bridge]

you'd be spending $200 just to get your game on steam though

[cloud cobalt]

But having worked with both UDK and UE4, honestly, I think that's a really stupid idea 😉

[bleak palm]

idk if I want it on steam though

[heady bridge]

If I could get UE3 over UDK, I might go for it, since I could customize it, and no royalties 😛

Where would you put it on?

[bleak palm]

idk

havent thought that far ahead

might just put up on steam for free

[heady bridge]

I plan on putting my game on PC to start, then Xbox one and Switch if sales are decent

you'd pay $100 to make no money

[bleak palm]

lol

not according to there liscense

[heady bridge]

I would just say use UE4 at that point

[bleak palm]

no charge if you put it up for free

[heady bridge]

its free, to put free stuff up

oh realy?

[bleak palm]

according to the udk commercial liscense

[cloud cobalt]

Steam will charge the 100$ no matter if the game is free or not

[heady bridge]

Yeah

[bleak palm]

game jolt

[heady bridge]

yeah, that's a place lol

[bleak palm]

lol

but yeah "The UDK is also FREE for non-commercial use. Feel free to use the UDK to make any application (game or othe rwise) for free distribution. No additional license (beyond the EULA) is required. Just go for it."

[heady bridge]

Cool beans

can you not use C++ in UDK?

only visual scripting and Unreal Script?

[cloud cobalt]

Nope

Only Kismet (which is 1% of Blueprint) and Unreal Script

[tall pendant]

C++ only with a commercial UE3 license

IIRC. its been years we had a license at Yager

[heady bridge]

thought so

you work at yager?

[bleak palm]

i dont use c++, i like the visual script

[tall pendant]

i worked there years ago. not anymore

[cloud cobalt]

@bleak palm Visual scripting in UDK is extremely limited

[bleak palm]

ik

[heady bridge]

did you work on spec ops the line?

I loved that game

I never worked in a game studio yet 😦

just solo stuff

[bleak palm]

the ending was confusing

[cloud cobalt]

Anyway, leaving. Good luck with UDK :/

[bleak palm]

lol

[tall pendant]

expect some rocky tools 😛

also yeah i think that was the one @heady bridge

[heady bridge]

That's really cool 😄

[tall pendant]

still cascade works better in UDK then it does in UE4

[heady bridge]

Lol

I'll brb in like 10-15 mins, cya'll

[late sundial]

Top of the mornin all ^_^

[heady bridge]

Ahoy!

Would it be good practice to learn C++ over using blueprints?

[safe rose]

@heady bridge https://www.udemy.com/unrealcourse/

[heady bridge]

or just good in general? because I feel most people use blueprints with 0 C++, is C++ a major different today still?

[safe rose]

Helps if you know the framework first.

[heady bridge]

I have that course, and a few other C++ courses, but just asking opinions, thanks for sharing though

Okay

[safe rose]

So no shame in learning BP first

[heady bridge]

I've been using BP for 3 years, and I like to code, it's just that Im not good at it lol

[frank escarp]

people do a mix

the exact mix depends on the project and the team

some teams relegate C++ to a function library of math stuff, other ones create the full framework of the game classes in C++ and just add overrideable stuff

while others just go 99% c++ and just use blueprints for variables and setting up FX

[heady bridge]

That's pretty interesting, I always wondered if it was worth doing, because I'm an artist that works alone, I might start learning C++ after my current project, might be a bit better for me for now

[late sundial]

learning C++ is always a good thing. BP or C++ do wich ever feels more comfortable for you at first. But learning C++ eventualy will make a vastly stronger developer. I still have to myself. I can read it, but still have to learn to speak it.

[heady bridge]

I'm the same way, I understand what the code is saying, but I can't type it out myself, still need references, I have done some C++ training courses, but need practice actually typing, I have my project started already, just with damage, health and armor bar, with regen, and player controller, all in BP, I was thinking restart in C++, but can't find tutorials on certain things I need to do in C++

[viscid totem]

would you say it is hard to get UE4 running on Ubuntu ?

[paper kernel]

"hard" is rather relative term when paired with linux distro

but I guess the answer is "doable"

https://techpromad.wordpress.com/2016/04/24/run-unreal-engine-4-on-ubuntu-16-04/

and https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Building_On_Linux

[plush yew]

Please welcome @winged vortex to the community! :beers:

[winged vortex]

hi everyone!

[safe rose]

@winged vortex welcome

[viscid totem]

hey

[heady bridge]

Welcome

[viscid totem]

I am going for the quest to install UE4 on my laptop, wish me luck guys

[winged vortex]

figured I'd drop in here in case anyone has questions about Mono for Unreal Engine 😃

[safe rose]

@winged vortex awesome. Too bad we can't have separate channels for all the plugins

[viscid totem]

with mono, do you mean C# ?

[winged vortex]

yep. and F#, if you want 😃

[viscid totem]

damn that's nice

I did 2 semesters of Java and C# is so damn similar to it, I think I will look forward to use it, how is this addon called ?

[winged vortex]

https://mono-ue.github.io/

[viscid totem]

I've set a book mark, now I first have to learn actual UE4 :/

[winged vortex]

it's still early days so it's missing a bunch of features, but i wanted to get it out there for people to have a look

[heady bridge]

C# for unreal? WAT? lol

[viscid totem]

this is really awesome

[heady bridge]

I've heard of F# but never knew anyone who used it

[viscid totem]

this is a great opportunity for people who never coded to get into coding with a game engine, C# is so easy to get into

[kindred viper]

so is c++ if you ask me. Im not sure why people give it such a reputation of being difficult

[heady bridge]

I used C# in Unity, so I am pretty familiar with it

[winged vortex]

i'd suggest those people wait until i polish some more of the rough edges off 😃

right now it requires building a UE4 fork from source

[viscid totem]

C++ is much harder than C# or Java, given the fact that C/C++ is much older and has much less help

[kindred viper]

really?

I never fail to find help on the web with it.

[viscid totem]

nah I mean things like indexoutofbounds checking memoryleaking etc

[raven cedar]

@winged vortex any timeline on when this would be effectively open for the standard Source engine?

[viscid totem]

at least this is the case for C, cannot say much about C++

[kindred viper]

even then, you only have to read and learn, which is exactly the same thing you need to do with c# or any other language

[plush yew]

Please welcome @worthy mesa to the community! :beers:

[kindred viper]

I know what you mean in regards to the person's level of understanding with things like low level memory issues and so on

[viscid totem]

yep

[kindred viper]

but I don't blame c++ for that. I blame the fact I haven't spent enough time studying it

[winged vortex]

@raven cedar you mean with binary builds of the engine?

[kindred viper]

people avoid things like that 😃

[heady bridge]

I have a hard time finding specific tutorials on C++ for UE4

[raven cedar]

Correct

[viscid totem]

You have to be more carefull while coding to avoid logic errors 😄

[raven cedar]

You have to be careful to avoid logic errors regardless of whether you're programming

[viscid totem]

🤔

that is true

[winged vortex]

@raven cedar I need to upstream the patchset first. planning to do so but haven't started yet. and some of them may require significant discussion, rearchitecting, etc

[kindred viper]

maybe in the context of Unreal, I don't have as many issues as when I code native c++ . But I always seem to find an answer, usually on stackoverflow

[viscid totem]

when you code native C++ there is an easy solution to find much more help than just with C++, code in C lmao

[kindred viper]

I did a little code in C once for a dll but I didn't really have any issue other than different types for things like strings

it wasn't complex work that I was doing tho

[frank escarp]

man, fuck C strings

so error prone and incredibly annoying to use

std::string is just so much better

also, bool is missed

[viscid totem]

fuck C in gerneral

but it's still faster than C++

quick question, do I need a GPU in my Laptop activated to run ue4 ?

[kindred viper]

I would think it would help but UE is pretty scalable. Depends what you need to work on

[frank escarp]

@viscid totem its not

C++ features are "zero overhead"

[viscid totem]

I just hate to turn on my GPU, drivers are a bit messy on my laptop, screentearing etc

[frank escarp]

C is used for drivers and the like becouse its easier to get working for "bare metal"

and compiles on literally everything

[heady bridge]

what kind of laptop do you use?

[kindred viper]

I get screentearing sometimes with a GSync setup. Which shouldn't happen.

[viscid totem]

Acer Aspire but it has an i7 and a gtx950 iirc

[heady bridge]

I moved to desktop but my laptop never had screen tearing

[viscid totem]

afaik its because the nvidia drivers are messy on ubuntu

[glossy flame]

Optimus has to be the most frustrating thing in history

[kindred viper]

Naaah Megatron caused way more trouble

[glossy flame]

I'm with you, it was a PITA to get working on Linux at all

[heady bridge]

I never worked with linux before

[viscid totem]

linux is cool, like really cool when you are into computer science

[heady bridge]

Im into computer science, but I also like to game

[viscid totem]

linux gaming is rising currently, but I'd still stick with windows when you want to game but you can get a ubuntu subsystem beta on your windows this will install a fully working ubuntu on your pc which you can acess via bash or remote ssh. pretty neat feature

[kindred viper]

I wanted to get into linux. I installed Suse, moved a few files around, created a LAMP setup, then I wanted to take some files to a friends house on floppy disk. So i put the files on the disk, I get round to my friend's house and put the disk in. It was completely blank. I had not unmounted the disk. It was at that point I said to myself "F*** this happy horse s***" and never used it again.

[viscid totem]

that's because linux uses a different file system than windows, or even encrypted

[kindred viper]

aye I realised the error, I just couldn't be arsed having to deal with learning all that when I saved time doing it on windows. I still use linux for webservers but I stay away from the maintenance :p

[viscid totem]

yeah if you want to use linux mainly, you really have to like to deal with such things 😄

[kindred viper]

If I had stayed in network administration I would have kept up with it, but I moved onto web development instead

[gentle ivy]

as a web developer you probably end up using linux too

I know I did

[viscid totem]

fml, compiling the sourcecode of UE4 takes years

[sudden crescent]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/289113286350471169/341642309471043584/New_Canvas.png any idea how to do something like this with a character?

[stark lynx]

CLion witn UE4 on Windows! 😃 Finally!

at least it looks like it's going to work

[sudden crescent]

clion?

[stark lynx]

much better c/cpp IDE than Visual Studio 😃

especially when i'm used to the other IDEs by Jetbrains

[sudden crescent]

k

[stark lynx]

hopefully it'll work

still building symbols

[plush yew]

Please welcome @exotic matrix to the community! :beers:

[exotic matrix]

hi all

[sudden crescent]

Hey

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/289113286350471169/341642309471043584/New_Canvas.png any idea how to do something like this with a character?

sry wrong copy paste

[late sundial]

I dont know how to set it up with gravity but maybe if the entire world existed under one actor and the rotated apropriately as you traveled over an edge? Each edge would need to have a collider that told the world to rotate in the apropriate direct. Just an idear

*direction

Heyo Nito

[stark lynx]

hi Nito

[burnt drum]

does anyone knows of a way to package ( into pak ) only a certain map ...

we're trying to copy maps around our development build without rebuilding the game

[stark lynx]

Yeas

it even compiles in CLion

[burnt drum]

could it be done without the patching process ( am avoiding it because don't wanna get level deisgner to package full game )

[stark lynx]

good bye visual studio 😄

i won't miss you 😄

[grim ore]

Books for people who like books! https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unreal-unity5-book-bundle

[stark lynx]

ho lee fuk

[cinder iron]

someone with experience creating spline meshes on C++?

[late sundial]

FrozenFire

FrozenFire

that should do the trick for you Frozenfire 😃

[glossy flame]

@burnt drum

Hehe

[burnt drum]

That only cooks

Packaging it still packs everything

3 full gb

Did u manage to pak only the maps?

[dire cosmos]

Hi! I want to make an simple going forward and backwards animation on an simple sphere. Im not sure if i need an Animation exactly because that's only for skeletal meshes right? So im not sure where to ask

[late sundial]

Dang. Hrmmms yeah on our end that took what was a 1.5 gig build and turned it into a 600 mb build

Sodrek maybe this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CyV3urf9lE

shoot sry, I'l start private messageing

[dire cosmos]

gonna watch

it now

gonna be offline, thx already for that @late sundial !

[late sundial]

fo sho

[viscid totem]

Total build time: 3316,35 seconds (Local executor: 3229,38 seconds)

I just compiled ue4 on linux 55 minutes lol

but it was a lot easier than I thought Epic did a lot of work for me, just execute 3 prewritten shellscripts and you are good to go

[late sundial]

Orly! Very nice. Any chance you could point me at those scripts and instructions? We are coming up fast on needing to do that too

[wild kestrel]

@viscid totem which CPU you have?

[viscid totem]

I think it was an intel i7 5th or 6th generation

but a laptop CPU

[wild kestrel]

ahh

my Ryzen 1700X builds UE4 in 21 minutes on Windows, i plan to install Linux some day will see if there will be any diffrence

[viscid totem]

It could be that linux is a bit faster regarding this, because linux is a C native platform and it does not run as many background processes as windows

but my guess would be at max 1 min faster or so

[wild kestrel]

C native? ;p you mean system APIs right?

[viscid totem]

🤔

Im not sure tbh 😄

[cinder iron]

bump: someone with experience creating spline meshes on C++?

[wild kestrel]

Because C/C++ program is stop being C/C++ program once is compiled ;p

[viscid totem]

it is assembler then, isn't it?

[wild kestrel]

It's CPU instruction code, assebler is human readblle form of it

[viscid totem]

yeah, you are right

[wild kestrel]

which is diffrent for each archtecture

nobody codes ASM now days as it's too much complex to operate modern OS

[viscid totem]

quick question on the side, why is it black and white and I cannot click anything ?

[wild kestrel]

If you use window menager with Compiz-like effects this mean program is not reponding

[viscid totem]

:/

when this occurs more often, I have to switch back to 1 screen :/

[wild kestrel]

Linxu indeed use C/C++ standard APIs as it's base, where Windows has it's own APIs and VS runtime translates it to system APIs... if im not mistaken, i seen duplicates of C++ standard functions in Win32 APIs

[viscid totem]

afaik the GUI of windows is coded in C++

[wild kestrel]

IF you find a cause, bug raport

[viscid totem]

sure I will do 😄

[wild kestrel]

everything that is not .NET is coded in C++ ^^

or C

[viscid totem]

I still have to learn a lot

what about Java? doesn't that come from C++?

[wild kestrel]

Java is VM, kind of like .NET but .NET recompiles everything on runtime, both can be implemented on any platfrom

[viscid totem]

🤔

I wish I knew this much about Programming languages

[wild kestrel]

as i said C/C++ in binery for is not C/C++ anymore, it does not need to use C/C++ standard libraries

Java and .NET is virtual machine langues (where .NET is whole platform which can use many languages) , they are compiled to it's own binery code which Java runtime intrprates

and .NEt recompiles on runtime to run code in system CPU

because of that Java and .NET programs teoreticly can run on any platfrom which has it's runtime, without need of recomiling

thats why Java aplets was used in websites

[viscid totem]

yeah we learned that last semester

damn

I have to switch back to windows again

it's freezing a lot

[wild kestrel]

check if system started to use swap ;p this is usally the cause

Unlike Windows, Linux don't use swap memoery until it start to run out of physical memoery

thats also reason why Linux feels faster

con is if swap memoery is used in Linux, the system starts to lag a lot

[viscid totem]

yeah, but I don't know why it would use it if it uses it, I got 8 gigs of ram, should be enough right ?

[fierce tulip]

no..

16 at least, 32 is better, 64 if you have money to spend :p

[viscid totem]

that's why I bought a laptop where RAM can be exchanged :p

[wild kestrel]

yea UE4 editor is use lot of memoery, chrome in recent updates is also memoery hungry

[viscid totem]

this might be a weird question but. I've seen a video of Notch developing Minecraft and he has some sort of RealTime Debugger, where he can play the game, change the code while it is running and still play it. is this possible in ue4 ?

[wild kestrel]

Thats because Minecraft is Java ;p

also blueprint don't support something like that either

[viscid totem]

damn!

I've never even managed to do than in Java

[wild kestrel]

and hot reload is quite buggy

hmm not sure look what IDe he is using

IDe*

IDE

lol

[viscid totem]

I used IntelliJ all the time, I think he used Eclipse but I am not sure

[wild kestrel]

I only coded Java when i was playing with Android so i don't know

[viscid totem]

when you forget to put a & while starting the program in the terminal and you accidently close the terminal 😐

[digital anchor]

does anyone know the FOnlineSessionSettings to get the same behavior as SteamMatchmaking()->CreateLobby()?

when i was working with blueprint, creating a session i could invite other players, in C++ however the invite never appears

no matter what FOnlineSessionSettings i try

SteamMatchmaking()->CreateLobby() works tho

[sick willow]

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unreal-unity5-book-bundle

guys, are Packt any good?

[viscid totem]

Building an RPG with Unreal 4.x
This bundle is definetly for me

[analog bane]

Hello guys, I was following the "Paper 2D" tutorial on unreal engine official website, but whenever I test the game as in the tutorial the play mode executes in the 3D environment, I want to see all the project from the "Front View" perspective like in the tutorial. Is there a way to fix this? Thank you very much! 😃

[languid shard]

damn that dev book bundle sounds interesting

but I don't need like half of it :v

[wild kestrel]

@analog bane you can manipulate viewport perspective in menu on upper left also change view. For play mode you should place cameraactor with Orthographic projection mode

Orthographic projection make 3D graphics look like 2D

[grim ore]

@viscid totem I bought that particular book and was not very impressed with it. What you get is very very basic

[viscid totem]

What topics does it cover? My main problem is code architecture and structure for easy implementation of multiple playable classes

[wild kestrel]

Leslie you know how blueprint classes are structured right?

C++ in UE4 is exact the same

i mean blueprint classes, functions etc. are mosly C++ bindings

Also if you ever used UnrealScript you should be at home with C++ in UE4 too

[sick willow]

question, does that mean that I can follow any blueprint tutorial on how to do stuff, and practically do a 1 to 1 translation to have it as c++?

I have a project I've been running from that I'll get back to later, but if everything has the same name as the blueprint options, then I have more resources to learn from

[late sundial]

heeeey

just restarted UE4 and my engine is updateing. Anyone know where the notes for todays updates are?>

[glossy flame]

Engine or launcher?

Engine updates don't just happen automatically haha, you have to manually install the new version

[late sundial]

Sry yeah, the engine update, my brain kinda autopiloted itself into hitting the update button

Oooo 4.16.3 hrmmms

[safe rose]

RPG books SUCKS

[glossy flame]

Haha, didn't even know that came out @late sundial

Here's the thread https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?150926-4-16-3-Hotfix-Released

[late sundial]

oh sweet ty ty 😃

[analog bane]

@wild kestrel thank you pal

[safe rose]

@wild kestrel Man haven't seen your face around here in a long time. What have you been up to? Anything awesome?

[wild kestrel]

Assabling new PC and been busy working on thingso n it ;p

the GPU market jam made it a little long

[grim ore]

@viscid totem sorry about the delay, if you check out the TOC you can see what it has. https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/building-rpg-unreal , from what I remember it doesnt have any real architecture structure or multiple classes

[frank escarp]

the "unreal 4.x" just triggers the shit out of me

specially becouse it says its ue 4.12

[wild kestrel]

@sick willow Yes most functions are just C++ bindings, in fact in C++ you got full API access. Only thing that does not translate well are custom blueprint nodes.

[sick willow]

but I wouldn't need custom blueprint nodes, right? I'd just make it completely in code

?

[wild kestrel]

Hmm there things that blueprint is better, like component composing and making class just with diffrent defaults

it best to do base in C++ and upper classes in blueprints

Blueprints are also good in prototyping as you don't need to use not perfect hot reload

[sick willow]

thank you

[paper kernel]

I bought all the unreal books from bundle, hope these are good

[cursive dirge]

ha

http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/07/31/ark-survival-evolved-full-release-and-dlc-delayed

who would have known

oh snap, though this was #lounge 😄

[viscid totem]

@grim ore thank you for this link, yeah seems like its just very basic and not realy deep

[grim ore]

yeah it was not what I was hoping for 😦

[plush yew]

Please welcome @latent wharf to the community! :beers:

[viscid totem]

allright UE4 on Linux is a mess, will there be a official build sometime ?

as soon as I open the Blueprint editor the whole engine gets so freaking laggy

[glossy flame]

I know you were talking about the GPU earlier, have you tried running that?

I once ran on Linux with an i5/1070, seemed to work fine for me, but I realize that's not the same as a laptop gpu

I don't believe there are any published plans to support a binary build on Linux, but I'm not sure a build being source diminishes performance or anything

[plush yew]

hey so

Am I allowed to just rip assets from the KiteDemo

And use them commercially?

I know u can with infinity blade i believe, and open world demo collection

[safe rose]

@plush yew yup

Unless otherwise noted

Anything on that Learn Tab is yours to do whatever you please

[plush yew]

oh sweet

[bleak copper]

Ohhhkay so I bought the books too

[safe rose]

ggwp

[bleak copper]

I'm normally about "don't bother with books... just make projects and learn what you need to... you'll be more motivated that way" but holy crap that's a lot of books.

(context: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unreal-unity5-book-bundle)

[late sundial]

I woouuld , but I like hard copies

they do look like a realy good collection though 😃

[tulip vault]

had an idea for a vr game where you're a flying creature and you have to flap your arms etc

it'd be nice if i knew how to make all the steps between, like coding and modeling and owning a vr headset

[bleak copper]

There's a game like that where you play as a bird.

They made a huge table for it, too, IIRC.

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

[late sundial]

Bwahahahahah XD I wish I had pictures from when we first played the ubisoft eagle flight game. We set up our office chairs to lay on and put the box fan in front of us. Poor mans version of this game. Pretty cool though

And another day done of ballancing and bug hunting. The bugs are getting smaller and harder to find 😄 . Huzzah progress. Night all, hope the evening goes well

[plush yew]

Please welcome @severe drum to the community! :beers:

[severe drum]

Hello. I am looking for assistance with UE4

[south ridge]

What do you need help with?

[severe drum]

hi

duplication does not work anymore in ue4

I will explain

alt + drag does not work. when i try to duplicate a mesh i the 3d space

only a pivot sprouts out and in the hierarchy shows the duplicated name of the object however I cannot see it in space

I try to go to details panel and apply the static mesh to the object however it does not recognizez it

so the object that i duplicated is considered null

I cannot move forward unless this problem is fixed XD

I am using 4.15

one minute it worked, and then I tried to migrate the project to another content folder, and later when I tried to duplicate my static meshes, they broke 😃

I uninstall the ue4 launcher and reinstalled it. I then tried to create a new scene and drag over the content folder to that new folder with the same version. The mesh in the scene to still not duplicate 😄

I then tried to download 4.16 and transfer the content folder to the updated version in a new scene, and this time, None of the objects show in space.

I just need to be able to duplicate again. Thats all I want 😦

[safe rose]

k

@severe drum are you trying to do this in realtime?

As in, while the game is in "Play" ?

[severe drum]

I have not tried that yet.

You suggest I hit play and try to duplicate while the game is in session?

[safe rose]

Nope

[severe drum]

k

In editing mode I try to duplicate

the object does not update either when i try to build geometry

[safe rose]

@severe drum What is the object?

Your own ActorBP ?

[severe drum]

Static mesh. All of them are having the same problem

I even tried reinporting them

[safe rose]

@severe drum Screenshots would be helpful

[severe drum]

ok sec will be quick

[safe rose]

@severe drum look at the content browser

Are those static meshes in there?

If not, your normals may be reversed

Or someone just forgot to put faces

[severe drum]

my fbx are fine. I turn on flipped uv faces

[safe rose]

https://gyazo.com/889f37f69dc5eeeb7d2499657894cf51

?

[severe drum]

those two are real thin

celings half a unit

[safe rose]

show me

[severe drum]

ok sec

[safe rose]

open 01 up

[severe drum]

i will open u 3dsmax

sec

[safe rose]

I don't care about 3dsmax

[severe drum]

mkay

[safe rose]

If it's not showing up in UE4

then of course it's messed up in 3DSmax

[severe drum]

gotcha ok I will drag on in

sec 😃

[safe rose]

But if it's showing up in UE4, but just not the world, then there's something else going on

[severe drum]

i dragged them in there

[safe rose]

?

You totally just picked something else...

[severe drum]

i picked celing 1

[safe rose]

The ceiling is the one that you were complaining about

[severe drum]

celing 2

[safe rose]

this is a floor?

[severe drum]

and a few floors

[safe rose]

Says so?

[severe drum]

ok ill show again in detail sorry 😃

[safe rose]

Well, pick the ceiling...

[severe drum]

ok

[safe rose]

Actually, zip up the FBXs

I will import them into my project

just the ceilings

[severe drum]

ok i will zipp righ tnow

[safe rose]

Guess I am always opening up to EpicGame tab

[severe drum]

😃 yea :p

[safe rose]

https://gyazo.com/466c791d8ff60d7b385d08330b3ce468

U dun sumthing wrung

[severe drum]

help me fix it! :3 please

[safe rose]

delete your project

If not

close your project

[severe drum]

I will close it

[safe rose]

delete the following folders: Config/Intermediate/Saved

[severe drum]

ok let me find that real quick

[safe rose]

Build if it's there

[safe rose]

dont delete content

[severe drum]

ok cool

[safe rose]

saved/intermediate should be fine

then open up project

[severe drum]

sec I will do it right now and let you know

ok loading it up give it about 2minutes

unsuccessful

i will take screen shot

[safe rose]

@severe drum make a new project

[severe drum]

gotcha

[safe rose]

import those meshes

if it's good, well, something may be corrupted

[severe drum]

-__

[safe rose]

But anyway

If you are building something big

You could try to make Actors out of them

[severe drum]

interesting

I will try that after this part sec making new project

[safe rose]

Might be more fun if you figure out how to random place things, especially long stretches like the ceiling/floors

[severe drum]

random place things?

enlightened me 😄

[safe rose]

Or just ISMC

HISMC

[severe drum]

ahhh

the new project is made i just need to import the static meshes

[safe rose]

hmm

someone messed with my shit

but basically: https://gyazo.com/07bd51159ffb3a4e86da80fd39475e5f

https://gyazo.com/84b7b576af97d64b8e5819089770df29

[severe drum]

oh yea hahah that be dope

[safe rose]

You can do this

and save yourself some time

Add some random variable

tiles

etc

[severe drum]

interesting

I am going to look into that. Sounds like fun I am not going to life

however, it worked!

[safe rose]

new project?

[severe drum]

the static meshes are reinported into the new project

[safe rose]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[severe drum]

i drag the ceiling in and it duplicates

[safe rose]

It happens

[severe drum]

However

[safe rose]

btw

get away from 4.15

it sucks

at least go to 4.16

[severe drum]

ok also. How should I go about transfering that old scene into the new project?

I want to copy and paste the static meshes in the old project into the new

I hope this works

[safe rose]

not sure if you can do that project to project

I know you can with BPs

but that's because it's text

[severe drum]

ic

[safe rose]

But, if you can't

Just migrate

the level

[severe drum]

the umap?

[safe rose]

yes

going to bed, night!

[severe drum]

ok grabbing that one and bringing it over sec

night man thanks

[plush yew]

Please welcome @mint void to the community! :beers:

[severe drum]

@safe rose If you have not went to bed yet, It worked.

Thank god I can rest now

[plush yew]

Please welcome @smoky jackal to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

Please welcome @urban geode to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

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

[plush yew]

Please welcome @short thunder to the community! :beers:

[safe crown]

Hi everyone, wanted to ask you guys about soimething with Perforce

I'm trying to create a depot in my WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra

but when I try to upload the files to the depot, I always get the error: Operation 'mkdir' failed.

but if I try to go to the route it does exist, it just seems that perforce is not able to work with it

any idea of what it might be?

[sterile cairn]

Might be failing because the directory already exists.

[pallid compass]

someone advise me on source control

[cloud cobalt]

What's your question ?

[pallid compass]

What do you recommend

Im looking at the gith one currently

git*

[cloud cobalt]

Depends on your team, how much you want to spend, etc

How large your project will be in content

[pallid compass]

Guess we could just say small for now

no more than 6/7 people

i hooked up too git repository

but now im trying to figure out how too get my guys and girls too hook up too it

[cloud cobalt]

If you're not paying money on Perforce, Git is the next best choice

Perforce with 5+ people isn't free anymore

[pallid compass]

ahh gotcha

have u used git before?

[cloud cobalt]

All the time

[pallid compass]

mind if i ask some dumb questions

[cloud cobalt]

I'd suggest reading a Git tutorial first

[pallid compass]

yeah i read it all

[cloud cobalt]

You're going to spend years learning it anyway

😃

[pallid compass]

on the wiki right?

they dont explain how too hook other people up too it

[cloud cobalt]

https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1

[pallid compass]

even though im hooked up

iv got no respoistory made?

[cloud cobalt]

I'd recommend spending a week learning Git before having other people join

[pallid compass]

the fuck a week?

A week of learning just to sync stuff over?

[cloud cobalt]

Yeah, if you want to be confortable with the thing

[pallid compass]

jesus

I just wanted to sync our work up

[languid shard]

@pallid compass you can fuckup a repo pretty easily if you don't know how to handle git

[pallid compass]

nothing fancy

[cloud cobalt]

There is no such thing as "just syncing" really

That's a lie 😃

[languid shard]

I know cause I did multiple times 😂