ue4-general

[cloud cobalt]

They are awful

[devout gulch]

new forums looks better

discuss

[polar hawk]

They look awful

But I can read them better

yolo

[paper kernel]

argh the white

it burns

damnit, I think I screwed this up

tried to use generic fuse character, exported to mixamo

but the download has only 1 material slot

and it's not compatible with what I exported

imma go flip a table

[cloud cobalt]

@devout gulch Couldn't find the subscribed threads

I only ever use that on forums, no time to go through hundreds of topics

[polar hawk]

Yolo https://github.com/Allar/ue4-mp-downloader

[plush yew]

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

[cursive dirge]

why NodeJS though?

[polar hawk]

Because I wanted to work on it for less than a day

And work on Linux without having to learn linux shit

And because I already had existing code written for most of it

[cursive dirge]

hmmm, can you download the learn page items with it too?

like content examples?

I guess not as it didn't show content examples in the GIF

that's the main issue on linux I think, as people don't get the launcher and therefore have no means to download the official sample content

[plush yew]

Please welcome @wraith tiger to the community! :beers:

[polar hawk]

Aye, Code Plugins and those items return a 403

I'm not sure why

I can get their listing and manifest files, but I can't start the actual download. Still looking into it

[sacred crater]

Heh, anyone ever figure out how to get a normalized FRotator? -1 to 1 range?

[wary wave]

FRotators are normalised

[sacred crater]

Yeah but not -1 and 1

Onlt -180 and 180

[fossil ore]

Is there a way to tell an billboard actor to ignore some meshes , but only some?

[sacred crater]

Guess I can divide that

[wary wave]

yes

though you can't actually 'normalise' a rotator

just remap the range

[sacred crater]

yeah it's already normalized

[wary wave]

well, no, I mean the concept of normalising it makes no sense

a rotator is an expression of three rotations through arbitrary axes

those three rotations are expressed in degrees

you can remap it to use some kind of arbitrary -1 to 1 coordinates, but you can't 'normalise' it

why -1 to 1?

(why not use radians?)

1π radians = 180 degrees

[sacred crater]

Yeah can use that I suppose

[plush yew]

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

[hearty abyss]

Cheers

[plush skiff]

🍺 🎊

[sacred crater]

Yeah my logic failed me there, getting radians does work but not the way I need it to work. >.>

[polar hawk]

https://streamable.com/1qzyo

@sacred crater @brisk path would know

[hearty abyss]

wow that looks cool

[wary wave]

@sacred crater - what are you actually trying to do?

[plush skiff]

thats super cool!

[sacred crater]

I got a flying pawn, and it all works fine and I can perfectly calculate speed and velocity and whatnot, problem is gimbalock is kicking in when I need it to move upside down, but the controls such as Yaw and roll and pitch all have to be relative to the camera, so if you're rolling on your side and you want to change yaw as if you were standing straight it would still rotate as if it was yaw, but obviously not yaw when you rotate on 90 roll

[wary wave]

ah

you need quaternions

[sacred crater]

Yeah that I know

[polar hawk]

FOUR DIMENSIONS

[sacred crater]

Just still need to know how to get relative rotation on it because all logic I throw at it won't actually do it

[wary wave]

you probably want to ditch rotators entirely

euler angles aren't suitable if you have full 6 dof

(they conk out at 5)

[sacred crater]

Indeed, was hoping it still would somehow using epic's bp functions that actually convert it to FQuat and then back to FRotator, but seems like I'll need to go in full cpp for that then

[wary wave]

yup

[devout gulch]

@polar hawk what does it show ?

and.. how do ou made that faked perspective UI ? ;d

and question does foliage from materials spawn in deteministic manner ?

[polar hawk]

That video I linked? I didn't make it, thats @brisk path

[paper kernel]

to be fair, just use directional vectors and convert to rotators if something really REALLY needs it

and Im gonna get back to flipping tables, 2 animation files have wrong name for some reason

[plush yew]

Please welcome @hard surge to the community! :beers:

[wary wave]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/671315/get-location-at-distance-along-spline-not-working.html

I am still very sad, and now my level designers are sad too because the tools I've built don't do what they should 😦

[hard surge]

nyan

[cursive dirge]

@wary wave you know when that issue has been introduced?

[wary wave]

looks like over two years ago

[cursive dirge]

I've used spline stuff a lot in past but not much after 4.13

never had such issues

[wary wave]

brb

[cursive dirge]

I don't get it really, I've always got EXACTLY same position out of it

I can visualize that by spline component visualizer and spline mesh component that follows it

I've also had debug draw stuff on those points I've read, and they've been along the spline

like, you linked this: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/201191/spline-reference-wont-hook-to-get-world-location-a.html

I never had that issue and I did the same tutorial back in the day

(unless the person having issues is indeed mixing local and world space options)

but that would put things off way more

[north basin]

I am using the Localization in UE4. I have different files with translation in it. Is there a way to import the csv or some other translation file to the Localization dashboard?

[wary wave]

@cursive dirge - point functions work

distance functions do not

[cursive dirge]

I use distance along spline myself

and I know a guy who does the same as well

no issues whatsoever

[wary wave]

get location at distance only works if you want local coords, and you do not modify point tangents

[cursive dirge]

I actually just opened my old stuff in 4.17

still worked

I modifty tangents

and get in world space

[wary wave]

well in my case it is very clearly not working

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[cursive dirge]

there's something wrong with your code then

[wary wave]

there isn't

[cursive dirge]

or you do something that they didn't think people would do

but I've never had any issues with that getter, and I've used it since 4.5 or so

up to 4.13

(and just verified it still works with 4.17)

do you have some repro project that clearly demonstrates is doesn't work?

(in human readable way)

[wary wave]

https://snag.gy/JRViyx.jpg

get location in the above is clearly not getting the right coords to give the output with the cones

(I'm tiling spline meshes down the length of a spline component)

RE: https://snag.gy/9G3vay.jpg

[cursive dirge]

you sure it's not getting messed up by that boolean logic that forces the distance to 0?

[wary wave]

it's following the original spline, and ignoring the changes to the tangents

the select node is just for the final mesh - i.e the while loop that handles the whole thing has completed

Spline based wall kit from the marketplace exhibits the same behaviour:
https://snag.gy/kFCWQT.jpg

tweak the tangent and the changes do not affect whatever this blueprint is doing

[sacred crater]

I rarely use distance, I always get index point

[cursive dirge]

I do the exact same tweak for tangent as you do

[sacred crater]

Maybe that's the problem?

[cursive dirge]

nah

distance definitely works for me

[wary wave]

point is fine if you want points, but I don't

[cursive dirge]

hmmm

[wary wave]

that looks like one mesh stretched down a single spline?

[cursive dirge]

actually it's using splinemeshes that are small chunks

between each spline point, there are many small spline meshes

I can put super small chunks there, like between each 5cm and it still follows the spline perfectly

it wouldn't do that if the locations were off

[wary wave]

so what are you doing differently?

[cursive dirge]

nothing different regarding to the tangents

I'd guess your issue is elsewhere

[wary wave]

I can't see how

it's literally settting the start / end point of a spline mesh to GetLocationAtDistanceAlongSpline

[cursive dirge]

oh right

now I get it

it's not the same as you have

or well, it should be if you calculated it correctly

hmmm

[devout gulch]

can I stream foliage indepedently from landscape ?

[wary wave]

it's possible that the distances could be incorrect, but the locations should still conform to that spline regardless

[devout gulch]

ie paint it on landscape which is on separate level..

[wary wave]

@devout gulch - yes

you may need to use world composition to do it, I'm not sure

each level will need to foliage info in it

[devout gulch]

life saver in theory it should work, but can't check it now

[cursive dirge]

I can share this tool I have if it helps, but it's now saved in 4.17.1

[wary wave]

that's fine, I have 4.17 installed

I wouldn't mind trying to work out what's different

[cursive dirge]

it's basically just extension of that old roadtool tutorial so it's not very well organized

[wary wave]

'cos the locations I'm getting are not on that spline, heh

[cursive dirge]

I do have some additional stuff, like fixing the loops via upvectors and automatically figuring out the tangent size and mesh dimensions

and selector for mesh alignment

[wary wave]

I do similar calcs myself

[cursive dirge]

also there's only one function 😄

[wary wave]

in theory those could be wrong, but the points should still be on the spline

[cursive dirge]

if I did this now, it would be done way differently

[plush skiff]

this might be a strange question @wary wave but if you get Transform and break out the location do you get the same result? im using transform and its working fine

[wary wave]

that is a good question

[plush skiff]

we do a separate calculation for Roll, but the locations never been weird

[cursive dirge]

@wary wave https://www.dropbox.com/s/yteq30wgy00oltl/BP_SplineTool.uasset?dl=1

[wary wave]

thanks a lot

[cursive dirge]

np, hope it helps

[fierce tulip]

aww people helping eachother out.. brings a tear to my eye

[plush skiff]

if thats no help i can pastebin my construct script, might be something in here that can help (divide the Roll by 60?)

[cursive dirge]

@wary wave the tangent setup is partly in function but it's same as you had, I just put it there as I reused it in case I did want fixed sized chunks when not looping the spline

normally the last chunk would be stretched

[wary wave]

yeah, this looks more or less identical

at least for the bit that counts

[cursive dirge]

does it work for you?

😄

[wary wave]

about to find out

your tangents work

[cursive dirge]

there's always possibility that you've had some BP corruption that makes it do wonky things

[wary wave]

I'm going to try a quick experiment here...

[cursive dirge]

I've had my share of those when using BPs

chasing odd bugs and then redoing the same BP and it works

anyway, good luck with it, I'm taking the dog out now 😃

[wary wave]

I'll let you know how I get on xD

@cursive dirge - our two setups are nearly identical

the two organisational things that were different is that my calcs were in the event graph (due to editor-function needs) and the spline was not the root component, but neither of those have made a difference

the other big difference is you precalculate your mesh lengths because you only have one mesh, whereas I have to use a while loop as I have a random selection

but that shouldn't be it either

I don't support roll, and we handle mesh scale differently (I have a custom fuction)

that's it - the rest is more or less the same

I have NFI

the bit that matters is literally done the same way

https://giphy.com/gifs/stars-idea-brainstorming-TDMOuEpQcLbAk

[plush skiff]

sounds like my way is the same as his too, boo

https://pastebin.com/9w6phrEB

thats our construct script on our spline, maybe something in there to help? not sure.

[wary wave]

it's got to be one of the features I have that he doesn't

one of the editor side functions

[cursive dirge]

or related to event graph

they've limited some of that functionality

[wary wave]

nah, I moved your function into the event graph to check

works fine

[cursive dirge]

there's that checkbox on spline component itself for that

don't remember it's label anymore

heh

well, all bets are off then

have you tried just copy pasting your stuff into new BP?

it really could be some BP oddity

[wary wave]

I'm narrowing it down using yours

the event graph function has been tagged 'call in editor'

when I hit mine, the modified tangents on the spline disappear

yours remain the same

[cursive dirge]

heh

[wary wave]

it's eerie how similar these BPs are in a lot of places

I think one of the functions I'm calling must be resetting the tangents maybe

so I just need to narrow down which you aren't using

BINGO

I have a feature you don't - I can change the spline point types

the native function wipes the tangent values

[plush yew]

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

[wary wave]

and for some reason the visual in the editor does not get updated

oh man that's irritating

[plush skiff]

nicely spotted

[wary wave]

the offending function in question is SetSplinePointType

@cursive dirge - thanks for that; without another very similar tool to compare it with, that would have been literally impossible to isolate

[cursive dirge]

np

what is SplinePointType? 😄

[wary wave]

splines can have different types of curve

trick is, if you call it, it wipes the tangents (even if the type hasn't changed)

[fierce wharf]

can i bother you folks with a noob question?

[wary wave]

you can try

[fierce wharf]

how should i go aobut starting a terrain with only blender and ue4? s

[wary wave]

I'd probably skip Blender and work just with UE4's tools

you should look at the free version of World Machine

that's probably a better place to start

[fierce wharf]

yeah the more i dig the more it seem like the answer is, use something els, or try and make something nice with ue's terrain editor. if i use world machine, will it be optimized well and not have lod or occlusion issues?

[wary wave]

LOD / Occlusion is irrelevant

it is a built in and entirely automated feature of landscapes

[fierce wharf]

idk, ive just been told if i make a large landscape in blendr and import as mesh that i would have lod and occlusion issues ¯_(ツ)_/¯

im a total newb and just want to try to make a pretty terrain with a beach and hut and go from tere, and im aving issues 😄

[plush skiff]

probably that a blender landscape will be coming in as a static mesh, an unreal landscape uses heightmaps and they optimize it purposefully

[wary wave]

yes, because if you use a mesh you will have those problems

if you exported a heightmap from Blender and created a landscape with it, you would not

[plush skiff]

yeah youll wanna look at using a heightmap, world machine is great at making some realistic looking ones, not sure of the free versions limitations however

[wary wave]

but I'd still use World Machine

[fierce wharf]

gotchya, so what if i create a height map from a mesh in blender will i have problems llater with texturing?

[plush skiff]

shouldnt do because then you will be working with unreals landscape

[wary wave]

yup

but still, it's a pretty rubbish workflow

[fierce wharf]

what is ideal?

world machine then import to ue4? or ue4 terrain/landscape tools?

[vestal cloak]

Ok i have three materials, 2 I made in ue and 1 i made in blender. I have a model with three meshes inside it. When i combine all the meshes during import i can't put the 2 ue materials on the two smaller objects.

Its a truck, the body and chassis are one mesh and the headlights are another and the blinkers are the third mesh. I want to import them combined but , in ue i made headlight and blinker materials. I want these materials to go on the lights and the native texture that i made for the chassis to go on the latter.

[wary wave]

World Machine, then into UE4

common professional workflow

[fierce wharf]

thnx preciate it

[vestal cloak]

Sorry if my explanation is not that great.

3 models in one need to add seperate materials to each-in ue

[fierce wharf]

did you un wrap and make a uv mapped texture?

[vestal cloak]

For the main cab part yes

[whole quarry]

you can assign selected faces to their own material

then the mesh have multiple materials in ue4

[vestal cloak]

When you assign you are talking about blender correct? (Thats what i use)

[whole quarry]

yes

[vestal cloak]

Ok i think i know what you mean. I will give it a go, thanks!

[plush yew]

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

Please welcome @noble bane to the community! :beers:

[hearty abyss]

Hey @plush yew and @noble bane

[noble bane]

Hello

[hearty abyss]

Welcome

[polar hawk]

wake up
ue4 forum signatures enabled
see: https://i.gyazo.com/34aae37c49afb4ba79769d05db7b2515.png
go back to bed

[sacred crater]

o.o

[fierce wharf]

is there anything wrong with using free height maps and materials? they say for any use but the material one seems sketchy to me, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83881ybCBrc

are these legit ok to use if i, god willing, actually release something?

[paper briar]

ue4 killed my gpu

i was running some pre intense lighting

then boom

crash

and it never breathed again

rip

[hearty abyss]

ouch

[short dagger]

warranty time?

[plush yew]

Please welcome @uneven maple to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @sullen bough to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @uncut roost to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @reef shale to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

Please welcome @bitter jasper to the community! :beers:

[safe rose]

@quick heath That #gameplay-ai though

[quick heath]

@safe rose sorry then

[plush yew]

Please welcome @muted fulcrum to the community! :beers:

[past island]

Welcome!

[muted fulcrum]

Thanks 😃

[cursive dirge]

@fierce wharf always be cautious for the free stuff in the internet

ESPECIALLY if they are linked to youtube video

[past island]

Is there a good way to collaborate on projects, seems like 4gig projects are not an ideal thing to be working on through say github?

[cursive dirge]

nor does github want that big projects

[past island]

yeah

[cursive dirge]

I did have one UE4 project on git that was like 8GB though 😄

I mean, on github

static lights are evil

they bloat the repo really quickly

[past island]

If i want to work with someone remotely, do i have to do something like vpn and stuff? I assume others have wanted to work together on stuff remotely

trying to setup a good workflow

[cursive dirge]

you could sign up with VSTS

it's free for small teams

[past island]

What is VSTS?

[cursive dirge]

they have git with git LFS

visual studio team services

[past island]

Ok, is that what most of the UE4 People are using these days for collaborative projects?

[cursive dirge]

their web interface is bit clunky if you compare to other sites but it works

perforce for professional projects probably

git for projects that are mainly code

[past island]

Ok

where does perforce hide their pricing

😄

[cursive dirge]

it's free for small teams

but the thing is that you need to host it yourself somewhere

[past island]

That is good news

[cursive dirge]

they don't provide hosting

[past island]

hmm ok that makes more sense

[cursive dirge]

and there's no free online hosters for perforce as far as I'm aware of

[past island]

Thanks for the help Olento

[plush yew]

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

[median bronze]

is it me or do we have too many diffrent channels to keep up with? lol

[paper kernel]

just mute the ones you don't need

and hide

[cursive dirge]

^

doesn't help on mobile client though

as you can't hide the extra channels there

you can still mute them there

[median bronze]

but what if they have something interesting i dont want to mute?

[fierce wharf]

Is there anything I can do to confirm that the uploaded indeed created the materials @cursive dirge

Ide hate to inadvertently pirate something as petty as this and then it bite me in the ass. But at the same time, it would certainly help my 1 man crew

With a budget of 0 doll hairs

[cursive dirge]

@fierce wharf not unless the person who shared them explicitly told the source of the materials and you can verify it

usually with such links, you will not get them

I wouldn't touch such content at all

there's plenty of legit free stuff around

like, look at https://share.allegorithmic.com/

[fierce wharf]

Kool thnx, he did drop his name but that could be bogus and I can't imagine how you'd prove that

[cursive dirge]

also, there's freebies on marketplaces, like free pack from gametextures on ue4 marketplace etc

[thorn topaz]

Anyone familiar with accessing data tables from c++?

[surreal viper]

i have used them from time to time, do you have a question or something?

[plush yew]

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

[obtuse orchid]

Whats generally the best source control option out of the 3 available

[glossy flame]

For working with binary assets, P4 is generally best. Git LFS exists, but doesn't seem to work quite as well as P4

At the same time though, speed might not be your primary concern

'Best' is a hard question to answer...you can have objective comparisons in most categories, but balancing those comparisons is up to the person deciding

[safe rose]

Perforce for life

[glossy flame]

I like Git for its workflow personally, but as I usually do things solo, workflow isn't as important to me

Perforce is speed for sure :p

[safe rose]

Not just about speed

[obtuse orchid]

How can you setup 1 workspace with perforce and share it with multiple people

[safe rose]

?

@obtuse orchid repeat

[obtuse orchid]

Basically how do you setup 1 project for multi user with perforce

[safe rose]

You used "workspace"

It's a perforce term 😃

@obtuse orchid Anyway, there;s a few good tuts out there

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Basics/SourceControl/Perforce/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOaDZEG49Z4

https://allarsblog.com/2017/04/05/populating-perforce-with-an-unreal-engine-source-build/

^ this is pretty simple to follow

Obviously don't worry about source stuff

Once you have a server up

/repo

/depot

All you need to do, is submit your project up

[obtuse orchid]

I think the issue we had was that we had to use the same root folder

Or can he change the destination

[safe rose]

?

You mean in workspace?

When you create a new one?

[obtuse orchid]

ie: i use C: and he uses D:

[safe rose]

that doesn't matter

Just, createa new workspace wherever you want

And get Latest

[meager bridge]

Anyone like Dungeon ni Deai?

[safe rose]

@meager bridge what is that?

[meager bridge]

Anime

[safe rose]

hmm, never heard of it, but what does that have to do with UE4?

[meager bridge]

With a gorgeous style

[surreal viper]

sounds like something for #lounge

[safe rose]

Ah

It's that show

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

[meager bridge]

And i want to make a game of it

AJA

[safe rose]

But yeah, that belongs in #lounge

[meager bridge]

Rlly?

Srry

[safe rose]

Okay, are you making this into a UE4 related topic now?

[livid haven]

@meager bridge As ever, do not make fan games.

You want to make something inspired by it, sure.

[meager bridge]

It's for practice

[vale root]

So, we still can't rename our threads right? As in the forum update was totally pointless and backwards?

[safe rose]

@meager bridge You can make a game based on it

It's not like it's anything "new"

Basically a dungeon crawler

[meager bridge]

Not exactly

[safe rose]

Multi-leveled dungeon crawler

@vale root lolo. who knwos, forums are messed up badly. I wouldn't mind renaming my threads though

@meager bridge Not exactly?

I've watched both series

How is it not a dungeon crawler?

[meager bridge]

And i

It's a dungeon crawler

[safe rose]

k

[meager bridge]

Buuut

[safe rose]

But?

[surreal viper]

is it possible to reparent a data asset like asset? there is no option for that in the file menu where there is the one for normal blueprints 😦 I just want to remove a Blueprint Parent from the inheritance chain... and I don't feel like remaking all the assets manually

[safe rose]

Fan Service

?

Yes, I agree

[meager bridge]

I have an idea to make it better

[safe rose]

Then do it

[meager bridge]

I'm starting right now

[safe rose]

@surreal viper Are you using the Asset Management framework?

@meager bridge Nice, good luck! Post in #work-in-progress your well... WIP stuff

[surreal viper]

I don't think so, I have no idea what that is

[meager bridge]

Sure

[safe rose]

@surreal viper Anyway, when you said "Data Asset Like Asset" , what did you mean?

UDataAsset?

Or something else?

[surreal viper]

I checked how udataasset work, and did the same for my own class based on UObject (so basically it has a factory)

now I have UObject -> MyCppClass -> MyBPClass, and that has instances, and I want to remove the mybpclass

[safe rose]

MyBPClass is derived from MyCppClass ?

[surreal viper]

yepyep

[safe rose]

So delete it?

[surreal viper]

won't that ruin all my instances?

[safe rose]

Yup

You will get a message telling you what reference(s) will be broken

If you want to check beforehand, just right click and reference viewer

But if you're asking me if it affects MyCppClass (the parent), then no

[surreal viper]

yeah, I have that part
only problem is that I can't really do anything
all the assets are there obviously

but I need them, that's the point
replace reference does not work with the parent cpp class

[safe rose]

Did you ask that question?

No, okay, I thought I was confused a bit

[surreal viper]

I want to reparent the existing assets

[safe rose]

To what?

the cpp class?

[surreal viper]

yeah

[safe rose]

So

Just wondering, why?

[surreal viper]

the BP class itself was a stupid way to add a BP only enum to my assets which is handled as int in c++ level

and I came up with better design and I can remove that now

theoratically I could just leave the empty BP class there

but I hate junk

[safe rose]

Well, it's not like it's costing you anything

And, it's good practice to have BP children of cpp classes sometimes anyway

[surreal viper]

yes, but not in this case, it's just a data asset

and UObject based BP-s used not to work in general

but I admit, I could just leave it be, it's not entirly ractional

but I really hate that it's there

it makes me feel bad

so I'm working on a more or less automate way to copy the data to new assets 😄

[plush yew]

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

[faint cliff]

Hi!

Has anyone used a camera crane in Sequencer?

I've animated it's Crane Yaw value and it works in editor, but in a packaged build doesn't seems to be taken into account, the camera remains static

[plush yew]

Please welcome @desert dew to the community! :beers:

[plush yew]

Hi, i'm new to UE4. I used a tutorial to apply a video texture to a cube but the projection came out warped and mirrored. The UVs of the cube were unwrapped optimally in C4D. How can I fix the video texture projection?

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

[plush yew]

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

[pallid compass]

when u spend all day studying the gameplay ability system, MAN ITS SO GUD

[plush yew]

Please welcome @sleek mango to the community! :beers:

[slate orbit]

has anyone else experienced this problem or know whats up with it: so im making a low-graphics quality paper2d game with a lot of ai, after ive spawned in about a thousand of them the game gets laggy (obviously) but when I was testing this the cpu was running at about 30% and the gpu was running at around 50% power, and the game was getting about 20 fps. Why is the hardware not pushing to get higher frames?

[plush yew]

Please welcome @buoyant island to the community! :beers:

[fierce wharf]

can anyone help me figure this blender issue out? when i 'difference' cut with boolean, its not filling in the cut with faces and edges 😦

[static perch]

@fierce wharf i dont understnad what you mean

[fierce wharf]

http://i.imgur.com/4na7GWx.png

[static perch]

it's difference, its not supposed to lol

i dont think so anyways

[fierce wharf]

im folowing a tutorial, its supposed to

[static perch]

hmm

ask in the level design channel

[surreal bridge]

Anyone else ever have trouble with the forum? They appear to have redesigned it and now when I try to send a private message or post a new thread it says something about a 200 parse error, and then takes me to a new page that says this action could not be completed.

[static perch]

the answerhub or the forum lol

[fierce wharf]

suposed to do that

[static perch]

oh

just delete the verts then

ask in #level-design they should know about third party modelling programs

[kind pumice]

Question! For my projectiles to hit and fracture a DM, I had to add CollisionComp->SetCollisionResponseToChannel(ECC_Destructible, ECR_Block);

which works for the first projectile to hit it

but after it fractures, no further projectiles can hit the unfractured parts of the mesh

they pass right through it

is there a setting for "Update collision mesh after fractured" or something like that?

[cloud cobalt]

Does anyone know if the translation editor can be made to detect updates to source strings ?

[weary basalt]

@cloud cobalt ask @livid haven

[livid haven]

Clarify?

If you change a source string, the existing translation is invalidated.

Not sure if by translation editor you mean loc dashboard or the actual translation editor which is... something.

Better off using POEdit (3rd party) and using the import and export functionality.

[fluid viper]

morning.. importing an fbx with animated FOV works in matinee, but in the sequencer only the transform works.. any clues on how to get this to work?

fbx is animated cam from 3dsmax

[cloud cobalt]

@livid haven Yeah the dashboard !

[fluid viper]

for reference here's an FBX.. free beer for anyone who finds a way to get it in the sequencer as a CineCamActor: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zx3m5a94flieoep/NB_camera.fbx?dl=1 with the FOV animation intact

[plush yew]

Hi.

What 3d packages do you use?

@Jonathan de Blok#0779

He is no longer in the house

I guess I am not taking a look at it.

[livid haven]

You have to run the gather step, @cloud cobalt

[cloud cobalt]

Yeah I'm doing that. But changes in a LOCTEXT data doesn't appear in the "untranslated" field in the editor

Or even "needs reveiw"

Same for Blueprint texts

[livid haven]

Hmmm. Ping me tomorrow? 3 AM here.

[cloud cobalt]

Wow, sorry !

[fluid viper]

both 4.16 and 4.17 dont do the FOV bit

using 3dsmax, classic simple cam. I'm pretty sure it's not in the export bit since matinee does pick it up and so does houdini and when I re-import back into 3dsmax the fov anim is there as well.

I think the issue is that the cineCamActor uses focal length instead of FOV, it's fov propery is read only. It's a trivial conversion but it's not done during import I guess

and matinee uses the old CameraActor instead of the cineCameraActor

[spare topaz]

does UE dislike enum:boolean maps inside structs?

[fluid viper]

@plush yew sorry, got sidetracked after posting it.. i'm still here 😃

[spare topaz]

oh, does Map not support replication?

[weary basalt]

TMap and TSet do not support replication no.

[spare topaz]

damn, would be nice if they supported. Thanks for info

[wary wave]

you can't replicate them because they're more like databases

you can however write your own functions to manage them over a network

[sudden agate]

A TSet is basically a TArray with only unique Entries...

[plush yew]

Please welcome @gusty knot to the community! :beers:

[devout gulch]

TSet is hased

hashed*

beyond storing data it have nothing in common with TArray

[glossy relic]

What happens when a piece of Marketplace content is updated, when I've created a new project using it?

[ornate hamlet]

Say, has anyone here had problems with the UE4 auto save. It simply doesn't want to save. So I started setting the timer to 1 minute. I waited a minute, but one minute passed and it still hasn't saved. What's going on here?

[plush yew]

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

[hearty abyss]

Welcome @tight radish

[plush yew]

Please welcome @rugged grove to the community! :beers:

[fierce tulip]

@wicked tiger is this allowed? https://teespring.com/unreal-engine-t-shirt#pid=46&cid=2739&sid=front

[wary wave]

probably not

[fierce tulip]

someone is promoting ^ those links on a variety of social media thats ue/ue4 related

[wary wave]

looks like they do this a lot

[fierce tulip]

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/956/638/5bc.gif

https://cartrdge.com/conormccann some really artsy fartsy shader/sim effects

[plush yew]

I bought 2 ue4 shirts on amazon from china for $10 each @fierce tulip

it's too bad there are no ue4 shirts on the epic website >.>

[wary wave]

https://www.epicgamesstore.com/collections/unreal-engine

not much at present

(the other problem is that their shipping costs more than the items...)

[lunar mural]

Is there a help channel?

[weary basalt]

Choose the channel that best encompasses what you wish to ask and go right ahead.

[lunar mural]

How do you manually build an unreal project?

I tried to build it from the unreal project file but it gives me an error and asks to build it manually

[weary basalt]

Are you using an C++ project?

You need to rebuild the project binaries in Visual Studio

[whole quarry]

There is a ue4 wiki doc on how to package tho

[wary wave]

oh FFS - you can't get the location of a component in construction script if it has been adjusted in the viewport

if anyone has any clever suggestions I'm wide open -_-

bah, just gonna give an actor reference

[paper kernel]

I kinda want UE4 t-shirt

and beanie

[plush yew]

Hi everyone. Does someone know which operations (Blueprint, Placing Actors/Meshes, Importing/Migrating Assets, etc.) I can do while the engine is compiling it's shaders? The whole engine reactions slowly or stutters while it's compiling everything but I also want to work while it is compiling.... I don't want to wait until ~10.000 shaders are ready =/

[wicked tiger]

@fierce tulip Thanks for calling that out to me!

[craggy nymph]

@plush yew, afaik you can do whatever you want while shaders are compiling. It's just that your CPU is busy pretty much 100 %. If you want to, you can set the affinity of the shader compile processes (there are multiple) in the windows task manager to free up a CPU core /thread.

[light thunder]

Is general an appropriate place to share a GoFundMe link for a VR simulator?

[wary wave]

I wouldn't think GoFundMe links are appropriate here at all

[plush yew]

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

[gleaming thistle]

heyo

[plush skiff]

hey, welcome 😃

[plush yew]

Please welcome @queen helm to the community! :beers:

[toxic vale]

Where does compiling Questions to go?

[surreal viper]

as good here as anywhere else I think

this channel or programming, but i would rather use this :/

[toxic vale]

aight cus i've started getting Assertion failed: Offset >= 0 [File:D:\Build++UE4+Release-4.16+Compile\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\PakFile\Private\IPlatformFilePak.cpp] [Line: 148] all of a sudden in my project, and i'm not sure whats causing it, as it works fine in editor and use to work fine packadged

[plush skiff]

do you have a crash output? might help to see more of the call stack

[toxic vale]

Sec!

Assertion failed: Offset >= 0 [File:D:\Build++UE4+Release-4.16+Compile\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\PakFile\Private\IPlatformFilePak.cpp] [Line: 148]

KERNELBASE.dll!0x0000000074B4A9F2
AutismoDrift.exe!0x0000000000A421DB
AutismoDrift.exe!0x0000000000A421DB

(If thats the output you ment) as its all information i'm given by it.

[plush skiff]

ah nah was hoping for a function call stack, no worries though.

[toxic vale]

Lemme check if logs gives any

[plush skiff]

you crash on startup of a packaged build for this?

[toxic vale]

Yu

[plush skiff]

is the package under debug game? logs could help, any project logs too if theres any return there

[toxic vale]

https://pastebin.com/AJSpdwfr

[verbal lily]

Not sure where to put this, but are Matinee's still being supported by Epic for animating objects, but not for their cinematics? (i.e. if you want to use it to make a moving platform) Or is there a better way to make one?

(also sorry for randomly barging in ^^)

[plush skiff]

no worries, just looking over the log. i believe matinee is still used for things like moving objects and stuff yeah

[toxic vale]

These Last compiles that given crashes has been compiled over teamviewer aswell.. maybe i should add that :p

[plush skiff]

if you feel more comfortable in it on a smaller scale its not deprecated or anything, so feel free

yeah that narrows down some steps

whats the platform target? just win64/32?

[toxic vale]

win32 rn

[verbal lily]

Oh okay, thanks Craig! 😃

[plush skiff]

any changes in a win64 build?

[toxic vale]

uhm, can try will take me a tiny bit of time

[plush skiff]

are the specs of the other computers running the build quite low?

or the the same specs as yours at least

[toxic vale]

na, the PC running the game is Very top-end

and i do have testers with different specs

and they are all experiencing it

[plush skiff]

you might have better luck with a win64 build, give it a go

looks like it could be memory

[toxic wagon]

Has anyone done anything with animation retargetting?

[toxic vale]

My 64 bit dont even want to compile, due to fmod :p

think i got 32 bit fmod, derp

[plush skiff]

ah boo

[toxic vale]

My bet is its just teamviewer messing it up tho

as last update i did, added litarilly just 1 car, and a end game mode, which either of those should of caused it

and cars are not pre-loaded

[plush skiff]

yeah memory looks good actually. im stumped. we had some weird issues a while back with no cause in only shipping builds, had to step back to see what fixed it, while a different issue might be worth doing the same test

[toxic vale]

Lets be all honest tho, The engine dosen't like the project name, and therefor throwing a fit, Despite autismodrift being a perfect name!

Seems like a legit reason 😄

anyhow i'll be back in here on sat day when i'm at home if issue contiues when compiling without teamviewer,

[toxic wagon]

Gah there's this one menu I can't find

[plush skiff]

no worries, good luck

[toxic wagon]

and the wiki won't tell me how to find it

[toxic vale]

What menu :p

[toxic wagon]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/images/Engine/Animation/RetargetingDifferentSkeletons/Retarget14.jpg

"You can specify Bone Translation Retargeting through the Skeleton Tree view."

well, which one, there's the Main Skeleton's animation tree, the retarget skeleton's, the animation's skeleton,

and I've checked all of them and they don't have that

[toxic vale]

Never seen that menu either, Did that come in last update?

[toxic wagon]

no

it's for animation retargetting

[toxic vale]

Ah, I've not seen it sadly stiffy,

[toxic wagon]

maybe source's retargetting will work

[valid stratus]

are there any plans for a browser UE4 player, similar to what Unity has? I know there's the html5 thing but that needs particular browsers, just curious

[plush yew]

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

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

[plush yew]

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

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

[plush yew]

Please welcome @vagrant pasture to the community! :beers:

Is it okay if I started with a ThirdPersonTemplate, created a C++ file from within Editor (so now it's C++), and I want to convert to the latest engine version?

Please welcome @autumn ferry to the community! :beers:

[autumn ferry]

@plush yew Just open it in the latest version and it will convert and re-compile? (Remember backup)

Anyone feel Temporal AA in UE4 is a bit blurry? Look for some feedback on a solution I'm working on. (Example https://imgsli.com/MDY5Ng)

[plush yew]

Thanks I guess. I didn't know since I converted a template to C++ if it would act just like a github C++

[fierce wharf]

when modeling should i try to keep all my faces tri or quad?

[buoyant echo]

What type of wording would one use to look up how a game does certain mechanics? I'm trying to google about silent hill's "psychological behavior" approach to games, but all google is spitting out is stuff about the game's 'otherworld' and how the 'different dimensions theory' works..

[pallid compass]

@fierce wharf quads always

[plush yew]

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

[fierce wharf]

ok so after i complete a model, should i try and knife my faces to tris to increase performance? im reading that ue4 converts all quads to tris because hats how ue4 shades. so would it benefit me to do it myself befor import?

man, you guys should considder trimming inactive members, the server runs so slow i cant read what im typing in browser discord

[safe rose]

@fierce wharf lol. Has nothing to do with the server. Just your PC.

Mine's working just fine.

@fierce wharf Anyway, Usually, you keep your models in quads, because like you stated, game engines typically convert them automatically.

Quads are much more manageable in DCCs than tris

So, will you see any performance difference if you import tris vs quads? I doubt it

[fierce wharf]

if theres enough geometry i shouldnt get anykind of unexpected result tho right? like this?

[safe rose]

As long as your normals are fine and you don't have any n-gons.

[fierce wharf]

better example

[safe rose]

Right, so that's a totally different issue

Have you done any Basic 3D modelling tutorials?

[obsidian nimbus]

you can have blender triangulate all faces, but i doubt it increases performance

[fierce wharf]

yeah thats really why im asking, in the middle of one im doing he stated the only time youd consider tri faces is for when moddeling game assests . so i wanted to asee what and if there would be issues sticking to nothing but quads

[obsidian nimbus]

knife all faces seems like a pain in the bum too me 😛

[glad saffron]

@fierce wharf that actually is a problem sometimes, particularly coming from Maya where there is no concept of a "turned edge". We generally triangulate before coing out of maya to unreal. In max it's not a problem.

[safe rose]

@glad saffron ??

Why do you triangulate at all?

There's no reason to do it in Maya either

[fierce wharf]

ue4 turns them all to triangles, will that cause unwanted looks or performance drops. <specificaly what i want to know , just wanted to mclear that up a bhit

[plush yew]

Please welcome @ionic lintel to the community! :beers:

[obsidian nimbus]

I never heared anything like that

[safe rose]

@fierce wharf Your answer = no

BUT

: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Content/FBX/StaticMeshes/

Which I think is where you got that one pic from

But, DCC's exporters and Game Engine's Importers are pretty damn good

I've never seen any of my art ever go in wrong unless I messed up terribly inside the DCC itself

[hard ice]

LiveStream about Composure is happening on Youtube now

[safe rose]

Hmm Composure

[pallid compass]

@fierce wharf no it will not cause unwated look or peformance drop

[fierce wharf]

u tell me no, and provide a link that sais yes... here are several ways you can ensure your mesh is triangulated.

Model the mesh with only tris - best solution, provides the most control over the end result.

Triangulate the mesh in the 3D app - good solution, allows cleanup and modification before export.

Allow the FBX exporter to triangulate the mesh - okay solution, allows no cleanup but can work for simple meshes.

Allow the importer to triangulate the mesh - okay solution, allows no cleanup but can work for simple meshes.

It will always be best to manually triangulate the mesh in the 3D application, controlling the direction and placement of edges. Automatic triangulation can lead to undesirable results.

straight from their own guides, thanx

[ionic sedge]

The only time it's useful to triangulate in a 3d software is when you want the exact same triangulation result for several things, for example triangulating before exporting to Substance Painter, creating textures there, then applying that to your mesh in UE4. If the didn't have the same triangles weird things can happen.

But it doesn't matter for performance. It will happen automatically when importing into UE4 anyway.

[glad saffron]

We see flipped edge orientation problems at times with something modeled in max but rigged in maya. We triangulate out of maya to fix this. There is no performance ramification either way as it's a preprocess import step on Unreal's end.

[fierce wharf]

you folks have been most helpful, i appreciate it

one last thing, so i should definitely triangulate and fix irregularities before uv mapping and texturing?

[ionic sedge]

If it's another software it can be a good idea, but if you're doing it in Blender it doesn't matter.

[plush yew]

Please welcome @spice rune to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @empty thicket to the community! :beers:

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

Please welcome @fierce iron to the community! :beers:

Please welcome @sturdy siren to the community! :beers:

!gameidea

A role-playing game where you hinder birds to survive during World War I.

k

[icy wind]

lmao

[ionic sedge]

!gameidea

[plush yew]

A role-playing game where you raise rodents of unusual size for the future of humankind in an abandoned mansion and a ghostly cat is constantly distracting you.

[next badger]

I'm not a commoner there, but how long ago Unreal Forums lost their dark theme?

[grim ore]

2 days?

[teal tulip]

@next badger since they changed the whole forums to vBulletin 5

[next badger]

@grim ore is it temporary? i just...it's too bright

[teal tulip]

Is not a theme change but whole forums change

[next badger]

@teal tulip i'm aware

[teal tulip]

Then why ask about the theme himself ?

They don't have the themes since new forums version don't have it or they didn't found it yet I image

aswell there is not way to change theme I see

[grim ore]

no one knows if its permanent or not, epic kinda broke it in the process of moving over so we can hope 😃

[next badger]

@grim ore ok, ty

[teal tulip]

Rather thana problem with black theme its a problem with the white one its a bit worst to read than last one

[next badger]

Made that so far.

[buoyant echo]

What type of wording would one use to look up how a game does certain mechanics? I'm trying to google about silent hill's "psychological behavior" approach to games, but all google is spitting out is stuff about the game's 'otherworld' and how the 'different dimensions theory' works..

[next badger]

@buoyant echo I'm not sure what psychological behavior means in the terms of Silent Hill

[buoyant echo]

http://data.whicdn.com/images/102405039/large.gif

Got the gif version, woops.

@next badger

[next badger]

@buoyant echo oh, it's called Adaptive Gamplay here's paper: https://graphics.tudelft.nl/Publications-new/2014/Lop14/

[buoyant echo]

thank you so much.

[opal hornet]

quick question: how do you decide if an equipment item is to be a skeletal mesh or static mesh? For example, Infinity Blade weapons are SM, but why?

I understand why armor may be SMs, but why things like weapons?

[safe rose]

@opal hornet You decide it simply by this... Does it have a bone or not

Does it need a bone

and wtf did I just do

with my discord

it's super small now

[opal hornet]

I guess a derivative question would be: how do you decide if it needs a bone or not?

[safe rose]

I guess it went to native resolution

But I don't know how I did it

[opal hornet]

if its physics involved?

[safe rose]

@opal hornet Physics...

Animations

Anything really

Does a sword need to be a SK? nah

[next badger]

@opal hornet iirc Infinity Blade weapons using SM for Socket locations

[safe rose]

But, does it have cool little animations attached to it

Maybe so then

[opal hornet]

But something like a whip or mace would be SM

got it

[safe rose]

That's not his question

[opal hornet]

thank you 😃

[safe rose]

No problem

[opal hornet]

it was partially Victor

[thick ridge]

@buoyant echo I like the psychological game...really cool

A game that learns from player choice. Sounds like a monster to program 😜

[plush yew]

!gameidea

A puzzle game where you destroy cubes for mysterious reasons and you do it all with one button.

nice beginner game

[next badger]

Small update

[vestal cloak]

how do I convert an imported static mesh to a pawn

[next badger]

@vestal cloak You can't afaik, You need to make a pawn blueprint, then add this mesh to it.

[vestal cloak]

nevermind I fixed it

[ionic sedge]

I noticed t.maxfps is 120 by default, shouldn't it use the monitor refresh rate in the engine at least?

[twilit hill]

there is no easy way around this unless you actually pack a game

it was possible once by editing alot of ini files, but i dont think that works anymore

maybe its cause some observative services are invoked when playing/previewing from or in the editor

[plush yew]

Please welcome @ruby token to the community! :beers:

[opal hornet]

WELCOME

[next badger]

Nice. Even error is themed:

I wonder if it's default like that...

[weary basalt]

How did you get an Dark theme?

Did they add that back already?

[next badger]

@weary basalt nope, it's mine custom CSS

it's wip yet

if You have Stylish installed i could send you code

hilight for unread threads

[eternal orchid]

!gameidea

[plush yew]

A simulation game where you shock towers to unlock a mysterious door and the sun gives you more power.

[eternal orchid]

that... actually sounds interesting xD

[south ridge]

Hmm

This is weird

I'm trying to set up a destructible actor, I've enabled world support and placed it to overlap with static mesh

And tried out setting chunks to be supported and stuff

But it still acts as if it's not being supported

As if it doesn't detect overlap with the static mesh

Even though there is overlap

[next badger]

fixed issue with huge attached files box

was

now

[scarlet echo]

https://youtu.be/zPYKaFADVx8

[proper quiver]

any idea why my particle light is not casting lights at all?

doesn't seem to be working. the ribbon works. the light does not

[proper quiver]

ah I figured it out, for some reason alpha over time MUST be from 0 to 1

bizarre

[safe rose]

@forummod hmm no tag for them @maiden swift I think they warrant it

Especially with forums fubar'd

[plush yew]

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

[maiden swift]

@safe rose Pretty sure the mods can't do anything about the software update.

If you have feedback on the forum update, share it here: https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/feedback-for-epic/1342396-new-forum-update-feedback

[next badger]

forum is...i'm not sure if t's Epic's fault or it's buggy...

I've posted only ONE message. and it's the last one...so both, popup and thread info are wrong

[warm mountain]

hey guys would it be counter productive to use assets from the marketplace that are highly detailed in a large map?

say if we have a large map with about 700-1100 different types of meshes

with diffuse, normal maps around 1024x1024 and 2048x2048 would it cost performance issues?

[next badger]

@warm mountain game probably won't even run if the whole map will be visible...just IMO

[warm mountain]

I notice some big budget games with a high degree of photorealism do have some pretty blurred textures on their meshes especially in large spaces

won't load the whole place all at once

its divided into 8 places that are loaded slowly as the player approaches

[next badger]

Camera clamping, LODs, Mip-Maps

[warm mountain]

each place has 50-280 meshes

[next badger]

And level Streaming

[warm mountain]

gotcha

I'll read up on those

still pretty new to using UE

[next badger]

@warm mountain You could generate Lods in UE4 btw...can't say anything on quality tho

@warm mountain also, Instanced Meshes (those are like 80% of performance boost)

[warm mountain]

gotcha

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ff/41/9a/ff419a79b351811c05aabd2cb71b6fc5.png

most of my assets are 1kx1k maps and those that are closeups or large objects are 2kx2k

[next badger]

well, it's fine, ue4 could manage textures...

[warm mountain]

oh Alex is LOD and Instance Meshes a manual process where we set the shape and quality manually based on distance?

[next badger]

LODs are impost instances of the same object with differet resolution that are switched based on visible screen area, so yes...
Instance Meshes are quite different beast, those are EXACT copies of the mesh (those could be transformed) but everything is done directly on GPU

[warm mountain]

oh thats very cool!

oh last question

I've heard a lot of bad things regarding hard edges

on meshes

but I do see a lot of meshes in some big games that are simply just that, a cube having 6 sides. Is the issue more with archvis than gaming?

or did they do the softing of the edges using really close edge loops?

[next badger]

Um. There's nothing wrong with hard edges. If You mean smothing groups. The problem they adress probably is vertex count multiplication, but it' not much an issue actually.

If you have hard edge, each polygon that shares this edge will be composed from different vertices, even if those are same for this edge

[warm mountain]

i see

so on occasions it might produce lighting issues?

[next badger]

nope, it's purely GPU math thing

[warm mountain]

ah thats good to know

[next badger]

UE4 still will store mesh as is, it's for the GPU will be the difference...i'm not relly aware how ue4 treating mesh data unfortunately

[warm mountain]

gotcha

I was a bit curious maybe i hadn't been looking hard enough

was peering into the asset store and found nearly every pack using softedges

at least the ones that got reviews

[next badger]

@warm mountain maybe we're talking in different terms?

[warm mountain]

perhaps I can't say I'm well verse in the lingo. When I mean hard edges it means if there is a cube, there are just 6 faces. But if the edges are smoothed there might be around 36-48 faces along the edge

I just tend to notice a lot of assets in the store sold low poly assets with smoothed edges but I don't see too much of that in some big budget games and I still see a number of hard edge objects like crates and bookshelfs

[next badger]

@warm mountain oh, that's just tesselaton

or subdivision

no wise man would use that in game

it's reduction of the poligons count what makes GameArt production hard...many assets on MP are for archiVIZ

[warm mountain]

I see

I suppose there must be quite a demand of it since its tedious

I was guessing a lot of those models with for arch vis too

as I never seen games with insanely high quality models like those

[plush yew]

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

[next badger]

@warm mountain You probably should look at Infinity Blade assets on the market, they are free and they are definitely AAA assets

[warm mountain]

gotcha

[next badger]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/assets?lang=&q=infinity blade

[warm mountain]

that would be a pretty good reference

[next badger]

@warm mountain also, if You're new to UE4, look at Learn Tab in launcher, there're many examples there, as for HUGE level is "A Boy and His Kite" demo

[warm mountain]

alrighty Alex thanks for the help!

[next badger]

@warm mountain np, good luck 😃

nap time for me

[warm mountain]

nya!

[crimson sigil]

does a lower detail version of the kite demo assets exist somewhere?

or rather it seems like UE4 crashes if I so much as try loading any of the assets

like even a single small-ish rock

[crimson sigil]

well I got some things viewable, but ultimately my computer just ain't up to snuff 🤷

[wary wave]

the assets take a very long time to open because they're high res

[plush yew]

Please welcome @thorny siren to the community! :beers:

[crimson sigil]

yeah, in some cases it was taking weirdly long. I assume it was generating mip map or LoD stuff or something like that. Maybe just memory trubs.

like my computer isn't so bad it "should" struggle with opening the inspector on a 4k x 4k texture

cpu is showing its age though I think

[livid haven]

@crimson sigil Epic rigs are monstrosities. Methinks those assets were never made with any intention of being opened on anything but a monstrosity.

To work on Fortnite, I have 32 GB, so I can handle editor + vs + server + client.

[crimson sigil]

yeah.... reminds me of the 32 core cpu that we had in the lab at a place I did a brief stint recently

I bet that would do it.

[livid haven]

I don't think I get much over 24 GB used at peak during dev, but nonetheless.

[crimson sigil]

might have been fewer cores hyperthreaded

xeon, that's what it was

and yeah, probably 16 core, 32 thread

also I've got 24GB ram on my home machine. I think it's more a cpu/gpu thing if it is

[hard ice]

Someone has any experience with Building for iOS on Windows?

I have configured everything like in the documentation but what now?

How do I say, launch it on my ipad?

[plush yew]

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

[plush yew]

Please welcome @candid shard to the community! :beers:

[opal spindle]

Is there a way to make level templates for a project?

[plush yew]

Please welcome @gray fractal to the community! :beers:

[opal spindle]

@wary wave basically level templates are put inside the engine folder according to this answerhub

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/33833/create-level-template.html

[wary wave]

yeah, if you want them as part of the 'new map' basic window they will need to go in that folder

[plush yew]

Please welcome @fickle cradle to the community! :beers:

[opal spindle]

dang, thanks anyway

[plush yew]

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

[plush yew]

Please welcome @low zealot to the community! :beers:

[fringe grail]

Anyone know how to fix this error: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/148122414767669248/350601412553736196/unknown.png

[eternal orchid]

!gameidea

[plush yew]

A puzzle game where you mimic nightmares to impress your friends on an abandoned ship floating on an endless ocean.

[eternal orchid]

Whoa

[glossy arrow]

@fringe grail shot in the dark, check if that file exists and is currently set to readonly

[fierce wharf]

https://www.udemy.com/unrealcourse/ is this legit only 10 bucks? like i wont be told later i need to buy a book and a software license or anything like that?

[wary wave]

it's permanently discounted

dodgy sales tactics

[fierce wharf]

yeah i saw it at 10 bucks last week too :/ i mean i dont mind paying 10 bucks for a nice tutorial that i could maybe even put on a resume, i just dont like shady

[wary wave]

why would you put a tutorial on a resume?

[fierce wharf]

well its a course really

with a Certificate of Completion

[wary wave]

if it isn't accredited in any way, the certificate isn't worth anything

[fierce wharf]

i dont really mean in the 'education' spot, more like accomplishments

the kinda spot ppl would put extra curricular stuff

[safe rose]

@fierce wharf hmmm...I would advise against putting something like that on your resume

Just add it to your "years of experience" (1 month, whatever)

And skillset (Unreal C++)

You have to think, there are over 10000 student who've taken that course

You should be working on a portfolio if anything

Create as many little games as you can

Show your worth

Not that you can follow a tutorial

Since, in the real world, 99% of the time you won't be. It'll be custom logic implementation.

[fierce wharf]

nice, good to know

[pallid compass]

except you want quality over quantity

[buoyant echo]

^

[fierce wharf]

i dont see how You have to think, there are over 10000 student who've taken that course makes any difference though. that's going to be a factor for any course any where, and 10,000 would be small ammount compared to things that have been being tought for a long time

[pallid compass]

Trust me man, i would not put that on my CV

Employeers dont even look at your name

They dont care about courses u did online, or anything u did in school etc

[fierce wharf]

when i was in colege my ethics teacher used to over look applicants. he mentioned his favorite resume for a advertizing firm was one on a pizza box

[pallid compass]

game industry is alot different

its not like employing people for things like working in a shop etc

Because you want quality over someone just getting the job down

etc

im sure u get what i mean

this is stuff iv been taught by someone who tutors me, who worked for rockstar and on gta and stuff

and has been in the industry for like 25 years

[fierce wharf]

point being resumes should be tailored to the job your applying for, so im not saying i would add that if i applied at a studio. something entry level not requiring a degree or experience, i cant see adding that certificate hurting your chances. im trying to be realistic, i dont honestly mean that ill be applying to anything BIG, i dont have a portfolio or any experience. these questions are really only relate d to if this course is worth my time and money. will it help me make a 'quality' portfolio , and weigh in on like a small devs teams choice to hire me?

[frank hound]

its a introduction course

it will teach you the basics of making a game, if you complete it you are by no means good enough to have a job at a studio, but it will be a first step for you to learn things and from that you will eventually make something good

[heady bridge]

Does Ue4.17 support VS 2017?

[frank hound]

Im new to UE4 as well and have taken that course, its pretty good I recommend you taking it, if you are new its totally worth your time.

[fierce wharf]

right, i never looked at it in the sense wit would get me working for a studio, more like just get me out of working in warehouses and learn to eventually make quality games

thank you for taking the time to share your experience

[frank hound]

yes well it will help you getting a job eventually, but meanwhile whatch it and learn from it, its a pretty good introduction, Im sure you will be able to make lots of things once you complete the course.

[fierce wharf]

oh!, is there any hidden costs with udemi? like books and software licenses?

[frank hound]

nope

the only problem with Udemy is that they tell you "here look at this amazing discount, but make sure you buy it today" but then next week they give the same discount

this course always has this discount

still worth, just they kinda make it look like its your last chance when its not

but yeah no hidden costs. of course unless you get a course on maya and you dont own the software.

[fierce wharf]

cool, yeah i dont think the basic unreal one has you use anything outide of ue4, from the looks of it any how

[frank hound]

and even if you want to use some 3d app in this case you could just use blender and you are good

[fierce wharf]

yeah i was considering buying both those courses, espicaly since the blender one looks like it has a nice lone section for lods,uv maps, and game assests

[frank hound]

I don't use blender and I dont know that course so I can't recommend but sounds like a good idea none the less

another course I got was the one aproved by epic games, that one was fun to start with

https://www.udemy.com/unreale4/

but this had no C++ and was more basic

its just blueprints but still was a fun one, I think good for people that want to start slow or want to avoid programming

but if you take the other one first this one wont be very good lol

[fierce wharf]

im pretty interested in learning c++, so ill probably just look into the other. im still waiting for my friends to try to convince me to work with them and learn unity, i don't think they even plan to ask, so im just gonna go make my own game with unreal, and hookers, and blackjack

[frank hound]

yeah go for it, and good that you will learn C++ in the long run it will give you so much power

anyway, have fun and good luck on your journey, I will go back to my work lol This got me fired up

[polar hawk]

Make cool shit

Put that cool shit in your resume

Thats really all there is to it

[plush yew]

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

[plush yew]

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

[paper kernel]

to be fair, you also need to make pretty shit

HR has no eye for masterpiece code

[next badger]

small update

[autumn ferry]

Your custom theme?

The new forum is impressivly buggy.

[plush yew]

Please welcome @visual fog to the community! :beers:

[visual fog]

does anyone know how to scale the collision of a static mesh using x,y, and z? Is that possible in the editor?

[plush yew]

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

[next badger]

@autumn ferry yep...buggy? like how?

[autumn ferry]

I get logged out every other minute. I need 5 tries to post, reply, etc.

I get a new session cookie like every other minute. So it seems they are not syncing stuff between edge servers correctly.

Seeing "logging in.." every 2-3 minutes or so.

[next badger]

@autumn ferry that's weird, i had no issues since update

[plush yew]

did the forum's skin change?

or is this a bug? mine looks like this now https://gyazo.com/6724ef8034991a4ded71daf1efd0f611

[autumn ferry]

They updated it

[plush yew]

when?

[autumn ferry]

yesterday

[plush yew]

ugh it's ugly

can i go back to the old one

?

[autumn ferry]

It's very much broken atm for me.

nope

But will hopefully get a good theme in the future. They need to make it work first.

[next badger]

@plush yew you could grab my dark one CSS if you know how to use Stylish. https://t.co/TPgEdvzUyo it's very WIP

[plush yew]

ugh, tried to reply to my own thread. got

That action could not be completed. Please try again, and if this occurs again please contact the system administrator and tell them how you got this message.

[next badger]

http://imgur.com/a/eqngU

[autumn ferry]

@plush yew You get that error because the session cookie gets reset every minute. So you need to be really fast to post after you see the "logging in" screen.

Where in the world are you located btw? I have a feeling it's their front end servers acting up.

[plush yew]

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

[fossil ore]

@next badger Give me that theme :V

[next badger]

@fossil ore read above

[plush yew]

Please welcome @thin viper to the community! :beers:

[next badger]

Okay. I've updated the CSS and added some comments, still WIP https://t.co/TPgEdvzUyo

[fierce wharf]

!gameidea

[plush yew]

A simulation game where you push the fabric of reality on the set of a horror film but you're made of titanium.

Please welcome @fickle hornet to the community! :beers:

[heady bridge]

I created a new C++ blank project, and I clicked Generate VS code, and I have no solution file in VS with engine and what not, trying to follow FPS C++ text tutorial

[next badger]

@heady bridge You could generate a solution file by right clicking the .uproject file

generate project files should be there

[heady bridge]

I did do that, but doesn't seem to have worked

[next badger]

Dou you have VS installed?

[heady bridge]

Yes

VS2017

[next badger]

And ue4 installed too?

[heady bridge]

Yes

[next badger]

gimme a sec

@heady bridge how long ago You've installed the VS?

[heady bridge]

Few months ago

I update regularly though

[next badger]

@heady bridge Do You have some antivirus/firewall?

[heady bridge]

Nope

[next badger]

You probably should get one, but that's not the case 😃

You have these rigth?

[heady bridge]

Yes I have those

Im not new to Unreal engine, I just never had that happen before, and somewhat new to C++

I hit the generate VS project files, then open Unreal engine editor, and file > open in VS, and I don't have the solution

and I've recreated the project several times

[next badger]

@heady bridge you could click that option and it should generate them asap, no ue editor required...i'm looking where a logs located now...

[heady bridge]

They do generate when I generate them in the project folder, but I just open the code from in editor

[next badger]

@heady bridge wait, You've sait there're no solution file...right?