@last loom Yes that was the GIF I posted before
#ue4-general
plush yew
plush yew
I wonder if rotating will affect other actors since it doesn't seem to update
last loom
this community has an attiude problem
cloud cobalt
This community is a community of professionals
Professionals don't go to people with 10x the experience saying they're full of shit
Like it or leave it
last loom
yeah because as we all know, in 21st Century Amerikkka, only absolute obedience to your superiors is tolerated
cloud cobalt
Sorry, I'm not American
cloud cobalt
I also don't have superiors
plush yew
Answer is yes, rotating the capsule still affects other actors
last loom
facts
science
it's the way of the future
I refuse to argue fucking russian spam bots
peace fools
warm mountain
Hey guys quick question I understand blueprints do make things slower compared to pure C++
cloud cobalt
@warm mountain Not that much really
warm mountain
gotcha
cloud cobalt
Very slightly slower
warm mountain
I was wondering if it was worth the trouble of laying everything out in blueprints
warm mountain
and then switching over to C++
plush yew
So uh... capsules are not locked it seems...
warm mountain
oh yea I'm not doing anything particularly complicated
cloud cobalt
Stick to what you're most comfortable with, unless you're doing multiplayer, complex data processing, etc - stuff like that is better done in C++
warm mountain
its just standard attack animations = damage + cc
spawn monsters
switch characters
vale osprey
@plush yew is it a character component? or a pawn with a capsule primititve?
warm mountain
ah nah its singleplayer
plush yew
Character
vale osprey
that's interesting
warm mountain
i'm making something similiar to killing floor but the enemies are australians
and australian themed monsters
plush yew
Been seeing posts on different Facebook groups I'm in about people receiving emails saying their account had been locked. Just wanted to spread the word 👌🏿
plush yew
^
pallid compass
check ur mail
plush yew
I'm personally clean. All my leaks are old
Stuff and things 😃
I'm waiting for UE to install...
plush yew
UE4 just installed, do you guys have some gpod tutorials to get me started..?
forest steppe
plush yew
Danke Heap!
honest vale
just ask
grim ore
GDC Preview Stream soon - https://www.twitch.tv/unrealengine
restive eagle
which game keys they will be giving out?
tall pendant
Darwin Project
cursive dirge
silver crown
For all the people asking for a minecraft-like option in my plugin
Took longer than expected though
And isn't really well done 😐
1.3ms of static cost every second
safe rose
tranquil rose
Lucy Becker - Today at 5:28 AM
Hey @everyone , Sam and Ben will be live in the voice lounge today at 8pm BST chatting all things Unreal VR! (see your timezone here: http://bit.ly/2pdQps0) 🙂(edited)
Event Time Announcer - Unreal VR AMA with Ben & Sam
Event Time Announcer shows time for Unreal VR AMA with Ben & Sam in locations all over the world. In London it happens on Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 8:00:00 pm.
I will leave the facebook link when I get it, you don't have to have a fb account, I sure as hell don't.
sturdy kernel
anyone noticed very poor slate performance (Present time) during the last week? I'm wondering if latest windows update could be related. I'm using Oculus Rift which could also be a factor
merry gazelle
Question: Is it possible to setup a master asset folder so that I can pull individual BP, mesh, texture, etc into my project?
I remember a discussion/request for this functionality a while back in the forums. This would be incredibly useful IMO rather than having to migrate assets between projects.
plush yew
That's too advanced for epic games
merry gazelle
Epic games prove @plush yew wrong please
plush yew
🤣
They can't even make it so you can use UE4 from source to download marketplace library plugins
You need the Epic Games launcher w/ a UE4 from DL copy to get marketplace assets.
safe rose
Or just use Allars tool
cloud cobalt
Though if you're building from source, you probably still want to have a binary version to test stuff
merry gazelle
Just imagine master folders organised as characters, vehicles, maps, audio. 😍
cloud cobalt
Why would you want to share characters or maps between projects, though ? That seems unusual
grim ore
nothing stopping you from having a master project with all of that then migrating them over to your project
merry gazelle
I'm using UE4 for CG film scenes and I have tons of assets, I'm finding my system is prone to crashing with enough assets in my project.
I do usually just migrate from a master projectt, but it's a bit more convoluted selecting large numbers of specific assets imo and keeping track of everything.
plush yew
Recycling assets at its peek efficiency
bitter iris
Has anyone noticed google chrome has messed up? or is it just me
merry gazelle
Firefox ftw
plush yew
Dont see anything messed up
plush yew
Nu
bitter iris
these are missing
plush yew
Not for me
fierce tulip
guy posts random youtube video of him playing a game in streaming. tell him not to.
he posts his yt channel in lounge, i remove it.
he then posts a 1h yt video he made with 3 minutes of ue4-ing at 50:00 and used an ue4 screenshot in the hopes we wouldnt notice.
#howtogetaban
bitter iris
they are for me an i dunno why
plush yew
@fierce tulip :slowclap:
merry gazelle
try disabling your addons
plush yew
Nothing messed up CptLuckyy
bitter iris
type google.co.uk or google.com
merry gazelle
if that doesnt work uninstall chrome and install Firefox, easy fix
bitter iris
its just me then
bitter iris
im missing the links on the right side
ffs
everything just seems to go wrong for me
my 1tb ssd died now programs are messing up
merry gazelle
right click the page > inspect and search for this class "gb_nb gb_Lg gb_R gb_Kg gb_Og gb_T"
bitter iris
Thats a temp solution, once I refresh page itll go
plush yew
Reinstalling might be your best bet
bitter iris
i have, only just got my pc back online after getting my new ssd from crucial
bitter iris
well looks like ima have to like firefox
plush yew
Please use something else
unrelated question that might be stupid, does UE4 have any production restrictments like Unity (Unity Personal edition doesn't let you generate more than 100k before asking you for a paid lisence, etc)
Pretty sure all UE4 has is the Royalty Percentage you have to pay them
I think I found an answer but not too sure if it's true... One sec.
Generally, you are obligated to pay to Epic 5% of all gross revenue after the first $3,000 per game or application per calendar quarter, regardless of what company collects the revenue. For example, if your product earns $10 from sales on the App Store, the royalty due is $0.50 (5% of $10), even though you would receive roughly $7 from Apple after they deduct their distribution fee of roughly $3 (30% of $10).```
Is this a true answer?Should be yes
glossy flame
That's straight from the FAQ, so I hope it would be
plush yew
How much do I have to pay for Unreal Engine 4?
UE4 is free to use, with a 5% royalty on gross product revenue after the first $3,000 per game per calendar quarter from commercial products.
Oh, I found it in a forum. Couldn't find anything about it in FAQ.
Guess I'm blind 😄
glossy flame
plush yew
wait what the heck is Unreal Studio
"Unreal Studio is a comprehensive, real-time visualization solution that will save you hours, if not days, in bringing Unreal Engine projects to life."
uhhh, I just started with UE4, I just installed the C++ tool set for Visual Studio, so, no idea.
I'm gonna just... hides in corner
glossy flame
It's a brand new tool, so there's not a ton of established information about it
crisp fable
is there any consensus on what landscape density should be for a first person game?
glossy flame
They do have a website for it: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/studio
crisp fable
like 1 vertex per m or what?
crisp fable
in UE4 its 1 unit = 1 cm
plush yew
aghhh, I have been installing addons and development kits all day today...
hushed monolith
plush yew
😛
🤸
phumkie, that avatar is just mint
Just realised that isn't a breakdancer
That is nicolas cage
I know but still 😛
😄
Quick question, do you guys know where I can find some models for maybe placeholders? I can do hard-surface modelling, but organic is the death of me, looking for trees, vegetation, etc.
Free or paid?
There's quite a few models for greenery on the ue4 marketplace
Free would be nice
There's not many free prop packs that are worth using imo
Hmm, okay, thanks for the help. Will go back trying to troubleshoot UE.
See you tommorow, I suppose?
Cya
pallid compass
any quick tips for say doing a health bar in a material and mapping 0-1 to hiding the colour section of a texture? ie just moving a black panel of its fine
restive eagle
@plush yew there should be a thread in the forums, with a huge list of free assets. try looking in community content*
plush yew
Thanks! Will certainly check it out after I find out how to stop this error...
restive eagle
if you just want some models, there are other websites. finding them through google shouldnt be hard. if you want animations or characters then try looking up mixamo
everyone starts with mixamo 😄
plush yew
Yeah, I know about mixamo, my biggest problem is just organic 3D modelling, so most characters and plants.
And another problem is this frickin' error I can't get rid of
plush yew
I am trying to do this tutorial (https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Programming/QuickStart) but when I try to add the actor it says "Error windows SDK v8.1 must be installed in order to build this target" so I google it, find this (https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/538760/error-windows-sdk-v81-must-be-installed-in-order-t.html), I install it and nothing happens, same error...
It's really starting to get in my head, I have installed it 3 times
Does it matter if it's in a different drive?
fierce tulip
since this is something that goes beyond the ue4 marketplace I thought i'd post it here as well
https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/marketplace/1439127-the-lack-of-quality-control-hurts-the-marketplace-do-you-agree-that-overall-quality-is-low
tall pendant
tbfh. A lot of Users would not be willing to pay the (proper) prices Artists/Coders etc had to charge for the level of Quality people want. What level of Quality do people expect for a few bucks?
Ask any contractor for prices for actual quality work.
pallid compass
LUOS MY BRO
HOW DO I USE VALUE STEP D:<
just trying to mask a health bar in the vertical
fierce tulip
value step? as in 5,10,15?
plush yew
@restive eagle Just posted the error above, no idea what's the problem...
pallid compass
value step gradient
i just need to shift a value of 0 up and down a texture
u know like a mask for health bar decreasing
@fierce tulip tldr i just need to shift a value of 0 up and down the red colour, like a health bar
fierce tulip
steppingpanner node, "add" to a texture uv and move a value in the "add"
pallid compass
alright shall try, time to learn new node
tiny pier
How do I define a struct? I saw someone do it once I think. You create some new asset which is the struct. You name it, you define it's attributes. Now you have a new data type that you can use when defining variables inside of a blueprint. I can't remember what structs are called in ue4 though, so I don't know how to find the thing.
cinder iron
maybe google structs ue4 https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Structs,_USTRUCTS(),_They're_Awesome XD
that in C++, in BP you could look this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-tCCtkX1sk
tiny pier
Found this document. I'm doing this with blueprints only, no access to C++. Is it something to do with a data asset maybe?
Ah, okay, didn't expect to find it there. Thanks.
plush yew
Ahh, this is getting really stressful, does anyone know a fix to this error?
It's really starting to get in my head, I have installed it 3 times
Does it matter if it's in a different drive?```no it doesnt matter that its a different drive
pallid compass
can u paste error please
manic pawn
you should check the win 8.1 sdk in the vs 2017 installer, not install some standalone version
pallid compass
Can u run ur vs 2017 installer
and click modify
and show me a screen shot of ur ticked SDK's
plush yew
This?
manic pawn
plush yew
Oh, thought Windows SDK v8.1 and Windows 8.1 SDK were two different things
Worked, thanks so much @manic pawn
silver crown
Cheap overheat effect, using normal + Z position
What's the best way to add a trail to all the meteors?
Trail mesh with clever material?
fierce tulip
if its going straight, yea
silver crown
And if it's not?
coarse wigeon
@wicked tiger - What is going on with the UE4 site?
silver crown
RIP unrealengine.com
glossy flame
If it's any type of 500 code, it's probably not your fault 😉
silver crown
@elfin jacinth
coarse wigeon
Looks like it is Just Unreal Engine no other Epic site is effected
silver crown
coarse wigeon
Fortnite is up
silver crown
http://fortnite.com isn't
coarse wigeon
They could be overhauling the UE4 and Epic games site
glossy flame
Might have to do with the Fortnite mobile rollout
coarse wigeon
Could be
glossy flame
This has happened with big FN events in the past, like the Twitch Prime thing
silver crown
Launcher is still up though
Only thing down is accounts.unrealengine|epicgames.com
unrealengine.com is still up
safe rose
PUBG Corp
coarse wigeon
@silver crown I cannot access UnrealEngine.com
silver crown
clean your cookies
coarse wigeon
ok
silver crown
It tries to log you
coarse wigeon
ok got it
cinder iron
@pallid compass https://gyazo.com/0ea79ba366836b6fe24af9bd73d598cf
found something bout it
now I need to know if this is somehow applicable to not a ground surface
XD
fierce tulip
hmm playing all 75 vfx continuously and only 1-2 fps loss hehe
grim ore
holy hell... out of no where a Battle Breakers blog post lol
grim ore
yep that one lol
cinder iron
@pallid compass no, just a particle I found on the vehicle game template XD
plush yew
Hey guys, how would you link two pawns together? Like restrict their movement so that they can’t move more than some distance away from each other?
And kind of pivot around one another
fierce tulip
https://neocrisis.com/interviews/game-interviews/10157-amid-evil-interview
"Any advice for people starting out with game development? It does not matter what platform they are using.
Yes. Stop what you’re doing and make a zombie/crafting/moba/battle royale game. Everyone will love it."
haha
slate orbit
Does anyone know where the save game files are stored for packaged games?
tawdry narwhal
here, the "zombies" arms fall off
I've set up similar constraints in PHAT
however, all that did to my model is stretch the mesh
I'm sure I need to update the model for it to support limbs that may break off
question is, what modifications do I need to make?
the UE4 mannequin seems to support this by default
aw snap... figured it out
elfin jacinth
@silver crown Still having issues?
worthy spindle
Hi. I want to create a simple game for kids to teach color, shapes etc
Concept: Animated character present the user with multiple choice sentence like: Press the red circle. If the user presses the correct shape gets 1+ point and the character gives him motivation. If the user presses the wrong shape the character tells him to try again. The level contains 20 questions
How is the blueprint setup to control the character animation and the pressing of the correct answer??
plush yew
is there a way I can toggle between 2 different control schemes
with blueprints
like I have a bunch of movement setup for first person mode right?
but after pressing a button
it toggles to a different movement setup in third person?
next badger
Hope Epic finally announce Niagara release on GDC... i'm tired of hacking it to work
next badger
oh...it does work in 4.19, no hack needed
plush yew
?
chrome quarry
Does anyone know if there have been any projects that implement an outside program into the game? For example using an itunes/spotify music playlist? Any information or examples would be appreciated.
granite sky
reminds me - I haven't committed in a while
cyan gazelle
man i made a donut in blender and closed the cmd prompt in the background and it closed my whole program and i lost my donut
didnt even get to add sprinkles
its fine the frosting was partly inside the donut anyway
i dont like the viewport im used to using wasd to move around
floral heart
I think you can change it to use WASD, but it's like looking for bigfoot.
cyan gazelle
theres definitely a lot of stuff
i feel like making a sword or something would be pretty simple for a beginner im gonna try to do that
next badger
@chrome quarry you can't add windows gui app into game (ui uses Slate framework to markdown the elements), you could render a web content however
@obtuse sable are they read only? is it version control enabled?
grim sinew
@obtuse sable Make sure you don't have 2 editors open
obtuse sable
oh i do lol
obtuse sable
Anyone know of a tutorial that shows how to do metal on only some parts of a texture?
idk what to search for really
keen birch
You use a texture as input for metallic in the material
obtuse sable
Yeah i have a texture mask for it
keen birch
With the areas you want as metal being white and the rest black
obtuse sable
Yeah i got that
i can get metal fine
but i need roughness and metallic in it
to make it look more metallic then just chrome
obtuse sable
I also have that but that is doing roughness on another part of the texture
this is how i have it atm
its working as it is seperated as i want
but the shiny parts thats suppose to be metal are too shiny
keen birch
You can lerp the roughness with the metallic as alpha, using roughness as A and metallic * some roughness param as B
Can't show atm as I'm on my phone
grim sinew
Or you can just make a proper roughness map instead of flat values
obtuse sable
oh
ive never done that before
is there really no tutorial for this im trying to do?
Not the roughness map thing
cant find anything on it
next badger
@worthy spindle you have to be specific about your questions...this is too vague
grim sinew
Just google it.
Step 1: Copy your roughness map. Step 2: Paste it into the green channel of your packed map. Step 3: Save and celebrate, you're done.
keen birch
Basically, basic PBR stuff
keen birch
Don't know what other thing you mean
obtuse sable
oh ye nvm xD
grim sinew
If you really need more guidance than that, look up basic texturing tutorials.
keen birch
The Photoshop channel link is one thing
next badger
yeah, but don't forget to import texture properly, compression should be set to masks
grim sinew
Like, super basic. Introductory things.
keen birch
But basically, texture stuff in general
Alexey, the only thing mask compression does is ruin image quality
I heavily suggest not using mask on anything which needs decent quality
grim sinew
I've never noticed mask compression causing issues
Outside of the normal DXT compression stuff you always get
next badger
for combined mask there are only 2 options, masks and userinterface2d, which is ~ no compression
grim sinew
Or you can just do the default compression and tick off SRGB, but that's all "mask" compression is doing anyway
next badger
every other method will mix channels
masks compress each channel individually
every other method - not
you could watch Luos's videos, i think he explained it 10 times already
keen birch
Was pretty damn sure mask compression did actually do other stuff
But could be that my mind is playing tricks on me
obtuse sable
What did i do wrong?
keen birch
Sec
keen birch
Did you actually make a proper roughness map?
Look, I'll show you how this should work
obtuse sable
okay thx
keen birch
But I don't think you actually understand what all of this is doing
Which is kind of crucial
obtuse sable
i thought i was still using the masks
keen birch
So research what PBR is and how it works, look into some good material tutorials and stuff like that
obtuse sable
to mask what part i wanted rough etc
keen birch
Well, you are and you're not
You're doing many things at once
And few of them correctly
x3
You're combining different stuff where you probably shouldn't
obtuse sable
I did manage to do that tho just that idk how to get my not rough parts to be metallic and not only shiny
i will learn the PBR thing for sure
just thought i could do this real quick with masks
keen birch
Oh, you can
But you're mixing stuff up in your nodes
You're making it way harder than it needs to be
obtuse sable
yeah im sure
keen birch
The metal mask is an exact inverse of the roughness mask, right?
obtuse sable
yeah
keen birch
Well, since it is
That's one thing
You can save memory by just doing the inversion in the material instead of precomputing it
One less texture sample 😃
obtuse sable
Ah okay
im making cinematics so
thats not that much of an issue
for me
By default textures are like kinda shiny from the start without any roughness map etc
obtuse sable
is there a way to not have that to be defaul?
keen birch
That's all you need
keen birch
Yeah, just put a parameter in as roughness value and put it lower
obtuse sable
What about the 2nd roughness ?
keen birch
Well
What you see there
If something is white on the Metal mask, it sets it to metallic and it gives it MetalPartsRoughness
And if it's black on the mask, it sets it to non-metallic and gives it OtherPartsRoughness
So you can manually set the roughness for both metal and non-metal areas
obtuse sable
ohhhh
awesome
Nice this will be so helpful for me in the future
The metal parts are very dark
compared to before
keen birch
You gave it a high roughness?
obtuse sable
yeah
keen birch
Well, you're basically telling it to be less reflective
So then it's going to be darker
And metals are darker by default without reflection
keen birch
Metals behave pretty differently from non-metals
obtuse sable
Any way i can make it brighter with the nodes?
keen birch
Uh, you could
Not gonna go into that now, though, kinda have to go
Go look into material tutorials and that sort of thing
You'll figure stuff out
keen birch
That's an awfully broad question with insanely specific answers, so I don't think we can easily tell you
tall pendant
depends 100% on your project.
worthy spindle
Hi. Can you help me with simple mobile game Blueprint
I want to create a simple game for kids to teach color, shapes etc
Concept: Animated character present the user with multiple choice sentence like: Press the red circle.
If the user presses the correct shape gets 1+ point and the character gives him motivation.
If the user presses the wrong shape the character tells him to try again. The level contains 20 questions
How is the blueprint setup to control the character animation and the pressing of the correct answer??
Something similar to this game https://youtu.be/TlKhvCeYBik
I need a blueprint that control all the above game like educational app
On clicking the right answer the user is rewarded points plus animations are triggered
plush yew
@young urchin https://discord.gg/unreal-slackers
@worthy spindle That involves multiple systems which can't really be answered succintly
@young urchin Got it from http://unrealslackers.org/
@worthy spindle Easiest way would be to have some sort of game manager that spawns the buttons and also keeps track of the correct answer. If answer is correct, send some message to character to play an animation or something
next badger
@young urchin u're being annoying... it's UNREALSLACKERS.ORG not that hard to keep it in mind for a few seconds...
plush yew
Wasn't he already in this group? I saw him asking weird questions in different channels
Maybe he's banned 😛
next badger
@young urchin if he was on discord already he could login back...anyway it's a generic issue not related to this server
@young urchin no...
that's not normal...
plush yew
Nah just asking stuff like "what's this channel for?" when he could easily read #more-resources or the topic at the top of the channel
worthy spindle
@plush yew Can you point me to such game manager or tutorials or templates
plush yew
Not that I know of. It's more a general game programming thing than an Unreal-specific thing
Probably easier to just learn how to create simple games in UE4 and then you can apply that knowledge to creating your game
fierce tulip
he is permabanned for not following the rules
plush yew
I banned him
fierce tulip
- posting random youtube video of him playing random game. warned him.
- he then posts his channel in lounge.
- the then fakes an ue4 editor video where in the 1 hour he only had ue4 open for lessthan a minute, and only showing off his non-ue4 channel and liking videos
no
if you cant listen, you need to face consequences
next badger
Phahahah. How i missed that person???
weary basalt
Unless Luos says he will be unbanned then no he wont be.
fierce tulip
wow that sounds like I am some overlord
hehe
he didnt the first time I warned him
weary basalt
So he will follow the rules only after his ban? Yeah nar thats not how it works mate.
fierce tulip
why would he now, if he cant take the rules and warnings seriously we have no obligation to spend time on it.
last loom
:cough: "Doomed Spies"
dusty cypress
Hey all, is it allowed to make a fanmade game based in the Bioshock game timeline, within the city of Rapture? No assets from Bioshock would be used, nor will we get funded. Is that possible or does it raise a red flag? I'm assuming it does raise a flag.
fierce tulip
it probably would yea
next badger
@fierce tulip
wary wave
he's banned, he's not coming back
fierce tulip
as I said, no. I might think about it in a week or two
next badger
Let him cool for a few weeks.
whole quarry
oeh drama, lemme read back
next badger
@young urchin Ask Luos after Epic's GDC talk on Niagara, he will be in a good mood...probably...
it will be on 21th
tall pendant
Not following our Server rules shouldn't be awarded with another chance. just my 2 cents
next badger
March
shell jetty
November
next badger
whole quarry
:3
At the beginning of the week I've restarted with a project from scratch in 4.18, only to see now that 4.19 got released...
Oh well, at least I didnt push it to source control yet
fierce tulip
4.19 seems to be a bit buggy according to all the answerhubsies
keen birch
Suppose that's why it was pushed back so much
next badger
someone at Epic mentioned text format Assets...maybe some day...
whole quarry
I haven't read the changelog yet, don't know if any groundbreaking new features are contained in 4.19
like volumetric fog came in 4.17
fierce tulip
some interesting things, at least workflow improvements for materials
whole quarry
in that case i'll just stick in 4.18 for stability
fierce tulip
but some people have issues with materials showing properly
next badger
i think it's a generic rule, don't migrate on 0 minors
tall pendant
noticed some weird stuff on materials as well
next badger
duh.. it's crashed...
whole quarry
😄
next badger
4.19.0
tall pendant
i had UE4 freeze and lock up my PC 5(!) times, when trying to migrate animation files into another project... idk if its UE4 or the assets 😛
frank escarp
@next badger not only ive been using 4.19 preview
but actually ive built my prototype from the ground up in 4.19 preview, and my current build is 4.19.0
everything working fine somehow
probably got lucky
next badger
@frank escarp same here...but it's crashed on exit for some reason. First several times it was ok.
oh...maybe it's Niagara
cinder iron
Well come
fierce tulip
frosty bloom
It's not your parents you are talking with dude, when a moderator says no it's no
fierce tulip
aaand gone
frosty bloom
lol, #Second
fierce tulip
death threats incoming in 1.2.3.
next badger
@whole quarry NOOOOOOOOOOOO
tall pendant
Dont mess with Thor
next badger
cmon people...Remco asked to call him
frosty bloom
Luos mighty hammer
fierce tulip
brb
next badger
@whole quarry it happened in seconds
whole quarry
i look away for 1 minute
keen birch
Aw
He got banned?
Missed it too
3:
Was busy talking about RAID setups
And all his messages are deleted, too
Shame
fierce tulip
yea, while I can keep em its also annoying to keep em around
so deleting those during ban
i dont like banning people but cmoooon its easy to have some etiquette and common sense
keen birch
I sometimes do enjoy banning people
It's a bit of a "How do you like me now, huh" sort of thing
next badger
Bulgaria...some people there similar to Russians, and we sometimes are being jerks -_-
keen birch
Depends if they actually got on my nerves, though. If I'm actually done with people it's just intensely frustrating
grim sinew
Yeah how dare he do his job 😛
whole quarry
Where's Nick btw? I haven't seen him in a while
Yea, damn those moderators for moderating! 😄
keen birch
Actually, on the front of Nick
I'm gonna go into #server-feedback and ask him to give mods more permissions
Or some selected mods
Because I honestly feel that it's ridiculous that he's the only person with authority to e.g. add a bot for useful functionality, while he's never around and never actually does that sort of thing despite saying he will
pallid compass
The worst thing is people who come in here thinking they know everything
next badger
@plush yew i have no clue, even stats net is missing from modern builds
next badger
Or dont understand something ans go ur wrong im right see is that...English?
whole quarry
Don't make your problems other peoples problems 😛
next badger
@plush yew i think ... it's under Session Frontend -> Profiler ....there you could connect to server
next badger
@plush yew i wonder if you could add a DS as device in the device manager
description says you could do that
< never tried
fierce tulip
next badger
i've seen him...was it on YT?
elfin jacinth
Good morning awesome human folks
next badger
elfin jacinth
There was a fire who had a flame and Calcifer was his name O.
fierce tulip
https://i.gyazo.com/edd87ddb794a6cc24efcfd1eff48f41c.png
calci is not pleased XD
tall pendant
is his derpy brother around too? 😄
fierce tulip
not in the project, but if you change the face scale to 1.5 on Z it will be derpy
elfin jacinth
So I've already kind of written a story in my head for that fire.
elfin jacinth
He is a very old fire that has been stuck in the same damn fire pit for ages, all he can do is read campfire stories, but over the decades he's gotten more and more like Clint Eastwood in Grand Torino.
So what was once a jovial story of triumph, has now become a long winded memory and bitter tellings of a crappy future for the kids who hear his story
Also, he smokes a lot (I'm not sorry)
next badger
pot?
fierce tulip
hehe, everyone talks about the campfires XD
a gran torino flame i'd be glad to talk with
gentle crypt
Whats unreal studio? is it like marmoset toolbag version of UE4 where you showcase artwork and models?
tall pendant
ArchViz / Enterprise stuff
gentle crypt
whats different about it from the engine?
fierce tulip
is there a way to force an all shader rebuild inside engine?
tall pendant
try deleting the deriveddatacache
tall pendant
aye
fierce tulip
replaced a mat function with another, same inputs outputs, when opening the material it shows properly but not on the meshes/cascade because they dont recompile
quite annoying
tall pendant
theres a command for recompile changed shaders
plush yew
Ctrl + Shift + . ?
tall pendant
if you are in shader mode
fierce tulip
but not a global one for all shaders in project?
(already cleared cache and it worked ofcourse, but id like to know for future ref.)
next badger
recompileshaders
Options are:
'Changed', 'Global', 'Material [name]', 'All' 'Platform [name]'
Note: Platform implies Changed, and requires the proper target platform modules to be compiled.
@gentle crypt atm has those additional features in launcher:
shell jetty
what htat undeal datasmith cover?
next badger
@shell jetty
i wonder how they will solve the UV issues for nurbs surfaces from apps like Rhino...
i.e. Lightmap UVs require some existing UV to be made
New tab appeared as well
grim sinew
Unreal can't render nurbs anyway, it'll need to be converted to polygons. After that, guess they'll just do an automatic uv unwrap.
next badger
@grim sinew well, yeah...but last time i've tried to generate lightmap UV for mesh that had no texture UV - UE failed
grim sinew
Guess it's a beta for a reason.
next badger
it's a standard ue4 feature...i think since 4.14 or so...
pallid compass
when ever change anything in c++ no matter what save project
2scared ima break my engine
pallid compass
Tech question, if u wanted dynamic weather on a map, say Dry and Wet states(wet where it rains) how would u go about adjusting the materials of everything on a map to say shift the roughness and stuff?
plush yew
Material Parameter Collections and adjust roughness and darken the diffuse a bit
pallid compass
I was thinking that, but arent they expensive af to shove in to everything?
plush yew
Maybe blend a normal over it too
wary wave
@pallid compass - we do it in post process
said post process setup is however not necessarily very simple
pallid compass
yeah that might be out my reach, i suck at PP right now
i mean u could have a material paramater to offset final roughness value for example
"IsRaining"
or something, but then how expensive does it get to shove it in everything
fierce tulip
@pallid compass nah material param collection justs hold a scalar value, so its not much different than adding a regular scalar
pallid compass
ahh i thought they where expensive to use?
fierce tulip
nah
next badger
agree...and sometimes it just can't be published without one
make 3 materials? dry, wet, with lerp?
wet also should have more contrast/saturation
more roughness material has -> more desaturated it become when dries
buoyant pine
Hey! Could anyone check my question at the cpp channel? Thank you!
sudden agate
Is there a way to MinClamp the Game's Delta Time?
I thought the "Min Desired Framerate" Setting does this (if 30 -> Clamp Delta to 1/30 = 0.03333), but it does not
I am talking about this setting:
I cannot find any usage in the Source either
unreal halo
i was looking through the rules, is there not an specific help channel?
fierce tulip
every channel is a catagory where you can ask for help
i.e. vfx troubles? #visual-fx
unreal halo
iwe been getting some insane editor flickering after going to 4.19, and wanted to see if someone else are getting the same, but it didn't fit a specific category
fierce tulip
and asking here is fine too
unreal halo
ah okay 😃 So that would be my question. has people had problems with elemts INSIDE the editor, so the current game you are editing, and unreal things flickering? like the arrows to move or rotate objects. Im on newest unreal version, newest nvidia driver etc
quartz patrol
Hello, is anyone have troubles with 4.19, iam using this system to reverse animation to Close the door, it works perfectly in 4.18 but in 4.19 its not playing animation at all
plush yew
is there a way I can toggle between 2 different control schemes
with blueprints
like I have a bunch of movement setup for first person mode right?
but after pressing a button
it toggles to a different movement setup in third person?
and also toggle cameras
My god, dedicated server's connection settings are annoying to setup 😭
spice urchin
does anyone know if the Unreal Tournament stuff is available as a full dev-kit type thing?
polar hawk
pallid compass
do any of u guys actually use auto exposure?
worn granite
@polar hawk ...
pallid compass
its so god dam annoying
pallid compass
if u dont mind me asking what are ur settings
grim sinew
Situational depending on the scene.
pallid compass
Just looking for something default to work with while i block and check
fierce tulip
ffs, finished writing a post on forums. "error, random warning message"
grim sinew
Oh god who would make a material that complex
What are they doing, manually writing out POM code or something?
pallid compass
zero can u recommend some basic auto exposure settings for outdoors
polar hawk
0-500
grim sinew
There are no numbers I can give you that will have any meaning. Outdoors means nothing to me. I don't know if it's broad daylight, the middle of the desert, on mars, or midnight.
pallid compass
well i normally just go basic, 1-1
grim sinew
Guess at it until it works.
polar hawk
-250 - 1250
pallid compass
just a basic raw scene i guess, basic lighting
default directional light, fog, skylight
i suck with lighting
grim ore
Upgrade phone to Note 8, ARCore not supported. Upgrade phone to S9, ARCore not supported... wtf google
pallid compass
best way for a custom component to get the location of the char its on?
nvm done im potato
safe rose
Thank you all very much for participating in the 4.19 Beta Testing Program, I can't wait for it to come to full release in .1 or .2
worn granite
inb4 .5
fierce tulip
XD
wintry oak
inb4 UE5 on april 1
plush yew
so this is how my mouselook used to work
worn granite
Blueprints have proven themselves to be sufficiently robust and extensible on their own - we truly believe this is the future of development and are no longer going to address issues with C++ projects. 4.20 drops all non-engine module support.
plush yew
I added a camera into the capsule component of my character and it no longer works
grim sinew
And in 4.21, C++ is deprecated from the engine. Unreal is now coded in Blueprint entirely.
plush yew
so how can I get the camera to rotate?
worn granite
Blueprint becomes self hosted 😱
plush yew
someone please help
grim sinew
Nothing is left of C++ except an interface to make blueprint nodes. The entire engine, start to finish, is made in blueprint now.
grim ore
man even tho 4.19 was in the cooker for a while I wish it had longer times. Quite a few crashy missy buggy parts 😦
worn granite
@grim sinew No, no, no.
You can't write C++, only whatever the syntax is that BP exports to text when you copy nodes.
That's how you create nodes, you just create a json file that includes some meta for the node and that excerpt
restive eagle
is it possible to check somehow if timer handle is valid? similar to this
http://prntscr.com/is7ckq
restive eagle
if i use is valid as boolean, then if its invalid will get an error.
but clear and iinvalidate should be ok, was using that and was still getting an error
worn granite
I'm searching source 1s
restive eagle
my problem is that i cant view my error log anymore, so at first i thought that handle was giving me the error
restive eagle
from experience i know if you use that while smth is invalid you will always get error
worn granite
Eh
restive eagle
http://prntscr.com/is7fdc this doesnt give any errors, i already knew that but since i cant view myt error log
worn granite
Make sure its the right node
leaden onyx
guys do you have any idea if behavior tree can show debug info for nodes such as "Wait", it would be cool to see remaining time displayed for easier debugging
?
restive eagle
i thought that handle is causing this
worn granite
But looking at this, IsValid shouldn't actually cause an error
leaden onyx
I know you can hover over it and it'll show "remaining time", but I could've sworn it was visible in description before
restive eagle
oh true with handle is valid works, but its enough in my case to clear it even if its not valid
anyways need to figure out how to fix my error log, because now im just guessing whos causing errors 😄
worn granite
Think you might be right @leaden onyx, I seem to remember that kind of thing. I know that AnimGraph state machines will show how long they're in that state, maybe that's what we're thinking of.
leaden onyx
Yeah, I was working with4.19 preview when it was functional, but couldn't find any commit or pull request or even change in code regarding this, as if it disappeared or was just a plain dream; Though there is a function specific for that purpose: DescribeRuntimeValues
worn granite
I imagine its similar code
leaden onyx
well it's using graphs yeah, but logic is quite different
since you working with hierarchy
worn granite
Maybe
Yeah, looks like you're right
I thought maybe they'd use the same interface for gather debug data
But it looks pretty segregated to BT
leaden onyx
Did you try doing some AI stuff? Was learning about AI implementations for senses, behavior trees, messaging systems in UE, quite impressive, yet still limiting, a lot of things are missing sadly
worn granite
I used to be digging into AI a bit
Trying to polish up my knowledge of Perception rn
Its been like a year though
leaden onyx
are you using AI perception system?
worn granite
Just digging into it on my own
leaden onyx
ah I see, it seems unfinished in some cases
wish epic could describe their usages on Fortnite examples, how they go about doing things, not sure if AI is complex there tho
worn granite
Yeah like
PawnSensing hearing lets you have LOS hearing distance and non-LOS hearing
Perception only does a single check
leaden onyx
but it has delayed delivery tho
worn granite
true, true.
I'm actually implementing a sense that relies on other senses
Not entirely sure if its how I would really do this if it were a serious project, just seeing what I can do
leaden onyx
interesting, what application could it have, I have only amplification of one sense by other senses in mind
worn granite
Still toying around with it, but I'm doing stuff with general knowledge. If you can see things, you'll know if they update, otherwise you don't.
Kind of weird to implement it with perception though, now that I think of it.
hot pond
hey does anyone here offer any kind of community support for devs by chance?
grim sinew
Whoever happens to be bored enough to answer, generally.
hot pond
More than I could ask for
As of right now I only have a small question and I am sure its something dumb
worn granite
like what do you mean community support?
Like answering questions? Cause Hi, welcome to Unreal Slackers
hot pond
lol
yeah for instance if I am having an issue trying to figure something specific out and I post if someone could lend a helping hand
grim sinew
If it's small, simple questions at a beginner level, you're probably better off googling it. You'll get an answer faster.
hot pond
also Thank you for the welcome
grim sinew
And sometimes with pictures showing exactly what to do
hot pond
I have already tried googling my issue ofc I will try that first before bothering anyone
worn granite
Also if you're wanting a specific dev... I uh. I offer consulting/tutoring.... y'know.
grim sinew
There's also answers.unrealengine.com for an official place to ask things and get answers, but... short of a handful of extremely generous people, it's not too active.
hot pond
however I created a trigger box to transport character to another level/map when I port to the map the model doesnt load and it goes from 3rd person to 1st person open camera and I am sure its just something dumb i am forgetting.
worn granite
Sounds like your pawn isn't set up in the game mode
So your first level has the pawn in the world, but the second level doesn't
hot pond
correct
worn granite
It tries to spawn the pawn you specify in the game mode, but that's likely default pawn
resulting in the model not loading
If you like, you can verify this with the World outliner
Search for your player BP class name
Like BP_PlayerCharacter
If you've got your character type in the world then we gotta talk about carrying over settings and stuff between levels
Or making sure possession works
hot pond
so do I need to make reference in the level bp
worn granite
nah do you have a gamemode?
If not, you can go in ProjectSettings I think, and set the default player pawn to your character
hot pond
Sorry was checking
I do not have default gamemode sete
I have already set it up but for some reason it wasnt set
yup that did the trick
Thanks that was an easy fix
pure jacinth
docs seem to be down again
languid flax
Anybody else getting an editor crash when opening the console or using the output log in 4.19?
In a completely clean project.
https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/pull/4480 uff. so this fucks many keyboards.
manic pawn
what is even happening with the history here https://i.imgur.com/fTCMQEn.png
glossy flame
Looks like they might've tried to keep rebasing their branch to keep it up-to-date, and they don't know how to squash? 😄
Usually GitHub can take care of the rebase on pull requests but Epic doesn't use GitHub merging directly, so I dunno
manic pawn
probably just export a patch
not even bother with anything with conflicts, noone will notice between the 500 other dead prs :D
glossy flame
Maybe they saw a big yellow "conflict" thing on the PR page and just decided to try to fix it, I don't know, haha
Not that it has any effect anyways, but that might have shown up
floral heart
Not much of a git user. But I thought rebase wouldn't create such a horrible monstrosity.
manic pawn
it would be nice if they took like one or 2 months to not make any new features and instead either close or integrate all open prs
glossy flame
@floral heart if you know how to squash commits, it doesn't :p
manic pawn
it looks like they used merge instead of rebase
floral heart
I've used rebase, I think. I didn't know there was an option to NOT squash commits. I thought it always turned A>B>C into A>C.
glossy flame
Yeah, I guess I shouldn't have used that term specifically
manic pawn
nah, the point of rebase is to turn A>B, A>C into A>B>C
glossy flame
I more just meant "update the branch so there aren't any conflicts", which I usually do via a rebase, but they probably made use of a merge
floral heart
I've deleted and remade my first git repo several times because I would dirty up the commit history with merge.
glossy flame
Yeah, some of Git's features are a little bit tough to master but they can really help in the long-term
floral heart
"Thy commits must be porcelain." The Gitmentiurge Commandement
manic pawn
the best part is when you install a git client and realize how shitty the command line interface is
and never have to use it again
floral heart
I don't mind the CLI. But you need a whole wall plastered with tutorials for each command.
glossy flame
I mostly just use it because you can't use a client via SSH :p
floral heart
Or I suppose you could do what Epic does and create a commit sewer.
manic pawn
git suddenly made so much more sense for me when I started using smartgit
oak linden
In my character blueprint, I've added a sphere collision that will detect whenever the character is near a wall
The sphere is set to generate overlap events, and the walls are as well
However, the overlap events do not fire
No matter what I do, they just don't fire
They only fire when I tick overlap with pawn
Which detects the character inside the sphere collision
What could be the issue?
This should be very simple to set up
restive eagle
hmm strange i have this setup for my box collision inside character bp and it detects everything
http://prntscr.com/is9vwd
oak linden
Aha
I found the problem
I did the level using box brushes
It works on regular static meshes
But that raises the question
Can I set up box brushes to generate overlap events?
restive eagle
dont know, but you can always make them into static meshes
warm bluff
Would u do it? 
manic pawn
depends if there are enough people buying the cheats to justify that effort :D
warm bluff
Haha! But you would do it xD! Well i would too lol
spare herald
So true.
manic pawn
also have to make sure the cheat doesn't actually work so you don't lose the real players
tawdry narwhal
not strictly ue4, but has someone figured out a solid preset for OBS for capturing gameplay? even with the game around 100 FPS the recording is choppy
bleak copper
Yeah o.o It should just work if you capture your whole desktop.
I've done hundreds of videos and it's pretty smooth.
fierce tulip
same
grim ore
@tawdry narwhal a bunch of us use it without issue but here is a nice link that might help with setting it up well for ue4. https://unrealaussies.com/threads/the-ultimate-video-recording-encoding-and-streaming-guide.1043/
stable orbit
Is there a reason why not all the properties are displayed when playing my game in the editor?
View InGame: https://i.imgur.com/2cbUHmi.png
View InBlueprint: https://i.imgur.com/FXEIbx0.png
chilly gale
I see reroute nodes in materials with 3 4 connections out of them and multiply node feed more than one node. BUT when I try to connect more than one connection the orginal breaks, anybody know what gives with this please
plush yew
That seems correct
floral heart
Where's that blueprintsfromhell tumblr when you need it?
fluid stag
lol
chilly gale
So I can't connect the Multiply to more than one connection?
fluid stag
Yeah, it's an input so you can only have one input going into it
If you want to add more it has to be done with something like multiply or add
lament pewter
@snow crown can I forward you a message (moderation related)? Cant send you a PM since Im not on the friendslist.
snow crown
im not going to be on for much longer, if you can, hit up one of the other moderators when they get on
sorry
my laptop is dying
lament pewter
No Problem =)
chilly gale
I'm sorry I jus not getting that, this is a matrial I have that does what I'm after doing, channels the multiply out put to more than one place but I get a disconnect evry time I try to do the same
proper epoch
so.. I have to replug all my materials when moving uassets around then? Dx
erm, having a friend help with this project, we're both fairly new to UE4 still.
dim arch
I think theres a plugin on the marketplace which lets you modify a property of all assets at the same time, otherwise you need to either fix your file structure or relink them yup
proper epoch
lol I mean.. he sent me the whole project content folder with all the stuff working on his end Dx so I'm confused
chilly gale
I should be able to make these connections right? https://www.dropbox.com/s/rrsvbh8dwq07l0t/2018-03-17 19-44-38.mp4?dl=0
plush yew
You can't combine multiple outputs into one input like that
chilly gale
Ok so how did this guy do it? he's feeding the UV setting to multiple places
south ridge
@chilly gale did what exactly
Oh
I see what you wanna do
@chilly gale that's easy to do - you have to connect them first, then move them pretty SECOND
chilly gale
He's takinbg the UV setting to more than one connection
south ridge
So first place next node to the right of the previous node (the editor detects relative node location), afterwards just move that node to the lef
I don't see anything unusual about the pictures you posted, can you tell me what's exactly the question here
chilly gale
See my Video up a bit?
chilly gale
Ok thank you will try that
south ridge
You can have the lines go in all sorts of confusing weird directions
But you should not, most of the time
chilly gale
Thanks again, So the connection ALWAYS has to go to the right?
south ridge
When you connect two things, you always go to the right, yes
There is no way to connect with things on the left (it will "invert" your connection)
But you can move things to the left after you connected it
chilly gale
Thats a trick this ole falla did not know
south ridge
That's intentionally done so you wouldn't do it
floral heart
Reroute nodes being stupidly small, they assume what direction you want to go (the type of connection) by the direction you initially drag.
chilly gale
Thanks guys, I'm trying my luck at adding textures to that material, building from scratch to try learn how it's done
south ridge
Good thing to do!
latent moth
do decals have an important impact on performance? i have a game logic that would need leaving any decal of a specific type created to stay for all the lenght of a match
next badger
@latent moth yes, decals are heavy
next badger
@latent moth decals are pure shader thing, you may enable shader complexity mode to view them
bitter iris
Is anyone here using 4.19? If so can you notice a difference from 4.18
next badger
@bitter iris you may use search feature of discord, there are many mentions of 4.19 on different channels
tall pendant
about decals: They're not really that expensive per se. But they get more expensive the higher the shader instruction count is and the larger they are in screen space size. @next badger @_SCAR#3876
next badger
@tall pendant yeah...but dont' forget that shooters generally have hundreds of them all over the place
trim trail
does favourite list in 4.19 dissapear every time you load project?
next badger
@trim trail it's a new feature? it may 😛
trim trail
yeah, it's new, you select folders in content browser, rmb and 'add to favourities'
it had 6 previews though 😛
next badger
@trim trail nope...they persist
@trim trail it's just favourites are hidden by default
trim trail
there's option to show by default?
next badger
@trim trail yep, you need to enable them manually and then it will be saved
view options, at the bottom right
trim trail
got it, thanks
next badger
at least it worked for me
sudden agate
Material Layering is not in 4.19.0?
Under Experimental, I don't have the feature to enable Material Layering and I cannot Add Material Layers in the Asset Browser
grim sinew
Those are just the examples you turned on, there's a second material layers thing you need to tick on
grim sinew
Okay, if you insist. Good luck, guess the checkbox that worked for me this morning doesn't exist for you.
sudden agate
grim sinew
You must be really, really confident to say flat out that this checkbox I'm looking at, right here, does not exist
😉
sudden agate
eh?
grim sinew
They moved the checkbox out of editor preferences.
sudden agate
well, tip. Thank you 😄
grim sinew
😄
next badger
are you guys competing in calligraphy?
sudden agate
grim sinew
I deliberately used the mouse to draw mine even though discord is already displaying on my cintiq 😛
next badger
oh jss...it's a unreal-chat
next badger
Mod is always the winner
grim sinew
True
sudden agate
Luos is the winner of our hearts
grim sinew
Topic's already over though, he got here after the fact. Nothing left to do but judge the results
fierce tulip
@next badger is cuter due to pink color
you both write better than me
you are both winners in my book
grim sinew
❤
cyan gazelle
can blender be used to make monster NPCs or is that not the right platform
tall pendant
Yes. It can be used.
severe tree
Hi
turbid knoll
hi i'm wondering
is it possible to produce an unreal engine game that forces a low resolution that then upscales?
to the target?
grim sinew
Yes.
turbid knoll
how? 😛
grim sinew
Screen percentage in the post process volume
turbid knoll
where is post process volume? (sorry, I'm literally a total beginner to the engine, I'm considering which engine to do my project in, and if it's able to force low res then upscale that would be a huge plus for UE)
also if it's a post process, i'm not sure it's something i want
grim sinew
Post process is just a volume Epic throws EVERYTHING that can be controlled for a certain radius in. It's not just post process
and you place it by finding it in volumes and dragging it in.
turbid knoll
i did try some 'pixelator' post process thing
grim sinew
No.
turbid knoll
so this 'post process' literally makes the game run at a lower resolution?