ue4-general

[cloud cobalt]

Kind of trolling here, but yeah, small adjustment variables can still make some difference from the author's eyes

[urban gyro]

It's more pronounced with the Substance Syndrome, when you make the thing, you wana expose everything as a parameter cuz u wanna have control, have the POWA

[cloud cobalt]

It's older than Substance 😃

[urban gyro]

b all like "i want a parameter that controls the fresnel and auto-adjusts metallic, while maintaining realistic reflectivity values and adjusts the mask....i also want a slider for the mask." 😄

[warm mountain]

bleh

[devout gulch]

My usuall response to it is "I won't give you more sliders"

here is minimal working interface so nothing is going be fucked up ;d

[warm mountain]

^

i agree

stop wastin time and make the town!

[cunning pasture]

Is there any possible way to have a material on a mesh still cast a shadow while invisible?

[clear forum]

Anyone else having issues on vanilla 4.19 where as soon as you enter anything whatsoever into the Output Log Cmd field the editor crashes?

[next badger]

@clear forum nope

oh, the input working as well

[grim cargo]

hi guys

how can i merge my another project to another project

[cloud cobalt]

With immense difficulty

[devout gulch]

you must make blood sacrifice at the altar

[grim cargo]

nvm guys i saw the tutorial

[trim trail]

ugh, how often empty directorires are left when you move stuff in content browser?

i feel it occurs way too often in my case, have to use fix redirectories and delete manually

[next jetty]

I've got the same problem too

[trim trail]

im trying to move paragon assets to separate folder to keep everything cleaner, but im having issues

[next jetty]

I can fix it most of the time by deleting the stuff in file explorer, then restarting the engine

[trim trail]

yeah, thats other way

[next jetty]

anyone know if Paragon's sound effects will be released?

[gusty widget]

@cunning pasture I think hidden shadow does that 😃

In the mesh lighting properties

And set visible in rendering to false

[cunning pasture]

@gusty widget I know about that feature on meshes, but I'm looking to block light coming through my translucent material. I basically want the whole mesh to cast shadows, regardless if one of the faces are "invisible"

[gusty widget]

@cunning pasture Ah ok I do not know if that is possible unfortunately.😦

[cunning pasture]

I've looked around quite a bit, and unfortunately that seems to be the case. Thank you in any case

[wary wave]

try an invisible mesh that casts the shadow for you

hidden shadow is indeed what you want in that respect

[cunning pasture]

@wary wave I'll probably be going with that, I was just wondering if there was a more efficent and elegant approach

[grim cargo]

can someone can help me about merging my level to another

please.... 😦

[mighty oak]

Anyone have logon problems from Epic Launcher?

I keep getting sign-in failed, error "AS-0" code

[fierce tulip]

getting different error code, but yes

also issues

[unreal halo]

Is there a reason why an imported object has collision even over this opening?

it's like there is just a collision over the whole object

but i cannot see it in the viewer

[fierce tulip]

welcome to the amazing world of collision hehe

[unreal halo]

ah, i thought i could add collision just to the material, guess not

[fierce tulip]

there is a big button that shows collision

[unreal halo]

yeah it is on at the moment

this is with simple and complex on

so i got 0 clue why my character cannot enter that entrance

as there is no visible collision

[fierce tulip]

that green one is also collision

which is just a simple box

[unreal halo]

yeah but there is no collision over the entrance..

😦

[fierce tulip]

that green box is over the entrance

[fierce tulip]

not related. 4k monitor and high dpi in ue 4.19 is
https://i.gyazo.com/a3c91c71c5e51042f446f24071c7e16b.gif

[unreal halo]

is it not going past the opening?

[fierce tulip]

you are talking about the blue collision, im talking about the green one.

[unreal halo]

ah, i could barely see it

lol so hard to see that, how did you even xD

okay i understand now why it is not working, so il try to change that

[fierce tulip]

iunno, practice :p

you can click on it and press delete

for a simple object as this using complex as simple is fine, but dont try the same with a high poly mesh hehe

[unreal halo]

hmm the complex collision does to actually add any collision though?

[latent moth]

In a MP game, on clients, the Play Sound at location event ends up playing a sound twice, even though multicast should cause it to just execute on the respective client in an isolated fashion. On the server the sounds play once each as expected. What might I be doing wrong?

[unreal halo]

as removing the simple collision just makes it possible to walk through the object

so i guess i will ahve to add a new simple collision on top, around the walls etc

[fierce tulip]

@unreal halo there is an option to set collision "complex as simple" which makes collision per polygon. for simple meshes like yours thats fine.

[unreal halo]

thanks! 😃

[next badger]

https://userstyles.org/styles/157354/unrealengine-bug-report-form-dark-theme if someone needed

@next jetty I believe Paragon SFX are part of each respective character, plus the announcer

[trim trail]

hm, im doing cleanup in content browser and i noticed when i move stuff, the ram usage increases, i guess its because of copying, but after move is done, usage stays the same, whats explanation for that?

shouldnt usage drop to numbers before moving stuff?

[next jetty]

@next badger I filtered by sound effects, and could only find dialogue... I'm looking at Twinblast, by the way

[next badger]

@next jetty yeah, unfortunately only speech available

[next jetty]

Aww

[dawn linden]

@trim trail UE4 has to load assets when you move them, and for whatever reason, in the editor once an asset is loaded, it doesn't get unloaded.

[trim trail]

is it bug, or it has been like that for years?

the fact it doesnt unload

[dawn linden]

Always that way, intentional I think but not sure the reasons.

[trim trail]

interesting, at least theres some explanation, thanks

i guess i stick to workaround being restarting ue4 every time it reaches 80%+ ram usage

i could push it as it uses pagefile after ram is full, but it gets slower and its 250gb ssd, it can get full as well

[dawn linden]

Yeah, worth restarting once in a while.

[rose bison]

day 2 of taking all the paragon assets apart

also, I am developing an unhealthy relationship with those particles

[languid shard]

https://giphy.com/gifs/face-lenny-Hot2b4Wn3aHwk dem particles

[rose bison]

there I people marrying objects like the eifel tower

I wanna marry those explosions

nothing wrong with that, is there?

[unreal halo]

people marry their nintendo ds datesim characters, i'm sure explosions is fine

[pallid compass]

@fierce tulip honestly iv given up using 4k screen for work, the engine just hates the scaling so much, i call bs on epic working in 4k and downscaling lmao, cant wait for a fix for it

[fierce tulip]

I dont even have 1080p screens anymore besides the huion, but yea the weird warpey tabs and such are annoying for sure hehe

[drifting ocean]

I'm running 4k too, but the only thing I noticed is that PrintString text has ridiculous spacing and font size

[lavish garden]

can a game request hardware info (ie mobo brand/type)?

[languid shard]

to get an "out of video memory" crash with an app built on UE4 doesn't sound good right ? 😐

[grim sinew]

No, that actually sounds terrible. You're either at too high of a resolution (unlikely) or you have so many high res textures you ran out of VRAM entirely and crashed.

Not a hard fix thankfully, just balance your memory better

[languid shard]

hmm

I'm getting this on Twinmotion, which is an archviz software built with UE4

sadly our models are reaching very, very high polycounts

[grim sinew]

Mesh memory is a thing. Could be you're exceeding the allotment for that

[languid shard]

argh

[grim sinew]

It's not really a consideration for normal gamedev to run out of vram from a mesh, but I guess if it's "very, very high polycounts" it's possible

[languid shard]

not doing gamedev I'm afraid 😄

and obviously the crash corrupted the project file

noice...

[grim sinew]

The project file is just plaintext, that's easy enough to fix

It's like 20 lines

[languid shard]

nah that's not a UE4 project files @grim sinew

its a twinmotion file

[grim sinew]

No idea what that is, but I wish you luck 😛

[languid shard]

oh well thanks 😄

[grim sinew]

Looks like a non-autodesk CAD thing

[languid shard]

I'm monitoring memory usages as I add models

[grim sinew]

So that's way outside my world

You need to monitor video memory, not system btw

The task manager on the latest win 10 update can do that, or you can use GPU-Z

[languid shard]

right I'll use GPUz

we're still running an old build of windows 10 at work

[grim cargo]

hi guys can i import another project (with level and blueprint) to another blueprint (with level and blue print also) ??

[grim ore]

You can migrate the items out of one project into another.

If you cheat you could also turn the first project into a template or feature pack but that is overkill

[languid shard]

@grim sinew yep that's definetly vram related

toggling models on off on the software shows a huge difference in terms of memory use

problem is I can't toggle them off all the time, and will ultimately run out of vram T_T

now I understand why quadro gpus have so much memory

5100MB taked in very low quality (similar to the unreal editor)

I have 5 models loaded out of 13

this is never gonna work on an 8gig 1080

haven't even started the texturing

[wary wave]

5GB 0_o

[languid shard]

https://i.imgur.com/qReFGIZ.png

😦

[wary wave]

seriously, what the heck are you rendering?

[languid shard]

AEC models from revit

37.5M polys

[wary wave]

why are each of your meshes a full gigabyte of daya?

okay, you should probably look at optimising stuff

[languid shard]

no idea, FBXs are like 300

[wary wave]

what you're working with is not going to work

time to investigate, haha

[languid shard]

I'd do some lods in UE4 if I had the time

but the project is due in two days

[drifting ocean]

Don't think Revit does any sanity checks on the meshes at all, very few CAD suites do

[wary wave]

but 37.5M triangles across only 5 meshes isn't going to run properly

[languid shard]

I've been bruteforcing AEC models into UE4 for a year now

and indeed, Revit models are crap 😂

now I'm out of HDD storage too

ffs

[drifting ocean]

Check your export settings in Revit, haven't used Revit personally but I know Solidworks by default outputs absurd topology curved surfaces by default but can be told to only make them very terrible instead of insanely terrible

[grim sinew]

At this point I would just throw it into zbrush and run it through decimation master

[drifting ocean]

I'm assuming it's also hella confusing nonmanifold madness so something like meshlab would probably not be too useful either

[languid shard]

software crashed

[drifting ocean]

Worked with LIDAR data before, and trying to get that into a realtime engine isn't fun haha

[languid shard]

I've got no idea on how I can finish this project for thursday

this is just impossible

yeah point cloud rendering is quite the headscratcher

[wary wave]

I don't think you'll finish this for Thursday

[drifting ocean]

"Please turn these 8.6billion 3d points from this ASCII file into a 3d .pdf I can show the client by next week"

[languid shard]

in a nutshell T_T

[drifting ocean]

My boss did not get what he wanted.....

[languid shard]

who the fuck uses 3d pdfs nowadays 😐

[drifting ocean]

Apparently people at fortune 500 companies

[languid shard]

🤢

[drifting ocean]

they're great for showing CAD models to people without CAD software or the intelligence required to download free viewers , but that's about it

[languid shard]

what about online hosting ?

[drifting ocean]

Left that company a few years ago so that's no longer my concern 😛

[languid shard]

I envy you 😄

oh well

client ain't gonna be happy

but this is impossible to do within such a short time and with the hardware we have here

I mean we're making them videos in a few days, where external suppliers ask for thousands of € and a few weeks

[grim ore]

I know it's hard to read but whooo go Niagara.

[kindred viper]

maybe its a misprint 😄

[languid shard]

niagara lead :p

[safe rose]

hmm, when your Epic credentials no longer work...you start to wonder

Niagara is going to be sweet

[plush yew]

Im new to unreal, but i'm having an issue where no matter what level I try to build lighting on it says an error to do with "World settings 1 lighting needs to be rebuilt" something like that, but it will not build the lighting, even on the sample levels.

[safe rose]

@plush yew https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/290752/worldsettings-1-error-lighting-needs-to-be-rebuild.html

https://forums.unrealengine.com/community/general-discussion/103912-error-worldsettings-1-maps-need-lighting-rebuilt

[languid shard]

@drifting ocean @wary wave @grim sinew welp, mesh decimation through unreal lodding isn't the right solution 😂 https://i.imgur.com/c4bTUbb.png

[grim sinew]

wtf, zbrush gave you that?

[languid shard]

no we don't have zbrush

[grim sinew]

"Decimation master" is a zbrush plugin

[languid shard]

I've used the autolod from unreal

[grim sinew]

That's what I said

Oh

[languid shard]

yes

[grim sinew]

Yeah autolod can't do that

too much

[languid shard]

but we are a building engineering company 😂

I doubt zbrush is going to be of any use

[grim sinew]

It might have use today. It's really either that or meshlab, I can't think of any tools that can reduce that many polygons

Other than zbrush and meshlab

[languid shard]

I do have meshlab installed so we can give it a whirl

[grim sinew]

https://pixologic.com/zbrush/trial/

[languid shard]

uh meshlab doesn't support FBX

[grim sinew]

Export as obj

[plush yew]

Is there a way to get swarmagent.exe back, my windows defender thought it was a trojan and removed it.

[grim sinew]

Recompile it or repair the engine in the launcher

[frank escarp]

@grim sinew blender and houdini can

houdini superior to blender due to the whole node based stuff

but blender is free

[languid shard]

downloaded zbrush, we'll see how it fares

not holding my breath though since these models are just too shitty for realtime use

[grim sinew]

Decimation master works where you can just tell it exactly how many thousands of polys you want the model to have, and it'll start removing polygons based on how much of an angle they're at to the ones around them until it reaches that number.

[languid shard]

fuck I haven't used zbrush in ages, that ui

[grim sinew]

The topology isn't going to be good, at all, but it'll be functional.

You can also use zremesher for cleaner topology but that rebuilds the mesh instead of reduces it so it can lose some hard surface detail without proper polygroups

[languid shard]

😕

that's chinese to me man

[plush yew]

I think blender has something about reducing polycount without loosing to much visible detail

[languid shard]

@grim sinew can't figure out how the fuck zbrush works

I'm just gonna weep in a corner

[grim sinew]

http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/zbrush-plugins/decimation-master/

[languid shard]

I mean even the ui, shortcuts and all

I can't even place my model

[grim sinew]

Import the model, drag it out into the viewport, and at the top of the viewport click edit

And by drag it out I mean click and drag the mouse in the viewport

[languid shard]

https://i.imgur.com/o2Rd23Y.png

mokay

[grim sinew]

...not what I meant, ctrl+n to get a new document

[languid shard]

right got a new doc with the model in

[grim sinew]

If it's editable, meaning you can click in empty space and spin it around, at the top on the right of all the stuff click plugins, decimation master is up there

[languid shard]

tis not

I imported it as an obj model

[grim sinew]

That wouldn't matter

And... you can't spin it around you mean?

[languid shard]

yeah

its locked

[grim sinew]

o.O

Is it in the viewport?

and editable?

[languid shard]

it is

its not

[grim sinew]

did you click the edit button?

[languid shard]

I can just add them

not clickable

[grim sinew]

Oh

Okay

You only add one

Not 2

Once you add 2, it's no longer in 3d mode

Ctrl+n, then drag out ONE, then click edit

[languid shard]

ah

[grim sinew]

Once you add more than one entire tool, it goes into 2.5D mode

[pallid compass]

not sure what be faster and more effective

branch off the tilemap set class to integrate procedural maps for 2d or
make a 100 maps quickly

lmao

[languid shard]

meshlab is just hanging here trying to load the decimation filter btw

[grim sinew]

Yeah Meshlab is more crashy than Zbrush in my experience

[languid shard]

uuh

can't find the plugin

its supposed to be installed by default

but I can't find it

right found it

not sure this is the right solution though

its going to take ages to do every model

[pallid compass]

whats the original source of ur model?

[languid shard]

revit arch

[pallid compass]

dam another victim

this happens so often

[languid shard]

:/

[pallid compass]

archi people bringing models in

[languid shard]

if it was simple arch stuff like I dunno a house or something

but we're talking whole construction sites here

for a stadium in this project

[pallid compass]

its the same with anything it dosent matter, if its a house or a city

that software always brings stuff in at insanely high poly count

well most archi software i know of

[languid shard]

yep

[pallid compass]

now u pay the price of either

retop or new pipeline

[frank escarp]

i really recomend houdini for this stuff

it is designed to do pipeline stuff

you can just have node graphs that clean up/bake/uv/whatever raw models

i have a node graph that does that on groups of rocks or similar organic-ish assets

grabs a whole folder of .obj files, and reduces/uvs them, bakes them (in the same atlas), and bakes AO/cavity. Then exports an FBX with all the models inside as separate objects

[languid shard]

okay so from the quick test I've just run @grim sinew it destroyed the model

[grim sinew]

o.O

[languid shard]

missing a lot of stuff

[grim sinew]

Undo and check mesh integrity

It's in the geometry thing on the right, modify topology category

[plush yew]

try blender?

[pallid compass]

deffo not blender

[plush yew]

y?

[pallid compass]

i really wouldnt put high poly stuff through blender

[languid shard]

1 159 483 edges shared xD

[plush yew]

blender can do it what do you mean?

[grim sinew]

Ah. Yeah so you totally just have nonmanifold stuff everywhere

[pallid compass]

blender can auto retop / LOD 20mil face stuff?

[plush yew]

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/dev/modeling/modifiers/generate/decimate.html

it's blender idk

[pallid compass]

so prob not then if u dont know 😂

[plush yew]

blender can do a lot of things

blender isn't a weak 3D modeling program XD

[pallid compass]

i never said it was weak, iv just never ever heard of anyone trying to sort out heavy stuff in it

and prob for a reason

[plush yew]

well you won't know till ya try :I

[frank escarp]

people use that tool a lot

blender decimator is actually legit as fuck

[pallid compass]

really o_O

[plush yew]

I was gonna say people use it

[pallid compass]

well if it works then that guy deffo should give it ago

iv only used zbrush's personally

[plush yew]

there is also a plugin for blender called poly reducer

one guy on a forum says it worked out much better

but to each their own

[pallid compass]

oh nice

iv only used zbrush's as its the only time i ever have heavy models

but im personally a maya person

[plush yew]

i learn't 3DsMax only 3d modeling experience i have

i have used blender but have not fully learned it.

[pallid compass]

iv used maya, blender max

ended up sticking to maya

but big miss for blender shortcuts

[plush yew]

blender ui coulda be better XD\

i think the learning curve is why 80% people dodge away from blender

[pallid compass]

when the new file format comes out blender will be rolling

[plush yew]

and their new realtime rendering/rendering engine

[ivory gorge]

what's this new format?

[plush yew]

well gotta get going for now ttyl

[frank escarp]

@ivory gorge glTF

[pallid compass]

i was about to tag u then

lmao

i always forget the name

must remember it as "good luck, there fucked" lmao

@autodesk

[languid shard]

got the client

we're gonna abort the video

and do a bunch of images instead

so 1 model instead of 13

[pallid compass]

btw was ur issue

[frank escarp]

about blender

[pallid compass]

importing or?

[languid shard]

running out of vram

[frank escarp]

Normal Edit from GSOC is getting merged into 2.8 right now

[pallid compass]

dammm son wtf lmao

[languid shard]

eyup

[frank escarp]

so 2.8 will include a very deep normal editing toolset

[languid shard]

just the models, no materialwork

[frank escarp]

for all our lowpoly needs

[pallid compass]

u throw it into blender and see if there decimate works

before u give up

go throw*

[languid shard]

I won't have the time to do everything in two days anyways

I had the models this morning

[pallid compass]

fair enough

not ur fault, blame retarded pipeline

[languid shard]

3 days to make a video in a realtime engine with CAD models

[pallid compass]

lmao jesus

much fun

[languid shard]

these guys know jackshit

external suppliers are asking for weeks and thousands of cash

[pallid compass]

just tell them, petrol dont fit in diesel engines

[languid shard]

and I'm here with my puny workstation and a few days

[pallid compass]

lmao

how many builds was it?

buildings*

[languid shard]

one

a whole arena/stadium

just the structure but still

[pallid compass]

oh dam nvm then no time to retop

[languid shard]

no time to do anything xD

[pallid compass]

render in hudinie

or w/e its called

packaging crappy 2d level to game with about 10 objects
2000 shaders compiling
what.jpg

[languid shard]

@pallid compass https://i.imgur.com/6VXzybh.png

this is the model

minus all the crap that is inside and around it

[pallid compass]

how detailed is that, out of curiosity

[languid shard]

and minus all the phasing will the machinery

very

https://i.imgur.com/fMc6RfE.png

[pallid compass]

oh thats not that much then

lots of simple things then

theres prob a workflow for this from cad to ue4 but in my head im just like "should of built it in modelling software if they wanted a video"

[languid shard]

except we're building this for construction, not archviz :p

that's a simple part of the model btw

that wooden structure

one of the problems is that they use models found on the internet for almost everything

I've had toilet bowls with tens of thousands of polygons

[pallid compass]

lmfao wtf

[languid shard]

CAD people won't care about it

cause they are doing precision, not visuals

[grim ore]

I see people from here lol.

[pallid compass]

wtf lmfao

where are u

[grim ore]

GDC

Education Summit. Showing discord as an option for support and help.

[pallid compass]

did they see me type dam it

[grim ore]

Nah it's an old screenshot

[pallid compass]

dam

rip

[grim ore]

But @fierce tulip is on it lol

[pallid compass]

yeah i seen haha

[languid shard]

@pallid compass I swear man, I think their vehicles are the main problem

I've exported a model with the building and a few other stuff around it, but no cranes nor vehicles

and its half the size

[obsidian nimbus]

damn let us know next time so we can meme the feck out of the chat 😛

[fierce tulip]

oh god <_< hehe

[twilit quest]

Well den

[frank escarp]

@grim ore not public?

reeeeeeeeeeeeee

[grim ore]

The later one should be, this is the education stuff.

Looks like an awesome upgrade

[round ivy]

Hey guys do you know any tutorial to take a fbx rigged gun into ue4 and the Blueprints that make it works? Thanks

I have a gun rigged, I put the bones in place but the blueprint mechanics is what I don't get...

How to rotate parts when pressing buttons, etc.

[glass imp]

Hi boys

[final owl]

Hi 2 u

[worn granite]

I love how they picked an image of slackers where you see two people ask questions but are only directed to post elsewhere (tbf you gotta moderate) rather than any number of examples of questions being answered.

[floral heart]

Where?

[restive eagle]

any ideas why i cant see all child classes that are in the list?
http://prntscr.com/itz3aq

they all originated from the same parent, but only few of them can be selected

[dawn linden]

Because they're not loaded. If you open the blueprint, then it will appear in the list.

(Yep, UE4 can be pretty dumb.)

[restive eagle]

hmm it seems that did the trick, even though i had to open each of them before and set some values

[iron belfry]

Hello, has anyone encountered this before? LogGameMode: Error: Mixing AGameStateBase with AGameMode is not compatible. Change AGameStateBase subclass (GhostGameStateBase_C) to derive from AGameState, or make both derive from Base

im kinda confused, im not mixing them in any cast

in the settings gamemode is in gamemode and state is in state

as for the usage for the gamestate is get gamestate

while the game mode is casted to a gamemode

the log doesnt specify where did i go wrong and i dont know what else to do

[livid haven]

@restive eagle That is unusual. What is the type of that array element?

[restive eagle]

its a class of bp_quest_item, which is a prent class of all other childs

[livid haven]

Is the array declared in C++ or BP?

[restive eagle]

but its fine now, like kamrann said its enough to open them

bp

[livid haven]

That's not fine - that's not supposed to happen like that.

Can you select the property and show me the details on it?

Like, where you can change the name and tooltip and all that.

[restive eagle]

well a lot of things are not supposed to happen, but they do sometimes

[livid haven]

... yes?

[restive eagle]

http://prntscr.com/itzfzr

[livid haven]

Which is indicative of something that needs fixing?

[restive eagle]

i doubt that its anything serious

[dawn linden]

@livid haven It's been like that for as long as I can remember.

[livid haven]

I've never had that issue unless I was mistakenly trying to set a reference to an object, rather than a class.

Which would mean trying to make a reference to the CDO instead of the class, typically.

[dawn linden]

Though I have a feeling it may indeed depend on the type of property/dropdown used, I think in some cases it shows unloaded ones too.

[worn granite]

I think you can do like a soft object path or something

[livid haven]

Weird.

[worn granite]

that'll show unloaded assets, maybe.

[dawn linden]

Note that you won't notice it if your blueprints are in the reference chain of something that is getting loaded automatically (usually through a level). Then they'll show up fine.

[worn granite]

Feel like I've seen this before, but it was a while ago

[dawn linden]

Soft reference properties almost certainly would work as expected, yes.

[worn granite]

so not a one time thing, not new either

welcome to UE4

[dawn linden]

@livid haven Actually this relates to something I've wondered for a while. Why on earth is the functionality for finding and filtering classes, both in-memory native/BP as well as unloaded BP, hidden away in the private section of the ClassViewer module?

I've had to recreate similar functionality myself for editor-related tools. And I've seen one or two other places in the engine that do the same on a more basic level.

Just seems such an obvious thing to want to make use of to me.

And it's most likely the cause of the above behaviour too - no easy access to this functionality from wherever the class selector dropdown is coded, so whoever wrote it just left it as is.

[livid haven]

Not sure, not familiar with what code that is off the top of my head.

[safe rose]

@iron belfry Did you figure it out?

You are mixing Base Class with Regular CLass

[livid haven]

I do know that there's some shenanigans with the asset registry not doing quite the right thing for finding classes.

[safe rose]

Like, GamestateBase and GameMode or GameModeBase and GameState

[livid haven]

Got a CL with some changes for that.

[safe rose]

You can't do that

They have to both be derived by Base or Not

[iron belfry]

@safe rose well, i did a reparenting of class gamestatebase and the error stopped appearing. however i dont understand the gimmicks behind it

[safe rose]

I just told you

You just can't

Each have stuff referenced to each other

Based on it being Base or not

If you don't need FPS style gamemode, then use Base

[iron belfry]

so is as simple as use base and stick with it?

[safe rose]

Well, it's more than just that

Well, depends on what you need from GameMode

Just look at the docs 😃

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Gameplay/Framework/GameMode

I can't open it for some reason though

[iron belfry]

the docs said if you need basically nothing, use base. if you need lobby and how many players for start and other things, use the regular

[safe rose]

Ah tehre we go

Or not

You can simply use base and create your own shit

[iron belfry]

since its a vr project i dont need like anything at all

[safe rose]

It's just regular has stuff already in place that is helpful

[dawn linden]

@livid haven It's basically just some code to allow iteration/filtering over all classes, irrespective of native/in-memory/unloaded. And if I remember right, it actually uses the AssetRegistry as the source of the information in the unloaded case.

[iron belfry]

thtats why i chose base instead of regular

anyway, thanks for the explanation, it did help me

and i will check that linnk again

[dawn linden]

It's something super generic, but exists and is accessible only for the one case of generating a particular class picker dialog!

[livid haven]

@dawn linden That does sound like the thing I'm thinking of, in fact.

[fierce tulip]

fricks sake, the 2fa is broken.

https://i.gyazo.com/c17e6a3d6ad1c5889b8f998e56d792ab.png

this is not a new device

grr

[safe rose]

shit

[dusk mantle]

How's everyone today? Going to be rebuilding paragon with a few people would love for more to join

[safe rose]

@wicked tiger @elfin jacinth @blissful reef URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT

Not sure if this has been brought up yet:

Please get to whoever is in charge of the launcher

So, this happened to a teammate last night, and I thought he just messed up. But he swore he didn't.

TL;DR: Last Update to Epic Launcher is BROKEN, do NOT delete any projects from it.

Issue: Deleting projects from within the Epic Launcher (not sure if it's random or every project...because I'm not going to freaking try it again) causes other ones to be deleted as well. They seem to be linked somehow. They were right next to each other when I right-clicked deleted the one of the left. Taking out the one on the left took out the right one as well. Sadly, I was not thinking and just hit Yes after the warning CLEARLY showed me that I was deleting the right one... So yes, I am at fault for just clicking through but my brain wasn't as fast as my fingers were. There is definitely an issue though if you attempt to delete one project and you end up deleting not only that one but the one next to it.

Luckily for me it was just some random projects. But for my teammate, he had to redownload the depot...

[obsidian nimbus]

well thats still not as bad as it could be..

source controll

[plush prairie]

rip

[safe rose]

Yeah, could be worse

Still shit

Because we all know how many people actually use VCS around here

[cinder iron]

thank you for the warning victr

[elfin jacinth]

Thanks for letting us know @safe rose

[warm river]

loading visual studio..

[elfin jacinth]

Hey @safe rose I am going to DM you.

[fierce tulip]

at least you can get into the launcher <_< my 2fa isnt sending me login codes

still fricking suck though @safe rose

[plush yew]

anyone interested in helping me playtest my game

thats on steam

and has gotten good and bad reviews lol

its free

The main issue is that i need to figure out how to resolve lag issues

[opal ocean]

On paragon Shinbi's animbp, what is the FullBody bool for? Its set with a getCurveValue... ?

I'm not finding any curve assets? or am I blind?

[crimson trout]

made some tests for comparing redshift and unreal, this is not really fair comparison but anyway.. on redshift render we can see really good details, that we can not get in unreal, but in unreal we can see instant result and it helps to setup lighting better that we need

and one more

[fierce tulip]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/feedback-for-epic/1447269-take-notes-from-crytek

[livid haven]

And Crytek could stand to learn to not try to sue it's clients frivolously, fail to pay its employees, and such. 😛

But for reals, not sure what that post is getting at. It's just a screenshot of Crytek's roadmap?

[tall pendant]

Was wondering the exact thing.

[floral heart]

I like Epic's roadmap.
Or at least their new approach to illustrating a roadmap.
What's on that roadmap is kind of boring, but to me that's a separate issue, and not one you should be looking to copy from other companies.

[grave nebula]

The only thing worth learning from CT is simplicity of their rendering code. Rest is questionable.

[fierce tulip]

i just find those threads funny

[grave nebula]

they trully are. Experts everywhere

[surreal viper]

Crytek reputation 10 years ago: holy shit that graphics
today: they won't pay their workers for years, their engine has meh docs and community and if you still make a game they can sue you for no reason at all

they had a hard work of 10 years for this

[livid haven]

Really do wonder just what happened to them. I wasn't paying enough attention to piece together how they got in to this mess.

[obsidian nimbus]

he likes roadmaps and hates lightmaps

case closed 😛

[worn granite]

Oh hey crytek has a position open! Can't wait to relocate to another country to not get paid

better apply right away

[crisp fable]

now this is cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRFwzf4BHvA

[silver crown]

Impressive stuff indeed

And OpenCL, so works everywhere

Unity is getting really interesting tbh

[warm river]

there are less bugs on 4.19 version? *

related to visual studio

[grim ore]

about the same as all the other versions, they just moved to other places.

[safe rose]

Heard VR is broken in 4.19

So I'm waiting

Always a good idea to wait for *.1 version anyway

Let everyone else Beta Test

on *.0

[crisp fable]

also plugin update lag

[grim ore]

the instance landscape stuff seems to be added in 4.19 and completely broke 😦

[crisp fable]

instance landscape stuff?

[iron belfry]

@safe rose i've been experiencing frequent crashes in vr. good to know its not only me

yesterday i updated to version 4.19

worst thing is that i dont even know where or why it crashes, the log doesnt show anything

[safe rose]

I didnt update

I usually don't do .0 releases

I just heard enough from others to know to stay far away

[livid haven]

Aye. I would never recommend updating immediately unless you've got a legitimate test-driven setup going and can have a separate branch running smoke tests for your game for a while to verify stability before committing to an upgrade.

And I'd be willing to bet no one here could (or would, even if they could) afford the time and resources to dedicate to making a gauntlet of automation-friendly smoke tests for their game. :X

The most important thing I'll remind anyone about is: Once you've upgraded a project, any assets you save are permanently not backwards compatible with an older version of the engine.

Once you save an asset in a newer version of the engine, you can never open it again in an older version. So don't do anything stupid.

[crisp fable]

i updated

then immediately rolled back

[flat pilot]

hey guys
last thread I found was from 2014 so I'll ask it again
what's the best between UMG and html ?
from what I can see HTML is easier to dev and has more resources while UMG is way lighter

[manic pawn]

you're kind of comparing apples and oranges there

html is for websites, umg is for games in unreal, simple as that

[flat pilot]

you can use html in unreal

[livid haven]

No, you can get a third party plugin and try to make a UI in UE4 with HTML.

Or you can be a mad man and literally try to embed a browser in your game in order to do UI - which is a terrible idea.

You only really see the latter for things like purchases. I don't know exactly why, I suspect it's a matter of leveraging all the existing work done to have a secure means of handling transactions and private information.

IE: If you can already purchase things with real money on your game's/company's website, why reinvent the wheel? Embed a browser that opens up to the page from within the game. Also, you won't have to figure out all the security issues of having a user input financial information in to your game client directly.

[flat pilot]

yes but I'm making an UI

[livid haven]

Sure.

I'm saying, you can use HTML for UI, through a 3rd party plugin, which puts you at the mercy of whatever they support.

And introduces the complexities of marshalling data between two languages.

The alternative is literally embedding a browser, which I absolutely would never recommend.

Choosing to go with some HTML-based UI system in UE4 is really only useful in so much as you have some frontend web-devs you can immediately put to work.

Otherwise, why add the complications of yet another language and data marshalling?

UMG is, to oversimplify, a blueprint-based system that wraps around UE4's C++-only 2D/UI system, Slate.

To rephrase it: It's unlikely that HTML will offer anything superior to UMG - what it can offer is a readily usable system that is familiar to someone with web-dev UI background to immediately jump in to, rather than learning UMG.

So it's a bit dangerous to decide to commit to an HTML-based UI just because it'll give you a head start.

Made worse by the fact that you don't have the same guarantee about maintenance from the author(s) of the HTML-based UI plugin(s?), compared to using what Epic itself uses, supports, and maintains.

[flat pilot]

is animated stuff as easy in umg ?

[livid haven]

UMG uses Sequencer, which is UE4's general animation/timeline system (sort of)

[flat pilot]

then why do gears of war, pubg etc.. use html plugins ?

[livid haven]

What's your basis for claiming either of those titles have all of their UI done in HTML?

Can't find anything about any GoW using HTML for its UI.

Did find some stuff about PUBG having it's menus use HTML. (https://hackernoon.com/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-main-menu-is-vulnerable-to-hacking-d483b00a7036)

[restive eagle]

maybe hes confusing it with rich text

[livid haven]

I don't think he is.

[flat pilot]

https://coherent-labs.com/coherent-gt/
bottom

about gow I read it hours ago on forums cant find it without deep research

[livid haven]

I can't speak to why any of them decided to use Coherent (it's the HTML plugin I was thinking of, in fact) over UMG.

[flat pilot]

guildwars 2 also

[livid haven]

My best guess is, again, leveraging the existing/current experience and knowledge of some of their UI developers, rather than having them start over fresh with an unfamiliar API.

Also

UMG was a somewhat late addition, relative to the initial 4.0 release of UE4. It just wasn't an option, at all, if your project is old enough.

Looks like maybe 4.4 was the first release where UMG was no longer "experimental"?

[plain oxide]

Im just playing around in unreal for the first time. Is it normal for wireframe and highlighted object lines to rapidly flicker constantly? It sort of looks like Z-fighting

It's pretty annoying

[livid haven]

@plain oxide Definitely not.

[flat pilot]

Ensure that git, python, msbuild, patch, cmake are all added to your PATH and can be run from the command line.
here we go for 3 hours of troubleshooting again

[livid haven]

For what?

Also, ensuring each of those is in your PATH should, itself, be trivial. 😛

[flat pilot]

I already spent hours doing this some days ago before giving up

[plain oxide]

run cmd, run each of those commands, whichever is unrecognised needs to be added to your PATH

[little salmon]

Any recommendations what I would do for a player character model? I'm thinking Fuse/Mixamo, but I was wondering if there are other options available? :)

[visual geyser]

Guys Im trying to set up live link for Maya. Anyone have experience setting this up? I havnt used maya in a while and I cant remember how to install the .mll plugins.

[wet berry]

Anyone have general tips for an arbitrary plane being the 'floor' for a character as the floor rotates and moves?

I know I'll likely have to write my own movement component

But anything else I should keep in mind/test for/general tips?

[paper kernel]

@wet berry engine has built-in measuring functions for linear velocity at location for moving floors

[wet berry]

Not as concerned about moving. I am trying to figure out how to get a pawn to move around on an object that has 6DOF movement itself

[crisp fable]

@little salmon theres a decent character creator on the forums

[little salmon]

@crisp fable Do you have a link? Currently not on my computer. :D

[crisp fable]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/marketplace/1439899-wip-character-customizer

its not the garbage one where the dev disappeared off the face of the earth

and the default characters look like the result of incest but you can change them

[onyx sky]

Does anyone know how to integrate Nvidia Hairworks with UE4 (Unreal 4.18)
(Note: Please don't provide me the general link for the hairworks, I want to integrate with 4.18 like I said above)

[honest vale]

is DFAO completely broken in 4.19?

[devout gulch]

I can see at least several reasons to use Coherent over UMG:

1. Perspective (3D) Projections
2. Easier to crate animated GUIs (CSS + JavaScript)
3. Easier to create complex widgets (overriding OnPaint to make custom drawing is not the easiest option).
4. Creating fancy looking UI in Slate/UMG is hard. You need to know shaders/C++ and iteration time is not really fast.

My biggest gripe with Slate/UMG though is lack if perspective projection

of*

[livid haven]

I don't think switching to Coherent just to get perspective projections is necessary, by any means.

I'm not sure point 2 is really true outside of assuming that you've already got someone with the relevant expertise and skills, which was the factor I mentioned originally.

I don't see how it would be easier to implement a complex widget using HTML5/CSS/JavaScript than it would be to use UMG blueprints/Sequencer/C++.

[devout gulch]

It's faster to iterate, when creating custom widget in slate, I have very little feedback until I compile and run ;

[livid haven]

And creating the equivalent fancy looking Slate/UMG UI that requires materials would be just as difficult, if not more difficult in HTML. It's not like you get a magic make-shaders button if you use HTML5.

Faster iteration is a potential point, sure.

Though I don't know why you wouldn't be using UMG.

[devout gulch]

using UMG for custom drawing doesn't seem like good idea

[livid haven]

Also, the more complex the system, the more harm a non-strictly-typed language will do you, I think. :/

[devout gulch]

with heavy math and loops

[livid haven]

Custom drawing != complex widget

[devout gulch]

either way I learned to live with it (and programming shaders along way so that's plus) so I won't complain much.

I just really wish Slate had perspective projection it's only thing I really miss

[livid haven]

I'm just not sure about any of the "easier" points. Those all seem like they're easier... if you already know them. Which is a given.

[frank escarp]

@livid haven do you happen to know any trick for huds with 3d (mesh) elements?. Is it possible to find the 3d location of a specific widget?

[livid haven]

I don't entirely understand the question. I assume you're using widget components.

[frank escarp]

Yes, but i want to eventually make a 3d hud

or at the very least, a hud with some 3d meshes in it

[devout gulch]

you mean 3d hud but projected on 3d plane without using widget componenets ?

[frank escarp]

yes

[devout gulch]

2d plane*

[frank escarp]

oh, i mean a 3d hud (widget component) with actual meshes

[livid haven]

Scene capture and having a "studio" somewhere in the world where you can compose the scene you're capturing.

[frank escarp]

i dont mean to render 3d models, but to have 3d models in the hud itself

[livid haven]

Ideally, a separate world where you compose the scene, but I don't think there's multi-world support in the engine yet.

[frank escarp]

think a box instead of a planar button

[livid haven]

Wouldn't that just be actual mesh components that you hook up click events and such to?

[frank escarp]

yes, thats what i was planing. Just in case you knew a better way

i was thinking that somehow adapting UMG widgets into 3d meshes could make the edition a lot easier

[livid haven]

Not really. I mean, no, there is no UI system for having actual 3D geometry being rendered and hit-tested and laid out and all that jazz.

It may be neat, but actually having fully 3D geometry for full-fledged UI isn't really a common thing and I wouldn't expect anyone to introduce that kind of complexity to an otherwise 2D UI system.

Could go crazy and try to design some kind of "visualizer" that takes a Slate UI and creates/synchronizes actual 3D geometry to represent the state of those widgets?

[frank escarp]

thats what i was thinking about

laying out the widget using the UMG editor, and then it just pops up as a 3d mesh

buttons become boxes, for example.

[dawn linden]

That would be a fairly enormous amount if work if you were going to somehow reflect all the dynamic layout calculations that Slate is doing.

[plush yew]

is it possible to create a mesh emitter that's affected by gravity and all the meshes work like a piece of paper?

[marble storm]

any idea how can i type into >Say after prompting it with "Command=Talk" bindings?

[wary wave]

Paragon characters don't use any kind of foot IK?

this surprises me

[flat scroll]

I started out in Unreal, made a simple level and put down some material from the starter content. However I noticed one thing: the reflection in the floor disappear around the edges of the vision and also when I look down.
I guess this might be some trivial thing, but I would like to know how can I fix this.

[plush yew]

I cant tell you how to fix it, but I can tell you what it is: screen space reflections. That only reflects your on screen pixels so whenever something leaves the screen, it wont be reflected anymore.

[flat scroll]

well it does look pretty ugly when it does stuff like this though

[crisp fable]

"The class definition range is invalid. Most probably caused by previous parsing error."

WHAT

[honest vale]

nothing you can do about it

only way is to use planar reflection capture

[flat scroll]

@honest vale I found out that I can disable this effect, to do so I need to use the post process volume, but I need to make it cover the whole level. How can I edit the global post process volume?

[honest vale]

the global post process volume exist in the level

it's just a normal volume with the "unbound" option checked

[flat scroll]

thanks, that what i was missing

Enabling the global plane clipping support caused the editor to hang when loading the project

[honest vale]

might be just compiling shaders in the background

[frosty bloom]

So is there only 1 animBP for all of the Paragon characters?

Was hoping to pick up a few tricks but I guess that's out of the question now lol

[flat scroll]

I suppose it's a dumb idea to attach the planar reflection to the player, right?

[honest vale]

I haven't used it, but I guess the actor needs to be aligned with the reflective surface

[wary wave]

lol, reading through some of the animation docs and they're horribly out of date

they're from 2015 ffs

[devout gulch]

Paragon characters use foot ik

or I missed something ?

at it looked that way in game

[lusty thunder]

I tried to open the sample Paragon map in the editor, it only hung at 53% pegging my CPU, must be resource heavy map

[honest vale]

it's probably compiling shaders

or building the cache

[lusty thunder]

when I looked at task manager, it looked like shaders I think

[wary wave]

@devout gulch - I opened up the Shinbi character and didn't see anything

[devout gulch]

yeah

that blueprint is stripped down

to bare minimum

[wary wave]

Shinbi is supposed to be complete

[devout gulch]

I wouldn't take it as example from paragon

it can't be complete

there is no Distance Matching in engine for example (;

[wary wave]

it's the only one that's supposed to have a complete anim graph :/

[devout gulch]

Engine is still missing functionality from Paragon, it is impossible to port full graph unfortunetly ;/

Distance Macthing, Speed Wraping, Orientation Wraping

Shinbi AnimBP is bare minimum needed to move character and blend some abilities

there no strafing even 😄

[wary wave]

as far as I can tell the character doesn't even move

bit naff

[elfin jacinth]

Good morning, my favorite humans

How is everyone this fine fine (snowing here) day?

[wet berry]

Working from home to avoid snow 😃

[elfin jacinth]

Haha, very fair.

Well, be safe and stay warm!

[wary wave]

it's actually sunny here

after about four months of misery and cold

[elfin jacinth]

Where is that at Amber?

(Also, the snow has stopped, so I am not happy now)

[wary wave]

Czechia

it's already about 30 degrees (celsius) warmer than it was a month ago 😄

[honest vale]

it was -16 C this morning in Helsinki 🤔

kinda surprised tbh

[wary wave]

it was -4C here this morning

about 4C right now

but that's a massive improvement over -25C, haha

[devout gulch]

lol

in Poland the lowest temperature was maybe -10

not counting mountains

[vale osprey]

Single anim BP for different characters? That’s interesting

Noob question with such setup - how do you switch between animations specific to character in animation graph then?

Even overall I don’t think I was able to set an anim bp not specific to a specific skeletal mesh

Ohh, single Anim BP is what was shared, not how it was setup 😄

[trim trail]

has gdc announced something interesting besides allego

's alchemist and raytracer?

[pallid compass]

man its so god dam cold in the uk i can barely type

[trim trail]

not everyone tolerate cold yea

luckily im one of those who walks in shirt/sometimes sweater in winter

but then again, if its summer, im zombie

ive noticed speedtree 8 got released for ue4, what are major/practical differences vs 7?

[honest vale]

so where will the stream be aired? State of unreal that is

twitch?

youtube?

[buoyant pine]

Hey!
Anyone good with splines?
I posted a question about splines at the cpp subchat

[latent moth]

Hello everyone, I can Enable and Disable inputs but how can I know if I did so, programmatically? There's no AreInputsEnabled

[frosty bloom]

Why not just create a boolean and switch it when you enable/disable?

I'll take the silence as a Ohh silly me, i'll go set it up right away. Thanks

[grim ore]

man logged into, tried to, epic launcher this morning to find it locked lol 😦

[fierce tulip]

yay for all the non-regulars in stream hehe.

[bitter iris]

@grim ore Whys it locked?

[grim ore]

someone trying to get into it too many times. epic's new anti intrusion and annoy legit users system lol

[bitter iris]

jeez

how long does it lock you out for

[grim ore]

2 hours

[wild kestrel]

oooof alwamost mised state of unreal xd

there lot of people on twitch chat

[golden sierra]

Just got an email saying m yaccount is locked for 120 minutes due to multiple failed logins

but i havne't been trying to login that I know of

any ideas or is someone actually trying to hack me?

[grim ore]

yep or someone who doesnt like you

[wild kestrel]

Somebody attepting to login to your account

doesn ot mean hack

might be some bot

send email [e-mail] or maybe contact Amanda

Daj pytanie na AnwserHub :p

[grim ore]

that video doesn't play for me so I can't help =/

[wild kestrel]

to powinno być twoje pierwsze wyjście, tam masz większą szanse na odpowiedz zależnie jak twój problem jest skomplikowany

[grim ore]

do you have it building out and including the map when it does that? you can exclude maps and that seems to be what it is doing

[warm river]

wtf

@wild kestrel it was a laugh?

lol

[wild kestrel]

??

[warm river]

just joking with you ❤

[fierce tulip]

:/ that mocap digital life thing was uncanny valley af.

[wild kestrel]

this face they sowing now looks stiff

kind of

[fierce tulip]

yea, and andy is an idiot. kinda weird they asked him for this

[wild kestrel]

Luos oyu gonna watch niagara showcase right? :p

[fierce tulip]

im not getting out of this chair till its all over

[wild kestrel]

Ok ^^ i be chatting here since twitch chat is flooded

[fierce tulip]

with fortnite weeaboos

[wild kestrel]

i wonder if they realize that this is event for devlopers xd

[fierce tulip]

they dont even know which timezone they are in so I doubt that

[wild kestrel]

they been shocked that they showed PUBG here

[wintry oak]

https://clips.twitch.tv/ShinyHedonisticSardineStinkyCheese?tt_medium=create

[fierce tulip]

^ dickhole deluxe

[wintry oak]

lol

not sure if me or serkis

[fierce tulip]

serkis

hehe

the effect is still a bit uncanny, works much better on non-humans though

[wintry oak]

https://clips.twitch.tv/WanderingEmpathicCamelPermaSmug?tt_medium=create

Alien Serkis

[tall pendant]

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/233/254/601.gif

spot the difference

[fierce tulip]

hehe

[wild kestrel]

I think they didnt capture head oeirntation well

[shell jetty]

those are similar

100%

[wintry oak]

lul

[fierce tulip]

i asked my gf to bring me popcorn so I can read the chat when they notice the fortnite announcement is just talks about optimisation.

https://giphy.com/gifs/michael-jackson-comments-popcorn-pUeXcg80cO8I8

[wild kestrel]

or rest of body capture is what is missing to make it look mroe alive

[honest vale]

dis gon be gud

[wild kestrel]

Raytracing :p here goes my 1080Ti domiance

[fierce tulip]

i dont think ive seen a more unwashed shirt this decade hehe

[shell jetty]

:plaid: shirts

[fierce tulip]

shii that looks good though

[wild kestrel]

it feels like movie indeed

yea i mean its raytracing so same thing they use in movies :p

i hope Pascal GPUs will be able to take atleast part of thioose features

[fierce tulip]

hehe yea, or hope 2080ti's being cheaper than current gpu's due to stupid bitcoin miners

[wild kestrel]

its gonna be expensive as hell anyway

[fierce tulip]

yuuuup

4 volta gpu's hehe

[wild kestrel]

4 Voltas lol

thats 12000$

[fierce tulip]

hehe, in that case its almost cheaper to mine with em XD

danaaaa

[wild kestrel]

You got new PC? :>

[fierce tulip]

only got a 1080ti a few months ago

[wild kestrel]

oh welcome to the club ^^

which one oyu got?

[fierce tulip]

hehe, my prev gpu died so I had to.

iunno forgot

gigabyte one

[wild kestrel]

AORUS?

[fierce tulip]

iunno hehe

[wild kestrel]

Well it has hsany RGB showing it's AORUS xd

I think there is no 1080 without any lights

1080Ti*

[fierce tulip]

gaming OC black g11

[wild kestrel]

ah the cheapest one ;p how tempetures on it, since it doesn ot have backplate

[fierce tulip]

only one that fit in this case hehe

[shell jetty]

Nvidia RTX with DirecX Raytracing

[fierce tulip]

temperature is fine, but I have insane cooling in this thing.

[wild kestrel]

ah i see

Well AORUS fans keeps GPU below 70 on 100%

on full load

[warm river]

what a cool game

[wild kestrel]

oh didnt knwo this is unreal game

[shell jetty]

well as new windows update coming this spring soon give you Windows ML what have AI in Windows so that works with DirectX so with Raytracing it get more buff

[wild kestrel]

Something that people neglate, ability to make your own editor tools

[fierce tulip]

when reading chat
https://giphy.com/gifs/cheezburger-loki-the-avengers-k9kKWKaUEDBM4

[flat scroll]

How can set the default value for a bool? I compiled the blueprint after adding a new bool, but the "default value" does not show up like for floats

[tall pendant]

@fierce tulip hide it. i did it no regrets so far 😄

[strange swan]

twitch chat is pure cancer

[wild kestrel]

@fierce tulip i thought i got my 1080Ti bit overprice, but looking on today prices i could not get better deal back then xd

[fierce tulip]

normally its fine with unreal engine stuff, but these fortnites have zero clue its about game dev for gamedev instead of fortnite reveals for fortnite players

[flat scroll]

derp, I had something written into the filter

[fierce tulip]

@wild kestrel same here.

@flat scroll glad you got it solved

[tall pendant]

gamers in dev stream... you know

[grave spruce]

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

[wild kestrel]

yea but it's like expecting big console annoucment in CES event :p they gonna be hugly dissapointed

[fierce tulip]

lol ark on mobile

[pallid compass]

LOL

what

[fierce tulip]

it barely runs on pc

[pallid compass]

ur joking right

[fierce tulip]

nope

[pallid compass]

omfg

HAHA

im so done

wildcard 10/10

they are in for a bit shock

[fierce tulip]

and switch

[pallid compass]

Everyone trying to copy epic

[wild kestrel]

they talk like it some revolution :p

[pallid compass]

What they dont realise is, epic arent just the dev's of fortnite, they also made the engine

they really know what there doing with it you know?

which to me id say has huge influence in them getting fortnite to run on mobile decently

[tall pendant]

whopping 8 fps on switch

if youre lucky

[fierce tulip]

well with indies selling 30X times more on switch than steam, everyone wants to be on switch

[opal ocean]

awww, I cant duplicate an animbp directly to other characters/skeletons?

[wild kestrel]

Nintendo finally found a wind

[pallid compass]

yeah switch is great platform imo

but the games

are SO BAD

well

game range* not games

[wild kestrel]

Well if oyu got game on UE4 then making owrk on Switch is super easy

[pallid compass]

Oh?

[wild kestrel]

so for me its not shocking annoucment

[pallid compass]

thought it would of been more stressfulthan porting to ps4/xbox

[fierce tulip]

and chat goes wild because fortnite blergh

[wild kestrel]

You yet to realize that porting in UE4 is nearly non existing? :p it's just one button click and setting scaling

depending what kind of game oyu deal with

but if its typical console game then it's easy

[pallid compass]

well consoles tend to come with pretty tight rings in some area's

[wary wave]

porting is not that easy

simple things like the UI will utterly screw you

[grave spruce]

yup

[grim ore]

this is why the twitch chat is full of fortniters

[pallid compass]

all indie port games iv seen to consoles

have been a massive fuck storm

ark, PUBG

etc

[wild kestrel]

@wary wave buit nost games now days are set to work on consoles

[wary wave]

and you're gonna have a real fun time dealing with things like input

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[grim juniper]

Is this replay stuff an engine feature?

[wary wave]

yes

[grave spruce]

so paragon replay is getting re use again

[pallid compass]

is reply even finished yet?

or is it still fuck storm

[wild kestrel]

hmmm :> well i can't say i ever able to try to run something on my own on console :p

[grim ore]

it seems to be billed as an upcoming engine feature so we will see

[pallid compass]

can we all just keep praying for GAS system examples release

[wild kestrel]

i still think troubles with input is a lot liter issues then need to code a lot to make something work on a platfrom

[pallid compass]

have u shipped to platform before?

because basically everyone iv spoken too about platform shipping have said its a nightmare

like, u really need to know wtf ur doing in ur framework setup for everything

[spare blade]

Is it possible to export a maya "layered texture" into UE4 ?

[grave spruce]

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/222363/What_exactly_goes_into_porting_a_video_game_BlitWorks_explains.php

[cinder iron]

Hey

[wild kestrel]

@pallid compass i talking about purly on development perspective

[fierce tulip]

oh god, discord servers going down

[trim trail]

never thought i would see some day a pure twitch chat on ue channel

[fierce tulip]

https://giphy.com/gifs/mrw-show-remote-HUkOv6BNWc1HO

[pallid compass]

oh right gotcha

[wild kestrel]

@fierce tulip ??

[pallid compass]

good bye my friends

it was nice knowing u

[fierce tulip]

hehe

[pallid compass]

how will i ask my stupid questions about materials now? 😦

[grave spruce]

tim want xbox and ps4 crossplay 😡

[wild kestrel]

go ahead or post on AnwserHub

[fierce tulip]

this is only channel still working for me atm

[pallid compass]

i wonder how long till sony cave

and join the xplay

[wild kestrel]

i see one dead server on my side

[tall pendant]

yup multiple servers down

[grim ore]

man everything I have been to so far they have been pushing the beer part of GDC lol

[pallid compass]

time to make a grid 2d movement system

@frank escarp what was it you told me ages ago, about an effective way to generate a grid with a low amount of data

[spare blade]

Is it possible to export a maya "layered texture" into UE4 ?

[pallid compass]

i dont think so

[fierce tulip]

@spare blade doubt it

[pallid compass]

normal workflow would not really have u build ur materials in maya normally,

[spare blade]

Oh okay.. Normal maps seem to export.

[grave spruce]

hope this help with the workflow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB1HB0QfZVo

[pallid compass]

oh man wtf iv turned potato i cant remember how to setup grids LOL

[trim trail]

wow, unity is working on progressive gpu lightmappter

it looks so handy

bakes lightmass on areas you look at

[pallid compass]

thats pretty cool

[trim trail]

it would be a immense boost for landscape lighting.. its annoying to bake eveyrthing when youre working only on small area

[wild kestrel]

more raytracing @fierce tulip

[solar eagle]

@everyone

someomne pls save me xD

[trim trail]

checked volta gpu

3000 dollas

kden

[wild kestrel]

So rasytracing got own shaders

no wonder you need new GPU to support it

yea they run it on 12000$ worth of GPUs :p

[trim trail]

im kinda relieved

my 1080 i bought not so long time ago isnt going to be junk anywhere soon

and it was expensive for me lol

[wild kestrel]

Well considering current state on GPU i would not expect need to jump in to wagon right away

[livid haven]

Still working from a 980 Ti Hybrid, myself.

[silent narwhal]

Is there a chat for trouble shooting?

[livid haven]

The 1080 Ti Hybrid I have mostly ends up supporting 4K and the rare VR session. :X

[wild kestrel]

its like Tessellation as long as you don't need to work on them then it is ok

[livid haven]

@silent narwhal Whatever channel is most appropriate to the particular subject, pretty much.

[pallid compass]

wth left mouse button not working D:

[wild kestrel]

So technically it is programmable accelerated light and reflections

yea fun part about ray tracing is that you can mirror things without much of a cost

[wild kestrel]

24FPS

[livid haven]

Am I not seeing the other half of this conversation somehow? o_O

It looks like you're responding to noone.

[fierce tulip]

hehe, we are watching the stream

shadow is replying to that and/or talking to me

[wild kestrel]

i comemntoing stream

this ray tracing seem impractical if you need 4 Voltas

or else you make one of those live Tv shows :p

[fierce tulip]

yea, its a start. in a decade it wont be as much of a problem

[livid haven]

Ah, gotcha.

[wild kestrel]

but compare this to introducement of Tellesation or shaders themselves

or else there some low profile use of it

Imagine this in VR

[fierce tulip]

hnng

[wild kestrel]

ok gonna go do finner

dinner

[grim juniper]

Finer dinner

[sly crown]

Is the gdc schedule in #unreal-news western time?

[grim juniper]

Probably

[wild kestrel]

PT

[flat pilot]

TIL ue4 has a web browser UMG widget

[pseudo iron]

Have you guys been paying attention to the latest GDC stuff on Unreal? With realtime raytracing?

[floral heart]

Yes.

[fierce tulip]

ive been spamming paragon vfx gifs for what feels three days now XD

[opal ocean]

I'm integrating the paragon characters into my game 😄 Working on the melee minions right now

learning how to use animBPs, montages, notifiies and do melee attacks

[shell jetty]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUMv8-btvsY

[coarse wigeon]

https://clips.twitch.tv/TubularBitterMilkBibleThump

[fierce tulip]

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/award-season-andy-serkis-found-new-ways-disrespect-animators-154385.html hehe

@wild kestrel that guy on stream looks like scary version of me

https://i.gyazo.com/5fc9c9eda4069cb1c35a2e475e9b4d91.gif

[frosty bloom]

So, still no way to get textures from paragon assets? :p

[fierce tulip]

skin textures seem to be locked.

[frosty bloom]

I see, I'm personally looking at the Shadow_Swirls textures

From VFX material. Could have used them right now

[obsidian nimbus]

any gdc streams goin on now?

[grave spruce]

unreal and unity