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#ue4-general
round bloom
slender monolith
chinese phonemes are probably more diverse and complex than the next 20 languages combined.
cursive dirge
round bloom
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
storm venture
hey there was a ue4 tech demo thing that showed this cool green goo that would merge together to form a single mesh, anyone know the name?
it was a bunch of smaller green mesh goo things that could combine into a larger green goo mesh thing
slender monolith
Unique mouth shapes at that!
@ tyler probably an alembic simulation or something done with particles/fluid sim
round bloom
XD
slender monolith
I'd like to see a tech demo breakdown of kratos's beard from gow4
round bloom
Yeah Man if old men's beards are what your into
slender monolith
that was a technically sexy beard. I think they used physx for the hair wind interactions not sure though.
cursive dirge
@storm venture you mean nvidia flex?
vr funhouse used that for the green goo
you need custom engine build for it
slender monolith
If you wanna simulate that goo, you could use blender with a liquid simulation and export it as an alembic.
storm venture
it was floating in the video, seemed less like liquid, more like a playdough/goo that merged
round bloom
I've seen this Olento Guy on here for like many many months 🤔 , no life outside of slackers?
marble storm
I wonder about one thing.
There is game on unreal engine 3 and it's running on ps4, why does it act like it running on fullscreen and freeze after closing PlayStation menus?
Also it freeze after entering text with PlayStation controls
slender monolith
who makes games on ue3 anymore?
marble storm
Old mmos are on ue3
And they can be compiled to run on new consoles
Bdo/bns will come to current gen this year or so
round bloom
YOur Profile pic makes me think you play mmos like :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YalS_A8eYJw
marble storm
No, I roleplay small loli with shield
round bloom
(NSFW)
slender monolith
that loin cloth reminds me of conan lol
marble storm
round bloom
Thats some cringey Stuff, Got any pics?
graceful grove
^ LUL
pine parcel
Hey folks, if any of you have a gamedev.tv account, I'd appreciate upvoting this course request if you have an honest interest in this sort of thing 😃 https://community.gamedev.tv/t/unreal-engine-multiplayer-rts-moba/69248
pine parcel
Thanks cutie. I'm on it ❤
pine parcel
I am Tai Lopez
cinder basin
idk where to ask but does anyone here know of a good server to ask for bot coding advice?
for discord
cinder basin
cool thanks
round bloom
Bitch im fabolouth
livid haven
That's me, yes. (Circa like 2012/2013)
queen arch
Issue: In first person template, I can;t make my first person character jump after he gets crouched
Solved by delay 0.01 seconds before giving the jump command
orchid sable
anyone else getting that "Derived Data Cache" not setup popup after 4.16+? I didn't change anything, but it started showing up. Should I take care of that? Does it just keep a cache of all uassets or something so UE can easily access it?
thanks for any insight 😃
silver steppe
😂😂😂 @obsidian nimbus
restive eagle
does anyone know why everytime when i launch my project, main level needs to be saved and checked out for source control? even though no changes were made and its identical to one on the depot
round bloom
Hey I’m doing a footstep system . And I need to be able to check if the players current velocity is aimed at or going to get closer to the footstep location . Any ideas ?
plush yew
How to delete input nodes in function?
grim juniper
You mean, how to make a pure function?
whole quarry
@restive eagle because you have the map open 😛
grim juniper
Oh, you just mean pins in general not the execution pins, my bad.
@plush yew When in your function you select the input or output node and click the X next to the inputs you want to remove.
plush yew
@grim juniper oh, my screen too small and I didnt see these buttons, thnx
grim juniper
No problem 😃
keen frigate
good morning peeps 😃
silent kraken
Morning
regal mulch
@sturdy star Isn't that similar to PS4 etc. NDA stuff?
Don't you have access to some private forum of Epic in which Switch devs ask other Switch Devs?
sturdy star
yeah possibly, but it's quite a general question I thought, I can rephrase it better, I am having a hard time forcing a resolution on game start
silent kraken
Soz rick, I am quite new so I can't help you much
keen frigate
@sturdy star hey did it help you what I suggested about the diagonal movement problem you had?
sturdy star
Hello, our programmer did some hacking and added a multiplier of 1.25 to velocity and clamped at 1. so full speed is always the same on platforms, but moving at slower speeds is sliiightly faster. doesn't seem like the greatest solution but I am unsure why console input would be different from PC to a console
i just searched for your suggestion, interesting idea
keen frigate
This has been an issue in the past also.
sturdy star
I missed it yesterday, sorry!
keen frigate
No probs 😃
sturdy star
I will pass thaton, thank you very much for the input 😃
keen frigate
Glad I could help. let me know how it goes. 😉
sturdy star
absolutely
plush yew
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BW31mlFXgvY/WvVdnLpoUdI/AAAAAAAACyQ/7mv0aQLTIY0FS4giwlWthrjxCwsdmiJtwCHMYCw/s0/UE4Editor_2018-05-11_11-08-43.png is tihs a marble physics material?
silent kraken
I wanna know something
are you allowed to ask for people to help test your game and tell them to message you via pm???
so no links or anything like that, just asking for people to help test??? PS, this would be free for people to download and test.
whole quarry
You can ask people to PM you if they want to help to test your game. Its just not commen as most have their own forums or discord to do that
silent kraken
yeah, mine does, I am not publishing the link though ^_^
silk surge
Hello everyone, new to the chat, just saying hi! 😃
silent kraken
welcome @silk surge
keen frigate
Oh hi @silk surge 😃
silent kraken
if anyone is interested in helping test my game, they are welcome to PM me
plush yew
Is there any node for translating coords from one coordinate system to another? It will be ok if it only cartesian
Transform nodes
plush yew
There is a problem: I need rotation for it, but I have only unit vectors of new coord.system
lost ember
Wasn't the "Loading Visual Studio" bug fixed in the last hotfix?
tulip helm
@obsidian nimbus If you could turn that into a game somehow, I'd buy it.
But you gotta make sure you eff it up like that consistently.
Maybe get them phalanges to emanate particles as a dlc pack.
fringe basin
kind of a general question, but are there any best practices as to setting default game mode, pawn, etc. in Project Settings 'default modes' vs setting those things up individually in the 'World Settings' of each map? I keep second guessing myself as to the best place to set these things.
full juniper
anyone knows if Engine.ini in the Saved folder of a packaged game/server overrides the DefaultEngine.ini config ?
silk surge
@full juniper as I understand engine.ini in saved is generated from your config/DefaultEngine.ini. You can test it by deleting the Saved/Config/XXX/Engine.ini and updating your DefaultEngine then re-packaging
so if you edited it after it was generated i guess it should override!
full juniper
ok, thanks!
devout gulch
@fringe basin Project Settings default mode is applied by default if DO NOT set it to map
idk if it still using prefixes
in ue3 it was like map with this prefix (ie DM-...) will have this game mode
If you remember to set game mode on persistent map
it's not that different\
DM map will not suddenly change into CTF map
crisp fable
heres why VR stinks: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/fswxtdtw8ujoap3ucznx.gif
fierce tulip
say hello to my broken wrist hehe
whole quarry
Wow, @plush yew dude...
that was a mean thing to say
Dunkle - vandaag om 15:52 fat people shouldnt do VR sports
That
:/
fringe basin
face palm
whole quarry
@fierce tulip cough
fierce tulip
dude
cursive dirge
if that's fun, then no, it's not allowed
whole quarry
let people be in their value...
fierce tulip
bye
worldly axle
ban hammer of justice
whole quarry
definitly, +1
cursive dirge
the irony when he gets medical condition on later age and gains weight he can't lose
but, it'll be a life lesson for him
fierce tulip
personal opinions aside, we just cant tolerate this.
frosty bloom
Wasn't the first time he overstepped to be completely honest.
fierce tulip
i know
whole quarry
You can address those people on their behaviour, worst thing that can happen is they attack you instead
fierce tulip
if he'd apologize that'd be the end of it
whole quarry
still worth it imho
obsidian nimbus
its super rare to gain weight when not eating too much due to a health condition
obsidian nimbus
it exists, but 99% of the ppl that say they have that are talking bull
whole quarry
@obsidian nimbus after working in several hospitals, it's not as rare as you might think
fierce tulip
also, offtopic
frozen horizon
He guys is it possible if I use textures and make materials from them and post them on the asset store?
whole quarry
I cant wait to get home and launch up UE4 to start jamming
frozen horizon
Like royalty free
whole quarry
@frozen horizon if they're your own textures (made by you), yes you can
Else it depends entirely on the license you have on the textures
plush yew
Yeah that guy was toxic
frozen horizon
Im kind of a newbie in unreal 😂 And you know i really want to put something out there on the store.
whole quarry
That kind of passion is awesome and good to have. But it's important to have some kind of restraint 😄
fierce tulip
then learn ue4, else you wont be able to support costumers with problems
frozen horizon
True
But like what could I start learning? I kind of have a basic understanding of each section.
pallid compass
actually
obsidian nimbus
shader math 😛
whole quarry
Try to make some small scope games, oldschool arcade games with small levels or functionality
frozen horizon
- in only 15 and im trying to do something useful 😂
fierce tulip
then you'd need your parents permission to sell on the marketplace
whole quarry
Everything is useful as long you learn something with each step or project
frozen horizon
Like game dev is pretty damn hard 😂
fierce tulip
amen
pallid compass
also jesus i am so slow too the party today
frozen horizon
My parents would agree.
obsidian nimbus
well the ability to get big from fruit and vegies
its the suger yo, its worse than heroine 😛
pallid compass
Its all math honestly
whole quarry
@frozen horizon my first project took me months and months and it was a very tiny Asteroids rip off, now (2 years later) it's 2 or 3 days worth of work 😛
pallid compass
Its all about calories, not what you eat
whole quarry
(stupid collisions wouldnt work xD)
frozen horizon
Like ive been learning alot of aspects og game dev for around a year 😂
obsidian nimbus
but you also burn off and form heat
even when not doin sport
some ppl do lose it faster
thinking burns a lot
fierce tulip
i need to think more then XD
plush yew
I downloaded IntelliCode for Visual Studio 2017, but I don't know how to turn it on. Can you help me?
fierce tulip
actually starting fitnessing again starting monday
whole quarry
hides quickly
fierce tulip
kicks @whole quarry
whole quarry
nooooo 😄
obsidian nimbus
its true tho, if u dont eat right u can think straight either
whole quarry
I like to eat cold cucumber during these hot days
fierce tulip
so.. again.. offtopic still :p
whole quarry
Blueprints are awesome!
fathom gale
ello
whole quarry
Hello @fathom gale
fathom gale
how u doin
patent ibex
did anyone successfully create shared data cache that is shared through 3rd party host?
like digitalocean
fierce tulip
hehe, all my clients /care about it.
keen frigate
@fierce tulip O.o what happened I was away for a while and Yoeri you banned someone?
fierce tulip
fat shaming basically
or is it thicc shaming nowadays
i dont know anymore with all these youngsters and their memes
keen frigate
can't tell with all this politically correctness nowadays 😛
keen frigate
Question, has it happened to you an asset pack to receive approval and later you realise some files have been .... cut?
without warning mind you.
fierce tulip
thats odd
keen frigate
Well it took us (me and the guys over at the marketplace team) almost one month to figure out why some files wouldn't pass the upload. Turns out those same files were removed, without raising any red flags from previous asset packs. Weird.
fierce tulip
its not a common mp practice of them removing files, if any they'd tell you to remove them if they are troublesome.
in that case you might want to email them about this odd situation, and if that doesn't result in a fix, try the forums.
keen frigate
Well I did explain it to the guy handling my latest pack he hasn't responded back. Pack got approved and the files that caused the problem were included after I replaced them and resubmitted numerous times. Previous packs are affected though which means I will have to submit an update for those. I just wish someone would have noticed those files gone missing. Especially since it wasn't a fault on my part and they got approved without a warning of something going bad.
worn ocean
so im planning on making a plugin that would generate a spherical shape landscape ala planet generator, so what mathematical programming challenges i would encounter in creating this plugin?
pallid compass
i mean thats the easy bit, you can just generate a sphere and modify it
the gravity is prob the hard bit right?
unless you mean u want it like the landscape editor
worn ocean
yes a plugin for the landscape editor just adding a spherical shape option instead of a flat one
as for the gravity the code would probably have to do with the landscape coordinates as a gravity point
unreal spoke
What's the best way to get decals applied over skeletal meshes? Like logos on the clothes and similar stuff.
wary wave
decals will not apply properly to skeletal meshes
unreal spoke
@wary wave and there is no workaround?
plush yew
Skin the decal with the character and switch the texture on that cloned section of the shirt at runtime? How did rockstar do it in gta online?
Second if channel perhaps
U v
swift spindle
vale osprey
skinning decal can be completely automated by grabbing bone weights and indices from the closest vertices of skeletal mesh (in default pose)
in UE4 you would have to code skinning for decals
unreal spoke
Thank guys
exotic tangle
Hey guys -ive now spent some time to learn the basics of the UE4 and what not and would like to go to the next step - I'd like to build a room, can you recommend a good tutorial for something like that - or what should I search for - ideally i'd like to build - just for fun - a good looking realistic room with lighting etc
pallid compass
well your wanting to look at lighting / compositing then
exotic tangle
question is - should I learn how to do that in UE4 or should I learn that in say - maya?
and follow up if I ever want to animate anything - like door moving - is that something again I should learn in UE or another software?
manic pawn
a strange combination of high and low poly
fathom gale
dw bout it
mint umbra
Is there any way to speed up opening new assets in UE? It's taking years to open each and every Paragon asset, and I'm running a 1080 and high-end rig
livid haven
@mint umbra Nope. You're opening a AAA quality asset and Epic dev machines are utter monstrosities.
obsidian nimbus
if u open a lvl for 1st time it takes a while, but opening a paragon char takes a sec
livid haven
I am using a "loaner" rig at HQ right now and it's a 32 core beast with 32 GB of ram.
robust grove
try more ram, i use 64gb
livid haven
If it's the bottleneck, it's the bottleneck - if you're running out of memory, then it's like that.
But other than better hardware, you can't do anything about it.
frank escarp
@livid haven threadripper?
livid haven
Nein
livid haven
Xeon
obsidian nimbus
there is this chinese intel clone, the logo made me laugh, but cant find it anymore
china makes hardcore CPUs now btw
proud kite
Hello
pure stratus
So uh, I'm unable to make a project in UE4 4.19.2 as my VS 2015 needs update 3? I dont have 2015... I have 2017 and it's up to date, but I can't seem to create a project or anything. Any ideas? Sorry if this is the wrong place to put this, wasnt sure if it was here or #engine-source
grizzled wren
just need help for age limit for google dev cosnole
my game is an Fps game with shooting zombies to protect people
hollow valve
I would recommend answering No to both questions, as long as you are honest in other "Violence" categories - basically answering Yes to either of those is probably going to be an instant fail.
pallid compass
omg
frosty bloom
Will your game Encourage suicide? Yes
Every 5 min a big Picture of someones middle finger pops up, with the F U word just bellow it
lament kraken
I can t find my ue project files on my PC
I need them to install Stv
and I can t find
nvm
upper heart
So is this saying that the win7-sdk dlls will work on windows 10 too? I want my game to work on windows 10 and 7. And I also want to be able to debug my dmp files. So I'm not sure which versions of the dlls this is saying to use in that case.
carmine wind
guys how can i join does 2 so i can interact with the 3d widget?
since is my first time working with 3d widgets i dont know how to 😄
mint umbra
@robust grove @livid haven @obsidian nimbus Got 32 gb ram, i7 core, 8 cores. Guess the cores is the issue then
obsidian nimbus
no paragon assets should open up fast once u opened em up allready one time
like seconds
about 1 second here i7 4770k not overclocked
shinby skel mesh
what u tryin to open?
i got 16 gig ram
so ur problem is elsewhere
if you open up the paragon test lvl it needs to compile shaders 1st time but 2nd time it wil boot up a lot faster
leaden onyx
Gois, how long it took for you to pass Steam's Tax Identity Verification? They asked for government id/foreign passport and almost a week passed since then, no confirmation or progress it seems. 😦
mint umbra
Oh, yeah im talking about first opening
manic pawn
it helps when you have the stuff on an m.2 ssd
but considering the rest of that rig you probably do :D
mint umbra
Yeah
ssd 😃
But yeah, it opens instantly when opened for the 2nd time etc
@obsidian nimbus Tried opening character meshes etc, static meshes like statues and stuff.
obsidian nimbus
and non paragon assets?
mint umbra
Goes faster, but still slow when opening the first time
When opening the 2nd time etc it's pretty much instant
obsidian nimbus
i have no idea whats wrong but i can open em up just fine
mint umbra
So it's probably just general running time
obsidian nimbus
ahh thats shader compile or something
mint umbra
Yeah
Sometimes it feels like the engine is crashing as it just freezes, but yeah... guess it's normal. Was just wondering
manic pawn
would be nice if the editor was refactored so all the slow stuff runs async
probably won't ever happen though :(
obsidian nimbus
yea would be nice if they allways leave a bit of power to keep the music goin and stuff 😛
manic pawn
it does for me 🤔
can browse web and listen to music just fine during light builds and stuff
silver crown
I guess having 16 cores helps
manic pawn
even tho it's reporting 100% usage
obsidian nimbus
hmm import on high poly meshes really make my music freeze until i minimize editor
manic pawn
profile it opening a thing slowly 🤔
silver crown
As an example, if you were to grab the Open World Content that Epic released for free a couple months ago that is just some sample assets from our Kite World demo it explicitly had the warning in there that the initial load of these assets could take a while to open while the DerivedDataCache is written.
rocky kayak
Any idea what I should be casting here? I'm trying to cast into a player's widget the EXP % from an actor component but I'm having a tough time accessing it via blueprints. I know the issue here is that I'm trying to cast a controller into a widget bp but the issue is that selecting the widget of the player doesn't seem to be anywhere. the only link between the player controller and the widget is a "on event play -> create widget", so I'm getting inherit issues.
edit:clearer picture: https://i.imgur.com/Y6kb6GR.png
agile furnace
https://i.imgur.com/U17l1Ni.png for the character
and for the widget https://i.imgur.com/k33AqEj.png
a personal players UI are always gonna be that characters. though there are some replication problems in terms of changing values via character BP if you are gonna do multiplayer that is
agile furnace
not sure about UE3. might not exist for that. but CTRL + ALT + Left Mouse does in UE4
obsidian nimbus
@silver crown that shit is in a folder and its huuuge 😛
its taking most room on my windows ssd
fierce tulip
^
obsidian nimbus
make windows great again 😃
keen pawn
Yo guys
anyone know a way to disable a blueprint
( exclude it from the packaging process )
plush yew
@keen pawn Ask in #packaging
plush yew
Np hope you get it sorted out
keen pawn
cheers
late night crunch
wanted to get steam version up :(
not happening right now lol
vivid girder
Hmm... I'm trying to create a custom renderable ActorComponent
I'd like to be able to add components to it, and then add it to my original actor
Doesn't seem like ActorComponent or SceneComponent blueprints give you a viewport
Any input as to what parent class will work best for what i'm trying to accomplish?
I'd like to avoid child actors if possible
compact leaf
SceneComponent is the first renderable component in the heirarchy i think
chilly gale
I'm a tad confused? I have an 8192x8192 terrain with an island area round 4096/4033 square as playable area (the rest is seabed, well thats the idea anway). when I load it UE4 see's an 8192x8192 terrain BUT it make the map 8161x8161, I'm not getting it sorry
Means all my masks are going to need resizing
grim sinew
Unreal terrain isn't in base 2 sizes
rocky portal
why does my Physics Asset fall apart
when i simulate
not literally fall apart
but the wheels flop around
do i need to constrain the joints on the rig or something?
hidden heart
what are you trying to do alg?
rocky portal
i have a vehicle with wheels
all rigged up
when the physics asset is simulated
i took the body off so you can see more easily
when I simulate:
it just falls flat to the ground
fathom gale
yo
sterile rampart
This is just a wild guess, but maybe suspension max drop?
plush yew
anyone here getting a short 1 second freeze every 6 seconds in ue while working in viewport?
plush yew
hii suto 😄 i know u
Hi
I'm new
hi
north
Hey guys i found some free tree assets and i download
but when im import
tree meterials is gives some errors
like missing input texture
is there a way to fix this?
you need the textures. they are in the file?
yes but
there is a lot textures
manually pick them 😄 who knows what is what?
i know that
but too lazy to do this
because there is 20 meterials
and lot of textures
agile furnace
use da free assets of the marketplace then
agile furnace
they set it up incorrectly. or not at all. you gotta manually do it
plush yew
😦
plush yew
does ue4 support gloss spec ?
@plush yew sorry but: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7uUNypIJE44/WvawMQkb7GI/AAAAAAAAC1s/rWrZRViTxsct9ohJVpNTxa9ccTRc8c_kACHMYCw/s0/UE4Editor_2018-05-12_11-13-18.jpg
chilly gale
Not sure where I should put this sorry,.. I'm looking at some point to try make a mushroom tower like the one in Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC and wondering about the best way to make the activator used to lift the char to the upper floor. I guess this is easyer to under stand if you played the game and DLC
plush yew
2nd day, I can't create proper grab system
chilly gale
Oh BTW should I be exporting an 8k height-map at 8161 rather than 8192 please
plush yew
Why there is no function for translating from one coorinate system to another?
pallid compass
can you explain what you mean?
plush yew
Hey guys anyone how can play as a bird on my game?
Is there a blueprint or a character?
agile furnace
@plush yew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASmpekXpk-8
@chilly gale @plush yew are you trying to make a simple interaction between the character and objects?
plush yew
I need a bird character
agile furnace
a model?
plush yew
yes
chilly gale
@plush yew yep like this at about 1:19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiF1HKF7TtI
plush yew
there is no free birds in marketplace 😦
agile furnace
@plush yew you'd either have to make the model yourself or get someone to
chilly gale
I'm gonna try make the model, I was after the the effect of the char using that transport
I think it's an animation with a partical effect attached not sure
agile furnace
@chilly gale sorry i couldn't understand what you wanted through that video. if it's models and that you'll have to find a way to make that yourself or a modeller
chilly gale
It's a use activator in game
prime grove
hey guys i am making a new multiplayer thats beta on steam so can anyone tell me where can i put like an ad for my game?
thanks 😃
agile furnace
@plush yew there's plenty of modelling tutorials on youtube. blender is a free modelling program can be used for UE4
plush yew
how can i make animations
chilly gale
@plush yew try this site mate https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/254f0c1f2e28fb61b666659105cc9717/Old-Cotta
plush yew
k
prime grove
hey guys i am making a new multiplayer thats beta on steam so can anyone tell me where can i put like an ad for my game?
thanks 😃 [Repost]
chilly gale
thats a cottage link BUT there a heap of freebies on that site
agile furnace
@prime grove if you aren't gonna pay money stuff etc. you can try forums. here in the work in progress. friends family. etc
chilly gale
@agile furnace you se how the char floats down the shaft? it that animation effect or what ever it is I'm after creating
agile furnace
@chilly gale 119 he's fighting a monster
@prime grove if it doesn't show in rules i imagine you could maybe try work in progress channel
chilly gale
he need 911 don't he?
agile furnace
ask for feedback etc
prime grove
ok thanks @agile furnace
agile furnace
@chilly gale at the very start of the video. how he decends down the tower
that's what you want ye?
chilly gale
yep thats it
agile furnace
that's setting the actors location
chilly gale
thats a two way ride, you activate it to come up and activate it to go dwon
agile furnace
you don't understand how you would do it? or is there something specfic. and you don't know how you'd want to go about it
chilly gale
you can jus see the "float down" message
agile furnace
ya but what is it you want
chilly gale
I don't understand how to do that or make an activator to use to make it happen
I would like to make what ever to make that happen in a tower to enter it
agile furnace
overlap a trigger box. which shows the UI text. allow input for interaction
set actor location to preset destination. then have it lerp down to the bottom with a timeline
and vice versa from bottom up
chilly gale
can be done with BP then?
agile furnace
yes
pretty simple when you get the hang of working with interactions
setting actor location and rotation is basic stuff also
chilly gale
Choice hoping I don't bust my ole head learning lol thank you
agile furnace
timeline is another topic to understand also though
if you want i'll walk you through it
plush yew
I want to do like that 1:10 https://youtu.be/S9RUHZqZ6dg?t=1m10s
chilly gale
I'll get the tower sorted first maybe the best idea right
plush yew
Play as a bird
chilly gale
I need to make the interior yet, just doing some recon
agile furnace
@plush yew ya if you can't find a place to get the model and animations you're gonna have to make it or ask someone to make it. or buy it if that exists i'd imagine it would
chilly gale
Sounds like North wants to do a shape-shift thing and turn the player into a bird
agile furnace
@plush yew supposedly blender does modelling and animation. and it's a free program. just learning how to use it will take time. depending on how good you want the bird
chilly gale
yes
chilly gale
you can make the bird too if you learn to model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-TWgLpy4pY
frank escarp
wow thats pretty damn terrible
i can do far better myself and im not even an artist
plush yew
What should i do after create a bird on blender?
frank escarp
you would rig it, give it an animation, and export into unreal
frank escarp
one has to start somewhere
if you want to learn 3d art, i recomend you Blender Guru
plush yew
I just need a bird character
plush yew
i have no money
chilly gale
cg-traders?
chilly gale
frank escarp
but you will still need to adapt it to unreal engine and import it there
frank escarp
cinema 4d lmao
chilly gale
Now all you need to do is UV, rig it
frank escarp
thats a movie level bird, you cant just put it in unreal
plush yew
why?
chilly gale
Its not made as a 3d model by the looks
chilly gale
if you looking for free chances are you have to take what you can get, not gonna get what you want
plush yew
@agile furnace yep, I do
agile furnace
there's a few different ways of implementing it. also depends on if you're doing multiplayer functions can get more annoying to make cause replication
good ol wesbunn shows i believe 2-3 different ways of implementing an interaction
@plush yew
agile furnace
does that mean you're still asking for something or? if so what?
tribal skiff
Hey
foggy spear
hey everyone, quick question, sorry if this is the wrong chat room to post my question i'm making a material with the help of material functions and i get this error message: "Function Name": Cannot cast from float3 to float4. I don't get any error messages within the function but everything seems to be alright in the material itself.
any ideas?
whole quarry
MakeFloat4?
foggy spear
? I don't have any MakeFloat4, i have BreakOutFloat4Components inside my material function and the the V4s they break are my inputs
hazy sapphire
fierce tulip
https://i.gyazo.com/9cc9974914ab85806275d5713714bbce.png
when you need wired colors because there is no proper way to work out this mess otherwise hehe
obsidian coral
Mhm
fringe basin
I know you can make actors 'snap to floor' with the End key, but is there any way to do this on X/Y axes as well? e.g. if Im placing artwork meshes on a wall and I want to automatically make them flush with the wall.
fierce tulip
sadly no
I think Joe (who isnt here on discord) vouched for that, and i think think he was playing with a tool someone mdade, but that was 3 or more years ago
fringe basin
gotcha, yeah it would be nice, all those seconds positioning things precisely eventually add up!
manic pawn
what does that do
fierce tulip
world aligned normal map, detail map, blend correct normal with options for rotation, size, and planar projection stuff and flatten the normals and detail normals independently
manic pawn
sounds fun
dim arch
colored wires would be neat
glossy flame
The issue is that most distinct, recognizable colors already correspond to a type.
Coloring wires would make differentiating between exec lines and data lines harder :/
manic pawn
but it's a material, so no exec wires
it is kinda annoying how every line in a material is just white
when you could at least have a diff color for how many components it has or something
worn granite
really reroute nodes can have a different mode where you pick the color the wire is
and nothing would change
I mean, UE4 can't even keep data/exec separate
plush yew
my cube follows a spline. but when i start the game the cube gets to its normal size. in the spline blueprint the cube is smaller! why is the cube bigger in game?
carmine wind
has someone ever worked with 3d widgets here?}
latent moth
I have a location A, a rotator R and a distance D. How can I compute location B so that B is distant D from A with a rotation R?
Basically I want to spawn an object at a certain distance & degree from a player
vale osprey
- make X vector (forward vector) from R
- multiply that vector by D
- Add new vector to A
latent moth
trying!
hum
i am missing something
let me rephrase that
i have an actor at location A and a bullet impact location B. I want the actor A to go in opposite direction of bullet location B, for a distance D
vale osprey
what is "opposite direction of bullet location"?
latent moth
basically the character should flee the bullet
the bullet impact
so if you shoot next to a character, they flee the opposite way
vale osprey
normalize(bullet location - character location) is the direction it needs to flee
latent moth
yes, this is basically making the character go towards the bullet
i did also, still the same for some reason
vale osprey
multiply by -1 then
pallid compass
highly depends on the quality and time
what u want really
can range from 50$ to 5000$
runic dock
oh boii
pallid compass
here we go processin again!
bitter iris
Think you need more ram and possible a 6 core cpu lol
pallid compass
nah he does not, looks fine to me
pallid compass
75% here, sat on 16gb in this machine
runic dock
8gb
pallid compass
also 6 core here and i cap out at 99% cpu all the time when doing shiz
runic dock
better
bitter iris
ive never hit any more than 60% on cpu and my machine has 4c/8t 32gb ram
ram bearly gets touched
runic dock
😲
pallid compass
Then you are not really doing much then ^^
runic dock
xD
ebon elk
Can someone recommend me a nice book to Learn Unreal Engine and game development?
I come from Unity background and would like to migrate to Unreal Engine.
I am a CSE student and know a lot about programming.
Tag me if you reply please
bitter iris
@pallid compass editing 200km isnt much? okay lol
runic dock
🔥
bitter iris
why would i wanna download from git
bitter iris
never hit 100% ever
pallid compass
Then like i said, your not doing much.
bitter iris
even when packaging gets 70 ish
pallid compass
Sounds like you have slow af storage devices then if that is bottlenecking cpu.
bitter iris
lul
ebon elk
Can someone recommend me a nice book to Learn Unreal Engine and game development?
I come from Unity background and would like to migrate to Unreal Engine.
I am a CSE student and know a lot about programming.
Tag me if you reply please
pallid compass
You sure about that
ebon elk
I support you @runic dock
bitter iris
UE4 is better at any point
ebon elk
But the video as well as pdf stuff is Unity is just excellent (from the company)
pallid compass
and stuff
bitter iris
or release 12 mill of assets free
ebon elk
Although UE4 is better
bitter iris
💩 > unity
pallid compass
nah unity is still great for some things
ebon elk
Unity is far great for beginners
bitter iris
Like?
pallid compass
If you stick to the same tools your whole life then you will become a shit engineer fast.
2D
ebon elk
Easy to learn
runic dock
cause people say it to be
bitter iris
The same reason on trying to find a game that actually made a success on Unity.
spare kernel
there have been a few successful games
bitter iris
Like?
pallid compass
Temple Run.
bitter iris
wouldnt say thats a success
spare kernel
Life is strange 2
pallid compass
if not making massive amounts of money and coming out on top.
bitter iris
Something still played on PC
spare kernel
mildly successful
pallid compass
Your idea of success is pretty diluted then
bitter iris
Probs the best on unity is Rust (which is debatable anyway) and Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraf
pallid compass
Hearthstone is one of the most successful games these days
Still played massively, the revenue it generates is insane
bitter iris
Hense why i listed it
pallid compass
and has been strong standing on twitch for along time
loads of successful games on unity
If there was not, it would not still be around
bitter iris
Functionality, things you can do, graphics, no catches
bitter iris
2 years
bitter iris
I'm allowed my own opinion, if you agree with it or not i couldnt care less
plush yew
UE is better in some ways. Not all ways
pallid compass
So you still have a new ish exp of ue4
nothing major
Yeah your opinion is fine,
but hands down saying X is better than Y
is a little blind to be honestly, even more so as a developer
bitter iris
Which is still my opinion.
ebon elk
But still the ultimate talent is in the dev, not the engine
bitter iris
Yeah
ebon elk
If the dev is good, he would create awesome content with any engine
runic dock
yeah
frosty bloom
We need a #EngineWarZone
Combine that with a #GameDevMeme channel and we are set for fight
bitter iris
lol
tidal cape
Where do i search for help?
bitter iris
Help for?
tidal cape
Blueprint
bitter iris
tidal cape
Idk how to call my problem
pallid compass
@frosty bloom as if u would ever consider @ciddy boi ever 😛
i dare not tag the network lord
frosty bloom
hahahaha, tag the network lord 😉
frosty bloom
Wel, you can't really find any online (my experience) so I just create my own
frosty bloom
When you try to talk about issues with hotreloaders
frosty bloom
😂
glass imp
Hi, how can I create a "text widget" from a blueprint?
if I use "create widget" it only lists the widgets I have created myself, and not the standard ones
runic dock
4k textures 😍
whole quarry
@glass imp what standard ones do you refer too?
surreal viper
Hot Reload should be banned seriously
or at least it should drop a confirmation window saying
"From 3 out of 10 hot reload will cause random issues you will never really able to figure out. Are you sure you want to risk it?"
zenith flower
I've lost my patience with gimbal lock and cameras
I've tried just about every example via google search
They all claim to fix it. Yet none do.
I even bought the quats plugin from @worn granite and the end result is always the same
How hard is it to turn a character upside down?? (With the camera)
plush yew
is there like
a documentation for the location of various components
because i have to locate every single thing i want to include
fickle grail
Hello. I'm new to the UE4 and I'm looking for a bit of help for beginners questions. Could you guys tell me where's the best place to ask these ? (it's about a material applied to a landscape)
agile furnace
@fickle grail under level design or graphics channel
fickle grail
alright, thanks !
zenith flower
@pallid compass Even with immutables quats and help, the camera always looses its mind
round bloom
Anyone here Use Procedural Mesh Component and run into texturing issues>
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plush yew
We're starting up a project that is inspired heavily by the biggest shooter
but I am pretty new to arting in unreal
and I was wondering, can I do map + lighting, and BP and C++ guys can import that map like I can link a file in blender?
Where they can import my map, add logic, but I can continue to edit my map, and the updates show up inside of their working umap?
so whenever they reload the "game umap" with the logic in it, it loads whichever "art umap" they linked and uses it, but I can keep editing the "art umap", and they get the updates automatically whenever they update repo on their end into the "game umap"?
pallid compass
I believe that is called source control,
If your not sure what source control is then you need to lower the scope of your project targets, and learn to setup structure for working in a team
manic pawn
@plush yew I read a while ago that you can use multiple levels inside a map to allow people to edit things simultaneously like that
pallid compass
that is u world composition system
plush yew
u world composition? Thanks @manic pawn and @pallid compass ! That is indeed what I'm looking for. We've got a private github going for source control, I'm new to that as well, and coming from SVN, I want to be totally sure I won't step on toes 😛
I will look into it and come begging if I get stuck 😃
manic pawn
github will suck badly for unreals binary assets
plush yew
indeed
manic pawn
set up a perforce server if at all possible
plush yew
but LFS should be okay right?
pallid compass
If your team <= 5, use parforce
manic pawn
we tried using git+lfs for a while and then switched to perforce, it is like night and day difference
plush yew
are vult (is that it?) and digitalocean litte 5 dollar cloud vps things good for vc?
manic pawn
before: everything annoying slow, now: everything lightning fast
plush yew
we'll we'll be 20 asap, which will of course take time.
plush yew
right now we're like 3 people contributing but about 13 people seeing if they get into the project or not.
nice
manic pawn
haven't tried with a cheaper one since its disk is quite small
with > 5 people perforce will become very expensive unfortunately
plush yew
dang.
plush yew
I hope that within 6 months to a year we will have some kind of funding or sponsor for this particular project.
750, or 7.50?
pallid compass
£750.
plush yew
omg lol
manic pawn
last I heard was $40/month/person
pallid compass
wait is it?
i might be thinking of ugh
the other thing they do then
whats the other product they do again?
plush yew
40/m/pp sounds familiar, but everyone's plan is a blur to me right now after looking around so long.
pallid compass
helxi core i think i might be thinking of lmao
cant remember
brains gone to mush
plush yew
I think that is perforce SVN or something?
if not, they need to all do a better job at telling me what I am being sold lol
pallid compass
cant remember, i dont really use it
plush yew
I settled with git for now because it's "so" popular online, the cost even with LFS was reasonable. And it supports SVN usage on the git repo.
manic pawn
git is great for source code, but fails completely for unreals thousands of binary assets that can't be merged
plush yew
so I figured, even if we move to something like plastic or perforce later, at least we can work until we can afford them 😛
indeed.
there is better, but for getting the project off the ground, git and its svn support I think will be the way we bring in more people earlier/
@wary wave did I used to watch tutorials from you about 3DS Max from 3D buzz or something back in the days?
pallid compass
Yeah even LFS is just shit
plush yew
@wary wave you helped me get my forum account unbanned recently (the one that necro'd a topic showing a obj exporter for gmax)
wary wave
seems unlikely - I did do some work for 3D Buzz, but it wouldn't have been 3d art related
plush yew
I had googled the people who helped me on that Q&A and recognized you, meh, I know you've been around kicking butt a while whatever your main discipline is 😛
lol
plush yew
@agile furnace did you sit-in on some programming tutorials on 3dbuzz before?
Whatever it was ,I remember it! Vaguely! lol
@wary wave
wary wave
I wrote material for the mastering unreal textbooks
urban meadow
anyone know what happened to the binaries folder in 4.19?
sinful umbra
its still there
fierce tulip
so.. does anybody know if there is a limit to amount of reroute nodes in the ue4 material editor?
the moment I add a new reroute node it cancels out everything before it
but no error
regal mulch
Looks more like the input pin doesn't allow more than one input
fierce tulip
i think its the reroute node between t2d input and the texture object
can someone verify that?
4.19.2
yup, kills the texture object output
O_o
silver crown
kill = like unplugged?
fierce tulip
0/0/0 value puttrough i think
cant really test because apparently its between an actual 2td input in an instance, and the texture object
bug report it is
silver crown
Yep can reproduce
fierce tulip
¯_(ツ)_/¯
fierce tulip
id do all
manic pawn
I didn't even notice the 2 small ones up top for like a solid minute
fierce tulip
good excuse now to do it
manic pawn
how could 2d transparency possibly be too expensive
manic pawn
are you planning to run this on phones
pallid compass
Just because the graphic's are low tier, does not mean u should not scope in for lower end systems
and yes.
manic pawn
ah
pallid compass
The lower the target system, the bigger your market is
Make sense?
to some degree ofc
manic pawn
I was just thinking of factorio running thousands of transparent animated sprites on screen without problems
but that doesn't run on a phone
pallid compass
no it does not, and i dont think its all transparancy
manic pawn
it is since their sprites are antialiased
pallid compass
pretty sure u can AA on to opacity masks?
plush yew
I’m using Mixamo to animate a fuse character but the gas mask warps with the head
Can someone help
urban meadow
re: binaries folder, my project isn't creating binaries folders, did 4.19 change the location?
storm venture
anyone here have some experience with substance designer?
i have a nice material but it tiles too early, id like to make the image large without ruining it
i could up it from 2k to 4k but then i have to change a bunch of the parameters to compensate
sinful umbra
adjust the tiling in the shader
vivid girder
Any idea how to best manage a lot of important values? I'm thinkin about putting a lot of tweakable information in a large array of other struct arrays and i'd like it to be kept safe
I'd also like to be able to change those values without needing to change the blueprint
I'm thinking I should use a save game slot, but any other ideas?
inland lily
plush yew
I’m using Mixamo to animate a fuse character but the gas mask warps with the head
Pls help
frail dew
What's the best way to do projectile trails? I haven't found a good tutorial for it. Right now I'm using a particle emitter with a ribbon typedata. But I'm not clear on if it should emit 1 ribbon particle with a long lifetime or a bunch of small particles. I have it kind of working with a rate of 500, but I also get some weird artifacts with that approach. Am I on the right track?
pine parcel
Kind of a random question... I'm looking at the World class documentation and noticed a CreateWorld function. I was wondering when/why you would use this in practice?
Seems like it could be useful
DuplicateRequestedLevels
weary basalt
@pine parcel CreateWorld is most likely called once when the Engine is started
pine parcel
Yeah, I wonder if it can be used on it's own to do cool things. Seems like there are a lot of methods around creating a new world, adding levels to it, etc.
Such a vast API... pretty daunting tbh
weary basalt
If your new to diving into the Source code, get used to using search on Github and inside VS (VAX Symbol Search is by far the best method) as the source code itself is the best documentation.
pine parcel
This is the first I've used visual studio this much, still finding my way around. I'll have to see what the VAX symbol search is, I'm noticing a lot of the documentation doesn't appear in the tooltips for certain things without the appropriate includes.
weary basalt
VAX is an 3rd party tool to replace Intellisense.
Made by an company called WholeTomato
It is an much faster and more feature rich addon.
I recommend anyone serious about coding in C++ with UE4 (and any C++ in general) to grab VAX and disable Intellisense
pine parcel
Thanks for the recommendation I'll definitely check that out tonight
This does look pretty sweet, and I'm only a few features in
The "Open corresponding file" of the cpp/h respectively will save me weeks of time just this year alone 😛
Built in hash tags. So sick.
Wowww... probably rambling at this point, but the refactoring not only within a project but within multiple projects is pretty amazing.
Introduce variable by highlighting the expression and typing in variable signature. This is going to save so much time in the long run.
tender niche
is this the right channel to ask some general questions about unreal?
grim ore
There is never a right channel to ask general questions so this one is as good as any
tender niche
aight
what is the difference between world and object blueprints?
I cant figure it out.
plush yew
I’m using Mixamo to animate a fuse character but the gas mask warps with the head @tender niche
grim ore
@tender niche We might need more context for what you are asking as I have to admit I am confused.
agile furnace
@plush yew nah i'm new sorry hahaha
vivid girder
What's the proper way to remove objects from an array inside a struct?
So that it will reflect the number of items inside the array with Length()
I currently have FWorld[x]->FLevel[x]->AEnemies[]
This adds correctly, but i can't remove
grim juniper
You want to remove the last item from the array?
vivid girder
No, could be any index
Thought that the blueprint Remove() function automagically resizes as well so that Length() reflects
grim juniper
How are you using the remove node?
vivid girder
ForLoop
Tried with both RemoveIndex() and Remove()
grim juniper
It's important to note that Length gives a number that is one larger than the last index since arrays start at 0.
vivid girder
Here's the latest attempt
In GetCurWorld() I get by-ref, but not sure if that's returned by-ref
I guess i could just rebuild the entire array
grim juniper
I know there was some bug before 4.16 that prevented you from changing arrays within struct arrays, but it's supposed to be fixed (even though I think I've still had it in recent engine versions)
I don't think that's what's happening here though since you're able to add to it
vivid girder
Maybe Length() is based on the memory allocated to the array instead of the actual contents?
grim juniper
You probably don't need the length node to add items since it's just adding to the end of the array anyway. You could probably just use the Add node
vivid girder
I don't think Add worked
Lol...found the issue
I think it's the return value from any blueprint function is by-value
So, GetCurWorld isn't returning a referenced value
fathom gale
wadup my g
vivid girder
yo dog
grim juniper
So if I only have VS 2017 installed, this shouldn't be showing 15, right?
plush yew
VS2017 == VS 15
Year 2017, version 15
At least this numbers are fit
Also, projects able to use old compilers/build tools, so if you have them from 2015 , you can build .exe with them
But if you don't have them, you will be asked about "VS2015 tools" location
grim juniper
I was running into an error that's why I asked. I'm trying this solution. I think this is the issue I was having https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/597939/new-c-project-fails-to-compile-using-ue-415-and-vs.html
plush yew
Yeah, VS leaves a lot of "trash" in registry. Made not for deleting.
Last year I had manually delete all mentions of VS from registry just to reset default project configuration
visual hollow
Do you guyz know any website which provide 3D animated models of animals with open license?
errant chasm
anyone know how to make a wallpaper engine thingy?
I tried with an exe and html but neither really worked
exe just launched my game in a new fullscreen window and html looks like this https://i.imgur.com/mpe7Ipx.png
and I mean, the html one works but it takes like a minute to load in, it's not fullscreen and the lighting is horrible
cloud crow
hey
it's possible to import unreal engine from pendrive to my pc launcher? because i have files of UE[from appdata,program files etc] but this will work if i just put it there?
cloud crow
?
cloud crow
when i paste files to appdata (on Local) and programfiles and i ran launcher i had "verificating..." and when it was done [launcher verify all files] then i had "Cleaning..." and again it's start downloading engine 😡
hidden heart
you should just do it normally @cloud crow
gloomy sandal
Does someone know how to replicate Matinee's?
fair onyx
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viral herald
Anyone know any good tutorial on how to generate slots in unreal uniform grid in the widgets?
I’ve been trying to do it and can’t seem to get it to work
And I don’t want to put it all by hand
Take a lot of time to to program it and puts a rather large strain on the pc
Not to mention crashes unreal every time you compile and/or save
toxic wagon
Anyone here know much about substance designer?
cyan merlin
I know a decent amount why?
cursive dirge
he just keeps asking that question on all channels here
@toxic wagon anyways, this isn't the best group for substance talk, you'll have better experience on Allegorithmic discord
toxic wagon
I only asked in 2
@cyan merlin I was wondering if I could use substance designer to essentially do batch operations on textures
but there doesn't seem to be a way to feed in textures
cursive dirge
there's a whole channel in Allegorithmics discord for substance automation toolkit
I bet there's only few on this discord who have played with those, but plenty of people in the other group
toxic wagon
does it come with designer or is it seperate?
tall pendant
cl tools are in your folder but the SAT is separate
cursive dirge
at least in their site, they have separate download for it
tall pendant
yeah. tbh i dont know if you can use the sbscooker etc w/o a SAT license.
never used SAT. I just export textures directly from SD
cursive dirge
I've only made a wrapper for megascans
tall pendant
but theo. the command line tools should work
cursive dirge
is there something else even?
I thought SAT was just that collection of cli tools and scripts
tall pendant
yeah from what i know they are. @cursive dirge
but you have some cl tools in the program folder. Not sure if those work w/o SAT
grim ore
do you have a video or picture showing the issue and is this the stock third person character?
languid quarry
Anybody know anything about how to figure out what a problem with a material on a mobile device might be? Looks fine in the previewer but once I launch it to a mobile device it looks like shaders didnt compile (i.e. UE4 standard gray squares vs. material)
hasty barn
@languid quarry what version are you using, and what chip is your phone?
languid quarry
Pixel 2
Figured out that its related to lighting. If I view it lit in editor I get all white and when I turn the view to unlit the red comes back
hasty barn
ah got it
tropic pilot
quick question, is it possible to remove the sword from Shinbi character from paragon?
plush yew
Hey, new to UE. Brand new, actually. I just downloaded it.
I have quite a bit of C++ experience though, over a year of nearly entirely C++ at this point.
Is UE going to be hard to pick up? The only other game engine I've used is Game Maker (lol)
Ignore my username btw. It's for another discord server I'm in.
@plush yew UE is great. a fun tool to use - and you can use C++ in your work if you like.
I use a fair amount of c++ plugins in my game
i don't normally use code because i'm a visual programmer - but you will find if you are good at c++ you can make a great game. 😃
the interoperability for visual studio 2017 is great, and it turns out you can use github to get your source builds. this is a great guide to get you started with source building unreal