ue4-general

[drowsy fox]

It was 100 copper to silver. And 1000 silver to gold but that was a friends suggestion. My original design was 100/100/1

[fathom gale]

y are u doing 100/1000

[drowsy fox]

So that seems like my best bet

[fathom gale]

its annoying

[drowsy fox]

Lol idk just to bring golds value up I guess but it would be annoying

I completely agree lol

[grim ore]

fuck it make like 4 coins and do it 10/100/1000/1 just to fuck with the player

[drowsy fox]

I’ll stick with my 100/100/1

[fathom gale]

ye

[drowsy fox]

@grim ore ... lll

[fathom gale]

that seems better

;D

[drowsy fox]

Lol*

Thanks guys 😃

[south ridge]

lol

At this point

Just add proper currency dude 😛

Like

Paper money

1 2 5 10 20 50 100 200 500 lineup of banknotes

[drowsy fox]

Lol but it’s a half survival style game and medieval-ish

I think that would confuse people

Where do you live where there’s a 200 and 500 bill? Lll

I can’t seem to type lol today...

[grim ore]

Asherons call used Coins that stacked to like 1k in a stack then you could buy notes in higher denominations like 5k/10k/etc. Buying expensive stuff suuuuuuucked.

[south ridge]

Well, I used to live in Ukraine and they have bills up to 500

[grim ore]

but most of the economy was player based so it wasn't too bad

[fathom gale]

make a special looking coin

[drowsy fox]

See my economy is player based

[south ridge]

Make a coin for every possible value

[fathom gale]

i can make it for ya if u want

[drowsy fox]

And my coins are also created by mined materials

[south ridge]

Coins that have 1 value, coins with 2 value, 3... and up to 999999

[fathom gale]

show me r coins

[drowsy fox]

My coins? Lol

[south ridge]

Make it as confusing as possible by having 999999 different coin types with different values

[fathom gale]

yes

xd

do u have models

[drowsy fox]

Yes lol

[fathom gale]

show

[drowsy fox]

That is a stack of my coins.

[south ridge]

Didn't you just say you were doing medieval? Haha

[drowsy fox]

I have three models for them, that’s just one. (Don’t ask questions, because I don’t have answers)

[south ridge]

Those coins are very sci-fi

[drowsy fox]

Psh

[fathom gale]

xd

[drowsy fox]

Baba

Haha*

[fathom gale]

thats true

xd

[drowsy fox]

Coding is my strongpoint lmao

[fathom gale]

here ill make 1 for u

[drowsy fox]

No -.- rude

Lol

[fathom gale]

tough

gonna make it

[drowsy fox]

They only seem sci-fi because it’s shaped like a gear lol

Well..

Not really a gear..

[fathom gale]

lol

its not the shape

its the inside

[drowsy fox]

Hm

Do you realize how small those coins are? Lol

[fathom gale]

i see the grass

[drowsy fox]

I guess it doesn’t matter

[fathom gale]

yes it does

;d

[drowsy fox]

My inventory has a blown up image of it anyway lol

[fathom gale]

ur gonna take it

and say u made it

k

[drowsy fox]

Lol no I cannot do that, but I’ll look at it for design ideas ? Lol

Are you any good at design normal maps from an image? I was thinking of making a normal map of the side of my characters face for the coin haha

And using it in substance painter

But I’m clueless on how to even add more hard surface materials to substance ._.

[fathom gale]

wait

xd

almost done

@drowsy fox

u can add the textures that u want

ill just add a few details

[drowsy fox]

How do people model like that.. lol

What’s your poly count?

[fathom gale]

just comes to mind

lol

i just now subdivided the circle

[drowsy fox]

The loops and stuff how did you get the writing on there?

[fathom gale]

lol

the writing is just text

but extruded

[drowsy fox]

How do you write text.. lol I assume you don’t use blender

[fathom gale]

i do use blender

xd

[drowsy fox]

How do you write text?

[fathom gale]

u create a text

u add in the font that u want

and u extrude

done

now if u want to ingrave

[drowsy fox]

Also did you use a live Boolean plugin of a sort or manually created the hole on the center? (I’ve yet to use any plugins)

[fathom gale]

its the same process but u use boolean

yes

i created a cube

and just used boolean

then created another cube for the outline

[drowsy fox]

How do you use booleans in blender?

[fathom gale]

simple

there are 3 different types

difference

which is the one i used

union

joins them

and i forgot the other 1

i think its intersect

but i never used it

[drowsy fox]

What... how do you set these up, as mods?

Modifications * the wrench?

I’m on my phone my pc is off for the night lol

[pine parcel]

Is the base representation of a person in a game the PlayerController? What if I don't want him to specifically control a pawn, but rather just control his own camera view for instance.

[drowsy fox]

And last question, any suggestions on where to get font? Lol

[fathom gale]

pierce

[drowsy fox]

The camera view is attached to the pawn

[fathom gale]

u can litteraly have this model for free

i dont need anything

not even exposure

[drowsy fox]

You don’t need a physical skeletal mesh in your pawn I don’t believe

[fathom gale]

?

[drowsy fox]

Haha @fathom gale I’m fairly good at modeling, I’d rather learn to make it

[fathom gale]

xd

[drowsy fox]

I’m the type that would rather learn to fish instead of being given a fish

[fathom gale]

xd

dont forget to add details

like dents and all that

[drowsy fox]

I’ll add some roughness to it with substance, I try and keep the model as low poly as possible

I believe the coin I showed you was only 120 verts or less

Polys*

[pine parcel]

@drowsy fox So I'd just have a "CameraPawn" with an invisible mesh.... and it would just represent the player's viewpoint

[drowsy fox]

I think the basepawn doesn’t have a mesh inherited

[pine parcel]

When a player enters a game, they automatically get a player controller right? there's no other access to what a player has?

[drowsy fox]

You can setup a game mode to give them a player controller and an empty pawn

And switch game modes when entering the game to give them a pawn

[pine parcel]

sorry that was worded strangely, but what I'm trying to say is, is the player component the root handle for a player

[fathom gale]

lol

@drowsy fox create a uv sphere

[pine parcel]

player controller*

[fathom gale]

and just extend it in random shapes

[drowsy fox]

A player controller owns a pawn yes

[fathom gale]

and use boolean

[drowsy fox]

Where is the Boolean though? @fathom gale

[fathom gale]

modifiers

[drowsy fox]

Aah

[drowsy fox]

Alright I’ll give it a go tomorrow, I need rest I have a young son and I have to wake up with him in the morning haha

[fathom gale]

xd

the fact that im 15

[pine parcel]

I know this... but what I'm asking, is whether or not there's a more primitive type of controller that doesn't have to possess a pawn. And if the "controller" is considered the root means of accessing a given player in the game.

[fathom gale]

makes me kinda happy

[drowsy fox]

So after you select Boolean I assume there’s options for union or difference ?

[fathom gale]

or intersect

but u gotta make sure

u select the right object

[drowsy fox]

Yes

[fathom gale]

before u use boolean

eg

[drowsy fox]

@pine parcel

I will @fathom gale 😃

[fathom gale]

there is the sphere and u want to engrave it to the coin

u select the coin mesh

then add the boolean

[drowsy fox]

Oh?

So your tool isn’t the bool?

[fathom gale]

lol

[drowsy fox]

Your cube for instance

[fathom gale]

lemme try and record this

[drowsy fox]

I get what you’re saying I think

I just thought if you had a flat coin, and put a cube in the middle and modified the cube to be a difference bool, it would subtract it from the coin

But you’re saying that you do that, but put the modifier on the coin instead?

[fathom gale]

wait

@drowsy fox

u must click apply to see the changes

i just realised how simple i make things

i should make videos in the summer

[drowsy fox]

Oooh I get it now it has a tool to select what’s subtracting

[fathom gale]

yes

[drowsy fox]

That’s simple enough, and yes you definitely could 😃

[fathom gale]

;d

[drowsy fox]

I was thinking of making some multiplayer tutorials considering none explain things correctly ..

[fathom gale]

xd

[drowsy fox]

But I’ve never made a tutorial and I literally have 0 time. With this project, work, and my son

Yea.. lol

[fathom gale]

dang

feelsbadman

[drowsy fox]

I make enough progress with my game everyday to be content lol. Definitely don’t have time for tutorials :b

[fathom gale]

xd

whats ur job

[drowsy fox]

I’m a chef/manager at a nursing home

[fathom gale]

o

u planning on making gamedev ur future job?

[drowsy fox]

Eventually yea lol

[fathom gale]

xd

that would be cool

[drowsy fox]

I spent the last couple of years learning a lot of the pipelines and how all the tools work

I learned the majority except audio and particle vertex fields

[fathom gale]

o

thats noice

[drowsy fox]

What do you do?

Or plan to do rather

[fathom gale]

im just 15

lol

but im gonna learn some c++ over the summer

[drowsy fox]

Well you’re off to a good start 😃 I’m 26 next month haha

[fathom gale]

oh dang

only languages ik atm is some c# and python

[drowsy fox]

I’d like to learn more languages as I actually only know java.. lol

My entire plan is to go blueprints only unless it’s deep multiplayer related

I understand the workflow behind text-based coding and it’s standards but I’d have to learn a lot when it comes to references and such

[fathom gale]

have u made a game

yet

[drowsy fox]

Not a legit game no, I made private servers for a couple of games for years in the past but it was non-profit as I didn’t have my own assets

[leaden onyx]

Feel stuck with a weird behavior, anyone had problem with timer handles? Check for whether is timer active never works in BT service 😦

Should be a simple setup, yet it just wont work

next time I call QueNextStart it ignores that timer was already set because it returns that timer is not active

[kindred mountain]

@drowsy fox you can't avoid understanding references by using BP 😉

[granite canopy]

mfw I cant understand shit about UE4 yet

Learnt a lot of things already though

[weary basalt]

Keep with it @granite canopy you will get there eventually.

[granite canopy]

Yeah

[weary basalt]

It wont happen overnight

But persistence is the key.

[granite canopy]

This probably will help me a lot with my studies too

[weary basalt]

It will click eventually.

[granite canopy]

and I'm really committed to this project

I want to get this done

on the summer

I mean it's still trying to make a game in 2-3 months

so I dont believe itll be done before the summer ends

but I'll probably learn a ton

[steady sequoia]

What sort of project are you trying to make?

And are you on your own or are people helping you?

[granite canopy]

I got some people helping me

And I'm trying to do a FPS loot based shooter

I'm not trying to make to too complex

[wary wave]

it'd have to be quite simple to get it done in 2-3 months

[granite canopy]

Yeah

This'll take much longer though

[wary wave]

for a duration of that length, I'd be aiming at a basic arcade game, heh

[granite canopy]

But I'm trying to get a basic gun system going

I have a simple inventory system now

that can actually store data

[wary wave]

that's something ^^

[granite canopy]

Yeah

Google helps a lot

What should we use for models?

And animating?

Any tips for that?

[wary wave]

I'd probably look at the marketplace tbh

[granite canopy]

I was thinking of using some of the Paragon models at least

[wary wave]

if you don't already know how to model, rig and animate characters, you're in for a ride with a deadline that short, hehe

[granite canopy]

It's not a deadline really

It's just a project I wanna do myself on the summer

[wary wave]

yeah, but it's a lot of learning

[granite canopy]

Yeah

[wary wave]

most people spend a a year or two trying to learn to model and rig characters to a basic acceptable level xD

[granite canopy]

I'm sure I'll at least get something done :D

[faint cedar]

Hey guys, has anyone seen this issue - I export a skeletal mesh fbx from UE4 and open it in Maya, but only the bones are there, the mesh didn't export

[devout gulch]

@wary wave some plugins

some youtube tutorials

and I was able to skin and rig character to acceptable level over weekend :d

never done it before

[idle sail]

How do you turn on the cloth sim on paragon characters? poor sevarog looks so rigid

[silent kraken]

You don't @idle sail ]:)

Naaaa, kidding. Idk. XD

[idle sail]

😅

[silent kraken]

Soz, I am very new to UE4.

[leaden onyx]

I'll answer my own question about why persisting timer didnt work, just in case someone stumbles upon it

so yeah Service resets every timer you set on deactivation

gosh darn

and it happens only for blueprint based services

[whole quarry]

"Que" ? :D

[leaden onyx]

was lazy to type 😄

[sudden agate]

https://media.giphy.com/media/12BczUgnvatw3K/giphy.gif

[leaden onyx]

Thats exactly my reaction when it didnt work, so I guess naming it Que was the way

[obsidian nimbus]

@faint cedar is it a paragon model?

[faint cedar]

nein

[obsidian nimbus]

does it have apex cloth?

[faint cedar]

not apex, but UE4 one

[obsidian nimbus]

ok remove it B4 export

you cant export a mesh with cloth

[faint cedar]

(The export actually worked in 4.18 so I got it sorted out)

But thanks for the tip I'll make sure to do that next time

[obsidian nimbus]

and UE4 is still apex just done in unreal

[faint cedar]

hm, are you sure? I was under the impression the new cloth tool doesn't use apex under the hood

[obsidian nimbus]

pretty sure it does

[faint cedar]

admittedly I didn't really look all too hard just something I've heard

[idle sail]

Lol anyone care to explain what ive done?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOYFMrGFSO8&feature=youtu.be

[leaden onyx]

maybe weapon collides with the mesh?

[idle sail]

This is pretty much exactly as they were loaded in?

[leaden onyx]

ah, have no clue then, but I've seen these happen in other projects where you have 2 bodies collide on start

or physics asset that isnt set right

[idle sail]

Il try mak another project with the paragon assets and see what happens

[silent kraken]

I had issues with them in version 4.18

[idle sail]

Its something to do with the way they had them set up

Need to make a blueprint so the animations can go across all the meshes

[silent kraken]

I plan on making my own

God save me now

[devout gulch]

@obsidian nimbus NvCloth have nothing to do with apex

[obsidian nimbus]

it says remove apex file

[granite canopy]

Is this where it begins

UE crashed the first time

[languid shard]

hey lads, how would you combine three vectors from RotateAboutAxis ?

this is my current implementation https://i.imgur.com/8pYHG0n.png

I read something about re offsetting worldspace reference for each add, but I'm not sure how to do this 🤔

[plush yew]

What are you trying to accomplish that you can't do with one RotateAboutAxis?

[languid shard]

can you rotate on three axis with that node ?

[plush yew]

I think you should use Rotation from Transform structure

[languid shard]

(this is in a material btw, no transform stuff ! 😉 )

[plush yew]

I tried to translate rotation from world to relative - failed

a

[languid shard]

:p

[plush yew]

You can use inverse transform

try matrix

@plush yew material

Or even Transform node

Yes that's all in the material

[languid shard]

There's an inversetransformmatrix node

gonna check how to use it

[plush yew]

There's also a custom node where you can type in mul() function

get some math info about translation

[languid shard]

math 😱

[plush yew]

What's the material for?

but translation only for location, I know. Dunno if it has special rotation matrix

[languid shard]

doing a section box material function

so far I have scale, location and one axis rotation working well

[plush yew]

Section box?

[languid shard]

yep, sec

[plush yew]

hm, make sense. Rotation with following viewport?

[languid shard]

https://images-ext-2.discordapp.net/external/k7szGiyWcvcmwvk1p0YdMrTI3XYTH5jKrEcwWmg8STE/https/i.imgur.com/CribVja.png?width=400&height=150

https://gfycat.com/NeatUnlinedBassethound

[plush yew]

That should be easy enough passing in vectors of box and using inverse transform

hm, too hard for me

I didn't get it. is it because of material or something else?

[languid shard]

material stuff is a bit different than BP stuff

[plush yew]

no, I mean second gif

[languid shard]

oh

[fathom gale]

yo

[languid shard]

its a bit of BP and material stuff

[plush yew]

kinda "sub-brush"

[languid shard]

the materials are masked accordingly to the section box properties

scale, location, rotation

the BP sends the Section box actor transform properties to a material parameter collection

which gets plugged into a material function that masks the main material accordingly

[plush yew]

and you can dismiss points based on their locations?

[languid shard]

points ?

[plush yew]

too hard, as I said

sorry, I've began learing 3D with OpenGL

[languid shard]

hehe no probs

[fathom gale]

whats this about

[languid shard]

put simply, see a box with transform properties masking your material in 3d

[plush yew]

Only box?

[languid shard]

yeah

[plush yew]

so, based on position in world space?

[languid shard]

using the "box mask - 3D" function

yep

[plush yew]

ha

[languid shard]

there's a sphere mask function aswell, but the box is a bit better since we use that in CAD

[plush yew]

Try sphere

sphere should be like in terminator2

and make points at the border emit light

like melted metal

[languid shard]

yeah this is something I haven't looked at yet

scratched my head a lot with backface coloring too, but the results aren't looking great

[latent moth]

All, I have a single mesh of a small house that contains two materials, one being the house's glass. I'd like to apply the destructible mesh only to the glasses, is that doable or do I have to build windows separately, then create a BP that contains both the house mesh without the window and individual windows?

[plush yew]

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/NiftySpryGardensnake-max-1mb.gif

[languid shard]

@latent moth second solution

[latent moth]

ok great thanks, just wanted to know if i was missing on existing solutions!

[languid shard]

@plush yew https://i.imgur.com/zX0iEl3.png

wanted the cap the mesh where it cuts it, but this is only doable with procedural mesh 😦

[plush yew]

Does material has input for light?

[languid shard]

too costly since this is going to be used on massive CAD stuff

[fathom gale]

im extremely confused

on what ur trying to get here

[plush yew]

What if you combine two boxes?

[languid shard]

a section box @fathom gale

[fathom gale]

what is it

[languid shard]

https://gfycat.com/NeatUnlinedBassethound

[fathom gale]

why would u want that

[languid shard]

because we need it ? 🤔

[fathom gale]

for?

[languid shard]

this is a standard tool in building construction tools

[plush yew]

I mean, one box can change material color/light, second can vanish it, so you will have a border with target efffect

[fathom gale]

ah

[languid shard]

to isolate parts of a building for example

[fathom gale]

is it like a level box?

or something

[languid shard]

or see what is inside a wall (isolation, electricity, tubing)

[fathom gale]

ah

[languid shard]

@plush yew yeah I see what you mean

[fathom gale]

this is a real house or u making a game

[languid shard]

haven't tried this solution yet though, and not sure I will be able to make it

[plush yew]

@fathom gale just example

[fathom gale]

aight

[languid shard]

I'm working for a construction engineering company, so no games here 😉

[fathom gale]

lol

[plush yew]

working as CAD-programmer or someone else?

[languid shard]

Virtual Reality Designer is the title

but honestly i do a bit of everything, code, art, hardware, demonstrations

[plush yew]

I bet you're also porter

[languid shard]

x)

[plush yew]

So, if you designer, you already use some soft. What soft?

[languid shard]

well, UE4 is my main software

also use Revit, Max, Substance Designer

[fathom gale]

why dont u use inventor

[languid shard]

and some other softwares for archviz rendering like the Enscape plugin for revit and Twinmotion for quick and dirty jobs

[fathom gale]

thats what we use in my school

[languid shard]

Inventor is a mechanical CAD software

Revit is the equivalent for AEC CAD

so I cant figure out how to use the inverseTransformMatrix node @plush yew , got any pointers ?

BasisX/Y/Z are the rotation axis I guess

[plush yew]

So you wanna rotate this box?

[languid shard]

yup

[plush yew]

is there function to check in-border-out for point?

[languid shard]

no idea :v

[plush yew]

don't rotate box, rotate house

and rotate camera

[languid shard]

can't, objects are static

[fathom gale]

;-;

[languid shard]

😅

[plush yew]

if you attach static object to dynamic, whole object will be static?

[languid shard]

you can't attach a static object to a dynamic one

[plush yew]

Hm, you can use equality of plane for making box (6 planes) and then check if point >, = or <

@languid shard Pass in forward, right and up vectors of box as the basis vectors. VectorToTransform is pixel position relative to box position

one plane divides space into 2 half-spaces

Feed in result to A in put of Box Mask and leave B as (0, 0, 0)

And feed in your box extents as well

[languid shard]

alright lets see

[plush yew]

https://gyazo.com/f24525a6dc275857b780af9867ee2bfa

[languid shard]

ah nice

was going the right way 😄

almost finished

[plush yew]

https://gyazo.com/c8452e0aea49dd90b6e3d288100c43a4

[languid shard]

nice this is actually gonna lighten up the function too

works perfectly, thanks a lot @plush yew ! 😃

next step : make it so you can use as much section boxes as you want

this is gonna require some headscratching

https://gfycat.com/AgreeableDemandingGaur

[plush yew]

NOICE

[languid shard]

need to make a VR grabbable version too

[plush yew]

The only thing I can think of for that is to store all parameters of each box into a render target (maybe one row of pixels for each box). Then in material, loop over all boxes to see if pixel is intersecting any

[languid shard]

hmm could work

I'm not gonna work on that for now though

our engineers use revit, and you can only have one section box anyways

this'll be more than enough for them to cut into the models

for VR a way to change the scale with some kind of handle system would be nice

rotation and translation would update when the user moves his controller

[idle sail]

Got some simple cloth sim working on sevarog, i should upload this somewhere so other people can use it

Otherwise he just looks stiff as a brick

[topaz quest]

in a material is there a way to select a range of colors? I can manually specify the color values or is there a way to specify all colors within two color range values?

[whole quarry]

Im sure if you google that, you'll find several ways

[obtuse sable]

How can i make emissive materal keep the same amount of glow no matter the distance?

https://gyazo.com/430dc78194b07d23b814daeae6b00629

This is close

https://gyazo.com/1118c7087203a70a7bd3b343359e8c3c

this is far away

[grim sinew]

You don't, it's a per pixel effect. You can try to make it brighter as you get further but that's just guesswork and depends entirely on screen resolution.

[obtuse sable]

well fuck

thats really annoying

https://gyazo.com/0006b474d452fd9a125fdf82b534d7de

i meanl ike this is just ridicoulus

cant even read it

when im this close

[plush yew]

Decrease emissive then?

[grim sinew]

Yeah just use distance fade or zdepth or something like that to control the brightness.

So it's a thing that changes on distance

[topaz quest]

@whole quarry hey ya i have got as far as being able to select several specific colors but not a color range

[plush yew]

@topaz quest What are you using it for?

[topaz quest]

i want to select all colors in a range and use it to mask out a texture.

currently i am using a constant 3Vector to specify a color for my mask. what im trying to do is specify two values and every color in between those two values will be my mask

[plush yew]

Use a lerp and plug in your two colors?

But you'll still need to control the lerp using something

[topaz quest]

ya thats what i thought

[plush yew]

Might help to provide an example of what you want

[topaz quest]

im not really sure how to explain it better 😦

[plush yew]

Well what determines which color in the range to use?

A pixel can only using one value so something must determine which value it is

[topaz quest]

ok so currently im picking one color with my constant 3vector and i then subtract that from a texture and outputting the difference.

I can specify several other colors this way and also subtract them to get there combined difference output.

does that make sense?

[plush yew]

Not really lol

[topaz quest]

im so bad at explaining stuff 😦

[languid shard]

got a pic ?

[topaz quest]

essentially what i want to do is replace the constant 3 vectors with a color range.

[plush yew]

Yes but you still need something to specify which color to use in that range, right?

[topaz quest]

sure that makes sense

[whole quarry]

Lerp lerp lerp lerp, dynamic material instance and go!

[topaz quest]

lol

[whole quarry]

Or just use Set Vector Parameter

And choose color from the BP

[topaz quest]

will that allow me to select several colors?

[plush yew]

If you tell us why you need to do it and what you're using it on, that might help

[topaz quest]

oh crap i thought i already did, sorry 😦

i want to mask out an image of all of the colors i select

[wary wave]

exactly those colours?

and those colours only?

[plush yew]

Needs to be in the range of the two colors

Which sounds a bit strange if I think about it

[wary wave]

I guess it's possible to have a range between two vectors

but that's a really weird concept

I don't think it'll have the results you think it will either

[topaz quest]

ya i guess thats exactly what im trying to do

[plush yew]

The thing is, you can reach a color by approaching it from two directions. You'll need a way to say which direction to approach it from

[topaz quest]

right

[plush yew]

E.g. you can approach red coming from the purple side or yellow side

My brain isn't thinking atm so can't come up with anything

how to I invite someone here?

[topaz quest]

oh thats totally ok, im right there with you 😃

[wary wave]

I think the problem is the flawed assumption that you can have a useful 'range of colours' in RGB space without doing something weird

what is this for exactly?

[topaz quest]

I don't have a specific use for it i was just trying to see if i could do it.

[plush yew]

What are the perks of learning Unreal over Unity and vice versa?

[whole quarry]

@plush yew google before you spawn an endless discussion :D

[plush yew]

yikes

[topaz quest]

now thats a hard question 😄

im glad i didnt lead with that 😄

[whole quarry]

Roam around here for a week and im sure you will spot several Unreal VS Unitu talks

[plush yew]

It's ok I understand . Do you have a Unity discord server invite tho?

[whole quarry]

With usually the same end result: totally depends on what and how you want

[plush yew]

And why wont Unreal Slackers let me invite someone? SOmeone from another server wants in

@topaz quest It could possibly work using HSV or something else

[whole quarry]

@plush yew see #more-resources and be sure to check #old-rules as well :)

[plush yew]

thanks

Lastly, can someone invite me to the unity3d discord server?

[whole quarry]

Try tio ask that in lounge

[topaz quest]

@plush yew possibly i will keep trying out some stuff 😃

[plush yew]

will do

[fierce tulip]

@plush yew generally unity vs unreal discussions are rather useless. its like paint, one sticks better on wood, another on rock. it all depends on needs, desires, knowledge, skill, and finances

[rocky kayak]

yea but unreal > unity as we all know

[plush yew]

Well I know both are capable engines

I didn't want to start a war or anything

[fierce tulip]

hehe no worries

[plush yew]

Personally, I have zero programming experience. I'm a 3D artist so I rely mostly on templates to get started.

[fierce tulip]

then you'll love our material editor hehe

[rocky kayak]

unreal uses blueprints, which are basically libraries. it's a super simplified form of coding, you just need to know basic coding syntax to understand it. you can legit just hook bp's up together and create a game from that

[wary wave]

Blueprints are classes

fairly normal programming paradigm

[silent kraken]

yeah, Unreal is easier than unity

as Luos said depends on needs, desires, knowledge, etc, etc

[granite canopy]

I made a health system

and it looks like this:

but there's a compile error

and it actually doesnt get the health value

[plush yew]

What's the error?

[plush yew]

Remake the function maybe. Looks correct to me

@granite canopy just try recreate the cast node that normally fixes it for me

[granite canopy]

Yeah thanks it's working now

[silent kraken]

@plush yew yep, I got something to work by remaking the code again.

[plush yew]

oh nvm

[granite canopy]

I had to redo the functions

[silent kraken]

XD, you know, UE just needs you to do the work again

[granite canopy]

Yeah

[plush yew]

It's making sure you know what you're doing 😉

[granite canopy]

Yeah :DDD

So apparently if you're making a FPS game you shouldnt use the FPS template :')

[silent kraken]

Yeah, the templates don't work that well for me

I just think updates have broken them over time

[rocky kayak]

if youre making something, definitely use a blank slate. templates are for references if you forgot how to do something imo

[granite canopy]

Since I'm really new to this

[silent kraken]

Also, the tutorials are being updated

[granite canopy]

uh I was actually told to use the third person template to make an fps

but they told me how to do some stuff

to actually make it first person

[silent kraken]

Yeah, I have the template for now but I will just remove it all later

I think I know what tutorial you watched

[rocky kayak]

i mean you could. there's just a bunch of stuff in there that you probs won't use thatll get packaged and that personally goes against my philosophy

[silent kraken]

Was the tutorial made by virtus???

[granite canopy]

Well I've been watching random youtube videos here and there

Now I saw a few Virtus's videos

[rocky kayak]

yea virtus is pretty big, love their stuff

[granite canopy]

these are cool

and he really tells like what everything exactly does

[fossil ore]

Guys.
Is there a way to copy-paste keyframes in sequencer?

[silent kraken]

Tried there tutorial. It didn't work fully

[granite canopy]

Well

I'm gonna find out myself how these work then for those parts that dont work

[silent kraken]

It basically got to a point where I scrapped his tutorials

I just think updates broke some of the things in his examples

[fathom gale]

any simple models i can do for anyone?

[granite canopy]

I need to learn modeling stuff

[granite swift]

A quick question, sorry to barge in

Is anyone able to access this documentation?

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Actors/Volumes/PhysicsVolumeDetails

[granite canopy]

Giving you an error?

[granite swift]

"You do not have access to view this page within the site."

[granite canopy]

It's just waiting

for me

Yeah it's telling me to log in

[fathom gale]

same

[granite canopy]

at least

[granite swift]

It did that for me

[fathom gale]

seems sketchy

[granite swift]

I logged in and then got denied

[granite canopy]

the site is really slow

[fathom gale]

maybe its phishing

careful

[granite swift]

the official unreal site phising?

that'd be sad

[fathom gale]

idk it can be fake

anything is possible these days

[languid shard]

the UE docs website has been slow as fuck since they reworked it

[fathom gale]

dang

[faint cedar]

I keep thinking that there isn't really much more that can surprise me

[fathom gale]

feels bad man

[faint cedar]

but then I run into threads like this: https://forums.unrealengine.com/community/general-discussion/1475968-is-using-functions-really-necessary

and I'd dismiss it as a dude doing pathetic trolling, but that post count....

This is probably more suitable for the lounge though :p

[manic pawn]

it's probably still a troll

[faint cedar]

that's some dedication then

[fathom gale]

anyone need help using blender

[manic pawn]

crappy new forum software doesn't let you look at old posts but I doubt all 1000 of his posts are trolling lol

[fathom gale]

im bored

[topaz quest]

@fathom gale i do have a blender question. do you know how to bake a procedural noise displacement texture?

[silent kraken]

@granite swift the wiki is being upgraded. Expect it to break, they will probs kill those pages

[fathom gale]

@topaz quest

Go to the shader tree dropdown

choose 'image'

in the popup select 'new'

change the effect of the new image layer to 'displacment'

make sure the new image is above them in the shader tree and make SURE than the object it is on has a decent UV map and that UV map is selected in the new image's texture locator.

then just right click on the image and select bake to texture

When it's done just turn off the displacement below the baked image

and then go to Geometry->Freeze

[silent kraken]

@fathom gale I would if I was at home. Idk how to use blender

[fathom gale]

i can teach u ;d

[granite swift]

Thanks @silent kraken

[fathom gale]

@topaz quest did it work

[topaz quest]

@fathom gale hey trying that out now

[fathom gale]

aight

[topaz quest]

is this in cycles ?

[fathom gale]

yes

[topaz quest]

where do you get the option to change the effect to displacement?

[latent moth]

is there anyway to import multiple LODs from blender in a single step?

[fathom gale]

@topaz quest select the object

and click that triangle thin on the right side

wait let me screenshot

what do u mean lods @latent moth

[latent moth]

I have a blender model with multiple LODs

when I import the fbx it generates multiple assets, not 1 assets with multiple LODs

[fathom gale]

are u using ue

@latent moth

[latent moth]

of course

as said, from blender

[fathom gale]

ok

u can just drag the whole blend file

into ue

and bam

[kindred viper]

huh? Since when was that a thing?

[fathom gale]

have u tried it before

[kindred viper]

no. I always export as fbx

[fathom gale]

lol

certain things need to be exported as fbx

eg

terrain entities

weapons

[latent moth]

no

BAM you end up with all separate lods, hence my question

[fathom gale]

hmmm

im back

my dad arrived sorry for the long wait

@latent moth can u screenshot ur work

[dim arch]

hey I found a bug with the documentation just thought it maybe someone would see it here

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Blueprints/Scripting
http://api.unrealengine.com/INT/Engine/Blueprints/Scripting/index.html

first link has a bunch of identical links for the array section

[granite canopy]

What do I add in the beginning of this to make it work

[lost ember]

Am I the only one which gets the "Loading Visual Studio..." popup even after VS is loaded?

@granite canopy Tick Event

[granite canopy]

Alright thanks

forgot completely

[grim ore]

@lost ember I beleive that was a bug in 4.18.. and 4.19... and lol

[lost ember]

Wasn't it supposed to be fixed :^)

[grim ore]

well 4.20 is coming out next month so maybe then?

[dim arch]

yea think you need a specific vs build for it to run smoothly

[obsidian nimbus]

i wouldnt put that on event tick 😛

[grim ore]

well I know if you don't use C++ you can get past that error, it's a fix 😉

[dim arch]

hmm ok

[obsidian nimbus]

mayB on event get hit or something 😛

[dim arch]

any word on if they will integrate gameworks into 4.20 btw?

[kindred viper]

@lost ember it happened to me when I would load a project then call upon Visual Studio to load from within editor. However if you open the solution and run with/without debugging, then it doesn't happen

[dim arch]

seems like a good time with niagara

[kindred viper]

yeah cant wait for 4.20

although there is a niagara in 4.19 if you switch it on

[dim arch]

4.20 the dankest of unreal engines 🔥

[kindred viper]

its smoking

[dim arch]

the 4.19 version is a very old branch

[kindred viper]

yeah figured as much which is why I didnt switch it on :p

[dim arch]

from what I saw in the gdc video

im hoping they integrate gameworks and you can use some of the fluid sim stuff with niagara, that would be great

[fathom gale]

xd

[kindred viper]

gameworks will be added externally.

usually quite quickly after release

[dim arch]

thing is some of the flow stuff had cascade integration but the parameters were quite limited

I guess they are making it nvidias responsibility to make it functional since they keep changing it

[rocky kayak]

I'm getting tons of "LogSpawn: Warning: SpawnActor failed because we are in the process of tearing down the world" in my output log when I press Stop in the play in editor, what's the fix?

[whole quarry]

Not spawning actors when Stopping the game?

[rocky kayak]

i've got actors that spawn enemies on a timer, i've tried clearing the timer on event end-play but that doesnt do anything if the function's called right before stopping

[verbal thorn]

Есть кто?

[latent moth]

Hello, does anyone know why my Destructible Mesh in a BP just flies out like this? https://gyazo.com/a8905cc1c9131d3286f16849075de8a6

these are the settings https://gyazo.com/29766cdb6fb670b91ab995c7c3e27aa6

[fathom gale]

nice gun btw

[latent moth]

ok, do you have any ideas.

[fathom gale]

remove the mesh collider i guess

[latent moth]

why

without it it cannot generate the impact.

[fathom gale]

hmm

[latent moth]

i mean, with or without it it doesnàt change

[fathom gale]

is the weapon made up of seperate parts

were are u generating this bullet

make sure its in the muzzle

but away from the muzzle

if u know what im saying

[woeful oar]

So I get a bunch of red squigglies in Visual Studio, but it compiles. Then I add "Engine/World.h" and there are no red squigglies but it still compiles (and runs the code correctly when in game).
Is this just Unreal being normal or am I completely missing something?

It runs the code correctly in game with or without the header file inclusion.

[latent moth]

elpupper i know you are trying to help

[fathom gale]

trying

xd

[latent moth]

yes but that also generates a lot of noise

if you're just trying it is not helping 😄

[fathom gale]

i use unity mainly

[latent moth]

even though i appreciate the effort

[fathom gale]

since i can barley run ue

[latent moth]

then don't.

questions then get flooded and the chance that someone knows how to help reduces

😃

[fathom gale]

dang

what do u do to like release the bullet or ray

do u have like a spawning point for it

[sonic pagoda]

which way is up in the chat

okay this way

[sonic glacier]

Can Someone help me out with using the iron belly rig that I have from purchasing a pack of theirs I'm trying to use some of my other weapon meshes so that they can aim down sights just as good as their weapons do can someone help me with doing that?

[lament kraken]

@latent moth what is the problem with it?

dm me about problem

[latent moth]

see video

https://gyazo.com/a8905cc1c9131d3286f16849075de8a6

[lament kraken]

ok

[wild glacier]

@latent moth Il problema sta nella velocità di rottura dei vetri?

[latent moth]

yes

the issue is that it just explodes in one direction

trying to understand the best way to mae shattered windows

[wild glacier]

E l'impatto è di un proiettile/attore?

Nel senso, un attore interagisce con una Destructible Mesh (?)

@latent moth

[latent moth]

we’re on a public channel you’re probably supposed to use english? 😃

yes, it is a projectile that interacts with a distructable mesh inside of a BP

[plush yew]

No reason to send this cake.

[wild glacier]

Vabbè, mi sforzerò di parlare in Inglese

The issue is the velocity of shattered windows or the direction of explosion?

[latent moth]

both

the direction is always the same and

the velocity does not make sense

it’s there even with everything disabled

https://gyazo.com/29766cdb6fb670b91ab995c7c3e27aa6

it works good IF not inside a BP

[plush yew]

guys can i ask a little question

[cursive dirge]

don't ask if you can ask

just ask

[plush yew]

Im new on unreal engine and i have meterials here but i can only paint a only one meterial i want paint more meterials on a one landscape

[vivid oar]

Create a material and use layers blend to connect more materials

add texture and normal maps and connect the UVs to a node called Layer Coords

[plush yew]

Uhhh...

where should i add

[vivid oar]

Well this main material i still dont know how to add materials like these together to paint the landscape

i know how to add only texture

and normal

and layers

like this

[plush yew]

hmm i found a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpSFeXEfm8Y

[vivid oar]

But i dont know how to add materials made before

you can follow this

but i still dont know how to implement already made materials

this is just for texture and normal

[plush yew]

This kind of setup is a bit easier to make: https://gyazo.com/1976bd0d66de16c2591a06535dd4d1e6

And you can collapse material attributes into a material function for cleaner graphs

[vivid oar]

do you have a tutorial for this

so

wait

[plush yew]

how did he do this?

base color is not have a another output

[long mango]

Hey guys, i have a question regarding blueprints, so what thread would it be best to ask stuff like that in, since i'm new here?

[plush yew]

#blueprint

Meterial died

[long mango]

uf

tnx

somehow missed it

[plush yew]

when i add layer blend

[grim ore]

You can ask anywhere you want, you just might get people being cranky in some channels 😃

[long mango]

nah, it's ok, there's that channel there for a reason

[grim ore]

yeah people get cranky when there is no order to the chaos

[plush yew]

Oh fix it 😄

[vivid oar]

@plush yew what did you do can i see ?

[plush yew]

and learned how to do it

yes wait

just dont forget to make preview weight 1

[wild glacier]

@latent moth Have you tried to change the Mass of your Window Static Mesh?

[plush yew]

something was wrong...

meterial is looking weird on landscape

[latent moth]

yes i did

i’m starting to think the issue is that the windows are inside the simplified collision box of the cabin

i have disconnected now, will try asap

[wild glacier]

Ok

[latent moth]

grazie 😃

[wild glacier]

Nulla, fammi sapere se risolvi

[latent moth]

👍

[vale halo]

Anyone else here experiencing issues being logged out immidiately when logging in?

[sonic glacier]

I need help with making aim down sights for my game I bought a pack from iron belly the hk one and I have some other weapon meshes I want to use but I can't quite get them to work with the rig so that they can seamlessly work in game :/

[vale halo]

Wanted to download the engine on a new Windows installation, but no matter what I try, it keeps logging me back out after a successful login 😐

Same issue persists when using Chrome's incognito mode, both when using the download and profile-like button on the UE4 homepage

[vivid oar]

Anyone know any tutorial how to blend already made materials from starter content and kitedemo photoscanned materials, how to use them to blend them together to use them as painting layers for landscape painting.
Its hard to find a good tutorial about that. please help.

[obsidian nimbus]

its callled vertex painting

lot of tuts on it

[sleek spear]

where does compiling of shaders happen? cpu or gpu?

[coarse wigeon]

https://twitter.com/JKashaar/status/996849316374425600 Thanks for the heads up @ashen brook

Jan Kaluza proudly presents: (@JKashaar)

GUYS AND GALS!
IT'S TIME!

#realtimevfx #UE4 #techart #vfx

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[ashen brook]

😃

so excite

[coarse wigeon]

4.20 is going to be lit

[frosty bloom]

Pretty sure 4.19 is the biggest piece of crap because they put all their effort into 4.20 🤖

[ashen brook]

pretty sure that's not how that works but ok

[frosty bloom]

I haven't experienced as many complaints (or experienced bugs) on any version as much as 4.19. Might just be a coincidence

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[grave nebula]

absolutely. 4.19 is disasterous

[grim ore]

@sleek spear shaders compile on the CPU

[drowsy fox]

@kindred mountain whatdo you mean you can’t avoid references by using BP? I meant understanding how references work in c++ rather than bp

I’m glad I stopped at 4.8 lol

[vivid oar]

needs alot more work xD tho

[uneven fractal]

how do I get the first pose in an animation blueprint?

or do you not need one

[drowsy fox]

You need one

Create one

[uneven fractal]

I just want to rotate a bone I don't have any animations

[drowsy fox]

Drag off of it and it’ll give you an option I just can’t remember it’s name

Oh then you’ll need your bone transformation node there

[livid haven]

There's probably a node to get the base pose then

[grim ore]

your generally using something like a state machine as shown here, https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Gameplay/HowTo/CharacterMovement/Blueprints/AnimBlueprint_Walk

[drowsy fox]

It’ll end up being 3 nodes I believe

[uneven fractal]

there is no state though it's just not animated at all

[drowsy fox]

But @grim ore without an animation for locomotion it would remain blank wouldn’t it?

Except I believe it needs a transform bone node

[uneven fractal]

I just want to alter the rotation of a bone on a none animated skeletal mesh

[drowsy fox]

With the bone name typed in

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Animation/NodeReference/SkeletalControls/TransformBone

[uneven fractal]

I've got this but it doesn't rotate the bone in the preview

[grim ore]

if you are just working with a single item then do you even need an animation bp?

[uneven fractal]

well can I rotate bones via the regular bp?

[drowsy fox]

You don’t have a transform setup

It’s set to 0

In your anim graph make a variable that’s set from your pawn

And have that variable effect the transform rotation

[grim ore]

oh gotcha sorry, I saw non animated and assumed static not skeletal lol. reading ftw.

[ashen brook]

you also need to set the appropriate transform channel to replace in the node's properties

[drowsy fox]

@ashen brook that’s what I was sort of explaining

At least attempting to explain lol

[coarse cradle]

When I try to move around inside a object I made in the viewport play mode it kicks me out of the object/building

[drowsy fox]

What is your goal ? @uneven fractal

[coarse cradle]

the walls and the ceiling are all one mesh

[uneven fractal]

make wheels spin without an animation

[frosty bloom]

@coarse cradle It's the collision

[coarse cradle]

I thought so

ill check over it, thanks

[drowsy fox]

Have it affect the X bone transform rotation

[frosty bloom]

@coarse cradle for testing purposes you could set it to complex collision inside the mesh editor

[drowsy fox]

Right click and split it

[coarse cradle]

is it good for finalized use @frosty bloom ?

[drowsy fox]

Create a float variable and connect it

[drowsy fox]

Then goto the anim graph (event graph) and off anim tick, cast to whatever holds the tire rotation

That’ll just set the tire to 1000 on startup

[frosty bloom]

@coarse cradle Depends on soo many things. Generally I believe creating your own custom collision for things like buildings is necessary.

[drowsy fox]

With what you’ve posted

10000*

[uneven fractal]

I just wanted to test if this setup worked

[drowsy fox]

Alright

[uneven fractal]

and the bone is still in the same spot in the preview

so I don't think it did

[drowsy fox]

You set the location though

Something is really setup wrong lol

[uneven fractal]

exactly that should move the wheel up 10,000

[drowsy fox]

I can provide an example if you’d like

[uneven fractal]

sure

I'm in an ancient version though not sure how helpful it will be

[drowsy fox]

Let me finish this smoke and I’ll head inside

What version?

It should be the same

[uneven fractal]

4.5 something

[drowsy fox]

alright one minute

loading up my project

basically you have a pawn with a skeletalmesh of the car right?

and you have a tire attached to a specific bone right?

F_L_WheelJNT?

@uneven fractal

[uneven fractal]

yeah

[drowsy fox]

https://gyazo.com/c890cc5a1d80675f98d515450c69a998

heres you setup for that location

just do that but make the rotation variable TireRotation

[granite swift]

Is this suspension stuff?

[drowsy fox]

simple wheel spinning

[granite swift]

Oh.

Wait are you rotating a bone instead of playing an animation?

[uneven fractal]

don't have an animation

making do with what I have

[granite swift]

Do you intend the car to only go in one direction?

[drowsy fox]

https://gyazo.com/6d920b5d5610fa449111382ce355bc64

[uneven fractal]

yep

[drowsy fox]

set that up in your event graph

not using thirdperson casting obv

[granite swift]

Also you're re-casting to that BP with every tick

[uneven fractal]

but why does your transform bone node look different to my?

[drowsy fox]

okay maybe not do that

lol

[uneven fractal]

https://i.gyazo.com/thumb/1200/c890cc5a1d80675f98d515450c69a998-png.jpg

[drowsy fox]

on the right side you can toggle whats viewed

like thisa

https://gyazo.com/530d2a509cc08ca51fb021fe55b6c17e

https://gyazo.com/d1e162b4ca0cbc3371398c8b3a613280

the As Pin toggle

[uneven fractal]

ah I see

[drowsy fox]

make sure you use a 1.0 alpha aswell

[uneven fractal]

but if the node itself doesn't work for me in preview how does the event graph stuff help?

[drowsy fox]

it will work

lol

in your pawn, setup something to drive that variable

[uneven fractal]

right but if I just set something in that variable

[drowsy fox]

or even in your event graph in your anim bp do this for testing

[uneven fractal]

nothing happens

[drowsy fox]

oof i cant make timelines in an animation BP, okay in your pawn create a timeline

[granite swift]

Just to confirm, is the wheel named torso?

[drowsy fox]

that is 5 seconds long and goes from 0-360

and loops

no lol

thats my photo

for a reference for him

i created a quick example

by butchering my old project lol

[granite swift]

Righto

Well I suppose you could make the timeline in your pawn / vehicle w-e

then cast to anim instance

[drowsy fox]

just for testing

to show it works yea

[uneven fractal]

no matter what value I set in the variable the rotation of the wheel doesn't change

[granite swift]

Only one thing to do

start debugging

[drowsy fox]

is it a changing variable?

[granite swift]

eliminate emotions until your find the source

...emotions?

Freudian slip

[drowsy fox]

what does your note say?

[uneven fractal]

node?

[drowsy fox]

note

where it says NOTE

in blue

hover over it

whats it say?

notes usually arent crutial

im just curious

[granite swift]

Note is usually just "you don't need to do this"

[uneven fractal]

was visible but ignored

[frosty bloom]

Are you using physics for this vehicle or are you faking susp and all that stuff aswell?

[granite swift]

I think everything is faked

[frosty bloom]

in which case I would recommend moving over to your vehicle BP and look up how to fake it.

[drowsy fox]

https://gyazo.com/8f3cd29a43e7591b9270665ef5b0abbf

https://gyazo.com/d1e7297f87289a9f724941599b6e504c

[uneven fractal]

er doesn't rotation in unreal 4 go from -180 to 180 and not 0 to 360?

not that it matters

[drowsy fox]

yea youre right lol

either way it would still goto 360 i think

wait no

its still; 360 lol

oh