ue4-general

[paper kernel]

http://api.unrealengine.com/INT/BlueprintAPI/Utilities/Select/
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http://api.unrealengine.com/INT/BlueprintAPI/Math/Random/RandomIntegerinRange/

[plush yew]

I have a question about Structure??
In the structure you must to store your items as wood water, meat and these or??

[sullen wraith]

why are some of my weapons rotated to the side? all using same bones on skeleton

[honest vale]

@plush yew no?

they're just structures

you can do whataver you want with them

they just hold variables in them

[plush yew]

okay

and this sctructure is use for??

I want to make my items for now for my game but what type to be they?? widgets?? or?? IU need advice

[honest vale]

what have you tried so far?

[plush yew]

I want to make for my game items for my inventory to collect them and then to make crafting system

[honest vale]

yes, but what have you tried to do so far?

what can you do?

[plush yew]

What can I do??

[honest vale]

do you know how to program? 😛

[plush yew]

no

I work with blueprint

[honest vale]

you could just make a generic item blueprint class

then make subclasses for that for each item type

[plush yew]

okay blueprint class but what type??

[honest vale]

sub class of actor

[plush yew]

okay

this??

how to make subclasses?

[honest vale]

well uh

pick actor

then your new class will be a subclass of actor

[plush yew]

I created t-then?

[honest vale]

because actor is the parent

[plush yew]

okay

[honest vale]

and the new one is child

aka a subclass

[plush yew]

do you want to write me in DM to don't annoy the rest people?

[honest vale]

I'm not gonna walk you through this

[plush yew]

okay but the actor the parent how to name it Inventory Items or??

[honest vale]

I suggest you learn some basic programming skills

or watch a tutorial

there must be dozens of UE 4 specific ones out there

[plush yew]

okay I watch everyday many tutorials but I have ideas for my project but I can't do them-lol

for creating child??

I want to make something like this

but not completely same

[honest vale]

start with simple stuff

make a pong or something

or with a simple UI first

[plush yew]

СI have already simple UI

I will show you

see

[honest vale]

cool

[plush yew]

mhm

I work on inventory

[honest vale]

I really wouldn't worry about the actual inventory yet, just make the UI for it and then hardcode some drag and drop elements into it

[plush yew]

but I need advices and help for thiese classes that you say me

[honest vale]

I haven't done any inventory system

[plush yew]

okay I make this now

[honest vale]

ever

[plush yew]

here will be the controll bar where you can keep your items for first use the rest will be in inventory

[sullen wraith]

need to know asap, anyone know how to make someone change to a random skin on spawn?

[whole quarry]

@plush yew the boolean for ShowMouse is enabled..

[dull wraith]

Does anyone know any good tutorial playlists someone new to unreal engine and game development could follow? I found out a few weeks ago my laptop isn't able to run UE4 without crashing the GPU, causing some errors/glitches whenever I try to do anything, so I decided I'll read/watch them and write notes on a word document

Thanks! I tried it earlier but wasn't sure because of how old the playlist is, and it might be outdated due to UE4 updates

But I might try it again

[cedar snow]

so, umm, what kind of weird case could make APlayerController Tick before BeginPlay ?

LogTemp: Warning: ATestPlayerControllerBase::ATestPlayerControllerBase -- name TestPlayerController_0, id 44054
LogTemp: Warning: ATestPlayerController::Tick -- mSystems == nullptr -- name TestPlayerController_0, id 44054
LogTemp: Warning: ATestPlayerControllerBase::BeginPlay -- name TestPlayerController_0, id 44054
LogTemp: Warning: ATestPlayerControllerBase::InitializeContext -- name TestPlayerController_0, id 44054
LogTemp: Warning: ATestPlayerController::InitializeContext -- name TestPlayerController_0, id 44054

it only happens when running as listen server

uuuh https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/711171/tick-before-beginplay-on-clients-playercontrollers.html?sort=oldest

yep, this was it

it is true be default and seems like i've hit that case when starting multiple pie instances at the same time - thus changing "the usual" timing ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[pallid compass]

We dont do dev kit support now

[narrow crypt]

Hi there

I have a question

I can see that UE4 v4.20.0 is out but there anyway that I can update it directly from v4.19.2

Thanks

[tribal pebble]

Guys why on youtube i find only " how to make TRUE FPS CAMERA"
I don't need that

I really would love to find a tutorial about how to have a First person camera , with floating hands , on a third person shooter character (with multiplayer)

[whole quarry]

@tribal pebble look at the FPS template..

[tribal pebble]

yes but how is that going to work with "press a button to go from Third person to First person camera"

i'm a noob mind u

[whole quarry]

Combine tutorials. You will rarely find very specific tutorials for your needs

[tribal pebble]

@whole quarry

i just don't get it
the only thing coming to mind ,is having when you press G (to switch from TPS to FPS) , you make the TPS model invisible ,and visible the FPS one

[whole quarry]

@tribal pebble thats the right way

[tribal pebble]

yay 😄 so i'm on the right track

@whole quarry tho , if i make the invisibility method , won't that make the character invisible server side as well? or there are ways to force it to be Local only

@plush yew sorry mate i don't really know ,i'm a noob as well

[short onyx]

👌

[manic pawn]

just looks like a reroute node

double click a wire

[astral marsh]

yea

[manic pawn]

making your blueprints more readable and organized

[sudden agate]

Did someone say Reroute Nodes?

[opaque nexus]

@plush yew that's why I am trying to tell you to learn the engine first by making a simple game and not trying to go for a multiplayer survival type game :P

There will be a million things that are needed for a big project that will just slow you down in learning the basics

No, basic is "pong" or "asteroids"

[whole quarry]

basics are the pawn, gamemode, player controller, player state, game state and game inputs

@tribal pebble Don't do multiplayer if you don't know how to make a game, it will safe you lots of pains and headaches

[unique vigil]

Is it true global variables do not exist in ue4?

[grim ore]

they do if you make them in C++. Alternately you can put them in the Game Instance and have the same basic concept.

[unique vigil]

I see...

Can i make it in C++ and then reference it in blueprints?

[grim ore]

yep

you can expose pretty much anything to BP from C++

[unique vigil]

Okay gotcha

[plush yew]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/396136111967043586/470245724995584020/unknown.png

anybody seen this before?

[sudden agate]

the message says whats wrong

you are accessing an index of an array, although the array doesn't contain that many items

use "Is Valid Index" before accessing the Array

[bitter iris]

@sudden agate How did you get the node lines to be straight ?

[sudden agate]

Graph Editor in the Editor Preferences

set the Delta/Spline thingies to 0.0 each

[bitter iris]

ahh sweet thanks

[runic dock]

i am not sure where to ask my question so i am asking it in here

i have this material function that i would like to somehow integrate into the Editor itself so that i can use it in my other projects as well without going through the hassle of migrating

would be really glad if someone helps me with it 😃

[wicked kettle]

Whats the requirements to post in #looking-for-talent ?

[sinful umbra]

@wicked kettle there are instructions in the pinned messages in #looking-for-talent

[tall pendant]

^

[ancient zodiac]

Hi. My name is Joe. I am a Creative Idealist currently working on the game, Logic Blade. If you wish to learn more bout the details of this game you are more than welcome to visit my Facebook page titled "This is Logic Blade". I am currently in desperate need of a business partner who has experience in development. I am willing to work over the internet if need be but not willing to work outside of the U.S.A. I would require that Logic Blade be developed and released as envisioned because this game has become a passion of mine. If anyone can offer any advice, guidance, and/or wishes to get involved I am soo ready to hear from you.

[plush yew]

hi

where can i find people to team up?

[grim ore]

#looking-for-talent or #looking-for-work or uh the forums or reddit?

[plush yew]

unable to post in looking for talent

r u the real mathew?

[grim ore]

there is a pinned post on the top of the channel for how to post

and I should be the real me unless I was replaced and no one told me.

[plush yew]

ok

tnx

[sonic pagoda]

@ancient zodiac people on the internet are lazy, you should post actual links to your page and not make people work harder by having to type in stuff

[ancient zodiac]

k

[sonic pagoda]

its also a product design lesson: make your product more accessible by having the least amount of work required for someone to get into it... so the least amount of effort in this case is a link

it does sound cool though

Logic Blade

[plush yew]

@sudden agate all im doing was reimporting my character and then retargetting the anim bp

@plush yew go on make multiplayer but if you want it to look and work at least average then you need more time than week lol

here ive spent weeks just learning blueprints and blender

and im still bad at it ha ha

[opal ocean]

save games should go where again? game mode? is a single player game...

hm, player state... ? yeah...

[whole quarry]

What?

[opal ocean]

Doing a single player game, cant remember where to store/manage save games

[whole quarry]

In a Savegame BP?

[opal ocean]

I'm now thinking gamestate, to store info in between saves/loads/ new games

[whole quarry]

To store global info for current game use Game Instance

[opal ocean]

ok. For my current state, I just need it to load a default "new game" save, so I can set that in the game instance, and use "event init" to load the game?

[whole quarry]

Game Instance (can be found in Project Settings) starts when you launch the game and stops when you quit the game. Unlike the the others, it suvives level transition etc

You can make your Savegame system anywhere but that needs to be stored in a SaveGame bp (its under All Classes when you make a new BP)

[opal ocean]

yeah, that part I remember. I just forget where to actually handle the saving/loading as described in here https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Gameplay/SaveGame/Blueprints

[whole quarry]

Can be in the player pawn or game mode

I would do it in a Game Instance or a BP library.. depending on the game type

And the needs

But it can be done in every bp afaik

[slow python]

Hey epic to fix your dumb export glitch

I am sick

Of trying

To get my game on ps4

[whole quarry]

@slow python this isnt the place for feedback to Epic 😛

[slow python]

Ok

[opal ocean]

I think I'll try it out in game mode for the time being

[opaque nexus]

@opal ocean This is How I do it, inside my gameinstance, when I have a savegame I get all the variables inside the save game, and then set my other variables to those values

[opal ocean]

@opaque nexus ahh, nice, thanks

[opaque nexus]

And whenever I change a value that I want to save, I do this.

[opal ocean]

I figured out, my "new game" default can just be the default variables set in the save game BP

[plush turret]

Does anyone here have any experience using the snap to grid BP node?

I have this grid functionality which works most of the time, but some times it will just fail to spawn blocks.

Here is an example of my attempting to spawn blocks on the side of an existing block. If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate them.

I think it has to do with the snap to grid node not finding a suitable spawn location, but I don't know how to resolve this

[storm venture]

What are the chances that it is spawning the block, but it's spawning it inside of your current block?

Assuming those impact points are directly imbetween two grid cells, is there any logic dictating which side it should spawn on?

[plush turret]

@storm venture Yeah it definitely is spawning inside of previous blocks, can you point me in the right direction of preventing this?

[storm venture]

I'm not sure what your logic is for spawning the blocks, but I have two ideas they might help.
You could try playing with the impact normal of your line trace. I believe it would give you a vector pointing away from the surface you hit, which would mean its pointing toward the grid cell you want the block in

[plush turret]

Sorry for not including this, Its also blurry for some reason.

[storm venture]

And then you could also try using the player's location. With the surface you were clicking in your image, it would only be possible to click it if you were on the left side of the block, which could potentially be used

[plush turret]

What do you mean by "impact normal?"

Oh I see impact normal

[storm venture]

Right, it should be a node from the line trace

I believe it will give you the normal unit vector on the surface you hit

Which is essentially the line pointing perpindicular off of the surface you hit

I would try getting the impact point, and then adding the impact normal * a small value

so maybe ( ImpactPoint + ( ImpactNormal * 5 ) )

[plush turret]

Thanks for the help, it seems like my problem is a lack of knowledge on vectors

[storm venture]

Theyre a little tricky, but its a quick learn

[plush turret]

That seems to have fixed it

One last question, how do you prevent the block from spawning in space currently taken up by the player?

[storm venture]

I'm not too sure how your grid system works, and that would rely heavily on that, so I'm not too sure.
You could try spawning an invisible block whereever the player stands and then use that in a check when you try to spawn other blocks

[upbeat tendon]

got to love all these requests to share assets i get now

[plush turret]

Thanks for all your help tyler, I'm gonna send you a friend request if you don't mind.

[upbeat tendon]

reminds me from the early days when i would get emails from the prince of some strange country offering me wealth blah blah

[storm venture]

I assume later down the road with your project, you will need to check block types, right? Like, check if a certain cell is a wooden surface, or check if its a liquid, etc.
You could use an enumeration on each cell to "label" them and then just label the player's cells as "blocked" or something

Also, no problem, glad I could help 😄

[inner yacht]

Does anyone know why I Cant accept the SDK License in Project Settings/Android? The button will not Accept

Its suppose to grey out but does not

I get a error on start package Did not Accept SDK License

[grim ore]

Off the top of my head do you have Android as a valid Target Platform when you installed it?

[inner yacht]

I created the project for windows then i changed it to mobile any way to fix it

[grim ore]

that shouldn't be an issue. When you installed your engine version did you have android as an option checked?

[inner yacht]

I cant remember seeing the option but i probally chose windows

[grim ore]

you can always click the drop down arrow next to your engine install in the library to change the options to make sure it's installed. Other than that maybe the button itself just doesnt work anymore, does it stop you from building?

[inner yacht]

I see that it is in installed. It Stops me from packaging the game to etc1 because did not Accept the sdk license

but im inable to do so

could it be i started with the third person template

[bitter iris]

im trying to make each one be a sperate colour but they just stay grey, the grey is supposed to be the color and the white will be lowered in opacity. Like conan exiles style any ideas on how to get the result

[high stone]

@bitter iris How goes your project?

[bitter iris]

its smoother than before mate, no crashes, just bugs which are being fixed

just making ui changes atm

[high stone]

I'm having a fun time.

[bitter iris]

whats that

[high stone]

It's chopping out words into multi layered plane.

[bitter iris]

ahhhh

[high stone]

I make everything from scratch. It gives it a nice touch. Also the Boolean tool suxor.

[bitter iris]

im just tryna make this health thing work

I want it to start off fully red, then as you get damaged itll move down but the image will be faint with the red further down

just its not workin

[high stone]

So you want the #33333 to change to #00ffcc something.

[bitter iris]

ill get you an example

[pallid compass]

Use lerp

Bar % for alpha

[bitter iris]

https://gyazo.com/2cc7fbab9c2d34e19de82b1dba64452c

this is what im tryna do

[pallid compass]

Float 1 color 1 float 2 color 2

[high stone]

Ah. That's a little tricky.

[bitter iris]

ive done it before i just cant remember how to do it

[high stone]

If you can find Diablo II or III code lying around, that should have the answer.

They had such features in the HP/MP bar.

[bitter iris]

its nothing to do with code can make it with just that panel

[high stone]

1 layer of white pushes down -y over the red based on % of health lost?

[bitter iris]

yh

[pallid compass]

U can pan a material

Thats clamped

But theres prob a better way to do it

[bitter iris]

i found my old hud, so i got it

[sonic pagoda]

Many users have requested the ability to re-enable certain PP effects such as TAA, Bloom, Motion Blur, etc which are disabled in splitscreen. Currently this is only possible by modifying source code.

https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-57785

vote, because you CAN

feel the power of democracy surging thru the veins of your overly sweaty mouse bearing hands

[storm venture]

hey so I was wondering if I can legally publish my game Skyward even though there's a tech company called Skyward and a video game called The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Is Skyward off limits at this point?

[topaz stratus]

You most likely wouldn't have an issue

[hot ledge]

hey guys can someone help with c++

https://gyazo.com/401a0c036d9c88cbb3c58ce0c3e4dba6

i want to see how i can find out if my pawn is locally controlled

[topaz stratus]

Trademark law pertains to a type of something, so things can be namef the same if they are different things.

[hot ledge]

this is the error am getting
ErrorC3867 'APawn::IsLocallyControlled': non-standard syntax; use '&' to create a pointer to member

[storm venture]

@topaz stratus But The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is a video game as well

It's a totally different type of video game though, but still a video game

[deft sparrow]

Skyward as in the ball with spikes/cubes rolling game?
Saw it in the ue4jam video recently. Looked pretty good.

[storm venture]

@deft sparrow Yup, that's the one, thanks 😄 I'm one of the developers for it, but we might need a name change, I'm hoping not

[topaz stratus]

That's why I said shouldn't be an issue instead of def. Won't be an issue

If they want to be dicks they could sue, but it'd be bad pr

[storm venture]

Right, and I also heard nintendo isn't particularly kind when it comes to legal stuff, so i dont want to g et on their bad side

What could be the worst that would happen?

[topaz stratus]

Like when candy crush sued banner Lord for having saga in the name

[storm venture]

Did they win?

[topaz stratus]

I don't remember

Worst that'd happen is make you change the name, or pay them money if you refuse

[storm venture]

That doesnt seem too bad if thats the worst

I'll gladly change the name if a company asks me to, I just wont want a dick company to take advantage of it because I'm a nobody, lol

[sonic pagoda]

candy crush did much worse

they actually stole the game idea from another developer with a similar game name and then forced him to stop developing the game

[storm venture]

thats terrible

[sonic pagoda]

why dont you do a trademark check, how important is your game name, can you go with another 1

go to the u.s. patent office website and run a trademark search

by name

and see how owns the trademark you are trying to use

if no one does then its fair game

[storm venture]

I'm in Canada, do I still use the u.s. patent office?

[sonic pagoda]

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=4802:k2u8mt.1.1

yeah

you should

the u.s. is the major market you will be aiming for most likely

so the trademark in the u.s. is most important

china and japan are as well, but i have no clue on those processess

[storm venture]

I honestly have no clue what i'm looking at here

[sonic pagoda]

you actually have to go thru all the live ones and see if there are anyt that apply for video games trademarks

or software,... i once had a trademark opposition fight for Imagine-Games, but the opposing side dropped it because i told them i would not make software besides video games, while they were making industry software...

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4802:k2u8mt.6.1

ic042 software

[storm venture]

Oh wow, interesting

[sonic pagoda]

of course, if no-one owns skyward with the software category (if the link says dead it means it either expired or they failed to renew so its no longer valid and you dont have to worry)

so if no-one owns you dont actually need to trademark it, which costs around $500 for the total process, usually like 150 or so for each step... but if you do want to be 100% on the safe side

im not an expert on this subject though, this guy is: https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JeffGurian/20180430/317311/Trademarking_A_Marketing_Perspective.php

[storm venture]

Ouch, I'm just a poor nobody, I wouldnt be paying for anything like that any time soon

[sonic pagoda]

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131951/hey_thats_my_game_intellectual_.php

another read

you dont need to , i didnt hire anyone, i trademarked my own mark

but yea, its expensive

i wanted to make sure no one would steal it because i felt it actually wasn'

wasnt unique

so anyone could just come along and boom rip off my games name

or company name

[storm venture]

Im not too concerned with anyone stealing my idea or anything, I just want to make sure I wont lose money from a lawsuit or something

It's my first release so I'm very new to it all

[fallen schooner]

I've got a test project I'd like to share online to help wayward souls trying to do the same thing I am.

What's the best format to do so?

[spiral monolith]

Anyone else getting intellisense errors about members not being being accessible in 4.20 ?

@fallen schooner are you talking about how to share the code or where to post it details about it to share with the community ?

[fallen schooner]

Both.

Examples are difficult to find, after all

[spiral monolith]

Code - > Github , Share on reddit and the official forums

[fallen schooner]

@spiral monolith Few people use Intellisense now. VAX is what you want.

[spiral monolith]

I have that as well

for some reason its seeing the members as inaccessible but builds fine .. not sure how to fix it

[fallen schooner]

Turn off Intellisense?

[opal ocean]

edit nvm

[spiral monolith]

@fallen schooner I'm also seeing this large list of errors, but once again - it compiles without issue https://imgur.com/a/ZtY1phB

this is a brand new project, to test the ability system.

[plush yew]

did you follow the IWYU include what u use reference guide for headers you access functions of?

[spiral monolith]

Yeah ,required headers are there.

also it compiles and runs with no issues. Only got this with 4.20

If i boot up one of my 4.19 projects i dont get any of these errors listed.

i should say "errors" - they are listed but have zero effect on ability to build or run the a compiled game

I've tried searching the forums and I have not been able to find anyone else with this issue.

[fallen schooner]

Hmm. Two things I can think of.

First, double check your Build.CS values.

Second, try rebuilding project files from the .Uproject icon

[plush yew]

`If it compiles correctly, even when IntelliSense is complaining, do this:

Change to DevelopmentEditor configuration, compile; Change to DevelopmentGame configuration, compile. This gets IntelliSense to recompile and rescan headers and everything works fine again.

This often happens when you alter the lines in your .h code, above the declaration of UCLASS but it can affect other types too.` can try that too

[fallen schooner]

Here's what I have:

PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string[] { "Core", "CoreUObject", "Engine", "InputCore", "HeadMountedDisplay", "AIModule", "GameplayTasks", "GameplayTags" });

[spiral monolith]

build.cs - https://gist.github.com/Tim-Machine/6759c0adbf2844d705aa9605070f61ec

[fallen schooner]

Looks right.

[spiral monolith]

ight im gonna try what @plush yew said real quick

@plush yew .. no effect. it looked right until I did a build . then back to where we are. I've also deleted the intellisense "database" ( in .vs folder ) , had VAX rebuild it's "intellisense", and deleted everything except for core files and regenerated project files

[fossil ore]

https://twitter.com/TheRealSpoonDog/status/1020784651869118464

Cory Spooner (@TheRealSpoonDog)

You can add and remove map templates in your game's DefaultEngine.ini - easy thing to do but probably not used often enough! #UE4

Twitter

This is still confusing

Can someone help me?

[plush yew]

can try to project-> rescan solution or rebuild the solution and remove the binaries / intermediate folder. other than that not sure.

[fallen schooner]

I've got a local project I'd like to put onto github. I'm using sourcetree at the moment.

How can I make it push to the github once?

[plush yew]

i love sourcetree 😃

github desktop crapped out when i did a backversion lol

hi

hey

i took a pictures of tings around me

how can i make textures

make a new material and place them into textures and connect the textures to the main channel of the material

[storm venture]

you will probably want to use a photo editing software first to touch them up

Gimp, Photoshop, Paint.net, etc

[spiral monolith]

still no luck @plush yew FeelsBadMan

[plush yew]

tnx

basic layout

@plush yew

i dont have normal map

dont include it if you dont have one

[livid musk]

Hey this is the first time using Unreal. I am using the 4.20 version but I am getting intellisense errors. Any idea why?

[plush yew]

ok

[livid musk]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/c-gameplay-programming/1504965-new-to-unreal-and-getting-issues-with-vs-2017

[spiral monolith]

@plush yew @fallen schooner soo..... I found this but the suggested solution here didn't work for me... guessing im going to have to wait for a patch

[topaz stratus]

Hi @fallen schooner

[livid musk]

So switching to 4.19 works fine. I don't get the intellisense errors

[plush yew]

surprised if a bug was introduced, they were in 4.20P for quite a while.

will likely be fixed in next release if it is a real bug 😛

[fallen schooner]

@topaz stratus Hey Vlad.

@livid lantern You dodged a bullet. The company I'm at sucks to work at.

[topaz stratus]

that sucks,

I'm finishing up my android game (mainly menudev which is super boring) should be ready to release next month, and I got a job as a computer tech at a place that refurbishes laptops

[fallen schooner]

Cool. Send me screenshots

[topaz stratus]

I started on it a year ago and worked on it for a few weeks and dropped it, picked it back up 2-3 months ago and have just about finished it.

[fallen schooner]

Unreal or Unity?

[topaz stratus]

UE4

I just noticed an issue with the texture tiling in that SS,

only a handful of more things to implement, then getting ads and the leaderboard working and it's done

[fallen schooner]

Done benchmarking?

[topaz stratus]

not yet

[fallen schooner]

I'm tinkering with Gameplay Abilities

trying to make a demo for a new job

[fallen schooner]

What's that do?

[amber shuttle]

what is this?

[fallen schooner]

@amber shuttle Look at your Uproject file in a text editor

[amber shuttle]

?

[fallen schooner]

Hmm.

have you rebuilt project files recently?

Do so if not.

[amber shuttle]

like rebuild everything?

i mean what is rebuild project files

?

i just transfered my project to a new pc

[loud knoll]

anyone have any idea how to get emissive materials to show color in the content browser they are all white now after moving to 4.20

This is what I am seeing right now for emissive materials they look fine once you open them but it is annoying to have to read each one.

@plush yew you need to take a screen shot of the BluePrint and post it in that section to get help people need to see it to help you.

😃 LOLS

you can come to stream and I can show you

let me get my mic setup

yeah I know but i am just telling you here

nobody cares

so you can get live support

watch the stream and I will do it for you

yes UNPAID

LOLS

your question about materials

and cube

tell me if you can hear me

[plush yew]

Why is being in school and being a 3D modeller/game dev so hard? 😂

[gray zenith]

how do i combine all the pieces of this m16? also, the material loses texture when i try to use it, how to fix?

not sure how to do that

?

oh

lol you're talking to him

ok anyone else?

how do i combine all the pieces of this m16? also, the material loses texture when i try to use it, how to fix?

[loud knoll]

@gray zenith I think I can help you

[gray zenith]

GREAT

[loud knoll]

tune into my stream

and I can walk you through it

[gray zenith]

also do you know anything about substance painter?

[loud knoll]

not too much

[gray zenith]

ok

[young meadow]

I can't find thirdperson character self

Please help me

Yeah

I'm sending more pics

[plush yew]

Why do u take screenshots outside PC?

[grim sinew]

check the taskbar, discord isnt running on his pc

[obsidian nimbus]

get self

[polar hawk]

I said yup

what a concept

I could use a little fuel myself

[obsidian nimbus]

its yep 😛

[rocky wadi]

Guys

I really need help

Or else I might be kicked from a studio 😭

How to you make an object follow the player? ( Third person char )

[obsidian nimbus]

uh ooh

[rocky wadi]

Can you help?

[obsidian nimbus]

you want widget to follow the 3rd person char?

[rocky wadi]

ye

A 3d widget

[obsidian nimbus]

well you need to cast to the third person char

you might wunna watch some youtube tut or something

there is plenty of following on youtube 😛

[pallid compass]

Anyone got any good games dev programming talks i can listen too while i am labouring my living room

[obsidian nimbus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq88AqJsQUQ

[pallid compass]

Nearly but not quiet

[polar hawk]

Or else I might be kicked from a studio ?

[pallid compass]

Allar did factorio ruin u yet

[polar hawk]

[pallid compass]

Also got any good dev talks about engineering i can listen too while i strip wallpaper

[polar hawk]

uh

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

or

join the Dallar discord

I just added a 24/7 All Star bot

[pallid compass]

Pm me it

[obsidian nimbus]

i dont own any dallar :/

[polar hawk]

do you want some?

[obsidian nimbus]

im not invested

hmm do i need to make a wallet?

[polar hawk]

that, or join discord

[obsidian nimbus]

ok, im in 😛

does the dallar have a themesong allready, i made a themesong for a jamgame, but its multi purpose

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6l4YAqwPcAPRzFOVGNZLUllMmM

[polar hawk]

We actually have multiple professional voice actors

as well as various musically inclined people

working on a Dallar album

But we don't have an official theme song

upload the .wav to our channel

[obsidian nimbus]

yea i seen the info mercial its guud

[pallid compass]

Woo im in

Dam need find more talks

[obsidian nimbus]

i have to be a member for 10 min

[polar hawk]

Is for your safety

And ours

[obsidian nimbus]

than its all good i guess

[rocky wadi]

I tried this, but it didnt work

Is it because you start in the trigger volume?

[obsidian nimbus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1QuKk2-e-k

mayB something like this

[weary gale]

Hey guys, here's a quick tutorial about Scripted Editor Extensions in UE4.20, hope someone will find it useful: http://www.lucianoiurino.it/scripted-extensions-in-unreal-engine-4-20/

[lament pewter]

Uhm why are those there now (4.20)? It does not look like you can do anything usefull with those options right now. Changing it to a Array puts it alongside the variables. Im rather confused now xD I can See a use case in the Future but for the common BP user isn´t that just confusing?

[manic pawn]

yeah I don't think you are meant to change any of that

[lament pewter]

Well at least for now I guess ^^

[polar hawk]

Wait

hold the fuck up

are event delegates able to be passed around as variables

(I haven't had time to look into 420 yet)

Guess I'll install 4.20 this very second

because if I see thats a thing

I'm about to lose my shit

[rocky wadi]

Guys

I am trying to make that 3D GUI again

And its working

When I press Middle mouse it shows the map, but when I press enter it goes back

( intentionally )

But I set it to go to followcamera (The third person camera) and it just turns to 1st person at the crotch

Heres the BP

( I added a get followcamera at the cast to

Its just not in that pic

Here

Can anyone help?

[plush yew]

No.

[upbeat trench]

does anyone know when we'll be allowed to edit the wiki again?

[latent moth]

All, I keep on getting "lighting needs to be rebuilt" even when I've just finished rebuilding lights

googling gives this error but from years ago

i'm on 4.19.2

any ideas?

This is what I see:

[2018.07.22-17.02.08:492][796]DumpUnbuiltLightIteractions
[2018.07.22-17.02.08:492][796]Lights with unbuilt interactions: 7
[2018.07.22-17.02.08:492][796]    Light SpotLight2_5
[2018.07.22-17.02.08:492][796]    Light SpotLight3
[2018.07.22-17.02.08:492][796]    Light SpotLight4
[2018.07.22-17.02.08:492][796]    Light SpotLight5
[2018.07.22-17.02.08:492][796]    Light SpotLight6
[2018.07.22-17.02.08:492][796]    Light SpotLight7_12
[2018.07.22-17.02.08:492][796]    Light SpotLight_15
[2018.07.22-17.02.08:492][796]
[2018.07.22-17.02.08:492][796]Primitives with unbuilt interactions: 206
[2018.07.22-17.02.08:492][796]    Primitive FoliageInstancedStaticMeshComponent /Game/Maps/Levels/UEDPIE_0_OSA_Level_1.OSA_Level_1:PersistentLevel.InstancedFoliageActor_1.FoliageInstancedStaticMeshComponent_9
[2018.07.22-17.02.08:492][796]    Primitive FoliageInstancedStaticMeshComponent /Game/Maps/Levels/UEDPIE_0_OSA_Level_1.OSA_Level_1:PersistentLevel.InstancedFoliageActor_1.FoliageInstancedStaticMeshComponent_8
[2018.07.22-17.02.08:492][796]    Primitive FoliageInstancedStaticMeshComponent /Game/Maps/Levels/UEDPIE_0_OSA_Level_1.OSA_Level_1:PersistentLevel.InstancedFoliageActor_1.FoliageInstancedStaticMeshComponent_6

[plush yew]

Can anyone help me with something related to advanced sessions?

[marble spire]

Guys

anyone know a pack for sword animations for free?

[paper kernel]

Mixamo has some mediocre sword animations

[marble spire]

yeah thats the problem

It doesnt even look 1/10

i cant make a combo system out of that

[paper kernel]

welp, that's about the best you get for free

animating is a tedious job

[marble spire]

thats sad

i would be happy to get marketplace stuff, if i at least have a job, and 1 dolar dont be 4 from my money

[south abyss]

How its called the "icon" that the editor shows on an element placed in the scene, for example directional lights have a sun. Its something only shown in editor

[marble spire]

Hello guys, did anyone know how to make my character actually move with the animation?

for example, a jump foward attack, in the end of the animation, my character blinks back

[south abyss]

that may be because your animation is not locked to root

do that and add the movement of the character by blueprint.

[oblique coyote]

for all those who struggeled with changeing wheel data before and are mainly blueprint users-- enjoy https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/blueprint-visual-scripting/1505237-change-tire-on-runtime-bp-with-a-tiny-bit-of-c

[rose quartz]

If i use the Maya tool Plugin in ue can you also make landscape and get the real time update?

Otaco#3425 So its possible?

[drifting hill]

Where does unreal save its AssetRegistry? I deleted some old unused assets and now every time i package, i get 3000 warnings about " Can't find file for asset ". I deleted the Intermediate/Saved and DerivedDataCache but this doesnt solve my problem. I also checked the "fullrebuild" option in the packaging settings.

[lament pewter]

@polar hawk yeah my thoughts exactly but you can´t do anything with it if you use it as Variable. In C++ we can happly pass Delegates around since ages ^^

[marble spire]

Guys

Someone know how to make my character moves with my animation?

[grim ore]

@south abyss late response but that is the Editor Billboard Icon. You can adjust them in the details panel under rendering for the built in one. You can add your own Billboard Component in a BP to add your own. You can disable them in the editor view by hitting the Show menu at the top, then Advanced, then Billboard Sprites or you can hit G to toggle Game Mode to disable them and other crap easily.

[marble spire]

Sorry to ask direct to u Mathew, but do u know?

[grim ore]

I am not an animator but what someone said earlier is correct, root motion is the issue

it sounds like you want the character to move with the animation and not just have the animation play out?

[marble spire]

The problem is : im using a slahs animation, that make my character spin foward

but after the animation, it blinks backwards again

[grim ore]

yep that means your character is not moving during that, the animation does not drive the movement. https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Animation/RootMotion

[marble spire]

the EnableRootMotion just make the animation idk, ugly

idk if is a bug or what

[south abyss]

@grim ore hahahaha thankyou, i didnt found the name and my best approach was a widget that only renders in editor xDD

[grim ore]

I can't be of more help other than Root Motion is the fix or cause of the problem. I don't art but I do know that's the problem.

[marble spire]

i think is a problem with mixamo animations

[grim ore]

well with mixamo animations you have the option to lock the motion to place which is probably the better idea anyways

[marble spire]

yeah, but the attack ones dont have that option

the walk and run do

but dont the attack ones

[grim ore]

well that's a bummer

yeah then your going to have to try and get some real help or read that page. You have to take into account it's using the motion on the animation and tell UE4 to allow that to happen.

[marble spire]

Yeah, the page makes sense, the problem is root motion breaks the mixamo animations, idk why

[pure mesa]

Are BP enums 1-based? 🤔

[south abyss]

@grim ore I knew i knew your name from somewhere!, your yt channel its awesome 😄

[grim ore]

@south abyss 😃

[brittle fern]

apparently you dont want to reset your audio drivers while unreal in open

[plush yew]

does anybody know how to rotate the character and line trace im trying to do a freeclimbing system like breath of the wild

[odd steeple]

I have a collision problem. Here is my mesh with collision that I exported.

This is how the collision looks in Unreal. I used the Game Exporter settings.

The Game Exporter settings.

The Unreal import settings.

[marble spire]

anyone know a video about a attack system combo?

[hot ledge]

hey guys i have a question when i spawn my character mesh is in the 0,0,0 of the world but my capsule component is in the right place which is the player start

https://gyazo.com/2b7664854535b4a9d26d2549495bc0d4

[grim ore]

are you moving the mesh at all?

[hot ledge]

no i have to click the mesh and reset the translation so it goes in the capsule

and i cant spawn using player start

i have to do poses player 0

in the blueprint everything looks fine

[sinful umbra]

things usually spawn at world origin when there's an attachment issue

[hot ledge]

ok i have it in visula studio as setup attachment but in blueprint it looks attached as expected

[vivid girder]

Where do EditorPreferences save?

Doesn't seem like they're in /Saved/

[silver compass]

Did you save them before you logged out?

@silver compass

(︶︹︺)(｡-_-｡)

[marble spire]

launch character can be used for a dash system?

[hot ledge]

i figured it out i just had to make sure my character was attached to capsule component in c++

[marble spire]

nah, icant

goddamit my head

[amber sedge]

Anyone open to help me with a slight issue?

[marble spire]

why do infiniteblade adversaries has some monster without animations:

wtf

[silver compass]

Yeah; its kinda annoying when that happens

[exotic thicket]

Which Blueprint should i use for Weapon System

Actor ?

[silver compass]

Idk

Wait what do u mean?

[exotic thicket]

Like in PUBG each weapon have an information it self

[silver compass]

Ohhh

[exotic thicket]

which Blueprint should i use with ?

[silver compass]

Im actulaly not sure

Because i have never thought about it😆

@silver compass

Check here

Heh

Spotlight 5 i think

@silver compass

[exotic thicket]

ehhh

wut

[pure mesa]

Should map build data be added to version control?

[plush yew]

@pure mesa no, add these to your .gitignore file # Ignore lightmaps *_BuiltData.uasset

[pure mesa]

Gotcha. Thanks. @plush yew

[real pasture]

Question, does the mods check the submitted projects on the forums to see if they have a virus or something?

[wary wave]

all files downloaded from the forums are at your own risk (we do try to remove dodgy links, but we don't go about downloading everything people put up there)

[real pasture]

Ok. I ask because my anti virus software popped up when I tried to download someone's project that was on the forums .ol

[cloud cobalt]

To be fair, anti-virus software is mostly shit

[amber shuttle]

what can be the cause of this?

[languid shard]

@amber shuttle duplicate files ?

I like that user profile pic btw

[amber shuttle]

hmm , i just recently transfered the project to a new pc

[languid shard]

might want to ask in #packaging too

[amber shuttle]

i did yesterday

[languid shard]

aight

hey by any chance

do you have any skeletal meshes in your project @amber shuttle ?

With a name like this I can bet it has some >_> models in here

[amber shuttle]

i dont think its about skeletal meshes

must be something else

[languid shard]

oh

wait

what files do you have in the folder its pointing to ?

[amber shuttle]

levels

i guess

can i post whole line?

[languid shard]

sure

hmm

have you tried to package it without the project launcher ?

[amber shuttle]

yea

same

[languid shard]

argh

can you send us a screenshot/codequote of the uproject file ?

maybe something got garbled in here

last resort would be to migrate the assets to a new project

[amber shuttle]

yea i better try that first

[fallen tundra]

hey guys

I'm trying to make dynamic facial animation using morp targets

sorta like lip syncing

I want the character to be able to move their mouth to dynamic/real-time audio, but I'm not sure to go about it

[whole quarry]

good luck

[plush yew]

Ye

[cedar snow]

is BeginPlay the earliest point where a UWorld is available?

[cloud cobalt]

Probably not, since BeginPlay is called for each actor when it's spawned, and spawning requires a world

[cedar snow]

i'am having a bit of timing issues and am now trying to access the GameInstance during my PlayerControllers CTOR

[whole quarry]

are u using CPP?

[cedar snow]

running some initialization during BeginPlay of the PlayerController didn't work for me, since a random actor depending on it ran BeginPlay before that

@whole quarry yes

asking in this chat, as the order should be the same between CPP/BP

[whole quarry]

Well, like Stranger said, BeginPlay fires when the actor is spawned

[frank escarp]

begin play is called for all when the map is loaded

but remember that on seamless travel it is NOTcalled

wich is a massive pain in the ass

[cedar snow]

    1. APlayerController
        - CTOR
    2. ATestActor
        - CTOR
    3. ATestActor
        - BeginPlay
    4. APlayerController
        - BeginPlay
             - Important Init that needs GameInstance

3 and 4 would need to run in reverse order
seems like I can use PostInitializeComponents for running "important init" before the TestActor's BeginPlay

[frank escarp]

why dont you set a timer, or call from the game instance to the controller?

there is a "post load map" delegate you can use in your gameinstance

[cedar snow]

the timer would be my least favourite option; even though PostInitializeComponents works for now, i will definitely check out PostLoadMap later on

[whole quarry]

what is a CTOR ?

[cloud cobalt]

Constructor

[wary wave]

instance initializing constructor

[spark cedar]

Hey there, just wondering something. I'll be showing my game really soon during an event and I might print some flyers to promote my project. Can I put the UE4 logo on it? I'm pretty sure I won't sell my game, might end up being a freebie. Thanks!

[cloud cobalt]

You can, if you follow the guidelines provided by Epic

[spark cedar]

Oh, will check this out. Thanks!

[crude jasper]

Guys

How do i change

the pawn sensing location

[whole quarry]

detail panel

[crude jasper]

where's that ?

oh

but where is the

well what do i change there

to set the location

[wary wave]

anyone know if this is still the case:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/rendering/106351-dfao-with-characters?p=918623#post918623

or whether it has been fixed?

[whole quarry]

why are the docs about pawn sensing so.... thin? 😬

[crude jasper]

probably cause it hasnt been fixed or anyone done anything about it ._.

been searching

and what i found is

to create a child actor with sensing and attach it to the head of my actor

or to change it in c++

and last

to use AI sensing or something

but i dont know how to use it

rip

i think its kinda stupid that it isnt a scene component but what ever

[whole quarry]

There was something Eye Height that you could change

[crude jasper]

where ?

[whole quarry]

details panel

[sonic pagoda]

@cedar snow a fail safe i use for things dependant on having actor references on begin play, like player character player controller player pawn etc... is to cast and then if the cast fails run a delay and run it right back into the cast

that way it will eventually run, and then have the rest of the initialization only run with the cast is successful

[crude jasper]

there isnt

[sonic pagoda]

when* the cast is successful

[sonic pagoda]

i think eye height is in the capsule

capsule component

its in the top most class settings

base eye height and crouched eye height

top most class settings may be the wrong word for it lol... its the name that is over the capsule component, the actual blueprint name

[crude jasper]

so if i change that the pawn sensing does too ?

woah thx !

it worked .D

hey i have another problem

i've asked around before

but i need someone so i can scree nshare

screen*

can anyone help ?

[atomic rose]

ok guys i need some help

me and a friend have decided to challenge eachother in a game making contest i have 7 days to come up with an idea for a game

i have not actually made a game before so i needs to be simble but fun and addictive and i have 90 days to make it

any ideas? lol

[wheat compass]

fps quest fetching can be fun

[atomic rose]

a first person shooter with quests ? so like destiny?

maybe a bit to big of a game for 90 days

[wary wave]

I would look at old school arcade games

stuff like Missile Command, Centipede etc

look at the kind of mechanics they have, then work from there

[atomic rose]

thats the sort of thig i was thinking of

[wary wave]

you can prototype a few different things over 1-2 weeks, then pick something that worked, polish it to heck, and add content 😃

[atomic rose]

like a wave based game

[vernal urchin]

I'd do something like cheater's Pong.

[wary wave]

yeah, that's an option

[vernal urchin]

Pong with powerups that you can use to mess with your opponent.

[wary wave]

the real trick is to keep it really small and simple, so you have time to focus on the small details

and it also gives you time to solve problems if and when they happen

[atomic rose]

yeah time vs reality lol

multiplayer team pong lol

[wary wave]

I'd go singleplayer, since multiplayer just adds complications

Tempest might be a good style of game to try and modernise, maybe?

[atomic rose]

googling

[wary wave]

it's pretty old, used vector graphics

but because it was vector based it looked amazing in 1980-ish when it came out

these days you can of course do it all in 3d, with fancy shading etc

[atomic rose]

looks pretty cool

[abstract marsh]

Hi all

Does anyone know how to warp the terrain downwards or upwards in unreal?

like this

[wary wave]

@atomic rose - heh, well what do you know?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_4000

@abstract marsh - it's a basic terrain tool, just look at the documentation or find a youtube tutorial

what

wrong tag

[unreal sonnet]

haha man I was so confused

[wary wave]

haha

[abstract marsh]

thanks - terrain tool, I'll find that.

[unreal sonnet]

I never post here

@abstract marsh That water looks really good dude! You're doing great! Better than any material shader I've ever made

[atomic rose]

haha already being made

[abstract marsh]

Huh? That's fro a youtube video.

[wary wave]

been made, apparently it came out 6 days ago

[unreal sonnet]

I'd love to see the tutorial

[abstract marsh]

I didn't make it: check here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzJZt4CIm3I

[wary wave]

and yeah, that water is on the marketplace

[unreal sonnet]

That is going straight to my "watch alter" list

[abstract marsh]

later*

[wary wave]

I picked it up to disassemble it, it's a reasonable implementation

[abstract marsh]

Hey jfaw

you're the other 'love' around here

I'm trying to build a stage concept that is similar to the original mario bros

It rewards players for making noob mistakes, and helps/tries to teach them not to make mistakes step by step

If you fail and get swept up by the river, there will be nice items where it deposits you

[wary wave]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFdejno9NJ4

[abstract marsh]

if you fail jumping the next gap there will be a small cave with nice things for you too

[wary wave]

heh

[atomic rose]

lol scratch that then

[abstract marsh]

oh one of those flashy bright shooting games

[wary wave]

well, you can still do a similar game, hehe

Tempest 4000 seems to just be the same old thing again

[abstract marsh]

geometry wars

[thorn pecan]

Hello everyone, i'm new to unreal engine. How do I access the regular program? Not the modding stuff.

[mint raptor]

@thorn pecan what do you mean regular program ?

Did you download Unreal engine 4?

[thorn pecan]

Like just use Unreal, no modding stuff

[mint raptor]

Download the engine

Get the Epic Launcher

[thorn pecan]

I got the Epic launcher

[mint raptor]

Go to library and add an engine

4.20

Does that make sense?

Under the Unreal Engine Tab

[thorn pecan]

oh I see, thank you

[mint raptor]

np

Good Luck!

And have fun

[grim ore]

@thorn pecan https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/video-tutorials and https://vimeo.com/album/5016071 might help

[cedar snow]

thanks @sonic pagoda but timers are really only the last resort for me

[thorn pecan]

Ok thanks @grim ore

[storm venture]

Hey, anyone here have a nice method for making lightmaps?

I usually just use flatten map in 3ds but it sometimes gives very bad results

[livid violet]

You've got to unwrap the map. Just flattening will make the UVs overlap giving bad results

Look up tutorials on UV mapping in max :)

And when laying them out make sure you don't overlap them.

Alternatively you can let Unreal generate the UVs but they're not very optimized

[amber sedge]

Hey, I have this issue with Unreal Engine 4, where AttachToComponent and DetachFromComponent actually kills the actor? I am trying to get a weapon swapping system where your main item is attached to your Hand (Made a socket for that) and your secondary item is attached to your back. When I switch between those it doesn't work because it kills the actor. Any help? Version 4.19.2

[amber sedge]

helpful community ntw

btw

[vivid girder]

If any of you are planning on importing animations in 4.20 you should vote here https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-62067

[plush yew]

Is there a list of suggested world composition level sizes?

@mint umbra very cool

[snow crown]

👍🏽

[mint umbra]

@ImBetterNow#2305 Yeah I'm happy with the overall result, just the damn trees that are bothering me.

[safe solstice]

How did everyone else learn blueprints?

[grim sinew]

By opening Unreal and forcing ourselves to through trial and error, or by watching tutorials online.

[subtle ibex]

Hi all. Is there a specific channel to talk about version 4.20 problems, or more specific to hear about the state of the fixes for that version? I am following the forum thread about this and I am very conderned about future upgrades

[wet bough]

Zero - be glad there are tutorials now.

[grim ore]

@subtle ibex nothing on here really. Since this is an unofficial server nothing really official goes on here.

[cloud cobalt]

I learned Kismet with UT3 and there were no tutorials [old man yells at clouds]

[safe solstice]

Thanks @grim sinew

[subtle ibex]

yep I was more thinking alone the line of second hand gossip etc. I understand that Epic just doesn't reapond publicly to all the problems, it's probably their policy, but I feel VERY concerned about the future. This version seems to be a failure right and left. I'm glad I did not update before I read all these bugs

[safe solstice]

https://gyazo.com/cae3676b3ccb43492843a1237d75c197 mhm and its not worth the hour long download

[glad quail]

Does anyone have any idea why ADSOn is only getting called the first time? after the first call only ads off gets called when I press the button :/

it occasionally decides to work and call ADSOn but it's tempramental at best

@safe solstice I ran into this with the latest version too 😦 https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/809801/ue420-is-missing-the-intellisense-includepath-for.html

[subtle ibex]

My god I have never seen a new version that was so buggy

[glad quail]

That unrealbuildtool bug is DIRE

how epic missed it I have no clue

Decided to give UE$ another chance after I switched to unity a couple years ago and I'm not getting a good welcome, it's so jank

[subtle ibex]

I have not updated to 4.19 because of the stuttering I read about, but this here is way worse

[manic pawn]

they probably missed it because noone at epic uses intellisense

it works completely fine with visual assist

[subtle ibex]

I mean all I really need in 4.19 is the asset encryption. If it weren't for that i would stick with 4.18

[manic pawn]

the stuttering is supposedly fixed in 4.20

[subtle ibex]

yea lol but nothing else works, no plugins no nothing

[manic pawn]

yeah

I'm measuring my niagara experiments in how many crashes it took to make them

[subtle ibex]

Well it's still about a year until our game is suppoed to be ready for testing or release even, so I'm not panicking just yet, all I'm saying is, this is ridiculous

[vivid girder]

Somebody owes me some shaders

[tame bluff]

LOL

I got "Timed out" from a UE4 facebook group because I agreed that posting a video of a VR Expansion Demo map with some premade assets from the marketplace wasn't exactly an impressive feat.

The UE4 facebook groups are terrible

Why do they all have to be terrible?

[vivid girder]

It's facebook

If I wanted to see baby pictures from all my acquaintances growing up, i never would have left my hometown

[tame bluff]

https://i.imgur.com/KYt9Ots.png

[manic pawn]

why are you even in an unreal facebook group

[tame bluff]

and that's the only other comment that was posted by me

Blue is me, I should add.

Not sure why I'm in this group

I like seeing some random stuff posted

some people are genuinely posting cool stuff

90% of it is someone posts a mediocre asset flip or simple shader and 400 people ask for a tutorial

[manic pawn]

sad

[tame bluff]

It's honestly pretty sad.

Are there any other good UE4 communities besides this one?

[manic pawn]

not aware of any

am very glad to have found this one though

so many experienced and helpful people here

[tame bluff]

I think it's moreso that this is the main UE4 hub because whenever i search online

you see this link

[manic pawn]

this seems to be where everyone went when they broke the forum

[tame bluff]

haha yeah

I assume there's probably a decent UE4 Slack

since this is UE4 slackers

idk

[manic pawn]

this is it

it went past the user limit on slack and had to move here

[tame bluff]

yeah but wouldn't the slack still exist

ah i see

[hot ledge]

I cant save any of my blueprints
even when i create a new one and try to save it

https://gyazo.com/f6e9986cf66ac4803e02468b1f97c1cf

[grim sinew]

Make sure you don't have the project open twice

[steady hinge]

So If I am making a widget blueprint, and I have a button that changes colors when hovered over and pressed.

Then I also have a text box that is a child of said button.

How would I go about making the child inherit the color of the parent button when the player hovers over or presses the button?

I know I need to set a binding on the text color, but where do I pull that variable from?

[subtle ibex]

you can drag the widget from the variable list to your BP graph and then pull a get color node

[grim ore]

Rich Text Block... Worst.. Widget... Ever!

[sonic pagoda]

mathew how expensive is the rich text block on performance

😁

[grim ore]

Good question. I don't think too bad as it doesnt seem to remake the text unless it has to (which caused half the problems figuring it out). You are using multiple fonts in some cases tho

[steady hinge]

The button is outputting a 'Linear Color Struct' but the text box binding wants a 'Slate Color Struct'...

Actually, I just found a 'Make Slate Color' node.

[steady hinge]

I decided to just set a color variable to call for all of them and forget about the inheriting part.

[sonic pagoda]

@grim ore that skeletal mesh dissolve is the ultimate way to desintegrate a downed enemy

in niagara, that thing is awesome, i havent really had time to dive into it but it seems so potent

i want to make a nebula with it, some1 will probably make one be4 me though

[grim ore]

yep there is someone who was using Niagara for posting ideas on reddit for the last month, there is some neato stuff you can do

[grim ore]

Soooo can anyone else confirm for me that this new feature in the 4.20 release notes "New: Media Track for Sequencer" was actually in 4.19?

[steady hinge]

Can I output an rgb value from my widget blueprint and reference that in a material instance?

[grim ore]

you could output that value into a material parameter collection and reference those values in the material

[high stone]

Glad I mark all my art by date. Couldn't find my office image otherwise.

[austere hinge]

Is there anything like vuforia for unreal?

[tame bluff]

what would cause me to not be able to click on meshes in the editor?

very annoying bug

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/gqpnqsnw2eo7tez/2018-07-24_02-12-31.mp4

probably because they're transparent?

Yup, seems to have fixed it.

[maiden swift]

I ran into a bizarre bug with the Epic launcher tonight. Normally when you clone a project, modifying the project name updates the path of the clone in real-time.

Now, instead of simply updating the path to match the name, it appends the current state of the name to the path.

Resulting in some hilariously long paths.

[subtle ibex]

Nothing surprises me with UE anymore

[maiden swift]

https://i.imgur.com/RdPJiGE.gifv

Shit. It got cut in the upload for some reason. Oh well, you can still see the effect.

[subtle ibex]

ye

man I wish they would fix some bugs instead of add new features

[maiden swift]

They fix a lot of bugs in every release.

It just depends on whether your priorities line up with Epic's. 😉

[subtle ibex]

yea and introduce more 😃

[maiden swift]

So goes the process of developing incredibly complex software.

[subtle ibex]

I have been holding back on updating since 4.18 and now this new version is even worse than 4.19

[maiden swift]

I'm in the process of updating to 4.20 (if there are no gamebreakers).

Really promising release.

Hopefully it likes our project.

[subtle ibex]

better make a copy lol

[maiden swift]

Always.

[subtle ibex]

did you read the post in the forum about the release, it seems there are bugs over bugs. They cant even compile most plugins it seems

[maiden swift]

I always tell people they should never, ever update projects in place. Especially for preview releases.

I facepalm every time someone breaks their project doing that.

I didn't. I don't keep up on the forums much.

[subtle ibex]

yea better go there and read it

saves you some disappointmnt later

I was anxiously waiting for 4.20 because I need the pak encrytpion, but 4.19 has this stutter sbug

and now 4.20 is basically unusable for many people

I'm going to watch a movie and then probably go to bed

have a good night and good luck with your update

[maiden swift]

OK, thanks for the heads up. Checking out the forum thread.

Thanks. 👍

G'night! 👋

[subtle ibex]

💤

[maiden swift]

Copied to 4.20 and launching now. Let's see if anything broke. 😄

[tight sun]

guys my lighting build just sitting at 0%.. do you think its still doing stuff?

ok it finally started building. its so weird, it used to build so fast. The only thing I can think is I upped the resolution of the textures for two of my meshes..

[maiden swift]

A hitch like that could be due to a variety of things.

What lighting quality are you building with?

[tight sun]

I actually onlyjust learned that was even a thing when I was trying to find why it was stuck at zero. I haven't even found where to set that yet

[maiden swift]

Oh, then it's probably still set to Preview.

But just in case: click the little down arrow next to the Build button, then hover on Lighting Quality and tell me what's selected.

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

[tight sun]

its set to high actually

[maiden swift]

That would definitely increase build times.

Although if you haven't changed it recently, that may not be the cause. Maybe you're already used to High build times.

[tight sun]

it used to build in about a minute at most, not its chugging away been about 15 minutes and its only done 10%

once the lighting is build, in theory could you move a mesh through the environment using the sequencer, and it would all be dynamic light right?

[maiden swift]

Only if the mesh is set to Movable.

[tight sun]

O

I'm just moving the mesh in sequencer

[maiden swift]

If that's working then it's probably already set to Movable.

And if the light interacting with the mesh is dynamic, of course.

[tight sun]

it seems to be but yeah its just weird how the build times jumped, it has to be the higher res textures I made in substance painter

[maiden swift]

What resolution did you increase them to?

[tight sun]

i didnt build this map, i bought it

[maiden swift]

Ah, OK.

[tight sun]

for the drone, I made it from 1024 to 4k

and its maybe 6 diff meshes

Anyway I'm just glad its building thanks for ur help I'll mess with the lighting quality too

[maiden swift]

Of course. Sorry I couldn't shed more light on the situation.

[tight sun]

Im using a slower CPU too at home compared to at work so that probably slows it somewhat but still not such a huge difference. Anyway I'm sure its something I did lol

[maiden swift]

If I remember correctly, texture resolution does affect lighting builds, so increasing from 1024 to 4K would have a pretty significant effect. That's a 4x increase in resolution.

[tight sun]

yeah it was probably that. its probably overkill for what I'm doing, I might try change it back to 2k and see if it improves

[maiden swift]

4.20 update is looking good so far. Automation tests passed with zero fails, maps loading with no warnings/errors, lighting builds with no errors.

Pretty stoked. 😄

With that, I'm off. Goodnight folks!

😴

[grim sinew]

Lightmass can only multithread multiple objects. Having something over 512x512 resolution on a lightmap is going to make lightmass start to cry.

So if you have a 4k lightmap, you're throwing a load at it that's 32x greater than it ever expected for a single object, and it's only effectively being processed on one core.

[south ridge]

Heh. I noticed that yeah

We have to have 2k lightmaps on a small set of objects to keep the resolution

[plush yew]

uh oh

someone seems to be raiding answerhub and posting random links to pirated movies there

obviously fake but still

[coarse wigeon]

Dont click on them

Report them

[plush yew]

has this happened before 😅

[coarse wigeon]

yeah

[plush yew]

he's made like 10 questions already

[coarse wigeon]

Report it and move on

Do not reply or anything

[plush yew]

yea

[raven kayak]

I wanna make a ww2 fortnitey type game. but then i remembered there was kinda something like that. battlefield heroes :S. think I can still make something like that?

in terms of would ppl wanna play it , or will get backlash. obv try and make it , its own thing

[grim sinew]

Anyone who claims they can give you a definitive answer on whether or not people would play a particular game idea is lying. Any game could do well if they're made well.

And if they find a market

"fortnitey" implies 100 player multiplayer, which for an indie game is a death sentence unless you get a huge publisher behind you. That's just not a very likely thing to have happen without a huge community.

Indie games should never be reliant on multiplayer to function, since for all you know you might get 50 sales and that's it.

[wary wave]

I could imagine people playing a Fortnite styled WW2 game for sure, but your biggest problem as always is going to be execution and getting people to actually play it

to be able to support a battle royale player count, you need thousands of concurrent players, which usually translates to needing hundreds of thousands of sales

which isn't very realistic for most indie games

[raven kayak]

mmm , how would i be able to accomplish this on a smaller scale. I like the art style. but it doesn't have to be battle royale i guess. though multiplayer would be nice. I'm thinking something that would translate well on a switch.

how far can one make a game in blueprints, before you switch gameplay elements over to work for multiplayer? If in start im just working on making the character move and shoot and do things

[wary wave]

if it must be multiplayer, think small

like a 4 player FFA, or at most, 3v3 team play

if it can be played locally with friends, that's also beneficial

[raven kayak]

OKay then it would have to be my other game idea, which is more arena style

Does the amount of players affect how the game is coded on the foundation?

[languid shard]

for the switch, in terms of MP think of something like splatoon

small teams vs

[grim sinew]

Sometimes does. If you have super complex expensive replicating objects, that's gonna bog down 100 players. For 3-8 players though... you're probably fine no matter what really.

[raven kayak]

okay awesome, but I rate a ww2 themed game wouldnt work well for such small numbers

[languid shard]

why not ?

could be about coverops

spy agencies

[raven kayak]

id more like a vs type game than a story driven co-op game

minimal story, just work on gameplay and fun

but yea, starting small sounds great really. if its actually worth smething. i can think big in v2. with investment and staff

thanks for the advise

[cloud cobalt]

@raven kayak Competitive multiplayer is overall not a good idea as an indie

Reasons include : can't have many online players, can't fight piracy, can't afford plenty of hosting, etc

[rose quartz]

Hello im trying to create my own Pc for Game design and can somebody help me with the right specs for it because my pc is getting old and its to slow for some stuff

[plush yew]

hey is someone here a bit familiar with vxgi ue4?

i have a noob question

[subtle ibex]

@rose quartz the best you can afford with lots of Ram, 32MB minimum

[rose quartz]

oke well i did see a xeon e5 with startubg 8gb but it can be max to 512 gb

[hot drum]

I get this strange error when I try to save my level

[rose quartz]

and with a Quattro card in it