ue4-general

[cursive dirge]

nah

[potent pine]

Why do you want to use UDK?

[cursive dirge]

Epic pulled the plug already

you can't download UDK anywhere officially

[plush yew]

the making stuff is all gutenwalhs for me

[cursive dirge]

this happened like 1-2 years ago already

[plush yew]

First of all, UDK is mature UE3 and it runs better than UE4.

i am only player and ut admin and or mod/mut tester

Whoever wants to just make a game for Windows could well use UDK

nothing more nothing less

[cursive dirge]

well, see, UE4 can be made run fast too

but yeah, if you need DX9 support 😄

[plush yew]

My belief is once UE4 runs on Vulkan it will neutralize the need for UDK.

all alien talk to me this ued stuff

[cursive dirge]

ok, this is a joke

I get it

I vote for DX13 to make UE4 faster than UE2.5

[plush yew]

if jeff doesnt talk i guess it is lol

[cursive dirge]

the real question is however, what is this conversation doing at #ue4-general

[plush yew]

but however i can give hardware support if problems

[cursive dirge]

it should be in #lounge

[plush yew]

ive built systems also for hobby that could come in handy sometimes but i cant garantee to solve each problem ofcours

though i just buy a hp 8770 laptop 17 inch to watch movies and nice gcard and but i was stuck to a low budget so..

put ssd in it and runs very fast

Aren't Rocket League, Dirty Bomb & Paladins using UDK?

an SSD drive is really a cheap great upgrade if u use UT

[cursive dirge]

Rocket League would use UE4 if the devs started doing it today

you can't use that as argument

at one point, half of the AAA games used UE3

many still do because they've invested so much for it

all the engine modifications and custom pipelines

[plush yew]

I remember very well when UE4 came out, many dev were very unhappy with the performance of the engine.
And I don't think that changed much.

[cursive dirge]

and probably licensing stuff related to that

modern stuff requires modern hw

nothing new with that

same happens on every engine

[plush yew]

Plextor PX-128M5Pro SSD it comes with builtin drivelevel encryption also

[icy bone]

lol this channel

[plush yew]

Of all the games that came out in recent years, UE4 games are the only ones that run like crap.
Go figure.

[cursive dirge]

and you can make UE4 fast too

but yeah

[broken shadow]

I recall from discussions over at the ARK modding community that UDK's pathfinding solution could supposedly handle a few thousand AI characters at once

Whereas UE4 apparently chokes at about 100 pathfinding characters in play

[cursive dirge]

well, UE4 doesn't prevent you from doing stupid shit

look at ARK landscape material

even in the early days, mod kit showed it had over 40 layers it blended always

[plush yew]

i can really recommend if u are an UT modder or coder whatever SSD is really great or alternative SSHD

[cursive dirge]

I didn't even know you could do that many 😄

[plush yew]

I have yet to see a UE4 games that runs well on my current hardware. When I run any other game at from Low to Max settings without issues.

[cursive dirge]

and now it's probably way worse

back in the old days, engines limited these layer amounts to 4 or 8

[plush yew]

I keep reading about performance issues or lag input issues when it comes to all UE4 games.

[icy bone]

UE4 has the power of C++. So it gives more power to good developer to make custom code. If u wanna make awesome performant games with Blueprints cus C++ is yoo hard, then u gotta use Unity

[cursive dirge]

but now that devs can do stupid things, it's not engines fault automatically

[plush yew]

And this is strange considering how mature UE4 is now

UE4 has been out there for years now

[icy bone]

u can make super fast algorithms in UE4 lagfree if u want, just get ur hands dirty

[cursive dirge]

@icy bone that's actually funny as recent Unity tools let you write more efficient code in C# than what UE4 gives you on c++ 😄

[plush yew]

LOL

ECS?

[smoky stream]

speed usually doesnt come with age when it comes to code like ue4

usually the oppositie

[cursive dirge]

job system and burst

[smoky stream]

micro optimisation just goes out the window

[icy bone]

@cursive dirge I what kind of C++? Using UE4 macro and reflection system?

[cursive dirge]

just generic gameplay code you do in your ue4 projects

[icy bone]

@cursive dirge U can write in pure C++ for performant stuff and wrap it in Ue4 code to expose in editor

[cursive dirge]

of course

you can do that on every engine really

[plush yew]

I would love to use Unity instead of UE4, because i just love C# a lot. But hell, last time I used Unity to make a game, it wasn't even possible to bake a ligthmap without crashes.

[cursive dirge]

but if you talk about engine specific things, usually there's a workflow that people do

[smoky stream]

UE4 is great at crashing

[plush yew]

btw isnt it not difficult to run UT stuff like UED on a MAC OS? beside the good graficscard that is does that not give compability problems?

[icy bone]

@cursive dirge UE4s workflow is in fact to allow u to do just that

[smoky stream]

talking from experience anyway

probably just my warped build of it

[plush yew]

yeah someoen should fix that first

[cursive dirge]

@icy bone you can write custom c++ code for Unity, UDK, CE, LY, Godot.. I don't get the point

[icy bone]

@cursive dirge thats why they use C++, it gives developers easy access to greater power

[cursive dirge]

"greater power"

[plush yew]

but ECS, job system and burst compiler!

[icy bone]

@cursive dirge U cant write it as easy and integrated as in UE4, thats the point

[plush yew]

though should try run it on not more than 2 or 4 cores and see what happens with UED

[smoky stream]

what does the burst compiler even do?

[cursive dirge]

it turns c# into SIMD optimized machine code

[smoky stream]

is it just a fancy name or what?

oh ok

so a bit more than a fancy name

[sinful umbra]

lets just rewrite ue4 in rust

[plush yew]

🍿

but i agree on that UED should be made more stable

[cursive dirge]

I can guarantee you that you'll never write as efficient code in UE4 in same time you can write that jobified c# code in Unity 😄

[smoky stream]

ALWAYS RUST

ALWAYS RUST

[plush yew]

UE4 crahses just by checking/unchecking visual settings in the viewport

[cursive dirge]

that being said, your gameplay code perf usually have very little effect on the gameplay framerate

unless you do stupid things

again, many blame engine for everything

[plush yew]

Does the new job system and burst compiler finally makes Unity more valuable for making bigger games?

Compared to UE4

[cursive dirge]

but usually the issues are from devs that do things they shouldn't

[plush yew]

In all UE4 games, my hardware starts to struggle when it has to handle offline bots or a fully meshed map or multiplayer, when all of this runs perfectly on UDK.
or any other game/game engine

[cursive dirge]

well, it does allow more complex simulations, especially on mobile... for regular game, the gameplay scripting perf doesn't really matter that much

[plush yew]

and how are the ladies doing at UED? i am wondering now

[cursive dirge]

well, UE4's character controller is super heavy

[smoky stream]

"doctor it hurts when i move my knee like this"
"so dont move your knee like that"

[cursive dirge]

nobody forces you to use it

even epic doesn't use it

[plush yew]

works probarly way better with ladies UED

[cursive dirge]

that should tell enough

[plush yew]

Is it possible that the ''physX'' of UE4 is actually causing issues?

[icy bone]

my game simulates 1mill planets with buildings and people in UE4 no problem, all real time

[cursive dirge]

zero chances

physx is fastest physx libs out there

[plush yew]

yes also Hermit

[cursive dirge]

especially 3.4

[plush yew]

@cursive dirge I heard different from UT devs

[cursive dirge]

a lot of hearsay here

[plush yew]

Apparently, the new PhysX is much heavier and it makes it heavier to calculate projectiles, player movemntrs, etc. Making it heavier also for the servers

online

[cursive dirge]

lol

[icy bone]

all devs love Bullet just cus its free

[cursive dirge]

well, if you say so

[plush yew]

cant be used something else?

[cursive dirge]

yeah, go to Bullet :d

I'm actually using Bullet myself

but I wish it was even remotely as fast as PhysX

[plush yew]

I don't know, I just heard it from the UT devs

[cursive dirge]

(it's nowhere near)

I already said the real slow part

it's the char controller in UE4

it's a bloated mess

it's fine if you have few chars in game

but if you have ton, you don't want to use it

[broken shadow]

Isn't the effective cap about 100 characters in play?

[cursive dirge]

you honestly think fortnite is using stock char controller? 😄

pubg might 😄

but we all know how badly pubg runs

[plush yew]

LawBreakers only had 10 characters (5 vs 5) and online the frame rate would drop without any reasons.

UT4, same

And I was getting that on Fortnite too

[cursive dirge]

you must run some really old hw

[plush yew]

You say that, but then why is it that only UE4 games do this?

[cursive dirge]

try Hunt Showdown

[plush yew]

Sounds like an engine problem

[cursive dirge]

or any new Cryengine game

[plush yew]

Because this occurs even on a BSP map with nothing at all

[cursive dirge]

or Star Citizen (lumberyard)

sounds like someone is either trolling or living in past

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

just look at the hw specs most gamers have

especially when you look at GPUs, most steam users have decent GPUs nowadays

you don't start a new project today that targets computers that were made over 10 years ago

[grim sinew]

"smart people don't start a new project today that targets computers that were made over 10 years ago" There, fixed that for you

[cursive dirge]

I was hoping nobody would

[plush yew]

Games generally target the currently available consoles.

[cursive dirge]

because 10 years ago we ran Windows Vista

[grim sinew]

And the currently available consoles did not come out 10 years ago.

[sinful umbra]

Vista

[plush yew]

The hardware of the latest console is 3 years older than the release of those actual consoles

[grim sinew]

The current consoles are not as strong as 10 year old PCs

[cursive dirge]

so

Xbox X was latest console release

it got GCN 4.0 architecture for GPU

[grim sinew]

Xbox One X is actually really good

[plush yew]

Games still have to run on Xbox One - 1

[grim sinew]

Right. And that's aprox a 2014 PC

Not 2008

[cursive dirge]

and Xbox X launched nov 2017, GCN 4 aug 2016

of course not the same chip

but same architexture

I can't stretch 1 year and few months into 3 years

[sinful umbra]

i think you mean GCN btw

[cursive dirge]

oh I do 😄

[plush yew]

u need the RTX nvidia now i think

[cursive dirge]

"need"

[plush yew]

O_o

[cursive dirge]

you can optimize UE4 to run on old Kepler just fine

[plush yew]

What we need is devs that can make good games that aren't going to run just at 30fps on a 144hz monitor just because ''new tech is cool''

[cursive dirge]

most just don't want to

but it's not an engine limitation

[grim sinew]

I'll let you in on a secret - Very few devs -actually- care or even think about past 60 fps

[cursive dirge]

(unless it's VR)

[grim sinew]

Because diminishing returns is a thing, and you need to sacrifice so much

Yeah, unless it's VR

[cursive dirge]

and we know how those VR games look usually 😄

you do sacrifice a lot

Robo Recall looked awesome mainly because they had amazing artists and devs that pulled all that fakery off

[grim sinew]

And it helps when you can literally build the game engine's rendering around your game

[potent pine]

And forward graphics

[cursive dirge]

but they also put a lot of effort there

if they did what some indie devs do with UE4 and just slap things there and then blame the engine being slow

yeah, that wouldn't have worked

[plush yew]

@grim sinew
"I'll let you in on a secret - Very few devs -actually- care or even think about past 60 fps"
lol it's not a secret. Do you think AAA artists care about their game running at 60-250 fps? All they care about might be their amazing uber AAA portfolio

[grim sinew]

Then why even mention it if you know it doesn't matter

[plush yew]

I worked on a competitive FPS multiplayer a few years ago and our 3D programmer wanted to cut our frame rate in half just to have ''next gen dynamic lighting''

rofl

[broken shadow]

Looked up PS4 and Xbone's specs a few minutes ago.

Ouch, that is definitely some old tech they're running.

[potent pine]

Hell, most AAA games care more about console than PC

[cursive dirge]

the gamer in me doesn't really care past 60fps either

[potent pine]

PC

[cursive dirge]

I do care more about gsync/freesync tho

[plush yew]

Well the gamer in me can tell you that if I turn my camera at 60fps I can't see shit and everything looks alright at 120fps +

And I move my camero 90% of the time

guess what

I want 120+fps

[cursive dirge]

you have motion blur on? 😄

[plush yew]

No

I just play fast pace FPS games

[broken shadow]

Next gen dynamic lighting? 😛

I'm curious

[plush yew]

UDK lighting in 2011 Im guessing

[cursive dirge]

well, you can get 120fps on UE4 just fine

[plush yew]

on ps3

[cursive dirge]

but it's always a compromize

[grim sinew]

Almost like 120 fps in UE4 is the default option or something.

[potent pine]

Only in the editor

[cursive dirge]

for me, modern shooters barely run at 60fps on my rig :p

at quality settings I care about anyway

[grim sinew]

@potent pine Yes thank you captain obvious

[plush yew]

UE4 games run between 50-110 fps on a fully meshed map
If it's the same game, but with only a BSP map or low poly mesh map it can run at 200-250fps + steady. meaning full characters, weapons, abiltiies, etc. Just no high poly meshes for the environments.

[cursive dirge]

when I was doing some scalability tests with different engines

[plush yew]

And 58-62 fps if Im far in the level and can see the whole rest of the map

And my PC is 7 years old + a GPU that is 3 years old

[cursive dirge]

I got UE4 running in somewhat simple scene with dynamic lighting at 400+ fps on my 970

[plush yew]

Unlike UDK, I find that UE4 seems to struggle with FOV and loading rooms or culling

[cursive dirge]

it was over 200fps on 670 I think

can't remember if I tested also on 640 or 610

[plush yew]

As I said before, the games developed with UE4 are the only games that give my hardware so much trouble when I just ''look around''

[cursive dirge]

try Hunt 😄

[plush yew]

What is hunt?

[cursive dirge]

altho, they did optimize Hunt lately again

it now at least runs solid 60fps on my rig

it was at ~45fps at lowest settings for a long time on my rig

@plush yew Crytek's newest game

it's not using UE4

it's CE game

[plush yew]

i think Santa should give u all a new good PC

[grim sinew]

"Low" settings include SVOGI though, to make sure lighting is consistent for all players for competitive reasons, so that slows it down a ton

[potent pine]

If only extremely optimized engines like Source could still be a thing.

[plush yew]

One thing however that I realized last week is for some reasons... UE4 runs smoother with motion blur enabled at 60 fps on my 144Hz monitor. If I don't usem otion blur, the frame rate is ugly when it should actually look smooth

[cursive dirge]

Source 2 will be out any moment now 😄

[plush yew]

it looks like stop motion basically without motion blur ON

[potent pine]

Is it optimized though?

[plush yew]

Oh man, Im waiting for Source 2

[cursive dirge]

keep on waiting

[plush yew]

I want that snappy mouse input that UE4 doesnt have

[sinful umbra]

Source 2 the last game engine from Valve

[cursive dirge]

it's not publicly out as a SDK people can use to dev their own games tho

[potent pine]

You know, it's probably production ready now, but knowing Valve, it's not 100% perfect, so they won't ever release it.

[plush yew]

They've been talking about source 2 since what? 2015?

[potent pine]

It took them 4 years to make Source 1, assuming they started after Opposing Force

And thats while making an entire game

[plush yew]

I tried CryEngine 5 and it ran great in the editor viewport itself, but when I launched the actual game, I was getting like 40 fps and I couldnt find any documentation on how to disable all the heavy stuff

Very different from the 80-180fps I was getting for better look in the viewport

[cursive dirge]

well, CE 5 has huge initial overhead

you can't even run it at all with dualcores without hyperthreading

you need either 4 cores or 4 hw threads

[plush yew]

I got 6 cores and hyperthreading but like.. there was a huge difference between launching the game and running it in the viewport.

Something seemed wrong about launching the game

it looked like crap and ran like crap

[cursive dirge]

it runs on my i3-3200 for example which is dualcore with HT but not with similar era and speed celeron that is dualcore without HT

[plush yew]

Talking about the GameSDK

[cursive dirge]

also GPU wise, it has way higher low end requirements there too vs UE4 or Unity

CE3 ran on relatetively old gear

but CE5 requires beefier base line gear

[potent pine]

Here we are in the UE4 discord talking about other engines!

[plush yew]

Does Lumberyard run better than CryEngine5?

[cursive dirge]

well, last few hours shouldn't have been in this chat

[plush yew]

Devs talking about game dev, sounds normal

[cursive dirge]

I've only been here for the ride 😄

LY is based on CE3

but it runs like crap

like, it's the worst of all alternatives

their sample projects stalls to 5fps occasionally on my computer 😄

[plush yew]

One thing I love about UE4 is how open it is to other 3D apps. CryEngine and Lumberyard I think are pro autodesk

screw blender and modo

Which is what I use XD

[cursive dirge]

CE and LY import FBX and OBJ

you don't need AD

[grim sinew]

Yes, Crytek is pro-Autodesk. Autodesk. The company that sent goons out to their HQ years ago under wrongful suspicion of pirated software.

[plush yew]

I tried to import a fbx on CryEngine 5 and I got an invisible object
I just went back to UE4

lol

[potent pine]

Lol

[plush yew]

Quickest uninstall ever

[potent pine]

How come UE4 can use FBX so well, even when it came from other programs?

[cursive dirge]

I don't use AD products but I had no issues on getting models into CE 5.3 and 5.4

[grim sinew]

FBX is pretty universal, most tools use it just fine Sam.

[plush yew]

ive seen some issues before, like FBX being in the wrong axis

[cursive dirge]

@potent pine you should have been here when UE 4.0 came out

[plush yew]

it got fixed somehow

[cursive dirge]

and blender back then

[grim sinew]

FBX being wrong axis isn't the engine's fault though? Maya and Max just have different up axis...es...

[cursive dirge]

they actually fixed both a lot to play together nicer

[plush yew]

I think it was Modo's fault

The Foundry

[cursive dirge]

"fault"

[grim sinew]

Quite possibly. "Up" has no standard axis.

[cursive dirge]

lol

every tool tends to use different up axis and handiness

[grim sinew]

X is forward, that's the one and only consistent thing

[plush yew]

What I meant is Modo was wroking fine to export FBX until one day everything was broken

got fixed thankfully

[potent pine]

Isn't Up supposed to be Z?

[grim sinew]

Not always

[plush yew]

Z in UE4

[cursive dirge]

I've not had any issues with Modo export on UE4

[grim sinew]

It can be Y or Z depending on what tool you use

[cursive dirge]

and now Modo even got Unreal Bridge

[plush yew]

MODO runs something that flips the axis for FBX export

if you import the fbx in MODO you see it

[cursive dirge]

yeah

it's fine

[grim sinew]

3D tool programmers in the 90s were all on drugs and got into countless bar fights. Nobody agreed on anything. That's why normal maps are inverted green.

[plush yew]

LOL

Nerds don't go to bars

[grim sinew]

#story-time-with-zero

[cursive dirge]

well, it's been quite story time whole morning here

[plush yew]

By the way, who is this beautiful man ->

[cursive dirge]

Alex?

[plush yew]

Who is alex?

[cursive dirge]

he's Alex

[grim sinew]

Alexander Paschall... or something. Used to work for Epic, was the community manager for the first few years of livestreams

[plush yew]

I see

[cursive dirge]

well, not the first years

[grim sinew]

He left to go teach Unreal at a school last year or something

[plush yew]

Nice

good for him 😃

[cursive dirge]

first those were mainly hosted by Dana then it was Chance and his plaid for a long time

and then Alex took over

and now it's been Amanda

I do miss Alex tho

he was around the community for real

other community managers sometime pop here and on the forums but they are not as dedicated to it as Alex was

I've had many good chats with Alex here

some with Amanda too but Chance was always like "heya" and offline, also I got the impression he ignored me on livestream questions every time 😄

[plush yew]

Sometimes, I feel like the community managers are more here to maintain the good image of a company and less to manage the community.

I might have the wrong impressions

with this u can do UED in the dark https://www.ebay.nl/itm/Yukon-1x24-NV-Tracker-Goggles-25025-Headmount-Head-Mount-Night-Vision-Kit/272425972458?hash=item3f6dda72ea:g:oE8AAOSwYp9aBccY:rk:30:pf:0

joking

That's a super VR headset

but u can get great complete pc systems at ebay

Do you play UT4? what is your gamertag

i dont play UT4 at the moment

Why are you here? 😃

just reading mostly

your own posts?

🤔

no lol

Are you making a game with Unreal Engine 4?

Do you have trouble getting started?

the 2nd one

What do you want to do?

What can you already do and what can't you do?

Ex:

• C++ programming
• Scripting (Blueprint)
• 3D modeling & texturing
• Rigging & 3D animation
• Concept art
• Visual Effects (particles)
• Level Design
• Game Design
• Music composition
• Sound design
• Quality & Assurance (QA testing)

game design i guess

The core skills you need to develop games are:

• C++ programming / Scripting (Blueprint)
• Concept art
• 3D modeling & texturing
• Rigging & animation

---

Softwares

• Photoshop
• 3DS Max/Maya/Modo/Blender
• UE4
• Visual Studio

If you can only code, it's not very useful because you need content to make games.
So you need to learn 3d modeling.
And if you want animated anything... you need to learn rigging and 3d animation

But even if you can model, if you can't draw or suck at designing stuff in 2D/3D... whatever you'll make in 3D will look bad

i can draw good

Many artist can use a concept art and make something cool in 3D, but from scratch... they might be terrible

i think am good enough at that

Everyone can claim to be level designers or game designers... the other skills are far more important.

yes

Like it's easier to be a Coder/Artist and learn design than to be a designer and have to learn art/code

i got ur point

You'll really get my point when you'll have learned Coding, art and design 😃

hahahhahaa

Enjoy the journey

It takes approx 3 years to get decent in each one of those discipline (3 years per discipline)

if not longer

It's going to be different from one person to another, for sure

The tools you use can make a big difference

If you try to make high poly stuff and are unaware that Zbrush exists... might take you forever

am to old to learn all

how old are you

if i do ill be 90 if i finish lol

39

you are fine

It's a skill in itself to learn how to learn faster

How to manage your time, where to find the information you need to grow and to surround yourself with people better than you, so you can ask them questions and evolve faster

i guess thats why i am here

thats the main reason am here

i think u cant do it alone only

Well, you sure could, but then it would take you a lot more time

But now, you have plenty of resources to learn with the Internet

College -> University used to the the way to learn.
It's not the case anymore

Doesn't mean a paper can't help you

Im just saying that all that info is now available out there and if it's not available for free, it's available for a small cost

In game dev, everything is available out there for free if you know where to look

And who to connect with

😇

yes

also ut wiki soo

Forget UT, you are in the realm of Unreal Engine now

lol

ok yes

if i would make a game it would be a FPS

Then you have 3 options.

You can download the ShooterGame project.
You can download the FPS template (Blueprint)
And you can download the FPS template (C++)

Or 4th option...
Learn from scratch

ok

Are you familiar with a 3D application such as 3ds max, maya, blender or modo?

nope 3D makes me ill

tried it on my tv but

[honest rune]

[plush yew]

its all new to me, but its very posible am going to look into it sinds i think a fresh start in something could be better for me

i have to go now buti will be back

ive copied some info onto a txt file for later use lookup

Don't take it personally, but my expectations are that out of all those who say ''I want to learn how to make games'', less than 0.001% do it.

Im not expecting that you'll get into game dev and make a game.
But i'll be happy if that actually happens.

its posible u right yes but it would not be that i dont want but just cant because of some private reasons

[ebon stag]

Hey you guys! I need some help with building a main menu, i followed a tutorial and did all the steps, made sure to go back and check also but when i press the play button the game flashes between the main menu and the actual game, i know there is a fix but i forgot what it was ._.

[plush yew]

never say never cya later

i need to sleep some now before i colapse

[pine pond]

Anyone wana start a game company lol

Im bored

[plush yew]

Yes! We can call it
Nutshot Games
"The harder you hit, the better!"

[pine pond]

Lol

[zenith dune]

I find it to be a common trend that a lot of developers who are starting out don't enjoy working on menus and user interfaces.

[paper kernel]

because it's super tedious

and programmers don't get satisfaction from creating pretty things

[static viper]

Freak

Ui is great. I lov e it

Ui is great. I lov e it

[warm tree]

and programmers don't get satisfaction from creating pretty things
lol

[sudden agate]

people not knowing who is D:

[manic pawn]

why is he even an emoji

[sudden agate]

because he is

[broken shadow]

"Hey!

Hey Alex!" - Derek

"I'M ENJOYING A TREAT DERR-AKK!" - Alex

[paper kernel]

will never shake the shame of that alt-f4

[sudden agate]

I remember that :D

[fierce tulip]

I tried to buy an ALT and F4 pillow for Alex, but they where really really hard to find, especially since mainly people search for ctrl alt and del pillows

[sudden agate]

I want Alex back :(

[paper kernel]

he is teaching youngsters in Spain iirc?

[frank escarp]

he is

kind of needed, most of the gamedev schools in spain are horribly bad

[paper kernel]

yea could few good teachers here too

[nimble jay]

Hi

[sudden agate]

bye

[nimble jay]

Who knows intellij idea

[exotic lion]

Hello guys ! I making a proper widget and i added some image. But its blurry. Its one in the texture class ? I don't found.

[regal mulch]

Anyone had this message SpawnEmitterAttached spawned potentially immortal particle system!?
Since 4.20 update. Made sure the PS is set to kill on end and deactivate, as well as duration 1s and loops = 1

@fierce tulip You particle god must know that one, don't you? :D

[fierce tulip]

still mostly on 4.16 since cascade is a clusterf.. on 4.17 to latest

lifetime isnt zero?

[regal mulch]

/** Does any emiter never die due to infinie looping AND indefinite duration? */
    uint32 bIsImmortal : 1;

Lemme double check

Nope. 0,1 to 0.3

[fierce tulip]

kill on complete etc in required module enabled?

[regal mulch]

https://puu.sh/BLo2t/6ca4211860.png

[fierce tulip]

looks good

[regal mulch]

Welp, then I will have my client fix it himself

Thanks though!

[fierce tulip]

odd thing is odd though

[regal mulch]

The whole message says this:

LogParticles: GameplayStatics::SpawnEmitterAttached spawned potentially immortal particle system! XXX.ParticleSystemComponent_0 (/Game/Particles/P_DoubleJump.P_DoubleJump) may stay in world despite never spawning particles after burst spawning is over.

Just noticed that it went past my screen

I guess the PS only bursts and then nothing and that's bad? idk

[sudden agate]

should be fine

[fierce tulip]

doesnt that system contain multiple emitters?

[regal mulch]

Nope only one

[sudden agate]

is it set to Auto Destroy? when you create the Emitter?

[regal mulch]

Yes, the boolean is ticked on the node

[fierce tulip]

god 4.20 is so much more crisp than 4.16

[regal mulch]

It works totally fine, just would like to not have some "PS is immortal and might kill you all" message in the log

[fierce tulip]

its a blurry mess on 4k XD

[regal mulch]

That's 1080 screen though

:/ I don't have a 4k screen

[fierce tulip]

still more crisp since 4.19 or so

no clue about that warning thing, if required node says kill on complete, lifetime is more than zero, and you disable then kill in blueprint it should be fine

disable might be optional hehe

[regal mulch]

Alright, might be a bug then

bIsImmortal seems to be set to false only in the constructor

Might go away if packaging

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[opaque salmon]

height maps in layered landscape materials, should they be plugged into normal or base color/diffuse? Does it matter?

[sudden agate]

they should be used in Height Layers

You may want to use Heightmaps for Displacement aswell

[paper kernel]

This "Accessed None" error from Validity check is pissing me off

[sudden agate]

why?

[paper kernel]

why? because I wanna check is actor valid so I can use it's location

if it's not, i'll use something else

[sudden agate]

and whats the problem?

[pallid compass]

then use is valid

sounds like your using it wrong

[digital anchor]

the parent of what youre testing is also none

[plush yew]

how can i add a matinee to an object blueprint
should i use a sequence instead .??

are sequences better than matinee

[static viper]

use only sequencer

sequencer is better because

matinee will not exist soon anymore.

[plush yew]

and
can sequances get activated by trigger volume too

im actually searching for a way to trigger a sequence only by line trace or by looking at a trigger volume or an object

[paper kernel]

Question: how do I clamp timer rate

as in, if bIncrease is true, it should take always at least 0.1 seconds before AimTimer can be equal to Accuracy

[exotic lion]

Hello guys ! I making a proper widget and i added some image. But its blurry. Its one in the texture class ? I don't found.

[static viper]

msotly bljurry bc its low res

[exotic lion]

?

[static viper]

low resolution

low res

not enough pixels right and up

XD

[sudden agate]

in short: increase resolution

[exotic lion]

Ok

But what is the recommended resolution?

[solemn sand]

I dont know if this is a stupid question, but can you breakpoint code in VS the same way you can in Unity?

[static viper]

recommended for what?

what are you trying todo

[exotic lion]

Recommended resolution

A horror game

[static viper]

be 10 times more specific

tell us exactly what you want todo

[solemn sand]

are you talking to me?

[static viper]

ask in #cpp @solemn sand

[solemn sand]

oh ok sorry

[exotic lion]

Recommended resolution for all the games... Basic monitor

[static viper]

oh

well i think these days

1920 1080

or 1280 720

[exotic lion]

Ok i will made the widget in 1920 1080

[static viper]

tho there is very rarely a case where you need such a large image for ui

[paper kernel]

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

[exotic lion]

I want the best image quality

[static viper]

good luck

[exotic lion]

Thx

[supple totem]

this engine, folks

its good folks

👍

[static viper]

yee

good shit

[supple totem]

this might be a banal question

but what is the difference between an actor with just a static mesh component attached

and a static mesh actor? (what happens when you just drag a mesh into scene from assets browser)

[manic pawn]

none really

it's just an actor that has a static mesh component by default

and provides some convenient wrappers to access it

[tranquil sphinx]

@plush yew I think i've finally got some sort of resolution to that problem, i still don't know how it got fixed or why it was happening

new cable arrived, still no change so i changed over to a high bandwidth HDMI 2.0 cable and had the same issue there

pulled the power cable out and let the monitor discharge for 30 seconds, turned it back on, same issue

pulled all of the input cables and plugged the displayport cable back in

works fine

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[supple totem]

thanks zeblote

[plush yew]

hey guys

im trying to create a fanmade just dance game and im trying to create it on unity. i wonder if its possible to create it on unreal engine

i mean, i have the move files and stuff from just dance files (i have them for testing lol)

i found a .dll for just dance's scoring and stuff

just asking if its possible or not

anything is possible

another question, i dont know c# so is it possible on javascript?

[mighty ocean]

In Quantum Physics

[grim ore]

well unity and unreal both don't support javascript natively so it's not very possible right now

[plush yew]

because everyone in unity server is being like "learn c#, dont wait people to write code for you"

i never said "i need this code" but they are being rude

idk why

[tall pendant]

besides Ubi might not want you to use their IP. I know trivialities like IP are overrated but...

[grim ore]

well you are going to get the same reaction in this channel, people don't want to work for other people for free and they want others to learn to do it themselves.

[plush yew]

@tall pendant what?

im doing it for myself, not for public lol

:V

[tall pendant]

public or not doesn't matter in the eyes of the copyright law.

[tranquil sphinx]

Copyright law still answers to fair use which educational purposes do still come under

it can also be argued that dance games are generic enough for derivatives to crop up without issue

[plush yew]

i never said that i will use files from just dance

[tranquil sphinx]

no, they're arguing about the IP not the files

intellectual property rights

Copyright and IP are quite different as well

[plush yew]

there is fanmade games of just dance

more than 10

even ubisoft staff saw them

one of them said that they cant wait to play it when it gets released

there is even rayman legend mods

[tranquil sphinx]

there's fan made games for a lot of different IPs, I know of atleast 4 for Halo, some of them have even been given official approval by the rights holders

each rights holder has different views so people are a bit cautious when it comes to fan made creations, it's fairly often that people move from fan work and enter the industry just from learning the tools from their fan work

[plush yew]

ubisoft doesnt care about them

this is my probably fourth fanmade game

but this one will be the one i will create on a game engine since the other ones were just mods

[tranquil sphinx]

I dare say Ubisoft probably does care but only so much in how much interest it generates as they're probably constantly gauging the interest to see if it's worth investing to make a new release

[plush yew]

just dance series are dead tho

they are finishing it this year

[tranquil sphinx]

currently yeah

[plush yew]

the last one is just dance 2019

they will stop releasing just dance after just dance 2020

or just dance X since its the 10th game

lol

[tranquil sphinx]

consider this though, some of the games releasing this past few years came about as a result of fan projects doing their own remakes, the new spyro is one remake

i seem to remember a sonic game that came out in the past year which was a fan remake too

[plush yew]

i wonder if its possible on python

but does unreal SUPPORT python

[tall pendant]

to a certain degree yes. but only with / in Unreal Studio IIRC

[grim ore]

You can make the game just fine in blueprints or C++ in UE4 or with C# or any other language plug in Unity. Hell you could probably do it in cryengine if you wanted. If you limit the look of the game you could do it in any 2d engine. The engine is not going to be the issue, the issue is your experience with programming and your ability to do it.

[plush yew]

i only know javascript and python

i dont really want to learn c++ or c#

[grim ore]

look for an engine that supports Javascript then. Unreal barely supports it with a plugin that I would not count on being valid forever and Unity older versions support a variant of it but it was deprecated a few versions back.

[grim ore]

it looks like freetype is what they use for fonts and is enabled in the system

[hot ledge]

I want to package my game to run at a school computer but it asks for direct X runtime eventhough the game includes the installer for ue4 prerequisites I can’t install it because it needs administrator privileges anyone know how I can build it

[peak mulch]

Hello :-).. maybe someone knows?... is there any open source server + mysql storage to use with unreal engine, so you can store stuff from your game?

[grim ore]

You can look into the free storage solutions online like mongodb or heroku for having a small online DB. heroku has a free setup for running a small script as well. Alternately you can look into an amazon ec2 instance or microsoft azure.

[peak mulch]

Thanks 😃

[astral rain]

Just curious, what might be considered and ideal max amount of actors?

[grim ore]

a million actors doing nothing? 10 actors all doing complex math equations? a number in between depending on what you are doing?

[frank escarp]

@astral rain as little as you possibly can

each actor has overhead

speciallly if ticking

if its not ticking (tick fully disabled in C++) with "bCanEverTick = false", then the overhead is fairly low

[astral rain]

Hmm.

I'm sitting at around 80 at a time.

[fierce tulip]

@quaint wagon

[astral rain]

Most of them are with tick disabled. I just needed them to be actors to set translucent priority of sprites, so those do nothing except render a sprite or flipbook. And they're all children of the same actor. So, there's like, around 10 actors per level doing complex things.

But the reason I was asking is because I'm using level streaming. The load is fine but there's always a slight frame drop when unloading a level. I looked around the internet and this is apparently a normal problem. So, I created a system to "hide" the lag.

[manic pawn]

a million actors doing nothing would be big oof for the garbage collector

[sudden agate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f49ELvryhao

the ideal amount of actors is 0

makes the game run smooth af

[astral rain]

So, my trick is that I store the levels that need to be unloaded in a name set variable. The name set is passed through an array when the player isn't really doing anything, and a for loop unloads the levels from the name set.

Lol 0 actors

Anyway, this current set up can rack up "levels that need to be unloaded" to where there's 300ish actors. I have the more complex things stop running code when their room is in the set, but in long-term, I'm worried this is probably a bad setup.

[sudden agate]

premature optimization. if it works. Continue.

[astral rain]

Yeah, it works. It still needs cleaned up, but there's no way to see the level unloaded lag, which is kinda crappy.

[green spear]

Help! I have a yellow boarder around my viewport and I cannot interact with it at all. I can access menus but not the viewport it self.

[paper kernel]

you have simulation or play on

also I'm fairly certain it says on the yellow border what it is doing

with very large text

[green spear]

It was neither. And there was no text. But there was a safe frame in the viewport along with the yellow boarder. Gone after a restart, but damn strange.

[grim ore]

what mac?

theres many specs and types and cpu configs and ram configs etc.

and then there is the definition of "run" lol. For reference I can run UE4 on a 2017 i5 imac with a 560 pro GPU at a "decent" frame rate for basic project when I boot into Windows 10.

there is no 2016 imac as well, its 2015 or 2017 so I guess assume 2015

well if it hits the minimum requirements then yes as your moving the gpu to anything you want

except an imac?

then its a mac pro and that will be fine, you cant find a crappy one of those

you cant run anything on a mac mini or a macbook

well what GPU?

I mean your question is literally "will any machine work for UE4"

neither of those will work they don't support metal

any pc/mac should work "ok" if it's got a dual core and something around a 750ti level for GPU. 8gb ram/ssd being benefitial.

beyond that going to a quad core with hyperthreading would benefit and a higher gpu as well

its only "better" if you like windows better. in terms of support I have no idea how well OS/X is supported but it seems like it's "ok". With that said Fortnite is not running on OS/X so it's a second class citizen from that standpoint.

[swift spindle]

high end engine support on windows is far better

[grim ore]

your best macbook pro seems to support a 560 radeon which will "work" but again if using an iGPU it really doesnt matter. Any macbook that supports your thunderbolt enclosure with a quad core should be fine (i7 preferred)

[swift spindle]

@plush yew honestly. I'll take you less time to learn a Windows system then learn in depth Any of UE4 tools

[grim ore]

^^ if you are just using it for UE4 then which OS you use really does not matter as UE4 is the same in both (minus the switching of the windows title bar buttons)

[swift spindle]

that's not how it works man

are you trolling or what...

[grim ore]

if you are getting a virus on your mac then you have more problems than which machine to buy. a real virus not just some popup ads.

[swift spindle]

cause I feel you are

if you are even 1 percent careful you wont get a virus on ether system

[worn granite]

ohno the mac user doesn't know how windows works

[swift spindle]

Seriously...

I work with windows / mac / linux every day... and have done so for 24 years...

I've had... 1... virus

in 2001.

now.. HDD failures... that's another story LOL

if your really worried about Virus's you should not be doing dev work.

Sounds harsh but it's true

[weary basalt]

@strong mesa Try here mate

[strong mesa]

static mesh actor has NULL static mesh property

what should i do , i have it on moveable

[grim ore]

uh sounds like you have a null static mesh

[strong mesa]

yeah i know what is that xD

i'm such a beginner

[grim ore]

well null is none so your thingy has no static mesh assigned to it and it expects one.

with a static mesh being the 3d model your want to display

[strong mesa]

but it has one

[grim ore]

so the next step would be where is your code that is trying to use it? maybe it's pointing to the wrong thing

[strong mesa]

i think i just figured it out , it's a spawner that can have health or ammo and my blueprint on default doesn't have a static mesh

[grim ore]

there we go hopefully, so the thingy had no static mesh assigned to it?

[strong mesa]

kind of yeah it has a base and it has a non one so the none static mesh can be either health or ammo

i made it from a youtube channel , want a screenshot ?

[grim ore]

well it sounds like you figured it out?

[strong mesa]

yeah i did i was just wondering if you want the blueprint

like to use it

[grim ore]

ah, no thanks 😃

[strong mesa]

😃

[winged crypt]

Is it possible for a file to get corrupted in such a way that the file still works 100% but retains some data from the past without showing it? And changing variables wouldn't reflect the changes in-game but would in the BP.

(It would continue to use old variables / settings)

[plush yew]

@winged crypt are you using hot reload?

[winged crypt]

Unsure. Defaults

[grim ore]

It's possible it's failing and corrupted and your using older versions that are cached, that's a possibility to look for as well.

[winged crypt]

@grim ore How would I get around this?

[grim ore]

nuke all temporary folders in your project, if it's C++ nuke all the build folders and clean then rebuild. the safest way is to just use source control and grab an older version that works and make sure it works or rollback to a working version.

[winged crypt]

yeah I rolled it back and it worked fine for like 10 min

then started acting up again

[grim ore]

and in that 10 minutes what did you do?

[winged crypt]

Not very much, but it stopped working when I defaulted some settings. It's a vehicle blueprint. Changing the settings back did not work and now no matter what combination of settings I use, the end result is always identical. The vehicle starts moving, hits 107 rpm and stays at 107, preventing it from accelerating further. Every time.

I only say it might be corrupt because changing settings doesn't make any difference (and it should)

I had a map corrupt where it would sometimes spawn players in a place on the map where the Player Start used to be but no longer is

Strange things.

[grim ore]

yeah that sounds weird.. c++ or BP only project?

[winged crypt]

combination of both

mostly BP

[grim ore]

yeah the C++ hot reload could be a thing but the level thing does not sound like that. it sounds like your engine is not realizing stuff has changed so it's just using the old cached version. I know if you try and compile and it fails it can do that but it doesnt sound like failed compiles

source control might be the next idea, like your source control is locking the files incorrectly and not letting UE4 do it's normal thing

[strong mesa]

shouldn't this work fine ?!

knowing that this material has the name parameter name
it doesn't change color when it is supposed to

[grim ore]

where are you setting the Dynamic Material variable?

[strong mesa]

it's in variables

in the health base BluePrint

@grim ore is it wrong ?

[grim ore]

might not be, where do you get it or set it so the blueprint knows what material to change?

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Rendering/Materials/MaterialInstances you need to crate the dynamic material instance and save it so you can change it later or .... hard drive is loading UE4 lol

[wintry glade]

hello! quick question. I can't find a way to turn off completely the environment lights. I am trying to create a total blackout besides my own lights

ahh nevermind lighting needs rebuild lmao i was scratching my head for a while why it's not working haha

[grim ore]

yay

@strong mesa following up or just use the set XXX parameter value on materials node and if the material has that parameter it will change it like you create and instance. the key for these ones is it targets the mesh component itself and not the material instance dynamic . If you drag off a reference to the mesh (drag the static mesh component out of the components list and drop it in your graph) you can then get this node directly and it's the correct version. https://i.imgur.com/evSud0s.png shows what I am talking about changing the color of this parameter to Blue

[strong mesa]

@grim ore i've never been that confused

but this one is a different node , the set vector parameter value i'm using is different ,as it is the only one works with a dynamic material , also it is getting the info of where to change this using the name EmitColor as shown in that video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKZaYgZEw-E
@ 1:40 seconds

[strong mesa]

@grim ore

[fervent owl]

hi guys any one here have a fev seconds to help me with a object respawn problem im having

for some reason the actor does not despawn after pickup

[viscid canyon]

where is the best place to put data that widgets pull from?

example is a place to pick teams

for multiplayer. Sorry for the lack of clarification

I want to say GameState but isn't that created every level?

[strong mesa]

i'm not an expert but it depends , if you are going to use it for that one level then use the level BluePrint or if you are using it though the entire game put it in the game mode BluePrint ... i think ':D

😅

[plush yew]

@fervent owl You haven't set your SpawnedUnit reference

[dim arch]

anyone know how to use the texture weight painting tool in the editor

how do I assign a paint texture? I tried an 8bit 3 channel texture but it wont accept it

[visual hollow]

Hey guys I need to learn animation in UE4. Can anyone suggest some tutorial for beginners?

[smoky stream]

blender

[grim ore]

There are a few official ue4 videos on the YouTube channel along with the live strrams that tear apart the paragon system.

[icy bone]

anyone know of good IK solver for UE4, that can handle ling bone chains with angle constrains?

ue4 goy FABRIK but it did noy fully implement constraint

[zinc crest]

Good morning 😃 iam about to export a few animations from blender to unreal. The thing is, my animation has a different rotation in unreal than the basic-model i apply the animations to. Even though in blender they both have the same rotation. Someone can help me with that?

The left is the basic model - the right one is the animation i made (different rotation on the x-axis)

[stray meteor]

hi guys question how do you put shadows in a physics object?

[hot drum]

Hello, Hello?

Can somebody please help

This is in the editor viewport

the light source is the player character

when I start the game

notice that there is more light

I have observed that it's a spotlight

but there's a catch

I've looked in the world outliner in both the editor and during gameplay, and there is absolutely nothing

OH

I JUST REALIZED THAT THE SPOTLIGHT IS THE CAMERA

ok ok then

So On start there is a spotlight that appears on the editor camera where I left it on game start

so how do I get rid of it, eh?

this did not start happening until earlier

to be fair I was piloting a spotlight to see stuff

but that light is gone now.

[iron wadi]

is there a way to quickly connect to server similar to open 127.0.0.1 in cmd?

i tried calling GetWorld()->Exec(GetWorld(), L"open 127.0.0.1"); but that doesnt do anything

[regal mulch]

ClientTravel on the PlayerController?

[iron wadi]

thanks, i'll try that

[plush yew]

Is it able to add plugin content when you already created project withour starter content?

already found

[supple totem]

Hey all, was just reading through the ability system docs. Does anyone think if would be of use in a first person game? For managing stuff like climbing, throwing, swinging weapons?

[digital anchor]

no, too complex

unless your FPS is like overwatch, with dozens and dozens of skills, effects, buffs etc

[vale silo]

I have 3 cached states that I blend by enum into the final state and I've got some one-off transition anims (sighting player - from normal idle to combat idle; from combat idle to alert idle; various pain anims; different melee attack anims). Should I shove all of those one-off anims and attack anims into the same montage (using different slots of course) and then blend montage with the final state (BP code will dictate what slot to use for particular one-off anim or attack combos) ?

[vale silo]

anyone ?

[viscid canyon]

Morning all

[karmic thistle]

guys, I`m looking for a c++ begginer course, can you recomend something?

c++/ue4

[cloud cobalt]

A C++ course or an UE4 course ?

[karmic thistle]

c++ aplied to ue4

[cloud cobalt]

So you're fluent in C++ but want to apply it to UE4 ?

[karmic thistle]

im learning c++ too, I did 3 courses from udemy and now im going to start programming for ue4

so I need something to start relating wht I know of c++ to ue4

libraries, create classes, define variables etc

[plucky reef]

I got a problem in windows media player, so I cannot play video in unreal engine because there's no "Media player" that can run video, is it possible or is there any other plugins so that I can view the video in editor? cheers!

[cloud cobalt]

@karmic thistle Once you've learned C++, which is going to take some serious investment, head to the UE4 C++ doc

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Programming

Blueprint knowledge is really important too

It's much easier to understand the concepts with BP first

[karmic thistle]

the problem is that I`m used to learn programming watching videos/writing in VS

If I have to start reading the documents my head problaby explode with all this pages

[cloud cobalt]

All quality documentation is written, it's a much more serious and timeless media

Video is fine for showing how to use a tool, but C++ is written code, there's no point in the video format

And C++ is frankly not the stuff you want to learn watching random video tutorials

Like I wouldn't want to learn how to use high explosives on Youtube 😛

[karmic thistle]

do you know if I can download the official documents on pdf?

maeby copy/paste all to edit it later on a PDF reader, I will need to create marks to study 🤔

[grim ore]

if you really need it there is a udemy course for C++/UE4, people give it mixed reviews but its UE4 and its C++

[karmic thistle]

link? 🙏

[grim ore]

you can also find some of the videos for free on his main site at https://www.tomlooman.com/

[karmic thistle]

ty @grim ore

do you think this is probably the best course to start using c++ with ue4? @grim ore
https://www.udemy.com/unrealengine-cpp/?couponCode=TL15ST2

What will I learn?
Discover the power and ease of C++ to build games in Unreal Engine 4.
Master the fundamentals of C++ programming for Unreal Engine 4.
Build multiplayer games in C++ to play with friends.
Utilize the Gameplay Framework to create any genre of games.
Create multiple types of Artificial Intelligence within Unreal Engine 4.
Write clear code that can be exposed, extended and modified by Blueprint.

[grim ore]

I don't know, I don't use C++ unless I have to in UE4 lol. the other course that is more general and has been around a long long time is https://www.udemy.com/unrealcourse/

and I just use the normal docs for C++ when I have to lol

[fierce tulip]

also the most spammed-by-bots course on facebook ue4 groups ever

[frank escarp]

ahh, good old spamlinks

couse udemy being shady as fuck

[karmic thistle]

wtf 150k students on this second course

[fierce tulip]

while some of its ue4 related courses are quite well done, udemy can go suck on a dead stick

[karmic thistle]

what do you recomend guys? @frank escarp @fierce tulip

[regal mulch]

Got asked to do tutorials on one of these things (like udemy) once.
Saw the requirements etc. Instantly noped out.

[fierce tulip]

do vfx, not c++ :p

[karmic thistle]

😂

[fierce tulip]

id either pick tom's free c++ tut, or sadly.. that last udemy link one

[regal mulch]

I rather give my knowledge away for free or in private tutoring than selling my soul that shitfest

[cloud cobalt]

Learn the language, read the manual, study the free example projects.

That's what I did

[shell river]

There's a lot the manual doesn't cover for C++ though.

[regal mulch]

Learning by doing. Take a small game. Start, come back if you are stuck.

[shell river]

Wiki is also terrible.

[fierce tulip]

get paid massive % of your sales!
(disclaimer in font too small to notice: we'll be selling your work at 80 to 95% off ALL the time)

[shell river]

The formatting makes me cry.

[regal mulch]

The formatting is broken atm

So of course it's terrible lol

[shell river]

Yeah xD

[regal mulch]

I use it with "View Source" if needed

[frank escarp]

udemy 95% eternal off is so goddamn shady

illegal in EU

[shell river]

Yeah, but there's also sections where the wiki is just flat wrong.

[regal mulch]

Well it's user posts

Everyone can be wrong

[shell river]

Like storing a TArray of pointers to USTRUCT types as a UPROPERTY

Took me 3 hours to realize that it wasn't possible.

[regal mulch]

Ha well, UE4 quickly tells you what Blueprint users are allowed to use what Epic thinks they are too nooby for

[karmic thistle]

🤔

[shell river]

xD

[static viper]

i find it weird sometimes...

we are to nooby to get a list of sav files from folder.

we clearly cant handle that

[karmic thistle]

So should I go with a guided course to avoid this kind of problems?

[shell river]

I liked Blueprints at first, but quickly ran into problems where stuff wasn't properly documented or something just wasn't possible.

[regal mulch]

That's something else though. Getting a list of save files is just not a thing they exposed cause they thought it's not needed

What I mean are things like having different integer types

[shell river]

That is annoying as hell.

[regal mulch]

uint8 and int32 is just a bit too limited

Es well as not giving us proper quaternions

[shell river]

One of the reasons I switched off blueprints is because of the integer type restrictions.

int32 is just too big for certain things

and too small for others

No point in sending twice the data over the network when you don't need to.

[winged crypt]

which chat do vehicle questions go in?

(parameter-related, not physics)

[regal mulch]

We have no specific vehicle channel

I would say either bp or c++ depending on where you are working in

[vale silo]

are there any anim graph gurus around ?

[static viper]

i dont feel like it

but you can ask in #animation

[slender veldt]

Anyone know what font type is used in the UNREAL ENGINE logo text?

[grim ore]

I want to say Arial Bold but I can tell you for sure in a second

https://epicgames.app.box.com/s/8g5e32nlb6lv4aiveoff0g0hal3l94dp/file/272263614263 , no not arial, it's eurostile extended black

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/branding , this is a great page for info like that on the right. style guide

[slender veldt]

Super cool, thanks Mathew!

[grim ore]

yarp

[quiet hornet]

anyone know

how i make ue4opus sound?

[gleaming creek]

What would be the best place to ask questions about lighting? Does that fall under #graphics?

[wary wave]

level design potentially

[static viper]

even ambershee is against us!

[gleaming creek]

Looks like people were already asking questions in the same area recently in #level-design , so thanks, I'll ask there

And it ended with someone saying they should be discussing that in #graphics :)

[quasi cloud]

I need someone to convince me to switch to unreal

[static viper]

blueprints!

graphics!!!!

mhhh

content browser!!!

sequencer!!! rawr

was that good enough?

[quasi cloud]

@static viper wdym content browser?

[pearl sparrow]

this is annoyign the shit out of me

I have reinstalled the launcher, uninstalled the engine version, reinstalled the engine version, uninstalled and reinstalled the launcher (again)

[plush yew]

did you follow the error code

[pearl sparrow]

yes,

it recommends running with admin privileges and reinstalling the launcher

:/

[quasi cloud]

i have the same error

but i got that fix

[pearl sparrow]

😮

I havn't tried fixing visual studio yet... fingers crossed

[random bear]

waazaaap guys

im new here

[static viper]

hi

[random bear]

i just started to make my own game

my 1st project would like to learn from all you master

🤓

[static viper]

ok

[plush yew]

@pearl sparrow I've seen that when the editor is already running in the background

[pearl sparrow]

@quasi cloud Works great! thankyou so much!

[quasi cloud]

no problem

[autumn temple]

What does class inheritance provide? Is it the ability for one class to access another, or extend to another?

And with an Opaque blend mode, what colors are considered for the base color? Red, Green, Blue, Alpha. I'm drawing a blank from being tired.

[vivid girder]

@autumn temple RGB colors are considered for the basecolor

Alpha channel is a color when input to the basecolor property of a material

[tall summit]

@plush yew depends what you wanna do

[keen birch]

I sure hope that that period is a decimal point, not a separation mark 👀

@plush yew Depending on your projects, if you're really sure that you'll only stick to programming... Probably

Because that GTX1050 Ti could be a serious bottleneck if you're working on graphically heavy projects and can't run your game properly for testing purposes

Not if you're the programmer

But if you branch out, definitely

[plush yew]

there is the dichotomy between running something considered min-spec, so you are always aware if you killed performance, vs running high end hardware to maximize productivity

[digital anchor]

editor performance is doesnt reflect game performance

[plush yew]

My gpu is a amd 6670 hd so I run minspec out of necessity

The benefit being that I can lower the barrier of entry to consumers

[viscid canyon]

What is the best way to share server data to UMG widgets/Huds?

[livid haven]

Kind of a vague question, but... uh... game state?

Game state exists on server and client, is replicated from server to client.

Anything can get the game state.

Or for player specific stuff, player state.

With the awareness that everyone receives everyone's player state, so it shouldn't contain any information you wouldn't want to share with all other players.

[plush yew]

Is there a way to toggle language in this doc to c++ http://api.unrealengine.com/INT/BlueprintAPI/Math/Float/Lerp/index.html like in unity docs?

[icy bone]

@plush yew But it clearly state that the code is from Kismet Math Library, which is in Kismet/KismetMathLibrary.h

[plush yew]

thanks i wish it was more obvious to a noob

maybe i'm just exceptionally stupid

[icy bone]

@plush yew you can just do an include then call UKismetMathLibrary:: and intellisense will let u find all the functions. Or u can go into the header and read the source cus sometime intellisense doesnt work

@plush yew dw u get used to it

[steel shuttle]

hello. sorry i don't know which channel should i ask this question. where can i get the source file for server since this link is dead https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine

[icy bone]

@steel shuttle did it work b4? It wont work if u dont have account and registered to epic

[grim ore]

https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup

[tawdry raptor]

oh good god youtube is DOWN

and I didnt take notes....

[proven ivy]

this is disturbing

[random bear]

Press Alt+F4 to pay respect to YouTube

[proven ivy]

:/

[random bear]

😕

[high stone]

I left YT and ironically it works when I go there.

[random bear]

lol

PSN having same issue right now

🤔

wow

discord is the new steam i guess

[icy bone]

just curious, anyone here not working in Unreal btw? just hanging for fun

working with*

[high stone]

I'm hanging around. (:

[icy bone]

can I ask for what purpose 😄

[high stone]

Always helpful to keep up with modern game design.

See if there's techniques I can use.

[smoky stream]

im just hanging around as well

i do use unreal, but not for its intended purpous

its study material rather than a game engine

[steel shuttle]

ohh i forgot to link my account. my bad. thank you @icy bone @grim ore

[copper tundra]

Guys

I think Youtube has been hacked!

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/337290865326292992/501945283928915970/unknown.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/337290865326292992/501945337364217856/unknown.png

[icy bone]

@smoky stream so may i ask what u use Unreal for

[smoky stream]

i just browse the source code to see how they do stuff

[icy bone]

for what lol

I mean why do you want to do that

will u create ur own Malloc engine? 😄

[smoky stream]

i find the C++ stdlib lacking, so i use my own

it just means i have to reimplement bits as i start using more the stdlib

and i have no clue how to do parts of so i see how unreal does it

or blender/python/ogre

etc

look at the source of TFunction for an example of what the fuck is this code

@icy bone

[manic pawn]

tfunction is mostly unnecessary code

[high stone]

I'm still glad C++ won the coding war. I remember in college we were expected to learn a new language every year.

Eat that college professor! I was right!

[south ridge]

What 😄

I'm sorry, the coding war? 😄

I have started with Pascal, does that make me a coding war veteran?

[high stone]

I remember Pascal... (Nam flashbacks...)

[bleak widget]

wow pascal😻 array, index

[icy bone]

I make my own language, what does that makes me hmm...

[static viper]

a very light minded person

XD

[icy bone]

but i lied

i guess it makes me a liar

[ionic osprey]

is it possible to open assets in the editor in a totally new window that acts like a separate window?
I can open assets in a new window but when I alt-tab to the main editor, it keeps going to whatever asset window's on top instead of goign to the main editor window

[plush yew]

how to make unity look in unreal engine?

[cloud cobalt]

What's Unity look ?

Both engines can achieve the same results

Save for minor artifacts from different implementations

[plush yew]

😄

I thinkk i am not really serious here

[static viper]

Flat surfaces, cheap bloom and aa. Bad shadows?

I dont think thats possible with unreal :D

[icy bone]

who loves Unity here

[paper kernel]

I feel like fanboys are trying to preach here and on reddit

to deaf ears

[fierce tulip]

@ionic osprey i always open em on a seperate screen. I think you can try the lock button thingy top right of most ue4 windows.

[ionic osprey]

hey, i don't see the lock button.

[fierce tulip]

hmm might be content browser only

[ionic osprey]

oh

mm, even when I open two windows in separate screens, alt tab would only show one UE4 icon

and clicking on the editor in the taskbar somehow focuses only the asset window

[fierce tulip]

hmm i do know there are some options for it in editor setttings, tab/window related but not sure if anything can help with that. (dont have ue4 open either)

[dim arch]

I have an actor parented to another in the world outliner

but when I move it with sequencer the child doesnt update

anyone know why

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/425509/issues-attaching-objects-in-sequencer.html?sort=oldest gues its a bug

[exotic lion]

Someone have idea for cooldown for a event?

[sonic panther]

hey everyone

[smoky stream]

a delay node? @exotic lion

[sudden agate]

@exotic lion Use a Timer that sets/resets a boolean and check that boolean in your event

[exotic lion]

Ok i will do

[winged bear]

Hi everyone !
I have a question (well... 2, to be honest) for you !

• Is it better to start an environent (not a landscape but rather like a building structure, apartment, etc.) in 3Ds Max or in UE4?
• Do you use UE4 with the BSPs (basic primitives that can be edited if necessary) for Level Design or for production too?

[grim ore]

yes to #1 and #2 is for blocking out/white boxing/grey boxing. you should try your best not to use BSP in production

[winged bear]

"yes to #1" ? x)
Sooo... 3ds Max or UE4 ?

And why should I not use BSP in production? What kind of problems does it cause?