#ue4-general | Unreal Source | Page 334

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 1:35 PM

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the results are terrible

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it's not my ad space lol it's twitch's

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 1:35 PM

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so what are you streaming here ?

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 1:35 PM

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pls just make a screenshot

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 1:35 PM

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all I see is a bunch of be right back intros

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 1:36 PM

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both feeds are terrible. I have 2 x 1080p feeds, one for the cam one for the screen

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no. go to 9+ min

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 1:36 PM

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i will not use twitches terrible media system XD

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 1:36 PM

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hmm

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 1:37 PM

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blurry and smudgy and weird. I don't get it.

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 1:37 PM

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you mean for your cam ?

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 1:37 PM

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everything you see on that scene is UE4

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 1:37 PM

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that's the only part I see smuging

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 1:37 PM

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the whole background is rendered on a box

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 1:37 PM

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right yeah I see now

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TBH

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for streaming

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its not that bad

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 1:38 PM

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yes but it's not pleasant to my eyes lol

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 1:39 PM

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hmm

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cant you just make a video loop of your overlay

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 1:39 PM

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it should be crisp, like the source

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 1:39 PM

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and use it in OBS ?

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instead of having an app run in unreal on top of everything

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 1:39 PM

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i could but I am planning in making a whole interactive environment for the chat. like a video game

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this is just a test to figure out if i can get the results that i need

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 1:40 PM

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hmm

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how about playing different loops ? 😄

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oh wait

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 1:41 PM

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haha i tried lots of things, i wasn't happy with the results. I am using twitchworks to connect twitch's API into UE4 and make it interesting.

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 1:41 PM

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nah I see what you mean now

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hmm

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if you can give me a quick rundown of how to stream from OBS to unreal I can give it a whirl

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ah wiat

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twitchworks

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uh nvm, not gonna install new plugins 😅

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you've got a great idea there though

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 1:42 PM

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nah you don't need obs for that. I have an elgato 4K capture card that captures my gaming pc

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 1:42 PM

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twitch plays fortnite doggo

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@limpid star had that bug on 4.21 yesterday

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check in your cooked builds

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 1:44 PM

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oh i never had that with 4.20

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 1:44 PM

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thanks 😃 It's my little big project I am working on for a while. So I am using the Capture feeds directly from the sources into UE4. 1 for the cam and 1 for the gaming pc. Then, I package the project and display the result in obs

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 1:45 PM

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@limpid star Saved\Cooked\WindowsNoEditor

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nothing here ?

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hmm

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no clue then 😦

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 1:46 PM

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i would flip

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have you tried a different build mode for test?

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is it already shipping?

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mh

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thats crazy

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but if you didnt get errors or warnings

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then there could still be a message in the log

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unusual build patterns

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very common in c++...

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mh

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you cannot show log?

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your

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clean log 😄

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succesfll log

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i am making it worse arent i

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well

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any plugins?

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anything special?

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platform configurations?

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https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/810760/package-project-for-windows-creates-no-exe.html

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dis helps prolly

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very casual

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c++

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HA

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ima gonna tell you to fix your vs 😛

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and you are gonna tell me its fixed!

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😏

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maybe its not

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 1:53 PM

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aaaaaaah ffs

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what now java

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you worked with 4.20 and now you dont want to compile with 4.21

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dammit

harsh tiger Oct 30, 2018, 1:55 PM

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has anyone here ever built html 5 for newgrounds website?

unreal spoke Oct 30, 2018, 1:57 PM

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I'm trying to "Bake Out Material" from a static mesh asset but the result has some pink areas. How to solve it? It's using this pink/purple color that generally used in rendering to show an issue with texturing or a material.

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 2:07 PM

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@languid shard you see the non sense smudging?

📎 image0.jpg

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it's crisp wherever it feels like

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 2:08 PM

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on the letters and logo yeah

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are you sure that isn't coming from your elgato capture device ?

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 2:09 PM

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yup. It's perfect.

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as soon as i put it on the texture, it becomes weird. And the proportions are correct

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i don't know if it's the camera, the material, or the mediaplayer js itself

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 2:11 PM

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whats your material/media texture configuration ?

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 2:13 PM

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📎 Screenshot_4.png

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this is the texture. And I am feeding the URL via level blueprint

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 2:14 PM

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dont bother with the constant at 0 btw 😄

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just switch your material

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to unlit

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 2:14 PM

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oh haha ok will do that

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 2:14 PM

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and whats the rendertexture settings ?

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 2:16 PM

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wait is this the same as engine scalability settings? I have that on cinematic 100%

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material quality level high

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 2:17 PM

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Your video stream

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You send it to a rendertexture right ?

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 2:18 PM

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holly crap. Wait the problem might be the compression settings

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 2:19 PM

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eyup

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 2:22 PM

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nah i tried all different compression settings. Same. I have a media player, a media texture, and the material. No render target

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📎 Screenshot_5.png

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 2:23 PM

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all compression are the same ?

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 2:24 PM

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it's not the material, because i see the same blurriness on the media texture preview

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yes the weirdness doesn't go away. Can i skip the compression overall? lol

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 2:28 PM

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well isnt there a raw option or something

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I'm updating the engine right now so I dont want to fiddle around with my other install

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 2:28 PM

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nope 😦 no raw

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oh hold on the display is worse than the preview. The texture preview is better now. Check this..

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📎 Screenshot_6.png

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just turned on my other computer and saw the huge difference

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 2:33 PM

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aye banana

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 2:33 PM

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yeah haha it makes life easier

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 2:33 PM

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your render scale is 100% right ?

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yeah I love banana

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still getting confused by how to cable properly my synths with it though

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 2:34 PM

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it's a pain .. since i made it work I didn't touch the connections haha

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yes it should be 100%

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 2:35 PM

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hmm maybe its using a lower mip

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 2:41 PM

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well i don't get it. 😦

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 2:42 PM

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I'll have a look in a few minutes if you want

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@torpid gulch wtf are you talking about

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🤔

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does it even have a link to unreal

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thats some stretchy planets though

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 2:49 PM

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#lounge for non-technical talk

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 2:49 PM

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<@&213101288538374145>

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feel that force

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 2:49 PM

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Yeah, sounds like that moderating force is needed here

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 2:51 PM

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the frick

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his stuff is an unreal game but

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what

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 2:51 PM

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just be quiet XD

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 2:51 PM

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Drugs ¯_(ツ)_/¯

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 2:51 PM

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strong medecine

unreal spoke Oct 30, 2018, 2:51 PM

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How to use "Bake Out Materials"?

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 2:51 PM

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that's a mute

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 2:52 PM

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fixed.

upper heart Oct 30, 2018, 2:52 PM

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Bye bye

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 3:03 PM

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@wintry glade alright lets see

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how did you setup your local streaming ?

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 3:16 PM

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so, pc1 HDMI -> pc2 elgato. pc2 runs UE4

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UE4 has Media Player -> Media Texture -> unlit Material

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now media texture preview seems better but the final result is pretty bad

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 3:23 PM

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what source is your texture running from ?

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I mean what kind of stream do you fill in its properties

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 3:25 PM

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Media -> Media player. and then i have on blueprint level this:

📎 Screenshot_7.png

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 3:25 PM

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ah shit

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we dont have any capture device like yours

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cant go further than this :<

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 3:26 PM

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hmmm any webcam ??

languid shard Oct 30, 2018, 3:26 PM

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nope xD

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well

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nah

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dont have any available rn

wintry glade Oct 30, 2018, 3:27 PM

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and this is my whole texture - media setup

📎 Screenshot_8.png

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ah ok 😃

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 3:42 PM

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Dont know where exactly to place this but

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im working on a Graduation Project, based on UE4 and VR

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Im using the VRPawn Template, im tryna implement locomotion controls and a method to allow my pawn avoid depending on meshes to go anywhere

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(without meshes on objects, and volume thing, PAWN cant get anywhere, quite annoying to have to implement that for literally everything when level designing)

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anyone here already dealt with the issues before?

unreal spoke Oct 30, 2018, 4:32 PM

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I have an asset (static mesh) with some sections/materials. I want to bake the whole thing to it's just one mesh with just one material. Does unreal have a way to do this? I tried "Bake out Materials" but it's creating simpler versions of the materials, but not putting them together.

lofty solstice Oct 30, 2018, 4:59 PM

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Is there any programmers in here that could confirm something for me regarding Targa file format? I'm curious how long in development time it takes for devs of software like Photoshop to have created the read/write support for TGA file format. From what I understand it's a simple format to support and im curious about a guestimate at how long you guys think it would take for a dev to do that ?

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strange question I know

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but Affinity photo doesn't support TGA and someone said it would take a long time and I'm sat here like "I'm pretty sure something like that would take a day at best" but im an amature programmer at best

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so im just curious 😛

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 5:03 PM

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TGA is a pretty straightforward format

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I've only implemented a subset of it for reading, but it couldn't have taken more than 50 lines of code

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This is a valid TGA exporter : https://github.com/madebr/libtga/blob/master/src/tgawrite.c

GitHub

madebr/libtga

Fork of http://tgalib.sourceforge.net/. Contribute to madebr/libtga development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The full library is only a few hundred lines long

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 5:05 PM

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+1 I would suggest finding a lib to do that

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not sure what the point of supporting it would be though

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 5:05 PM

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TGA is great

golden magnet Oct 30, 2018, 5:05 PM

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hey, does anyone know the dimensions of the default character in ue4?

steep crystal Oct 30, 2018, 5:06 PM

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@lofty solstice while the format is not hard or obscure, implementing proper support for a new file format takes quite some time if done right, with testing, sanity checks, etc

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 5:06 PM

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his default dimension is 96cm height and 48 width

golden magnet Oct 30, 2018, 5:06 PM

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96? lol wtf

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 5:06 PM

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you can stack 2 boxes

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wich are 2m exactly

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he will not fit into by default.

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half height is 48

golden magnet Oct 30, 2018, 5:07 PM

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i want a reference box inside 3ds max of the character so i was just curious, but ty

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 5:07 PM

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create a 1m cube

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that is absolute best practice

sturdy star Oct 30, 2018, 5:07 PM

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does anyone know how we specify an NMETA file in the unreal project?

golden magnet Oct 30, 2018, 5:07 PM

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i thought he would be like 1.8 but alright i'll do that, thanks again

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 5:07 PM

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always think of a bit more

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 5:07 PM

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@sturdy star For the Switch ? Ask the Nintendo support

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Private forums etc

scenic aspen Oct 30, 2018, 5:18 PM

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Hi all, I'm trying to get the latest update on 4.21 from the launcher but for some reason it is not showing up for me

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Is there a thing I need to check in order to see it?

lofty solstice Oct 30, 2018, 5:42 PM

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thanks @steep crystal and @cloud cobalt 😄

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@plush yew TGA is still very widely used in game development and on the affinity photo forums they keep suggesting TIFF instead, which isnt supported by unreal 😛

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 5:52 PM

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TGA is the most common sense format for UE4

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imho

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PNG is great, but PNG can have issues with alpha depending on the tool used

tall pendant Oct 30, 2018, 5:56 PM

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afaik .png tech. doesn't supports alpha channel but transparency channel instead.

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my guess is many of the issues people have comes from there

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 6:02 PM

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png supports alpha channel

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while TGA is probably still used I don't think it's necessarily a good thing, IMHO

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it's just uncompressed pixel data, not anything special

tall pendant Oct 30, 2018, 6:05 PM

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uncompressed might be the reason why to choose tga tho to avoid double compression

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imho you can end up getting artifacts once the textures getting compressed into dds

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 6:06 PM

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oh definitely

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you want to store source art in a lossless format

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 6:28 PM

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PNG supports alpha

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Photoshop PNG don't

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And TGA is way faster to save, so as an intermediary format between your PSD or Substance & UE, it's better imho

livid haven Oct 30, 2018, 6:33 PM

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TGA FTW.

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Uncompressed, alpha supported. Simple, open.

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 6:35 PM

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meh

livid haven Oct 30, 2018, 6:36 PM

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Beats PNG at those things.

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 6:38 PM

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still meh

hard surge Oct 30, 2018, 6:40 PM

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hello, i have a question, how would one import a 60 fps camera? importing in sequencer and setting 60 fps in the scene doesn't work

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 6:43 PM

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TGA is meant to be meh

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That's the point

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It's a no-bullshit uncompressed format for textures that's supported everywhere

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 6:44 PM

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oh no

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Dont you use my arguments!

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interjections

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support words

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its bmps deformed brother hidden in the basement o.o

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has extra channel

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while png is making money

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and jpg is cleaning the house

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 6:46 PM

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PNG & JPG make zero sense for game textures

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 6:46 PM

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or compressing

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 6:46 PM

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JPG is unusable obviously (no alpha, compression)

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 6:46 PM

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Now you say that!

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 6:46 PM

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PNG is usable but Photoshop doesn't handle its alpha correctly, and it's compressed, which is useless

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 6:47 PM

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that's photoshop's fault

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PNG is lossless compression

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 6:47 PM

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Still compressed which is a pure loss of time

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 6:47 PM

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I prefer to save on HDD space, but anyways it's basically personal pref at this point

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 6:47 PM

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i only use png

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 6:47 PM

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save on network bandwidth too

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 6:47 PM

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i literally dont use anything else

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and alpha is the only issue until now

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 6:48 PM

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TGA + RLE compression is probably not bad

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 6:48 PM

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you have to be careful with alpha bleeding

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 6:48 PM

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Disk space is irrelevant imho

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For gamedev

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 6:48 PM

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lol k

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not for everyone

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 6:48 PM

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yee ue4 wants the best data it can get

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it compresses data itself

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 6:48 PM

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A 1TB disk is what, $50 now ?

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 6:49 PM

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even if

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you can keep space small with optimization

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my projects rarely rise above 1 gb...

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and that only raw files

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not backups

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 6:50 PM

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and source control, which is ideally over the network somewhere else, nice to reduce time waiting for things to transfer

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 6:50 PM

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ofc

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 6:50 PM

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Though it's source control's job to do binary diffs

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PNG is just zlib

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It's frankly basic compression

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 6:51 PM

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that is not factual.

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 6:51 PM

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What isn't factual ?

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 6:52 PM

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it's not just zlib nor is it basic compression

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anyways it's not about png, just lossless compression is something I prefer for source assets

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personal preference

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that's it

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👋

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 6:52 PM

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Lossless is obviously a requirement, no arguing there

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Just saying i'd rather have 100X larger files if they're 10x faster to load

livid haven Oct 30, 2018, 6:53 PM

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Personal preference isn't how you make business decisions. 🤔

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If you choose not to use a format because you can't afford the bandwidth or extra time or whatever? Those are the reasons. That's not personal preference. That's a logistics/workflow decision.

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 6:54 PM

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yee

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for me png has right that what i need

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and i can work around glitches by now

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 6:55 PM

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k

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 6:55 PM

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@plush yew FWIW, just zipping a TGA file will get you within PNG orders of size

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PNG isn't any great at compression

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 6:55 PM

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the files are easy to handle and you can forsee how big they will be

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 6:56 PM

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I've tried 7z'ing a TGA file and I get exactly the same size as a PNG

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Hence my point : source control can have the same upload time for PNG & TGA

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If it's competent at compressing

livid haven Oct 30, 2018, 6:57 PM

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Honestly, glancing through some of the art source for Fortnite UI, I'm seeing TGA, PNG, and even some JPG. 🤷

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More PNG than anything else though, it seems.

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Lossless compression or no compression are a must, either way.

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As is alpha support.

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That pretty much means TGA or PNG.

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 7:00 PM

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Webp would be another one if it had any support

livid haven Oct 30, 2018, 7:00 PM

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That seems like an exceedingly strange choice.

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 7:00 PM

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Miles better than PNG at its own niche

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 7:00 PM

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suddenly png is fine again

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 7:01 PM

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Webp is basically jpg size with lossless & alpha

livid haven Oct 30, 2018, 7:01 PM

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I'd prefer TGA over PNG, myself.

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 7:01 PM

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you guys are lerping up and down like pros.

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next thing tiff

livid haven Oct 30, 2018, 7:01 PM

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Crazy thought: We're having a reasonable discussion with shifting views based on evidence. 😃

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Rather than staunchly holding narrow views that might be based on inaccurate information.

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 7:02 PM

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i will be the narrator!!!

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Welcome back to the tuesday gamedev nighttalk!!!!!!

livid haven Oct 30, 2018, 7:02 PM

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But, frankly, I never said PNG was not "fine". Just that I prefer TGA.

static viper Oct 30, 2018, 7:02 PM

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Today in the ring!!!!

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 7:02 PM

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compute cost of compress/decompress vs the bandwidth cost of reading/writing out uncompressed

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 7:02 PM

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The decision on PNG vs TGA is mostly about disk space use vs VCS compression performance vs CPU time

livid haven Oct 30, 2018, 7:02 PM

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Yep.

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And for most devs (that ever managed to ship anything at all), disk space is hardly a concern.

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For hobbyists working off a potato and can't afford a 2 digit sum for a hard drive... 🤷 That's not exactly the basis for an industry standard or convention.

polar hawk Oct 30, 2018, 7:04 PM

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TGA

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hell, in some instances you can diff a tga

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 7:04 PM

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Perforce does optional compression for syncing, so TGA & PNG would perform the same

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Well, 0 to 50% worse

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Depending on the compression quality

livid haven Oct 30, 2018, 7:05 PM

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It's Perforce. It'll fuck it up somehow.

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😃

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 7:05 PM

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Probably, but still

livid haven Oct 30, 2018, 7:05 PM

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Perforce: "What if we just... I don't know... invasively modified your text file's line endings?"

polar hawk Oct 30, 2018, 7:06 PM

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to be fair that is a server setting

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 7:06 PM

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Git defaults to exactly that ^

polar hawk Oct 30, 2018, 7:06 PM

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and git is no better

livid haven Oct 30, 2018, 7:06 PM

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Motherfucker, what? I asked you to track versions here, not change my gods damned version.

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 7:06 PM

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By the way, Steam's compression is slightly better than UE4's package compression, for example, despite not having any knowledge of the internal data structure.

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That's pretty wild

livid haven Oct 30, 2018, 7:06 PM

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Yeah, but... I hate Git too.

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So, everyone sucks.

polar hawk Oct 30, 2018, 7:06 PM

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almost everything in perforce is a server setting

ember patio Oct 30, 2018, 7:06 PM

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just have a dropbox shared with everyone, that'll keep you all in sync 👀

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 7:06 PM

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😱

polar hawk Oct 30, 2018, 7:07 PM

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deletes project

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good news everyone

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I sync-wiped everyone

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 7:08 PM

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Git is incredible and pretty much unparalled for code, still catastrophically bad for assets

lofty solstice Oct 30, 2018, 7:09 PM

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Oh wow I didn't expect to start a lengthy debate

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As a vfx artist tga is awesome because you can store information in the alpha channel which is not so great in png

cloud cobalt Oct 30, 2018, 7:10 PM

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You must be new here

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😛

lofty solstice Oct 30, 2018, 7:10 PM

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Also png has an issue with bleeding to white around the edges of your textures like leaves

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 7:11 PM

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thanks photoshop

lofty solstice Oct 30, 2018, 7:11 PM

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Yea

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If Photoshop allowed png to utilize the alpha channel and didn't remove the information on transparent pixels it might be ideal but, tga works fine in that regard

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Although admittedly, EXR could replace tga

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Not sure why unreal doesn't support tiff (last time I checked)

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But out of the 4 studios I've worked, 3 used tga for textures

turbid plover Oct 30, 2018, 7:27 PM

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all i really want from 4.21

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is 4.20 to not crash every 30 minutes

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that and built in nvidia blast plugin would be nice, since they dont support apex and apex doesnt work 😦

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mostly just a working and stable version of 4.20 though 😃

vale silo Oct 30, 2018, 8:14 PM

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pffff, who needs Photoshop when there is GIMP 2.10.x 😒 /s

ember patio Oct 30, 2018, 8:16 PM

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Who needs a Gimp, when you got paint? 👀

vale silo Oct 30, 2018, 8:17 PM

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true

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 9:51 PM

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what about Krita?

cerulean coral Oct 30, 2018, 10:02 PM

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plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:09 PM

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hey

cerulean coral Oct 30, 2018, 10:09 PM

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Hi

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:10 PM

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can i ask something

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do u know why my builds always fail even tho the game works fine

grim ore Oct 30, 2018, 10:11 PM

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the game builds out and you can run the .exe or it runs fine in the editor?

paper kernel Oct 30, 2018, 10:12 PM

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I believe it's a build failure

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engine outputting non-working exes would be a huge issue

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:12 PM

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ah

paper kernel Oct 30, 2018, 10:13 PM

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answer is in the log files, where the red text starts

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:13 PM

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it runs fine in edtior no errors

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oof

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is yellow bad

paper kernel Oct 30, 2018, 10:14 PM

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kinda, tho usually not critical

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:14 PM

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think i found a error

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i can only paste abit

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UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): CookResults: Error: Couldn't save package, filename is too long: C:/Users/Tristan/Documents/Unreal Projects/Character Interaction V3/Saved/Cooked/WindowsNoEditor/CharacterInteraction/Content/Interaction/Maps/ZombieCity/Meshes/DecoExterior_01/StaticMesh/SM_NYC_Deco_Exterior01_FireHydrant01_High.uasset
PackagingResults: Error: Couldn't save package, filename is too long: C:/Users/Tristan/Documents/Unreal Projects/Character Interaction V3/Saved/Cooked/WindowsNoEditor/CharacterInteraction/Content/Interaction/Maps/ZombieCity/Meshes/DecoExterior_01/StaticMesh/SM_NYC_Deco_Exterior01_FireHydrant01_High.uasset
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): LogCook: Error: Couldn't save package, filename is too long :C:/Users/Tristan/Documents/Unreal Projects/Character Interaction V3/Saved/Cooked/WindowsNoEditor/CharacterInteraction/Content/Interaction/Maps/ZombieCity/Meshes/DecoExterior_01/StaticMesh/SM_NYC_Deco_Exterior01_FireHydrant01_High.uasset
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): CookResults: Error: Couldn't save package, filename is too long: C:/Users/Tristan/Documents/Unreal Projects/Character Interaction V3/Saved/Cooked/WindowsNoEditor/CharacterInteraction/Content/Interaction/Maps/ZombieCity/Meshes/DecoExterior_01/Materials/M_NYC_Deco_Exterior_FireHydrant_01.uasset
PackagingResults: Error: Couldn't save package, filename is too long :C:/Users/Tristan/Documents/Unreal Projects/Character Interaction V3/Saved/Cooked/WindowsNoEditor/CharacterInteraction/Content/Interaction/Maps/ZombieCity/Meshes/DecoExterior_01/StaticMesh/SM_NYC_Deco_Exterior01_FireHydrant01_High.uasset
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): LogCook: Error: Couldn't save package, filename is too

paper kernel Oct 30, 2018, 10:14 PM

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filename is too long

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:15 PM

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rip

paper kernel Oct 30, 2018, 10:15 PM

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engine has limit on path name, you need to move it closer to drive root

dark depot Oct 30, 2018, 10:15 PM

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^ always nice to save it right at C:/ or are close as you can

paper kernel Oct 30, 2018, 10:15 PM

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and those are really long file names

dark depot Oct 30, 2018, 10:16 PM

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also that haha

paper kernel Oct 30, 2018, 10:16 PM

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like ZombieCity could be ZC

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:16 PM

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ah ok

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i will fix that ty tho

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cause i buyed this kit from the market and wanted to edit it and start off cause im new to unreal

paper kernel Oct 30, 2018, 10:17 PM

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you can safely rename the folders inside the editor

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to something shorter

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:17 PM

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okay

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ill just do zc

dark depot Oct 30, 2018, 10:17 PM

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i like to keep a Projects folder in the root folder

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:17 PM

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what you mean?

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sorry just new to this

dark depot Oct 30, 2018, 10:17 PM

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like C:/Projects/CurrentProject

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:17 PM

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i got the hang of blueprints tho

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ah

dark depot Oct 30, 2018, 10:18 PM

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lot shorter path then Users/documents/blahblahblah

paper kernel Oct 30, 2018, 10:18 PM

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C:/Users/Tristan/Documents/Unreal Projects/ could be just C:/UProjects/

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saves you plenty in path length

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:19 PM

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yes

paper kernel Oct 30, 2018, 10:19 PM

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it's a real silly non-issue, but gotta live with it

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:19 PM

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ill do dat then

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i got a new error

dark depot Oct 30, 2018, 10:19 PM

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its a hard windows limit

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by default

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:19 PM

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do i skip

📎 unknown.png

dark depot Oct 30, 2018, 10:20 PM

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do you have a second copy of your project open

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:20 PM

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nope

paper kernel Oct 30, 2018, 10:20 PM

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is it open while you're trying to move it?

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:20 PM

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oh lmao

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wait lemem see

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na it aint

paper kernel Oct 30, 2018, 10:21 PM

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hm

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:21 PM

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wait i think it worked

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its named zc now

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ill try build now

paper kernel Oct 30, 2018, 10:22 PM

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either way, lesson learned

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keep your file and folder names short

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:22 PM

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yes will do

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anyone wanna see my intro for the game i dunno if its good i just made a test

paper kernel Oct 30, 2018, 10:24 PM

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#work-in-progress for showing off stuff

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 10:24 PM

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okay ty

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 11:06 PM

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now i jsut get saving errors

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on all my assets

wicked igloo Oct 30, 2018, 11:37 PM

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Is there a hotkey or setting to turn on/off tooltips while hovering over a blueprint?

plush yew Oct 30, 2018, 11:50 PM

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with article 13 are fan games illegal or still in the grey area?

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I cant find anything on it

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by fan games I mean "fan" games

ember patio Oct 31, 2018, 12:23 AM

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Click and drag blades to match desired airspeed 👀

📎 6089290_R_SET.png

inner socket Oct 31, 2018, 12:51 AM

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Hi! How can I remove a widget on screen from the Event begin play in a Level blueprint?

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 12:55 AM

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Is it normal to hate Unreal?

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Damn, everything I try ends up in more problems

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 12:55 AM

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@ember patio sadly my fan game looks more like this 😭

📎 shrekfan.png

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 12:55 AM

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195 imported, all useless

inner socket Oct 31, 2018, 12:56 AM

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Hi! How can I remove a widget on screen from the Event begin play in a Level blueprint? pls I need help

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 12:56 AM

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Thats what happens with every engine

young dagger Oct 31, 2018, 12:56 AM

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i can't even sign in to unreal engine so yes i think it's perfectly normal

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 12:56 AM

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You learn what to do correctly and do it

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some things are easier or more frustrating in other engines

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 12:56 AM

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is there a way to not end up with 195 useless models?

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 12:56 AM

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Blender to Unity is perfectly smooth

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blender to UE4 is more like "fuck you"

young dagger Oct 31, 2018, 12:57 AM

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is anyone having a problem that when they sign in they get redirected to the sign up page and when they sign up they get redirected to sign in

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 12:57 AM

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Reinstaill

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 12:57 AM

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Ugh, Blender is annoying as heck to start modelling and building ambients, Unreal is so easier

young dagger Oct 31, 2018, 12:57 AM

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I'm on the website

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Not on the launcher

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 12:57 AM

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ah

young dagger Oct 31, 2018, 12:57 AM

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Wait unreal engine is in the epic game launcher gizmo right?

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 12:57 AM

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yea

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 12:57 AM

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Yeah

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Almost moving out to XPS.

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Even though its .mesh files are annoying too

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 12:59 AM

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But yea, it took me days of frustration to learn how to import blender assets into UE4 successfully . There are so many things like texture painting and skeletons dont add up

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google long enough and the answers are there

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Not everyone has a fast pc to just brute force trial and error

young dagger Oct 31, 2018, 12:59 AM

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ill just use a different engine until the thing works i guess

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 12:59 AM

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I importe FBX, the only format UE4 reads

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:00 AM

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Yea, you need gently sing a ryhme to blender and then cuddle it neatly into a cozy bed to make it work

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what are you trying to export?

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:01 AM

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Imported a full scene, this one https://free3d.com/3d-model/house-43064.html

House Free 3D Model - .3ds .obj .blend .fbx .mtl .stl - Free3D

Free Download, 3d House model available in 3ds, obj, blend, fbx, mtl, stl and made with Blender 2.72b.

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At least I learned how to import textures now

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:02 AM

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whats the problem btw?

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it wont import at all?

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:03 AM

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Imports, but gives a lot of errors and small items

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:03 AM

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Alright

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:03 AM

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degenerate polygons

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:03 AM

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first you want to make sure you unwrap it all

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Second is the export settings

dark depot Oct 31, 2018, 1:04 AM

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it means you have two verts on top of each other

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clean your mesh up

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:04 AM

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and now the engine locked up

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Still haven't solved the annoying bloom issue

dark depot Oct 31, 2018, 1:05 AM

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turn off bloom if you dont like it

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:05 AM

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UE4 just crashed and exited

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tried using options, but nothing

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:05 AM

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Did you make it all one mesh?

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or export it as it is?

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:06 AM

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I downloaded the model on the site

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:06 AM

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alright, go in

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:06 AM

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I'm trying a architecture project

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:06 AM

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its a pretty unoptimized model to begin with

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gimme a sec

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trying if it works

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cause your importing all these things sepertate

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if you dont have a great PC, no wonder it crashes

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:07 AM

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All at teh same time

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:07 AM

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Now gimme a sec

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:08 AM

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It didn't crash, just gave the degenerate polygon error

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:08 AM

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and ill tell you how to fix the errors

young dagger Oct 31, 2018, 1:08 AM

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📎 unknown.png

dark depot Oct 31, 2018, 1:08 AM

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looks like its a terrible model and its saying it has degenerate polygons open it in blender and do a weld to combine them. or import and there is a setting to remove degenerates

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:08 AM

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it is quite a shit model

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But gimme a sec

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:09 AM

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It seems to be a full scene

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:11 AM

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oof

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holy shit just realized there is a interior

dark depot Oct 31, 2018, 1:12 AM

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looks like it. you can uncheck the merge mesh button on import and selecting the transform vertex to absolute that will make them import as single models depending on how this person set it up and it will give them an ok pivot

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but you most likly are going to need to open blender/whatever yuo use if you don't want the whole scene to fix issues this model has and do things like give them a material slot/uv which this looks like it doessnt have

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and none of this is an engine thing its a crappy model thing

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:14 AM

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Object mode, ctrl a , ctrl j .Then edit mode ctrl + a , u and then smart unwrap

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:14 AM

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Ugh

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it's ok, guys. Thanks for the help.

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:15 AM

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I myself dont seem to be able to get it working

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:15 AM

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Another thing, how do I disable Bloom?(even though I disabled it in options)

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:15 AM

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find the post process volume

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and click the eye icon

dark depot Oct 31, 2018, 1:15 AM

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in project settings or in a post process volume

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:16 AM

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and If I may ask why are you using UE4?

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easier to render in blender

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:17 AM

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The thing is that, I don't know too much of Blender

dark depot Oct 31, 2018, 1:17 AM

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then use something else

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:17 AM

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You would still need to texture it all and all in Blender

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:18 AM

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I'll be using 3DS

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they are very different, 3DS has the same workflow as UE4

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:18 AM

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render it in 3DS

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if 3ds doesnt have a great render, texture the model and then cycles render it in blender

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:19 AM

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Unreal is more precise in case of measurements

dark depot Oct 31, 2018, 1:19 AM

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i use both 3dsMax and blender. they both can measure fine haha just use whatever

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:20 AM

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📎 unknown.png

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:20 AM

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invert normals on the bottom part of the couch?

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:20 AM

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I didn't put the legs

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:21 AM

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that looks to me like broken shading on the couch?

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:21 AM

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I started learning the engine last week

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:22 AM

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Go to 3ds max

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select those broken shaded places

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and "in the modifiers panel select Normal, then in the parameters roll out, make sure Flip Normals box is ticked."

dark depot Oct 31, 2018, 1:23 AM

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those are not inverted normals

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:23 AM

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The model itself was broken

dark depot Oct 31, 2018, 1:23 AM

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its just a crappy uv and no smoothing

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:23 AM

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I downloaded from the same site

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:23 AM

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Same thing

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as the previous one

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unwrap it

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UE4 will create a lightmap

dark depot Oct 31, 2018, 1:23 AM

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maybe dont use that site haha

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:24 AM

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Its a minor issue to fix

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:24 AM

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Would be a lot easier if I could have access to DAZ

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:24 AM

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in blender import it. click from object mode to edit, ctrl+a , u , click on unwrap

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or smart unwrap

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Daz and importing shit is a bitch from my expiernce

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might have changed

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but assembling a scene, then lighting , it hurts

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:28 AM

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Oh yay, Hexagon is free for Daz users

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:29 AM

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Hexagon was pretty cool, but blender and the others have all the fancy addons

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:30 AM

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One thing that made me get UE4 for rendering is Ansel

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:32 AM

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Why?

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:32 AM

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360

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I don't know any other program with Ansel support, not even XPS.

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:32 AM

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instead of fancy rendering in 3dsmax or blender allowing for extremely realistic images easy

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um

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https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/3ds-max/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2017/ENU/3DSMax/files/GUID-432745B8-66E9-416C-8BCA-EF762CD3495F-htm.html

To Create a Panorama

You need at least one camera in your scene to use the Panorama Exporter. Choose Rendering Panorama Exporter. If you use Enhanced menus, choose Rendering Tools (Rendering Set) Panorama Exporter. On the Utilities panel Panorama Exporter rollout, click Render. On the Render Setu...

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blender is slightly more tricky

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:36 AM

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Blender is a lot trickier

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:37 AM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOsQy4kzSJ4

YouTube

NT Productions

How to Make 360° Video in Blender (Tutorial in 360°)

In this special tutorial, I will show you how to create 360° video easily in Blender using any scene. As far as I know this is the only tutorial posted in fu...

▶ Play video

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video on 360* video in 360* video

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4 minutes of setting stuff

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and if you know 3dsmax use 3dsmax

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:38 AM

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And tricky to achieve that result

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due to it's out of standard interface

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 1:38 AM

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use 3dsmax?

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:39 AM

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It's much better, even though I don't have it available now

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i'll see what I can do, thanks

dusk mulch Oct 31, 2018, 1:40 AM

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hi

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i just posted a problem that i have in support

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can someone try to help me?

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thanks

rustic panther Oct 31, 2018, 1:53 AM

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what's Fortnite's tick rate these days?

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is it still 30Hz?

devout sun Oct 31, 2018, 1:54 AM

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60hz?

rustic panther Oct 31, 2018, 1:54 AM

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apparently they were saying 30Hz after 4.2 but it didn't get there?

south ridge Oct 31, 2018, 1:58 AM

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Are you picking out a tickrate for your project?

rustic panther Oct 31, 2018, 1:58 AM

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nah, I was just curious

south ridge Oct 31, 2018, 1:58 AM

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Ah. I dunno what's the value then. But both 30-ish and 60-ish are super common tickrates

rustic panther Oct 31, 2018, 1:58 AM

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I can't seem to find any info about it since 4.2

grim sinew Oct 31, 2018, 2:08 AM

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4.2 and 4.20 are not the same thing btw

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4.2 is like... 4 years ago

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 2:11 AM

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what is 4.20 then

manic pawn Oct 31, 2018, 2:12 AM

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18 versions newer than 4.2

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 2:12 AM

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never noticed the difference

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 2:39 AM

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Is UT's AI really "legendary" like the install page claims?

grim sinew Oct 31, 2018, 2:45 AM

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Well back in the day they had some of the better AI, mostly because of a lot of hard work manually pathing them

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But not sure how it holds up today really, especially when compared to games that focus on strong AI like stealth games

rapid prism Oct 31, 2018, 3:10 AM

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So I'm trying to link my UE account to Github but it isn't inviting me to the org.
o.o
any ideas?
I get emails for linking/unlinking but no invites
and I've checked spam and tried multiple browsers etc

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I've dabbled a bit in game design with unity

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and I did a class on ue a loooong time ago

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but decided to come here because from what I understand graphics are hella better

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and from what I remember

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and from what i see lol

midnight spoke Oct 31, 2018, 3:18 AM

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is there some way to edit settings outside of an unreal game?

midnight spoke Oct 31, 2018, 3:51 AM

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why is nobody talking :<

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 3:57 AM

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good server name

onyx lily Oct 31, 2018, 4:10 AM

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Hey everyone Im new here.
I was hoping someone could help me find a solution to my problem. I'm making some materials in Substance Painter and bringing them into my scene for a project that im doing.

My question is if there is a way to control the color of my material that i made in painter but change it to what i want in Unreal?

Btw im sorry if i posted my question in the wrong place

ember patio Oct 31, 2018, 5:42 AM

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there's always a way......... I don't know it tho 👀

frank wolf Oct 31, 2018, 7:00 AM

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Hai everyone 😃

warm tree Oct 31, 2018, 9:42 AM

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@onyx lily Have you activated the Substance Plugin in UE?

uncut whale Oct 31, 2018, 9:42 AM

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@onyx lily you should be able to control the colour of substance materials if you use the substance plugin and import the substance file. Depends on the material though.

If you're importing textures made in sp and creating a material with them then you'd need another approach. I have used alpha masking to control the colour of specific parts of a texture

wary wave Oct 31, 2018, 10:04 AM

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morning folks - anyone know if the actor sequence editor has advanced since 4.16?

latent moth Oct 31, 2018, 10:59 AM

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Good morning 😃 I'm trying to make a clickable 3D map. I set the input mode to Game and UI, however I cannot click on the buttons of this 3D widget: https://gyazo.com/e3fc7d6802f8451c75b785b615a19b2f

Gyazo

▶ Play video

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anyone know what I am missing?

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 11:10 AM

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Anyone can answer if epic has released the anim bp files for their paragon assets? 🤐

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I seem to have lost the files when i recreated the anim systems.. darn

wary wave Oct 31, 2018, 11:20 AM

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@languid kindle - I might assume you have another UI of some description (e.g. your HUD or similar) already blocking

latent moth Oct 31, 2018, 11:24 AM

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I made it work with a widget interaction component

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is that needed for this use case?

wary wave Oct 31, 2018, 11:27 AM

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it's the correct widget type to use, but if you have any other UI on the screen (e.g. a HUD), then it will block input to those components

latent moth Oct 31, 2018, 11:27 AM

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i see, can zorder be used to solve this?

wary wave Oct 31, 2018, 11:27 AM

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I'm not sure - I think z-order only works for a given widget, but I may be wrong

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generally speaking when I've done these kinds of things, I've avoided using full screen widgets

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I've seen answers for this problem on Answerhub though, I believe

latent moth Oct 31, 2018, 11:28 AM

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So.. this works but looks a little weird...
https://gyazo.com/660aff0ff2128cd957e3da59b06cab14

wary wave Oct 31, 2018, 11:28 AM

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so you might find something with some digging

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yeah, that definitely makes me think something is blocking

latent moth Oct 31, 2018, 11:29 AM

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hum

wary wave Oct 31, 2018, 11:29 AM

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I couldn't say for sure though, it's your game, hehe

latent moth Oct 31, 2018, 11:29 AM

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yes I do have HUDs 😃

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they are invisible and get activated when needed so you hit a spot 😃

wary wave Oct 31, 2018, 11:29 AM

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do some googling around HUD blocking interactable widget, you should find something

latent moth Oct 31, 2018, 11:29 AM

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ok! thank you

wary wave Oct 31, 2018, 11:29 AM

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no problem

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 11:44 AM

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Anyone knows something about my question 🤔

latent moth Oct 31, 2018, 11:59 AM

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@wary wave unfortunately none of the solutions work. Tried: ZOrder & setting DISABLE DEPTH TEST on material

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if you have anything else on top of your mind is welcome

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sorry @plush yew don't know

wary wave Oct 31, 2018, 11:59 AM

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when I use world space widgets, my HUD doesn't overlap the entire screen, I just use individual placed widgets

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you may need to rethink your HUD - or otherwise remove / readd it when you're using the map

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 12:00 PM

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@latent moth it's fine, i was hoping someone will say something who knows wether epic released it. But it seems they only released additional characters instead of the anim nodes and the complete anim blueprints

latent moth Oct 31, 2018, 12:15 PM

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thank you ambershee

open merlin Oct 31, 2018, 12:33 PM

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explorer.exe

cloud cobalt Oct 31, 2018, 12:45 PM

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?

languid shard Oct 31, 2018, 12:46 PM

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Stranger.exe

silver crown Oct 31, 2018, 12:47 PM

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Antoine.exe

cloud cobalt Oct 31, 2018, 12:48 PM

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Use#loungeForOffTopic.exe

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am I doing this right

paper kernel Oct 31, 2018, 12:58 PM

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you gotta add yeet somewhere in there

languid shard Oct 31, 2018, 12:59 PM

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@paper kernel done

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still stuck with this goddamn ARCore stuff not working 😦

broken stream Oct 31, 2018, 1:28 PM

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good day guys, i have been looking all over the web about this weapon clipping at walls and there is nothing, only telling to make the capsule bigger for collision but then you can not walk true any doors. any one can help me ?

static viper Oct 31, 2018, 1:29 PM

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what issue?

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clipping walls?

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what

broken stream Oct 31, 2018, 1:30 PM

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yes weapon clipping at the wall

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true the wall

languid shard Oct 31, 2018, 1:31 PM

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through ?

static viper Oct 31, 2018, 1:31 PM

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there are 2 solutions

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one that i am using

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first you should look at crysis 2

broken stream Oct 31, 2018, 1:31 PM

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yes sorry through'

static viper Oct 31, 2018, 1:31 PM

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and then cs go

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cs go uses a method of stereo rendering

languid shard Oct 31, 2018, 1:32 PM

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environment aware FPS models, or overlaying viewmodels

static viper Oct 31, 2018, 1:32 PM

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where the weapon is in a seperate channel

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and crysis 2 uses the proper method where the hero just turns the gun away the close he gets to the wall

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obviously version 2 is best

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bc why would you go into contact with a wall and shoot

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like

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right inside it...

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that is very weird

wary wave Oct 31, 2018, 1:33 PM

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use panini projection

broken stream Oct 31, 2018, 1:34 PM

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so how will i make somthing like that seperat channel

wary wave Oct 31, 2018, 1:34 PM

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it's a vertex shader technique that can be used on a small mesh to ensure it lines up with camera settings (not the post process technique of the same name)

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there is a tutorial / example somewhere on the forums, easily googleable

static viper Oct 31, 2018, 1:34 PM

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the easier solution it is XD

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comes with a price...

broken stream Oct 31, 2018, 1:35 PM

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lol

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hmm..well it was a loot of information but realy still stuck

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so the best way is wat `?

static viper Oct 31, 2018, 1:44 PM

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did you google panini thing yet?

broken stream Oct 31, 2018, 1:44 PM

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yes i did also the seperat cahnnel

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so the panini is the best way

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let me see more about it

static viper Oct 31, 2018, 1:45 PM

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i would say no.

broken stream Oct 31, 2018, 1:45 PM

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yes

static viper Oct 31, 2018, 1:45 PM

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you should really try this out

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and find if you like it

broken stream Oct 31, 2018, 1:46 PM

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the panini

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i was hoping to have that the wapon stop at the wall or move away

static viper Oct 31, 2018, 1:46 PM

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that is the best method

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crysis 2

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but that will have you make animations etc

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and code

broken stream Oct 31, 2018, 1:47 PM

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i did make a box collition on my weapon bp

static viper Oct 31, 2018, 1:47 PM

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that will not achieve anything

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you will need distance

broken stream Oct 31, 2018, 1:47 PM

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i know nothing is hapening

static viper Oct 31, 2018, 1:48 PM

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do a distance trace

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and then clamp that

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and convert into a lerp

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and that lerp is attached to your switch

broken stream Oct 31, 2018, 1:48 PM

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switch as the weapon

static viper Oct 31, 2018, 1:49 PM

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how ever you want todo it

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i prefer the method where the player just drops the weapon

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and it reappears when the blockage is solved

broken stream Oct 31, 2018, 1:51 PM

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do you have any picture of a BP you can show me ?

static viper Oct 31, 2018, 1:51 PM

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i have but that would go to far XD

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it isnt an easy system

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but also not hard

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its like, if you know what traces do and how you got to change the weapon

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then you can do it

broken stream Oct 31, 2018, 1:52 PM

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😰

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ok, i will have to try to google it

frank plume Oct 31, 2018, 2:22 PM

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Can somebody tell me that when is the next jam

grim ore Oct 31, 2018, 2:26 PM

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yes I am sure someone can

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https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/events/1540271-2018-epic-megajam-thread-november-8-15

Unreal Engine Forums

TW_EpicMegaJam_Promo_181026.jpg

The 2018 Epic MegaJam, our biggest #ue4jam of the year, is coming right up! This is a fantastic opportunity for you to have some

frank plume Oct 31, 2018, 2:28 PM

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Can anyone help me in the game jam

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 2:36 PM

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no

grim ore Oct 31, 2018, 2:39 PM

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https://crowdforge.io/jams/ue4jam

2018 Epic MegaJam team builder on CrowdForge

Join or form a team for 2018 Epic MegaJam on CrowdForge

broken stream Oct 31, 2018, 3:55 PM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4A9fmTQTuI&feature=youtu.be

YouTube

Erling David Tufto

Wall hit test animation. Wrong

Wall hit test animation.

▶ Play video

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so i got this almost to work

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but when i change it to FP it wont let me play the animation that i have set up

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oak tulip Oct 31, 2018, 4:09 PM

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Is rtx available in ue4?

safe rose Oct 31, 2018, 4:10 PM

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Yes/no

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yes it's been available for months, but publicly, no.

tall pendant Oct 31, 2018, 4:11 PM

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public = 4.22

safe rose Oct 31, 2018, 4:12 PM

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rtx and dxr is different

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well

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Depends on what he wants

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If it's RTX, then he has to wait for Nvidia plugin

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If it's DXR, then yeah, it'll be in 4.22

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Unless they plan on just merging both. Which could happen. But last I heard, Nvidia was doing something different.

fossil ore Oct 31, 2018, 4:21 PM

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What is DXR.?

tall pendant Oct 31, 2018, 4:22 PM

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DirectX Raytracing

fossil ore Oct 31, 2018, 4:25 PM

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Ok

icy bone Oct 31, 2018, 4:28 PM

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DXR will prolly be supported by RTX anyway

unreal spoke Oct 31, 2018, 5:01 PM

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Which channel to ask about the exporting of an skeletal mesh with LODs from maya and the importing in UE4? I've already checked the docs but something is not working...

static viper Oct 31, 2018, 5:02 PM

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animation

unreal spoke Oct 31, 2018, 5:02 PM

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Thanks

karmic sleet Oct 31, 2018, 5:07 PM

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Hello there! I'm new to UE4, looking to create a procedural infinite map generation targeted for Android with Multiplayer capabilities. As a cs student we've only used Java at my university so far, I'd like to know if it is possible to create such thing within the UE4 engine. This is more of a hobby project after all, learning C++ is also something I'm looking for.

tall pendant Oct 31, 2018, 5:10 PM

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rtx builds on top of dxr. basically like a extension to dxr

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 5:29 PM

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anything is possible 😃

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but @karmic sleet that is a lot of project scope

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How big is the unreal tournament source build? I had 57gb/120gb of my ssd clear but it wasn't enough

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UE4 engine source is 61GB for me and I'm sure I excluded a bunch of stuff that is normally in there

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Oof

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I'll have to get an HDD for raid

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thanks

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 6:21 PM

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need some help again rip

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i got these asset packs i put it in my project and they just have mpty folders and it wont import

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wary wave Oct 31, 2018, 6:26 PM

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I'm going to guess said asset pack wasn't obtained legitimately, judging by that file path

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 6:26 PM

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every asset is just not there but in the files it is

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well i got it form my friend

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dunno if he paid for it

wary wave Oct 31, 2018, 6:27 PM

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so in other words, no

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 6:27 PM

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yup

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yeh but do u know hwo to fix it tho it works sometimes

sonic pagoda Oct 31, 2018, 6:50 PM

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does anyone have any Garbage Collection tips for mobile? or can point me in the right direction

frank escarp Oct 31, 2018, 6:51 PM

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@sonic pagoda its the same every time

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avoid uobjects

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and specially pool actors

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pool everything you possible can that is created/destroyed commonly

sonic pagoda Oct 31, 2018, 6:51 PM

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so enemies

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definitely need to be pooled right

frank escarp Oct 31, 2018, 6:51 PM

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definitely

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but enemies are hard to pool

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you need to reset them to factory defaults and all that crap

sonic pagoda Oct 31, 2018, 6:52 PM

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lifts up hand from back of classroom, i can do it

frank escarp Oct 31, 2018, 6:52 PM

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for example, in DWVR i pool bullets and fx, but i dont pool enemies

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too much effort

sonic pagoda Oct 31, 2018, 6:52 PM

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whats DWVR?

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yea im pooling the bullets already, not the fx though, im not quite sure how to do that

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and what about sound for that matter?

frank escarp Oct 31, 2018, 6:53 PM

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no issue

sonic pagoda Oct 31, 2018, 6:53 PM

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oh i just saw your game on steam

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congrats!

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i dont have a VR headset tho

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is it playable non-vr?

frank escarp Oct 31, 2018, 6:53 PM

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no

sonic pagoda Oct 31, 2018, 6:55 PM

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man ive never had any of these issues on pc/mac... but its getting to the point in the game where everything looks like its running fine but collision just fails to happen, and im guessing its because dead enemies are taking up memory or something

safe rose Oct 31, 2018, 6:56 PM

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Mobile Dev is hard 😉

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Working on prototypes for Oculus Go and Vive Focus as I type this while waiting for a Perforce branch to download

frank escarp Oct 31, 2018, 6:57 PM

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the worst of mobile dev

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is the fucking tools

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wich are garbage

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on the ps4 you get god tier debuggers

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on the pc you get all your debuggers too, tho not as good

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on mobile you get...

safe rose Oct 31, 2018, 6:57 PM

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What debuggers are bad?

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Haven't run into any issues really

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Although I think Renderdoc could use some love for Go

frank escarp Oct 31, 2018, 6:58 PM

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also hard to grab the logs

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and low remote control stuff

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in ps4 you can remote control it, but you cant on mobiles

sonic pagoda Oct 31, 2018, 6:59 PM

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im using unreal frontend to just look at bottle necks, console command startfile, stopfile...

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frank escarp Oct 31, 2018, 7:01 PM

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holy spikes

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btw make sure to upgrade to latest unreal

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tons of fortnite improvements for mobile lately

safe rose Oct 31, 2018, 7:01 PM

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95% of the time, your bottleneck on mobile is just drawcalls 😃

sonic pagoda Oct 31, 2018, 7:01 PM

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im on 4.20

frank escarp Oct 31, 2018, 7:01 PM

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yup

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its amazing how crap drawcalls are on mobile

safe rose Oct 31, 2018, 7:01 PM

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Other than that, poorly written code

sonic pagoda Oct 31, 2018, 7:01 PM

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never

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lol

frank escarp Oct 31, 2018, 7:01 PM

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in mobile vr, also fill rate

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but still, fukin drawcalls

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vr being a instant x2 and vr being first person, wich means free lookk

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cant go isometric on that XD

safe rose Oct 31, 2018, 7:02 PM

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Well, I have my drawcalls on a pretty big screen down to 62, can run 72FPS on Go

sonic pagoda Oct 31, 2018, 7:02 PM

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my game has no issues, it runs fine, looks great, but after some time like 15 seconds for example, after killing a couple of enemies, collisions will just fail

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so im assuming GC

safe rose Oct 31, 2018, 7:02 PM

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But I was looking at Unity's Batch thing

frank escarp Oct 31, 2018, 7:02 PM

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nicee

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yeah man unreal doesnt do that

sonic pagoda Oct 31, 2018, 7:02 PM

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with the spikes happening at around those times

safe rose Oct 31, 2018, 7:02 PM

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They have a better way to batch drawcalls

frank escarp Oct 31, 2018, 7:02 PM

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the unity bathcing is that they merge meshes at runtime

safe rose Oct 31, 2018, 7:02 PM

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Well, batch stuff in general

frank escarp Oct 31, 2018, 7:02 PM

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if they have the same material

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in unreal you have to do that statically

safe rose Oct 31, 2018, 7:02 PM

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Yeah, but it's better because they will properly atlas

frank escarp Oct 31, 2018, 7:02 PM

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bake down with actor merger

safe rose Oct 31, 2018, 7:03 PM

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Yeah, but if they don't, you're SOL

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Someone else on here had the same issues I saw.

sonic pagoda Oct 31, 2018, 7:07 PM

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so if minimum gc cluster size is set by default to 5

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its only going to release that actor's memory back once i have 5 objects to destroy?

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📎 unknown.png

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just trying to see if theres anything here that will help me on mobile

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theres not much documentation on this subject unfortunately

frank escarp Oct 31, 2018, 7:08 PM

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woah no

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do NOT TOUCH THAT

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thats dangerous and complicated settings

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btw, gc cluster size is becouse it can merge uobjects that are "togther" into one cluster

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for example, think all the ubojects of all the components and stuff all from the same parent actor

sonic pagoda Oct 31, 2018, 7:11 PM

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ah okay

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i am going to touch those settings

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cause im an outlaw

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im gonna try unckechking allow parallel, idk maybe on a mobile processor it might do something

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if i tell you it improved performance would you believe me, there was an initial hitch when firing the uzi, and now its gone after unchecking that

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or not, now i need to uncheck it to see if it was something else 😂

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im just desperate at this point. the game runs at 60fps on mobile, and all of a sudden, collisions just stop working... but the game remains at 60fps.. and then after a while, they come back

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its like a major WTF

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guess who isnt releasing a halloween game on halloween

lunar palm Oct 31, 2018, 7:30 PM

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UE4 keeps crashing for some reason everytime I import any mesh and double click on it after importing. This shows up everytime - anyone know what the issue is?

📎 unknown.png

cinder basin Oct 31, 2018, 7:30 PM

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what kind of mesh/where are you importing from

lunar palm Oct 31, 2018, 7:31 PM

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From my desktop, here's the obj if you want to take a look

📎 comp_test.obj

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Maybe the mesh is too large or something?

sonic pagoda Oct 31, 2018, 7:34 PM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brSADv4Vm2g

YouTube

Imagine-Games

Still have these collision issues (recorded from S9 this time)

▶ Play video

lunar palm Oct 31, 2018, 7:37 PM

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@cinder basin UE4 even crashes when I delete it and re-open it without importing the mesh it seems

grim ore Oct 31, 2018, 7:40 PM

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The file opens fine here in 4.21p4, paint3d, and unity.

lunar palm Oct 31, 2018, 7:40 PM

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That's so frustrating haha

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Could you try opening the mesh in UE4?

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See if it crashes? @grim ore

grim ore Oct 31, 2018, 7:42 PM

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I did

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4.21 preview 4

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https://i.imgur.com/rsrLJzw.jpg

Imgur

lunar palm Oct 31, 2018, 7:44 PM

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That is very weird lol

grim ore Oct 31, 2018, 7:44 PM

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it might be one of your import settings

lunar palm Oct 31, 2018, 7:44 PM

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Maybe, but the thing is

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I just deleted the mesh in my UE4 project

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re-opened it, tried to open a whole other material

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and the entire thing just crashed on me

grim ore Oct 31, 2018, 7:47 PM

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yeah it must be your project or PC. imported it into 4.20.3 and no issues, even used the reset to default button on the importer

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 7:47 PM

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why my model like this

📎 unknown.png

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it wont work that well

grim ore Oct 31, 2018, 7:48 PM

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Is that the default model for that example or one you imported and are using?

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my guess would be missing or extra bones in the skeleton

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 7:48 PM

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well i dunno i looked at this video

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https://api.unrealengine.com/INT/Videos/PLZlv_N0_O1gbwdyIm78w42fZ1t8dDClsI/xy9aLbZLdeA/index.html

03 - Anim Retargeting Different Skeletons

In this video we take a look at how we can share animations between two Skeletal Meshes that are using different Skeleton assets. We go through the setup and retargeting process and pass an animation between two different Skeleton assets.

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it works but my model now is funny

grim ore Oct 31, 2018, 7:49 PM

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You have to know if that is the model for that example or not

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it sounds like your retarget did not target the correct bones then

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 7:49 PM

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rip

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can u take alook at my bones?

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if i send a pic

grim ore Oct 31, 2018, 7:50 PM

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I am not an artist so I wouldn't be able to help very well that's why I am just guessing from the looks

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 7:50 PM

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ok ok well this what is ment to look like

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grim ore Oct 31, 2018, 7:50 PM

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#graphics or #animation might be able to help more with this issue

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 7:50 PM

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okay

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ty

lunar palm Oct 31, 2018, 7:59 PM

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@grim ore So it's just my project then. It's weird though because it's a completely new third person project, not sure what I did wrong - anyway, thanks! I have one more concern though - when you import my obj do you have the auto generated UVs option checked on? And if so, could you change the lightmap coordinate index(s) to 1 and see if the lighting fixes? My light bleeds for my mesh and I can't fix it even if I change the coordinate index to 1, it keeps the same UVs I have when I import my mesh rather than switching to the ones UE generated for me.

grim ore Oct 31, 2018, 8:00 PM

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sure let me test that, and mine is a fresh tpp as well

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the Generate Lightmap UV's option?

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ok using the lightmap in UV0 it definitely does not have good self lighting, the back of the monitor is funky

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having UE4 generate the lightmap uv as well does not seem to make them any better, it might be the source model

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https://i.imgur.com/YfnkjQ1.jpg , the ones on the left are your imported ones the one on the right is the engines auto generated

Imgur

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you can see it's not very different, I think the source mesh needs help

lunar palm Oct 31, 2018, 8:15 PM

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I'll try planar projecting some of the faces in Maya

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By source mesh, do you mean the mesh itself or just the UVs in whatever program I modeled it in? @grim ore

grim ore Oct 31, 2018, 8:17 PM

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the mesh itself, the UV's are being generated with alot of hard lines along the faces that don't seem like they need to be there

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I mean I could be wrong but the sides seem like they should be 1 flat surface but your UV makes them seem like they have multiple edges/faces

lunar palm Oct 31, 2018, 8:26 PM

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I'm guessing edges like these are causing the issue? Though when I get rid of them, it seems to have the same light bleed issues @grim ore

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plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 8:26 PM

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why unrael go so slow when im copying blueprints in to otehr skelteons? it just gos under 10 fps for awhile

lunar palm Oct 31, 2018, 8:26 PM

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Apologies for tagging you so much haha

grim ore Oct 31, 2018, 8:30 PM

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yeah the left sides seem like they are not a single face like you would expect due to the cutting you did for the front

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you might get some better help in #graphics since people are way better at art than me in there

lunar palm Oct 31, 2018, 8:32 PM

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Okay, will do. Thank you!

onyx lily Oct 31, 2018, 8:42 PM

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@warm tree yes i do but i think i set it up wrong bc I had already textured my assets first then brought them into UE4.

@uncut whale i think thats what im looking for an alpha mask to control the color of the material i just couldnt remember the name of it. Id rather just make the roughness/metallic/and normal in painter then choose the color in Ue4

wispy comet Oct 31, 2018, 9:06 PM

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hey guys?

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i need to ping the epic staff

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or get in touch with them somehow

grim ore Oct 31, 2018, 9:07 PM

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not a large chance they are in here right now, might need to use the normal methods from the website

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 9:07 PM

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i made a get in car blueprint lmfao and it dont work https://gyazo.com/a1e566e3056fdbdd18856db9223872d7

Gyazo

▶ Play video

grim ore Oct 31, 2018, 9:08 PM

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It appears you did not make a get in car blueprint if it does not work

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 9:08 PM

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ye

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well i made it but

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i think i put it on wrong player model lmfao

#

Does anyone know where I should start looking for information about developing a "fog of war" system, similar to "Dota ?"

formal niche Oct 31, 2018, 9:46 PM

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Hi!

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Quick question:

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Wait, lemme figure out how to phrase this

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Do I have to use UE4's set editor or whatever to make the actual environment for my game, or could I use a 3D modelling program (ex. Blender) to model the environment, and then import that in?

safe rose Oct 31, 2018, 9:51 PM

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@formal niche Yes, you can use a DCC like Blender to make your environment and it's highly preferred way

formal niche Oct 31, 2018, 9:51 PM

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Gotcha

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Thanks

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 9:55 PM

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hey @safe rose do u know anthing about unreal not showing my project files in content

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anyone have any idea how they would of pulled this off?

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https://youtu.be/l9NX06mvp2E?t=853

YouTube

GDC

Creating the Art of ABZU

In this 2017 GDC talk, Giant Squid Studios' Matt Nava offers insight into the unique art style of Abzu, and the processes that he and the team at Giant Squid...

▶ Play video

safe rose Oct 31, 2018, 10:11 PM

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@plush yew Aren't you the one with the pirated Marketplace assets?

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 10:12 PM

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well i got it from friend so does it count

safe rose Oct 31, 2018, 10:12 PM

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🤔

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 10:12 PM

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i dunno cause i found this bug

safe rose Oct 31, 2018, 10:12 PM

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Did he pirate them?

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 10:12 PM

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i take them out the folder it works

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i put the hole folder in the project

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nothin showsi n the folders

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but when they get taken out they work

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its like unreal wont let me use folders form it

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i have not asked him

grim ore Oct 31, 2018, 11:02 PM

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If you import them in the correct version of UE4 using the marketplace vault they should work fine, if you can't do that then you will have to get support from where you got them from.

plush yew Oct 31, 2018, 11:05 PM

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@plush yew doesnt count as piracy aslong as they arent using the asset themselves and you have his receipt for proof other than that you can get in a bit of trouble for it

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oh okay

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well @grim ore

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its weird u know why

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when the folder is in the project it shows no assets but when i move the assets adn take them out that folder it works

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and shows my buidlings and all

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had ot do this

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it would not show in the main folder it made

slender veldt Oct 31, 2018, 11:08 PM

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Hi folks, I have a c++ project which I created a bunch of base classes in and then used those to create BPs. I found out I need to change my project name and I'm having a problem where the BPs are broken saying they can't find the old class name (/script/MyOldGameName). I tried adding class redirect in the INI, but it doesn't seem to help.

I read I could just go re-parent them, but when I look at the parent class list in the BP, all my C++ dont show up there. If I create a new BP, or open another regular BP, the C++ class show up in the parent list....

What am I doing wrong?

silver crown Oct 31, 2018, 11:53 PM

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Welcome to BP hell

fringe pivot Nov 1, 2018, 12:09 AM

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Trying to figure the process to create an NPC, I worked a bit with Unity, there I just added a script to the model, here is different I think.
Should I create a C++ Actor class, and then I add the FBX as component of that class, does that make sense?

plush yew Nov 1, 2018, 12:11 AM

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yea

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create a uskeletalmesh component

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and set it in the blueprint

fringe pivot Nov 1, 2018, 12:13 AM

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great, thank you

grim ore Nov 1, 2018, 12:15 AM

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Have you checked out the ue4 for unity users series on the learn site ? I doubt it covers c++ but might help on some of the similarities

still ridge Nov 1, 2018, 12:23 AM

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what's up

fringe pivot Nov 1, 2018, 12:33 AM

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@grim ore yes, actually they create an actor the way I mentioned using some primitive shape.
Still, sometimes docs show you how to do something the easier/faster way, and not the one you would choose when you take it more seriously.

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That's why I asked

plush yew Nov 1, 2018, 1:08 AM

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If I wanted some generic health system for players and NPCs would it make sense to create a health actorcomponent?

shell kettle Nov 1, 2018, 2:07 AM

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Hi there. So I'm 3D modeling my first object, and was wondering if I should add detail in the geometry, or use bump maps (or some other method?). I'm inexperienced in this and would love to know which method affects the gameplay less in terms of performance. Any suggestions?

plush yew Nov 1, 2018, 2:18 AM

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Here's something real scary for this halloween

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worn granite Nov 1, 2018, 2:21 AM

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I gotchu beat with the banner to https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/ =D

UE4 Blueprints From Hell

blueprintsfromhell

plush yew Nov 1, 2018, 2:46 AM

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do people who make these ever get hired? 🤔 Assuming the BPs work.

dark depot Nov 1, 2018, 2:47 AM

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i would imagine if they do they dont show those ones

finite sleet Nov 1, 2018, 3:04 AM

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Every programmer, designer, and artist has a lot of shit. It is the good stuff that we show to people.

dim arch Nov 1, 2018, 3:15 AM

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anyone know if the impostor baker works with 4.20/4.21?

fickle topaz Nov 1, 2018, 3:22 AM

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Anyone on

unreal spoke Nov 1, 2018, 9:13 AM

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How to export lods from blender to ue4?

sudden agate Nov 1, 2018, 9:20 AM

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You can Export the LODs separately. UE provides functionality to import different LODs in the StaticMesh Editor

unreal spoke Nov 1, 2018, 9:24 AM

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sorry, I forgot to say that I'm talking about skeletal meshes LODs

cinder iron Nov 1, 2018, 10:51 AM

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@plush yew there is an example on the sample content.

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also, this https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Animation/Tools/VertexAnimationTool

scarlet echo Nov 1, 2018, 11:40 AM

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😁 https://twitter.com/benjamindsmithy/status/1057959891371880448?s=21

Benjamin D. Smith🤔 (@BenjaminDSmithy)

Wow this is AWESOME NEWS!!! I look forward to seeing the positive ripple effect this could have for #Australia / #NewZealand #GameDev’s using UE4 #UE4 @EpicGames https://t.co/YEKVGnbDoW

wary wave Nov 1, 2018, 11:43 AM

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I wouldn't count on much of a ripple effect; Epic has offices in numerous locations, but they've had little impact on the industry in those locations as a whole

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also, the office might just be Fortnite support kinda stuff

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seems to be the case if the founder isn't someone with a recent development background

grim flower Nov 1, 2018, 12:03 PM

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Hi everyone!
My studio have developed several different types of blueprint systems/templates to base our project on and I was wondering if anyone know how to create custom Starter Content packs? Thinking it would be very beneficial to just add a pack with for instance our VR template finished set up instead of migrating it from a different project. Anyone know how to do this, or if it's even possible?

lime cobalt Nov 1, 2018, 12:06 PM

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Also, would anyone know if it's possible to generate unreal assets via scripting ?

scarlet echo Nov 1, 2018, 12:06 PM

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@wary wave Honestly even if that were the case, having more boots on the ground at local conventions, etc is always good for my wallet as going to GDC, E3, etc is pretty hard on GameDevs coming from Australia

lime cobalt Nov 1, 2018, 12:07 PM

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also yeah, GDC is expensive af

scarlet echo Nov 1, 2018, 12:08 PM

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Especially if they add a small UE4 support team to said studio location

lime cobalt Nov 1, 2018, 12:12 PM

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turns out there are clues about how to create assets https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/unreal-studio/1524041-creating-blueprint-assets-hierarchies-with-python

Unreal Engine Forums

Hey there,

is it possible to create a blueprint/actor in the content browser with python, like you do normally with right-click, create blueprint class, actor?

fierce tulip Nov 1, 2018, 12:47 PM

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fookin hell, ue4 decides to move the import menu off-screen, as in, not on any of my 4 monitors so I cant grab it, nor does cascading windows works

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its so 1998 that there isnt an option to make sure it opens on a specific monitor

lime cobalt Nov 1, 2018, 1:05 PM

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also when I'm looking at the python official integration, a lot of the c++ code is grayed out by a #if WITH_PYTHON precompiler conditional

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in python.build.cs it seems that this conditional is set to true if the python plugin is correctly installed or something

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but a lot of the cpp code in the plugin is still grayed out, so i'm not too sure if everything is set correctly or what to do if not

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but typing commands in the console works, so the plugin is compiled, guess the WITH_PYTHON graying out the code isn't an issue

plush yew Nov 1, 2018, 1:20 PM

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It's grayed out

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bc it's not defined

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the precompiler will parse and set that flag when compiled

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So your IDE basically has no idea about it

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until compilation time

lime cobalt Nov 1, 2018, 1:26 PM

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indeed yup @plush yew

plush yew Nov 1, 2018, 1:26 PM

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yes i know

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😏

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@lime cobalt

lime cobalt Nov 1, 2018, 1:28 PM

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thanks to you I can confirm it's normal UE4 behavior right there

plush yew Nov 1, 2018, 1:34 PM

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@cinder iron huh?? i never mentioned anything about animating

cinder iron Nov 1, 2018, 1:35 PM

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Abzu conference is about vertex animations and so on

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Any specific aspect over it?

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I saw you timeframed it

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Ill have to check out at home, my phone wont help

plush yew Nov 1, 2018, 1:48 PM

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ooooh no

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@cinder iron it was the landscape tool i timeframed

cinder iron Nov 1, 2018, 1:51 PM

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Oh, yeah I might remember that part of the talk. They didnt go much in depth. I'll have to rewatch it at home if I get a time!

rapid prism Nov 1, 2018, 1:52 PM

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so I've been trying to link my account to github but I never get the invite message... I'm posting on the forums but for now could someone clone the Pavlov repo for me?

tall pendant Nov 1, 2018, 1:53 PM

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I think you might be able to do similar stuff with HEngine

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by sending the selected meshes to houdini and let it use those for heightfield generation

rapid prism Nov 1, 2018, 1:53 PM

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that's a no then? lol

snow sandal Nov 1, 2018, 1:59 PM

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is there a place i get get like arena assets? I'm working on a fighting game and need to make an arena

tall pendant Nov 1, 2018, 2:00 PM

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The UE4 marketplace comes to mind.

snow sandal Nov 1, 2018, 2:00 PM

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I have no budget

static viper Nov 1, 2018, 2:01 PM

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as it is

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you can only pitch your project and maybe you get someone to help for free

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or you do the assets your self

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in hope your game is good enough to be funded.

snow sandal Nov 1, 2018, 2:11 PM

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do you know of anyone that could do some modeling or to put together an arena if i pitch the game to them?

static viper Nov 1, 2018, 2:11 PM

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yee i know someone specific

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#looking-for-talent

plush yew Nov 1, 2018, 2:13 PM

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im using "Find Look at Rotation" to have enemy AI face the player as they are running toward him. But i also am spawning enemies that run away from the player. i have the running away part working, but how do i make it so the enemy faces away from the player?

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is there are a way to manipulate the value from "Find look at rotation" to flip it the other way?

static viper Nov 1, 2018, 2:14 PM

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if they are running away

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make them face the point they run to

plush yew Nov 1, 2018, 2:14 PM

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oh

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ill try that

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@static viper is there a way to get the rotation based on forward vector? i've only been able to figure out the forward vector based on rotation, not the other way around

static viper Nov 1, 2018, 2:16 PM

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you can always draw a line