ue4-general

[zealous cloak]

i guess the button must be active and then be pressed through sth

[plush yew]

Uh... Is there a Nintendo Switch dev somewhere here ?

[zealous cloak]

ok i made a menu in vr, so i use it with wifget interaction, but its still not so good to us,
can i activate the button, when hovering onto the button and then hold a button to active it, while its activated a bar should fill up until the next page triggers

[cinder locust]

guys having an issue using aim offset, character is aiming about an inch to the left of the cross hair which is center screen. anybody have an idea how to get him to always point where the cross hair is?

[grim ore]

are you using the default FPS crosshair? if so it's not centered in the HUD

[cinder locust]

i setup a widget blueprint

and anchored it in the center

funny enough... i think i followed your tutorial 😛

[grim ore]

First or third person?

[cinder locust]

third person

[grim ore]

and using what to determine the offset is offset lol? line tracing or using projectiles?

[cinder locust]

i would like to use projectiles

https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/gd-r3u_n/

heres my anim bp that controlls the yaw and pitch for the animoffset

just thinking out loud

im guessing i would have to get the difference between the characters rotation, or look at rotation and the cameras center point and somehow add that to the yaw/pitch?

blob:https://imgur.com/f0ebb457-aba6-4c5b-8f89-0d09da5dd34c

this is what its currently looking like

[lavish marlin]

hey can i just cut in and say hey guys and why cant i find event interface when making inventory system XD

[cinder locust]

biggest issue is when walking sideways it goes way outside of the cross hair

[grim ore]

You might have better luck in #animation @cinder locust 😦 It's a math thing probably with animations and that is something I suck at

@lavish marlin we don't know why you can't find it. Where should it be and why should it be there?

[cinder locust]

damn thanks though

[lavish marlin]

it should be there as i made an interface interface blueprint class

[grim ore]

did you add that interface to your blueprints? did you then compile the blueprint? is it an event or a function interface?

[lavish marlin]

its a blueprint interface for an inventory system

basically its the function for ( press E to interact )

[grim ore]

go on...

[lavish marlin]

in the whole aspect and when i rightclick and type ( interface ) as the name of my blueprint it does not show up as Event Interact

[grim ore]

go on...

[lavish marlin]

change everything i typed to interact

[grim ore]

so... did you add the interface to that blueprint?

[lavish marlin]

it just doesnt show

oh yeah i did

[grim ore]

did you compile the blueprint?

[lavish marlin]

on the right i clicked add and typed in my BP

[dusk mulch]

hi!

[grim ore]

thats not adding an interface

[dusk mulch]

i need help just posted my issue in #blueprint can u guys help?

[grim ore]

In the Class Settings for the Blueprint you can add/list all interfaces that the blueprint implements. You need to add it from there then compile.

[dusk mulch]

thanks

[lavish marlin]

yeah i did add in the class settings i will think this over abit ant try to solve sorry for dropping in like that

[grim ore]

after adding did you compile?

and then in the interface itself is it an Event or a Function. Does it have a return value on the interface Function basically.

[lavish marlin]

well then its rly as simple as hitting compile which i was dead certain i did every single time ... man i just wasted time but still helped...

and 1 more thing i would love to know how to cut a tree and have the player to sit and wait to fill his inventory system kinda like runescape i just dont know what to search for that action..

[grim ore]

Never played runescape but chopping a tree should return some results from the webs. How does it fill it?

[lavish marlin]

prettymuch a click and wait function

[grim ore]

like click a tree, a bar fills up, profit?

[lavish marlin]

i would press e or interact with the object

prettymuch not not everytime kinda like 5050 random stream

[grim ore]

so click a tree, bar fills up, sometimes profit ?

[lavish marlin]

lets say yeilds 10 logs so 100% health it would get 1 log which then would down it to 90hp so maximum yeild of 10 logs i duno just reference i have wrote

[grim ore]

so click a tree, instant loot, repeat till no more loot?

[ancient otter]

Hi guys, im getting a problem with tessellation, is this the chat to ask?

[lavish marlin]

i make not much sense

[grim ore]

ooh or click a tree, progress bar fills up, collect loot. repeat till tree is empty?

[lavish marlin]

click tree ( you have failed to collect ) ( you have collected a log ) ( you have collected a log ) ( you failed... so on

tree will deplete after certain yeild like 10 moves to another tree to then carry on the filling up

u click and wait untill the tree depltes

[ancient otter]

Emm?

[grim ore]

welp clicking the tree is not the issue. Interacting shouldn't be as well with an interface. the tree should handle itself depleting since it should know how much logs/life it has.

if you have a timer just run a timer between attempts to harvest it and return a good or bad result to the player if they are still near

[lavish marlin]

i have made a tree into an actor by using linetrace thats all perfectly fine just would be great to search up some kind of ( click and wait ) i have no idea

[grim ore]

well timers are for waiting, and timelines are for waiting with fluff

[lavish marlin]

yeah so im guessing thats a random stream generator right?

that im after

[grim ore]

it's a timer, you fire it off and sometime later the event you want to fire off fires. you can use it for delaying actions.

[lavish marlin]

i want a few fails there

ah

[grim ore]

there are random streams and numbers as well for randomizing randomness

[lavish marlin]

ooooooh i see

how will i search up what your saying lmao

but i actually understand

[grim ore]

well the keywords I used would be a good start. Timers, timeline, delays, random stream, random "whatever" like int or float or bool or number

[ancient otter]

My tessellation is looking like that and not like in the image with black back and i don't know hoy to solve it

[lavish marlin]

i would direct ask u for help but im not sure howlong ittl take for this task i want to complete i would send pics but yh

its very bright on the bottom picture?

maybe a reason as i have had this issue on my landscape looking off colour

[grim ore]

you don't seem to be tessellating the actual material map you are using but more of the overall shape. maybe not enough density in your object you are trying to tessellate?

[ancient otter]

I tried it with a floor, a cube, etc. and nothing seems to work

[lavish marlin]

well mathew my good sir you have helped alot thanks alot for your time!

[grim ore]

well the default floor and cube won't have a very high density

its like what a couple vertices?

[lavish marlin]

👌

[ancient otter]

I also used a subdivided floor with lots of geometry and still same problem

[grim ore]

so what does your material graph look like?

[ancient otter]

Wait. Let me search the image

[grim ore]

oh

for your displacement map what does it look like? your using the RGBA output but should you possibly be using one of the channels?

[ancient otter]

Which one should I use?

You can find this texture in texture heaven, let me search the link

[grim ore]

well normally one of the channels, R G or B directly

[ancient otter]

https://texturehaven.com/tex/?t=brown_mud_rocks_01

[grim ore]

not saying that is it but a map is normally just the one channel in black and white

[ancient otter]

Maybe that's my error

[grim ore]

I grabbed em lets check it out

[ancient otter]

The thing is that the image that I sent you is a mat preset that someone sent me because I had this problem. So he sent me it to see if it solves it but still the same problem

I can send you the mat if you want

[grim ore]

well it "should" work as https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Resources/ContentExamples/MaterialNodes/1_11 is the one in the docs that is similar

oh wow yeah I think that displacement map is super weird

[ancient otter]

It worked for him as you can see in this Ima

[grim ore]

yeah wow that's flat as hell

well it "worked" for him but you don't know what he was using or the settings

[ancient otter]

Yeah, I used the same mat as him

[grim ore]

and it's still super subtle for him

[ancient otter]

It supposed to be subtle

But no even like that

Look at his geometry

[grim ore]

ok so if you look at the link I gave you, you can see the map they are using is pretty clear on the low and high parts, the black and white

now open up the displacement texture in UE4 and look how flat it is, very little differentiation

[ancient otter]

Yup

[grim ore]

now try plugging in the bump map texture and watch it go nuts

then try something like 2 for the displacement multiplier and 2 for the tesselation mutliplier

and notice how much more apparent the bump map is when looking at it

[ancient otter]

I actually have 50

Nothing...

[grim ore]

I know but if you do that with the bump map it's going to go nuts lol

replace the displacement texture with the bump map texture and it should go nuts

[ancient otter]

This is how

This is how

It's flat

Oh ok I will try

[grim ore]

yeah just swap the texture you are using the for displacement map texture

the bump map is much more defined and gives an actual result

[ancient otter]

So if I swap I should be good?

Let me try and I will send you image

[grim ore]

well that might give you more of what you want, the actual roughness map gives some results compared to the tessellation map

It would explain why the outside of your mesh, the orange ring, was so far away from the mesh itself. Your blowing the hell out of your tessellation with almost a flat map (no peaks or valleys to tessellate)

[ancient otter]

intersting

its weird

https://gyazo.com/a0411f7420fb5562551971903f7364a3

[grim ore]

yeah it's going to be. I don't know what he used to render the image but his tessellation is really spot on so unless you get his settings it's going to look odd in UE4

[ancient otter]

makes actual sense

all of the texture used from texture heaven are weird

on ue4

[grim ore]

It's probably some really funky setup using math and stuff to make it not go wacky because that actual tess map is super subtle

maybe ask in #graphics as those guys are smarter lol

[ancient otter]

lol

[plush yew]

you're using tessellation ?

[ancient otter]

Yes, but its bugged

[plush yew]

it's not

[ancient otter]

Its not for a game so i dont care about optimization

[plush yew]

it's how it works

[ancient otter]

How should i do it then?

[plush yew]

use POM / Parallax, not Tesselation

[ancient otter]

And how do i use that???

Sorry if its an stupid question

[plush yew]

Tessellation subdivides your mesh ; here your texture is too small for your geometry

[ancient otter]

At first i tough it was my vxgi so thanks @grim ore

[plush yew]

Too DENSE, sorry

[ancient otter]

Oh, ok

[plush yew]

That's the word

[ancient otter]

So how do i make it the rigth way?

[plush yew]

Try to increase the heightmap texture size and see how it reacts on the sphere

Parallax

[ancient otter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ8N0U07b6E

this rigth?

[plush yew]

yes

tessellation is for a proper mesh which the heightmap can be adapted to, not too dense in general

parallax is for smaller details

and the mesh is not subdivided

[ancient otter]

This would be a tutorial for it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Ffmu5Cll4

[plush yew]

I'm restarting to use UE4 so I don't remember how to make Parallax, but it should be simple

it's in the default outputs

[ancient otter]

Ok, i will watch the tutorial and see how to do it.

So Parallax would be for the more detailed stuff rigth?

[plush yew]

Right click in your Material window and type Parallax

It's Parallax Occlusion Mapping

Yes

[ancient otter]

O man

[plush yew]

It doesn't affect the mesh

The result you show is because the pebbles density on your heightmap is not adapted for the sphere

If the sphere was more subdivided, it would be better

[ancient otter]

Ok so how do i use that parallax?

[plush yew]

But it would take a lot of ressources ofr nothing since you can achieve similar result with Parallax

umh

Right click in your Material Window and type Parallax

You'll see POM

[ancient otter]

I dont care about resources, remember

I have the parallax thing, but how do i use it?

[plush yew]

Then it should be linked to World Displacement

Link your heightmap texture on the left

[ancient otter]

im watching the tutorial

The tutorial explain 0

nice

Oh its free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwVDhljljro

[plush yew]

oh yes, with Parallax you can set things "under" the heightmap

I guess the water here is a different plane that intersects into the parallax

[ancient otter]

Oh! So this is the puddles!

[plush yew]

but by default Parallax does not that I think

[ancient otter]

Finally

Still, i just want the solution for my bump

[plush yew]

Well it's simple

[ancient otter]

im opening ue, we will see

what do i put on heigth?

or mettalic?

[plush yew]

what ?

[ancient otter]

nevermind...

It seems to not work

Im confused now

[plush yew]

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fforums.unrealengine.com%2Ffiledata%2Ffetch%3Fid%3D1160458%26d%3D1441043799&f=1

Try this setup as a reference

[ancient otter]

are those sacalar parameters? https://gyazo.com/2d5e8aaca1fdd812d8fc0bc1195c35ba

[plush yew]

I guess so

[ancient otter]

bump or disp https://gyazo.com/971eebdfc1df679b311e8253eb4cc56f

[plush yew]

disp

when you see it's ghostly like this, it's a disp

[ancient otter]

ok

[cinder locust]

@grim ore i think i figured it out, probably not the correct way but it works decently. the weapon has a laserpointer that gives me a destination point. i basically rotate my camera to look at the laserpointer with some lag, kinda works 😛

[ancient otter]

Yuki, nothing happened

@plush yew

can you tell wich has parallax? https://gyazo.com/4e74b26a7476c61ea681d37741239795

[plush yew]

I'd say none

Or it's very weak

Oh yes, you have to set you heightmap to GreyScale

Click on the Texture Object, it's on the left

[ancient otter]

what?

Where and how

@plush yew

I will have to go to sleep now... Pls dm me so we can finish this conversation

[plush yew]

I have to figure out how to make POM

Is Light Propagation Volume an expensive thing for the Nintendo Switch ?

[lavish marlin]

btw agent MathewW

this is what i meant ( this is from the game runescape ) if u scroll down it will show skills im trying to replicate mining and woodcutting gather rates

http://oldschoolrunescape.wikia.com/wiki/RuneScape_clock

ticks are intervals of 0.6 seconds in this games terms mostly called game cycles i rly want to replicate that timeframe as i was meaning earlier by ( click and wait )

[brittle gulch]

Hey guys, what would be the most potentially expensive, an array or a map dictionary?
Assuming that I have about 1000 values to store and I want to loop through them.

[regal mulch]

A TMap is hashed

So lookup should be cheaper than Array

@brittle gulch

Anyone here knowing if the "SetMouseLocation" of the PlayerController is the proper way to actively set the mouse cursor to a location or if there is a better/cheaper way?

[rose bison]

if you want to loop through them, array is always fastest

same if you know the index you have to access at all times

TMap shines at random access if you want to avoid looping

if you don't know the index

[regal mulch]

Yeah, should have been more specific with my answer! Sorry

[languid shard]

anyone with some AutoLOD knowledge around here ? 😃

I've made some custom LOD groups, but it looks like some values arent changing when I swap to a different group

namely the percent triangles values, it keeps staying at 100

; Small Props LEG_SmallPropNoReduction=(NumLODs=4,LODPercentTriangles=100,PixelError=10,Name=LOCTEXT("LEG_SmallPropNoReductionLOD","LEG Small Prop NR")) LEG_SmallPropMediumReduction=(NumLODs=4,LODPercentTriangles=50,PixelError=10,Name=LOCTEXT("LEG_SmallPropMediumReductionLOD","LEG Small Prop MR")) LEG_SmallPropHighReduction=(NumLODs=4,LODPercentTriangles=10,PixelError=10,Name=LOCTEXT("LEG_SmallPropHighReductionLOD","LEG Small Prop HR")) LEG_SmallPropUltraReduction=(NumLODs=4,LODPercentTriangles=1,PixelError=10,Name=LOCTEXT("LEG_SmallPropUltraReductionLOD","LEG Small Prop UR"))

these are my settings, based on the default ones

https://i.imgur.com/RkKFI9t.png

the Percent Triangles value keeps staying at 100 no matter what group I use

[languid shard]

@cloud cobalt https://i.imgur.com/v8bO1dE.png

now its acceptable for VR rendering 😄

[cloud cobalt]

Much better yeah

[languid shard]

with HLOD it should shave off a few more drawcalls

[inner mountain]

Hey, is there a way to optimize the RenderThread for a lot of non-instanced moving objects?

[sudden agate]

why do you not instance them?

[inner mountain]

@sudden agate it's for enemies, so later I will use skeleton meshes – I suppose it's not the case for instancing

though I've found some forum thread about instanced skeleton meshes in ue4

[fossil ore]

Does anyone knows if there is a Live Link addon for Blender to connect a bridge between UE4?

[whole quarry]

What?

[rare axle]

Hey everyone. I'm trying to convert a scene to fully dynamic lighting using Dynamic GI. Following this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGO7VNcq6uE

But for some reason I'm getting these weird muddy shadows appear: https://gyazo.com/3076c64fd9feaca327088e7d0ce785d1

Any idea how I can make the scene fully dynamic, no baking required, so I can switch objects and materials around all the time in real-time without having to re-build

?

[icy bone]

yes turn all. lights to movable, as well as objects

[void drum]

Hi, If I have any question about UE4, should I ask it here, or other channel?

[fierce tulip]

try to find the channel related to your question, if you doubt, can ask here ofcourse.

[void drum]

Oh, ok. Thank you!

[icy bone]

this channel is unreal chat so any unreal related is ok

[ancient otter]

@plush yew you here?

[fierce tulip]

<_< I broke moderation on the ue4 answerhub

[grave nebula]

Everyoned there ?

[fierce tulip]

no, have to ban about 50 bots

and new moderation system is fubar, slow, and annoying

oh, and crash prone

[unreal spoke]

Does a render target supports postprocess? I mean if the scene has postprocess, will I get a render of the world with or without postprocess?

[grave nebula]

It is lovely though, that I know when is next formula 1 race through answerhub bot spam ❤

[fierce tulip]

https://i.gyazo.com/85949cd5cb065f4b12852d4d6732d986.gif and thats only one page

imagine being able to select them all..

and then realizing there isnt an option for it

<_<

also funny if you ban the last person on a page, it forgets other pages exist and tell you there are no more things to moderate until you go back to main moderation tab

oh god, each time I ban one, another one appears

[brittle gulch]

Hi guys, how could I achieve something like that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJSGfnZ9cz8
I can move my instances with a simple UpdateInstanceTransform. But as soon as I have too much instances and that hey use a little complicated behavior in their movement, I have huge problem with frame rate (when I try avoidance for instance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJSGfnZ9cz8

[wary wave]

you need to be clever about how you do movement updates

I've done this a couple of times - once for a game jam (made an MMOG, seriously), and once for fish schools

for the latter I used a separate thread entirely

[grave nebula]

@brittle gulch It is done in material itself.

[wary wave]

in order to avoid locking up the main thread

and yeah, it could also be in the material itself in this case

[brittle gulch]

Although, If I want to use this in gameplay, like moving them with the joystick or giving them a simple Ai (attack and die). Would it still be possible while using a separated thread?

Otherwise, would it be faster to calculate the movement in the material instead of inside BP? I think the movement of the cubes in this video is pretty simple, I don't see if there's avoidance or such a behavior in it. But would avoidance be possible to achieve in a material?

[grave nebula]

Virtually any kind of movement can be done in material.

[fierce tulip]

<_< dozens of new spambots. i give up

[static viper]

you are the only thing that keeps the world from darkness

besides me.

[fierce tulip]

warned whoever controls the unreal engine twitter acc about it.

its out of my hands, because foods

aand error 503 just when I finished an answer for someone

[elfin jacinth]

I'm here

[fierce tulip]

TIIIM spambot invasion on AH

hundreds

(not kidding)

[elfin jacinth]

Ok

[fierce tulip]

its thanksgiving, its always a spam-mess on AH around those days.

I banned about 50, and removed even more messages

but they just keep coming

[manic pawn]

need a bot to remove the bots

[grave nebula]

There is nowhere to retreat. It is only answerhub that lies between bots and forum!

[fierce tulip]

need a filter, almost all spam same messages.

[dim merlin]

Hi, would it he possible to trace on a material height map and move ai on it?

[static viper]

you could do that, but not in bp.

well

except if it is just one material

there could be a solution with a special case

[dim merlin]

Hhm okay.. I'm looking into a possible solution for large editable terrain, but found that procedural mesh is to heavy

The only thing I found that I could use a render target material that figurates as terrain..

Anyone could already say I should quit on that idea?

[static viper]

mh

you should google this

there are some solutionjs for this

but live ue4 landscape editing is a massive issue

bc epic seems to have locked that code up...

but maybe someone else has a different input on this topic

like voxels or so

[dim merlin]

Voxels still would use procedural mesh.

[static viper]

it could be 2d voxels

well

if you want 2D terrain

like ue4 does by default

[dim merlin]

Hhm

2d terrain is the goal yeah

Any info on how that works?

[versed girder]

Hey everyone! I'm trying to find a plugin that's supposed to be native to UE4 from 4.18 onward, but I can't find it! It's called Android Camera Player, and it's not in my list of plugins. Does anyone know where it might be located?

[static viper]

@fierce tulip i just applied your align math to my cave meshes material...

its absolutly perfect now.

0 seems on everything

its absolutly perfect

goood joooob

[fleet jay]

Hey guys I need help regarding exporting a scene as APK and running it on a mobile

Will anyone help me out for that please ?

[grim ore]

@versed girder it's in 4.20 for sure, i searched for Android and found it plus it is under the Media Player category

[versed girder]

Ah, is the camera functionality now part of the media player?

[grim ore]

it's part of the new media framework yes as an input source

[fleet jay]

Does anyone know about the error ''No Obb found or store key to start to download '' when u run the APK on mobile ?

[versed girder]

Yeah Saurav

inside your project settings, go to android and tick a box called "package game data inside apk"

Then re-build your project and install the new apk

@grim ore that's pretty handy. Is there any documentation on how it works?

[fleet jay]

OKay Ill try

Thanks

[pallid compass]

http://coderespawn.github.io/dungeon-architect-quick-start-ue4/stage/html/quick_start_guide_2.8+.html

does anyone know how you make guides that display like this from github?

[grim ore]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/MediaFramework/HowTo/UsingWebCams , this is roughly how it works

[versed girder]

Ahha, so I can use Enumerate Webcam Capture Devices and specify a rear camera with this?

[grim ore]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zm_uOjyImI

[ancient otter]

Can you guys tell me what to add or delete?

[static viper]

atmospheric

the ground is a bit under tho

and there is no props really

like the furniture is there but no books 😄

[ancient otter]

Its not supposed to be a videogame

Its a csgo game

[grim sinew]

The light cone should be larger, doesn’t look correct unless there’s someone with a spotlight 6 inches behind his head.

[ancient otter]

So the light cone should be larger? Ok

Also @static viper i forgot to put the parallax ground. Let em add that also

[grim sinew]

Yeah. More directional. Like it’s coming from the whole alley, not some ghost that’s pestering the guy with a flashlight.

[ancient otter]

Ok

Its done with vxgi so i try to make it clean

Thats a csgo map btw, i didnt made it xdxd

[static viper]

ue4 hammer mh?

[ancient otter]

yup

and some agr also

https://gyazo.com/209db3bd86326cb6359492781438cf7a

better?

I also used a tool that imports agr (the replay with cam, players, etc)

[grim sinew]

Yeah better. Too bright now though. Darken the light and then raise the midtones of the rest of the scene.

[ancient otter]

ok

[grim sinew]

You need less contrast, it’s taking away from the image.

[ancient otter]

I guess i can do that with post process

[grim sinew]

Better to do it with the lights. More control.

[ancient otter]

ok

also remember that with vxgi i have also more control on the post process

[grim sinew]

Doesn’t change anything here.

Also make the spotlight cast shadows.

It looks weird that the character doesn’t have any

[ancient otter]

he does has one lol

[grim sinew]

Find a way to make it more obvious then.

[ancient otter]

i lowerd intesity and now its better https://gyazo.com/6da0ddee061832aecc958faed264549b

[grim sinew]

And I mean volumetric shadows. You need to tick it on manually

[ancient otter]

oh ok

https://gyazo.com/eaa252859bd5320484f751ade9bdf36c

better, rigth?

[grim sinew]

That’s with the volumetric shadows?

[ancient otter]

what do you mean by volumetric shadows??

i tough you meant volumetric light

[grim sinew]

The spotlight has a checkbox for it. Volumetric shadows.

Turn it on.

It’s only on by default for directional lights.

[ancient otter]

looks good! https://gyazo.com/269ba4f0234531090d11d457b2ba4f57 i also changed it so its a bit more purple, so there is less white, what do you say? Should i leave it like that or how it was before?

[grim sinew]

The color is subjective , I think it should be somewhere in the middle of where it was and now. Also the foot isn’t touching the ground.

[ancient otter]

no its not

he is walking

[grim sinew]

With where his weight is shifted, the heel would be making contact.

Or he would fall over

[ancient otter]

lol

[grim sinew]

Also once you get all that stuff, add more set dressing to the left and right of the frame. Right now it looks a little barren.

[ancient otter]

Thats the agr i cant do anything about it

[grim sinew]

Move him down an inch until his heel touches the floor. Easy.

[ancient otter]

https://gyazo.com/128da9de5afc8014f510a585c6d05f71

i just advanced a bit the timeline

Also, the color is in-betwen

[grim sinew]

Still doesn’t look like his feet are making contact.

Could maybe add a shadow manually there to help it

Or some sort of AO

[ancient otter]

I just saw and they are not

But.. I cant do anything about it

What else should i change?

[grim sinew]

If you can’t move the character down, move the world up.

[ancient otter]

i will make it a bit less night, but just a bit

I can move my character down, i can.

[grim sinew]

Set dressing. It needs some. Left and right sides.

[ancient otter]

But still looks weird when he dies

[grim sinew]

Add set dressing.

[ancient otter]

ok so i added more contrast https://gyazo.com/e8e0c77e71f4c2629c02319c2c94f566

now let me do the dressing

Oh wait, i dont know what is that

For real, what is that

[grim sinew]

I’m on a phone with a phone keyboard. Have mercy, use google :p

[ancient otter]

true

Set dressing is where you add objects into your scene to add more realism or to simply add things into your object for detail.

[grim sinew]

It comes from old stage plays. Basically describes objects in the world to better tell the story of what that place is.

[ancient otter]

like this https://gyazo.com/130beb86f123b001d39503573cb3740f

[grim sinew]

More. Take a step outside into the world and walk around a city. Every single inch will have something someone did.

I shouldn’t see flat ground anywhere. At the very least, rain would warp the concrete and make indents where puddles form

[ancient otter]

i dont know how to put puddles

puddles are my enemies

I dont know what to add to the other image, adding something else would be too much

[grim sinew]

I’m not saying to add puddles. Just where they would be.

Parking lots are not flat. Potholes exist.

Get reference photos of cities and use them

[ancient otter]

i know, i know

I would like to add puddles but i dont know how to

[grim sinew]

I don’t need to tell you what to add. You have eyes. Find photos of cities and it’ll give you all you need

[ancient otter]

Ok

Welp, i will go now. But thanks 😃

[iron wadi]

hey what format is required for startup screen and loading screens plz?

MPEG4 codec in MP4 works, but I need something higher quality, like H264

it works in media player but for some reason not in startup movies?

[grim sinew]

MPEG4 is H264...

[iron wadi]

not really
H264 is MPEG4, but MPEG4 can also mean xvid

I'm using ffmpeg to transcode and if I set mpeg4 it outputs a different file

[grim sinew]

Also you can just RTFM for this one pretty easily

[iron wadi]

the manual said H264 should work, that's why i'm asking here

[grim sinew]

And if the manual said it would work, why are you asking here if it would work

Sorry I’m just a little lost as to what you’re even trying to get out of this that you don’t already know

[iron wadi]

Because it doesn't? Are you this helpful to everyone? 😄

[humble yarrow]

hi guys

[grim sinew]

Only to those with unclear questions.

[humble yarrow]

if i have a question where should i post it ?

[iron wadi]

I am looking for some format requirements specifications, since the docs don't really provide anything other then H264

[hoary charm]

So is Cascade still supported or do we use Niagara now?

[humble yarrow]

its a need for informations

[grim ore]

about the best info for the media stuff is to refer to the media page https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/MediaFramework/TechReference and the info tab in engine to see if your supported settings are supported. Beyond that the answerhub has some places to post about your incompatibilities as well as the source has the supported formats.

[ancient otter]

Ok good. @grim sinew i know finished it. It was an scrapped project that i openned just to learn a bit and because im a noob.

For the age that i have i think my second project was good.

Now i have to start a new one lol

[iron wadi]

@grim ore yeah I read that, the problem is the file works fine in media player, but not as a startup movie

and I can't find any info about that

[plush yew]

Anyone know is LPV can be used for the Nintendo Switch ?

It's a 2014 feature so I guess it shouldn't be a problem, but I don't know how much ressources it takes.

[honest vale]

is it not possible to define CSV data rows in blueprints only?

do I really need C++ for this? 😐

[supple totem]

Maybe there is a bp solution in marketplace?

Hi all, I'm looking to make a benchmark for my game with a camera flyover through a level.. is sequencer the tool to learn to do this?

[clever flare]

where do i ask for troubleshooting?

[grim ore]

well sequencer would be your cinematic tool so you can record a playthru and then play it back yes, that might work for a benchmark.

[supple totem]

Hm, I want players to be able to run the benchmark and report back their stats

Just a bodyless camera touring the level

[grim ore]

well you can hard code a blueprint to do that for sure or you can record a camera movement sequence and use that as well

[supple totem]

Cool, thanks, what terms should i be googling?

[honest vale]

hmm, I wonder if UE 4 chokes on a 20 MB string constant in blueprints 🤔

[grim ore]

ue4 camera fly thru ?

[supple totem]

Haha makes sense, thanks. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything important

[iron wadi]

@honest vale you need to create a blueprint structure and a data table from that structure

Then set the table to the csv file

Look up ue4 data tables for more info

[vivid girder]

Anyone know how to rotate a rig in Maya so it'll face X forward?

[grim sinew]

Build the rig correctly.

Or just rotate the whole thing from the root and freeze transforms

[fathom ice]

Hi Everyone,

I have a question and perhaps someone has the answer. I recently upgraded my project from 4.16 to 4.20 and using visual studio 2017 to generate my project files. For some reason building my VS solution I am not seeing any packaging binaries that the solution should create. That is resulting in a packaging error saying I am missing a win64/shipping binary. Anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it?

binary folder crated by VS 2015 4.16 UE4

VS2017 UE4 4.20

as you can see I seem to be missing binaries and I can't seem to figure out why

[manic pawn]

you just haven't built those configurations yet

also turn off the hide common extensions thing in explorer

[fathom ice]

isn't the VS building of the solution supposed to create and add the binaries?

[manic pawn]

you aren't supposed to use build solution

[grim ore]

I would assume in your older version you built all the different targets for some reason and in the new version you have not, hence the debug and etc.. missing from the new version.

Build all the Things! 😃

[manic pawn]

just manually build the 3 or 4 targets you need

[fathom ice]

ok I will try and figure that out, I am not sure how to manually build anything, I currently use visual studio to create and build my project solution

[manic pawn]

not sure why you'd get a packaging error anyway, the required binaries are built automatically during packaging

[fathom ice]

usually creates all my intermediate and binary files etc

no sure, my package fails with an error saying it cant locate the binary file

i will package again and post it here, perhaps the binary is not even the issue at all

this is the error i get

i seem to be able to package a debug build though

just not a shipping version

[grim ore]

it says it cant build the shipping version, have you tried building it in VS itself to see if there are any errors?

[fathom ice]

yes no errors, build successful in VS

[grim ore]

so then those shipping files are in the directory it's pointing to?

the one you showed us before it was not

and if all else fails, restart the editor it could be a sync issue if VS can build the files properly.

[fathom ice]

i was mistaken about the binaries looks like, i thought they were created when building the VS solution but seems they are created when you package

so they just seem to not get created as they should when trying to package a shipping version

I have restarted many times with no success

[grim ore]

ok so they don't get created when packaging but you are saying they are getting created when you build them out in VS?

[fathom ice]

well I thought you meant if my VS solution gets built with no errors

I am using a custom version of the engine and generate a solution from it to run the project

i have not tried to package the project directly in VS, I use the editor tools to package

[grim ore]

ok so I guess we see what the error log says that it mentions? any blatant errors in there

[fathom ice]

no, the logs mention nothing else differently that the editor output log

[grim ore]

I see an error right before the failure but I am assuming that is not the issue?

[fathom ice]

oh my that is blurry, yes that is the error

will try and clear that up

oh wait, you are looking at that image I posted above?

if so, the error is what is in red

[grim ore]

well that's the UBT error but not the error preventing the shipping build from being built

[fathom ice]

the error in white is not really an error and not related

i see, well i dont see anything clear about what is preventing the build

i guess I will keep trying to figure it out, was taking a chance that perhaps someone had this issue already and may have known what was wrong

if it was project related errors, I dont think even a debug version would package

[grim ore]

might end up with more luck in general #cpp then

[fathom ice]

ok will try that

[untold steppe]

I am trying to integrate an AI system called AI Toolkit I bought from the Marketplace. I don't quite understand what he means by adding a Proxy Actor to my VR Pawn. Here is the message I received in my email "Thanks for using the toolkit. In VR, you should create a Proxy actor to put the AIStorage component in. And then attach that proxy actor to your VR Pawn (preferably to the camera so the AI actually targets your headset)." I do not see how to attach an actor inside of my VR Pawn Blueprint.

Googled Proxy Actor and found nothing.

[plush yew]

This is really annoying - I keep having to re enter all of my materials on my statics

Not sure if this got posted earlier ~

I'm trying to rename and move some files around for organization and the materials keep getting cleared from my statics forcing me to go through every single one and redirect them. Anyone know why this keeps happening - really annoying?

[fierce tulip]

only move folders inside content browser, not in explorer.
make sure you arent deleting redirectors in explorer either, fix them up in the content browser.

@untold steppe proxy actor is just something you can attach the AIstorage in, as in, can basically be anything

[plush yew]

hi does anyone know How to integrate guns with Advanced Locomotion System v3

do i have to redo the whole blendspace or something

@fierce tulip That's all I've done

Never moved anything in explorer

[onyx apex]

hola a todos tengo una duda
hello
😄
I have a doubt

[plush yew]

Do I just have a glitchy engine?

[cedar comet]

Guys when trying to code with visual studio 2017 i get errors that are intrusive because if i compile the errors dont affect anything like false errors

[weary basalt]

Are they errors or red squiggles?

[spare pilot]

hi all

[cedar comet]

red squiggles @weary basalt

[weary basalt]

@cedar comet Mate, you posted this in #cpp already, please read the #old-rules, dont post the same message across multiple channels thanks.

[cedar comet]

sorry its just that this is really important for me

and wasnt sure if you guys would see it

[weary basalt]

People will see it mate, be patient.

[cedar comet]

ok

[untold steppe]

@fierce tulip can I use a Child Actor Component and put the AI Storage in it?

[onyx apex]

it is possible to use this control in unreal engine for linux
it is possible to use this control by bluetooth

[manic pawn]

ok?

[supple totem]

allright, not to be corny

but on this thanksgiving

I'm thankful for unreal 4

its a super cool engine folks

[plush yew]

need help quicck
why is my car floating in the air
as soon as i start the game

[bronze tree]

can I use unreal engine to build multiplayer games for android?

[lavish marlin]

im sure u can Arghya

im suffering a problem as my inventory wont stack after following the whole video ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXTlCtZw9jE

this is myadd to stack

add to inventory

has partial stack

create stack?

also i have selected is stackable on the item bp i want to stack .. works for the guy in the video but not me so i cannot continue this series unless i find out

[pseudo saddle]

Do computer specs matter when making games on UE4?

[weary basalt]

Yes

[pseudo saddle]

Even if it's just 2D games?

[weary basalt]

You dont just have to think of performance.

Productivity is a huge factor as well

Id much prefer to be working with a 1440p res than 720p for instance.

This would be especially more important for designers and artists

[grim ore]

at the basic level if your game, regardless of what type, can't run on your machine when you make it then how is it going to run on other machines? so yes you need to meet atleast your minimum specs if possible

[weary basalt]

Compilation times are heavily affected by computer specs

Exactly what @grim ore said.

How can you expect to test your game properly on its target hardware if your workstation doesnt even meet those requirements.

[plush yew]

Well you'd really have to have a crappy computer to not be able to run 2D games.

The best way to know is certainly to start making games.

[pseudo saddle]

Well I wanted to get a new computer, I wasn't sure if simply getting an up to date computer was enough to make games on UE4 2D or not

[plush yew]

I dont' see where's the issue, but it depends what you want to make.

[lavish marlin]

so does no1 know how to correct my stack issue?

[lavish marlin]

right i will leave that for next time

but does anyone know where i can find a tutorial on how to gather something? i have a full inventory system made

but i would like to have a click and wait gathering system where it gathers untill its depleted ? kinda like runescape?

https://youtu.be/sGP8diCYedA?t=64

like this it will start at the point i want to show you

[spare sun]

wdym tutorial how to gather

it's a game-specific mechanic

from what I see on the vid, it simply spawns wood in ur inventory every tick, as long as ur chopping wood (and by tick I mean gathering tick frequency)

from a more practical standpoint, tree represents a collection of wood and it's value gets decreased while the amount of same resource on the character chopping it increases if speaking in numbers

[honest vale]

@iron wadi thanks, I have done this using C++ previously so I was looking for the FTableRow struct or related BP stuff but couldn't find anything

[plush yew]

how to create lightning effect at fully dark night

I created the lightning particle but I need the whole terrain to get the lightning effect

need help guys

[dim merlin]

Hi, whenever i google 'deform static mesh' i read it cant be done. But how is the spline mesh component than working?

[whole quarry]

magic

[barren delta]

You may create procedural mesh from static mesh and deform it

Also you may create destructible from static mesh

Spline mesh makes you able to modify it a lil

[wary wave]

spline meshes don't actually deform mehses

what actually happens is the visible mesh is modified in the vertex shader

and new collision geometry is generated for that unique spline

[dim merlin]

@wary wave but the collisions are updated right?

hhm

i might look into the technique that is used for spline mesh

[brittle gulch]

Hi, is somebody familiar with steering behaviors here? There's a problem when the force vector is pointing 180 degrees in the opposite direction f the velocity, the vehicle would make an instant turn and go there.

It's not just a problem on ue4 or whatever, it seems to be a problem of the steering behvior itself wherever it's implemented.
I think it has to do with the fact that the vehicle doesn't know if it has to turn right or left.

[dim merlin]

@barren delta cant use procedural mesh, i need alot of mesh its to heavy

basically want to create a 2d terrain with the technique

[wary wave]

if you want to make terrain, you'll want a procedural mesh based system

[barren delta]

One procedural mesh gives tremendous boost for such task versus spline meshes

[wary wave]

spline meshes aren't even an option, I don't think

[dim merlin]

not spline meshes, but the technique using the shader would be possible i think..

just, its almost impossible for my project to use procedural mesh

imagine a city builder that wants a big terrain, without ugly lod switches...

[wary wave]

you'll want collision geometry though

which is probably going to be identical to the visible geometry

so you might as well just use a procedural mesh

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[cloud cobalt]

Yup

[wary wave]

IIRC, GPU Gems 3 has an article on procedural terrain generation on the GPU; parts of that would be very relevant

particularly the mention of the marching cubes algorithm

but there are also loads of other ways to achieve a terrain system

[dim merlin]

okay thanks for explaining then @wary wave !

[wary wave]

no worries

I've done it before myself (in blueprint no less xD)

I never used LODs though, just had highly tesselated planar meshes with basic triangulation

if you break that down into tiles then individual tiles can be occluded

limit camera as necessary

[dim merlin]

hhm yeah tessellation is interresting but i havent found out how to properly use it

i dont even notice the difference

[wary wave]

I meant in terms of just the geometry, not the technique, hehe

[dim merlin]

right now my vertex distance is 5 meter per triangle

[wary wave]

but you can use shader based tesselation too if you need to

I had one meter per triangle, IIRC

and something like a 4kmx4km map

[dim merlin]

have 4x4 now to

1m / 4x4 sounds nice

u remember the frame rate?

[wary wave]

at least 120Hz

(GTX970)

[fathom gust]

Epic/Unreal guys removed the edit mesh option from mesh editor to change normals ? Its not there for me right now although it was there before.

please help

[languid shard]

@fathom gust do you have unreal studio installed ? isnt the mesh editing stuff for Studio subs ?

[fathom gust]

I have Unreal engine and I had used the edit feature earlier this month but I find it missing right now. updating it to latest version.

[languid shard]

yes but do you have Unreal Studio ?

the plugin

[fathom gust]

I dont think so.

[brittle gulch]

does someone knows how to use DrawDebugFrustum? Why it's drawing a cube?

I just have a simple transform as input

[fathom gust]

I am reinstalling ue4 right now. so Ill check and let you know when its done

[languid shard]

@brittle gulch do you want to use it for a camera ?

[brittle gulch]

no no, it's just for debugging an angle, I thought it would have like a direction and an angle

[languid shard]

yeah looks like it doesnt

gotta make your own function with a bunch of drawdebuglines :p

have you tried with the cone debug ?

[brittle gulch]

yeah I'll do it with debug cone 😉
By the way, do you know how I could find the rotation between two vectors?

[fathom gust]

@languid shard Hey I checked and I dont have it installed

[languid shard]

try to sub to it then

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/studio

@brittle gulch so you need the rotation difference (XYZ) or just an angle ?

[brittle gulch]

I just need an angle between two vectors. FOr instance between the forward vector of an acotr, and the direction of a wind

[languid shard]

I think dotproduct is what you are looking for ? 🤔

[wary wave]

dotproduct will give you a 0-1 value which you can use to determine the angle, yeah

[languid shard]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/storage/attachments/6508-anglebetweenvectors.jpg

[icy bone]

@brittle gulch dot product is what u need mathematically, otherwise ue4 may have built in functions for this

[languid shard]

something like that graph, and you can change from ACOS to COS/TAN or radiants instead of degrees

[brittle gulch]

Oh okay yeah, I was watching the theory in video just right now. I need to get more familiar with appliying trigonometry on vectors. Thanks guys

[icy bone]

vector algebra is what u need, its goos for computing cus the calculations are often simple

running cos, tan, sin is usually performance intrnsive

intensive

ofc for simple usage just use whatever u need, but for performance, always try to avoid specials functions

[brittle gulch]

Hmm.. I noticed that vector maths are often costly in performance unfortunately..
What could I do to avoid these special functions? THere's no way right?
I'm trying to make a flock of character so I need to apply a lot of vector maths to have a steering behavior on a lot of characters

[icy bone]

vector math is not costly, only when u use special functions. to avoid these u need yo use matrices, quaternions for modifying vectors etc

this is why the gpu is so good at graphics, it can run these things insanely fast

if u check ue4 source code its also using matrices for transforms and quarternions for rotations

for ur flocking system i assume it runs CPU, and if ure not familiar with all the math then just stick to special functions

optimizing ur system require u to go into coding

[fathom gust]

@languid shard Hey I signed up and Installed it but it gives me this error

[languid shard]

nvm that

[languid shard]

is it saying subscription status = active ?

[fathom gust]

yes

[languid shard]

you're good then

just start the editor

you should have that menu in your mesh properties window https://i.imgur.com/XhpUVC1.png

[fathom gust]

I did

[languid shard]

https://i.imgur.com/fnqjd5s.png

be sure that the "Mesh Editing" stuff is checked in your window menu

[fathom gust]

I dont see it

[fierce tulip]

O_o

[fathom gust]

what should I do ?

[languid shard]

🤔

try to uninstall the plugin

and reinstall it

just the plugin

[fathom gust]

I did that just now.

It still says 'Install plugin'

[languid shard]

yeah

to other engine versions

mine also says that

[fathom gust]

and the mesh editing feature is still not there.

and its not with only one project but all of them.

I have lot of assets to work and I dont want to keep on switching between Maya and Unreal for each mesh.

I think I should unistalll epic launcher and reinstall after restarting my pc.

[languid shard]

cant help you more sadly :/

[fierce tulip]

if the problem persists, might want to do a bug report

[fathom gust]

no other way 😫

[rare axle]

Any ideas how to make dynamic lights stop bleeding through things?

[languid shard]

@rare axle thats not bleeding, that is flooding :p

[rare axle]

Well... Yeah.

[languid shard]

are your walls onesided ?

by any chance

[rare axle]

There's two layers there

One with normals facing out, one facing in

https://gyazo.com/1e78743b5bff3f2f0233cedafedd6819

https://gyazo.com/05e45d707ed123279d2831a934762f75

Big shell with two-sided material

[languid shard]

hmm shouldnt bleed then

I wonder where all your shadows went btw

there's absolutely none in your scene

[rare axle]

There are but they're just not accurate at all

All lights set to movable.

[languid shard]

have you changed your display distance for the shadows ?

since your scene is quite small you can lower it a lot

[rare axle]

Where do I find that option?

[languid shard]

in your light parameters

the cascaded shadow maps part

[honest vale]

shadows or not, the side facing away from light should not be illuminated at all

are you sure the surface normals are pointing the correct way?

[static viper]

it prolly bleeds in from below

[royal plover]

Hey everyone. I'm making a card game in ue4 and wanted advice on how to construct the actual card. In unity I used ui parts together as a prefab using a script to populate data. How would you suggest doing this in ue4?

[wary wave]

that would depend on how you want to present the game, but you can take a very similar UI based approach in UE4

I probably wouldn't use UE4 to make a game that's entirely UI elements though, seems overkill

[royal plover]

I'm not great with coding and the blueprints seemed like they could be easier to get used to.

What would you use?

[wary wave]

using blueprint is just fine and I could see most of, if not the entire game being made in Blueprint

as for the game itself, I'd probably use meshes for the cards themselves with additional elements for various art

you'd get a Hearthstone-style result that way

[royal plover]

I'm sorry if I'm asking a bit much, but do you have an example of it being done that way?

[wary wave]

there's a complete working example on the marketplace of an MTG / Hearthstone style game

[rare axle]

Is there a way to check surface normal direction in UE4

Also surely it wouldn't matter if my material is twosided?

[languid shard]

@rare axle https://i.imgur.com/FkCdPQ5.png

[rare axle]

https://gyazo.com/ea467e9f153c2cbf1768f0a08ddb71b5

As far as I can tell, normals are correct

[languid shard]

looks...

normal

😄

[rare axle]

https://gyazo.com/012180533850f04be25c123c2cc7a337

I do have some shadow information

https://gyazo.com/e1d1613b395e4c910601556854f8b2fe

But also odd things like this

[languid shard]

have you baked your scene at some point ?

[rare axle]

Yes, but now switched to dynamic completely and moved everything, so all baked information should be gone, right?

[languid shard]

try to rebake

if there's some static stuff left it'll build

if not it'll clean your scene

https://i.imgur.com/HbaDr6R.png

you can also check this "Force No Precomputed Lighting" toggle in your world settings, lightmass parameters

and start a light bake to clear every previous baked lightmap

[dim merlin]

@wary wave what the fps ?

[wary wave]

?

[dim merlin]

u said 120 hrz

[languid shard]

?

120hz = 120fps

[wary wave]

^

[dim merlin]

😄

right 😄

[languid shard]

1hz = 1 frame per second, so fps

[dim merlin]

Right, clear!

[languid shard]

👌

[dim merlin]

@wary wave so, it seems that procedural mesh really depends on GPU? (i like that though)

seems like a go for us if we handle some good settings

[wary wave]

GPU treats it like any other mesh

[royal plover]

Thanks, I'll take a look

[waxen dock]

Is it possible to make an RPG using Unreal Engine?>

[icy peak]

idk

[bronze tree]

Packaging (Android (ETC1)): Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.android.tools.aapt2.Aapt2Exception: AAPT2 error

i am getting this error while packaging for android. only in unreal 4.21

anyone knoe what to do?

[lavish marlin]

redfrag yeah awesome also in this game 1 tick is 0.6seconds and every 4 ticks for woodcutting u get 50% chance to gain a log it would be cool to half a 50% delay on that too or something i do think 50 is fair

[grim ore]

Dragon Quest XI was made in UE4 impossible to type in persons name

[manic pawn]

what

[wispy raven]

Hey, is there any way to get the real-time weather in ue4?

Like, if outside is raining, it toggles a variable or something like that

[modern kite]

Does anybody know must have packs on ue4 that have a good sale on it?

[unique vigil]

Ive seen wildly different estimates for the cost to make a game engine, from 100K to 250M. What would an accurate estimate be for an engine tailor made for one game?

[grim ore]

if the engine is for pong sure, estimates seem good. If it's for a MMO like FFXIV, probably a bit low.

[unique vigil]

250M for pong?

So I am guessing that 500M is more like it then for a 3D game?

[dark depot]

it depends

[wary wave]

'How long is a piece of string'?

How much does it cost to buy a car?

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[unique vigil]

okay lets use Bigworld engine

how much would something like that cost?

[pallid compass]

Something like UE4

Millions

something like RPG maker

100k

[unique vigil]

but how many millions?

are we talking half a billion or a quarter of a billion

[manic pawn]

no one can predict that

[unique vigil]

if we use UE4 as an example

[manic pawn]

as with any software project of that scale, you'll know the cost when it's done

[wary wave]

getting a ballpark figure for something like this is more or less impossible

you need to work out what features you need, how much time each will take, then work out how many people of which varieties you need to hire and for how long

[latent moth]

hey all, how can I get the velocity of an actor? GetVelocity returns a 0,0,0 vector on am actor which contains a falling particle system

[wary wave]

if get velocity is returning 0, it isn't moving

[vivid girder]

I'm trying to make a popup that will appear on top of buttons to show more info

Having a lot of issues getting it to scale correctly though

Do i need to parent a separate scale box for each textbox?

[paper kernel]

maybe

UMG occasionally requires a lot of repetitive work

[vivid girder]

Seems like i need scale boxes for each element

[paper kernel]

technically one scale box should be enough for same size texts

so, one scale box for header, and one inside of it for minor text

[vivid girder]

Scalebox can only have 1 child

[paper kernel]

yes, but you can add say, horizontal box inside of it, which counts as one

[vivid girder]

But then it doesn't scale the text

[paper kernel]

it should, but you're out of luck if it doesn't ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[vivid girder]

ooof

[paper kernel]

UX coding takes patience my friend

you just gotta ask "how can a monkey use this"

[latent moth]

@wary wave it is moving... it's just an actor, no movement component or anything else

it is attached to a custom bullet implementation

anyway... i was interested on knowing when the descent started so instead of getvelocity i am comparing Z ontick event, when the previous Z is higher than the current, it is descending

[vivid girder]

I must be missing something

Size box is set to min of 256p

[misty creek]

Hey all!

I was wondering if anyone had any insights to using Patreon to make money? I'm a pretty good dev, and can do most anything in the engine. Is there anything in particular that people would like to see?

[regal mulch]

Usually Patreon is used to do what you like the most

And then gaining people that are interested in what you do

And then you can give these people what they would like as a patreon

[paper kernel]

no key to success in patron, unless you go for cleavage shots

[spare sun]

start with cleavage, end with code

[plush yew]

I've seen competent devs make a career out of patreon

It's a little too high-stress for me

[paper kernel]

it heavily relies on making cool shit

as if you're competent shader magician, I doubt you will have no problem gaining stable income

[static viper]

you need to get attention first

[carmine wind]

can someone help me with this im making so is getting all the items from the data table and loads all of them in the crafting menu but i wana make so it detects a bollean i added to the data so if its checked its gona load the,

[icy bone]

if ure good with shader and linear math, then u can make all kind of awesome lighting effects. like Sonic Ether who made sick lighting for minecraft, all shaders

[autumn turtle]

So how can I get my projectile to spawn in front of me? every time I spawn one right now, it pushes my character backwards.

[regal mulch]

@carmine wind You wanna do "GetDataTableRowNames"

Then ForEachLoop

And then "GetDataTableRow"

While plugging the Element into the RowName input

Then you can get the struct from the return pin and in that is you boolean

@autumn turtle Well you are setting the spawn location to the Actor Location

Disconnect the Transform Node

Split the SpawnTransform Pin so you have Location, Rotation and Scale

Leave scale at 1,1,1

Get the ActorRotation

Put that into the rotation input

And for the Location you now want to do some vector math

Get the ActorLocation

and do "+ GetActorForwardVector * Distance"

And use that for location

[autumn turtle]

ok ty

[dusty cypress]

Heya

My PC crashed (completely froze) when I built lighting

Any ideas?

[cerulean nova]

Someone here with knowledge about licensing?

i was wondering how far it goes and if it only takes action if "published" or "sold" where are the lines? where to read it up get informations about some licensed stuff?

[brittle tapir]

Not sure where to put this, I made a post about some of the unreal engine 4.21 changes and my findings with some of the new features

https://www.tomlooman.com/ue421-highlights/

Figured some people would be interested

[royal plover]

My understanding is that the license does not rely on sales, or money the game makes, but money the company itself makes.

[cerulean nova]

but lets say i make a game just for the sake of doing something and it is basicly in the "Harry Potter" universe... stuff like "hogwarts" and all that... 🤔

but its not a story based game that resemble the books/movies

only the names of stuff

like the spells

[regal mulch]

What License are you talking about anyway?

[cerulean nova]

if i need one at all?

Lets say i make a game that plays in the Harry Potter Universe ... spells and Places are 1:1 where is the point where i would need a license only if i sell it? what if its free "fan artwork" reather?

i was doing something simular years ago in the Valve Hammer Editor but the source engine is way to limited...

[regal mulch]

They can always get you to shut down the project

Even if you don't earn money with it

You do not own the rights on the Harry Potter Universe

[dusty cypress]

What if you made a video on it but never released the game he was talking about to anyone? Curious :P

[regal mulch]

You need the rights to use their intellectual property, no matter for what you use it.
You can of course privately do something that never sees the light of day

[cerulean nova]

for myself basicly

[regal mulch]

If only ever you will use it and no one else, then do whatever you want.

[cerulean nova]

mhm

[regal mulch]

But you can't share any things that are based on stuff you don't own the rights on

[cerulean nova]

yeah it often seems alot of "mods" fly under the radar in that case

[regal mulch]

People are trying

But if you get mail one day, you basically wasted all your time on it

Rather put the time and energy into something you create

There are enough fan projects reportedly taken down

[cerulean nova]

its sad because the Harry Potter games besides the first 2 are all realy bad and single player only ^^

[regal mulch]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[cerulean nova]

but seems to be right about doing something own has a better future

maybe one day it is ready to see the world and i can then share it without having to worrie

[dusty cypress]

How difficult do you think it'd be to obtain the right to make a game using your own assets (and making it free) that is specifically based on another game? Obviously depends on what the company is but in general?

[cerulean nova]

impossible if u ask me

[regal mulch]

Difficult enough

[dusty cypress]

Like for example

Installation 01 is an upcoming fan-made Halo game

[regal mulch]

Everything that even remotely is known wants you to earn money with whatever they give you

and then they take a big % of that

Well, you can always base stuff on stuff

Yo ucan make a wizard game

that plays in a castle

As long as nothing looks, or sounds like Harry Potter

[cerulean nova]

As i see it getting in contact is one thing but pitching it the right way is another and it will not be worth the time and effort u put in it ^^

[regal mulch]

No names, no places, no art, nothing

Why would they choose a random UE4 dev if they can use big companies that are schooled in that

[cerulean nova]

unless u have a ready project to present and they see potential

then maybe

[regal mulch]

Doubt that's worth any persons time

They rather shut you down the second the notice it

[cerulean nova]

but like i said getting in contact with big studios who have these licenses is like trying to reach out for some Star....

[dusty cypress]

This one YouTuber was about to release a 'demo' of his prototype project that had all of the Bioshock asset files in it. Basically he was seeing how it all looked in UE4

You think he'd get in trouble if he released that demo?

[icy bone]

@dusty cypress ofc he will

[spare sun]

is he tryin to make money off it

[dusty cypress]

Nah

@icy bone that's what i thought

[spare sun]

then I think not. Same with fanart, really

technically you are breaching ip, but

[icy bone]

@dusty cypress if its bioshock assets he will be in trouble, if he made them then np as long as hes not selling without license

[dusty cypress]

yeah he used the Bioshock assets from the original game

And ported it all to UE3 or UE4

[icy bone]

then trouble for sure

its not his

thats stealing

[dusty cypress]

That's probably why he didn't do it come to think of it

lol

[spare sun]

its not like they'll sue you for such a demo I think. Usually they dont care at all about small personal projects

[cerulean nova]

i saw something simular with Half Life 2 and World of Warcraft

[icy bone]

they wont sue but will report for it to be taken down

[cerulean nova]

its crazy how good hl2 looks in UE4

[dusty cypress]

Question, I am getting a few 3D models, but one of them has a "Non-commercial" license. Does that mean I can use it for my project as long as my game remains free?

Or does it mean I can't use it at all if I release the game?

[icy bone]

@dusty cypress yes

[spare sun]

yes you can use it if ur game is free

[dusty cypress]

Awesome!

[cerulean nova]

@dusty cypress that includes your not allowed to have any kind of ingame purchases either

[dusty cypress]

That's alright

Are donations fine?

[cerulean nova]

no

i dont think so

not 100% sure

[icy bone]

its like ue4 is free non commercial, commercial its 5% above certain limit

@dusty cypress donations are ok

[cerulean nova]

not if the creators are not agreed to

[spare sun]

what kind of donations though

[icy bone]

cus donations aren legally commercializing, its more about supporting u, not related to any product

depends on ur wording

[spare sun]

and as far as ue4 goes, its just royalty based commercial or not mhm?

[cerulean nova]

the Original owner of that can prohibit accepting donations based on what u use tho 🤷 also is there not something that goes into detail like are they getting any benefits from donating?

same goes for credits and all that

[spare sun]

donations don't neccessarily have to be tied to one project

[icy bone]

@cerulean nova yes but if nothing is said and the owner says non commercial, then u can use it for all non commercial scenarios

[cerulean nova]

sure but what if i make a game promoting my ue4 game and they can make a account on my page when they register and donate < 50 bucks they get acces to premium membership wish allowes them to login to the gameserver the game i made with ue4 and not give a single penny to UE4 or anyone else because its donation based 🤷 😂

[dusty cypress]

If I have to credit 3D model authors from sites that I downloaded them off, would the best place be a Credits option at the main menu? (and the end)

[cerulean nova]

and sure they can download it for free but not connect to the servers 😂

thats bogus

[spare sun]

I'd put it in the credits if they don't say where

[icy bone]

@cerulean nova thats not really donation anymore, if u tie a given functionality to money. it means that feature is commercialized

[cerulean nova]

but thats how its often done

thats why i say there are conditions

that come with "donations"

[icy bone]

its like saying, if u donate 50 bucks, u get the game

[dusty cypress]

Would I name each 3D object (that I have to credit) and put their name?

because I have a lot of 3d models lol

[plush yew]

Star Wars used to license their IP out to various video game studios

[cerulean nova]

just because u call it donations and dont "guarantee" something for 100% for money doesnt make it a legit donation ^^

[icy bone]

@cerulean nova well it boils down to localized laws now. like here if u give tip to waiter/waitress, its taxable now

[dusty cypress]

What would you call those sounds in games that are super mysterious and are important to the storyline/character? Like you find something big and it gives off that weird, huge vibe? Not 'mysterious' but I'm looking for specific names of types of sounds lol

[cerulean nova]

not 100% since ur using the internet or not ?

[icy bone]

so same can go with donation, thats why lawyers have work

[cerulean nova]

i live in a country that has not much laws for the internet because the people who are sitting in charge are to old to understand it 🤷

well another theme

whats happening with all these "simulator" games 😂

Thief Simulator for example

i got it its fun but why the simulator in the name

why not make a good story for it

so much wasted potential ^^

[icy bone]

this is unreal chat btw

:p

[cerulean nova]

😄

i sometimes laugh when i play indi games and see that they translated my language with google transalter wich just sounds fun and terrible at the same time 😂

[plush yew]

Hey

My .umap ends with .uasset

anything I can do?