#ue4-general | Unreal Source | Page 416

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 4:18 PM

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What?

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:18 PM

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floating point rounding error

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 4:18 PM

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How should that be a problem?

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:18 PM

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due to limited precision and binary representaion

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further from origin you get, the more rounding error accumulates

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thats the whole point of world origin shifting

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 4:18 PM

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Define origin though?

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:18 PM

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0,0,0

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lol

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 4:19 PM

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So if 0.0.0 is the center of the world... when do you expect it to become a problem?

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:19 PM

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not sure what type of threshold you can expect to be reliable

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but pretty big world

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 4:20 PM

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1 uu = 1cm, the float problem is 0.000somewhere-here

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:20 PM

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like, if a persistent map spans across several kilometers

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 4:20 PM

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Then you wont have issues..

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Dont solve problems you dont (yet) have

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:21 PM

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so what type of threshold can you expect to be reliable?

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 4:21 PM

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25km2 wont give problems

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Maybe when you go 500+ km2

abstract relic Mar 17, 2019, 4:21 PM

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Next topic to look into then 😜 https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/LevelStreaming/WorldBrowser

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 4:21 PM

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Then physics give sooner problems than floats

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:23 PM

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2.5km from origin wont be large enough but if like 10km from origin is still safe, I could make some hacky tricks to contain it without that type of space. Player can't look up or down (side view) so I can layer areas on top of eachother

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does physx not get shifted when world origin gets shifted?

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 4:24 PM

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For a side scroller I wouldnt even use level streaming

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:24 PM

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its not a typical side scroller. I'm going for seamless world and its pretty large

dim plover Mar 17, 2019, 4:25 PM

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There is such a thing as World Origin shifting.

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:26 PM

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because of the limited space a sublevel takes up, I can use some trickery to make efficient use of the space though, like layering up/down, behind/infront because streaming will hide unloaded levels

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yeah thats what I was asking about

dim plover Mar 17, 2019, 4:26 PM

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However, I only know of this because I see problem associated with that quite a lot.

cobalt scaffold Mar 17, 2019, 4:26 PM

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i got precision problems some 20+km from origin

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:26 PM

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he was saying I shouldn't need it; I was saying I should

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@cobalt scaffold k thank you. That gives me a solid idea of what to expect

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:28 PM

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Is UE4 going to have instanced skeletal meshes any time soon?

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:28 PM

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no

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😦

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:29 PM

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what about the nvdia integration

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saw one dude successfully get 1000 instanced skeletal meshes running at 200 or 300 fps or something like that

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:30 PM

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from what I read, they said creating a "general case" implementation of it was difficult because of specific needs. It has been done by community people but nothing solid has been opensourced

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:31 PM

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i'm trying to make a lot of zombies for my game so I've looking down every optimization route

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i'm even considering doing instanced static meshes with vertex animations instead

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:32 PM

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That's the way I had seen one done. Seems pretty rigid though

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:32 PM

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agreed

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to be honest the characters I use are so low poly it will barely make a difference if they are instanced or not

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i assume

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utility AI has made a huge performance boost so I'm probably never using behavior trees again

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:34 PM

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Disclaimer: I'm totaly not suggesting going this router but:, apparently if you ditch character movement component and implement something much lighter-weight, you can get quite a bit more going on in regards to animated characters

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:34 PM

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already looking down that route too

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problem is replication AND it's an open world game

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so I'd need to figure out how to do jumping, climbing, etc

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:35 PM

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yeah

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:35 PM

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read an article on it and it doesn't seem thaaaaat complicated

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but again my c++ is weak as hell and I'm just diving into the deep end on this stuff

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i'm actually surprised that no one has published a lighter weight cmc for AI on the store

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:36 PM

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The problem I ran into was that when rewriting movement, I ended up only recreating much of what was already there in CMC anyway and it was a fruitless effort. To warrant that kind of change, it really should be a completely different approach to movement

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:36 PM

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how so?

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:38 PM

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You still need to solve the same problems as CMC does. If you go in a completely different approach like say, making movement entirely stored and replicated as flags indicating a movement type and direction and deriving splines to predict locally and on server from that maybe. Just a theory though

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there is a lot going on in CMC but its not dead weight

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maybe a little too overly safe but still important

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:39 PM

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i read it over and I couldn't see much I'd want to take out

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what i've been seeing lately though

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:39 PM

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exactly

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:39 PM

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is that much of the bloat is actually the Character class itself and not so much the cmc

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:40 PM

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its the CMC but its the approach they take thats heavy. Not to be offensive but its very clunky and direct.

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:41 PM

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agreed

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:41 PM

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more optimized approaches derive movement from less data (not saying I could do it better lol)

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:41 PM

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it would take me more time than I want to put it at the moment to do it

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:42 PM

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thats why I bailed

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still a nice wishlist but not a priority

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:42 PM

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Hello guys I am working on inventory

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:42 PM

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table

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:42 PM

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can you advice me what to prefer to make the slot

honest rune Mar 17, 2019, 4:42 PM

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instanced skeletal mesh component is on my sexy wants list though

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:42 PM

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to make them with vertical box or with horizontal box?

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:42 PM

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@honest rune hell yeah

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@plush yew one goes up down and the other goes side to side. doesn't matter

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 4:43 PM

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@plush yew why not a uniform grid?

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:43 PM

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I knowhow they are working

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okay

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idk @whole quarry

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🤔

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I am not using yet uniform grid

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:44 PM

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are they all the same sized icons?

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:44 PM

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it is for what? the uniform?

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yes

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there will be same sized item slots

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with same size

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:44 PM

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make an array and place them on the screen manually using the position nodes

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:44 PM

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lke 50 50 for examle

zenith flower Mar 17, 2019, 4:44 PM

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wth unreal....

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plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:44 PM

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idk how to do it @brave lark

zenith flower Mar 17, 2019, 4:44 PM

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why?

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:45 PM

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@zenith flower why what

zenith flower Mar 17, 2019, 4:45 PM

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multiply by 0 = a non zero outcome

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:45 PM

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@plush yew "set position"

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:45 PM

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and I don't know how many slots will be

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to search in google "set position"?

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:46 PM

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it's a node @plush yew

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:46 PM

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a okay

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brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:46 PM

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probably need an object first

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:46 PM

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what object?

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:46 PM

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each icon should be a widget

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:47 PM

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a okay

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:47 PM

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your inventory is going to be an array of a bunch of widgets

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:47 PM

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why to make this harder with an array, even with buttons or?

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okay

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so to make one widget alone new UI widget

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@brave lark

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:49 PM

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@plush yew https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/inventory-system

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tear this apart, learn some stuff

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:49 PM

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okay

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ty

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:50 PM

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@plush yew no prob my dude

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:50 PM

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😃

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o and this is free

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to add it to my project or?

hoary silo Mar 17, 2019, 4:50 PM

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@brave lark you think you can help me with my problem?

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:51 PM

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I advise doing it in a separate project and just seeing what they did to make the icon stuff. don't copy it, but learn what they used and then try to make your own new thing with the new knowledge you gained

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:51 PM

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abstract relic Mar 17, 2019, 4:51 PM

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Have you made a game before out of curiosity? @plush yew

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:51 PM

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@hoary silo i'll google that really quick

hoary silo Mar 17, 2019, 4:51 PM

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XD

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:51 PM

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why this is create project not add to project

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xDD

hoary silo Mar 17, 2019, 4:52 PM

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My question was: How do you make an object only cast a shadow in a certain lighting channel?

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 4:53 PM

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what are you trying to accomplish

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 4:53 PM

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@plush yew dunno, you can ask @vale halo

hoary silo Mar 17, 2019, 4:53 PM

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I'll draw you a picture of it

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:53 PM

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?

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 4:53 PM

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Inventory System is made by him

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:53 PM

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I think that this that I download it addable to project not to create alone project

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okay np

vale halo Mar 17, 2019, 4:53 PM

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You’ll need to migrate it - see the documentation for details

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:53 PM

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a okay

hoary silo Mar 17, 2019, 4:54 PM

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@brave lark I'll acually screen shot it

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:54 PM

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so to create a new project to open it and to see how is this make with the inventory?

vale halo Mar 17, 2019, 4:54 PM

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Pretty much: for the sample project to work, it needs controls. These controls are set in the project settings, thus (unfortunately) requiring me to distribute it as a “create project” instead of “add to project”

abstract relic Mar 17, 2019, 4:54 PM

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I’m getting Crusher vibes

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:55 PM

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a okay

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ahah

vale halo Mar 17, 2019, 4:55 PM

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You can create a project to try it out, and then copy/integrate it into your own project using those instructions 😃

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:55 PM

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yes

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I think like you

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cool

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ty

hoary silo Mar 17, 2019, 4:56 PM

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@brave lark Here:

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whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 4:57 PM

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@abstract relic again? :P

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 4:58 PM

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what is that?

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When i opened it it doesn't has got nothing

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 5:00 PM

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Double negative makes positive

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You know how the content browser works right?

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 5:00 PM

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yes

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vale halo Mar 17, 2019, 5:01 PM

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Go to the InventorySystem folder

abstract relic Mar 17, 2019, 5:03 PM

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You can’t deny the spoon feeding behavior Remco. He can never hide that 😜

hoary silo Mar 17, 2019, 5:03 PM

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What is GarethBale trying to do?

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 5:04 PM

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@abstract relic i have a 14 month old kid, im so used to it that I dont even see it :d

hoary silo Mar 17, 2019, 5:07 PM

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Can someone plz help me 😢

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 5:08 PM

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so you want it to not cast shadow at all or not cast shadow on the item in that channel

hoary silo Mar 17, 2019, 5:09 PM

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Kind of, it seems my question wasn't clear enough. I'm trying to make an object cast shadows from Channel 0, but an object in channel 1 receive them.

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 5:10 PM

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this project doesn't help me

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it hasn't got inventory

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it has got item and when you click on them idk what they do

hoary silo Mar 17, 2019, 5:10 PM

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sigh*

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 5:10 PM

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it is trash

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I need a invenotry with working slots to work drag and drop to see this array operation how it works

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if you can reccomend me other tutorial or to download other project

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 5:12 PM

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the array only handles the placement on the screen

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the actual inventory will be a combination of structs or a table of stuff

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that inventory was only mean to show you the widgets

vale halo Mar 17, 2019, 5:13 PM

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If you pick the white spheres up, items get added/removed. If you look at the wall it explains the further controls for things like opening your inventory and crafting

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 5:13 PM

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aaa

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I picked them and then what to do?

vale halo Mar 17, 2019, 5:14 PM

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I’m afraid I’m kind of tied up, but try pressing I

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 5:14 PM

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then I press I

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then?

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I see this

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and?

vale halo Mar 17, 2019, 5:14 PM

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Whoops - I meant E

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Press I to close the crafting and then E to open the inventory

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 5:15 PM

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a okay

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it works

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cool

hoary silo Mar 17, 2019, 5:17 PM

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Not to be rude, but can someone please help me now

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 5:17 PM

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okay

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xD

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I didn't say this

hoary silo Mar 17, 2019, 5:18 PM

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@brave lark you seem like you will know how to help me

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 5:21 PM

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@hoary silo i might be able to figure it out, but I was wondering the same thing so when I do figure it out I'll be sure to let you know.

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my question is what do you need this for?

hoary silo Mar 17, 2019, 5:21 PM

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First person arms

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With a gun

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 5:22 PM

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why don't you want them to cast shadow?

hoary silo Mar 17, 2019, 5:23 PM

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Because it will look like this:

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brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 5:24 PM

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why not just disable casting shadows then

hoary silo Mar 17, 2019, 5:24 PM

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Then the gun wont cast a shadow onto the arms

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 5:25 PM

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hmmmm

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lemme poke around a bit

hoary silo Mar 17, 2019, 5:28 PM

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gtg. just DM the sollution to me

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 5:28 PM

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@hoary silo have you read this yet

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https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Rendering/LightingAndShadows/LightingChannels

abstract relic Mar 17, 2019, 5:29 PM

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Share the wealth mate

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 5:30 PM

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@abstract relic what wealth?

valid root Mar 17, 2019, 5:31 PM

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Is there a snap plugin for UE that would be similar to Blender's ? Like if you want to snap objects by vertex in orthographic view for example

dim plover Mar 17, 2019, 5:31 PM

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The wealth of knawledge

valid root Mar 17, 2019, 5:31 PM

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I'm losing my last few brain cells with the vertex snapping tool that comes with the engine....

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 5:32 PM

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@valid root there is somewhere, i've seen it

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lemme look

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@valid root https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Rama's_Vertex_Snap_Editor_Plugin

Rama's Vertex Snap Editor Plugin

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rama made a plugin, might be good

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lemme know if you need help getting it in the engine

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thought I saw another one though

mint umbra Mar 17, 2019, 5:36 PM

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Uhm, how do I prevent an AI from hitting itself with its own sword? I.e make it ignore self when the AI is tracing? I know I can tick Ignore Self for the trace, and I've also added the AI Controller into an array of actors to ignore, but it still hits itself. Ignore Self works for the character. I'll upload screens unless you guys can think of anything obvious

abstract relic Mar 17, 2019, 5:39 PM

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That’s hilarious. I’d use bp interface and have the functions called using that system. https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Blueprints/UserGuide/Types/Interface

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 5:40 PM

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so I am here now guys cool xD

valid root Mar 17, 2019, 5:41 PM

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@brave lark Thanks, I'll give it a shot!

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 5:41 PM

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@abstract relic i love interfaces and blueprint libraries. I use them for like eveything now because casting seems dumb at this point

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@valid root no prob man, lemme know how it goes

wise juniper Mar 17, 2019, 5:50 PM

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Hello guys
I need some help with UE 4.21
My English skills are not good, please sympathize if there are errors in using words. I come from Vietnamese.
I have been working on UE 4.21 for several weeks, but today I opened UE 4.21 to create a project, after Load 100%, my computer lagged and got a blue screen error, then auto restart
I open other versions like UE 4.20, or projects created earlier on version 4.21, they still work normally.
I don't know what my fault is UE 4.21. Someone please help me fix the error

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 5:57 PM

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validate?

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 5:57 PM

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@wise juniper so when you launch the 4.21 project now it crashes?

lunar bobcat Mar 17, 2019, 5:57 PM

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Can someone tell me why this isn't working?
It always comes back as false

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wise juniper Mar 17, 2019, 5:57 PM

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no no....i lauch unreal engine only......it crash, but when i lauch a project at 4.12 version, it run normally

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 5:58 PM

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Validate the 4.21 installation

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In the Epic Launcher, click on the tiny arrow next to UE 4.21 and select Validate in that menu

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Next*

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Next*

wise juniper Mar 17, 2019, 5:59 PM

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ok....i will try it.thanks....I have just reinstalled the engine, it take 1h :#

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then i will verify it

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 6:00 PM

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Okido

wise juniper Mar 17, 2019, 6:00 PM

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Remco.....How long have you used ue4

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??

lunar bobcat Mar 17, 2019, 6:01 PM

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No one knows?

mint vine Mar 17, 2019, 6:03 PM

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Sorry for interrupting you guys! I am looking for online resources to help me setup locomotion with animations like 45 deg or 135 deg e.t.c Thanks.

wise juniper Mar 17, 2019, 6:04 PM

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hey ledankwolffe

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 6:05 PM

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for this project Inventory that I downloaded even I and E key is there another?

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to do something?

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i to open the inventory E to open the inventory

wise juniper Mar 17, 2019, 6:05 PM

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i look some err in your blueprint

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 6:05 PM

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@vale halo

wise juniper Mar 17, 2019, 6:05 PM

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it here

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make two cast to child my character...try it

vale halo Mar 17, 2019, 6:20 PM

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There’s O for opening chests @plush yew

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 6:20 PM

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cool

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other?

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it doesn't happen when I press "O"

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@vale halo

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can anyone with 1st gen ryzen (1700x here) confirm cl14 ram is worth the extra $100 usd?

vale halo Mar 17, 2019, 6:35 PM

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You need to be looking at a chest (should be a rectangle box to the side of the example level

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 6:36 PM

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aha okay

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omg

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and then what to do?

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this rectange or? @vale halo

abstract relic Mar 17, 2019, 6:38 PM

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Please don't spam. This isn't a place for step by step instruction.

vale halo Mar 17, 2019, 6:38 PM

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Sorry ^^ (And last thing before I need to head off: it's the yellow thing)

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 6:38 PM

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okay I don't understand @abstract relic this is the reason that I Ask eee

abstract relic Mar 17, 2019, 6:39 PM

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Read their doc first. Don't harass him.

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 6:39 PM

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okay

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where is this doc?

cobalt scaffold Mar 17, 2019, 6:40 PM

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but most of all, try doing things on your own first, then ask questions

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 6:40 PM

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okay

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I tried

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with O and it doesn't work and then I ask 😉 @cobalt scaffold

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more than one free slot or?

abstract relic Mar 17, 2019, 6:41 PM

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I still think you're crusher 2.0. Calling it now

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 6:41 PM

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?

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what calling ?

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hu?

vale halo Mar 17, 2019, 6:41 PM

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Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8cLoL3ss643BEw2uLcuNoHbWmXbkMinwVGaAWJ2lT4/edit?usp=sharing & that's a piece of code that adds the items one by one (so it can use multiple slots in a single add if you're adding more than 4 (by default) items in one go)...I'm afraid I really need to head off though, so good luck 😃

Google Docs

InventorySystem docs

InventorySystem An advanced Drag ‘n Drop inventory system Documentation We’re working on making InventorySystem even easier! A HowToCompute Publication Table of Contents Table of Contents 1 Getting Up And Running 2 Testing! 9 Controls 11 Common Errors: 11 Adding you...

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 6:42 PM

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I saw that you think everybody in this server is some crusher

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so stop and go to doctor to see your health 😃 @abstract relic

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thank you @vale halo I will read it

valid root Mar 17, 2019, 6:42 PM

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@brave lark I only need the VictoryEd plygin enabled to get the vertex snapping to work right? I don't really need the blueprint stuff atm. I found the latest build of the VictoryEd to be 4.16 and when I follow the steps and try to open my project it prompts that VictoryEd was built with an older version of the engine. When I try to rebuild it it fails.. I take that I need to get a newer version of the VictoryEd or?

abstract relic Mar 17, 2019, 6:43 PM

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Yep, it's him. Considering that I only did it once. Good luck mate 😛

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 6:43 PM

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?

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what you did once?

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you are weird man

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 6:45 PM

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@lunar bobcat do an is valid check first

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@valid root have to convert it to latest build

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have you worked with visual studio before?

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you don't have to do any c++ coding or anything, but you do need to hit one button to compile it

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 6:47 PM

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I have a question about the enum items when I add for example an apple as item here

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and add it here a description

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 6:48 PM

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description is just for you to remember, it can be blank

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 6:48 PM

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where will be appear this description-how to see the description that I write here

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aha okay

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but when you want like when you get the apple and when you hovered with the mouse cursor to show you the description

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you must to make on drag detection event or?

valid root Mar 17, 2019, 6:50 PM

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@brave lark I've got visual studio but never used it with UE before. Not sure how to open the right file

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 6:53 PM

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@plush yew got to make that yourself

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@valid root ok so you're going to have to recompile the plugin most likely

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which means you'll have to make a c++ enabled project

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 6:54 PM

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okay but I don't have an idea how it works

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that's the problem @brave lark

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 6:54 PM

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never did that myself @plush yew , I would just poke around till you find a clue. Thats what the rest of us do

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 6:55 PM

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a okay

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I don't understand you completelly

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how you poke?

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 6:55 PM

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@wise juniper 3 years now

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 6:56 PM

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@plush yew smh

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you ever watch scooby doo?

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 6:56 PM

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something?

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no

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aa

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ever

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yes

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when I was young

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xD

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 6:56 PM

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thats what you're doing

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looking for clues

whole quarry Mar 17, 2019, 6:56 PM

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@abstract relic im starting to.see the pattern youre seeing aswell

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 6:57 PM

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i have a feeling I know what you guys are saying

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 6:57 PM

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oky

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aaa

abstract relic Mar 17, 2019, 6:57 PM

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Just block him. 😛

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 6:57 PM

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cuz that use to be me for a bit too, then I decided to just lose my life to game dev

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UE4 discord is kind of not an instructional place for starters. It's kind of a place for people with specific technical questions

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yanno I know a server that will probably help you

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 6:59 PM

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okay

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and it is?

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i have a technical question

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is cl14ram on ryzen 1700x worth the extra $100 usd

sage hare Mar 17, 2019, 7:04 PM

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Hi everyone. I want to know can anyone direct my to a place to read up how to create different account types in UE4 for Example: Developer account, Moderator account, Normal player account.

grim ore Mar 17, 2019, 7:14 PM

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account types? like Epic Games accounts or making your own accounts on your own server somewhere with different settings?

manic pawn Mar 17, 2019, 7:16 PM

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that's like 100% game specific

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 7:18 PM

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@abstract relic

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hmmmm

manic pawn Mar 17, 2019, 7:22 PM

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hmmmm

abstract relic Mar 17, 2019, 7:22 PM

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😛

mint yacht Mar 17, 2019, 7:26 PM

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Can anyone help me with my mesh issue? For some reason they're importing like this.

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https://i.imgur.com/CNBaDt9.png this is what they look like in Substance Painter, so i don't think it's a normal issue

Imgur

abstract relic Mar 17, 2019, 7:32 PM

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Check if the mesh has multiple uv maps. If that's the case, you need to combine them into one map or set your tex coords if you need those multimaps.

mint yacht Mar 17, 2019, 7:55 PM

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Nope, everything is in one map

sudden agate Mar 17, 2019, 7:57 PM

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is that a Skeletal Mesh? @mint yacht

mint yacht Mar 17, 2019, 7:58 PM

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No?

abstract relic Mar 17, 2019, 7:59 PM

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can you show us the wireframe? In engine

mint yacht Mar 17, 2019, 8:00 PM

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abstract relic Mar 17, 2019, 8:03 PM

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looks like you only imported some of the mesh's element. Not the asset as a whole

mint yacht Mar 17, 2019, 8:03 PM

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It's... all one object though...

abstract relic Mar 17, 2019, 8:05 PM

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Look into your import and export setting.

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actually, how are you importing first of all. There's a few methods in unreal that'll break it.

mint yacht Mar 17, 2019, 8:08 PM

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i'm dragging and dropping it into the content window

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importing with the import button is giving the same results

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Wait, i fixed... somehow... in my FBX export settings... i changed the unit scale to centemeters and unchecked children and input connections. Not sure which one of those did it, but it's working now

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grim ore Mar 17, 2019, 8:58 PM

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yay gdc audio is up https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/b29u25/25gb_of_high_quality_sound_effects_the_sonniss/

manic pawn Mar 17, 2019, 9:02 PM

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woa

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never seen that before

maiden swift Mar 17, 2019, 9:02 PM

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Nice.

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They've been doing this for a few years now.

manic pawn Mar 17, 2019, 9:03 PM

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there are over 100GB+ of files br_animated_thinking

grim ore Mar 17, 2019, 9:05 PM

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yep always fun to get free audio for inept people like me 😃

cerulean coral Mar 17, 2019, 9:06 PM

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nice thank you @grim ore

valid root Mar 17, 2019, 9:08 PM

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@brave lark I managed to set up a new project with c++ enabled but I'm clueless how to recompile the plugin.

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Sorry for being a pain in the anus 😄

grim ore Mar 17, 2019, 9:09 PM

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the compile button or compile the project in the solution file in Visual Studio

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:10 PM

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@grim ore Sir I want to know, which tutorial of your will be good for me, so that i can make paddle, ball and brick game, i mean node tutorials

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i have been watching them, collision one, but they are line tracking so they are not good for me for now

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i was trying to find those angle nodes, which will be helpful for me

grim ore Mar 17, 2019, 9:11 PM

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paddle and ball would be more physics based and I dont think I covered most of those.

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I am poor at math so I tended to not cover those things yet 😦

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:12 PM

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oh ok , but physics has it's own problem, i tried but the velocity changed and so the ball sometime goes very fast and other time going very slow

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yeah i am also not good in maths, haha i will say i am not good in anything haha

grim ore Mar 17, 2019, 9:13 PM

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have you checked out the breakout ue4 tutorials that are on the internet?

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:13 PM

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what i want to do is , my paddle got three parts, that's left middle and right part, when ball hit one of them, it should go to that direction

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but i cannot figure it out, print string is working but i don't know how to make it go to left or right or straight up

grim ore Mar 17, 2019, 9:13 PM

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yeah it might be something more like just pushing the ball forward every frame a certain distance then checking for collisions and making it move in another direction if needed

narrow talon Mar 17, 2019, 9:14 PM

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Hello, I like some help.

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:14 PM

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yeah i checked it all , there is just one tutorial and it's physics based so that's why i am stucked

grim ore Mar 17, 2019, 9:14 PM

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yep I tried to make a breakout game as one of my first project and just gave up, I am horrible at math so it was more work than fun at that point

narrow talon Mar 17, 2019, 9:14 PM

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I was wondering if there are any ways I can make Character models without having to learn somthing like Blender.

grim ore Mar 17, 2019, 9:15 PM

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@narrow talon MakeHuman, Mixamo, and a few other programs like iClone

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:15 PM

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if this basic working can be done than i am all ready to make it haha, because this is how the game work

narrow talon Mar 17, 2019, 9:15 PM

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Thank you!

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:15 PM

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yes you can also use kinect camera for the animation haha

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i use to find so much about cheap mocaps

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any idea about that @grim ore Sir

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about my problem

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like how to change the direction , when the ball hit the left right or middle part of the paddle

grim ore Mar 17, 2019, 9:17 PM

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I dont really unless I tried to make one. I got stuck when I tried it and gave up. math, vectors, angles, all that stuff I just get lost trying to do

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:17 PM

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i was thinking to give it random direction , very little

grim ore Mar 17, 2019, 9:17 PM

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if you know the direction you can just multiply it by -1 to reverse it but that is about all I could say, it doesnt help with changing it angle and such

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:17 PM

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so i think i should move to 2D platformer game

scarlet charm Mar 17, 2019, 9:17 PM

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Anyone willing to help me on a small but ambitious project?

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:18 PM

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what kind of project you got

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do you know how to keep the constant velocity of an object that way physics paddle game can be made, @grim ore

grim ore Mar 17, 2019, 9:19 PM

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you could always set it every frame

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:20 PM

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i am not that good Sir at programming, and i am new to UE4 too

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i checked on the net , like how to program it, and cannot convert it into nodes

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i am more artwork guy than programmer 😦

scarlet charm Mar 17, 2019, 9:21 PM

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My project is an apartment theme but everything is interactive, so that means working TV, working radio, working lights, working pretty muck everything you can think of in an apartment. So basically an apartment life simulator.

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:22 PM

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oh ok nice, that's kinda cool haha

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i would have helped you with 3D models , but i just forgot everything, i use to work in blender before, like 7 years before

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but if you want to know anything i can help you , about artwork, 2d and 3d both

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😄 😃

devout gulch Mar 17, 2019, 9:23 PM

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does anyone have issue

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where in 4.22

scarlet charm Mar 17, 2019, 9:23 PM

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Ok, cool

devout gulch Mar 17, 2019, 9:23 PM

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sphere traces doesn't work ?

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with custom collision channel ?

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:25 PM

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ok guys bye bye , going now

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cya

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thanks for the help Sir @grim ore

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😃 😄

spark merlin Mar 17, 2019, 9:27 PM

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guys would anyone know where i could start on making the character spin to walk if anyone could lead me in the right direction it would be very cool

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:28 PM

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you mean character animation

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spin means

spark merlin Mar 17, 2019, 9:28 PM

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like a stick

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then

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 9:28 PM

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@valid root did you add it to the plugins folder in there?

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also open the .uplugin file in notepad or something and show me the contents

spark merlin Mar 17, 2019, 9:29 PM

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like this

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and so fourth

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:29 PM

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if it's 2d it will use flip book for the animaiton

spark merlin Mar 17, 2019, 9:29 PM

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its 3d

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:) xD

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:30 PM

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3rd person

spark merlin Mar 17, 2019, 9:30 PM

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yep

valid root Mar 17, 2019, 9:30 PM

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📎 1.JPG

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:30 PM

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than i think you have to put that animation and that 3d model, on the left and right key put the animation

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i am also noob in UE4, but haha i know how things work, not that good , but i know a little

valid root Mar 17, 2019, 9:31 PM

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📎 2.JPG

spark merlin Mar 17, 2019, 9:31 PM

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so would i make the animation in blender or unreal thats all i need to know and thank you a lot

valid root Mar 17, 2019, 9:31 PM

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@brave lark

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:31 PM

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yeah blender

spark merlin Mar 17, 2019, 9:31 PM

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thank you

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:31 PM

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than you have to import it in UE4

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riggyfiy is a blender addon , which can make a bone skeleton for you , ready to animate

spark merlin Mar 17, 2019, 9:33 PM

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there are no bones xD hahaha

bronze cedar Mar 17, 2019, 9:33 PM

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haha ok

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how will you animate than

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i wounder haha

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ok cya later

brave lark Mar 17, 2019, 9:35 PM

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@valid root ok should be safe to recompile the project as is then

valid root Mar 17, 2019, 9:39 PM

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📎 4.JPG

plush yew Mar 17, 2019, 9:39 PM

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I no longer see the translation, scale, or rotation tool when I select an object, what am I doing wrong?

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valid root Mar 17, 2019, 9:40 PM

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When I try to rebuild the MyProject.sln in Visual Studio it doesn't affect the outcome. It still prompts that I have to rebuild manually..

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@brave lark

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I'm also following this thing and have the lines added to the .ini file

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scarlet charm Mar 17, 2019, 10:04 PM

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anyone else willing to assist me on this project of mine?

tranquil bone Mar 17, 2019, 10:43 PM

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Is it possible to create a open world area using a tile set of some sort like using prefabbed areas created in magicavoxel or something to make procedural generation?

coral patio Mar 17, 2019, 11:15 PM

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Hey there! 😃 Hope this is the right place to ask this.. I'm currently working on a (fantasy) character and I'm using the photorealistic character workflow for it. I took a character from paragon and cutomized their shaders (for skin, eyes and hair) to fit my character. However, I stumbled upon a problem - I'd like to give my character dimly glowing pupils but I can't seem to find a way how to do that. Does anybody know how I could modify the shader node network in a way that I could add emissive to the pupil?

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(Also, for some reason the eyebrows and eyelashes seem to disappear once you zoom out even moderately far.. does anybody know what could be the reason for this?)

topaz pebble Mar 17, 2019, 11:24 PM

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does anyone know of an rtx demo that i can actually download

abstract relic Mar 17, 2019, 11:53 PM

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@coral patio 1: make emissive texture 2: probably due to LOD

celest creek Mar 17, 2019, 11:58 PM

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K, so hopefully this will be easy to answer but has anyone tried to rotate an actor (or root component) 45 degrees then try to spin around its own axis?

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I can't for the life of me do it. It's all good when it's along a straight X, Y or Z.. but otherwise nope. Any ideas?

celest creek Mar 18, 2019, 12:21 AM

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These are two options I've tried so far, neither work... 😦

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Two options out of countless ones I've tried, I might add...

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 1:04 AM

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?

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@celest creek all you are doing is constantly changing rotation around z

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 1:43 AM

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https://gyazo.com/81f2ea31b2c1797469fe6563a1f74857.gif

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no clue what the hell is going on with my grass

frosty copper Mar 18, 2019, 2:48 AM

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I mean... At least it's green :p

gilded plinth Mar 18, 2019, 3:09 AM

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anyone messing w the experimental control rig?

leaden dust Mar 18, 2019, 4:27 AM

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build vs hot reload?

weary basalt Mar 18, 2019, 4:39 AM

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Dont use HotReload

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More trouble than its worth

fleet wraith Mar 18, 2019, 4:43 AM

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Why does my game not build lighting when I run it? I built the lighting for the level, then when i run it (in viewport or as its own process) every actor i create does not build lighting...

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tall pendant Mar 18, 2019, 5:58 AM

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in regards of hot reload..try live++ (it usually works well)

leaden dust Mar 18, 2019, 6:22 AM

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@tall pendant UE version?

sullen wraith Mar 18, 2019, 8:38 AM

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stupid question

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its not letting me click drag anymore?

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nvm works kinda now

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:45 AM

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can i install ue4 4.22 preview via launcher ?

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 9:46 AM

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yes, press the + button next to "engine versions" and select the 4.22 pre5 release

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 10:00 AM

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but too bad it has no ssgi yet.

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 10:02 AM

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you'll need to download the dev-rendering branch and compile it yourself for that

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 10:03 AM

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do you think dxr work for gtx card ? anyone tried it.

buoyant mulch Mar 18, 2019, 10:04 AM

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Hmph

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 10:04 AM

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nope doesnt work

buoyant mulch Mar 18, 2019, 10:04 AM

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Shut up

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 10:05 AM

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uwot ?

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 10:05 AM

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time to save some money then. rtx is really worth it.

buoyant mulch Mar 18, 2019, 10:05 AM

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Are u three yrs because u talk like one @languid shard

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 10:05 AM

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uuh

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

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TIME FOR ANOTHER #ue4-general DRAMA

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BUCKLE UP

buoyant mulch Mar 18, 2019, 10:06 AM

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GENTLEMENT

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U are really a three year old dude talking on discord WOW

fierce tulip Mar 18, 2019, 10:09 AM

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@buoyant mulch behave please

buoyant mulch Mar 18, 2019, 10:09 AM

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Ok ok

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 10:11 AM

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@buoyant mulch what happen ?

buoyant mulch Mar 18, 2019, 10:12 AM

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Oh nothing just teasing him

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 10:12 AM

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did he triggered you by saying dxr is not supported by gtx cards ?

buoyant mulch Mar 18, 2019, 10:13 AM

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Nah

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I felt like teasing the dude

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 10:14 AM

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Careful I'm quite trigger itchy

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 11:25 AM

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Coming back to #ue4-general after a meeting and seeing a wall of blocked messages 😄

random holly Mar 18, 2019, 12:31 PM

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Hi guys

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What’s the name for the blueprint of the heathpoints of a structure

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 12:49 PM

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I don't understand

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 12:51 PM

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 1:12 PM

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https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/epic-games-awards-500-000-in-unreal-dev-grants yay and 😦

Unreal Engine

Epic Games awards $500,000 in Unreal Dev Grants

Developers across games, film, TV, AR and VR receive cash assistance in the program’s final round.

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Though Unreal Dev Grants is now behind us, it's not the end of our ongoing support. Tune in to Epic's State of Unreal opening session at GDC for more information."

cedar snow Mar 18, 2019, 1:13 PM

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time to switch back to unity 😉

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 1:15 PM

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boo

fierce tulip Mar 18, 2019, 1:16 PM

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wonder what will replace it, wit all the money in the bank you'd think they'd up that ante

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 1:16 PM

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There is a sizzle reel for dev grant recipients and the non graphical peoples got excluded 😦 educators and such heh

dim arch Mar 18, 2019, 1:16 PM

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why is RUINER in that video twice

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to be fair its a fucking aesome game but ya

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 1:16 PM

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everspace is in there twice as well

polar hawk Mar 18, 2019, 1:16 PM

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Sizzling education

dim arch Mar 18, 2019, 1:18 PM

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way to the woods looks pretty neat

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the cel shading is v good

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 1:18 PM

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I think the lesson of the day is make stuff pretty and people will like it, content be damned

dim arch Mar 18, 2019, 1:22 PM

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light up their limbic system with smoke and mirrors ??? profit!

cloud cobalt Mar 18, 2019, 1:23 PM

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@grim ore UDG has always been a lot about engine PR for developers, to showcase what the cool kids do

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It's usually been either 1) super cool looking stuff, 2) trendy stuff (VR etc), or 3) really useful tools

dim arch Mar 18, 2019, 1:27 PM

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also if they grant babbies first render, a bunch of people think woaw I can do that too, adopt the engine and the userbase grows

merry gazelle Mar 18, 2019, 2:04 PM

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what can I connect to this node to remove the warning?

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somber crown Mar 18, 2019, 2:07 PM

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drag from that pin and you can add either Handled or Un-Handled based on whether you are done with using the OnMouseDown event or you want to let it propagate to other widgets respectively.

hoary wigeon Mar 18, 2019, 2:13 PM

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we'll have to wait until march 20 with the state of unreal at gdc, maybe they release something like games first on epic store or something, wich would be nice, but it also can exclude other projects from being supported, like educational or animation, etc

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:17 PM

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Epic is going to finance all content creators with unlimited* funding for the next 2 years** *based on 10 minutes of work a day, 3 day work week. **any content created must be unique and never created before and subject to approval by the /r/unrealengine

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:18 PM

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State of Unreal starts.

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"Unreal Dev Grants were great, but it's time once again... to Make Something Unreal."

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lol 😄

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In all seriousness, I doubt they'd bring it back unless it was in a new modern form. I'm quite curious to hear about what will succeed Unreal Dev Grants, regardless.

honest vale Mar 18, 2019, 2:21 PM

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MSUC was great

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:21 PM

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Indeed. It helped make careers.

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:24 PM

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I'd totally be down for a modern MSUC, but I have no idea how you could even do that these days

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:24 PM

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Yeah, I'm not sure what form it would take but it would definitely be different.

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:24 PM

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MSUC was previously constricted to being about UT mods, so everyone was on fairly level pegging

honest vale Mar 18, 2019, 2:24 PM

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true

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:24 PM

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if you had one now, could I just submit this game that me and 40 other people have been working on for five years already :p?

honest vale Mar 18, 2019, 2:25 PM

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😄

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:25 PM

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I'm gonna make a course for Udemy since it's all the rage, call it "how to follow a tutorial" and it will be a tutorial series on how to follow and learn from tutorials.... it's genius since I can hook it into other tutorials out there and then get kickbacks from them for sending them customers.

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:25 PM

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lol

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:25 PM

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lol

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:25 PM

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there's a big pile of irony in that catch 22

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:25 PM

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there is no flaw with that idea

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:25 PM

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😄

frosty bloom Mar 18, 2019, 2:25 PM

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@grim ore You'll be rich in no time!

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:25 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/feel-me-think-about-it-gif-7715402

Tenor

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:27 PM

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crap... If I end up rich I might stop doing videos for all that mad YouTube money... I need to rethink this approach!

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:27 PM

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I still think the "Launcher Launcher" will be the king of capitalism

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ONE LAUNCHER TO RULE THEM ALL

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:28 PM

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technically steam can do that can't it? since it can launch anything else

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:28 PM

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automanage libraries and accounts with a single library and account, allow purchases through this one mighty system and tack on a 2% surcharge

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:28 PM

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Discord too.

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:29 PM

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lol isn't that what cable TV used to be before every company decided to just make their own channel instead 😦

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:29 PM

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of course

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Discord is a game store and launcher, after all

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that is amusingly exactly what CableTV was

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then everyone started doing CableTV and fragmented the market

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:30 PM

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at some point all the stores are going to implode I hope because it's nuts

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:31 PM

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Oh wow. I totally forgot about the Make Something Unreal Live student competitions in 2012-2013.

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:31 PM

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because they were garbage

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:32 PM

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Correction: the 2012 one wasn't for students, but seems to have been Epic's first game jam and had to be an iOS game.

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:32 PM

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I don't think anything ever came out of it?

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:32 PM

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"Today we are removing the dev grants but as a replacement we are opening up Unreal Tech Centers all around the world. You can come here and use our state of the art technology and network with other creators and developers to bring your creation to life"

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:32 PM

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😐

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:32 PM

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That would be... odd.

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:32 PM

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that's a shit replacement

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the great thing about dev grants is they could be given to people in places where development doesn't usually take place

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:32 PM

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hey I never said it would be good but Epic likes to do odd stuff

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:33 PM

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I recall one African developer got a grant, but I can't recall if the game ever got released

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:33 PM

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Yeah, I've seen some wonderful grants give out that boosted teams I'd never heard of who were working on really cool stuff.

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It's been a great program.

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:33 PM

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aye

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 2:33 PM

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@wary wave you sure it was a game ?

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:33 PM

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yeah, it was a game

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:34 PM

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ok if the centers are not a good idea what about RentADev where they send the dev's from Epic out to you and waive your fee if you have a promising project

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 2:34 PM

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I remember someone who made a viz of a construction project or something in africa

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:34 PM

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I'd rather be able to hire a dev with money :p

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 2:34 PM

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who got a showcase about it

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:35 PM

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ooh.. ok so instead of a dev grant what if they became publishers?

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 2:35 PM

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🤔

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:36 PM

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I thought about that.

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But they've got the Epic Games Store, so I'm not sure what that pitch would be.

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:36 PM

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advertising and funding for a % just like any other publisher?

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:37 PM

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Perhaps.

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:37 PM

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along with their stable of techs for support and testing

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:37 PM

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It's certainly feasible, but it doesn't seem like a natural evolution of Unreal Dev Grants.

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:37 PM

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I am at work#1 and bored so trying to waste time lol

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well you are assuming they are evolving the dev grants

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dev grants was fun, it served its purpose, we move on. Epic is in a different state than they were when they started them now with fortnite and the EGS

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:39 PM

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Fair point. I'm just going off the limited info we have, aka two sentences from Chance. lol

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"Though Unreal Dev Grants is now behind us, it's not the end of our ongoing support. Tune in to Epic's State of Unreal opening session at GDC for more information."

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:39 PM

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oh I didnt see if he put something out, I was reading the blog post

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 2:39 PM

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ongoing support could be financial still

dim arch Mar 18, 2019, 2:40 PM

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oh the msul was kinda cool

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 2:40 PM

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so yeah maybe the publisher idea isnt too far off ?

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:40 PM

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I assume it will be financial, but that's not necessarily a given either.

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:40 PM

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well he does literally say it's behind them

dim arch Mar 18, 2019, 2:40 PM

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that was on while I was studying at university, my friends team came 2nd but didnt make much progress afterwards

scarlet charm Mar 18, 2019, 2:40 PM

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Anyone wanting to assist me on a project?

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:40 PM

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"it's not the end of our ongoing support" indicates to me an intention to fill the gap left behind by Unreal Dev Grants.

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That's where my assumption came from.

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 2:40 PM

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yeah

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:41 PM

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Whether it looks anything like UDG is up for debate, but I assume it will fulfill a similar role.

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 2:41 PM

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what kind of "support" could they give to projects aside from a grant or publishing ? Mentorship ?

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:42 PM

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dial-a-dev ?

dim arch Mar 18, 2019, 2:42 PM

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sony did something like that

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china hero project

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:42 PM

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oooh... more direct support in the discord channel by hiring people from the community to help out directly....

dim arch Mar 18, 2019, 2:43 PM

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pitched a bunch of games to sony, they gave them grants and had dev support from an outsource studio

frosty bloom Mar 18, 2019, 2:43 PM

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Dial-A-Dev made me laugh 😄 "Hey, my blueprint isn't working" x2000 a day

dim arch Mar 18, 2019, 2:43 PM

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on the condition they published it on ps4 first

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probably the same, but replace ps4 with epic store

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:43 PM

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@frosty bloom lol it's what we get in here 😃

frosty bloom Mar 18, 2019, 2:44 PM

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That and "The tutorial is old, it isn't working!"

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 2:44 PM

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https://twitter.com/notimetoulose/status/1099766005549748224

oniscu iuliu-cosmin (@notimetoulose)

More metric stuff for generic FPS games still using the unreal units.
Also some component breakdown based on play styles:

how to determine a game-play styles and build a map DNA and stuff like that
This was based on @wolfenstein
#leveldesign

Likes

106

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 2:44 PM

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"Epic Games is proud to announce we're now on Patreon. Just kidding, we bought it!" Kappa Kappa

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 2:44 PM

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pretty cool stuff

dim arch Mar 18, 2019, 2:45 PM

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https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2017/05/17/chinese-internet-giant-plans-university-where-credit/

Chinese Internet giant plans university where credit is earned by ...

Internet giant Tencent plans to build an e-sports town complete with a university to train the next generation of professional gamers

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:45 PM

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whut

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:46 PM

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man the people who go 'this tutorial is old so I dont know if it works or not so I am not going to try it give me something else more specific" is..... annoying

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It's all good tho. we have this wonderful week of game dev news that is going to be thrust upon us 😃

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:51 PM

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GDC isn't really about news

deep basin Mar 18, 2019, 2:51 PM

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well, base logic doesn't change, therefore why shouldn't it work. I think it's more "wow functions don't have the exact same name as in my version, that measn effort now I don't want to do it" 😉

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 2:51 PM

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there might be some cool stuff, but it's not really a 'news' event

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:51 PM

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Cryengine Raytracing stuff, Unity Visual Scripting Stuff, Epic Raytracing stuff, Google game machine, and other surprises! probably a new nvidia card too

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 2:52 PM

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what ?

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no new nvidia card 😐

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its gonna be about AI and Raytracing I think

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and robots

dim arch Mar 18, 2019, 2:53 PM

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Oh yea, Jade Raymond joined google as a VP

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to work in their games division

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seems interesting

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 2:53 PM

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nope you are right I keep getting it confused with GTC the same freaking week

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but Nvidia did showcase the new card a few years ago with Epic so you never know

devout gulch Mar 18, 2019, 3:10 PM

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GDC nowdays is mainly about annoucments

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just not for consumers

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lot's of talks are straight up crap

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 3:11 PM

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GDC is a convenient stage to showcase new stuff because of the sheer volume of developers on-location

devout gulch Mar 18, 2019, 3:11 PM

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in the line "i did this awesome thing... buy it here!"

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 3:11 PM

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...but also a lot of the talks are pretty solid

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it's good t see what other studios are doing, and taking a look at that can inspire processes within your own work too

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 3:12 PM

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I wouldn't say it's mainly about announcements. It just happens to cater to developer-centric announcements, e.g. new tech, engine updates, etc. Game announcements and/or trailers do happen but are less common.

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 3:13 PM

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lol I treat GDC as a vacation now personally. Going to try and do some business stuff this year but shrug just find some fun stuff to do and relax 😃

fierce tulip Mar 18, 2019, 3:14 PM

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fooooood

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 3:15 PM

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and I like the in expo talks personally. SideFX has some great ones normally for Houdini and of course Epic is always fun to watch.

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 3:20 PM

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Epic always does great little tech talks at their booth for free, which is great for Expo Pass holders.

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 3:21 PM

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which is all I pay for lol 😃

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No livestream this year tho, so sad 😦

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 3:24 PM

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Yeah, I was hoping to invade it.

fierce tulip Mar 18, 2019, 3:27 PM

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last year people where excited to see allar walk by constantly XD

maiden swift Mar 18, 2019, 3:27 PM

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lol

brazen forum Mar 18, 2019, 3:42 PM

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Guys does ue4 have automatic garbage collection and cleaning like unity does?

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And if so can you remove the automatic garbage collection?

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 3:47 PM

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yes, and probably yes with some effort

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not sure why you would want to remove it though

teal tulip Mar 18, 2019, 3:52 PM

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@languid shard that sizes guide is pretty decent tbh

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just don't use it for archviz

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alex

languid shard Mar 18, 2019, 3:53 PM

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not sure you need to vault or parkour in archviz thinking

restive eagle Mar 18, 2019, 3:56 PM

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hi guys,
any ideas why game would break in this place?
http://prntscr.com/mzk5wh

Lightshot

Screenshot

Captured with Lightshot

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couldnt find anything online

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 3:57 PM

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without a callstack this information is not useful

restive eagle Mar 18, 2019, 3:58 PM

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http://prntscr.com/mzk7ec

Lightshot

Screenshot

Captured with Lightshot

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saw few people posted exact same problem but with 0 answers

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 3:59 PM

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looks like an LOD problem

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why it would cause a crash is hard to say, but something's up

restive eagle Mar 18, 2019, 4:00 PM

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already spent few weeks trying to fix that issue, but the only thing that helped was when I imported a skeletal mesh without morphs

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and it would only crash if i use that specific mesh in one place which doesnt hold any other logic than the mesh component. other blueprints with the same component were ok

misty creek Mar 18, 2019, 4:02 PM

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Does anyone know a good way to dynamically get the edge of the screen?

teal tulip Mar 18, 2019, 4:02 PM

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you mean the size or what you mean

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 4:04 PM

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^

brazen forum Mar 18, 2019, 4:09 PM

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@wary wave so back to the garbage collection question. Since ue4 has automatic garbage collection, does that mean u don't need to call delete on anything?

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 4:09 PM

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not directly, no

brazen forum Mar 18, 2019, 4:09 PM

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So if I use new in ue4 I don't need to delete it?

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That seams weird

misty creek Mar 18, 2019, 4:10 PM

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Sorry, the screen size.

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 4:11 PM

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you don't use new in UE4

brazen forum Mar 18, 2019, 4:11 PM

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For real?

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 4:11 PM

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objects and actors have their own construction methods

brazen forum Mar 18, 2019, 4:11 PM

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So then you make everything on the stack?

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 4:12 PM

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I've not looked at how it works under the hood, but generally speaking, you don't care

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you just let it do it's thing xD

brazen forum Mar 18, 2019, 4:12 PM

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Oh ok

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 4:12 PM

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it's rare to run into garbage collection issues tbh, it's quite a mature feature

brazen forum Mar 18, 2019, 4:13 PM

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So I know this is probably not something u would do. But let's say I wanted to create something on the heap in ue4. I can't do that?

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 4:14 PM

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you'll be able to with some effort

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but you'd be manually bypassing UE4's stuff in order to do so

devout gulch Mar 18, 2019, 4:15 PM

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objects are allocated on heap

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 4:15 PM

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not sure why you'd want to do that

brazen forum Mar 18, 2019, 4:15 PM

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Ok

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 4:15 PM

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@devout gulch - what about actors?

devout gulch Mar 18, 2019, 4:15 PM

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everything created using NewObject lands on heap

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it is just using custom allocator

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which recycle memory

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to not cause fragmentation

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 4:15 PM

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makes sense

devout gulch Mar 18, 2019, 4:16 PM

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actors are just UObjects

wary wave Mar 18, 2019, 4:16 PM

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actors are UObjects, but they do do some things differently, hence asking

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you wouldn't statically construct an actor, hehe

devout gulch Mar 18, 2019, 4:16 PM

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yes but at some point they still ause NewObject

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use

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there is just more initialization steps along the way, hence you don't use NewObject directly with them

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to create something on the heap you simply use raw C++ types

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or Unreal structs

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erm

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on stack

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either way you should avoid sing raw new

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unless you do something very low level

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use smart pointers or unreal types

naive marten Mar 18, 2019, 5:00 PM

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Hey, I've clone a friend project and this projet works for him but it doesn't build for me. This is the erros I have when I try to generate files : ```

Running C:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_4.21/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool.exe -projectfiles -project="E:/UE4 essaie/MazeLegends/MazeLegends.uproject" -game -rocket -progress -log="E:\UE4 essaie\MazeLegends/Saved/Logs/UnrealVersionSelector-2019.03.18-15.27.51.log"
Discovering modules, targets and source code for project...
ERROR: UnrealBuildTool Exception: Couldn't find target rules file for target 'MazeLegends' in rules assembly 'UE4Rules, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.
Location: C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.21\Engine\Intermediate\Build\BuildRules\UE4Rules.dll
Target rules found:

sorry if i'm in the wrong channel, didn't know where to ask

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:01 PM

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how did you clone it?

naive marten Mar 18, 2019, 5:01 PM

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with github

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I have github desktop installed

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and I just clone it with it

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:02 PM

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did you generate the project files and are you targetting the same version as him?

naive marten Mar 18, 2019, 5:02 PM

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Yes I have the same version installed

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and the error shows up when I try to generate project files

dim plover Mar 18, 2019, 5:03 PM

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Maybe this'll work? https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/733754/how-may-i-resolve-an-error-couldnt-find-target-rul.html?sort=oldest

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:03 PM

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ok so in your source folder is there a target file for each version of the project you want to build for?

naive marten Mar 18, 2019, 5:04 PM

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@dim plover After cloning I have the Target.cs in my sources folder

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I've already seen some unreal forum and none of the anwers works

dim plover Mar 18, 2019, 5:05 PM

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Did you try the enterprise thing? It looks like a lot of people (probably with 4.21) have that?

naive marten Mar 18, 2019, 5:05 PM

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The guys was saying to remove the entreprise thing but I don't have any

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@grim ore Yes I have one target file for 4.21.2

dim plover Mar 18, 2019, 5:07 PM

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Maybe your directory has a space in it? E:\UE4 essaie\

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:07 PM

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did you clone the intermediate and saved and other files?

naive marten Mar 18, 2019, 5:07 PM

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yes I have a space

dim plover Mar 18, 2019, 5:08 PM

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I would bet that the space is causing problems. *Actually, I'm not so sure...

naive marten Mar 18, 2019, 5:08 PM

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I'll try to rename that

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@dim plover It didn't work

dim plover Mar 18, 2019, 5:17 PM

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Hmm, unfortunately it looks like it could be the result of a number of things. https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/412563/couldnt-find-target-rules-file.html

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:19 PM

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soo... when you cloned it did you clone the intermediate and saved and other files?

naive marten Mar 18, 2019, 5:24 PM

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Yes I have clone the intermediate & saved folder

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I shouldn't ?

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Cause some other people have clone the git repository and it worked for them

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:30 PM

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well you shouldnt clone the intermediate and build for sure

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saved is a personal choice but you should delete it as well to eliminate possible issues

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.uproject, config, content, source are pretty much all you need in that main folder (not counting .git repo)

naive marten Mar 18, 2019, 5:30 PM

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I've try to remove the intermediate & savec folder but I still have the error

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ok I'll check that

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:31 PM

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does the project open up when you try and open it? not building the solution but actually opening the editor by opening the uproject?

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it should try and compile the module

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also what are the file names in your Source folder and what is in your main target file?

naive marten Mar 18, 2019, 5:32 PM

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I'm cloning the repo again ^^ 2m sry

vagrant pier Mar 18, 2019, 5:33 PM

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Dumb question, Does moving a socket location in a Animation Sequence affect the entire Skeleton? as well as the location for all other Animations? Asking because when importing new animations, the Preview Mesh for the Gun my character is holding is now aimed toward the sky and no longer properly in his hands as it is for all other animations

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:35 PM

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@vagrant pier if you get no help in here #animation has more animation focused people that might have an answer 😃

naive marten Mar 18, 2019, 5:37 PM

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@grim ore In my source folder I have : MazeLegends.Target.cs / MazeLegendsEditor.Target.cs & a folder with the sources files

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:38 PM

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well the files seem right, what is in the MazeLegends.Target.cs file?

naive marten Mar 18, 2019, 5:38 PM

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using UnrealBuildTool;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class MazeLegendsTarget : TargetRules
{
    public MazeLegendsTarget(TargetInfo Target) : base(Target)
    {
        Type = TargetType.Game;
        ExtraModuleNames.Add("MazeLegends");
    }
}

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:40 PM

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hmm.. i dont know when the changed the extramodules code but if you can compile this on 4.21 on other machines it should be fine still. the rest looks fine

naive marten Mar 18, 2019, 5:41 PM

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I've delete and download the unreal ungine 20m ago but It changed nothing same error ...

vagrant pier Mar 18, 2019, 5:42 PM

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@grim ore Thanks for replyin btw, didn't see too much activity over in animation n figured shootin the shot here might help.

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:43 PM

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@naive marten woof. ok so it should be working but obviously it's not lol. is there any more in the .log itself ?

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@vagrant pier yeah once you get out of the basics it can be tough to find people with exact knowledge in here 😦

naive marten Mar 18, 2019, 5:45 PM

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@grim ore this is what I have in the log file UnrealBuildTool.GuardedMain: Command line: "C:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_4.21/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool.exe" -projectfiles -project="E:/UE4essaie/MazeLegends/MazeLegends.uproject" -game -rocket -progress -log="E:\UE4essaie\MazeLegends/Saved/Logs/UnrealVersionSelector-2019.03.18-18.37.53.log" ProjectFileGenerator.GenerateProjectFiles: Discovering modules, targets and source code for project... UnrealBuildTool.GuardedMain: ERROR: UnrealBuildTool Exception: Couldn't find target rules file for target 'MazeLegends' in rules assembly 'UE4Rules, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'. UnrealBuildTool.GuardedMain: Location: C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.21\Engine\Intermediate\Build\BuildRules\UE4Rules.dll UnrealBuildTool.GuardedMain: Target rules found:

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I don't have anything else

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:45 PM

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@naive marten also I seriously doubt this would help but try replacing your ExtraModulesNames.Add line of code with this instead "ExtraModuleNames.AddRange( new string[] { "MazeLegends" } );" and see if it helps at all. It shouldnt hurt I hope lol

naive marten Mar 18, 2019, 5:45 PM

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I'll try that thx

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:46 PM

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It's weird your log does not have more tho

naive marten Mar 18, 2019, 5:47 PM

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@grim ore didn't work

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y it is

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:47 PM

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so when you try and open the project what happens?

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and are you sure thats from the actual .log file in Saved/Logs ?

naive marten Mar 18, 2019, 5:50 PM

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my friend will send you the error he have when he try to open the uproject (I was trying to fix the error for him)

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 5:50 PM

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this is when i open it

📎 unknown.png

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:50 PM

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yep and when you say yes?

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 5:51 PM

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it told me to rebuild from source manually

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:51 PM

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it sounds like maybe other files are missing, maybe other plugins or modules

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we would have to see the full log

vagrant pier Mar 18, 2019, 5:52 PM

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What if you rebuild it from VS?

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:52 PM

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they can't get the solution file to create is the issue

vagrant pier Mar 18, 2019, 5:55 PM

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Is the project Blueprint only?

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 5:55 PM

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i got this log when trying to open it
https://pastebin.com/caRPPC4H

Pastebin

Log file open, 03/18/19 18:50:38 LogWindows: Failed to load 'aqPr...

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no it is cpp only

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but it got some bp

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:57 PM

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what about the log when you try and generate the visual studio project file?

vagrant pier Mar 18, 2019, 5:57 PM

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That's fine, was wondering because of the whole "if only blueprint must have cpp code somewhere" thing when building

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:57 PM

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that log is expected it's not compiling your code

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 5:57 PM

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my friend shared it just above

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:58 PM

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that is the error when you try and open the project and say load without compiling

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 5:58 PM

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yes because i can't compile it with vs right now

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:58 PM

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you should have a file like UnrealVersionSelector-2019.03.18-10.56.35.log with the code in it from trying to generate the file

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 5:59 PM

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ProjectFileGenerator.GenerateProjectFiles: Discovering modules, targets and source code for project...
UnrealBuildTool.GuardedMain: ERROR: UnrealBuildTool Exception: Couldn't find target rules file for target 'MazeLegends' in rules assembly 'UE4Rules, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.
UnrealBuildTool.GuardedMain:        Location: C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.21\Engine\Intermediate\Build\BuildRules\UE4Rules.dll
UnrealBuildTool.GuardedMain:        Target rules found:

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there it is

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 5:59 PM

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yeah that makes no sense, mine starts with WindowsPlatformFactory.RegisterBuildPlatforms: UnrealBuildTool.WindowsPlatformSDK using manually installed SDK ProjectFileGenerator.GenerateProjectFiles: Discovering modules, targets and source code for project... WindowsPlatform.EnumerateSdkRootDirs: Found Windows 10 SDK root at C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10 (1) WindowsPlatform.EnumerateSdkRootDirs: Found Windows 10 SDK root at C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10 (2) WindowsPlatform.UpdateCachedWindowsSdks: Found Universal CRT version 10.0.10240.0 at C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10 WindowsPlatform.UpdateCachedWindowsSdks: Found Windows 10 SDK version 10.0.17763.0 at C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10 WindowsPlatform.UpdateCachedWindowsSdks: Found Universal CRT version 10.0.17763.0 at C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10

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super weird

vagrant pier Mar 18, 2019, 6:01 PM

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I joined this convo late and I tried scrollin up to see if this was mentioned, might be irrelevant but do you have all the Packages installed through VS? Desktop Development .NET , C++ , Game Dev with C++

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 6:02 PM

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not all them

vagrant pier Mar 18, 2019, 6:03 PM

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@grim ore Correct me if I'm wrong but I think those are needed, right?

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 6:06 PM

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most of them are required but the UBT program is really good about complaining when something is missing

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I just tried deleting the UE4Rules.dll from the engine directory and it rebuilt it fine, maybe you have some weird permission issue not letting you write over it since it's installed in program files

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soo...

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delete the files in C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.21\Engine\Intermediate\Build\BuildRules\

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and try again

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 6:07 PM

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ok

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 6:07 PM

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see if it rebuilds the files when you run the generate

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 6:08 PM

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yes it rebuilds

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 6:08 PM

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I just tested it for me and it rebuilt the files so there should be no harm in doing that. I do have all my files in another folder tho , c:\epic games\ , so if its a permission thing that would be why

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 6:09 PM

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but it doesn't launch

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 6:09 PM

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did you run the generate project files?

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 6:10 PM

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you mean the saved, intermediate... file at the root of my project ?

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 6:10 PM

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right click the uproject and generate visual studio project files

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is that still giving an error?

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 6:10 PM

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yes

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 6:10 PM

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same as before about the UE4 rules?

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 6:10 PM

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yes

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 6:12 PM

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and you can confirm the files are new in your folder like this? I just redid mine and the dates/times are now https://i.imgur.com/crCnQL6.png

Imgur

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 6:12 PM

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yes all of them

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 6:12 PM

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yeah then for some reason it's not finding your targets...

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try removing or renaming (wont work right) the .Target.cs files from your source folder and see what error you get this time

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at this point its literally just trying to break stuff to see where the problem is 😦

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without any target files it should give you a new error

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 6:14 PM

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Running C:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_4.21/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool.exe  -projectfiles -project="E:/UE4essaie/MazeLegends/MazeLegends.uproject" -game -rocket -progress -log="E:\UE4essaie\MazeLegends/Saved/Logs/UnrealVersionSelector-2019.03.18-19.13.55.log"
Discovering modules, targets and source code for project...
Binding IntelliSense data...
Binding IntelliSense data... 100%
Writing project files...
Writing project files... 33%
ERROR: UnrealBuildTool Exception: Expecting at least one ProjectTarget to be associated with project 'E:\UE4essaie\MazeLegends\Intermediate\ProjectFiles\MazeLegends.vcxproj' in the TargetProjects list

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i deleted them

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 6:14 PM

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well it's working just not working

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and this all makes no sense

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your first error never even gets to this second part when you have valid targets

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put one of the targets back and see what happens now

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 6:21 PM

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i tried with only both file but none worked

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 6:21 PM

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at this point It's a mystery to me 😦 Your target files seem fine, your UBT seems fine, you can write to your directory

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 6:22 PM

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yeah its strange other projects work fine but not this version of this one

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i ll try to checkout maybe

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 6:23 PM

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you can try getting a full copy of the project that would have your built module and the solution file, maybe at that point if it gives an error it will be more accurate

digital herald Mar 18, 2019, 6:28 PM

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yeah why not

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thanks for your time

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 6:29 PM

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no problem, I am really curious on what broke. If you figure it out let us know.

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like I literally can't even figure out how to cause the issue in the first place lol

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 6:36 PM

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Anybody handled Crafting using Blueprints only?

coral shoal Mar 18, 2019, 7:15 PM

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If i want to avoid using the blanket quality levels scalability stuff, how do you "apply" a video setting, is going through console commands the only option? To use a random example, if i want an independent setting for r.EyeAdaptationQuality=0,1,2 etc. If im saving it to a .ini, it will apply on startup but what about after?

cursive walrus Mar 18, 2019, 7:23 PM

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hi i have a question. how do i make the character do a side step motion without it stopping for a split sec as it goes to the opposite direction?

coral shoal Mar 18, 2019, 7:27 PM

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try increasing the acceleration. If it's "stopping" it's probably because it's taking the time to accelerate

wise juniper Mar 18, 2019, 7:46 PM

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hey...who can help me plz

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when i open a blueprint character

📎 unknown.png

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why not show blueprint menu ?

wise juniper Mar 18, 2019, 8:11 PM

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i fixed that

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 8:27 PM

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@cursive walrus if you just change its velocity direction it will always (theoretically, maybe not in games if time between frames is high, but at least it will get low) stop when its speed = 0?

upper heart Mar 18, 2019, 8:38 PM

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Has anyone had an issue where textures/meshes/etc are rebuilt every time you start the editor? Resulting in long startup times?

grave nebula Mar 18, 2019, 8:46 PM

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Had that when DDC got fried up.

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 8:46 PM

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is there world limit in ue4

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i am making space game

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no

scarlet birch Mar 18, 2019, 8:50 PM

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@plush yew no and you can use origin shifiting

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 8:51 PM

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for multiplayer?

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open world

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many say that 20km is limit

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lol

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is this true?

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any limit?

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i am sure that 1000 players cannot move in 10000km x 10000km area (for example)

abstract relic Mar 18, 2019, 8:53 PM

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"technically" yes but it's a stupidly large number

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 8:53 PM

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but i am sure that i need good servers

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can i put people to 1000km x 1000km area

scarlet birch Mar 18, 2019, 8:54 PM

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The 20k, IIRC, is refering to physics precision and other stuff

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 8:54 PM

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one map

scarlet birch Mar 18, 2019, 8:54 PM

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you compensate for that with origin shifting

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 8:54 PM

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and that means?

scarlet birch Mar 18, 2019, 8:55 PM

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There's no limit.

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 8:55 PM

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Origin Shifting basically moves whatever location you want to the new 0,0,0

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 8:55 PM

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can i trust this information

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 8:55 PM

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And all calculations are then from that point on

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 8:55 PM

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its multiplayer

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 8:55 PM

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Multiplayer should technically also support that

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Haven't read into it, but it's really not more than just offsetting everything by the location you passed

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 8:56 PM

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but everything cannot be in 0,0,0 ?

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 8:56 PM

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If you have a cube at 200,0,0 and you make 50,0,0 the new origin, then the cube now sits at 150,0,0

scarlet birch Mar 18, 2019, 8:56 PM

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There's a BP node for it. If you manage to get everything else working shifting the origin is trivial.

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 8:56 PM

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The only problem with multiplayer is that you basically shfit the origin based on where the player is standing

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So if Player A is standing at 1000, 0, 0 and then other one at -5000,5000,0

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Then they mighth ave a different origin

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So you gotta compensate that by always going from one local origin shift to the other local origin shift

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Either UE4 does that for you already or you might have to do that yourself

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But it's worth googling :P

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 8:58 PM

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so can i just start building my galaxy

scarlet birch Mar 18, 2019, 8:58 PM

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Yeah, I have no idea how it would work with large worlds and needing origins for each player. It says it works with multiplayer but I've only messed with it for single player prjects.

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 8:58 PM

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You wouldn't build the whole galaxy at one

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But yeah

cobalt scaffold Mar 18, 2019, 8:58 PM

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first read up on level streaming

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 8:58 PM

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why no full

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 8:58 PM

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Cause no one needs to have a planet in their memory that they can't physically see

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 8:58 PM

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if its just about 1000km x 1000km

scarlet birch Mar 18, 2019, 8:59 PM

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You need to decide how you're going to manage it.

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 8:59 PM

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You gotta remember that all of that data has to go into the memory of the user

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So you will have to do a lot of LODing (Level of Detail) as well as streaming parts of the galaxy in and out

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Stuff like this otherwise is pretty performance hungry, if not impossible

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:00 PM

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lag?

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:00 PM

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For example, yeah

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Low FPS or just out of memory :P

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:01 PM

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can i do blueprint that makes objects that are somewhere about 10km in front to be blurry and bad looking if there is like massive space station

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one blueprint

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will that remove lag?

cobalt scaffold Mar 18, 2019, 9:02 PM

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this is what LOD is

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:02 PM

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Yeah that's what I meant with LOD

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But that's really a lot of freaking work for just one person

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Like, a, freaking, lot

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:02 PM

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i have time

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in school

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:02 PM

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Just making sure :D

tall pendant Mar 18, 2019, 9:02 PM

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aka too much

cobalt scaffold Mar 18, 2019, 9:02 PM

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procgen ftw!

tall pendant Mar 18, 2019, 9:02 PM

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as always people tend to over scope

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:02 PM

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But yeah, you can write a procedural generation system for this

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That creates the whole thing based on a seed and some noice maps and stuff

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And then have things in close distance fully visible and in far distance just an ugly blurry ball

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And even further nothing, cause no one needs that

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You'd load that in as you get close to it

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:04 PM

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ok thanks for help

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:05 PM

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Let's just say, with my multiple years of experience with UE4 and Networking, I wouldn't even touch such a project if you'd pay me for that

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:05 PM

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why

scarlet birch Mar 18, 2019, 9:05 PM

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I'd fake it.

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instead of building one huge map

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:05 PM

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Cause it's way too big and complex. At least for one person.

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:06 PM

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i made my first game year. Now this many years, fine for me

cobalt scaffold Mar 18, 2019, 9:06 PM

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yeah i wouldn't take the big map approach with a space game.. you can basically query a db for the sector you are in and stream in the necessary objects..

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there are many opportunities like that for cheating

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:07 PM

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That's how some of the bigger games do it. You basically travel from solar system to solar system

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Via a "loading screen"

cobalt scaffold Mar 18, 2019, 9:07 PM

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space is big and mostly empty

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:07 PM

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And the solar system itself is "small" enough to fit into one map at once

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:07 PM

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but the main point of the game is get resources, make your countrys and fight and stuff like that. I have now worked with prototype some months, but i start now again.

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:08 PM

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Alright, well just keep in mind that you'll have to optimize this and if you already know what sort of map size you want, it's not too bad of an idea to think about streaming, origin shifting and LODs

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:08 PM

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so should i do like solar system to be one map

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or what

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:08 PM

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Well technically you can have one overall map and just Destroy and Spawn the stuff in as you need it

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:08 PM

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i need know what i do now

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:08 PM

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If you "fast travel" to a new solar system, you can just make sure that the player doesn't see how the "solar system" gets replaced

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:08 PM

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but stuff needs to be in same spot

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there is other players too

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:09 PM

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E.g. put them into a tube with some cool "hyper light speed" effect

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Ah well

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That's a bit tricky with UE4 hehe

scarlet birch Mar 18, 2019, 9:09 PM

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It might be easier to build a transition level, and build each are as a sperate level, then stream in each level while they move through the transition level. or just build one level that procedurally builds everything or does it from a database of some kind

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:09 PM

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You can only have one map per Server

scarlet birch Mar 18, 2019, 9:09 PM

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then just store each levels data

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:09 PM

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So you'd need one Server per active system

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gg

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:10 PM

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what if i then do full map

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how does no man sky work

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what is double floating point

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:10 PM

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No Man's Sky is not using UE4

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So no idea

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Or is it?

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:10 PM

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idk

cobalt scaffold Mar 18, 2019, 9:10 PM

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you don't want to have a real huge map where anyone can be at any arbitrary point anyway.. nobody would ever see anybody and then you can just pull a nomanssky and leave the mp part out

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:10 PM

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Double Floating Point is a higher precision number

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In Blueprints you only have Floats

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Not Doubles

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In easier words, the number can have more numbers behind the comma

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Making it more precise

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:11 PM

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@cobalt scaffold the point is not be in touch with everybody. But there is countrys and space stations where you can meet people and join to others.

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:11 PM

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Reducing the amount of errors in calculations with big numbers

scarlet birch Mar 18, 2019, 9:12 PM

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each data type has a certain precision and at the extreme values that precision can be less (maybe not sure if that's exactly right) but basicly at the extremes physics and other things start to act wonky,

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so origin shifting

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:13 PM

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You can basically see it it like this: The further you get away from 0,0,0, you bigger gets the number. The Number at some point isn't 100% precise anymore.
Means even if you as a human can pricesily place something 10,492424241241241244222234KM away, the PC might round this to 10,5.
And if it does that with two numbers and multiplies them, the nthe rounding error gets even bigger

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Doubles can store bigger numbers and are so better for that crap

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But ultimately run into the same problem

cobalt scaffold Mar 18, 2019, 9:14 PM

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@plush yew the idea is to have enough points of interest to give the impression of a huge playfield, nobody wants to travel 100000km in real time.. so what's the point then of having such distances?

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:14 PM

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there is lightspeed and fast portals.

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10000km is world size

cobalt scaffold Mar 18, 2019, 9:14 PM

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if you travel at lightspeed you dont' even see anything going past you

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:14 PM

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Well anyway, you can try your huge map, but you'll run into issues

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These are precision issues, so you need OriginShifting

cobalt scaffold Mar 18, 2019, 9:15 PM

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so no point in moving the player the real distance

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:15 PM

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Then you need to make sure that players don't overlap

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:15 PM

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i can fix issues?

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:15 PM

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Idk if UE4 handles that

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Yeah, maybe, idk what issues these are. I never did such as ystem

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Might need C++

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 9:15 PM

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woof... do you have enough content and time to fill this giant world?

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:15 PM

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i am in school. Used year to first game

abstract relic Mar 18, 2019, 9:15 PM

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100% need Cpp

cobalt scaffold Mar 18, 2019, 9:15 PM

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think of your galaxy as a bunch of islands close by with a thick fog between them, where you move very very slowly

scarlet birch Mar 18, 2019, 9:16 PM

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IDk, I think you could do it in BP

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If, you built it to work with the limitations of world comp.

plush yew Mar 18, 2019, 9:17 PM

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ok thanks for help everybody

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:18 PM

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Does anyone know about a gif that shows float precision errors?
Might also be a video. It's like a point or line going further away from the origin and the squares are getting bigger and bigger, representing the precision of big floating point numbers

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I really liked that for explaining but can't find it

scarlet birch Mar 18, 2019, 9:18 PM

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There was a good article I found that kept it simple

cobalt scaffold Mar 18, 2019, 9:19 PM

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could just say that more numbers in the front means less numbers behind a comma

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:19 PM

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Some people learn better by seeing the issue

scarlet birch Mar 18, 2019, 9:20 PM

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Ok, maybe not as simple as I remember but https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html

regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:20 PM

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Haha

cobalt scaffold Mar 18, 2019, 9:20 PM

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you are right, and i'm one of those people who like to visualize the problems

scarlet birch Mar 18, 2019, 9:22 PM

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https://twitter.com/d_m_gregory/status/1044008750162604032?lang=en

🏳️‍🌈Douglas🏳️‍🌈 (@D_M_Gregory)

Visualizing floating point precision loss, or "why #gamedev stuff behaves badly far from the origin"

The blue dot is end of the desired vector. The black dot snaps to the closest representable point (in a simplified floating point grid with only 4 mantissa bits) https://t...

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regal mulch Mar 18, 2019, 9:24 PM

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YES

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Thanks!

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It easily shows that in a simpler version (only 4 bits) every white area between the squares can't be represented by a number

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And the bigger that gets, the worse gets the precision, I love it

scarlet birch Mar 18, 2019, 9:26 PM

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Yeah, The only thing I didn't like is it makes it seem like it's only an issue further out, but it does show that even at lower values there's numbers that can't be exactly represented.

pseudo swift Mar 18, 2019, 9:34 PM

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hey is there an icon for this Unreal Slackers server? I see a red U, would prefer it we could change to to an official ue logo?

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 9:36 PM

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You can't change it to the official one since it's not official

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well... you could but I don't think he is so 😃

upper heart Mar 18, 2019, 9:39 PM

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@grave nebula And you did what to fix it? Just deleted the ddc?

grave nebula Mar 18, 2019, 9:39 PM

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yep

upper heart Mar 18, 2019, 9:39 PM

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hm okay, thanks

pseudo swift Mar 18, 2019, 9:40 PM

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@pure olive well its the only one which exist right?

grim ore Mar 18, 2019, 9:41 PM

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It's the one that this server is using yep because we aren't officially official

brave lark Mar 18, 2019, 9:44 PM

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@valid root I'll take a look at it after work if you want to dm me

merry gazelle Mar 18, 2019, 10:10 PM

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Do you guys think it would be possible to create a music visualiser inside UE? It would need to be able to read an audio file

sand birch Mar 18, 2019, 10:21 PM

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Hey guys it's been a while since I've been here but I have some questions on a thing that's been going through my head which is a gun system kinda of like borderlands but you can take the parts off the gun and put in new ones. For example you can put an element core on a gun that didn't shoot fire before if it has a empty component. It seems really easy to be able to do but I cant a tutorial to pull from. I've found some other things like different projectile effects.