ue4-general

[carmine scroll]

and would have saved other things

cause more issues than fix

[wraith lark]

well that is a matter of opinion

[latent fable]

where should i put firstperson blueprint? I've looked on google but cant find anything

(sorry that im just stupid in general)

[tough fossil]

Can I self teach my self c++

[carmine scroll]

yeah?

Will you? idk.

[latent fable]

i am confused, i cant figure out why it wont work

[ancient lotus]

is there no way to use non seamless travel with steam?

[carmine scroll]

huh?

[ancient lotus]

ive read online of people having issue using the online subsystem steam with non seamless travel. as a test i tried it and it causes the connected clients to crash but seamless travel works just fine

[mossy nymph]

you should be able to use steam lobbies to keep players... connected

and use hard travel

i don't recommend the practice tho

[latent fable]

@carmine scroll i've googled and tried what i can think of but i cant find out why it wont work

or im just stupid

[carmine scroll]

as I said. When you migrated the first person stuff. You didnt also migrate the FP game mode

[azure shore]

right is there anything that actually stops lighting builds?

[latent fable]

Oh sorry i didnt understand your wording

[azure shore]

it sits on 0 and doesnt move

[carmine scroll]

the cancel button @azure shore

[latent fable]

where is the game mode located? sorry for being uh stupid

[azure shore]

...

I think I said that wrong

its sitting on 0 as IF something is stopping it

[carmine scroll]

its located where the first person blueprint is @latent fable

it might just take time

depending on the level

and your pc

[azure shore]

800 something unbuilt objects, is that expected to take a real long time?

on a practically empty map with just a few objects its just a few seconds really

[carmine scroll]

depends on lighting quality too

[dense gate]

I got myself in a whirlpool and need some help, couldn't find anything in google

[carmine scroll]

or its actually froze

which

I cant fix

[azure shore]

I keep shadows on low if that means anything

[dense gate]

I got a crash while moving through the map in the editor, after that all static meshes suddenly glitched out

[carmine scroll]

oof

restart unreal, still happening?

[dense gate]

Yep

Weirdly enough destructibles are perfectly fine

[azure shore]

I've tried deleting unneeded folders, (build, intermediate etc) restarting unreal, restarting pc, NOTHING works, yet lighting builds still work fine on other maps

it was working fine on this map too but suddenly it just STOPPED

[carmine scroll]

so what happens when you play it now?

[dense gate]

Visual demonstration if this helps, it changes literally every frame

[carmine scroll]

wait what @azure shore

what did you delete

[versed spear]

delete all levels builtdata - close the project, open it and rebuild all levels

[azure shore]

yeah and builtdata

I only deleted that stuff that regenerates in the project files

[carmine scroll]

dont go deleting whole folders lol

anyways

[azure shore]

thats all I was told really

delete this and that folder

I did make copies just in case

argh its just a joke at this point

[carmine scroll]

maybe

[versed spear]

Close the editor and delete (or rename) the folder "Saved" from your project.

For example: "C:\Users[user_name]\Documents\Unreal Projects[project_name]\Saved"

Then open it back up and rebuild your lighting.

[carmine scroll]

just maybe

a RAM issue

[azure shore]

tried that

[carmine scroll]

also, what sizes are your lightmaps

[azure shore]

tried all of this stuff

where do I find where it shows the size?

[carmine scroll]

lightmass volumes or in the settings for the lights? Cant remember

I rarely touch them

[azure shore]

oh, I dont even have a lightmass volume

but literally it was fine the other day, then the next time I tried to build that same day it just refused

[dense gate]

That was absolutely weird

After a second complete system restart it's fixed

[latent fable]

does anyone know why this wont work

[carmine scroll]

Close the editor and delete (or rename) the folder "Saved" from your project.

For example: "C:\Users[user_name]\Documents\Unreal Projects[project_name]\Saved"

Then open it back up and rebuild your lighting.

try what Mat said

or mattox

idk his name

but that dude

[azure shore]

yeah, I already did, sure Ill try again

[carmine scroll]

delete that score nodee @latent fable

and drag from the cast and search for Score

[azure shore]

things like this really make me want to give up

its so INFURIATING

just BUILD THE DAMN LIGHTING

OMG

IT HEARD ME

[surreal gyro]

OK so I went over to the Models resource and imported Giga Bowser's mesh, and he's on his back for some reason

[kindred viper]

lazy giga bowser

[carmine scroll]

to do with the import axis settings

[surreal gyro]

Import axis?

[carmine scroll]

I believe you can change the axis its imports the data on

or that might be only for exporting

but you can put it through a 3d software and rotate it correctly to see if thats the issue

[azure shore]

ok wtf

one single light build worked

Im losing my mind here

[dense gate]

There's an "Import Rotation" for both static and skeletal mesh imports

I think adding 90 to the Y rot will work

[carmine scroll]

yeah okay, I did think there was

[surreal gyro]

@dense gate It's the X rot, not the Y

[dense gate]

Ah, my bad

[next badger]

@surreal gyro if you have no animations for his skeleton, you may have a tough time

[surreal gyro]

@next badger Why

[next badger]

the skeleton topology is quite different

[azure shore]

this is ridiculous

ue4 is just broken or somehting

[fossil ore]

Hey guys I have a problem with IncrediBuild

It looks like license expired... and I dont have new

[next badger]

@fossil ore well, ask for the new one from IncrediBuild...

[kindred viper]

cant you just use the live coding built in now?

oh wait... that looks official 😄

[next badger]

IB is for distributed building (with cache)...

[kindred viper]

yeah I got confused for a moment

[next badger]

actually makes no sense to use a free one

[kindred viper]

I was thinking of Live++

[fossil ore]

its just weird

[kindred viper]

brainfart excuse me. room full of noisy kids 😄

[next badger]

@fossil ore you don't need IB to build a project, if you want to use one - get a license

[fossil ore]

so I can delete it?

[next badger]

free one is useless, since it's limited to 4 or 5 cpu cores (i can't remember)

and modern cpus are 8+

[fossil ore]

Is this IncrediBuild (dont remember how I got it) is necessary part of UE4?

[next badger]

no, this one is not

[surreal gyro]

@next badger Wait, is there actually no way to make new animations for meshes directly inside UE4?

[fossil ore]

What do you mean Air ?

Static Mesh or Skeletal Mesh ?

[plush yew]

Alright so I tried all the anti-aliasing options, non of them fixed anything. Its a very bricky model with material, no texture. I can understand why its looking like this but Im lost as to what to do about it

[surreal gyro]

I mean, can I not make new animations for Giga Koopa's skeleton

[next badger]

ue4 has embedded XGE engine in UBT pipeline, that can utilize IB, but you may just ignore it

@surreal gyro there is AllRight Rig...the only way to animate in ue4

[surreal gyro]

I'm guessing it's not very useful from the ellipsis

[next badger]

it is very useful...but v.1 is meh...and v.2 is paid

@plush yew your issue is not about aliasing, it's about normals...your mesh has no "smoothing groups"

iirc you could generate SG when importing the mesh

or, you just forgot to import them when imported the mesh

[plush yew]

@next badger I'll check my default import settings

@next badger Dont see such a thing. If I tell my modeler they're missing smoothing group, would he know what to do?

or is it a ue4 thing

[mint hill]

so im importing some models from blender but when i do it makes so many duplicates...

[next badger]

@plush yew um, well, you just need to look on model in the editor (blender or whatever it is)...

@mint hill names are different, not dupes to me

[dark depot]

@mint hill i imagine you have more then one component in your blender scene clean it up and if you are meant to have more then one then use merge meshes

[mint hill]

ok ty

[next badger]

@mint hill green one are materials, you could merge one

@mint hill ofc depends on textures

[dense gate]

Depending on the editor, even when you combine meshes it goes ham and separates them when importing

[next badger]

@mint hill it is better not to merge the meshes (if you don't know what you are doing)

since instanced meshes = less draw calls

[plush yew]

Would you recommend after the map is complete, to merge all the meshes into one?

does that reduce drawcalls?

[dark depot]

no

[dark depot]

because then then everything has to be drawn

that isnt what i meant when i said merge meshes people make their things up on multiple parts in blender etc and dont realize it will come into the editor as two objects

[next badger]

@plush yew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMIbV2rQO4k

[dense gate]

Quick reminder for y'all to check whether you've accidentally left tessellation on for something that shouldn't have it

[plush yew]

Thanks alex, will watch it

[dense gate]

Dropping that one in since I forgot mine for a material used a lot everywhere and it skyrocketed my performance

[next badger]

@plush yew 4.22 now has automatic instancing (it just replaces everything similar by the instance)

when you merge - no instances may be produced anymore

since it's literally new mesh

[dense gate]

TFW upgraded to 4.21 right before 4.22 previews started rolling out and currently too many things aren't supported for 4.22 yet

[azure shore]

what does this mean exactly

[next badger]

@azure shore means Swarm process failed to spawn, or firewall cut the link

[plush yew]

To add to what alexey said, I think you need to compile unreal lightmass

[next badger]

Swarm agent - app that calculates Lighmass

[azure shore]

so like, what do I do

[next badger]

check if swarm is running (generally has an icon in the tray)

[azure shore]

yeah it is

I have it open

[next badger]

then check firewall not blocking it

ue4 has to connect to it

[azure shore]

ok all I did was clear stuff from its cache folder

guess that was wrong or something

yeah that was it

still though

lighting building is still broken

0

bloody

percent

[languid star]

Hey, I am trying to follow this tutorial on Morph Targets (https://youtu.be/haQBRXjQOJQ?t=104) The author adds a timeline, which is fine, but the feature doesn't appear to exist anymore?

[dense gate]

It usually stays on 0 for a while then ramps up in speed

[dark depot]

timelines still exist @languid star

[languid star]

I guess my question lies at how to create one

[next badger]

yeah, timeline is kinda fundamental element

[dark depot]

right click in a blueprint and type timeline

[languid star]

I didnt get the add timeline option

[azure shore]

nah Ive been leaving it on zero for ages

absolute joke

Ive been trying SO LONG

[dark depot]

are you in a function or somewhere they are not supported

[languid star]

EventGraph for animation

[dense gate]

Only Event Graph can have time-based nodes

[languid star]

These are the options i get

[toxic rivet]

Does anyone have experience with building a client using the source code?

[next badger]

@toxic rivet ofc, but better to ask on #engine-source

[dense gate]

AnimBPs don't support time-based functions

Try using a curve value node inside the anim graph

I'm so lost in English right now

[toxic rivet]

@next badger Would you be able to help me? I am running into a problem that I cant seem to solve

[azure shore]

is this bad

[dense gate]

A node like this

[next badger]

@dense gate he was following tutorial...

[rotund scroll]

nice, I always wanted to quantify holiness

[dense gate]

[azure shore]

hey

does this mean anything

[dense gate]

Ah, wait

[languid star]

I am fine with going off the tutorial

[dense gate]

He adds the timeline inside the controller

[languid star]

I am really just looking for a method to generate a sine wave

[dense gate]

Whatever "Tree_MT_Controller" BP is

Not the AnimBP

I don't think there's anything you do in the AnimBP itself

I don't think it's even opened in the vid

[weary void]

um.... how do i get rid of this box that jsut appered, i cant use the contetn browser anymroe

[dense gate]

Try pressing shift/alt/ctrl or drag the window around

[weary void]

thx

[languid star]

Yea. Now that I am looking at it, it looks as though he uses an actor blueprint instead of an animation blueprint

[dense gate]

I don't know how you reached an AnimBP

But it ain't that, chief

[languid star]

Hahaha. Was trying to adapt an existing blueprint I had for dynamic skeletal animations with morph target animations

The existing one I was using was a animation blueprint.

Didn't know about the locked features to each one

[weary void]

um... so why can't i fnd my player controller, its like it doesnot exist. Im using first person template

[dense gate]

Well, you can always modify curve with a simple node, especially since you're doing a simple sine wave

Something like this can be slotted into the animBP and adapted to modify the MorphTarget curve

[languid star]

Yea I went with this

[next badger]

@weary void cause, it's not a BP class

[dense gate]

Quick tip: Multiplying is faster than dividing a float

So having X / 2 is slower than X * 0.5

[weary void]

ahh thank yuo

[languid star]

Fixed

Interesting

Now. An interesting component to this - if I decide to speed up the animation, the animation "frame" so-to-speak will skip based on the changed constant.

[toxic rivet]

I can't seem to build a development client, It fails about server functions that are surrounded by WITH_SERVER_CODE
Anyone know why this would happen?

[languid star]

So use DT to add to an accumulator?

[dense gate]

That's the simplest solution

Most optimized, IDK

[languid star]

eh

probably fine

This thing is not scaling enough for me to care

[rotund scroll]

if it's just for a limited time, an accumulating value doesn't really matter

because amortization ayyy

[dense gate]

You can always add a simple "saw" float like this

And use that for the sine

I've had some values accumulated so far that float inaccuracy kicks in

[rotund scroll]

what have you been using them for

[dense gate]

Curves for some animations mostly

[rotund scroll]

although I get your point, I would love to have doubles for certain elements

[dense gate]

I'm using exclusively BPs, so it's not really an option for me to use doubles

[languid star]

That is my idea

[rotund scroll]

I was referring to BPs not having doubles

[dense gate]

Oh, for sure

[azure shore]

I'm sick of this

[dense gate]

But simply making a saw float did the job for me

Especially since I feed it into a sine/cosine

[azure shore]

I've been trying for TOO LONG to fix a problem that shouldnt fucking exist

WHAT is WRONG with my damn lighting build?

just SITS there on 0 percent

[next badger]

@azure shore have you tested the empty project?

[azure shore]

it worked fine the other day, its NOT just taking a long time because when it did work it was quick, I've tried everything suggested and I'm sick of it

it works fine in other maps

[dense gate]

Anything that could be doing lighting a dirty?

[azure shore]

like what?

[dense gate]

Lightmass importance volumes sometimes caused issues for me

[azure shore]

I didnt even have one

[dense gate]

Any more special lights from the RTX features?

[next badger]

or some "infinite" settings

[azure shore]

like what?

Im sure Ive changed nothing since it was working

[dense gate]

Try killing the swarm process

[next badger]

@azure shore btw what the swarm log says?

[azure shore]

well I found this

but idk what else you might need to see

[next badger]

@azure shore i have those too, those are not important

[azure shore]

it ends like this

[dense gate]

I think that looks normal

Something in the swarm-editor link is goofed

[next badger]

@azure shore try to clean cache (in the menu)

[azure shore]

yeah I keep doing that

I got a single lighting build earlier but thats all Ive managed in two days

[dense gate]

Might be a stupid question but is your HDD/SSD full?

On 8 GB RAM I have no issues building an >1500 mesh instance map

[azure shore]

I got 8gb ram too

[next badger]

@azure shore try to go to settings and set the verbosity to Verbose

@azure shore also take a look on Message log in ue4

[dense gate]

I get this when I build mine

Note: precomputed visibility is an option

[next badger]

eh...it stores cache on C: -_-

[azure shore]

which settings @next badger ?

[next badger]

@azure shore swarm

[azure shore]

ok

yep still nothing

NOTHING

I hate unreal so much right now

it literally works fine on any other map

[lapis bronze]

I thought you needed a lightmass importance volume

( could be wrong )

all of my maps have one

[azure shore]

nah, it was working fine without oen

well I tried deleting like half the map and then it let me build

do you think my pc is physically incapable or something

[lapis bronze]

Im not sure, i used to have a problem baking similar to that

i just deleted and recreated my light mass importance volumes

or deleted my lighting data from the actual file folder

and restarted

[azure shore]

wheres the lighting data?

[lapis bronze]

lemme find where it goes.. it usually sits next to the actual maps

[azure shore]

do you mean builtdata?

[lapis bronze]

Yeah

[azure shore]

yeah I tried that

[lapis bronze]

aw

You using Unreal 4.22.2?

Im trying to scroll up to catch up to your issue before asking too much haha

[azure shore]

yeah, definitely 22. something

[dense gate]

I'm using 4.21 so it might be an issue from 4.22

[toxic rivet]

I can't seem to build a development client, It fails about server functions that are surrounded by WITH_SERVER_CODE
Anyone know why this would happen?

[cyan bough]

Im working on a Cast timer for one of my skill. I want it to display the bar as a percent bar and count down based on my variables. For some reason my bar just flashes and does not count down. Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong?

Yes I know they are division is wrong in the second it should be cast time devid by cast timer. I was checking that to make sure it was not the problem and grabbed that screen by mistake.

[dense gate]

I assume that's an event tick that calls the sequence?

In the first image

[cyan bough]

yes thats correct and i set the timer in my skill starting

opps wrong one

[dense gate]

Do you really need the branches in the first image if you know what's going to happen?

If there's something that can affect the countdown from outside the BP, aight

[cyan bough]

Made it easier to break down using the sequence

[dense gate]

Also I think the progress float should be Countdown ÷ Time, not the other way around

I assume the countdown is the current cooldown in that case however

[cyan bough]

Yeah i screen grabbed a test.

[dense gate]

I personally have an "execless print X" pure function that accepts a float input, prints it, then returns the same float, has saved me a few headaches in debugging

I'd work down my issue starting from the final product that isn't working, in this case the progress bar, then work down to what isn't working as intended through trial and error

E.g. If the ÷ is wrong, the progress bar would show values commonly >1

Then if it shows a constant 0, I'll see where the countdown isn't done right

[cyan bough]

Ok thanks for the advice. Will go give it another try.

[dense gate]

Also you can always enable debugging mode and start slomo testing things

Hit the play button, type console command "t.OverrideFPS 500", start up your test, Shift-F1, pause, then debug

[cyan bough]

Will give it a try ty so much for all the help.

[azure shore]

is this bad

no blue

[deep basin]

so, the function GetMyPlayerIndex return -1, even though my controller is valid. how is that possible??

[rotund scroll]

is there such a thing as an escape character for string in UE4?

[plush yew]

@rotund scroll you mean like \n?

[rotund scroll]

yea

apparently you can just do shift enter for \n, but really if there's a page for what escape characters work/how they work in BP strings that'd be amazing

[plush yew]

I mean

\n works for me

in ue4 too

[rotund scroll]

it printed \n for me

[plush yew]

I havent tried with blueprint, but in c++ it works correctly

[rotund scroll]

unless there's an escape character for escaping BP into c++

yeah I figured c++ would be standard

[plush yew]

what if you just

create a new print node when you need it to break

does that work?

[rotund scroll]

well like I said, shift enter works, so you can put in literal linebreaks

I suppose they do have string builder for more advanced stuff like %d

[dense gate]

There's a free marketplace plug in right now for rich text

[rotund scroll]

it's all good I'm using it just for debug

[dense gate]

"Format Text" is a beautiful node

I see

[deep basin]

where can I change the camera components collision settings? It seems my camera blocks my AIs projectiles, lul^^

[plush yew]

@deep basin does it have a springarm component?

[deep basin]

it does, yes

[plush yew]

then just search for collision

it has a probe channel

[next badger]

@azure shore the black one is Skylight ?

[deep basin]

and the probe channel is the equivalent to its collision preset?

[plush yew]

dont see why it shouldnt be

[deep basin]

oh i see

[languid star]

Is there a way to pass in a bone transformation to a blueprint as a parameter? I want to find the location of the base of the bone and tip of the bone.

[deep basin]

mhhhh, for some reason my camera still blocks bullets, even though projectiles are by default set to pass through..... any ideas?

I just made the camera really small now... what a pain

[plush yew]

@deep basin another solution would be to give your camera a tag

And in the collision check function of the bullet

Make sure the hit object is not a camera

if(!HitComponent->ComponentHasTag("MyCamera")) // If the hit component is not of type camera, continue

[meager zealot]

Can somebody dm me if they know how to fix error UE4? Thanks

[weary basalt]

Dont ask ppl to DM you, just ask your question.

[meager zealot]

Kk

How do you fix error UE4?

Like error UE4 for fortnite?

[weary basalt]

This is not a Fortnite Discord Server.

[meager zealot]

Well just the error :T

[versed spear]

uninstall ue4

[weary basalt]

This is a Discord Server for the development of games using UE4. We do not fix errors with Fortnite, please go to one of the official platforms for Fortnite.

[meager zealot]

Okay then

[raw elk]

Does anyone know why this is happening to my text in UMG? It looks fine in the UI editor, but in game, I get this.

[rapid acorn]

My light build stays at 0 for a long time before running, anyone know what is being done while it's at 0?

[azure shore]

mines just stuck at zero

doesnt get off

at all

[versed spear]

@rapid acorn did you check other levels and see if they build fine?

[rapid acorn]

@versed spear Lighting builds fine, but it spends about half the time at 0. I am just trying to understand if there is something being calculated before light build

[grim ore]

Wootie McWooterson. Finally found an oculus quest in stock 😃 Now I can make some new VR videos

[turbid mesa]

Hey all, does anyone know why I wouldn't have the ability to see the raytracing debug view modes? I have raytracing enabled in the project and I have an RTX card but it just isn't there
Edit: actually it may have to do with my windows version, didn't realize windows had new updates that didn't pop up in windows update

[dark depot]

@rapid acorn you can look at swarm to see what its doing

[wind siren]

Anyone interested in trying my Demo to see if it works? I haven't tried it on another computer yet.

I used to have two computers. Now I wish I still did.

[vivid girder]

Why did they change Blueprint Macro Libraries to require a parent base class?

seems like a bug

[wind siren]

@grim ore You are a personal hero of mine.

[grim ore]

😃

[wind siren]

I go by Deep Fried Carp Lips on youtube, I suggested you make a patreon

[grim ore]

@vivid girder when did they not have you require a parent base class?

[weary basalt]

@vivid girder Its always been like that

[vivid girder]

Oh, thought it was like BFLs

[grim ore]

@wind siren I looked into patron but then I am beholden to the peoples and I was like "I can barely hold onto myself so I should really not do that" lol

[vivid girder]

What's the reason for a Library having a parent class?

[wind siren]

If anyone would like to try my game demo, I'm planning to submit it for a Megagrant later this week, could use someone to verify it works on other PCs.

[lapis bronze]

@plush yew you can use an anim notify in your animation BP to play a sound sure

thats how footstep sfx are setup usually

lemme screenshot how i have it setup

So using my animNotify event in my animation BP

https://i.imgur.com/EQm2hhC.png

(keep in mind this is a dirty way to do it)

https://i.imgur.com/cmpXwA5.png

i have my physics materials trigger different sound effects for footsteps

one for gravel, stone, wood, etc.

you can setup a way cleaner version of this im sure

you know how to add the notify right

then you can find it as an event

https://i.imgur.com/1Pu99Uh.png

yeah new notify, or if it exists already

Skeleton Notifies -> name of your footstep notify

its the same thing

https://streamable.com/mnjvf

no prob, i learned about this stuff awhile ago and its difficult to find an example not knowing what to search

use notifies to trigger stuff

dont use the built in functions like these

https://i.imgur.com/mQzv1qL.png

you should have all your footstep logic on your Anim BP

so here's me creating a New notify and linking it

https://streamable.com/rezbf

here's another video, hope that clears it up

kewl

np mang! good luck

[lapis bronze]

weird
I think i had that happen also once, but i forgot what i did to fix it

but it was in 4.21 not 4.22

check the Window at the top

There's like viewports you can enable

try toggling them there

ah yeah thats it

shit happens

😦

[lusty carbon]

Migrated BP_CommentaryBox into my VR project. it doesn't trigger with my VR pawn. help?

[plush yew]

good

[lusty carbon]

Migrated BP_CommentaryBox into my VR project. it doesn't trigger with my VR pawn. help?
im talking about this

it has proximity range and pops up when pawn overlaps. not triggering with my VRPawn
(I migrated it from the Architecture Vis example project by epic)

it does find my camera look direction though so it's always facing the player

[flat gorge]

I can't figure out what's causing the travel failure, ik it's the path of the level but everything seems to be in order and idk what else could possibly be going on

[plush yew]

@flat gorge You can't travel when the game is played in editor

you have to launch as standalone game

alternatively, go to the folder where your .uproject is, right click then launch

[shell jacinth]

hi Community i have a difficult question - Can someone tell me what the unreal engine PROJECT (not the engine directly) saves in the registry and where?
I could find this in the log: "UnrealBuildTool.VCEnvironment.SetupEnvironment(CppPlatform Platform) in D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Saved\CsTools........" But D:\ doesnt exist anymore so which file / config etc ask for D:\ ? 😮

I had a hard drive problem and now my project dont find the Visual Studio Universal CRT and get an build error - But when i create a blank project it packages perfectly.
I moved my old project to my new hard drive and now Visual Studio and the engine is installed on K:\ because I:\ was defect. All runs perfectly now except that i can not package my old project anymore
I hope someone can help me :/

@plush yew Ok i try it thank you

Now i get many other errors, i try now to move all the files to a complete blank project...

[amber rivet]

Hello, I need some help

basicly I need help with the resolutions and screen stuff

Anyone?

[shell jacinth]

Yea i thought already that this will be a bigger problem.. the main problem is that the engine and visual studio were on another defect hard disc and i try no to change all the registry entries to my new disc so this is the problem.. the Computer things there is another disc which i removed a day ago because it was defect

[shell jacinth]

I found the problem... my visual studio is defect also after several new installations - this shit software dont uninstall all its components

[flat idol]

Check the logs what are the latest entries and crash

[sage linden]

I had an issue like that too, I used to use Sculptris and my projects never got exported

Not exactly the same issue but yeah something like that

[safe furnace]

@flat idol what’s the Log Location, as I can’t see a log

[flat idol]

Saved/ in your project there will be logs.

[safe furnace]

👍

[plush yew]

How to set auto possess player to player 0 after 5sec of game start

does anyone know the sqrMagnitude equivalent in ue4 c++?

[deep basin]

I still dont get how it is possible that my AI doesn't hit my player when the camera is tunred away. it is programmed to aim at the spine_02 bone of the player, yet when I face the camera 90° or more away from the enemy, he misses almost every shot. When I zoom oput the camera to a top down position this doesnt happen, so it must have to do with the camera position. any general ideas?

actually when I face the camera away completey and the enemy is not in sight, the bullets are not even generated so I think this has something to do with general engine settings??

are there any settings where I can say to increase the rules, when actors are created and when not? since in my game it can easily happen that the player is in a medium/ long range fight, turns away from the enemy and bullets stop spawning...

[radiant haven]

for what is this Map_build_data

[sonic pagoda]

@radiant haven make sure you dont have 2 copies of the same project opened

map build is for built lighting

you can cancel it if all else fails

since you can always build ligthing

[radiant haven]

@sonic pagoda when i open my project "failed to save/load map......., when i compile or like this "failed to savemap"...

well can i just delerte it

[sonic pagoda]

you can delete the map build yes, just dont delete your map because that is your level

i would be careful though in any case, because if its failing to save / load something might be wrong

usually happens when you have 2 of the same project open... or you move maps around

[deep basin]

Camera facing the enemy, everything works

https://i.gyazo.com/9c1a68fd8154141703b7f529b50b0379.mp4

Camera facing away, no bullets are hitting, when checking for hit event they hit the barricade the AI is behind.

https://i.gyazo.com/c8a3bd064d14fcaca941303fe0bea9ad.mp4

anyone any ideas??

[sage linden]

Well it all looks good, 👍

[deep basin]

not really, the player can't be hit if the camera is facing away from the enemy

[pseudo swift]

hello all, i cant figure out how to enable physics on a static mesh without having gravity affect it, i also do not wanna lock the position, is there a way to just have it act like a simple rigid body?

[kindred viper]

physics but no gravity?

[pseudo swift]

yea well collision without gravity

[flat gorge]

@plush yew thx, it really was the editors fault, now I just need to fix the menu when I press start it opens level

[weary void]

how do I set a movie?

i followed a tutorial and it didnt work

i went to project settings and clicked on movies and added my mp4 file to the array but when I launch game, it does not work

[kindred viper]

do you mean a launch movie?

if so, its probably the mp4 encoding, which needs to be exactly the same as the docs tell you

[brisk sluice]

guys, is OK use stationary lightning for trees?

[weary void]

oh okay

[pseudo swift]

this black plane in the middle is a cube from ue i scaled down, is there a way to fix the collision so that it follows the thin resized cube instead of the default blue box area?]

[radiant haven]

why

[kindred viper]

paths wrong. cant find files. etc

[radiant haven]

which files i need

[kindred viper]

you tell me. its your project lol

[weary void]

@kindred viper I tried to find what the encoding needed to b but I cant find it, do you know what it is and how I do it?

[radiant haven]

well i broke my project thats why

[kindred viper]

@weary void https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/MediaFramework/TechReference/index.html

[weary void]

thank you

how is this useful?

[kindred viper]

@radiant haven There isn't enough information there to say what it is exactly. But thats what the thing says

[weary void]

its just a table,

[kindred viper]

@weary void its the encoding rules for support

[weary void]

oh

how do i change the encoding rules of my mp4 file?

[kindred viper]

you re-encode it

what I tend to do, is get the Unreal Logo mp4 they use, then check what it is in VLC, then use that setting

[weary void]

oh okay

[upbeat tendon]

i was wondering what the best way of managing the work flow for updating character stats

i've created a website using hugo that generates a .json file of all the characters health etc, i would like some way to import this into the blueprints for each character

editing each character by hand doesn't seem to be the right solution

[weary void]

@kindred viper where do u get the unreal logo mp4?

[kindred viper]

well, I looked for it in one of the projects. Perhaps the content examples one

[thick herald]

Hey guys, I've spline based question. Where best to ask for help?

[carmine scroll]

Here is good to ask @thick herald

[weary void]

alright

[thick herald]

Hmm. I'll try to make sense. I'm using splines for a cave system. I can create a linear spline easy enough, I can spawn a 'room'. What I'd like to do is use the sockets on the static mesh to be the location that the room uses to aligned itself, and to in turn use the rooms sockets as start points for new splines.

[pallid compass]

Quick question, is there any way to create a base animation pose easily with out having to to create a motionless animation outside of the engine?

[carmine scroll]

You can move bones in an already made animation

[pallid compass]

I dont already have one,

[carmine scroll]

but I dont believe you can make one without using an external software

[pallid compass]

Need to generate one from scratch.

[weary void]

@kindred viper yea... i give up xD, i can't find that mp4 and even if i did I dunno how you find the settings or how I change the settings of the mp4 i am trying to use, this is alot of bloody hastle for one 10 second video

[whole quarry]

maybe the play anitmation doesnt seem to work because the animation from the animbp is triggered immediatly after it

on what? the anim bp?

[weary void]

@kindred viper so i founf out that my video does have all the correct settings

and i put it in my project folders, Then i went to project settings and went to the movies tab

i added my mp4 file to the array

and it jsut does not play

[lapis bronze]

@plush yew yeah it's kinda weird but there's a difference between a physics material and a physics material type

Ah true, I haven't touched terrain yet actually lol

My whole game is basically static mesh dungeon blocka

[radiant haven]

UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): LogInit: Display: -----------------------------------
UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): LogInit: Display: CookResults: Error: Unable to cook package for platform because it is unable to be loaded: C:/Contasty/Saved/Cooked/Android_ETC1/Contasty2/Content/World/Materials/wall_mat.uasset

have some porblems

this is my texture

xD

well but still have this error

what is a sampler

oh

ok

yeah got only one

still have this message

FTW

[pseudo swift]

anybody know why my car is not moving after its been captured with the sequence recorder? got this working on another map

[radiant haven]

UATHelper: Packaging (Android (ETC1)): LogInit: Display: CookResults: Error: Unable to cook package for platform because it is unable to be loaded: C:/Contasty/Saved/Cooked/Android_ETC1/Contasty2/Content/World/Materials/wall_mat.uasset

[gloomy sandal]

What the poop is keeps crashing

This is exported tbg

It works fine on mac

but after upgrading to 4.22 the cooked windows version stopped working

[radiant haven]

he fails to load

this texture what did I made wrong

when i package it

[rain moss]

hey guys i need some guys who knows how to make a NPC enemy

[versed spear]

Is there a node I can use to iterate through an animation sequence? I am trying to clean up my animations. I'm using a project that uses a 3d character and its animations to create sprite sheets. The sprit sheet is not getting the right position for the animation so I would like to iterate through the animation so I can get the correct pose for the sprite sheet.

[kindred viper]

FlipBook node in a material is for spritesheets

[versed spear]

no I would like to stop on the first on the first key frame then run my function to add that keyframe to the sprite sheet then set the animation to the next keyframe. All I need to know is how to control the animation to stop on a specified key frame.

[kindred viper]

anim notifies.

[versed spear]

What? I am looking for a blueprint solution. I don't want to add notifies to the animation. I want to stop the animation on a keyframe in blueprint.

[rotund scroll]

you can add notifies in blueprint

[versed spear]

ok thx

[deep basin]

Sorry for spamming the channel, but my problem seems to be an engine issue, which I reported, for anyone curious, here is what caused a massive problem:
When referring to a character as an object and rotating towards it, the actor that is supposed to fulfill the rotation, will actually rotate towards the closest component it seems and not towards the root of the character. This results in AI that is supposed to rotate towards an object key where a character reference is stored in, to rotate towards its camera, if that camera is the closest point and not to the root of the character. I suppose this would happen with other components as well.

[rotund scroll]

they're just events that fire when the animation is at a certain time

[versed spear]

will it pause the animation on that key frame?

[rotund scroll]

not unless you instruct it to

it's just an event

like any other events

you can whatever you want with it

you can pause the animation

if you want to

[versed spear]

ok so I will use the notify to know when it is at that key frame then I pause the animation .

[rotund scroll]

you can do that

[versed spear]

cool I can figure out the rest just needed some direction.

[rotund scroll]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Animation/Sequences/Notifies/index.html

[radiant haven]

Has Someone much Experience with mobile

[rotund scroll]

nope. that's a can of worms I'm not keen on opening

[versed spear]

haha I am the same way with mobile. I wish everything would work like it does on pc. @radiant haven you are going to have to find another way to do what you want. There is no easy solution for lighting.

[radiant haven]

well, one thing I solved

that the material doesnt show up

but still looks like unlit

[versed spear]

People in graphics might be able to help. Show them what issues you are having with some pictures.

[languid star]

Can you not put a breakpoint in animation blueprints?

Is that feature disabled for animation blueprints?

[elfin jacinth]

Anyone available to try and login to the Academy site for me?

Someone just reported that it was not working and I am on the road

[unborn matrix]

tips to optimizing game thread?

I'm doing so much but im running some physical animations

so any tips are appreciated

oh dang @elfin jacinth https://accounts.epicgames.com/login/index?client_id=17ce2d2864834898ab71847859286c81&response_type=code&state=academy-login

It freezes me on this page

[elfin jacinth]

K thanks

[unborn matrix]

yeah if I try and login to the page first

then login to academy it still freezes

mozzila firefox

[wraith lark]

It dont freeze at my end

[kindred viper]

Anyone have any info on the default markup for Rich Text Block? ie. I have a Datatable with a Default text asset entry. I want to set the size in markup like Default.TextStyle.Font.Size="96" etc. Having trouble with anything other than just the Row Name

I can't use a C++ decorator class either in this case

[manic pawn]

the default rich text does not support that

[kindred viper]

thats what I suspected.

now I hate it again

if I want to animate through font sizes and colours, I have to create data table entries for all of them

[manic pawn]

use AAA game engine in 2019

begin by making your own rich text widget

[kindred viper]

if I had decorator classes, I can live with it, but in pure blueprint, its a wall. I shall think of a different approach

[manic pawn]

decorators don't make sense for this

they're like for integrating an image into the text

they don't have access to the context they're being embedded in so you can't use them to change font parameters

[kindred viper]

I thought you could use them to mody the markup you use in the Text content. So you can apply font size changes through a <style Size="12" /> approach

[manic pawn]

and there's only a single level of markup

<bla>stuff<ble>stuff</>stuff</> does not work

[pseudo swift]

any1 know why sequencer doesnt record the transforms/rotation of bp car? it captures the movement fine but the wheels are static

[kindred viper]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/community/community-content-tools-and-tutorials/1536690-inline-styling-decorator-for-rich-text-block This seems to have the right idea

[manic pawn]

an even better solution would be to rewrite the parser and stuff to support hierarchical markup

like our rich text widget handles <color="#ff0000">blah <b>blah</></> but it was a lot of work to get there

[kindred viper]

yeah at least the basics of html markup should have been entertained. It's kind of a given now that its simple and effective

I think Nick Darnell made this so it's probably done the way it is, because thats the ideal way within Slate for extensibility, but on a blueprint only level, Im kinda stuck

well, not stuck, just annoyed that my first, simple plan didn't goto plan 😄

[manic pawn]

animating the rich text does not seem efficient at all though

[kindred viper]

its not. but I dont need efficiency at this particular place

[manic pawn]

you would have to re-parse it every frame and rebuild all the text runs just to change the font size

[elfin jacinth]

@unborn matrix Can ou check again?

[unborn matrix]

still stuck

[kindred viper]

I had planned on the text being bound to update with the vars input. So when I animate the values, the text updates. Not great way at all if you need performance, but I don't so why not 😃

[gleaming lotus]

Hey guys, trying to figure out how I can find a bug in my landscape material. Everytime I try and paint with the last material in my blend, the landscape just goes to the default grey material after its built. Any idea where I could be going wrong? This only occurs when I paint with the last material in the blend, and I've checked to make sure that it is correctly set up. Can someone give me some ideas of where I can look to find the bug?

[ember notch]

Can someone answer my question see #fab thanks

[ancient lotus]

both of those things you linked in marketplace are completely differnet

[ember notch]

I know

I don´t know what is better for the price...

[plush yew]

Overwatch has a ''Reduce Buffering'' setting to reduce mouse input latency.
https://youtu.be/mzc2GtLaRiU

Does UE4 offer a similar option?
The recently released Splitgate: Arena Warfare has a significant amount of mouse input lag.
Would be great if Epic could fix it once and for all for all UE4 games that require a more responsive mouse "feel" such as shooter games.

[ancient lotus]

their not comparable for the price. they are literally 2 separate use cases, one is for entering a car and one is for leaving note things around in the editor. if you feel like you need either of them, buy it.

[ember notch]

@ancient lotus I updated the question

[ancient lotus]

responde

[latent fable]

Why has this texture appeared on my game all of a sudden? it wasnt therre before

(The "preview" thing

[gleaming lotus]

Build lighting 😃

[latent fable]

Let me try it 👍

[gleaming lotus]

It may take a while if you havent done it before

1034 unbuilt objects is quite a bit

[latent fable]

haha, it is taking aw hile

a while*

[carmine scroll]

You can also remove 'Preview marks'

with a viewport setting

[gleaming lotus]

Oh I never knew that lol

[latent fable]

I don't know why they even added the preview texture, looks like an anti piracy thing rather then an issue with unbuilt lighting lol

[carmine scroll]

Its under , Show > Visualise > Preview shadows

[latent fable]

thanks

[gleaming lotus]

To be honest thats a fair point, it is kinda pointless when you have that big red text in the corner

[carmine scroll]

no, it is to show what the lighting might look like when built

and the look will only be shown full once the computer can calculate it

hence, why its a preview

[latent fable]

Still, I bet alot of newbies (like me) have been really confused about iot.

it*

[carmine scroll]

maybe, but none the less, it wont be removed

so 😛

[latent fable]

Does anyone know how to set the default spawn point in unreal? It just comes up with respawn points and stuff when i search it up

[grave nebula]

Maybe use a dedicated forum section instead of shady site ?

[plush yew]

That has been done before and no one replied to the thread.

[gleaming lotus]

Epic literally has a process for taking in feedback to gather how many of people want what.

[plush yew]

Seems like it isnt very efficient then

[carmine scroll]

Use a 'Player Start' @latent fable

[plush yew]

Mouse input latency has been plaguing UE games since 2007.

[carmine scroll]

has it?

I've never noticed

like, ever

[plush yew]

We had settings to work around this with UE3 thx to "onethreadframelag 0" but that doesnt work anymore with UE4.

Explained here:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Platforms/LowLatencyFrameSyncing/index.html

[carmine scroll]

is it really a big thing?

It doesnt seem like something I've ever experienced

or anything thats had a big enough impact for me to care about

[grave nebula]

Unfortunately, in current realities of universal engine, performing game logic on start of the frame, while rendering in the end of the same frame is unrealistic. @plush yew

[plush yew]

What would be a possible solution?

Stick to an older engine?

Id Tech 3, Source (HL2), etc.?

Can't Vulkan and DX12 help?

Like, what can be done about it?

[grave nebula]

Generally, or applicable to UE4?

[plush yew]

Both

[grave nebula]

Generally, you want an engine without dedicated rendering thread

[plush yew]

Would you have examples? This is really not my area of expertise.

Are Id Tech 3 and Source examples of this?

Would it be possible to modify UE4 to not have a dedicated rendering thread?

[latent fable]

@carmine scroll thanks

[carmine scroll]

np

[radiant haven]

what to do "3) Set up a Lightmass Importance Volume that encompasses your entire visible game scene " ??????

[carmine scroll]

should be an option in the settings to make it cover the whole level

so it wont have any bounds

same for post process volume

[rotund scroll]

there isnt, but it's a big box

just cover your level

it literally says that

[plush yew]

@grave nebula
In CSGO players can turn off Multicore Rendering, is this a solution?

[carmine scroll]

there isnt? Post pro does, so I'd assume lightmass did

[rotund scroll]

post processing volume uses the renderer directly, whereas lightmass adheres to the scene

[carmine scroll]

thats fair enough, just assumed, thats all.

[radiant haven]

i mean the word "encompasses"

what does that mean

[carmine scroll]

^

[rotund scroll]

what the man is saying is google it first

it really isn't hard

[carmine scroll]

username is for a good reason lol.

😅

[grave nebula]

@plush yew Yes, Unreal Engine can be rewritten for that. Likely, that will cost you the same, as developing your own engine from scratch.

[plush yew]

But would benefit all future UE4 games.

No?

[grave nebula]

nope

current culture trend is to deal with input latency in favor of better visuals.

[plush yew]

If I would want to learn how to change this, where would I need to look in the code

I have a background in programming, not this kind of programming

[latent fable]

I have show engine content enabled but can't see the engine content folder in content browser

[grave nebula]

You are safe letting it go for now.

[plush yew]

lol

[carmine scroll]

restart unreal @latent fable

[latent fable]

@carmine scroll okay

[carmine scroll]

or you didnt correctly enable it

should be visible as soon as

actually should be visible by default

but yeah

[grave nebula]

@plush yew I mean, I do get your pain and remember times when shooter games did not take eternity to react to your action, but reality is harsh and current games have 4 times higher input latency than first shooters.

[plush yew]

Yeah I know.
And Im willing to fix it myself.
I just need leads

[latent fable]

@carmine scroll where is the engine content folder?

[carmine scroll]

click on the folder next to 'Content'

[rotund scroll]

@plush yew I think the point is that this is something so fundamental to the engine that you "trying to fix it" would likely break the engine

[carmine scroll]

and select engine content

[latent fable]

ah, thanks

[carmine scroll]

np

[plush yew]

@rotund scroll
Yeah, Im aware of this situation.

But for me it's either change it or dont make games

I just cannot stand this input lag at all

I'd rather stop playing games.

Or fix it

[rotund scroll]

I would suggest going back to old engines then

[plush yew]

Fine

[radiant haven]

can someone help me here:

[next badger]

can you actually feel the latency of 10ms?

[plush yew]

It's not 10ms.
It's 22-60ms

[next badger]

at what fps?

[plush yew]

Quake 3 had 8ms

Even if I run UE4 with 800fps, it is still there

technically, UE4 displays 1ms

120fps, 6-8ms

I don't know how UE4 does it but, it's like there is massive amount of input lag by default no matter what the frame rate is

60fps is like 12ms I think with STAT FPS

Not sure how accurate that is

The UT dev team said that input-to-photon...
Quake 3 Arena had 8ms and UT Pre-Alpha has 22ms.

[grave nebula]

@next badger Yes Alexey, you can. Perceptional difference between UT4 and UT2004 input is huge.

[plush yew]

If you go play Splitgate or Overwatch there is massive amount of input lag when you move the mouse, notably left, right

[next badger]

@grave nebula ok, i'm just not that kind of gamer...probably it won't matter for me

[latent fable]

https://gyazo.com/40601be235be146aaacfd51621f06f56
Does anyone know how to make the texture loop and not stretch when I change the size of the actor?

[plush yew]

Overwatch isnt made with UE4, but the same concept applies

[rotund scroll]

@wraith verge #graphics

[grave nebula]

won't matter for anything that is not a borderline cyber sport.

[latent fable]

Thanks 😃

[rotund scroll]

I know for SFV they managed to get the input latency down

from 8ms to 5ms

and that is ue4

[plush yew]

Yeah I think it's related to the Low Input Latency page I linked earlier

[rotund scroll]

but they have a very specific game context

[plush yew]

And to be honest, I dont understand half of it

RHI thing

[grave nebula]

nope, you can't achieve that kind of input latency with UE4, the number is off.

[plush yew]

This https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Platforms/LowLatencyFrameSyncing/index.html

[rotund scroll]

@grave nebula well they did apparently. I haven't checked it myself to be fair, but I'm certain they wouldn't just lie in their patch notes

patch notes to the public

that is

[grave nebula]

it is around 70 ms

not 7

[plush yew]

70ms sounds like Splitgate

[rotund scroll]

https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2018/oct/23/street-fighter-5s-input-lag-reportedly-reduced-441-frames-and-77-stability-according-findings-wydd/

ah that's frames, fair

[next badger]

um...isnt monitors around 3-5 ms persistence now?

[plush yew]

no idea, my gaming monitor claims 1ms

who knows 😦

[rotund scroll]

monitor refresh rate goes on top of input lag

[next badger]

240hz?

@rotund scroll they are not related

[rotund scroll]

they are in the sense that you have to wait for the monitor to update for you to see anything

[plush yew]

The only FPS that came out in recent years that didnt have significant amount of input lag was DOOM 2016

but I havent touch that game in a while... I could be wrong

[rotund scroll]

even though you could probably make the argument that 1ms is negligible

[next badger]

@rotund scroll well, yes, the delay is there but relation is different...

[spare sun]

monitor only decides the lowest amount of perceived input lag you can get

and refresh rate raises that amount in case of vsync

[plush yew]

Obviously, the input lag is more obvious when you have to aim at opponents that can actually challenge your aim.

[next badger]

@spare sun well, for someone who uses 1ms gaming display vsync is probably around 144hz or more

[spare sun]

if ur playing without vsync, ur gonna perceive less input lag simply due to newest frames being displayed albeit with tearing

[plush yew]

I use MG248Q, 144Hz, 1ms and G502 mouse with 1000Hz polling rate.

[spare sun]

but the 1ms doesnt necessarily go on top

[next badger]

having 8ms input lag...and ping 60

[rotund scroll]

@next badger the relation isn't any more different than it in the end affects the end user, so perceived input lag and input lag might as well be the same thing

[plush yew]

I was wondering if players were getting the same amount of input lag with High End PCs.

[rotund scroll]

true it doesn't necessarily go on top because you might be lucky, but worst case

[plush yew]

I compare the input lag with UE4 games to driving a boat.

😅

If I dont touch the mouse. When I start moving it there is a weird thing happening, when the mouse is continuously in motion and I do circular movements it's fine, but to go back and forth left and right or doing flickshots and stopping at X moment doesnt work well

Reminds me of Killzone 2 on PS3

[rotund scroll]

have you checked how much inherent input lag your input device has?

[plush yew]

I don't know how to do that.
I just know that with CSSource I can't tell if there is any.
But in other games it's quite massive.

[spare sun]

cs:s doesn't have as much postprocessing I believe

and you can get quite higher fps there

[next badger]

not much people generally optimizing input lag....since ue4 is not widely used for competitive games (well, except FN)

[plush yew]

yeah, I do have to disable post processing with any game

it does add

not sure if it's just how it is
or if it's just what I need to do with my hardware

Does it behave like that with a high end pc as well?

[rotund scroll]

you should be able to check the input lag on your input device on the brand of the device's website

[next badger]

works fine in VR for me

and that's probably best example of input lag

[plush yew]

Is there a difference between input latency and ''baseline input latency''?

[vagrant flax]

Hello all, hope you can guide me in the right direction, I'm trying to create a blacklight effect that makes certain materials visible when the blacklight is shined on them, is this possible ?

[rotund scroll]

I'd ask in #graphics

because you'd need materials that react to light

[vagrant flax]

Ah, thanks

[burnt vault]

Quick question is there a script that can tell my how large my Max file is including textures etc. I’m trying to determine what RTX card I can get.

[grim juniper]

I'm trying to make an alpha brush, but it won't let me put the heightmap I've imported into the texture slot. Does the texture need specific properties or something?

oops, I was on pattern instead of alpha... Either way it still doesn't let me select my texture

[devout flint]

How do I close a blueprint without saving it?

[versed spear]

maybe a verify would work.

[devout flint]

me?

[versed spear]

yea

[devout flint]

how do I do that?

[versed spear]

right click the blueprint and under asset action do reload it will tell you it was not saved and you will lose the changes

[cinder iron]

does the session front-end hitch on open for you all aswell?

or is it just me?

[devout flint]

thanks

and vor idk what you mean

[cinder iron]

lag

[versed spear]

is there a reason why unreal maxes out disk when closing the project?

[spare sun]

because it's saving maybe

[grim juniper]

I can use a png I made in paint as a landscape brush, but not a specially made heightmap as a landscape brush?

[grim juniper]

It works if I import it into paint and then save it out, but I think it loses some data that way

like it has a bunch of stepping when it should be smooth

[slim crater]

anyone here who can help with a terrain material?

[idle stump]

Curve Editor: is there any way to scale a keyframe/tangents? AKA "weighted tangents"? I found some old post from 2016 saying it's a "planned feature" but I still can't find how to do it. If not, is that coming in 4.23? I read on the Trello that they are redesigning the curve editor.

[jade cobalt]

How does an open-world TPS John Wick game based off of the movies story sound?

[slim crater]

@plush yew hey sorry, Im creating a terrain material and the layers panel is consistently empty.

I was able to get the terrain to show the materials by first placing the material during creation and creating the layer info files from there. otherwise it was always empty

[grim ore]

@idle stump weighted tangents exist in the animation editor, not in the curve editor yet. in 4.23 the curve editor is updated but I can't tell if they are in the main curve editor yet

[wind siren]

Hey Mathew, I'm watching one of your UMG tutorials and I'm wondering... where did "Tomatoes?!" come from?

[grim ore]

out of randomness, was a play on words for Tutorial with one of my kids trying to read it and saying it wrong

[wind siren]

nice! love it

reminds me of one of those interactive kids books where they're supposed to click on the next part of the story, and it saays something funny if you pick the wrong one. "The blue car drove very fast. They drove it to the..." A. Store. B. Beach. C. Tomatoes.

[weary basalt]

@jade cobalt Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen

[jade cobalt]

its a good thing I'm gonna try to get the licensing for it then 😃

[grim ore]

@idle stump it does look like the latest 4.23 master branch has weighted tangents on normal curves https://i.imgur.com/0Yh9s9T.png

[idle stump]

@grim ore Nice! Thanks for looking into it.

[grim ore]

yep yep, was a good question as I did a video on the weighted curves and was super confused when you asked when it was being added... I never noticed they only added it to the animation tracks lol

[idle stump]

Yeah, specifically I was just trying to use it in Niagara

[grim ore]

is it just a normal float curve in there?

[idle stump]

I believe so

[grim ore]

to the master branch!

[idle stump]

You can edit a curve directly within Niagara or import a curve asset

[slim crater]

thanks for the help

[grim ore]

ah crap my master branch has a corrupted niagara lol. well If it's a curve asset (the ones you get when you do like new -> misc -> curve and select a type, then yes it will support weighted with the new editor

[wind siren]

do I have this right: An event dispatcher is useful when (1) You need one-to-many communication, (2) you need one side of the conversation to not necessarily know about the other (but not both sides - i.e., one side must know about the other, not both necessarily)

[grim ore]

uhh... nope lol. It's an art thing and I am not an artist. It's a FX editor more than just a particle editor

uses modules that are c++ or BP based and it can directly access stuff now, not just like HLSL shader stuff but stuff like mesh info and things not just in the gpu

[idle stump]

Niagara is kind of unintuitive to use, but 4.23 says they are improving it a lot. I wonder if that's when it will be enabled by default?

[grim ore]

I think so. I really don't know I am not an artist and there are so many buttons in the niagara editor 😦

but I know the modules have inputs and outputs that you can modify at runtime

it looks and feels like it would be awesome if you know what you are doing

[tawdry wren]

UE4Editor_Core!rml::internal::isLargeObject<0>() [l:\dev\partner-intel\engine\source\thirdparty\inteltbb\inteltbb-4.4u3\src\tbbmalloc\frontend.cpp:2424]
UE4Editor_Core!rml::internal::internalFree() [l:\dev\partner-intel\engine\source\thirdparty\inteltbb\inteltbb-4.4u3\src\tbbmalloc\frontend.cpp:2594]
UE4Editor_Core!FMemory::Free() [d:\build\++ue4\sync\engine\source\runtime\core\public\hal\fmemory.inl:76]
UE4Editor_RenderCore!FPendingCleanupObjects::~FPendingCleanupObjects() [d:\build\++ue4\sync\engine\source\runtime\rendercore\private\renderingthread.cpp:1280]
UE4Editor!FPendingCleanupObjects::`scalar deleting destructor'()
UE4Editor!FEngineLoop::Tick() [d:\build\++ue4\sync\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\launchengineloop.cpp:3890]
UE4Editor!GuardedMain() [d:\build\++ue4\sync\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\launch.cpp:174]
UE4Editor!GuardedMainWrapper() [d:\build\++ue4\sync\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\windows\launchwindows.cpp:145]
UE4Editor!WinMain() [d:\build\++ue4\sync\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\windows\launchwindows.cpp:276]
UE4Editor!__scrt_common_main_seh() [f:\dd\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\startup\exe_common.inl:283]
kernel32
ntdll```

any reason why my editor is crashing by just loading up a BP or playing basically a empty level

[idle stump]

The whole module list flows top to bottom, but there are weird module dependencies where sometimes things have to go after other things. The UI for that is pretty nice. It tells you when you are missing a module that you need.

The weird thing to me is, inside of a module, like setting a variable, it sort of flows bottom to top. IDK it's hard to wrap your head around.

[grim ore]

^ that's the issue I have with it and the fact that I don't understand enough art to even know what I should be trying to do with it lol

but there are so many things that are just "fuck it let's make it a variable and set/gettable" for every option

hey you want the color to be random? sure lets make a random vector. You want just the R to be random but from a stream and in a range? sure why not

you want that range to actually be driven by another variable like lifetime of the object? sure why not

[wind siren]

Learning unreal is interesting because it's a AAA engine, so it has tools for the bleeding-edge, hardcore, world class developers... and also tools for solo indies.

[grim ore]

@tawdry wren since it's a rendering crash all I could think of it making sure drivers are up to date and you meet the min specs

and if you are using nvidia, don't have the latest drivers as they crash lol...

[tawdry wren]

@onyx zinc i have a 580 RX 8gb 32Gb of ram and a ryzen 5 1600x

Man i can blink and this mf editor will crash

50 shades of crashes over here

ye i haven't updated my drivers since i gotten the card

prolly it

my driver update is 18.9.3 on radeon

new is 19.4.1

ye installing

is there any other settings i need? @plush yew

well if you find out or remember please DM me @plush yew would greatly appreciate it

is 4.22.2 stable?

[versed spear]

no

[tawdry wren]

figured so

[versed spear]

I use 4.19.2. It has been stable for what I am using it for.

yea my inventory system images were all messed up after upgrading so I just stayed with 4.19.2

[tawdry wren]

Updated it @plush yew and still getting

https://hastebin.com/finebexuja.css

I have 2

ye

but i've disabled

almost all my code

[versed spear]

I'm not having any luck with this animation stuff. 😦

[surreal viper]

any idea what a CPU Stall is waiting for in TG_EndPhysics / ReleaseTickGroupBlock/GameTaskGraphStalls?
the listed calling functions are on pool threads which didn't do anything in the whole frame, and yet the stall takes 4.3 ms 🤔 🔫 any idea how to figure out what's going on?

[restive vine]

how to apply mixamo animation into the default maniquen in unreal engine 4??

there are different skeleton types for different animations so its really hard since they are not compatible

[plush yew]

Hello everybody! I am currently working on a voxel based survival game(no not a minecraft ripoff) and have been dealing with lighting issues. The problem is on mobile I can not use dynamic lights due to the limitations of ue4. So I looked into using fake dynamic lights with particles however it did not create the effect I was hoping for. I was wondering if there would be a way in runtime if you were to say place a light on a block with a light strength of 7 it would detect the 7 blocks within that radius and apply a different light value for each block and multiply the material with the light value to give off an effect for lighting. I am also open to other ideas if anyone has a suggestion. Thanks!

[somber quail]

Have you looked at render targets? Could have a master material that uses a spheremask to draw to the render target and overlay the diffuse with an orange colour to fake lighting. Wouldn't support multiple lights though.

[wary wave]

render target on a mobile device D:

[languid shard]

@wary wave dont check VRChat

its loaded with RTs

[wary wave]

does it even run?

[languid shard]

kinda

never running at max framerate tho

and RTs are using somewhere between 25 and 50% full res

mostly used with mirrors

[lusty carbon]

What is a good way to make a end game fade out screen to black and text "Thanks for playing bla bla" ?

[carmine scroll]

theres a fade to black node

easiest way I can think of

or make a black screen in the end game UI and make it fade in

either works

[lusty carbon]

how about a level sequencer?

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Sequencer/HowTo/TracksFade/index.html

not sure if I can display text over it tough

[carmine scroll]

You can always make it so that once the screen is faded to black, to then add the text to screen via a widget

[lusty carbon]

is it a valid way to go then?

[carmine scroll]

yes, I suppose so

[lusty carbon]

it fades to black but when the sequence is done it shows the screen again lol

how do I keep it black?

[carmine scroll]

I've not used sequencer much

but I dont think its good for what you want to do

I would animate that in the widget

or something like that

[plush yew]

help, my wheels dont have collision
https://youtu.be/SI6xh6kVGmc

[thorn topaz]

Is there a way to tell if an actor was spawned vs placed via editor?

[cinder iron]

@frank escarp maybe you know this...... do you know any way to send input to different game viewports with just GEngine and GEditor? Basically I am in a context agnostic to the ULocalPlayers. It's for functional testing.

[frank escarp]

nope

[cinder iron]

It seems to be impossible... hopefully it is not

[frank escarp]

no such thing as impossible in C++

[cinder iron]

yeah. I know. I just don't want to go beyond the ue4 api.

[grim juniper]

Do the custom landscape brushes not support 16-bit textures? It let's me drag my 16-bit textures into the box for it, but doesn't actually change it to that texture. It works just fine for normal textures, but then I has stepping from not having enough bit depth... This has been confusing me all day...

This texture works fine

this one doesn't

[pseudo swift]

anyone who can help me with why my collision boxes for my wheels are in the wrong place, i linked the wheelBP with my car BP

[grim juniper]

And so I'm getting this extremely noticeable stepping that could be easily avoided if it'd just use the higher precision texture...

[pseudo swift]

my wheels spawn at root instead of given bone locations, any ideas?

[autumn socket]

So I am trying to get Player Controller in a transition between animation states

and I'm getting "Node Result uses potentially thread-unsafe call Get UnityChan Controller . Disable threaded update or use a thread-safe call. Function may need BlueprintThreadSafe metadata adding. "

what should I do

[honest vale]

like, in the anim graph?

[autumn socket]

yes

I'm quite unsure what these thread things mean and their impact as well as the common practice when dealing with them

the documentation isn't written in layman term either

[honest vale]

if I recall correctly, you should read the variable in in the anim graph update phase and cache the value there

and then inside the blends and such use the cached value

[pseudo swift]

i know my wheel issue has to do with scaling but i tried everything exporting from blender and they are still placed in the root position, no one has vechicle experience?

[honest vale]

the part that looks like blueprints anyway

[latent fable]

Does anyone know how to add a texture to the landscape layers?

[honest vale]

inside your landscape material

[whole quarry]

^

[honest vale]

read the basic landscape tutorials on docs

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Landscape/QuickStart/4/index.html

[autumn socket]

@honest vale thanks

[ember notch]

Can someone answer my question in #fab thanks

[carmine scroll]

@latent fable You'll need to make a landscape Mat. This will contain the layers for your terrain. Its pretty easy to setup as well, so should find some great tutorials out there.

[pseudo swift]

is there a way i can generate more accurate collision hulls than this? I maxed out the settings but i need it to be even more refined, this seems to work with static meshes but i don't know why it is lower resolution with skeletal ones

[somber quail]

Custom modelled collision?

[pseudo swift]

yea the car model is a custom one

i just need to drop a ragdoll inside the car with physics

so in order for the body to collide with the seats it would be good if the collisions were a bit better

[somber quail]

i mean use a custom mesh for the collision rather than auto generated

[pseudo swift]

i would need to prepare that in blender or something right?

[somber quail]

yeah

[pseudo swift]

or do you recommend just adding shapes

would that also work?

[somber quail]

either works

[pseudo swift]

alright thanks alot, i will try replacing the hull with simple shapes following the shape of the seats etc.

let see how it works out

[cinder iron]

you can use complex as simple

and adjust the complexity of the complex generated colli

but it's better going custom

[carmine scroll]

not great for draw calls @cinder iron

[somber quail]

yeah that can be danmgerous

[cinder iron]

you didn't let me finish xD