ue4-general

[safe rose]

TBH, line trace is cheaper solution

He seemed to want to know when something hits camera edge

[little warren]

@safe rose like box component in the level itself or on the player

[safe rose]

You should attach it to the camera

Create a subclass of the CameraActor

[visual belfry]

camera frustum is a pyramid 🤔

[safe rose]

And just add to it

You have to use more than one collision :)

[little warren]

@visual belfry I want to check if the actor touches the cameras bottom bound, then its game over (platformer like doodle jump)

[safe rose]

Just make the shape

[visual belfry]

is camera at a constant height? could set the kill plane to be (much) higher

[safe rose]

Left and right doesn't have killZ

[little warren]

no the camera is changing the height every frame

[safe rose]

But yeah, if only the bottom, you could just simply have one collision at the bottom of camera

One simple box collision. Or. Just one simple math check

[little warren]

@safe rose but where would that be placed considering different screen sized/resolutions?

[safe rose]

Get the current position of player relative to "bottom" of camera

If player is below. Kill

[little warren]

That's exactly what I want to do but I don't know how to get the bottom of the camera

[visual belfry]

https://api.unrealengine.com/INT/BlueprintAPI/CineCamera/GetVerticalFieldOfView/index.html will get you a rough angle to align your collision boxplanething

oof is that cine camera only, I hope not

[little warren]

yeh just checked, it is

[visual belfry]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/blueprint-visual-scripting/29704-calculating-the-frustum-cone 👍

[little warren]

thanks that looks like it might work

[visual belfry]

personally I'd update the kill Z with the camera rather than attaching a collision shape but it's mostly preference at that point 😃

[little warren]

never heard about kill z before this, ill check it out, thanks a lot for the help 😄

[visual belfry]

it's in world settings, set to something like -1Muu by default

(and of course it doesn't look like you can set it from blueprints so nvm 🤣 )

[safe rose]

Could use killZ volume

[little warren]

ill just use a regular trigger volume so i can display a lose screen and stuff

[plush yew]

hi, how do i make that a actor (cube) ignores the player? Im making an actor that i can throw, but everytime, im boosting foward that actor blocks me

im boosting and i throw that actor at the same time*

[analog void]

Hey quick question if i may, are there any repercussions if you scale down your Terrain after creating it?

[abstract relic]

It tends to get buggy if you do that

[bright plume]

how to check if your camera is looking at something

[spark sonnet]

What do you mean @bright plume ?

Your camera is always looking at something

[bright plume]

how to check if the player camera is looking at an entity in bluepritns

and not off into space

[spark sonnet]

you can use line trace and

you can check for actors or components

[bright plume]

which linetrace?

[spark sonnet]

will send a screenshot

[digital anchor]

if you want to know exactly, line trace is a good option, if you need by angle, you can use Normalize(B - A) to get direction, and Dot(CameraVector, Direction) which will give you ~1 if looking at it, or -1 to 0 if not

[spark sonnet]

I used the tags so that it only shows if the component has a tag. You dont need that

[bright plume]

ohh

[spark sonnet]

the vector*float is the range of the line trace

So you just want to check if you are looking at an actor or not?

[bright plume]

yeah..

im creating a "wall jump" and i want my character to only "wall jump" when the camera is looking at a wall

[spark sonnet]

ah ok

[bright plume]

and the character is in the air

[spark sonnet]

yeah

Then I would use tags

Do you know how to put tags on actors?

[wary wave]

actors can have tags

but it's not a very good way to do things

[bright plume]

i was watching a video on how to get wall jump and it showed

[spark sonnet]

Why @wary wave ?

[wary wave]

string comparison is a very expensive operation

and it's really silly to do it for something like this, when you can just use math or data (or both)

[versed spear]

Need help loading streaming textures into memory so that the user does not see blury textures.

[spark sonnet]

You are probably right, but for just checking if you are looking at an actor or not this wouldnt be too bad of an idea right?

[wary wave]

I would never use it for gameplay

[spark sonnet]

What would you use then`?

For getting the names of what you are looking at

[wary wave]

math or data (or both), like I said before

I wouldn't use 'names' at all

why do I want names?

[spark sonnet]

I am showing names in my UI when looking at something like a button

[wary wave]

that's not really what BlackNoble is talking about

if you want names though, I would still not use tags

I would use an FText variable, so that it can be localised properly

[spark sonnet]

Wouldnt that be more expensive than strings?

[wary wave]

no, because in this case you're never doing a comparison, just displaying something

and also you can't translate into other languages etc. otherwise

FText is for user-facing strings, it's what it's for

[spark sonnet]

So no linetrace at all for that?

[wary wave]

I would still do a line trace, yes

[spark sonnet]

Where do I find ftext variables?

[wary wave]

err, you create one, it's a variable type

[spark sonnet]

In blueprints?

[wary wave]

yes, it's just called 'Text' in blueprint

[spark sonnet]

Oh

But tags are name variables. Are they worse than text?

[wary wave]

no, but it's not really what they're for

[spark sonnet]

So I should try to avoid using tags?

[wary wave]

for the purpose you're using them for yeah

[spark sonnet]

Alright

[wary wave]

FName is lightweight, so it's good for data you want to send over a network as an example

but for anything user facing, FText is what you want, but it's also the heaviest

for determining what you're looking at, don't use any of these

[spark sonnet]

What would I use then?

[wary wave]

depends what you're trying to do exactly

this has some good info on the specific string types, actually:
https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/90638/text-string-or-name.html

[spark sonnet]

I am just displaying the purpose of the component im looking at

So when I look at car door it will show up a text saying enter or exit

[visual belfry]

for debug? or UI

if it's player facing, definitely Text

[wary wave]

if you want to detect something in the world, use a component

create a trace/collision channel so you can specifically trace for it

that component can hold all of the information you want to display

which can be passed to a widget or whatever

[spark sonnet]

So I would just make the hit component a variable and then get the display name of that to the widget?

[wary wave]

well, the actor in question would have one of these components for each location you would want to be able to detect and that would contain said variables you need

[spark sonnet]

That is going to be alot more variables and components. How would that be better than just a tag?

[wary wave]

for one it can be localised

for two you can control the actual detection space exactly

three, you're only tracing against what you need to

you can also add all kinds of additional data as you require

button prompts as an example, but just about anything

[spark sonnet]

Ok thanks. Should I ever use tags for anything then?

[wary wave]

I would normally use them for editor-side data, if I needed to do anything funky with something like editor scripts or utilities

[spark sonnet]

Alright. Thanks for the clarification 😃

[wary wave]

no worries!

[ember notch]

UE4 is killing my cpu

[wary wave]

I mean, it's a 2.5GHz mobile set, what do you expect 😐 ?

[ember notch]

i have 8gb ram and geforce nvidia 940m

[wary wave]

the 940m is also a mobile set

hence the 'm'

[ember notch]

GTA V works fine on my laptop but UE4 takes my completty cpu

[manic pawn]

surprise: the unreal editor is not a game

[ember notch]

i know

have ue4 cpu settings or something like this?

[manic pawn]

get a better cpu

[wary wave]

UE4 will use whatever it needs, if it can get it

[versed spear]

lol I'm sure theywould get a better cpu if he could. What type of cpu you have? Mine is a I-5 and it does good.

[ember notch]

@versed spear i7

[spark sonnet]

I have an i7-7700 and its not going over 50% while using unreal engine, firefox and discord

[versed spear]

is your hard drive maxing out too?

[wary wave]

probably not

I suspect he's massively CPU bound

[latent fable]

Hello! I'm trying to animate my character that i got from Mixamo but i think that State machines are obsolete, and the tutorial i am using uses them. Does anyone know the new way? I just have a blank animation blueprint.

[wary wave]

i7-6500u is the kind of thing you put in a netbook, it's a little two core jobby for running windows and web browsers, basically

[obsidian nimbus]

state machines are not obsolete 😛

[ember notch]

Where I can make max settings

[latent fable]

@obsidian nimbus when i search it up i can't find it

[spark sonnet]

State machines work fine

[latent fable]

https://gyazo.com/7b5a2d4deea0f1e7fea69473b069d0d8

I can't see it

[obsidian nimbus]

is that in animation blueprint?

[latent fable]

yeah

[obsidian nimbus]

you need to go to anim graph

[spark sonnet]

are you in your animgraph?

[obsidian nimbus]

its in the anim BP

like construction or event graph

[latent fable]

I can't see it at the top

I never closed it or anything

Ah i see t

[spark sonnet]

Can you see it in the graphs tab on the left like in my picture?`

[latent fable]

it

yes just saw that

thanks

[spark sonnet]

Np 😃

[latent fable]

😄

[versed spear]

So I figure out a hacky way to load my streaming sprites. They need to add some way to specify what sprites you want loaded into memory per level without having to check never stream on your textures. Never streaming is a horrible option in my case.

[unborn matrix]

@hidden aurora hey friend I answered your question on my discord

If you want to loop an anim 3 times, use an anim montage to execute a notify to increase an integer in your AnimBP

When it's above 3 you can change your state 😃

[hidden aurora]

@unborn matrix can you send me dm

[ember notch]

In one day my CPU explode because UE4

[spark sonnet]

Make a great game. Earn some money. Buy a new computer 😃

So you can make even better games

[ember notch]

I know

[wary wave]

I made a game once

still don't earn all that much money 😂

[versed spear]

I had a big issue that I fixed a few days ago. I reduced my page filing to the amount of ram I have and I plugged a usb stick and dedicated it to ready boost. My UE4 has not ran this good in months.

[spark sonnet]

What kind of game?

[ember notch]

See my game open world game like gta guys #work-in-progress

[wary wave]

@spark sonnet - I'm being facetious, I've made a lot of games in my time 😄

[versed spear]

I am about done with my first. I'm excited. Took me a whole year.

[spark sonnet]

Wow. Looks great @ember notch

Im sure some of them are great @wary wave 😃

[wary wave]

they made other people a lot of money at least 😄

[spark sonnet]

How?

[wary wave]

I'm an employee

the execs, and moreover the publishing party usually absorbs a lot of the money

[spark sonnet]

Ah I see

[latent fable]

In the tutorial I'm watching, this node is blue and the tutorial creator can just hook it up to the other nodes, but for me it shows up as green. Does anyone know why?

^This is it in the tutorial

help appreciated 😄

[spark sonnet]

It will do the same @latent fable

[versed spear]

Uncheck pure function?

[latent fable]

@spark sonnet So do i plug it in through target?

[spark sonnet]

plug what?

[latent fable]

the green one

like this

As third person character into target [self]

[spark sonnet]

yes

[latent fable]

okay

[spark sonnet]

What are you going to make with that`?

[latent fable]

I'm putting a blend space into an animation blueprint

idk how to really say it as im quite the noob

but

ugh

didnt show up

here

https://gyazo.com/1ff3a338f6a03569d407c39f7fd1c940

[ember notch]

Is UE4 good for mobile?

[spark sonnet]

oh

The calculate direction doesnt need a target

This is how I set up mine @latent fable

[latent fable]

But in the tutorial he get's a blue calculate direction and i can't figure out how he did it

he gets this

[spark sonnet]

its probably just been changed it does the same

[latent fable]

I don't know how to set up this

with compatability to my blueprints

[spark sonnet]

If you are making a blendspace you want a speed and a direction

[latent fable]

yes i have that

[spark sonnet]

So you can just copy that to your blueprint

[latent fable]

I have th ese

[spark sonnet]

yea and my blueprint sets the value for them

[bright plume]

trying to get calculate direction to work?

[spark sonnet]

ignore the cast to character node

[latent fable]

wait

maybe i could

[spark sonnet]

I can make it cleaner if you want

[latent fable]

wait will this work?

i think it will

[ember notch]

In this discord server are Trolls bye i leave

[spark sonnet]

you dont need to cast to the thirdpersoncharacter

What do you mean @ember notch ?

[wary wave]

I wouldn't use UE4 for mobile tbh

it's heavy and there are better alternatives

[simple pasture]

Hi, i don't know where to post this but here i go :). I have a really weird bug in my scene, when i hit play it's like the FirstPersonCharacter hits invisible walls that's sometimes make you fly a bit or stutter. I don't really know how to describe this bug and how it occurred (i was testing a landscape that i also tried to delete to check if it was the problem). Here is a video of what's happening, does anyone know what is happening ? : https://puu.sh/DEIFZ/8e31e79fd6.mp4

[spark sonnet]

Did you get it to work @latent fable ?

[bright plume]

@simple pasture when u deleted the landscape was the bug still there?

[simple pasture]

Yes it was

So i feel like the bug is not related to it but i was only working on that.

[bright plume]

it looked as if the objects were causing it

[simple pasture]

i tried to just create a plane and walk on it. Same issue

[latent fable]

@spark sonnet yeah it did, thanks 😃 here is the result so far: https://gyazo.com/c61dfd3423d855ac9448e8529b9e3a07

[spark sonnet]

Looks nice @latent fable ! Did you make the character?

[bright plume]

nice halo spartan 😛

[latent fable]

@spark sonnet No, it's from Mixamo. (https://Mixamo.com) I want to learn character creation though 😄

[spark sonnet]

Its not too difficult 😃 I am currently learning it

[bright plume]

dont listen to him

its annoying

[latent fable]

I know the basics of blender and have made some renders but never have done character creation

[bright plume]

and next to impossible

[spark sonnet]

I didnt say it wasnt annoying 😃

[latent fable]

haha, all game dev stuff is annoying when you are first learning about it

[bright plume]

its also extremely difficult

[spark sonnet]

Why ?

[bright plume]

because you will set the difficulty level

never being happy with what you made always thinking it looks wierd here or there and just ruining it more and more

learn when to say "its gud nuff"

and you will be good

[spark sonnet]

I think ive learnt that

[latent fable]

@spark sonnet do you know how to make your player model invisible to yourself but not to other clients or stuff

actually

wait no if i do it single player first it will be annoying to rewrite

so yeah do you know how to make your player model invisible to yourself but not to other clients?

[spark sonnet]

I dont do multiplayer. FIrst i gotta learn c++ and also its quite alot more work than singleplayer

[latent fable]

@spark sonnet is multiplayer impossible with C++?

i mean

with blueprint

[visual belfry]

no

[wary wave]

multiplayer is entirely possible with blueprint?

[spark sonnet]

no

[obsidian nimbus]

EU4 doesnt take much when minimized 😛

by default

[spark sonnet]

I just think its easier and would be more cleaner in the end

[latent fable]

sukebi

have you done this?

https://gyazo.com/cc7cb994ed4a8ed4683ba48432d101aa

[obsidian nimbus]

now model a gazzillion of trists 😛

[latent fable]

it helps with performance alot

[obsidian nimbus]

do a lot of cpu light emitting particles

no idea if that multi core tho

[bright plume]

derp

[ember notch]

Is geforce 940m enough for UE4?

[spark sonnet]

That really depends on what you are making

[wary wave]

it's very much on the weak side

it'll run, but a 940m is a bottom-tier GPU

[spark sonnet]

If you are planning on making games I would recommend saving up for a computer with better specs

[ember notch]

What is better AMD or Intel cpu?

[spark sonnet]

They are both good

[simple pasture]

I've found out my problem, a 3D asset had a really big issue that i could not see without going in the player collision view. Thanks tho 😃

[manic pawn]

the new 12 core ryzen is probably the best hybrid gaming/dev cpu on the market in a month

[storm venture]

can i call a "Call In Editor" function without placing the actor in the level?

[forest solstice]

Intel has problems with spectre

And still on 14NM 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

New AMD cpus on 7NM ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄

I'm using a 12 core AMD cpu, and will upgrade to the new 16 core from AMD. Am very happy with this 2600x but bought it for gaming not unreal, unreal likes my cores.

I can also advice using an M.2 SSD

I've virtually no start time for unreal and my maps, and some people I noticed have to wait minutes sometimes

[plush yew]

The new AMD stuff is pretty fantastic. They have a bad rep from the awful Bulldozer stuff years back (although they were good for specific things, intel was just a lot better), but the Ryzen line is great

[forest solstice]

yee I had those bulldozers was pretty much done with amd and got 2 new intel cpus, but amd is back baby

9590fx or something, the 5.0ghz one

[plush yew]

The 9590 was pretty nutty in straight numbers for the time

[undone sinew]

Intel got too comfortable and greedy

[forest solstice]

It was oke, but it drew so much power

about 250watts for me

[plush yew]

8 cores at 5ghz in 2012, it just ran like the core of the sun

Yeah

[forest solstice]

and hot man!

my water cooler had a tough time

[visual belfry]

meanwhile I'm on an i7-3770 😃 just get something with 4 real cores and you'll have a happy time with unreal

[ember notch]

Do somebody know a good cpu for a gaming laptop?

[plush yew]

Don't take Atomic's advice, 4 core is rapidly becoming "obsolete" as the industry standard

Wait for laptops with the new ryzen processors

[undone sinew]

Guys, can I run Unreal on my i386?

[forest solstice]

yee ^

oo bloomfield that is long ago

I had a bloomfield 970 or something or 990 dunno the black edition

i7 990 prolly

[plush yew]

I think my first computer had a 486, but i need to check the exact model

[undone sinew]

My first was a Pentium 1 - 100 mhz

And just 5 years later, Pentium IV 2.4 ghz

That was one hell of an upgrade

[forest solstice]

Oo my mistake thought we were talking about intel bloomfield line

[undone sinew]

Can we have those kind of gains again please.

[forest solstice]

I don't think we will ever

7nm now

only a few to gow

[ember notch]

Guys check my open world game in #work-in-progress thanks ^^

[forest solstice]

@ember notch looks good friend!

how long you;ve been working on?

[plush yew]

My first PC was a 486, then my dad got a desktop with some Pentium in it and Windows XP and let me use it which blew my tiny little child mind, then I went to a Core 2 Duo in a Vista laptop, jumped to the i7 3770 in my next desktop

[spark sonnet]

I looks great @ember notch

[forest solstice]

shadows seem a bit dark though

[plush yew]

I'm currently using the i5 6500, just holding out to upgrade to one of the Ryzen CPUs coming this year

[ember notch]

4-5 days I think

or 6

[forest solstice]

I've had the i5 6600 @plush yew absolute monster for gaming on a budget!

[plush yew]

You might want to play with the lighting a tiny bit but otherwise it looks good so far

[ember notch]

thanks ^^

[undone sinew]

I need a dual socket motherboard with these new AMD cpus :3

[plush yew]

Yeah, the i5 6500 is a good CPU

[forest solstice]

Guys can I ask, what gpu's are you using, I'm curious to know what I can except with making my game

[plush yew]

Its just naturally fallen behind the times really hard like any 4 core from that time as literally the year or 2 after they became outdated

[undone sinew]

GTX 1080

[plush yew]

I'm using a GTX1080

[forest solstice]

2x 1080 so far great great!

[visual belfry]

@forest solstice we're not a good representation of gamers, look for the steam hardware survey or something similar for your target market

[plush yew]

^^^

[forest solstice]

my game is made for 100fps on 4K on 1080ti

steam is no good either

[plush yew]

Devs aren't a good representation of what you'll get from gamers

[forest solstice]

Steam has a ton ofusers but a lot of them are just dota players and not in the market for new games

[undone sinew]

Ewww

[forest solstice]

The average resolution on steam is still 1080p, but on origin 1440p

[undone sinew]

Dota cancer

[visual belfry]

possibly one of the worst things you could do is targeting enthusiasts, or you will forever be the butt of jokes coughcrysiscough

[forest solstice]

I would use Steam stats, but 70% of steam users are not my market

[plush yew]

Find a minimum and target that

[undone sinew]

Im surprised its not 640x480 with dialup if its dota players

[plush yew]

Also i'm still on 1080p lol

[forest solstice]

I target 100fps at 4K on a 1080ti

[spark sonnet]

@ember notch Whats the game about?

[forest solstice]

so far I get 120 fps so have so budget left

[plush yew]

I put a lot of money (by my standards) into my actual PC, but i kept my near decade old monitor with the wobbly stans

Stand*

[forest solstice]

@undone sinew lmfao I know right, like no offense but dota and lol players are stuck in the past and are screwing the steam stats over

@plush yew if it's good for you why not!

[undone sinew]

Just optimise for DX11 hardware and youre fine

[ember notch]

@spark sonnet It is a open world game

[plush yew]

I'm not really one to really push for pixels though, i literally play cs on 800x600 and below on my laptop for optimal frames and don't really care about the difference between that and 1080p

[visual belfry]

find a representative laptop as well, those gpus are full of performance surprises 😃

[plush yew]

Most people aren't me

[forest solstice]

I hate seeing pixels but I mianly use my 1440p panel as it's an ultrawide

[spark sonnet]

@ember notch But what is it about? Like gta, watch dogs?

[undone sinew]

Anyone that doesnt have a card that can handle DX11 is either a grandma on windows 98, or living in the third world

[forest solstice]

I'm RTX2080

Sweet raytracing at those sweet 12fps

[plush yew]

Also: are there any quick crash courses on particles? I've been using UE for years and rarely ever touched particles, but now i'm doing a game demo project thing highly inspired off the [Prototype] series and particles need to be pretty heavy to obscure the transformations and such

[undone sinew]

I can get like 15 fps with the UE4 fps template on a 9 year old laptop

[ember notch]

@spark sonnet gta

[forest solstice]

the human eye can only see like 2 fps anyway

[plush yew]

RTX as a line was kinda shit ngl

[forest solstice]

yee I would've gotten a 1080ti but was to late

they only had rtx founders editions on nvidia.com

[spark sonnet]

Cool. Singleplayer or multiplayer?

[undone sinew]

Lol, RTX

[polar hawk]

yo 2080tis are sick if you're like me, a dumbass

[cloud cobalt]

#lounge for hardware talk

[plush yew]

I'm excited about raytracing just like i was about dynamic lighting in games in general but RTX was a pretty early step that wasn't perfect

Ok

[ember notch]

@spark sonnet currently singleplayer but I have very big plans for multiplayer

[undone sinew]

What I really want from Nvidia, is Waveworks in 4.22

[forest solstice]

I want whatever XBOX is having from AMD

4x more powerfull than a xbox one x

that's 24 teraflops

[spark sonnet]

Sounds cool!

[forest solstice]

I'll buy two thanks

[plush yew]

Yeah, the new xBox could be great

At least for the first few years, porting to console won't be a bunch of gimping

8k 120fps raytracing it's nutty

[undone sinew]

Anything to replace lightmapping

[cloud cobalt]

More like 1080p 60fps in the real world, with lightmapping and the occasional raytraced shadow

4x the Xbox One X is cool, but it's not that cool

[forest solstice]

@plush yew the 8k 120fps is a reference to hdmi 2.1

[spark sonnet]

#lounge

[bitter iris]

why does my water have a white area on the right side of the image?

anyway toremove it?

[undone sinew]

Lets make a 2.5D shooter

[grave nebula]

@bitter iris Lacks SSR there

[undone sinew]

Pixelated textures, sprite enemies

[bitter iris]

@grave nebula How would I improve it

[undone sinew]

"Look at this super realistic dirt"

Actual thing that happened in 2008

[south ridge]

Ha

That's a little amusing, the 'game' we're working on is kinda the opposite of that design philosophy, but not really

Only on the surface, we have a very complicated system at the core (a vehicle you drive), but absolutely not outside of that one thing

Everything else is mostly smoke & mirrors just to make it look reasonable

[undone sinew]

Or if you are a triple A studio, everything is a cinematic sequence

[south ridge]

But it's a project based around a super-detailed simulation of a specific vehicle, so that vehicle is implemented in ridiculous detail, most of intricate behaviors will be unknown to 95% of players

[plush yew]

it's only complicated where it needs to be

[undone sinew]

Matrix bullet time rip offs

[south ridge]

You can spend months studying these vehicles and not find every last bit of intricate behavior, but it's a simulator fully focused on that one vehicle

[visual belfry]

I never could get the hang of steam locomotives in train simulator /o\

[south ridge]

Not gonna promise any specific time frames

It was intended to be released years ago, but doing a large gamedev project without any money/support is pretty hard 😄

@visual belfry the vehicle(s) in question are actually electric subway trains

The newer ones are pretty easy to figure out since they have computers, but older ones are kinda steam-train-esque in that you have direct control over the power electronics 😄

Less things to keep track of, but more peculiar non-linear behaviors to keep in mind

[visual belfry]

cool 😃

[south ridge]

Okay, so that is kind of a complex thing

The physics engine doesn't care about anything but rail shapes and such, so you can totally multitrack drift from that point of view

[visual belfry]

😄

[south ridge]

But the train itself has pneumatic linesand electric wiring that get torn if you rotate the wheelset too much

And there is a third rail in the way

So you can multitrack drift, but it usually ends up with you getting stuck and stopped very fast 😄

Yeah

Is the cursor set to be visible?

[visual belfry]

?

[grim ore]

are you using any "set input mode to XXX" nodes?

because I think you are using a set input mode node

and I think one of the options on that node is to hide it when you do the mouse look

I also think I think I am talking in the wrong character

[tight sun]

any substance painter guys here?

I have a really dumb question

[worn cape]

my editor floats around ...

how could i stop that ? i don't know, what i switched on ?

i want to work on that door, but it drifts me apart and around

[worn granite]

Wut

That could be so many things

[worn cape]

it's looking like a preview mode ^^

[worn granite]

Video

[visual belfry]

do you have a controller plugged in?

and is it really effing old or worn out

[worn cape]

not really

yes, it says, i have an object pool to plugin, but i don't

[visual belfry]

do you have a physical controller plugged into the computer?

[worn cape]

Ah, yes !

sure !

XBoxController

let's see

[visual belfry]

unplug it next time it drifts

[worn cape]

yes !

[visual belfry]

happens to me all the time, since I set the controllers on the floor when testing and inevitably my chair starts pushing triggers

[worn cape]

and sure - i played with it in between

it was weird ...

first i thought: oh, that's quite cool, what is it doing ?

but then it got annoying ^^

[flat idol]

Your controllers are high

[eager anvil]

anyone has any tips for baking scenes?

mines have these weird shadow issues that keep occurring

[grave needle]

I'm having a weird issue trying to use the automotive materials, but I don't have the option in the drop down to add it do a project and when I create a new project, it doesn't create the actual project file to then load. Any help would be great. Trying it with version 4.21.2

[dire fjord]

I'm not sure where to ask this, but it's something that's about to come up for me. If you have a group of devs working on a project that uses purchased plugins, how do we set that up so that each person can get access to those? Is it possible to make a company account that all devs use at work and thus has access to all purchases? or do we have to do it another way?

[versed spear]

Can anyone explain Global Force Resident Mip Levels?

[visual belfry]

@dire fjord plop a Plugins folder in the game directory

Then copy the necessary plugins from the engine Plugins/Marketplace folder

[stiff fossil]

someone can help me?

D:

[dire fjord]

ahha, it doesn't have to be actually registered with the account using it?

@visual belfry

[stiff fossil]

why when i use ctrl+c ctrl+v, the box becomes invisible?

[lament cedar]

Anyone know how to make a character model's eyes follow you as you move in a VR game? Like the animatronics on the title screen of FNaF VR?

[dim arch]

put bones in the eyes and rotate them towards the player

[lament cedar]

how?

Like, the bones have eyes, but how do I make them rotate towards the player

[dim arch]

or remove the eyes from the character mesh and parent some meshes which rotate independently

think you can do it using a WPO material too

https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Head_And_Eye_Look_At_Tutorial

@stiff fossil that is BSP, you need to build your map before the new brush will appear

[lament cedar]

thanks for link

[stiff fossil]

@dim arch Discover that it disappears when I make the scale is 0 D:

@dim arch I discovered that it disappears when I make the scale is 0*

[dim arch]

yep, that would do it

[stiff fossil]

so for a 2d game i need to use a scale ≠ 0?

[dim arch]

well you should use Paper2D

but if you want to make an isometric sidescroller or something, then use a small Z scale yep

[stiff fossil]

thanks 😄

[versed spear]

any way to force a mip level to be used or is it going to start at the lowest one every time it is first loaded.

[next badger]

@versed spear use dynamic material instance, with parameter that controls LOD bias

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/596353/reduce-texture-resolution-via-material-editor.html

afaik texture streaming does that automatically

[versed spear]

I am trying so many different things. The sprite sheets have a setting for lod bias and I tried that. Only thing thats seemed to work was setting every one to not stream. I have to do some more testing but it was crashing on splash screen last time I changed them all to never stream.. I added the pool size to my ini file maybe that will stop it from crashing on the splash screen.

[next badger]

but it does not force lowest LOD level

if you have a crash, try reporting it, maybe it's an actual bug

ofc it should be reproducible

[versed spear]

noone wants to see pixelated flip books the first time they load on every map.

[next badger]

hmm..try to use no mips?

[versed spear]

yea that was same effect as non streaming but that was before I changed the pool size in the ini so now I need to test that.

[next badger]

well, GL with it

[versed spear]

thank you

[next badger]

*nap time

[viscid locust]

Anyone know where I can find some free good mech rigged .fbx

[plush yew]

I know its kind of a meme question, but how hard is it to use C++ for ue4?

[honest vale]

as hard as using C# with unity

if not easier

[abstract relic]

Assuming you already know cpp? Not hard. As big of a learning curve as anything else

[plush yew]

Im just starting out

[honest vale]

are you a programmer or not?

[abstract relic]

Don’t learn cpp and ue4 api at the same time

[plush yew]

Ive used blueprints for about 2 years now, I consider myself okay for what Ive done in the past 2 years

But the stuff im trying to do isnt possible with blueprints

Which is why I want to move to C++

[honest vale]

well it's like programming with any other imperative language

[plush yew]

So basically, a really really bad time starting off then?

[abstract relic]

We don’t have the technology to injection knowledge directly to your brain yet 😜

[plush yew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXujVJdLEtc&list=PLL0cLF8gjBpqRPlDcAqc9F939mwr76CG0&index=1 Im taking this course, do you think this would serve well for learning C++?

[abstract relic]

If I recall. Virtus tends to get scoffed at for their messy programming practices

[plush yew]

Which course would you recommend?

[honest vale]

I really can't say, never have had any online courses

[spare sun]

I kinda like the udemy c++ one

[worn granite]

@abstract relic lmfao "messy"

messy

fuck's sake

@plush yew run.

[safe rose]

Don't matter

[worn granite]

Bullshit

[safe rose]

The dude has over 130k subs

He doing something right

[worn granite]

Well yeah I know he has attention

but you seriously recommend people learn from him?

[safe rose]

Even if it's just getting folks...interested in a topic

Sadly, what other resources are out there?

Let's be honest

[plush yew]

I did learn blueprints from him

[safe rose]

There are some good Udemy Courses

BUt otherwise, for free?

[plush yew]

And I was able to do some really cool shit with it

[worn granite]

He's the fucking pewdiepie of gamedev tuts

[safe rose]

The thing he does right

Is commit

He doesn't just leave a series hanging

[worn granite]

Yeah he has follow through

He's really commited

to delivering shit practices to the masses

[safe rose]

I mean, how many active community members that do full on tutorials?

Matthew, Virtus

only ones I know off the top of my head

[worn granite]

full on tutorials

matthew

[safe rose]

Galvin basically gave up and got that money in

[worn granite]

but those aren't "full on"

[safe rose]

with gamedev.tv

[worn granite]

Matthew's stuff is actually microtuts

really good shit

but not full on

[safe rose]

Well, tutorial that at least go into some depth 😃

[worn granite]

virtus is like

[plush yew]

@worn granite find me a better free course then

[worn granite]

Vlogging.

"Hey famalams. Here's how I did some mechanic.

Copy me and don't pay attention"

[safe rose]

That the thing man though. That's all he needs to do

Anyone can do it

[plush yew]

Okay if youre just going to complain without either providing reasoning or an alternative solution then its best if you just shut up

[safe rose]

But, no one is 😃

[worn granite]

@plush yew Know what. Nawh .

Fuck you.

[plush yew]

Then your whole argument is pointless

[worn granite]

You didn't even give me a chance to respond, so why the fuck would I bother directing you

You can google or you can wallow in shit

[safe rose]

His argument isn't pointless btw @plush yew

[worn granite]

btw just fyi

[safe rose]

The thing is. You get what you pay for.

[plush yew]

I understand

[worn granite]

I've myself made better tuts

But nawh

like

[plush yew]

But why state an opinion if you have no reasoning or logic behind it?

[worn granite]

eat the slop and fuck me for bothering to have standards

[safe rose]

Virtus isn't that uhhh, "UE4 Smart" as well plenty of other devs

[spare sun]

imo matthews tuts are far too micro

[safe rose]

But that's not really the point

[spare sun]

they're more like documentation vids

[plush yew]

I understand but this is all I really have unless if someone here has a better free alternative

[worn granite]

virtus is fucking retardeed

like

Inventory implemented as non-array integers on the game mode

retarded

[safe rose]

Right, like, there's no one that's "better"

Because no one else is doing it

[worn granite]

And you wanna tell me to shut the fuck up when like.

I dunno

new boston is better

The new boston isn't UE4 but the new boston is better

like wtf

[safe rose]

New Boston doesn't do UE4 😉

[worn granite]

Have you bothered googling "C++ tutorials" or "oop programming"

[safe rose]

we strictly talking UE4 here

[plush yew]

^

[worn granite]

virtus is just fucking repeating docs but making it more shit

and if they're here and reading this, 👋

[safe rose]

Shoot, I would do it...but I make quite a bit more money doing what I am currently doing (making shit in UE4 for other people) than I probably ever would YTing

[plush yew]

How is he making it "more shit"

[worn granite]

I'd have been glad to direct you to better learning content, but I can apparently eat a dick

And yeah I'm a petty fuck

[spare sun]

as far as FREE ue4 tuts go, I liked the official ones from unrealacad

[plush yew]

Thank you Red

[safe rose]

Unreal Academy has some issues

[spare sun]

but they aren't as abundant in terms of content as for example the paid udemy ones

[safe rose]

A lot of their catalogue is super old

[worn granite]

Also aren't you that guy making the apeiron wannabe?

[safe rose]

Like 2-3 years out of date

[worn granite]

How's that going for ya?

[safe rose]

I'm surprised they didn't bother updating everything before launching

TBH, you can learn a lot of stuff about UE4 for Free online

[worn granite]

@safe rose sad thing is, I heard at some point virtus was doing academy shit

That's like them hiring Rama to teach C++ in my book

[safe rose]

But, I would still recommend spending $10-$40 and doing the "best tutorials" on Udemy

[plush yew]

@worn granite Well, I have a full vertical battlefront, 7 playable maps, 25 playable heroes, 30 vehicles, 45 guns programmed, full on 128 player battles, OH and someone from Free Radical noticed my work and hired me to do CGI work for their studio. I think its doing pretty good

[worn granite]

Oh wait, you don't fucking hear people bitching when people talk shit about Rama

[spare sun]

what victor said

[worn granite]

even though Rama give 100x more than virtus ever has

[plush yew]

Let me look up this Udemy stuff

[safe rose]

Just get the gamedev ones, and the "official" ones

[plush yew]

I think I may have a coworker that has the udemy course so I might just borrow it from him

[worn granite]

Well that's great. Has it evolved more from when I last saw it?

[safe rose]

https://www.udemy.com/unrealcourse/

https://www.udemy.com/course/unreale4/

[plush yew]

10 dollars?

alright im buying

[worn granite]

Cause the last time I saw it, me and an apeiron dev had an excellent laugh

[safe rose]

https://www.udemy.com/unrealengine-cpp/

[plush yew]

Am I buying all 3 of these?

Or just one?

[safe rose]

https://www.udemy.com/course/unrealmultiplayer/

buy everything man

you won't regret

[worn granite]

May as well buy it all

[safe rose]

linking more

[worn granite]

It can't be worse than virtus

[spare sun]

whats with the prices tho, werent they expensive af

[worn granite]

Nah

[plush yew]

Is it a fake sale or something?

[worn granite]

udemy always has everything at $10

Yeah its a fake sale

[plush yew]

Okay fake sale lol

damn

[worn granite]

udemy courses never go at retai.

[plush yew]

Alright Ill just save up money for all of these

[safe rose]

Wait. I think I'm done

[worn granite]

they're always discounted to $10

[safe rose]

But there's another one when you get more advanced

https://www.udemy.com/introduction-to-unreal-engine-4-ability-system/

[worn granite]

Anyway

[safe rose]

Learned a bit more than I thought on that one

[worn granite]

now that I'm done venting at the noobs

[plush yew]

Okay victor I kind of have some dumb questions

[safe rose]

So I guess $10-$50

[worn granite]

@safe rose what you workin on these days

[safe rose]

I've done them all

and more

[worn granite]

I asked you without tagging you recently, may as well tag you directl y

[plush yew]

So from these tutorials, what im trying to do is the following:
Networking for AI and players
Starfighter AI that go towards objectives
Ground AI that enter vehicles, take alternative routes based on priority, and advanced combat mechanics
Campaign reworks
Force powers

From these tutorials you linked, would I be able to do all of these after completing all of them?

[worn granite]

well imo you're going about this the opposite way.

but I can eat a dick for being an elitist

[spare sun]

hm

[safe rose]

@worn granite $$$: Working on a contract for OWI (second one with them). Don't think they care if I mention that. Two Projects for my own company (one with a team, one solo). That's keeping me busy actually. Might do another project, need to figure out if I can/want to still.

[spare sun]

I didnt see the ability one

[worn granite]

Oh, cool

[safe rose]

Ability System one is rather nice

I learned random shit

[worn granite]

is OWI the team behind contagion?

[safe rose]

I wish he had gone into a bit more detail though

OWI does Squad

[worn granite]

o.

[safe rose]

And publishing

[worn granite]

shows me what I know

That's really cool

contagion your company, then?

[safe rose]

No, Contagion was Monochrome, which I left jeez, already 7 months ago

[worn granite]

Yeah see.

I figured that might have been old news

[safe rose]

Time flies

[worn granite]

Well I finally left the world of indie freelancing.

[safe rose]

I just want to get some of my own stuff out this year

Fail a few times

Learn from those mistakes

Make better stuff 😃

[worn granite]

Yeah. I tried to use Midair as a springboard

[safe rose]

Working for others is cool and all

[worn granite]

turns out, nobody cared about Midair.

But I was able to do something else to get people's attention.

[safe rose]

I mean, who doesn't like working for cool people and making good money while having fun right?

But, I need to get to my end goal someday.

[worn granite]

As it turns out, that's my exact position right now (working with cool people, making rad stacks)

[safe rose]

Can't be doing that under people's shadows.

[worn granite]

At some point, I do wanna run my own studio

But I got plenty of time

[plush yew]

h

[safe rose]

@plush yew Everyone's AI is set up different. Each project has their own requirements right? So, learn the basics. And then yeah, you will be able to do whatever you want. Might take some time. But you'll get there.

[plush yew]

Which one would you recommend I get first?

[safe rose]

Well if you're a total newb

[worn granite]

"learn the basics" lmfao like he'll be able to build from virtus

[plush yew]

which i am

[safe rose]

The Blueprint one

[plush yew]

Well I know blueprints

[safe rose]

https://www.udemy.com/course/unreale4/

No

[worn granite]

he's gotta burn that shit to the ground

[safe rose]

You don't know BP, trust me

[worn granite]

I agree

[safe rose]

Unless you have more than a year or two

[worn granite]

you really don't know BP

[safe rose]

You probably don't know shit about BP

[worn granite]

I really know BP

I know a hell of a lot about BP

[plush yew]

Keep stroking your ego there chief

[worn granite]

kk broham

[safe rose]

You think you do, lots of people think they do. But there's so much there, it'll take you some time.

[plush yew]

I think I worded that kind of badly

[safe rose]

But once you do, then do the C++ courses

[worn granite]

you brought this onto yourself, I wouldn't normally be so crass

[plush yew]

Im familiar with BP

[worn granite]

but I actually know way more about BP than you ever could

And I don't even need to prove it

[safe rose]

Still, take the courses, learn the holes/gaps

[plush yew]

Is this guy always this much of an asshole?

[worn granite]

I don't give a single solitary fuck whether you believe me

[plush yew]

Alright, let me go buy this real quickly

[safe rose]

Hmm, not always

Sometimes 😃

[worn granite]

Nah, but you pissed me off

Grats?

[plush yew]

Wait hold on

Most of these things I know in this course

[safe rose]

Reminds me

I need to buy the Linux one

Cause, I am tired of playing around with Linux only for Perforce and it taking me forever to set up ( a few hours)

[plush yew]

Actually dynamic audio sounds kinda cool

and particle effects is something I need to learn

[abstract relic]

Here comes the spending spree 😜

[worn granite]

Go learn it, so you can tell me to fuck off from a position of knowledge

[plush yew]

If I wanted to go straight to C++, which one would you recommend?

Just curious

[safe rose]

Yeah, @abstract relic everytime they all go on sale for $10, I usually grab random stuff and binge on weekend

[worn granite]

I'd much rather be told to fuck off from a position of knowledge than a position of ignorance.

@safe rose Aren't they always on sale?

LIke.

Each and every course

[plush yew]

You just got rid of useful stuff I needed

Thanks

[spare sun]

🤔

[weary basalt]

Well ask for it again?

[plush yew]

The guy is offline

[weary basalt]

Leave him a DM...

[spare sun]

his links were

https://www.udemy.com/unrealcourse/

[worn granite]

So, based on what you nuked. As soon as he said I should fuck off for not providing a better source than virtus, I should have pinged mods?

[spare sun]

https://www.udemy.com/course/unreale4/

https://www.udemy.com/unrealengine-cpp/

https://www.udemy.com/course/unrealmultiplayer/

I believe

[plush yew]

Yeah he never linked a cover one

[worn granite]

Just trying to learn the rules is all

[weary basalt]

@worn granite Dont continue here please, your offtopic for one.

[spare sun]

yea by cover I meant covering topics

[plush yew]

Oh

https://www.udemy.com/unrealcourse/ so this one?

[spare sun]

indeed

[plush yew]

Shit....67 hours

Going to take up all of my break

But I guess its worth it

Ok im going to buy it

Thanks guys

[spare sun]

sure, np

[versed spear]

where to find texture group settings?

[plush yew]

Alright I bought it

@spare sun Have you taken this course?

[spare sun]

yep

[plush yew]

Okay I have some questions

Ive never used C++ before, and since my project is ue4 bp based, is it possible to have a hybrid of C++ and blueprints that still have the benefits of being a more optimized solution than just pure bp, or will it still have the same performance impact from the current blueprints I have right now?

[spare sun]

yes, there are benefits to using blueprints. They cover that too (:

[plush yew]

But is it possible to have a hybrid

Like

[spare sun]

it is

[plush yew]

And with existing bp I suppose right?

[spare sun]

you can literally have a blueprint of a door but make it open in c++

[plush yew]

If I were to convert it from bp to C++, is there no automatic method? Do I have to recode everything?

[spare sun]

you might be a bit mistaken in what blueprints are

[plush yew]

They're visual C++

[spare sun]

just start with the course, they cover it all trust me

[plush yew]

As what Ive been told

alright

Im just going to add you incase if I have more questions

[spare sun]

haha Im not that proficient in the engine

you'd better add victor or smth

[plush yew]

Hes a busy man

Making 2 games and has a studio to run

I dont know, Im going to start this course now though

Thanks again for the help though, really appreciate it

[spare sun]

np

[plush yew]

Oh amazing, he sets his text to 18 so I can see wtf hes doing

Thank god this guy is a professional

[sudden agate]

@plush yew imo the best would be to implement everything in c÷÷ an expose functions to bp

[plush yew]

Like a node?

[sudden agate]

Yeah

[plush yew]

Alright

Ill write that down thanks

[viscid locust]

what do i need to do?

[wary wave]

Plug in a topdow controller reference

[viscid locust]

in targett?

[wary wave]

...yes

[viscid locust]

why cant i find the node controller reference?

sorry new to coding

[wary wave]

You need to get the controller from somewhere e.g. GetPlayerController

[versed spear]

type get player controller plug that into a cast to top down player controller node

[wary wave]

You should do some tutorials, I think, this is very basic stuff

Just muddling through isn't going to get you far

[versed spear]

why is there not more projects people can download and see how things are done.

I reverse engineer I don't watch tutorials.

[wary wave]

"Blueprint Content Examples" exists for a reason?

[versed spear]

It would be better to have a working example ..

[viscid locust]

this is what it is

[wary wave]

They are working examples

[plush yew]

Oh god

You dont need to set that through tick

[wary wave]

But turoialising this kind of thing is important

[plush yew]

You could connect "InputAction SetDestination" to "Set JumpLocation" and it would work the same way

otherwise if you hold SetDestination, it would just repeat the code over and over

[obsidian nimbus]

@plush yew thats like the best pixel art ive seen in a long time

[wary wave]

You just won't learn it by looking at it, it'd be overwhelming and you'd miss so much important information that just isn't in the graph itself

[plush yew]

Yes, I highly recommend you watch some tutorials

[versed spear]

naw just plug stuff in till it works 😃

[plush yew]

https://tenor.com/view/keanu-reeves-cyberpunk2077-gif-14312493

bruh...

[viscid locust]

ve been watch alot of them but what im looking to do for my movement i have found nothing about it

[plush yew]

Okay, what are you trying to do? Some sort of teleportation?

[viscid locust]

jump to mouse click

[plush yew]

Okay, well first things first, dont use tick

[viscid locust]

lmb= move to location

[plush yew]

Especially for something like that

[viscid locust]

lmb+ctrl= jump to location

[plush yew]

I would directly hook up "SetDestination" pressed to "SetLocation"

But even then, I still think thats wrong

Is this code in your character blueprint?

[viscid locust]

yea

and i have added code to player controller

[plush yew]

No

Dont do that

[viscid locust]

not the same one

[plush yew]

You're just adding unnecessary stuff

[viscid locust]

ah

[plush yew]

Making it much more complicated than it has to be

[viscid locust]

rip this code then lol

[obsidian nimbus]

you allways wunna put a branch on blocking hit so it wont do anything when not hits

[plush yew]

You should be doing a line trace from the camera on pressing SetDestination that goes forward, break hit result, then feeding that to a "setworldlocation" (I may be wrong with this one, Im just going off the top of my head)

This is much easier than the current setup you have and you wont be using tick (:

[viscid locust]

ok got that figured out

thx you

[plush yew]

np

[wary wave]

why?

[cloud cobalt]

Hexagonal grids have a navigability problem

You can't use a D-pad on them

If it's a PC only game, I guess that's fine

[manic pawn]

you can navigate them with an analog stick though which every controller has

[wary wave]

not a great way to navigate a grid though

far too much inaccurate stick wiggling

[cloud cobalt]

@manic pawn I wouldn't do that, tbh

How do you move quickly 3 elements in one direction ?

With a dpad you just press thrice, with a stick you... keep it press until it navigates there I guess ?

[wary wave]

or wiggle it thrice

[cloud cobalt]

Which is barely better mechanically speaking

[terse skiff]

Hi all. When attempting to compile, I get an error "maximum number of concurrent builds reached", but google returns no relevant results. Is anyone able to help?

[wary wave]

Incredibuild

it already has the maximum number of builds running

(also that's literally the first result that comes up in Google?)

[terse skiff]

(for you maybe)

[wary wave]

remove "unreal engine 4", put quote marks around "maximum number of concurrent builds reached"

learning how to google is an essential skill, hehe

[gloomy acorn]

hey guys, when i pause the game while my character is playing an animation montage, then when i eject (unpossess him) in the editor, the character starts to clicker.
any idea why is this happening? i need to take screenshots but this is preventing me

[lusty carbon]

set visibility not working. this is on my pawn hooked to begin play. any ideas?

[terse skiff]

@wary wave the link you talked about did not provide an answer

basically said "yup, it's broken"

[wary wave]

possibly not, but Incredibuild is the problem

your license will allow a maximum number of concurrent builds

it has nothing to do with Unreal

[lusty carbon]

Hey guys I have the same question as this guy here https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/768866/constructing-a-3d-widget-as-you-are-making-it-visi.html

if anyone could help

Basically I've got a 3d widget on my vr pawn camera with animated text on construction. I want to schedule its appearance. but if I toggle it's visibility it's not enough obviously. how do I play with its construction?

[regal mulch]

Move the Animation of the Text into the function that changes the visibility? @lusty carbon

Might also be worth to move the whole visibility stuff into the actor widget

Instead of adjusting the component

[lusty carbon]

It's an event in a whole other class. how can I do that?

actually nvm it looks like setting visibility to true also plays the construct event

so my anim appears to work

[plush yew]

whats the best way to make quick sand? to pull the player to the middle

[regal mulch]

You have the Component

That one has the "UserWidgetObject" or something along that line

That can be casted to the actual widget class you have

And then you can call the function

No need for EventDispatchers

Especially not one that binds to itself

[hidden aurora]

@fair badger your game looks stunning

[spark sonnet]

I agree with Retrosen. It looks awesome @fair badger

He is in the group

[fair badger]

I am here

[hidden aurora]

Just stunning

[spark sonnet]

Its in #work-in-progress

[fair badger]

Thanks guys i am so happy you liked it😃

[lusty carbon]

How to fade out entire sound in the game? like the camera fade function but just for the sound

[fair badger]

Thanks for appreciations

[hidden aurora]

Interpolete the sound volume

Finterp

Interpolate the current sound volume float to 0

Or a timeline

[lusty carbon]

not sure how to do it and what node to use

[hidden aurora]

search timeline in google

UE4 timeline

[wind siren]

@lusty carbon You mean you have multiple sounds, like music, and SFX, etc, and you want them all to fade?

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/7412r1/unreal_engine_4_how_to_change_audio_volume/dnw2vkr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

[polar harness]

@plush yew Thanks man. Really appreciate that u guys are liking it. It would really help us if u can spread the word in the community for a wider reach.
We are a small team. We would be glad whatever help we can get.

[lusty carbon]

yes. I have many sounds around the lvl and I have an end screen that fades in what some type of "game over" text. I want the sound to fade off along with it

[wind siren]

Assign all your sound classes to a sound mix, you can now reference the sound mix as an entire block of audio.

[lusty carbon]

Im using sound cues not classes

[kind sonnet]

hello

[wind siren]

It's like an onion. The sound cues go into classes, like Music, Sound Effects, etc., then the sound classes go into the sound mix. Now you can individually change audio by class or the entire game.

[lusty carbon]

so do i need to create that sound class or what

idk man

im quite a newb so conceptual guidance doesn't do it for me yet. i need practical instructions.

how is it that there's a node for Start Camera Fade that can also fade the sound for you in a matter of tick box, and there's no such thing for JUST the sound

[tardy sapphire]

What is the best way to conform the landscape to the mesh? Outside of manual sculpting

[cloud cobalt]

Mostly sculpting ?

[wary wave]

you can modify it in blueprint

I do this when procedurally generating things in the editor

[tardy sapphire]

How @wary wave ?

[wary wave]

there's literally blueprint nodes for it

[tardy sapphire]

What are they called?

I have like 200 static meshes grouped in a BP

[wary wave]

'Editor Apply Spline' is probably the useful one

but if these are static meshes only, you're probably SOL

you'll need to modify the landscape manually

[tardy sapphire]

Ok, manual it is :/

And another thing, why cant I rename folders in Content Browser without breaking the project

All the references get lost

An asset developer named his folders really annoyingly and I wanna rename them

[sudden agate]

renaming in content browser should be fine

[cloud cobalt]

^

[sudden agate]

try right click -> fix redirectors

it gets messy when you do it out of UE

[cloud cobalt]

"Fix redirectors" is likely the cause of the issue

Renaming without deleting redirectors won't have any change

Renaming after deleting redirectors needs you to change references in C++, though BP should be fine if you saved them all after renaming

[tardy sapphire]

Ill try, thanks guys

[ember notch]

Guys check my open world game update #work-in-progress thanks ^^

[lusty carbon]

Is it possible that my hidden widget component that is placed a couple meters in front of my vr pawn is triggering collisions within the environment??

apparently yes it was lol

disabled generate overlap

[wet belfry]

Hi guy's im looking for a decent way to render 360 video from our unreal app. i used to use the panoramic movie capture plugin, but this is giving me mixed results and i cant find anything else. Does anyone of you have a good option?

[tardy sapphire]

It's also kinda a bummer that spline points cant conform to terrain.. END button doesnt work on them

[wary wave]

Landscape spline or blueprint spline?

[gilded topaz]

Hi ho guys, maybe someone here can help me with an issues I have with 3ds Max 2020 student version.
The viewport is buggy (as usual) and not only annoys me, but also hinders me working with max. A video can you watch here: https://www.reddit.com/r/3dsmax/comments/bzpu3x/help_viewport_bug/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

It happens on both of my computers and I highly doubt that hardware is the problem

desktop:
2x 970
i7 4770k
16gb ram

laptop:
980m with 8gb vram
i7 4790k
32gb ram

On both windows 10 pro 64 bit 1809 runs on a SSD as well as Max, the latest nvidia driver installed and every other driver is as far as I know also up to date.
A reinstallation I only tried on my desktop did not work.I unistalled via the unistaller tool that comes with max, then checked for any leftovers manually and reinstalled it after a clean boot.

[wet belfry]

@gilded topaz im a maya guy, so not sure if this works on max, but delete your user profile, and prefs, and restart max. otherewise i would downgrade to an older version if possible

[gleaming lotus]

Some of my landscape is coming up grey, any idea why this is happening? All my shaders have loaded.

[wary wave]

probably too many texture samples in that component

[gleaming lotus]

whats the maximum?

I havent got a lot of layers here

[viral fractal]

this discord is unreal

or is it unreal discord ?

[gleaming lotus]

The two areas that are greyed out are the 6's, is the maximum 5? Any way to raise that limit?

Looks like I can change the material sampler source to shared: wrap which should give me the ability to have more than 5 materials in one square, trying it after shaders are done compiling 😃

[wary wave]

👍

[dim plover]

How did you display the number of layers in a square?

[boreal topaz]

if i make a new project, do i have a level by default?
trying to do a reset level button, but i never clicked on 'new level' so im not sure what my current level is called

[dim plover]

What are you doing with the return from the cast?

Well, etiher way, something is wrong. Maybe a timing issue.

[minor solar]

Anyone know a fix for when your unreal engine fails to build lightning?

[dim plover]

Try removing the cast node and and just connect the OnClick to the RemoveFromParent.

You may want to look into difference between Cast and Cast Class.

[cloud cobalt]

It's the frame time

i'd say the framerate is the one that doesn't really, since you're usually trying to measure how long your code takes to run

[tardy sapphire]

@wary wave Sorry saw your reply late, landscape spline

I wanna add roads to my landscape but the LS doesnt stick to ground

I don't wanna deform the landscape very badly, I'd like it if my spline just sticks to ground

[wary wave]

I avoid landscape splines

they seem redundant

[tardy sapphire]

How would you add roads to a landscape then?

I'm all ears if there are better solutions

[wary wave]

blueprint based splines

have way more control over them