ue4-general

[frank escarp]

no

thats your own code

[white plume]

I see

I thought a lot of Unreal worked off of nodes though?

[abstract relic]

You are referring to blueprints

Which is more or less visualization of cpp

Everything runs off code whether you like it or not 😜

[white plume]

True

Is Unreal at all useful for making games that operate in a 2D world?

[plush yew]

You can do anything with it...
As long as you are willing to put in the hard work

lol

[abstract relic]

In my opinion: no.

[white plume]

Yeah, of course but like the templates don't seem to indicate it has a way to make a game that's truly 2D like for example the classic Mario platformers

[serene birch]

what does "truly 2D" mean anyway

just set the camera right and you are good to go 😛

[plush yew]

Exactly

lolll

[white plume]

Ah fair enough

[plush yew]

if you can make games in 3D, you definitely can make games in 2D 😛

[serene birch]

it's interesting having a depth buffer for 2D games

[plush yew]

If you meant old school 2D pixelated games, that's not the same

[grim ore]

one of the templates is literally a side scrolling 2d game...

[serene birch]

2D games without depth buffer have a strict draw ordering

[white plume]

Yeah like old school

[serene birch]

but with one, you have more liberty

allowing you potentially to batch more stuff

[plush yew]

But you can definitely make a 3D game playable 2D

Shadow Complex

[white plume]

For sure, like My Friend Pedro is 3D but 2D playable

[plush yew]

Yes

[abstract relic]

That’s typically coined as 2.5D

[scarlet birch]

UE wouldn't be my first choice for 2D. For 2.5D it's great though. Both of my current projects are 2.5D in UE.

[normal burrow]

3D side perspective platformers or whatever, not gonna be much different engine wise than other 3d games yea.

full 2D focused engines are a trending thing though yea (like full psd blend compatibility etc)

[scarlet birch]

You can still do most of it in UE, but other engines have stuff out of the box for 2D that with UE you'd have to use outside tools and/or implement yourself.

[plush yew]

At the end of the day, what matters is just that you make a game and learn from it

[normal burrow]

calling that a huge undertaking would be an understatement lol

[plush yew]

Like make a Quake 1 game, 1k poly per characters

Just a quick first game

Dont waste too much time on graphics the first time

[abstract relic]

I’d do something reasonable like breakout or spacewars as a starter

[normal burrow]

Yea, don't start with quake 1. you'll get confused.

[scarlet birch]

I did make a top down space shooter when I was looking to see what worked and didn't in UE

It's a good easy project to figure things out with

[next badger]

2d is hard in ue cause:
harder to implement parallax
hard to implement shadows for 2d sprites
physics is using 3d collisions, which may cause some issues

also ortho camera has a lot of issues, that not happening with perspective projection one

[cloud cobalt]

UE is not generally made for 2D

[ornate ice]

Hey

Is there anything like a Static Class in BP?

like in other languages you can do

Manager.getHUDWidget

for example

[plush yew]

Heya, anyone experienced with inventory systems etc? Trying to get a good solution for the item management

[grim ore]

@ornate ice there is no real way now in pure BP without implementing your own in C++ using a custom class or something like a game subsystem.

[ornate ice]

:S

[grim ore]

with that said depending on what you want to do there are blueprint function libraries and items like the game instance and blueprint interfaces

[ornate ice]

I endup doing this

in a Blueprint Function Library

[grim ore]

if you are using .23 there is a Get Actor of Class node now

[plush yew]

Can I make instances of a structure?

[grim ore]

and I mean at that point if you are just doing a get actor of class call under the hood in this BPFL no reason to not just use the node itself

[plush yew]

I have this "Item structure" that has everything like item name, weight, image, durability etc, how can I "Make an instance" of it so I can re-use the items (for example "Bread") again without having to re-type all the data over and over

[grim ore]

that's a good question, I wonder if you are going about this weirdly

[plush yew]

I totally might, never worked on anything similar, but I believe there must be a better way to do it rather than having to re-type the items over and over

[grim ore]

so, a structure holds data generically. did you set the "default" values of the item in your structure to be what you expected

that looks correct, you are using a data table

[plush yew]

I did do a data table with the items, but there is no way for me to "insert" a datatype var into a container

[grim ore]

that is what I was going to suggest you should use

[plush yew]

Yup, but at this point, if I have a crate/box/chest whatever that is supposed to hold items

How do I just give it "Raspberry" rather than trying to fill out all the fields

[grim ore]

you give it a string of raspberry

technically you should give it an array to hold the items

[plush yew]

it does have an array

[grim ore]

your row name is unique and you can go from there

[plush yew]

Okay so just base it on a string or int, and every time you open the container loop through all the id's/names to get the data from the data table?

[grim ore]

traditionally games would have the row name or an itemid to then just keep track of it all and you use those

you get items out of the data table by the row name

[plush yew]

yup I meant loop throught the items in the chest

[grim ore]

and if you look at the top right of that row info it has the row name

yep

[plush yew]

The script for "adding" items to inventory is simple

but having them in there using the "default" is surprisingly harder

[grim ore]

?

[plush yew]

This is the way I go about it now

Every container has an array of items, each item has it's data (durability, name etc) and quantity

[grim ore]

gotcha, never considered you didnt want the item at the default values

[plush yew]

Well, imagine having an armour piece that has lets say half durability left

[grim ore]

yep yep I gotcha why

the data table should store default values of your items then and I guess you can consider these as modifiers if they exist in the container/inventory.

just depends on how complex this is going to get lol

[plush yew]

Well, an option would be to make the slot structure store the durability

but that causes even more issues if you were to move items

so the best way is definitely to store it in the item itself

Hmm... I'll do some lurking around the forums and try to find something

[grim ore]

yeah depending on how complex you want it will determine what you need to do

if you do use data tables for your default values keep in mind you can use an external spreadsheet and import the .csv file which makes it easier for all the data input

lots of work, sounds like a fun system to design

[plush yew]

Yeah I've legit no idea what I'm doing, I'm usually developing trading algorithms, this is a totally different league 😂

[grim ore]

I want to say Data Assets are also designed for something like this but they are harder to use

[ornate ice]

@grim ore thanks for that node 😄

[plush yew]

Kk so I went with individual actors / classes for each item type

so now when I add the new item I just chose class, and it will go with the default class values UNLESS I change something in the instance ones

@grim ore

[sonic pagoda]

https://trello.com/b/ZR7VrLb3/epic-online-services-roadmap

[plush yew]

Not the sweetest way of doing it, but I guess it's fine for now

[sonic pagoda]

this used to be public

[quasi star]

@plush yew You could use a DataTableRow handle data type to reference your items too. So have a struct for your item info as you currently do then populate your data table as normal. Then on your Chest actor have an array of Loot structures

Then you just pick from your data table the item you want and the quantity, this is quite nice as you can separate your items by category (weapons, armour, food, potions) etc...

Example showing two data tables (of the same item struct) and how you can reference specific rows using DataTableRow handle

[plush yew]

@quasi star That doesn't allow me to set custom values though

what if I want 2 swords, one with 50% durability and one with 60%?

[quasi star]

Though I would agree with @grim ore data assets would be better here if you have a lot of variety between properties on items, for example food will rot and have a health benefit on consumption but a shield wont have either of those properties, in that case a base Item data asset would have name, inventory icon etc... then create a few subclasses of this such as ArmourItem FoodItem etc... with the custom properties

Can you put a damaged sword back into a lootable container?

[plush yew]

Even if you couldn't, you can still loot damaged items

And I guess being able to store damaged items is quite an important factor too

After all, lootable containers work the same way as your personal inventory

But yeah, it seems like I'll have to read up on data assets

[quasi star]

Ah ok the static nature of the data table approach above or data assets would still work for your default / static properties but you are right it would need further work to allow you to store non pristine items

[plush yew]

I guess the current solution works "fine"

I can add sub-classes to this

[quasi star]

You could remove all the dynamic properties out of the base item structures / data assets (durability, rot, uses left) and keep the static properties (name, inventory icon, rot rate, max uses etc...)

[plush yew]

Yeah I'll probably do that

and just throw that into a different subclass

[quasi star]

Then create actors for the different items WeaponActor FoodItem, these actors are what contain the dynamic properties such as durability and rot

exactly

[plush yew]

Then again, I can't do that in the data table, right?

or?..

[quasi star]

you would instantiate these from the data table/data asset still though (this populates it with the static data) then the actor itself has it's own lifecycle for changing the dynamic properties independently

Correct, but that's not a problem is it, just use data tables to describe items in the game and don't worry about their condition. For example you would have a single row in the data table for Bread even though you may come across Bread that is 90% rotted and another instance elsewhere that's freshly baked

What is static about bread? It's name, inventory icon, max stack size (or 1 if it's not stackable), hunger boost on consumption

[plush yew]

Gotcha

can I somehow remove columns from a data table?

or do I have to re-create it

[quasi star]

Also, rate of rot per second/day whatever

Then your FoodItem object actually has the Condition/Rot property which changes over time based on the rate of rot defined in the data table

[flat idol]

You can export the DT as a json it may be easier to remove columns. Alternatively you can just remove the column prop from the struct it is based on, that should get rid of the column data i guess.

[quasi star]

You would then switch out your lootable containers to store the item objects and not data table rows, this way you will be able to pick up an item use it to knock it's durability down then put it back in the container and it's durability will be kept

[plush yew]

@quasi star That's the whole problem, storing "items"

I can't see any good way of doing that

Right now I'm using "class defaults" for mostly everything

@quasi star Should the "Sub-classes" like FoodItem be Structures then?

[quasi star]

@plush yew c++ or bp?

[plush yew]

bp

Although I'm highly considering moving over to c++

since I have way more experience with it

[quasi star]

You cant extend user defined structs in the editor I believe

You can use PrimaryDataAssets instead though, these will let you extend a base item with subclasses for food, weapon, armour etc

It's not in the quick create menu so just search for it when creating a new blueprint class

[plush yew]

Haven't used these before

So I should have a primary data asset for every "subclass"?

[quasi star]

Yes

Here is what you may have in your base Item primary data asset

Then extend that for each subclass and add additional properties for that type, for example on weapon you may have a damage range and the mesh to spawn in the world when equipped/dropped

[plush yew]

Probably a normie question, but how do I extend it? Never worked with primary data assets

[quasi star]

Once you have your primary data asset classes defined, you can create assets for those types from the quick create menu

Right click, create subclass

Heres what creating a data asset of the weapon will look like, note it inherits to props from the base item too

But like i said, this is just to describe all the items in your game (their defaults)

not the dynamic changing parts (durability, rot etc...)

[plush yew]

Okay, then how do I get an instance of them?

so that I can do the dynamic part

[quasi star]

You create actors for that, but you don't need to create an actor for every item in your game. You can have a Food actor blueprint and reuse that for every food item in your game.

Weapon would be the same but you may want a couple subclasses for melee weapons, ranged weapons etc...

[plush yew]

Okay, I'm confused af at this point, will read through all of this again slowly

and process it

[placid yarrow]

I am creating an RPG that allows you to choose your avatar from a variety of character options. I am creating a Data Asset for each option that contains the mesh, icon, and animations for that mesh, and then the Player Character will have a reference to the relevant Data Asset corresponding to the character selected by the player at the beginning of the game. I then load that mesh and reference the animation montages from the Data Asset. Is that an appropriate way to do it? Am I correct that the only Data Asset that will get loaded during a given level (other than the one in which you select your character) is the one referenced by the Player Character's Data Asset variable, and it won't load all of the other 20 other Data Assets in the background just because the Asset Manager knows about them? I don't want to have 20 large character meshes and all of their associated animations sitting in memory even though only one of them is in use. Thanks!

[normal burrow]

depends on how they are stored in the data asset kelby

keeping in mind loaded into memory is different than loaded onto the gpu or whatever: for the representation of the asset to be available it must have an address with memory large enough to fit its contents into.

so in the data asset if you are storing your references as normal object references, that data asset requires all those things inside of it to exist before it will ever get passed to you.

but if your storing the references as soft object references

then its only the path to the objects that is stored and loaded with the data table/asset

however, the down side to soft references is you must load the object manually when you want access to it.

if its already loaded then there is (nearly) no overhead in using the soft reference. when its not loaded, converting the soft reference to an regular reference will pause the entire game. you can alternatively asynchronously load these over multiple frames to avoid (the brunt) of a frame spike outside of editor (it will hitch in editor regardless for things like materials that need compiling). @placid yarrow

Essentially, would recommend you have references to thumbnails / graphics/ animations be soft in your data type and just expect most all of your data types themselves to be in memory. its very difficult to not have this outcome

[marsh swallow]

Question on some Enum Packaging issues.....

In Editor:

In Packaged Version:

Any reason why its using Display Name in editor and Variable name on package?

[wary wave]

Display name is only for editor meta data, so it isn't packaged

you should really not be converting enums to strings for UI anyway

you should be using text variables

[marsh swallow]

i realized that I had a function i created that does just that

i just forgot about it. lol

[placid yarrow]

@normal burrow Very helpful. Thank you! I'll change it over to soft references.

[ornate ice]

Hey people any idea how to go around the issue

of having to do double click

on for a widget to gain focus on it?

the only thing that seems to work is to use the node Set Input Mode Game and UI and pass the widget to it

but that forces the cursos to appear

no matter if after that i ask the cursor to dissapear

[lime gull]

This isnt particularly too importsnt to me but is there a way I can get text to automatically uhhh "Shift Enter" like this :

When reaching the end of a designated length?

Like I wanna do a text box and I dont wanna constantly Shift Enter myself when writing dialogue

But I will if needed

[plush yew]

Hi

Coder found

Now need modeler for rooms and. Models

Been trying to fix a bug for the last 3h now

for some reason my for loop jumps from index 3 to 0

from 0 to 15*

and it literally makes no sense

started happening after my UE4 crashed

Gotta hate these fken bugs..

[tawdry wren]

how can iremove the rebuild lighting message?

[plush yew]

Idk ask Nikson

[blissful trail]

my friend is trying to submit to source control and its saying a file is exceeding 100mb when no file is using more then 40mb

any fix

?

[autumn trout]

@blissful trail https://git-lfs.github.com/

[signal minnow]

'tis a difference between Megabytes and Megabits? (MB or Mb!

[plush yew]

Yes

1 byte = 8 bits

[signal minnow]

I know that

I'm just saying there's a difference

[plush yew]

then you knwo the difference

[signal minnow]

Idk why I put a ?

[plush yew]

Aha But you had a questionmark

[signal minnow]

I meant !

[plush yew]

Ahaa

hahaha

[signal minnow]

Ik ik

It's 3:41 am for me

Should I even be up?

[plush yew]

It's the future, who care

[signal minnow]

Someone was saying he was getting an error for a file over 100mb, but there's no file over 40mb

I was saying one was in Mb and the other was MB

Kind of? In an obscure way I did

If that makes sense

[plush yew]

it makes sense, I think

[oblique tangle]

anyone know how i could implement a radial blur material into this bp?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221798862938046464/638283647811715083/unknown.png

[pearl wigeon]

If you've actually got values in side the timeline, then that looks alright

You'll have to make a post process material that has the radial blur

[oblique tangle]

ive made a material parameter collection with the blurdepth in it, but everytime i start the scene i always have the radialblur on

[pearl wigeon]

You haven't actually got a material selected in the above screenshot

[oblique tangle]

Yeah, I've changed it now

[pearl wigeon]

Got no idea, maybe print the vector length to string and see what value it is

[oblique tangle]

99% sure it's nothing wrong with velocity, it's either to do with the parameters i've set up, the timeline or some setting in the post process on my character

[pearl wigeon]

Well I can only suggest you manually change the values for those one by one to see what happens

[runic iron]

The face when you found tons of presentations about UE4 but they're all in JP https://www.slideshare.net/EpicGamesJapan/presentations/

[blissful trail]

is it possible to get ai pawn's to see a spotlight and goto the location of the spotlight

if it sees it

[runic iron]

@blissful trail Is the spotlight static ?

[blissful trail]

no

its moveable

[dim plover]

Anyone know if those presentations Dimy linked are unique to JP?

[runic iron]

@dim plover I'm pretty sure unfortunately...

Which is a shame since there seems to be a ton of content

[dim plover]

So, I think, if they are derivative from other sources, they'll say:
https://www.slideshare.net/EpicGamesJapan/montreal-dev-daypresentationv1jp
But this one looks completely unique:
https://www.slideshare.net/EpicGamesJapan/ss-135771323

[blissful trail]

can pawn sensing see invisible cones ?

[runic iron]

@blissful trail here's an idea, make a BP with the spotlight and a object volume roughly covering the area you want to be seen then use pawn sensing with this event

(replace the "Player" tag by a "spotlight" tag that you should add to the said BP, prevents casting everytime to check if it's a spotlight or not) then feed it's location to a blackboard value

@dim plover Indeed, some presentations seem to have an english counterpart

But some of them are unique, which is a shame since they seem to have great tips

For example that one about Action RPG is much more complete that any other resource I saw in English, all that I learned on my own was there https://www.slideshare.net/EpicGamesJapan/ue4action-rpg

[dim plover]

Oh shit, this series on multiplayer seems pretty good too:
https://www.slideshare.net/EpicGamesJapan/ue4-multiplayer-online-deep-dive-getting-started-ue4dd

[plush yew]

hey, could someone help me a bit?

[dim merlin]

Hi, its possible to save / load actors outofthe box in unreal?

[plush yew]

I played with UVs, since this is what I get for some reason for my shadows

I have no idea why that's happening

[dim plover]

They also have what seems to be pretty good information on profiling:
https://www.slideshare.net/EpicGamesJapan/ue4loadinggcprofiling

[blissful trail]

the ai i made is only using blueprints

[blissful trail]

im not using a blackboard

[cloud cobalt]

@dim merlin Yes, though "saving actors" might not work like you expect

[plain tiger]

😦 after I thought it was a good idea to move my BP_GameInstance, the project crashed, and now I cannot get to the uassets inside 😦 copying them to a new project wont work: it hangs on 'discovering assets' ... I could 'migrate' them, if only I could open the project, which I cant (unreal crashes)....

[cloud cobalt]

Revert to the last working version in source control

[mighty talon]

for some reason after merging multiple actors, all of my materials had extremely weird and wonky looking materials

as you can see, even the default material with literally nothing on it looks like this

anyone know how to fix it?

[plush yew]

isn't that your uv map being complete shit? @mighty talon

[mighty talon]

maybe

[plush yew]

I'd guess so

[mighty talon]

my floor looks like it smoked meth

[plush yew]

yup

have you ever even touched your uv maps? 😂

@mighty talon

[mighty talon]

no

sorry im ret*rded

push comes to shove i'll just restart my work lol

[quasi star]

I need to send a game setup object from my menu system to my game map, I've prototyped with using a SaveGame object and loading it on BeginPlay event in my game mode and I've also prototyped the same thing using a custom GameInstance. Both methods work but what is considered the right approach if trying to stick to the UE4 framework as close as possible?

Right now I kinda like how the game save method works but just uncertain if it's the best approach out of the two.

[brave salmon]

real talk now 🙂 how often could async loading crash your game? If I launch let's say thousand of this processes am I gonna crash for sure?

[radiant haven]

stragnely my physics actor acts floaty

how can i make it heavy

[shell compass]

Oh man, I really wish I could use the reference viewer to not only see which other BP references this thing, but also go directly to the node or variable where it is referenced.

[worthy flame]

how does the foliage stay the same and not on a angle when placing them?

what is the setting, cant remember

[rotund scroll]

should be something like align to normal

[plush yew]

using static lighting on static objects

[rotund scroll]

your lightmaps are f'd

[waxen narwhal]

Hey, is it possible to access external data sources like rest from within an app build via unreal engine?

If so, are there any documentions regarding this topic?

[radiant haven]

Whats the difference between HUD and UI?

[fierce tulip]

UI refers to the methods (keyboard control, mouse control) and interfaces (inventory screen, map screen) through which a user interacts with a game.

In video gaming, the HUD (head-up display) or Status Bar is the method by which information is visually relayed to the player as part of a game's user interface.

[pearl sonnet]

any documentation on project setup for a dedicated server and many clients
i keep thinking that everything gets built into the build even when its not relevant for clients or what you dont want reverse engineered or exposed
maybe thats not even the case and there are like build flags but i can't find any information on it

i find people building from source and what not
it seems like the topic is mega vague

starting to wonder if i should go back to GL and C++ and build everything from scratch
at least it makes sense

[cloud cobalt]

Dedicated servers isn't something a lot of people use in the community

If you need dedis, you're probably not an indie developer

[pearl sonnet]

i'm just concerned that client builds expose too much of what should only a servers business

the line between them is washed away behind buttons and checkboxes if you're not very familiar with UE and a programmer

[cloud cobalt]

By design, yes, UE4 will leak your server code if you don't ifdef all of it

Since all the code (and content) is shared

[pearl sonnet]

so basically it'll have to be a C++ project or can you flag in BP

flag/ifdef

'is local' or whatever it is, will not cut it i'd guess

[cloud cobalt]

The server BP will be included in the client build, yes, not much you can do about that

Don't put any private data in here 🙂

[pearl sonnet]

then it makes a lot more sense to do a C++ project and implement ifdefs
you do have the advantage of shared code for RPC but not build it into a client
just have to figure out what when and where

[cloud cobalt]

I wouldn't expect a lot to be sensitive though

IP address of whatever private servers you have for matchmaking or databases, certificates for connecting to them ?

[pearl sonnet]

sure
no it's more of a principle/thought and getting an idea of whether such separation is possible

only started getting into 'replication' since last night so it's all kinda cloudy still

[cloud cobalt]

It's not really possible or useful

[pearl sonnet]

coming from typical client / server thinking

[cloud cobalt]

UE4 works by having your client or server being a simple runtime switch

So it doesn't have any clear separation

Dedicated server is different because it doesn't display, and that's it

[mighty talon]

my UE is starting to get weird

every project I create always looks like that

[pearl sonnet]

that's funky

[mighty talon]

sure is

[pearl sonnet]

if it happens for all new projects with default settings you'd start to think that you're running some weird/old gpu but i have no clue

or like funky driver settings

lol

[fierce tulip]

@mighty talon means you messed something up in the engine content folder

you probably merged those things along with whatever

and since these are shared in every project of that engine version...

[pearl sonnet]

you mean in epic games\ue_4,xx\Templates ?

[fierce tulip]

that skybox mesh, and that flat box mesh are in an engine folder, not project folder.

[pearl sonnet]

thought they came from C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.23\Templates

\Engine has Content too

[oblique tangle]

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQcUt4s2CsGH4YO9dYjuQDYp0bGDq8oOs6xjsF7Gk_TEGiJLL-u

could someone give me a rough idea of how to recreate something like this in my project, where the camera of the third person character tightens, the movement slows and the quest prompt comes up? Any response would be greatly appreciated, cheers! :)

[pearl sonnet]

lerp on camera

and the usual UI

[oblique tangle]

does anyone know of some good starting points to get a hang of the ui system, and to create really polished widgets like the one seen above?

[fierce tulip]

@mighty talon you can either find their location and replace them from an older ue4 version, or repair the version?

not even sure thats a thing.

[pearl sonnet]

as for reason to separate client/server beyond just reverse engineering and making private servers, would be anticheat

[cloud cobalt]

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense

You can actually prevent packaging a Blueprint, FWIW

If you can contain the most sensitive stuff in a few non-client-available Blueprints

[pearl sonnet]

hm, thanks for the tip
something to consider too

[cloud cobalt]

Check that it works before committing to it 😛

In any case, personally I strongly advise against competitive, server-based games

It's both challenging technically, costly to maintain, and your audience will dismiss the game entirely if you can't sell it to tens of thousands

[pearl sonnet]

true, there is definitely that

but i'm not aiming for the stars
small scale fun project

it'll be running on a server that's just sitting there doing nothing for a bunch of friends at best
i'm nowhere close to being able to make anything worth selling lol

and all of us with a hobby of doing exactly that xD reversing stuff and seeing if it can break lol

[vast fossil]

why is Vinterp to constant interpspeed not working correct ? Its way to slow for the given interp speed. The Vinterp to node does work well but it has an ease in the end which I dont want.

[pearl sonnet]

how often does it tick

[vast fossil]

120 fps

[pearl sonnet]

are you sure lol

[vast fossil]

ye

[pearl sonnet]

it's common to take deltatime into consideration

[vast fossil]

delta time is hooked in too

I dont have this with the Vinterp to node

but theres no way of turning off the easing afaik

[pearl sonnet]

its kinda expected yea

[vast fossil]

what is expected ?

[pearl sonnet]

to slow down towards end

[vast fossil]

why ?

[pearl sonnet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_uk8AofE7w

mathew covers it

about 20 seconds in

[vast fossil]

I will take a look, thank you

[autumn trout]

Hello 😁

I have a character with clothes and a hat
I want to make them one model and make them
One Texture

How do I do this

[pearl sonnet]

does blender / 3dsmax etc have a discord 😛

you'd do that in the process of making and texturing your model which is outside of the scope of #ue4-general channel

[abstract relic]

Blender does. No autodesk products however

[mighty talon]

@fierce tulip i'll check my UE installation if I messed something up

or I'll just reinstall it

[pearl sonnet]

they have a verify option too

[autumn trout]

If I changed the program

This will ruin the bones

[pearl sonnet]

yea ufhs thats an art in itself

[abstract relic]

Use the program they were made in then

[pearl sonnet]

modeling and texturing, rigging

[autumn trout]

If you have a slow computer
Art turns into hell

[pearl sonnet]

it's something i cant wrap my head around i can tell you that much

deep respect for artists

[merry gazelle]

I'm using Ramma Save System plugin, any idea if I can share the plugin with a collaborator (sending them the plugin folders). Or would they also need to buy the plugin?

[light coyote]

The public answer to your public question is no.

You cant.

[merry gazelle]

ok but from what I understand teams can share the same assets (unless it's not allowed for plugins specifcially)? I thought they said this was ok in a stream

[radiant haven]

A good Checklist app/programm like Trello?

[abstract relic]

You can share the same project. You cannot redistribute a product as a stand alone however

[pearl sonnet]

sounds fair

[merry gazelle]

yeah thats what I mean, justt need them to implement some features and hand it over to me

[abstract relic]

Source control mate 😜

[light coyote]

@merry gazelle You bought it with the your name,,, a company acts like a person, with its own name and its own identifiing number,,, just like ppl,,,
I think your friend can use it and everything, but not distribute if causes damages of any kind, like economic, or social image.

[cloud cobalt]

Guys, read the EULA.

It covers that stuff.

[light coyote]

😅

[cloud cobalt]

There's a Q&A on exactly this question

Yes, you can share your plugins and MP content with your project team

Only for that project

[merry gazelle]

ok great that's what I thought, although my question is more regarding how to distribute the files

[cloud cobalt]

Source control

Just like the entire project

If you don't have source control, drop everything, get source control

[merry gazelle]

ok I guess you mean Github or something lol, I'll look into it (It's just a small project)

[cloud cobalt]

Do you mind losing it ?

If yes - source control

Losing half of your Blueprints is literally one badly timed power cut away

"Let's move a Blueprint and resave ! "
Power utility 😬

[abstract relic]

My favorite is when fixing up redirectors gets corrupted. There goes your asset into an unrecoverable void of nonexistence

[grim ore]

the 2nd thing you should do after creating a new project is sync it to source control, even if it's going to be a small one. the 1st thing should be syncing it to source control after you create it... 😛

[pearl sonnet]

reading you guys im feeling lucky that nothing went bad yet lol

"Great repository names are short and memorable. Need inspiration? How about vigilant-couscous?"
those suggestions on github lmao

"Great repository names are short and memorable. Need inspiration? How about super-fortnight?"

yep thats the one

[rotund scroll]

ah yes, vigilant couscous, my favorite meal

[pearl sonnet]

haha

[grim ore]

man the .24 branch got updated with a ton of enterprise templates... sooooo much neato stuff

[pearl sonnet]

😮

everyone rushing to github now

[grim ore]

the project launcher is changing to add more stuff and categories, it looks neato

Id expect a .24 public preview soon at this rate from the update notes

also a hair strands plugin....

[pearl sonnet]

where are you looking,
/templates looks the same, folder wise anyway

[grim ore]

you downloaded .24?

[pearl sonnet]

nah im looking on git

[grim ore]

ah the templates are all in the binaries download

[light coyote]

@pearl sonnet Name?
NotDixelicEvenRowst

[pearl sonnet]

knfai'

lmfao**

mathew, the launcher does not allow us plebs to get .24

[light coyote]

I dont know if it works in english but there is a relly cool one in spanish along those lines xD

[grim ore]

no by binaries I mean the setup.bat file you run that downloads all of the binary stuff

[abstract relic]

You gotta build from source. Say goodbye to the launcher 😜

[pearl sonnet]

oho this is new information tell me more XD

[radiant haven]

How can I make an object heavy?

[light coyote]

@radiant haven In what sense ?

Physics right ?

[grim ore]

you can see the base template info in the github https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/tree/4.24/Templates , the AEC stuff, the arch vis stuff, etc.

[radiant haven]

@light coyote My Cube isnt heavy enough

[grim ore]

give it more maaaasssss

[light coyote]

@radiant haven You have freedom in games to tweak certain things,, but in general, just increase its mass.
Increasing gravity strength will decive a little from actualy beeing more heavy,, it is notizable that something is not right.

Reducing its drag may also be a thing to look at.

And having it affect something to visualy see that it is heavy.

[valid pike]

Add weight to it...

[light coyote]

It relly depends on what you are doing, maybe the answer is not making the object heavier, but reducing the other object of something.

[radiant haven]

yeah

jumped down lmao

[light coyote]

@valid pike You can add gravity or mass to add weight,,, weight is mass times acceleration.

[light coyote]

xdddddd

yeah ok, definetly mass

[radiant haven]

🤷

[light coyote]

I said it depends before in the sense that you may be using a heavy thing to affect something else,,, and maybe the answer was not to make it heavier, but to make the something else less of a load

less of a restriction

[radiant haven]

dude its just a mseh

[valid pike]

Mass times acceleration ? Its force ? F=MA

[radiant haven]

whaaaa

[valid pike]

So weight is a force we are forcing on the ground ?

[light coyote]

@valid pike yes,
weight is a force downwards to your weighing device.
Weight is mass times little g,,, but little g is the acceleration of gravity at sea level i belive

[valid pike]

Cool 🙂 great physx refresh on my brain

Waaait... brain 🧠? I dint have any

[radiant haven]

just wanna know how i change the value

WHERE

[light coyote]

I said it this way i dont know why, but i probably shouldnt,,, but yeah g is an acceleration.
Just corrected last msg

[valid pike]

Yes g is an acceleration of gravity

[radiant haven]

well u havent told me how i do it now

[valid pike]

It should be dependent on mass and radius of the planet ? Rock ? Stone ?

To increase g ? You have to increase the mass of the planet ^^

And lower its radius

[radiant haven]

WHICH PLANET WTF?

[light coyote]

xDDD

[radiant haven]

dude I jsut want to know how xD and not aa planet 😭

[light coyote]

@radiant haven i belive you have to add a rigidbody component

[valid pike]

There is a checkbox in mesh editor

[light coyote]

let me check

[valid pike]

You should uncheck it

And then write custom mass

Under the physx category

[valid pike]

Can you see the mass in kg ?

It is 2nd from top

See it ?

Click it

Write up couple metric tons

[radiant haven]

yeah

it wont appl

y

[valid pike]

And you increased the weight

Click on it

On the checkbox

At the left

What makes you think that it doesnt apply ?

[radiant haven]

still goes way high

[valid pike]

The speed of fall is not derived from mass

Go to nasa jpl and look at moon video where an austronauft drops a feather and a mallet on the moon - they both falls with the same speed

[radiant haven]

and I jump as well like low gravity

[grim ore]

jump? using what

[valid pike]

Then you want to increase the gravity

Force

[radiant haven]

FPT

[valid pike]

It is in the project settings

Under physics tab

[valid pike]

Yes

Increase it to

[radiant haven]

OMG FUCKING FINALLY thats waht I wantet all the time

[valid pike]

-999999999

[radiant haven]

AND u told me smth about Apollo 11

ar u kidding me ?!?!?

[valid pike]

13 i think

[grim ore]

so what was jumping?

[valid pike]

Dude you asked about physics weights and gravity

We answered you

Why are you blaming me

[radiant haven]

i aksed how to change the m not how they work

[valid pike]

I said

Increase the mass of the planet

[radiant haven]

@grim ore looks like jumping in low gravity

[grim ore]

but what was jumping lol

like a character?

[light coyote]

Check first the gravity in your map

[radiant haven]

ye

[light coyote]

it should be 9.8m/s/s

[grim ore]

ah yeah a character would use other systems is why

[valid pike]

@light coyote thats only on out earth

Our**

There are more rocks flying around

Which has different values

[light coyote]

@grim ore That is what confused me a lot when i was using unity a while ago,, you have so much freedom its even bad sometimes.

[valid pike]

Yeah... ue4 is gut enuf for us slaves

[radiant haven]

portal as an example

[valid pike]

That looks like a game

[grim ore]

@light coyote technically you have the same in UE4 for the most part the issue is the templates "hide" alot of that. It's a good and bad thing

[valid pike]

In ue4 you have the sourcw

[grim ore]

like the character class in UE4 is a bastard system that defies logic unless you know how it works lol

[valid pike]

Source - change whatever you want

Character... pretty simple actually

The implementation is just not readable

Like poorly commented

But all for all overall is simple enough

IMO CMC is over complicated for no reason

[grim ore]

I mean more the character has systems designed for it, the capsule and the way it moves being "physics" but not physics based. IF you don't understand the flow of the character it's annoying because you go "why can't I lie down or go prone" lol

[valid pike]

Oh

[grim ore]

compared to rolling your own character in unity you already have all the systems answered since you had to do it yourself

[valid pike]

You mean the archetecture

Yes it is complicated

But makes alot of sense

[sudden agate]

Cmc is a nightmare

[grim ore]

90% of the way the character is good, once you need that last 10% of custom stuff you start cursing lol

[valid pike]

CMC is not a nightmare

It is dumbly codes

Coded

But... well... it is also simple enough to vet a touch on it

Once you rule out 30% of its inner functions

You can get the same movement

With lighter code

But yeah CMC is hard

To start with

But after 2k alt+g oresses

[sudden agate]

Cmc is just a monolithic monster so people who don't use cpp have something to work with

[valid pike]

It is suddenly comes easy

[light coyote]

Check the gravity of the world.
Check the gravity of your character or any individual actor, and make sure they are all the same to avoid confusion. If you want to change it sometime for some actor for some reason, make sure you remember to wich you did and everything should be ok.
When all gravitys are the same, just play with masses and drag of the objects.

Drag is like,, you know when you carry a big sheet of something and wind really pushes you??,, that is analogous to drag,,, is the fact that certain shapes have more or less drag depending on how much they can get affected by the air in fron while falling.

[valid pike]

@sudden agate yes I agree... it could be better designed

It could be slices into parts

For ease of use

And not just being 30k rows of poor code

Like a class for each phys movement

That would handle it

And the base for the movement itself

Like plug-able thing...

And not all the stuff in one cpp

[grim ore]

sounds like you volunteered to re engineer it and push a pull request 😛

[north kelp]

Hey guys, For some reason my viewport camera has begun to slide all over the place like it's on ice. There is no controller connected and can't find a fix on google. Does anyone have an idea of what I could do to stop it?

[sudden agate]

@valid pike my thoughts exactly. I am working on an extensible movement component now

[valid pike]

@grim ore i did 12 PRs

Still in review since 2015

@sudden agate good luck 🙂 it is easy dont worry

I had to optimize it for my game

To run 200+ characters

That was a chalange

[sudden agate]

@valid pike wanna assist me? :D

[valid pike]

PM me

If I will have some spare time I can assists anyone in need

[sudden agate]

Ty. Will message you when I am at home

[valid pike]

Sure np glad to help

[light coyote]

@north kelp wow, no idea
keyboard?

sometimes is the simplest answer, is worth a try

[valid pike]

@north kelp make the camera static with disabled physics ?

[pearl sonnet]

lol i thought setup.bat took so long but it threw one of those windows UAC things on another display

[valid pike]

Ahahha

UAC is the King of sadness

Especially when multiple monitors involved

[pearl sonnet]

beats having to type your root password every time

😛

but yea lol
specially when it appears in the background as if nothing happened

went grocery shopping, stop by the pharmacy and everything lol

[north kelp]

@valid pike It doesn't seem to be the keyboard. Its the main viewport so I don't believe I can change the camera to static. It's happening on clean projects also.

[valid pike]

Reinstall the UE4

Get back to 4.19.3

[north kelp]

@valid pike I'm not able to do a re-install. I'm working on a client project. Seams like ill have to put up with it for now.

[valid pike]

-:-

[haughty geyser]

Hello. I already had UE 4.23 working with Visual Studio 2017, but then I installed VS 2019. This led to problems with runtimes, so I uninstalled 2019, but now I can't seem to convince UE to switch back to 2017 - every time I try to create a new C++ Basic Code project, I get an error

Running C:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_4.23/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool.exe  -projectfiles -project="C:/Dev/MyProject/MyProject.uproject" -game -rocket -progress
Discovering modules, targets and source code for project...
WARNING: Visual Studio C++ 2019 installation not found - ignoring preferred project file format.
ERROR: Visual Studio 2019 (14.22.27905) must be installed in order to build this target.

I already tried to completely uninstall both UE and VS and install them again, but it still keeps insisting on 2019

[smoky bear]

i'm having trouble with something on ue4, is this the right room to ask for help?

[valid pike]

@haughty geyser solution is easy - format your pc and reinstall UE4 4.23 with vs2019

[cloud cobalt]

No need to format anything

Just remove VS 2017

[valid pike]

@smoky bear yes, the above answer is also applied

[haughty geyser]

I already removed it

[grim ore]

@north kelp is it doing this during gameplay as well or just in the editor when editing?

[smoky bear]

it is blueprint related

i've already asked for help

[haughty geyser]

And VS2019 is not working

[cloud cobalt]

@haughty geyser Did you set up the engine to use 2019 ?

There's a global setting for it

[haughty geyser]

No, it defaulted to it the moment I installed it

[north kelp]

@grim ore Just in the editor

[cloud cobalt]

Try reinstalling 2017, then.

[haughty geyser]

Already did

Still the same issue

Also reinstalled UE

[grim ore]

@north kelp damn. yeah a controller would do that for sure, other than that it's weird that it would do that 😦 No more ideas

did you try forcing the editor to use 2017? @haughty geyser

[idle dragon]

Hi, does anyone know any good tutorials for cars in UE4? Specifically cars with suspension

[valid pike]

@haughty geyser open up the editor ini

And set the VS you need there

[cloud cobalt]

There are at least two different settings for VS - the editor one, and the project one

[north kelp]

@grim ore Yeah, It's super weird. Never had it happen before. Apart from being annoying, it's not causing much of an issue so ill just deal with it for now.

[grim ore]

😦

[valid pike]

Format c: will make sure both are fixed

[cloud cobalt]

@valid pike This is the worst advice, please stop

There is no need to format anything, ever

[valid pike]

Well it worked for me

[cloud cobalt]

Buying a new computer works too ! Just don't, please, this isn't helpful at all

[haughty geyser]

The only Editor.ini that I can see in UE installation is in Localization folder, and that neither has VS version, nor does it seem like what I need

[cloud cobalt]

Check %appdata%\Unreal Engine\UnrealBuildTool\BuildConfiguration.xml

[valid pike]

Exactly what I was heading to write

[cloud cobalt]

Should be <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Configuration xmlns="https://www.unrealengine.com/BuildConfiguration"> <BuildConfiguration> </BuildConfiguration> </Configuration>

[valid pike]

Stranger ? I remember you are familiar with linux right ?

[cloud cobalt]

Feel free to ask questions and see if people know the answer

[valid pike]

Cool, I am trying to embed FFmpeg to the UE4

[haughty geyser]

@cloud cobalt thank you! That fixed it =)

[valid pike]

But I want to compile FFmpeg statically

But for some reason it disregards my LDLinker flag

[cloud cobalt]

Is it for a game ?

[valid pike]

And uses pkg-config

Not a game

Sode project

[cloud cobalt]

Nothing you'll release to anyone ?

[valid pike]

Side**

Nope

I’m@aware of gpl3 license

And alg royaltees

[cloud cobalt]

I'm asking because the UE4 license makes it illegal to statically link against LGPL software

[valid pike]

Oh I want UE4 to link dynamically

But ffmpeg has dependencies

That it makes them dynamic as well

I want them as static

[grim ore]

just to note in the future if you change the code editor in the editor preferences in the editor to the exact VS version you want it will use that one. The default visual studio option just uses the env variables to figure it out

[cloud cobalt]

Dunno then coldsteel, haven't played much with that stuff

[valid pike]

Any idea how to override pkg-config files ?

I mean... it just throws errors that it cant find libass with pkg-config and I wrote it to usr/local/lib and even provided bloody ld flags to it 😦

Guess I will better ask it in linux forum 🙂

[pearl sonnet]

good luck, it's very quiet in there lol

considered trying on linux but nope

[valid pike]

Lol

Macos even worse

[pearl sonnet]

back in 2010 i completely broke my mbp in every way i could think of and havent gotten one since then

[valid pike]

My mbp still rocksolid

And its 2016

[pearl sonnet]

rocksolid they are
took a lot out of me to break it into little parts

[valid pike]

And it is almost gnuized 🙂

[pearl sonnet]

just getting it to bend, jeesh

[valid pike]

Hehe aluminium body

It fall from my waist height

On a stone road

Nothing happened

Only a little det

[pearl sonnet]

ya lol

[valid pike]

Dent

Macos hw is decent

But the prices suck

[pearl sonnet]

yea its unreasonable imo

[valid pike]

+1

But... if I were rich

I would buy a new one ))

With EGPU

[pearl sonnet]

buying apple is a sure way to get poor haha

[valid pike]

Ahahaha

Lol

[grim ore]

so in .24 the splash screen when the editor is loading now has a loading ... that moves when its loading and it's got messages showing which part its at (pre, post, loading, etc..). Now it stalls at 9% when compiling engine shaders instead of 45% lol

[grim ore]

No Matinee option in the Cinematics in .24 🙂 yay

omg the new modeling/mesh editing tools are handy as hell in .24. Stupid default mesh cube doesnt have enough density to paint on so you can just remesh it and target a higher density and bam painting for days

[radiant haven]

did someone ever played Portal 2?

[hasty osprey]

so i tried to cook but it failed

the error messgae was that 1 of my uassets were unversioned

what does that error mean and how can i fix it?

[grim ore]

open it up and save it in the editor?

[hasty osprey]

thats another problem, the uasset in mention was imported by just pasting it into my project in browser

therefore it doesnt appear in my editor

So yeah, that's probably my main issue how do i properly import the uasset into my project to begin with, i've googled but i still haven't managed it so far

[grim ore]

well it's in your project folder but not the content browser so are you even using it?

[hasty osprey]

it's in the content browser under a sub folder but when i start up my project it doesn't appear where it should

ue4 doesn't have native support for importing foreign uassets does it.

[grim ore]

.uasset files are versioned files so no you should not be putting them into your project directly unless you know what you are doing. where did the it come from? it's also a material instance so it is missing the rest of the parts for it I would assume

so unless you know exactly which engine version it came from and have all the files and the correct folder structure and you recreate it all it will not work

you need that info or to get the original files from the original source

[hasty osprey]

oh is that so

[grim ore]

in this case delete the .uasset file and your project would cook I would think

[stiff spoke]

In my game I made random spawn at the beginning of the game so the problem is that it compared to what I did there is only one Assets that spawn on the map but random

[plush yew]

@rotund scroll mine?

[solid sierra]

oof um I can't launch my game sry I'm new to this

could anyone help?

[plush yew]

Hello

I need help

[hoary silo]

How can you delete an instance from an instanced static mesh that was hit by a line trace?

[civic saddle]

@solid sierra @plush yew

Don't ask to ask, just ask
If someone can help, they will; Simply ask your question from the beginning to save everyone time

Instead of asking:
Does anybody know a nun?
ask:
How do nuns not melt on hot days?

You get help sooner, and we waste less time - win | win

[unreal galleon]

Anyone know why the my floor isnt being lit by my lights?, its lit before I build lighting but afterwards it just doesn't recieve any light

[civic saddle]

try putting the material for it on something else and see if that thing works

[unreal galleon]

Alright

it works on other objects

[civic saddle]

recreate the floor object step by step to see where it went wrong 🤷

[unreal galleon]

Yeah thats what im doing

its just a few planes copy pasted so thats why im confused

Well that worked so idk

lmao

[civic saddle]

that's how it tends to go, haha

[unreal galleon]

Thanks anyways lol

[crude vessel]

this is kicking my ass

I'm trying to use set all bodies below simulate physics function with ALS to make a character's tail (which wouldn't be in the animations) react to physics

I pretty much have it set up similar to the UE4 demo of physics driven animation but can't get it to work and I have no idea how to debug why not

it certainly executes the command, it comes file, I don't get any errors.

[austere dew]

Does anyone know how I can make the unreal render what the camera is looking at?

[polar hawk]

function with ALS

ALS

that might be your problem

ALS is great as a temp plug and play but you start getting technical and oof

[cosmic cedar]

any clue how to import particles from houdini into unreal?

[lyric knoll]

I need help

new to this community but IDK which channel is correct to go

[crude vessel]

Well, I'm pretty new to UE4 and wanted to use it as a starting point, I'm gonna be disappointed if I can't modify it to suit my needs, but i'm trying to take things slow and work on something one aspect at a time, right now my character has a tail and I'd like to use the physics to drive the tail when it's not being actively animated. Mostly because i'm lazy and I suspect 99.9% of UE4 mannequin animations will not include a tail animation 🙂

[harsh tiger]

i need some help. my render targets are showing up exactly how i want in the content browser.

but when i open them it goes like this, any ideas?

[sacred sun]

@harsh tiger the rgb values should be correct, render targets are weird when it writing to alpha. if you click the view button in the top left corner and uncheck alpha you should see your mouse.

[harsh tiger]

can i make it not be an alpha?

[sacred sun]

the scene capture has some settings, i think theres one where you can write to just rgb

[harsh tiger]

i feel like i need to change it

[sacred sun]

yeah second option

or last

or you can invert the inverted alpha channel, either in an outside program or by baking the render target through an alpha composite material

[harsh tiger]

doesnt show in widget which is strange

[sacred sun]

try converting to texture and in the texture settings there's a no alpha option.

[harsh tiger]

in the widget or render target texture?

[sacred sun]

right click the rt in the content browser. theres a convert to texture option

or did this need to be dynamic? like a video?

[harsh tiger]

ahh, i see, still nothing in the widget though

dynamic yeah

its meant to act like a live feed of the character

i had it dynamic before, but it was just the silhouette of the animal in an alpha

[sacred sun]

do you want a black background?

[harsh tiger]

nope, but thats a whole other issue haha

ideally, it would just be the animal and nothing else in the scene in the render target. not sure if its possible. but its for a college module. so i can put all this stuff in my blog

[sacred sun]

k, so you'll need to make a material. add a tex sample..

then set the tex sample to the render target.

[harsh tiger]

i have this material on a cube an this works in run time

[sacred sun]

if that mat was set to ui and in the image of the ui it should work

to cut out the environment you have to use the first option on the scenecapt and invert the opacity of the alpha ..with a one minus node

[harsh tiger]

how would i set the material to ui sorry?

[sacred sun]

in the material settings the mode is currently set to surface. click that.

[harsh tiger]

ah user interface. my dumb ass was looking for UI haha

[sacred sun]

blend mode translucent.

just the 'a' into opacity. rgb to final color

invert only the 'a'

[sacred sun]

scenecapt set to first option?

[harsh tiger]

i changed it to the material in the widget

yeah

https://gyazo.com/f9012b7847cac344205d95b388361fd1 its working how i want it, just need to get rid of the background

[sacred sun]

hmm. thats odd. I guess you could use the show only list.

[harsh tiger]

it works! but i can still see the other skeleton meshes in the scene

this could be my answer

[sacred sun]

nah.

[harsh tiger]

it works!

[sacred sun]

the 'primitive render mode' thing has a show only list setting. you can select specific actors

[harsh tiger]

https://gyazo.com/1b40b0a29bae9e080b9c09991d0ce941 cant see the other animals

[sacred sun]

if it works, it works. 🙂

[harsh tiger]

i turned on the show only list option and nothing popped up

an it kinda works. i set that override to 100 so they will only show when i get closed to them

[sacred sun]

the show only list array isn't grayed out so you can put things in it. when in show only mode

[harsh tiger]

i dont see that array

https://gyazo.com/a440a01d39fbb484849bfbef2456584d

could that work on begin play?

[sacred sun]

i think that would work.

i guess the array doesn't show up if the scenecapt is in the bp.

not really sure that's the correct node off hand so youll just have to test

[harsh tiger]

it worked, but i have the option to add a hat to animal from the menu. an when i put a hat on the squirrel an then go in game. hes in the corner. but not wearing the hat. but i dont mind tbh

[cosmic cedar]

@sacred sun wouldyou know anything about importing particles into unreal?

[sacred sun]

there's probably another show only node where you can add the whole actor.

[harsh tiger]

ah, its because i have static meshes turned off

[sacred sun]

ah yeah

[harsh tiger]

still cant see the hat which is strange

im happy with what i have tbf, its only a minor bug

[sacred sun]

@cosmic cedar not really

[harsh tiger]

@sacred sun its 3:20am in the uk so im gonna head off to bed. thanks for the help mate. really appreciate it!

[grim ore]

sigh when testing multiplayer if you forget to check dedicated server and expect dedicated server results your gonna have a bad time. feel like a noob lol

[plush yew]

@harsh tiger animations not smooth/fluid, the camera to look at your character should have some post, looks way too sharp and bland, needs some color and blur

otherwise, reminds me of the better games on itch

making it into a human vs animal type of escape thing seems to bring some attention, seen games like that get it

but something like bear simulator is also weirdly fun/addicting

also, not exactly a fan of the third person default cam, I'd do a cam like bear simulator in this case, so you can see the paws, even if it's like your character is walking upfront

anyone know where i can find param (0)

?

cause in this tut he just paste but dont tell us

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

[arctic valve]

hey is there a way to make a object that has physics on it not wig out and shoot out from under you if you jump up on it with 3rd person view? been trying to make a movable chair to climb up on but cnat get the physics tow rk right

[plush yew]

got it fixed nvm

[shadow pawn]

UE Forums being upgraded?

[oblique tangle]

any one know how i can recreate this post process depth material and put it on to my map?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/225448446956404738/635444277211824142/unknown.png

^ thats the effect im hoping to achieve

^ and that's my map

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Cheers 🙂

[sacred sun]

@oblique tangle looks like the scenecapture is set to write scene depth in the red or alpha, not a post process

[oblique tangle]

@sacred sun How would I got about writing the scene depth in the red or alpha? Is that the easiest way to achieve the effect or is a post process not possible

[sacred sun]

there's an option on the scene capt called 'capture source' change it to 'scene depth in R'. then in the material use the r channel of the texture sampler. i think they inverted their gradient. use one minus node to invert a gradient. use add, divide/mult, power nodes to control falloff.

[oblique tangle]

@sacred sun i changed it to the scene depth in r, and inverted it, but now my map is just completely black

[sacred sun]

k just did a quick test...

values are [not] between 0-1

if you multiply the red channel by something like .001 then invert the value, you should get usable values

[oblique tangle]

just changed it to 0.001 like you said and it's still completely black

ahhh

hold up

0.001 wasn't working for

me

[sacred sun]

depend how far away the cam is

[oblique tangle]

yeah that might have been

the problem

looks like that

how do i change it so its darker? just play with the values?

[sacred sun]

i think 1 = 1cm. so if the cam is 10 meters above the ground those pixel in the render target have a value of 1000.

[oblique tangle]

looks awesome dude, ty sm 😄

was very fiddly, so i really appreciate the help!! 😄

[sacred sun]

No prob, looks good

[upper quartz]

hi guys. i wanna get livelink subject in characterBP, have anyway to get that?

[oblique tangle]

Anyone know the best/most efficient way to model a large city?

[cloud cobalt]

Hire Rockstar

I mean, who else has the manpower to do it ?

[wary wave]

model individual 'panels' for generic buildings of a given architectural type, then repeat them ad infinatum?

[next badger]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/events/1679191-iliad-intelligent-layered-imaging-architecture-for-drawing-october-31-live-from-hq

Am i blind or there is no actual plugin anywhere?

[cloud cobalt]

It's... not released ?

Stream 2 days from now

[manic pawn]

nice, trying to open that forum page just gets stuck in a redirect loop for me

[next badger]

ILIAD (Intelligent Layered Imaging Architecture for Drawing)
https://www.praxinos.coop/

[manic pawn]

wot

interesting

though the name of that plugin is

[next badger]

imagine they slap a $300 price tag on it

or even put it on a subscription

[cloud cobalt]

That name is code for "French researcher culture"

Guarantee these guys are from a research background

[runic iron]

@oblique tangle Obviously it'll depends on the game, if you want something like GTA forget it. If you can do some tricks with angles of view and if the buildings don't need to be approached you can use tricks presented in this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjnyapZ_P-g

[stiff spoke]

You can also download a city with buildings in Epic Games store and you can change them a bit in UE4 @oblique tangle

[runic iron]

Also that one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_ikG-u_6r0

[stiff spoke]

Or you simply download the objects that can be in a city (building, panel, road ...) @gibb0#4418

[haughty geyser]

Hello again. I've noticed that in the Project Settings under Engine -> Input there are "Speech Mappings" below Axis Mappings. Is this speech recognition? Does anyone know how to use it? It's not documented anywhere, and googling it only comes up with unanswered forum threads asking about what it is and how to use it.

[harsh tiger]

@plush yew thanks for the feedback! I’ll make a note of it. Luckily i still have around 6 weeks till deadline

[plush yew]

np

[plain tiger]

Unreal Forum cannot login? Keeps redirecting me (for over what, an hour now?)

[copper flicker]

Howdy fine slackers!

My Question of the Day

😄

How do I spawn a nav mesh volume, or any volume from BP

[plain tiger]

This dude does lots of things with volumes : https://youtu.be/9-7SmkasS_A

[dim plover]

I don't think that video covers spawning nav mesh volumes, which from what I remember, are a bit strange.

[copper flicker]

so is there some way to create them.. isntead of spawning?

I refuse to believe the only way to create volumes is manually

😄

[watching Zak meanwhile]

[light thunder]

Can anyone point me in the right direction please? This morning I have set aside for settuping up Perforce but before I do, I need to find hosting - I can't seem to find the actual pricing for perforce server hosting, I thought you could get something on AWS too but they only have like 15 vendors, so I must be looking in the wrong spot - #source-control isn't too active and the video pinned doesn't have server information beyond what appears to be local hosting

[solid sierra]

How do I flip an object in unreal?

[copper flicker]

@light thunder Why do you need hosting. If you only use P4 solo, you can install it locally, no server.

@solid sierra what does it mean.. flip? scale negatively?

[cloud cobalt]

There isn't a lot of Perforce hosting available, most people host it themselves on a random VPS.

[light thunder]

I'm not going to be solo - I guess I could get around it to host the same stuff on a dropbox but if my machine craps down

[solid sierra]

Oh yeah I didn't realize I could just do that thanks

[cloud cobalt]

Dropbox isn't source control

[copper flicker]

btw, if I try to migrate things.. it keeps telling me the folder I chose is not a Contents folder

wth?...

[manic pawn]

you can not put it to a subfolder

[copper flicker]

I can't place this inside Content directly

[manic pawn]

it must be migrated to the root of the new project

as the assets use absolute paths to refer to each other

[copper flicker]

I want to migrate inside the same project

[manic pawn]

that is not what it is for at all

[copper flicker]

and ywah, it doesn't change the paths...

[manic pawn]

just move the folder then

[copper flicker]

I can't move the folder

it doesn't work well either

it keeps the old paths

[manic pawn]

run fixup redirectors on the root after moving the folder

[copper flicker]

I just want to save some VFX particles and all their complicated connections

neah, I failed big time with moving

it takes ages, and it fails at the end

ok.. I don't get this migrate, it's a complete fail

it works without errors to a Content folder

but it doesn't repath anything

it keeps the original paths

which means if I delete the original files, everything is broken

: O

[manic pawn]

migrate is used to copy files to a different project

[pearl sonnet]

from what i remember from the videos it keeps a reference to the original but the file you see in the editor is new/cached uasset

i guess thats what u meant

[copper flicker]

but the references are to the old files...

even if it copies them over

I have to manually relink everything?

[pearl sonnet]

if i where you i'd go into the folder through explorer and just copy the usassets

[copper flicker]

no, doesn't work

it doesn't change paths...

same issue

I don't know how to do this via Move either

I would have to move all the hierarchy

first to figure out what all the dependencies are...

and then manually move everything? dunno if it would even work

[pearl sonnet]

i mean.. everything you import contain a reference to the original

so that when you do like reimport it'll take it from there

if you want your actual models and textures and what not, you'd import those into your new project

and it'll have references to those original files

[copper flicker]

that's.... catastrophic mate

😄

I need to move files from one project to another.. let's say

the paths change

I want to delete to original files

[pearl sonnet]

i dont know what the case is with migrating usassets
whether or not the new ones inherit the original files reference or a reference to like a usasset in old project i have no idea

[copper flicker]

they do... makes no sense, but they do

I mean how is the old project relevant in any way?

why would they not update the paths..

O o

[pearl sonnet]

because you're making a reference to usassets not your original assets elsewhere i guess

[copper flicker]

@plain tiger so that's a video of how to spawn things in a volume. the volume is created manually. I need to spawn the Volume itself, from BP

[plain tiger]

😦

[copper flicker]

maybe by importing a level....

if all else fails

[light thunder]

@copper flicker what are you trying to do?

[pearl sonnet]

i wonder how functional ue4 WebBrowser is
getting sick of google

inception style, build my own OS experience in UE lol

[copper flicker]

@light thunder I need to spawn a NavMesh

not create it by hand

so far nothing on google......

[light thunder]

can you modify a NavMesh in real time?

[copper flicker]

I don't want to modify.. not sure what u mean

just create one at level begin

[light thunder]

I'm pulling up Unreal now

[pearl sonnet]

i was googling for national lotery statistics and 2 days later i get a phonecall for % off on tickets
that and the fact that they want to remove the URL-bar so you can only go through other websites and what not and build cookie chains
duck that

[copper flicker]

ideally I want to create a navmesh that encompasses the entire level

[plain tiger]

duckduckgo that

[copper flicker]

by calculating bbox or something

[light thunder]

Have you watched the Unreal engine livestream on AI ?

[pearl sonnet]

no

[light thunder]

Was asking @copper flicker, sorry

[plain tiger]

While looking for listview tutorials, I found https://youtu.be/-Uvf_9Mqb2k ... but it does not even use listviews! it just adds widgets to the bottom of a vertical box, lol

[copper flicker]

@light thunder which livestream..

?

[light thunder]

PRobably this one - https://youtu.be/nshHCycft4A

[copper flicker]

Add a volume as a component to a blueprint.. is a question asked on answers.unrealengine

and there's no solution for it

[light thunder]

I don't think you need to do that, that's why you can't find it

[copper flicker]

other than... create a BOX collider and try to momic things

[dim plover]

Can't you do this?
https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/81497/how-to-build-navmesh-for-dynamically-sized-procedu.html
Actually, I think I did this approach awhile ago.

[light thunder]

Unless I'm wrong, you don't need nav meshes all the time, just in problamatic areas that are complicated or you need to ensure a certain path