ue4-general

[fierce forge]

not

[sharp crest]

he is saying his launcher crashes

[fierce forge]

i will make a video

[sharp crest]

ye maybe then we will understand lol

[abstract relic]

You can keep repeating. You’ll get the same answer

[fierce forge]

i can put the video here ?

[fierce tulip]

upload to youtube or elsewhere please

unless its 5mb or so

[fierce forge]

it's 1 mb

@fierce tulip

[sharp crest]

ye just upload why not

they can disable permission I think so if it's not disabled

[fierce tulip]

can upload. "unless its 5mb"
1mb is << 5 mb. so go ahead.

[sharp crest]

why less than 5mb

[sharp crest]

oh it crashes during the loading

[fierce forge]

yes

[fierce tulip]

because not many people will bother with loading files :p

[abstract relic]

Same answer

[sharp crest]

ye u need to find the log

[fierce forge]

where ?

[abstract relic]

Lol

[sharp crest]

no idea lol try googling it

[abstract relic]

I’m done

[sharp crest]

probably engine folder somewhere

maybe engine/saved/logs

[fierce forge]

i searched on google but nothing

[sharp crest]

UnrealEngine-4.X\Engine\Saved\Logs

[cloud cobalt]

Try using the "Verify" option on the engine in launcher.

[sharp crest]

he said he reinstalled

[fierce forge]

@cloud cobalt i did this 10 minutes ago

[cloud cobalt]

Okay, did the engine ever run before ?

[fierce forge]

yes

[cloud cobalt]

Remove Intermediate in your project folder

And retry

If you have other UE4 projects, like the Content Examples, try loading that

To check if it's engine or project related

[minor flint]

hey, i'm new here. I read a article saying unreal engine 4 can technically make a game without any programming knowledge. (i assume this was a white lie and you use plug scripts and edit them, but thats aside the point)
is it true? i'm looking to dabble in making something in VR as a hobby, using whatever is the easiest engine for hobby.

[fierce forge]

@sharp crest i don't have saved in UnrealEngine-4.X\Engine\

[sharp crest]

mm maybe thats source built only

[cloud cobalt]

You can ignore that guy tbh

[sharp crest]

rude but ok

[cloud cobalt]

@minor flint It's true that you can do a simple singleplayer game without code

You'll need visual scripting instead with nodes

Which is programming too, just a more approachable type

[fierce forge]

i finded logs

[cloud cobalt]

Remove the Intermediate folder and try again.

[fierce forge]

but there are just unrealmultiuser crashes

intermediate ?

[cloud cobalt]

The folder, called Intermediate

[fierce forge]

ok

is it big

4.40 gb

[cloud cobalt]

Doesn't matter

[fierce forge]

i hope it will work

[minor flint]

i imagine visual scripting is something i think it's called rpg maker uses? or is it something diffrent.
i'm not code-less, but my skills are extremely rogue, and definatly not suited to making things in a engine. or atleast not enough things.

[fierce forge]

😦

not working

[sharp crest]

@minor flint just try it
it's like programming u just dont need to remember syntax
logic is the same

[cloud cobalt]

@fierce forge Install the Content Examples project and try loading that

@minor flint You can google "UE4 Blueprint" to get an idea

[fierce forge]

man , the entire ue4 is not working at me

not just a project

[sharp crest]

did u try maybe a different ue4 version?

[fierce forge]

yes

[sharp crest]

rip

[cloud cobalt]

Install the Content Examples project and try loading that

[fierce forge]

ok

[cloud cobalt]

Again, to understand if your project has a problem, or your engine.

[fierce forge]

engine

@cloud cobalt

[sharp crest]

I can see his point, maybe one of the projects is causing the launcher to break

maybe try asking on Answerhub

[cloud cobalt]

How do you know ?

[fierce forge]

if a project have a problem , i can't open ue4 to create a new project ?

can't

[cloud cobalt]

Just install Content Examples from the learn tab of the launcher

[sharp crest]

try installing a project and see if it loads

[cloud cobalt]

So that you do not need to create anything

[fierce tulip]

i'd probably repair the engine version you are using, andthen try a clean project.

[glacial storm]

hi guys

[sharp crest]

he tried verify and reinstall

[cloud cobalt]

He did repair already.

[plain snow]

dam i still cant figure out my problem lol

[sharp crest]

hey Uin

[glacial storm]

Who makes game skills vfx?

[fierce forge]

r.i.p 😦

[glacial storm]

im une4 newbie.

😦

[cloud cobalt]

@fierce forge So did you install the Content Examples project ?

[fierce forge]

from ?

[cloud cobalt]

I told you

[sharp crest]

go to epic launcher then ue4 then learn then content examples

[cloud cobalt]

Please read my messages and try seriously if you want a solution

[glacial storm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcTs-ssSlWo&t=68s

i seem this video

and when I contacted this instructor site
he company said that only the chinese could do it?

[sharp crest]

what

lol

there are lots of particles on the marketplace if u dont want to make urself

[glacial storm]

and i find another project

[sharp crest]

the company said that only the chinese could do it
quote of the day 10/10

[glacial storm]

ive only used C4D in 3D, so I dont know what to start with

[fierce forge]

ok , i'm creating the content examples project

[glacial storm]

I want to take that course im so 😦

does'game kill vfx know which is more popular, ue4 or unity?

[plush yew]

Hi ! im trying to make a structure and put that as basic stats to my character, bud i think im pretty noob at that :p , is there something i did do wrong or is there a simple node that can make this happen ? so i can make my first attributes ingame to finely make skills that comsume the attributes and even got stronger if my attributes are higher ?

[sharp crest]

@plush yew you can connect any of those ints to a 'set by ref' node

or connect the struct var itself to a 'set members' node

[lone tapir]

Does anyone know how I can play an Image Sequence (a sequence of PNG images) using the Media Framework on android? 🤔 🤔 🤔 I could only run on .mp4 videos!

[cloud cobalt]

Convert it to mp4

[fierce tulip]

@glacial storm
https://www.vfxapprentice.com/courses/foundations-booms-blasts/info

[fierce forge]

@cloud cobalt i installed content examples

[sharp crest]

then try to open it

[fierce forge]

i'm in loading

[sharp crest]

go to the folder it installed at and press the exe

ok wait then and see if it loads up

[fierce forge]

same

😦

[sharp crest]

@glacial storm I suggest maybe looking on youtube and google before paying for courses, there is lots of free education online

@fierce forge did u load the project itself and not the engine?

[fierce forge]

yes

[sharp crest]

Idk then

try asking on Answerhub

[lone tapir]

@cloud cobalt I converted, but .mp4 files do not come with alpha! So I converted my alphas to .mp4 but I can't play both videos simultaneously! The color video starts and soon after the alpha video starts playing a few seconds later. 😕

[glacial storm]

Thx!!

[plush yew]

thanks @sharp crest

[near notch]

Greetings people. I hope some one can help me out with this issue. Project background: I am creating a character BP which can switch between various animals. I am changing the size op capsule for each one. Problem: The character can gets pushed when it comes in contact with the AI. The AI also gets pushed sometimes when it comes in contact with the character although with not as much force. I have not fiddled with the physics settings and neither am I applying any force or impulse. Cheers.

[plush yew]

Does anyone know why My Health Value stucks on 105 ? on print string it says 105..105..105..105 i want it to be 110 115 120

[sharp crest]

@near notch I'm having the same issue, please let me know if you manage to fix it and how 😅

@plush yew you are setting the health to 100 and then adding one
every time

[plush yew]

yup

[sharp crest]

so it should print 101

lol

[plush yew]

i know i changed the value to 5

best if it was +2 procent Health Each second

[patent ibex]

did anyone try hosting UGS on linux?

[plush yew]

structures are a whole other level of thinking with this xD

[sharp crest]

for character stats I have
begin play: set default stats (or from save)
event tick with delay .1 cuz I'm lazy to do timers: add +1 with clamp node and max being the max stat

[plush yew]

thanks

so hard lol

[sharp crest]

just gotta get the hang of it 😅

[plush yew]

yeah lol xD im thinking if i need an current xp and a max xp and xp needed for level up i will need a decent formula to how much xp u need to level up and then after i will need to change the max value with it

dam xD

not a single guide that explain this into simple steps

wel ima going to sleep, learning everyday more then 6 houres , going to play some borderlands xD

good day to you all and tbjbu thanks for your help

[sharp crest]

there are lots of xp tutorials online I think

alright have fun

[plush yew]

feel free to add me and mentor me xD lol

[sharp crest]

😅 I'm usually here when bored so u will see me a lot

[normal burrow]

@fierce forge you know where the .uproject file is but don’t see the Saved folder right next to it?

[next badger]

who used Epic Leaderboard here? there are no Update node anymore.

[minor flint]

so how many layers are there to fucking install unreal engine

because it seems alot like
go to use UE4 -> make a account with our store
go to use UE4 -> download the fucking epic games launcher???

what other surprises are in store for me

i just want to make a unreal engine 4 folder i put it in, but i guess i can't?

?????

[manic pawn]

what a surprise: you use the epic launcher to get software from epic

[minor flint]

you wouldn't with most other reasonable software

[serene birch]

well he can also download the source and compile himself the editor

[cloud cobalt]

UE4 is software meant for creating blockbuster games with a team of 100, so it is not like most other software

You'll also discover that it will use 100GB on your hard drive and demands the most high-end hardware on the market, so do brace for that too

[minor flint]

okay, what do i name my folders and where do i put them. i want UE4 on my D drive, and only UE4 on my D drive. will the epic games store not play nice with multiple drives

[serene birch]

you select the install path

[grave nebula]

Take it easy, you have whole life ahead. You will figure it out eventually.

[minor flint]

well, i have a gtx1080 and recently upgraded to a good CPU (i think? no idea, i can run emulaitors upscaled to 4K res no problem)

[serene birch]

you'll need to set a couple paths in UE4 itself too else it'll put some caches in your C drive

[cloud cobalt]

If disk space is a problem you are in the wrong business

[serene birch]

you can slim down a lot of the UE4 engine download with the install options in the EGS launcher btw

[minor flint]

disk space isn't a problem. i want to sort things to reasonable locations

[serene birch]

like if you don't intend to do Android development, don't install that part

[grim ore]

this is why everyone should have 1 drive and just dump everthing into the c:\stuff folder 🙂

[cloud cobalt]

Hell I have like 5GB of stuff in appdata

Not to mention the 300GB of projects

[minor flint]

mathew, i hope you say that in jest

[cloud cobalt]

Or the 50GB engines

[minor flint]

having only 1 drive, is so incredibly fucking horrible long term

[serene birch]

the projects are what eats the most disk space sneakily 😄

[grim ore]

eh why not have it all in one folder. windows can find what I want when I search

[minor flint]

because then you literally lose everything when you reformat, or your disk dies

[grim ore]

I only lose what I dont backup

[cloud cobalt]

Use RAID, never reformat

And use backups & source control

[minor flint]

i was thinking of getting raid

[grim ore]

I reformat my machine every 3 months so I never lose what I don't want to lose

[minor flint]

wtf

[serene birch]

RAID mirror for simple HDD failure, backups for user mistakes and bigger failures

[minor flint]

how can you even operate your pc reasonably deleteing everything every 3 months

[serene birch]

RIAD 6 to extend disk space 😛

(I wish we could use ZFS on Windows)

[grim ore]

why would it be an issue to reinstall software every 3 months?

[minor flint]

it takes like atleast a month or two just to reinstall all the essencial programs one uses day to day as a heavy user

[cloud cobalt]

Anyway this is more #lounge stuff guys

[minor flint]

DLL errores literally endlessly

save files being delted constantly

like oh my god

[grim ore]

It's the holidays, all the mods are on vacation or in turkey comas. Riot in #ue4-general 🎆

I guess to back on topic for the channel 4.24 release next week or the week after? what do we think

[cloud cobalt]

Betting January

[normal burrow]

Lol matheww

[serene birch]

I could see up to January too

[grim ore]

I am 99.999994325% sure it will be december

[normal burrow]

[serene birch]

or trying to sync a little 4.24 with Mixer 2020

[normal burrow]

Def December if not Jan

[manic pawn]

what if: this evening

[normal burrow]

Previews can hit 8

[minor flint]

so where can i install the epic games store to. is it gonna be a cancer and slowly install a bunch of shit i don't want.

[normal burrow]

One a week

[grim ore]

they can but the goal is this year and that gives them next week or the week after if it's going to happen

[minor flint]

i'm also kind of sure i already have it installed somewhere for fortnite...

[normal burrow]

I don’t think thanksgiving will be 4,24 zeb

[grim ore]

just hit the windows key and type Epic, see what comes up in the start menu

[near notch]

Hello folks. I hope some one can help me out with this issue. Project background: I am creating a character BP which can switch between various animals. I am changing the size op capsule for each one. Problem: The character can gets pushed when it comes in contact with the AI. The AI also gets pushed sometimes when it comes in contact with the character although with not as much force. I have not fiddled with the physics settings and neither am I applying any force or impulse. Cheers.

[grim ore]

yeah the epic office is closed until monday so definitely not this week. next week is "We'll be back next week with a high level look at the upcoming Unreal Engine 4.24 features!" so it might be next week but I would lean towards a delay and the week after

[normal burrow]

January

Maybe Christmas

Lots of holidays coming up. Would not blame them for holding off

[grim ore]

@near notch you are seeing de penetration. When the 2 colliders are inside eachother they will get pushed apart. you are changing the capsule size and causing penetration which then the physics engine tries to correct

[wispy plume]

hey, i have a question. Any one has a idea how to make a player slow down when they leave the track. Im making a racing game

Do i have to make a box collision for all the track

or is there a smarter way

[grim ore]

line trace down, get surface material/physics material, if not road then adjust speed?

[wispy plume]

so tick trace down?

[grim ore]

can do that from all 4 tires independently if you want to make sure its all the way back on

[minor flint]

oh, making it so they only speed on the road seems smarter then slowing down on not road

alot more not road then there is road

[grim ore]

@wispy plume yeah you can tick trace down and just check the surface hit

[wispy plume]

hmm, so line trace down get surface material, if road speed up

[near notch]

@grim ore Any workarounds for this? It happens even if I change it before colliding with anyone. Also, big fan of your content!

[wispy plume]

hmmm can i use tag for this traces?

becaause im planning to use different materials for the roads

[grim ore]

@near notch my guess is you are causing the AI to get too close to the target which is causing the issue. You might need to adjust the AI stop radius based on the targets capsule size. even then you are going to have an issue with the "square" animals like an elephant as the capsule is now more round than tall so they are going to try and go under it

look into using the physics materials for the surface types, you can check against that.

[wispy plume]

well, i guess ill fiddle with traces for a while. Thanks for the help @minor flint @grim ore

[thick herald]

2.556 weeks til 4.24 - that's my guess... who's running the book? 😄

[grim ore]

I dunno that puts it at right before christmas break which seems a bit too close.

Im guessing the 3rd or the 10th

[near notch]

@grim ore Thank you! I will have a look into it, will try making the capsule taller.

[grim ore]

@near notch yep. Unfortunately non humanoids and the default character class are.... not fun 😦

[thick herald]

Have you played with the preview at all, the landscape layer system looks to be incredibly interesting

[near notch]

Yup. Experiencing that first hand now.

[grim ore]

I've played with most of the .24 features yep. The landscape layer one is nice and the blueprint landscape actors one is powerful but super confusing to a non artist like me lol

but atleast they give us an example to play with 🙂

[minor flint]

so, is everything in epic games installed to the epic games folder, including all of unreal. Presumably in their own sub folders

or does it fragment

[thick herald]

It makes a lot of sense after seeing the video on it. Non destructive landscape editing will help speed up design etc. Looking forward to playing with it.

[grim ore]

you can choose any install folder for any of the software you install from the epic games launcher, this includes each engine install. Downloaded marketplace content will go next to the launcher in it's own folder unless you change that

[minor flint]

okay. taking my chances with it then.

whats hololens2

[lone tapir]

Does anyone know how I can make two videos play simultaneously? Because I have a .mp4 video that is my color and another .mp4 that has my alpha! So on the material I plugged both in and BP level I put to play both players! But the end result is two videos out of sync ... Could someone give me a light at the end of the tunnel to solve this? Thanks a lot for your help!

[minor flint]

i don't know. but you could cheese it by stitching them together

into 1 video

like, side by side

example if its a 1000x1000 video, and theres to of them, make it a 2000x1000video

theres obviously a better way out there, but this seems easy enough for your purposes

[lone tapir]

@minor flint Good idea, the only problem is that this video is in Stereo (side by side)! So I can't put Alpha together with the video. I'm having to do it with a video instead of an image sequence because I couldn't run a png sequence in Oculus Quest!

[cloud cobalt]

@lone tapir Easier way here is to just color key your alpha instead.

[serene birch]

maybe use a chromakey for tranparency

[cloud cobalt]

^

[minor flint]

oh hey your a VR person

[serene birch]

green screen!

they use it in real life situations so it should be ok for you 😛

[cloud cobalt]

Better yet, recreate the video in UE4

I don't see anything complex here

Just animate that on UI

[kindred viper]

I managed an alpha video once for a UI because I couldn't be arsed rebuilding it from a stock video of the UI :p

[lone tapir]

@cloud cobalt Your ideas are good, I will try Chroma Key first! But I don't know how to recreate a 3D Stereo 180 (SBS) video on Unreal.. 🤔

[cloud cobalt]

Put the sprites on meshes and animate them

No idea if UE4 even supports 3D video ?

[kindred viper]

dont think so. They only just got 3d textures

but its possible

[cloud cobalt]

I mean I'm sure there's a clever material hack to unpack the video

[lone tapir]

@cloud cobalt I also believed that I could not play stereo video on Unreal .. but following this tutorail I got: https://subscription.packtpub.com/book/game_development/9781789132878/9/ch09lvl1sec51/displaying-stereo-video

[neat forge]

I just worked on something for like 2 hours and the editor crashed and nothing saved even though I clicked save multiple times and have had dozens of auto saves?

Is there a way to get that stuff back?

[grim ore]

weird for sure, so none of the files are there and no work was saved?

[sharp crest]

Saved/AutoSaves

[neat forge]

Yeah, I went into the auto saves and moved the folder to the content but it still didnt restore it

[sharp crest]

U need to pick specific files

Rename to their original

And replace

[remote fulcrum]

question

anyone found a fix to the unreal engine 4.23.1 play rate track not having an effect on renders?

any sped up or slown down pieces of a render with the play rate track are still at normal speed when you render

[minor flint]

im trying to make unethical snap moment decisions on buying a VR headset for UE4 dev, can someone link me a video showing off how 'simple' it is to make things in EU4

[kindred viper]

well the simple stuff is simple. The hard stuff is hard, and there is some in between. I mean, its as complex as you want to get

[grim ore]

there is an included template to allow you to pick up objects and teleport around in VR. beyond that there is alot of work making an actual game.

[kindred viper]

yeah its one of those tasks that you think "ahh its as easy as a normal game" and then you get stuck in some VR limitation or something that means you have to go find info that can be scarce

[grim ore]

lol if you want to get technical the robo recall mod kit is available for free to pick apart and use so there is that but uh... if you are new to UE4 then VR is going to be not simple to start with

[pulsar kraken]

@grim ore What do you recommend for database connections inside your game? MongoDB preferred... and is it secure in unreal?

[kindred viper]

nothing is secure in Unreal. It's an open source engine.

[grim ore]

I don't have any recommendations as I haven't used anything more than va rest and socket.io for network communications. secure is relative and it's C++ in the back end so you can always just integrate something else

[pulsar kraken]

Marc.. just stop. lol

[kindred viper]

what?

[grim ore]

the one time I did networking it was just using the rest api calls to my node.js server running mongo and it was good enough for what I was doing.

[pulsar kraken]

sounds like that may be the better option

varest seems the way to go

[kindred viper]

there is an SQLlite setup in the engine, you can also add ODBC if you like.

[pulsar kraken]

how did you secure your API key @grim ore

[grim ore]

yep yep it just depends on your needs. something in real time is gonna be a pain but just stuff like account lookup its easy enough

I didnt, it wasnt for a production it was just for fun

i mean regardless of what you do you still have to send the key over the network so

[pulsar kraken]

yup

[kindred viper]

@pulsar kraken if I expand on the security statement, imagine you are wanting to hack something with UE4. You have debug symbols in the engine, you have debug tools available to read memory, and there is a scene for hacking UE4. So I don't trust it at all. In fact, SQL Injections in UE4 are probably easier than a browser these days

thats cool. You understand my lack of trust then 😉

[pulsar kraken]

yes

security over obscurity 😉

[kindred viper]

yeah thats works I guess. I did attempt some security by offloading it out via VaREST into my server but I dont trust it still.

[pulsar kraken]

yeah its hard to trust.. https is going to be the best way obviously

That is the cavoite here as ... users build the engine and generate debug symbols making it very easy to get what they want to manipulate.. Just have to server side the things that matter the most and create detection mechanisms around manipulated variables that matter.

[plush marsh]

anybody knows why I'm getting this on new blank c++ project compile dbsbuild: error: (4e631ed1-8d1a-4041-84d5-cef51c195bfc,55): template path is not valid : invalid Folder : D:\UE4Vault\UE_4.22\Engine\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\SndbsTemplates ( 2) VS has same components that I have at home and it works home. Right now I'm trying install everything on a new machine at work and it keeps failing

[pulsar kraken]

Obviously for performance sometimes you have to make sacrifices then protect that area of code.

is the folder there @plush marsh

[plush marsh]

yep

ah

noppeeeee

[pulsar kraken]

all good.

[plush marsh]

not SndbsTempalates

why I don't have it ?

SndbsTemplates

[pulsar kraken]

try googling the error -> stack overflow. Not sure if you have created a item template path

[plush marsh]

Ok, thanks for pointing me on this

[lone tapir]

@cloud cobalt I generated a green channel video at 255, and exported it to .mp4! However it did not work very well, even changing Chroma Color and Alpha Cutoff this image result is the best I could. 😕

Well, now I'm out of ideas! I've tried everything I researched: I tried using the HAP codec, it works perfectly on PC but when I create the ".APK" fatal error happens. I tried to create the video in AVI with Alpha but I was unsuccessful to run in Oculus Quest maybe the file is too heavy to play in real time. I tried to create a sequence of PNG images to run the quest but unsuccessfully! I tried using Chroma Key but it failed! Does anyone have any other ideas? 🤔

[strong mesa]

When i remove an item from the array the item is removed but the index is still valid

How do i remove the index too

[grim ore]

how are you removing it?

If you are using the Remove Index Blueprint node for an array in Blueprints it should resize the array after it removes it. The index of course would still be valid if the count is still high enough to be valid but the data will be different if the item that moved into that spot is different.

[strong mesa]

I just use Remove index node and i don't replace it

but then when i use add it adds the new item after that empty index

so now i have an empty index in the middle

and it's ruining the rest of the code

[grim ore]

weird, check your length before and after the remove

it works fine here

[strong mesa]

i do print the array index and it counts the items as if they where the same

[grim ore]

index or length?

[strong mesa]

index

[grim ore]

are you removing something in the middle of a loop?

[strong mesa]

even length gives me 3 items

The removing code is isolated

[grim ore]

well that code there will just print out your 3 items so nothing wrong with that

[strong mesa]

I swear i find the most hard limits in this engine

but after they are removed it doesn't cut off the removed index

[grim ore]

show that code then?

[strong mesa]

they remain there

it happens from another actor, nontheless it's the same

[loud valve]

Hey Guys, Question: I want to create "Gibs" or Broken pieces when blown up/broken by player. How do we do this? Is there a UE Feature or Marketplace plugin for that?

[grim ore]

are you sure it's actually removing it then?

[strong mesa]

yeah

because the code before it fires

and i can't access it anymore

[grim ore]

shrug without the code can't tell then

[strong mesa]

also when i print the names of all indexes it gives none

[grim ore]

well good luck, might just need to step thru it all

[strong mesa]

i've been stepping through everything xD

[grim ore]

I can say that the remove index node is intended to remove the item it is told to remove at that index and then resize the array by making a new one and moving the ones after it up into those positions then sets the original array to this new array. Chances are the code issue if what you are seeing is not that is not with that node

in that example above I would put a print string before the remove index and after and have it print out the length of that array that you are giving it. Then see if it prints out the same values or different. If it prints out the same then it is not finding the item to remove

also why use the find, why not just use remove item if you are just finding the item to remove anyways?

[strong mesa]

Because it could remove any duplicates from the array and i don't want that

[grim ore]

how can you guarantee find is getting the correct one then?

unless I guess you are ok with it just removing the first instance of it

[vernal thicket]

How we all doing

[grim ore]

23 minutes away from doing good 🙂

[vernal thicket]

:D when the fun stops, stop

[strong mesa]

because it uses references not instances

[vernal thicket]

Sheriff what you trying to remove from index?

[strong mesa]

i'm just trying to remove index

the removing code just stopped working too 😂 😂

[vernal thicket]

What's the goal?

I'll see if I can find some info for you

[strong mesa]

Apparantly i was being stupid

...

.. again !

[vernal thicket]

Have you tried disconnecting the find node, and typing in the integer of the index you're trying to remove?

[strong mesa]

I'll tell you, just don't make fun of me

I had a macro and it had tow routes and i only connected the true route and forgot to connect the second route

and so it stopped executing at the macro

[vernal thicket]

I once spent like 4 hours looking for an issue in one of my inv systems, and it was literally just the fact I didn't check boolean to true lol

[strong mesa]

lols

good thing my system has Bools automated

[vernal thicket]

For a channel with as many people on it as this does it's like a ghost town in here

[abstract relic]

It’s get fat day for the Americans

[normal burrow]

national get fat day

[thick herald]

feels a great disturbance in the force, as if a million turkeys cried out at once

[normal burrow]

national get fat day is quite cruel to turkeys as opposed to regular get fat days

[strong mesa]

so does a for each loop with break return complete if it never broke !

[frozen pond]

so i got destructible mesh, it destruct as it should, but how to get destruction progress so i can trigger something when is destructed in > 50% ?

[minor flint]

So, if i wanted to use UE4 with blueprints to make stuff, what tutorial corse should i buy. i'm well aware using other engines, that google is a great tool, but their 90% off it seems, and it would maybe be more effective then searching everything myself

[abstract relic]

There isn’t such thing as destruction progress. It’s just real-time physics doing it’s thing

[frozen pond]

any other idea how to get "progress" ?

or what condition use to trigger event ?

[abstract relic]

If you’re looking to get the absolute basic. There are some free courses by epic themselves https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning

[frozen pond]

not absolute basic lol, i need idea how to use that destructible mesh

[abstract relic]

Not referring to you

[frozen pond]

ah k

sorry ^_^

[minor flint]

i mean things like this, altho thats a great link to! https://www.udemy.com/course/unreal-engine-4-blueprints/?utm_source=adwords-learn&utm_medium=udemyads&utm_campaign=DSA_CA_Tech&utm_content=deal4584&utm_term=_._ag_76808851565_._ad_384448311009_._de_c_._dm__._pl__._ti_dsa-796176360685_._li_9001157_._pd__._&gclid=CjwKCAiA_f3uBRAmEiwAzPuaMymS_QlSD9cHO-X_u3WpvL2hEJt5mhXsWbb5pe9C_4z0LcweHfYkGBoCnmEQAvD_BwE

i maybe prefer yours sense it has tests and stuff

but, im just trying to focus on black friday sale stuff

[abstract relic]

Ah going to tell you a secret

In udemy, everything is always 95% off. Regardless of the day

More like, “Sale ends in a day! Then the sale is back up and that also ends in a day!”

Rinse and repeat

[frozen pond]

@abstract relic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-MgiTHqhFY&feature=youtu.be any idea how to make it "damage resistant" ?

[normal burrow]

lol udemy

[unreal matrix]

Hi, I was hoping somebody might be able to help me out with a problem I'm having regarding Touch Input on mobile devices. I'm setting the render translation of a widget image to the location of a touch input, but it's off by a factor on different devices. e.g. On iPad I can multiply the touch XY Coordinates by 0.71 and the touch image lines up perfectly, but on the iPhone I'm working with, I would need to multiply the touch XY Coordinates by 1.3 to make them line up. I'm using the "Input Touch" node to get touch input, and the touch location. Has anybody encountered a similar problem?

Oh, I probably should have posted this in the Blueprint or UMG channels, my bad

[plush yew]

What's the best way to spoof movement input on a player character? I need to force them to move in a direction and in the past I just disabled player movement input and triggered the add movement input node on loop for the duration of the action

[normal burrow]

probably a better way to do it than to spoof input

[plush yew]

yeah, I'm not sure how I want to do it but I'm pretty sure my old method isn't optimal

[normal burrow]

may be something in the movement component but i'm not sure. I know you can manually launch it in the air but not positive about just general locomotion inputs

[plush yew]

Right now I need to do it for a dodge mechanic but I'm hoping to repurpose my implementation for things like knockbacks and shoves

Yeah I'm avoiding physics for this, but if I wasn't launch character would be great

[normal burrow]

avoiding character movement component?

[harsh tiger]

Is it possible for a mobile user to import a image from their phone into the game?

[plush yew]

No I 'm digging around in there right now though

[harsh tiger]

I’ve seen a plugin but it looked like a pc only thing

[normal burrow]

character movement component was what i was referring to

not a simulated body or anything (can't really use physics on a cmc)

[plush yew]

Oh I thought you meant the launch node

yeah my mistake lol

[normal burrow]

maybe i'm just confused what you meant by physics is all

[plush yew]

Oh there's a "launch character" node that a lot of people use for jumping

and people typically recommend that for dodging or knockbacks or anything like that. I mean with knockbacks it'd make sense if you go airborne but I need a little more control over my dodges

[normal burrow]

using c++?

[plush yew]

another problem with these tutorials is that they're using a whole dodge roll animation set which they typically use alongside root motion

I'm trying to do all of this in BP, unfortunately

[normal burrow]

just asking because i'm unfamiliar with whats exposed to bp or not

[frozen pond]

how to check how many trues are in bool array ?

[normal burrow]

any or all?

[frozen pond]

all true in array

return int lol

[plush yew]

maybe a for each loop that increments an int?

[ornate ice]

Hey

Is there a way to access a Child Actor variables?

I have a ChildActor object that holds arrow components inside

how can I access the arrows

[plush yew]

cast to child actor

[normal burrow]

@frozen pond

[ornate ice]

@plush yew there is no cast\

[plush yew]

what BP are you trying to access your child from

[plush yew]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[plush yew]

you should be able to just drag that highlighted item into your BP

[ornate ice]

ignore the errors

I have it

but I cannot access the arrows

this is the actor inside

I want to get to the LeftArrow

[plush yew]

and dragging off of the climbing arrow node doesn't let you get left arrow? Because if not then I'm not sure what to do outside of making sure everything is compiled

[ornate ice]

yeah no

😦

this looks like the only way

horrible

[plush yew]

yeah that looks really annoying

[ornate ice]

they should be usable from the climbing arrows

:S

[strong mesa]

I need a reverse for loop ASAP
I'll pay in Big Macs

[plush yew]

in BP?

[strong mesa]

yeah

[plush yew]

reverse for loop is a node

[strong mesa]

nah

that's a for each loop

i also need a reverse for loop with break

no Onions

[plush yew]

oh with break

my bad

also

"for loop" not for each

yeah damn

[strong mesa]

yup

[tidal totem]

Hey everyone, I am new to unreal and am stuck on something that I am sure is very simple. I attached a script to an actor, which created an instance of it. But when I delete it, the instance is still technically stored somewhere as opposed to being completely deleted (I can't name it the same thing). How can I delete that instance entirely from the project?

[near notch]

@tidal totem So you can't delete the the blueprint from the project hierarchy?

[tidal totem]

Well I deleted is as I removed it from the actor heirarchy, but when I try and rename the new instance, which is a script, the same thing as I originally had, it says I can't name it that since an instance already exists

So it makes me add a number at the end

the number isn't a big issue. I just don't want to have a bunch of unnecessary instances just lying around somewhere, if that is what is happeneing

I wasn't too sure if this is one of those "memory management" issues that c++ is known for.

[kindred viper]

maybe sticking around in temp files

[near notch]

@tidal totem @kindred viper True. I recall having something similar a long time ago. It was resolved after I deleted the saved folder and intermediate. I won't recommend this if you have a big project or complex project though.Also create a backup if you want to try it out. Unless someone suggests better method.

[abstract relic]

Restarting the project will usually do the trick for that. It’s just hanging out as a temp file as other said.

[vital cosmos]

what happened to BaseEngine.ini

cant find it

[tidal totem]

kk i'll try that, thanks guys!

[kindred viper]

@vital cosmos it should be in the Engine/Config folder iirc

[vital cosmos]

wheres engine @kindred viper

[vital cosmos]

oh is it not in the project

[kindred viper]

no its an engine default to make the DefaultEngine.ini from for new projects

[vital cosmos]

ah kk ty

[lone tapir]

Guys, does anyone know how to run a sequence of images on the Android media player? 🤔 🤔 🤔

[kindred viper]

you could make a Flipbook

[abstract relic]

Make it an mp4

[lone tapir]

@kindred viper @abstract relic I tried, but each image of mine has 2048x2048 my PNG with the flip images got 400mb! Do you have more experience have a better way of packaging this?

[kindred viper]

video. Its probably gonna give you the best compression/quality/filesize ratio

[sage silo]

small question, I bought certain pack and I do not see it in project. physically, directories and .uasset files are present in Content dir and seem to have correct size. What I can do with that?

[lime gull]

Is there a way i xan save how far I am into a song, and then play that back later?

[lone tapir]

@kindred viper Right! But how can I shoot play two videos simultaneously?

[lime gull]

Like : Its playing a theme, you enter a battle, it changes the song, and then you leave battle and it plays back where it was

[fervent sigil]

Is there a way to add a plugin from source directory to a project?

(without copying it to Plugins directory, even though I'm just assuming it would work)

[gleaming creek]

@strong mesa It's easy to make a reverse for-each loop, just make a for loop node, double-click on it to open its source, copy everything, then paste it into your own macro library

Then rewire it a little bit to go backwards

[autumn grail]

Hello i'm back because my problem is not solved yet , when i use world composition and i right click on the level i havent the option Charge streaming method

I m not the only one i that case

[gleaming creek]

(Should just be replacing the + node with a - one and the <= node with a >= one)

[stuck musk]

How to "not resize button to text size inside of button"?

[ancient lotus]

@stuck musk wrap button in size box?

[stuck musk]

Yes, that helped.

Sorry for no response.

Actually having another problem. I want to for eg. sphere follow mouse in 3d world.

I cast a hit from mouse position to my terrain, and in result position I want to have sphere

But idk how to do this inside controller BP

Imagine it like big arrow following my mouse but in 3d space

I think I've got it

https://youtu.be/znoI8fdcSJA

[sharp crest]

dont worry guys

I know u did

but I'm alive

[plush yew]

hi

[vivid narwhal]

Hate how the launcher locks your account if you get your password wrong only twice

[sharp crest]

never happened to me usually I only get it wrong once

lol

I have like 2 accounts one for my ue4 shit and second for my fortnite

so I always get confused on which password to use

funny enough the fortnite one is the one with the 2FA, it's much more expensive than my ue4 marketplace items

[nimble moat]

https://i.gyazo.com/5544c5d86ccb5f876e82406c29e9d5ab.png
cant wait to import this to UE and get 4 fps

[sharp crest]

lol

make it animated too

so it drops to 1 fps

might as well

[nimble moat]

ill make it a challenge to

[vivid narwhal]

About to apply for a phd wish me luck

[sharp crest]

Idk what phd is but gl

I don't believe in applying to things

[vivid narwhal]

Doctorate

[sharp crest]

I heard of that

But don't know what it is

ye I dont go outside other for my boyfriend

[vivid narwhal]

So I can be Dr. Universe

[sharp crest]

mmmm

sounds cool

I was wondering how to do this lol

I bet u didnt know that!

[vivid narwhal]

Thumbnail?

[scarlet birch]

Can anyone suggest a method for getting the locations from the fractured chunks from the destructible mesh of a destructible mesh component? The only method I've found is from 4.8 and it will take me a while to go through it and get it working for this. I'd also welcome knowledgeable suggestions for other methods to approach this. My goal is to spawn a particle at the locations of some of the chunks.

[vivid narwhal]

Tryng to butcher someone else's blueprints is just a reminder that most people are smarter than you

[scarlet birch]

Is that supposed to be in reply to my question?

[vivid narwhal]

Nope sorry

I was talking to myself

I have no idea how chunks work sadly

[scarlet birch]

I think I figured it out.

I think I need to get the DestuctibleActor from the component and get the chunk transforms from it.

[vivid narwhal]

Well I harvested the animations I need now just to work out a different way of implementing them

Can someone show me how to calcuate "direction" in the anim blueprint? Can't find it anywhere when I google

[strong mesa]

search for calculate direction node

[vivid narwhal]

ahh had context off

I mean on

needed it off

[normal burrow]

why is everyone using get length squared for speed? lol

[kindred viper]

one bad tutorial can leave hundreds in the shit

[vivid narwhal]

That's the official documentation I think

[scarlet birch]

There's a mountain of bad advice accumulating

[lapis vine]

So, you get speed on square 🤔

[normal burrow]

yea whenever i see that calculate direction function, its always on top of a length squared

usually, connected to a float "Speed"

[lapis vine]

lol, a design pattern

[vivid narwhal]

Anyone online who's knowledgeable in Animation?

[normal burrow]

Kinda

[vivid narwhal]

so I have a bunch of animations of my character rolling in place, I'm just stuck trying to work out how to get them to actually move. Using root motion really messes up the whole character

[radiant fox]

im very confused on why this isn't working... I want something to happen if the float is equal to a certain value, but it ain't working chief

[normal burrow]

Is warmth exactly one?

[vivid narwhal]

stick a print string on cast failed and on branch false that should narrow down 2 possibilities

[radiant fox]

wait i mightve fixed it

[normal burrow]

Unsure what happens to the capsule during root btw jack

[vivid narwhal]

using a montage instead of just animation seems to have fixed it

naturally ran into a brand new problem. God I hate animation, I wanna go back to working on AI

if I use "default slot" on the anim slot it just moves without doing any roll animation, but if I use "upper body" naturally it just rolls the upper body and not the legs

either all the lower body rolls or all the upper body rolls

[kindred viper]

thats reminds me of something, but I have to post it in Lounge :p

[tired bramble]

Morning guys
i was working on project for several weeks,
but i decided to change Player pawn
so i used cast to "old player" several times in my project
what is best practice to switch all casts to "new player"?

[nimble moat]

manually

[tired bramble]

even with rename the same however both players have the same structure ,variable ,etc

?

[vivid narwhal]

I can legally fail one of my students for submitting messy, uncommented blueprints right

[swift spindle]

yes

rule one.. if working with others... other people need to be able to understand it

[storm juniper]

Hey, do anyone here happen to know how to control the mesh and move it back and forth horizontally?

I tried the inputHorizontalaxis function and it didn't work

[vivid narwhal]

You just want to move a mesh back and forth?

[storm juniper]

Yeah, controlled by the Left and Right arrow keys

I know it's basic but I'm kind of new to unreal engine so ... help required

[versed spear]

Messy code makes better team members. Better debugging skills.

[vivid narwhal]

right, 8 hours of game dev over now it's time to get back to uni work

[fallen marten]

Hey guys 🙂does anyone know why the epic launcher won't get past the preparing launcher screen? It worked perfectly last week and now I can't log in to use my asset packs (now I finally actually want to use one)

Tried a re-install and same thing happens

Google hasn't been able to solve this problem today

[fallen marten]

If someone can DM me a fix, i sure would appreciate it

[blissful trail]

is there a fix for this ?

https://gyazo.com/29b17f8c5e5b7a1042446345809ec270

[fallen marten]

Make sure the door actor is set to replicate, as well as any properties or variables

[blissful trail]

heres the code

[echo kernel]

So I was trying to make a music system and I messed up, and it's an absolute nightmare of sounds! (I fixed it now but it was a funny messup) The low quality distorted music makes it worse. (the songs used are Toast and PIG by system of a down)

[glacial lantern]

Is there anyway I can force the top event to come first. I'm trying to check if it's a headshot but the event "any damage" does it's thing before the headshot check

[ripe saffron]

don't know where you call AnyDamage from, but you could just call it from the end of your component hit chain

[glacial lantern]

Any damage comes from the projectile we fire

[ripe saffron]

don't call it from there then?

[glacial lantern]

We'd have to change up a fair bit then annoyingly

[ripe saffron]

well not sure what your logic is but you could set a boolean that doesnt let the event fire unless head shot is true...then call it again

[glacial lantern]

I can try that

I was just hoping there would be a node that could delay another thing from firing until it has it's answer

[ripe saffron]

not sure about that but that's the point of chaining events ... one can call the next and so on

but a boolean should do the trick anyway

[glacial lantern]

yeah this is how I had it

If you hit a headshot then the shot after you hit the headshot will instead do headshot damage

[ripe saffron]

damage is set from the projectile?

[ripe saffron]

looks like you can drag off your cast to get damage and then you dont need that event

[glacial lantern]

Problem is since we're gonna have grenades and I don't seem to be able to chain casts, I can only make 1 "On component hit"

per hitbox

[ripe saffron]

you should probably look into parent classes

[fallen marten]

Ok I'm assuming no-one else has had the problem I'm having?

[stark briar]

Someone knows why Unreal don't wanna work with new 1050Ti drivers?

[plush thicket]

@fallen marten try deleting the "Manifests" folder, it should be in "C:\ProgramData\Epic\EpicGamesLauncher\Data"

but it's a hidden folder, so make sure you have hidden folders turned on to visible

delete only the items with the ".item" extension in the "Manifests" folder

generally, any ".item" files that have a value of 0 on "InstallSize" will cause the launcher to get stuck

--

@stark briar wdym?

You mean the engine itself or the editor?

[stark briar]

Editor crashing without charger

[plush thicket]

are your GPU drivers all up to date?

[stark briar]

Yep

[plush thicket]

it's not overclocked either?

[stark briar]

But

When i delete them, it's working fine

[plush thicket]

when you delete what

[stark briar]

Drivers

[plush thicket]

that's strange

[stark briar]

yep

[plush thicket]

drivers are usually buggy like that sometimes

[stark briar]

No. not realy

[plush thicket]

if you can, just use the driver that works for now, and wait for another driver after that

since the last one works

[stark briar]

I think, editor working fine, cause it works on CPU, when i uninstal drivers

None of drivers works fine for now

That's the problem

[plush thicket]

what's the crash log when it crashes?

we don't know what's going on unless you have that info

[stark briar]

Dooo i waaaaana knoooow

W8 minute

Is that what you need?

[plush thicket]

yup now I know

[cloud cobalt]

Basically your driver crashes

[stark briar]

Yeeeeey

[plush thicket]

your GPU is getting too hot and it force closes UE4

that's the problem here

[stark briar]

What we can do?

[cloud cobalt]

that's very unlikely

[plush thicket]

@cloud cobalt https://steamcommunity.com/app/389730/discussions/0/1354868867727429150/?l=french&ctp=2

[cloud cobalt]

Probably the driver just sucks or isn't up to date

[plush thicket]

no, it's very likely

[stark briar]

thx

[cloud cobalt]

"device lost" means the driver bailed, so it can be anything from hardware to driver

[cloud cobalt]

Usually it's just an old driver

[plush thicket]

yes, and the driver can bail when the GPU gets hot

@cloud cobalt his drivers are all up to date

GPU's have a threshold

just like motherboards, when there's an overload, they just kinda quit

[cloud cobalt]

lmao

Okay I'm out, good luck here

[plush thicket]

I've had a similar problem before

[stark briar]

So i need msi afterburn?

[plush thicket]

@stark briar lmk if this fixes your issue

just any program that can automate fans to spin faster / slower depending on load of your GPU

[cloud cobalt]

If you didn't overclock your GPU with Afterburner, this is not your problem

[plush thicket]

there's other solutions too

read the Steam thread I posted

[cloud cobalt]

Look - this error can be caused by literally everything

Anyway

[plush thicket]

are you using a laptop?

@stark briar

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/670166/unreal-engine-is-exiting-due-to-d3d-device-being-l-8.html

read this

this could also be your issue

@stark briar https://unreal-engine-issues.herokuapp.com/issue/UE-42280

this is the official patch note for it

exact Error hex code and everything

[cloud cobalt]

And it was fixed more than two years ago

[stark briar]

Right?

[plush thicket]

@stark briar what version of UE4 are you using

[merry gazelle]

Epic please add a filter to the damn marketplace vault. Search doesn't even work

[stark briar]

@plush thicket 23

[plush thicket]

@merry gazelle wdym

there is one

[cloud cobalt]

regedit-ing your driver settings, what could go wrong

[merry gazelle]

@plush thicket I'm looking for a speaker asset pack I bought, but it doesnt show if I search "speaker"

[plush thicket]

what's the name of the speaker asset

[merry gazelle]

that's the point lol, I don't have a clue

if I knew I would search the specific name

[plush thicket]

maybe it was a really forgettable name

lmao

[merry gazelle]

yeah, a lot of the packs have bad names tbh. Just being able to filter Blueprints, Meshes, Animations, etc would make life so much easier

[plush thicket]

i agree

[lapis vine]

Never heard ppl complain about the Launcher. They need to know.

[merry gazelle]

maybe sarcasm lol? People have been complaining about it for years, that's why some sellers have left the marketplace

[lapis vine]

Yeah... I'm even willing to go for paid asset manager. Just need somebody to step in. Its a mess.

[true finch]

Are there any cool ray tracing project examples for UE that I can download?

[gaunt tide]

I mean I’m just glad quixel and epic games teamed up.

[fresh laurel]

Hi, I am new here. I would like to get more information about unreal-engine with Xamarin. Is this the right place?

[merry gazelle]

run into another issue. I remember seeing a fisheye lens camera asset in the store. I can't find it, searched "fisheye" "fish eye" even "fish" ha. If a dev randomly needed this lens effect that seller just lost a sale

[red crane]

Is there any way to restore lost blueprints?

[cloud cobalt]

Version control

[red crane]

what do you mean?

[cloud cobalt]

I mean if you use version control software, you can always revert every single change to any file over years of work

So that's the way people restore stuff when they've broken it

[red crane]

@cloud cobalt where can I find that?

I searched for it and nothing came up

sorry for being dumb :)

[fresh laurel]

Hi, I am new here. I would like to get more information about unreal-engine with Xamarin. Is this the right place? Anyone can help ?

[vernal thicket]

Where do ya'll get your character models from?

[cloud cobalt]

@red crane Look up Perforce or Git

Won't help you now though

Just something to use next time to avoid losing stuff

[red crane]

oh fuck

ok

[vernal thicket]

This message has always plagued me lol

[gaunt tide]

I feel that. It hasnt popped up in awhile but my current plague is my tiled landscape not wanting to assign more than 1 tile to a stream layer at a time.

[fallen marten]

@plush thicket thanks for the reply man - fingers crossed it fixes the issue

[gaunt tide]

Even when I select all the layers to add them to layer streaming it only adds 1

I dont think Ill be able to spawn all 961 tiles for a 64km^2 landscape to add them to level streaming will I?

@grim ore

Im assuming it would be a good idea to make 1 streaming layer. Add alot of foliage to see if I hit the pool limit and if not use that as a basis for the rest of my stream layers so I dont go over the limit?

[spare steeple]

@red crane check your Saved/Backup folder

[gaunt tide]

Dang my player falls through the map. RIP

Dang Ue4 weak. Crashed again.

@spare steeple So before I imported my tiled landscape in the default third person template map I could control my player. Now I have no controls after spawning onto my tiled landscape

[opal spindle]

Hey @regal mulch, did you ever finish/release that traffic system of yours? https://forums.unrealengine.com/community/work-in-progress/38325-wip-traffic-system-maybe-marketplace

[regal mulch]

No, most likely also won't as this has been put under NDA

[opal spindle]

I see, thanks

[regal mulch]

Sorry!

[rancid lynx]

how do i get the velocity of a motion controller? all items attached to the player pawn always report 0,0,0 velocity.

[opal spindle]

Been having trouble finding any kind of traffic simualtor in UE4

[plush yew]

Hey, I'm getting this new problem where out of the blue I'm getting crashes saying "World Memory Leaks" every time I'm trying to load a level in UE4 editor. I can't open any other level than the editor default even when I've opened them multiple other times today.

Any insight what could be causing this?

[gaunt tide]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/tech-blog/dealing-with-memory-leaks-in-ue4

[worn peak]

hey guys

I opening unreal for the first time, want to know

[red crane]

yt tutorials

[arctic narwhal]

Hey i just recently joined this Discord. I am 16 years old and currently programming in other languages(Java,C#) in school. Game Developing was always something every gamer wanted to do at some point in life...I think everybody knows that. Well, I want to get started srsly but i don't know where. Could anyone maybe link a good task for absolute beginners/starters(although i am working with java in school atm). I would love to get to know this Engine

[worn peak]

unreal doesnt have a internal code editor ?

there says 'required visual studio' if I want to use programming through c++ instead blueprints

[arctic narwhal]

I think it's not internal. at least i saw yt tutorials where an extra VCS window popped up

[worn peak]

:/

I will have to use other program if I will use text programming so ?

[arctic narwhal]

Don't ask me lol. i have no idea haha

[worn peak]

If I use blueprints instead I dont have to use third-part programs, right ?

[arctic narwhal]

yeah

[worn peak]

okay

lets go with bluprints so

thanks 🙂

[arctic narwhal]

Let your journey begin

[worn peak]

btw

[arctic narwhal]

ye?

[worn peak]

do you know some good ytb channel to explain the basics, interface, those things

[abstract relic]

You’re going on an adventure

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

[worn peak]

-.-'

So, the oficial one its actually good ?

[arctic narwhal]

I think it's the best xD

[rancid lynx]

youtube search """"ue4 wtf is""""" this guy has amazing 5minute tutorials that explain almost all the tools in unreal4 . he literally taught me 75 percent of what i know about VR dev

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOVfF7PfLbRdVEm0hONTrNQ

[fierce tulip]

lol

[rancid lynx]

but those are not day 1 open the editor tutorials. those are week 2, after you try to do something like "jump"

[marsh swallow]

tbh the official UE4 101 videos 1-3 are pretty good for your basic stuff

[rancid lynx]

i agree. best 20 minute videos for new people.

how do i get the velocity of a motion controller? all items attached to the player pawn always report 0,0,0 velocity.

i can get the velocity after i throw the item. but while its attached to the player pawn using motion controls, everything reports 0,0,0 while attached to the HMD actor

[abstract relic]

Perhaps try vector length

[rancid lynx]

i dont know anything about that. ill search now. thanks.

[zealous cloak]

does someone made a working camera in a game?

i dont mean a photo mode

[abstract relic]

Eh, something to fudge velocity at least

[fierce tulip]

@zealous cloak the camera's work quite like realistic ones

[zealous cloak]

making a screenshot of a the camera viewport?

do rather simple, when you wanna have it basic?

[fierce tulip]

*photocamera

no thats something different

[zealous cloak]

i don:t need any features since it is an ancient camera

[gaunt tide]

How would I go about delaying player spawning so as to prevent them from falling through my tiled landscape when it is loading. There is only a split second between the player spawning and falling through and the landscape loading.

[rancid lynx]

disable their physics . then on begin play, use a delay .2 and reenable physics

begin play - delay .2 - set simulation ON

[gaunt tide]

Ahh that’s the one. Someone said gravity in the forums and I was like there isn’t that option

Specifically

[rancid lynx]

gravity is a few tick boxes lower than the physics simulation button. that would probably work also

[gaunt tide]

So for the level set simulate physics off and on level loading set simulation ON.

[rancid lynx]

open the player blueprint. youll find the players simulat physics there. uncheck that. then inside the players blueprint also, create a "begin play" node, which leads to "delay .2" and then to a "set physics simulation" on

[gaunt tide]

Yeah it looks like it was already off to begin with

[zealous cloak]

@fierce tulip sry for pinging, but i was searching for photomode and unreal and i only got results for the normal camera ;/

[fierce tulip]

nvidia ansel

[gaunt raptor]

do i need to tick something to get and effect to show up when i render out my seqeunce ?

[zealous cloak]

is there any other way around ansel?

or is a photocamera basically a screenshot with a new viewport

[fierce tulip]

it just used a regular viewport but can have additional options, like ansel or some of the MP-screenshot have.

[ornate surge]

Fast question

Is this interesting for a computer engineer who wants to develop games in unreal?

https://www.humblebundle.com/software/unreal-engine-game-development-software?hmb_source=humble_home&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_2_layout_index_2_layout_type_twos_tile_index_2_c_unrealenginegamedevelopment_softwarebundle

[fierce tulip]

some good stuff there. though the prices mentioned related to the udemy courses are total bs, and are about 20,- instead of the few hundreds they mention

[true finch]

The multiplayer course is quite nice

[gaunt tide]

@rancid lynx So I went through multiple layers of the player BP and Simulate Physics is turned off for every single one, maybe the physics settings is somewhere else like in the third persongame mode template?

Yeah idk than because physics are being simulated but no where is a Simulate physics box checked

[ornate ice]

can Anim Montage be played on a loop like the ones on the state machine?

if I want to play right shimmy animation when moving right on a ledge

I want to make it independent of the animation blueprint

is it possible?

[lone tapir]

Hello everyone, does anyone know How to stop a media player asset from playing? 🤔

[true finch]

You can call close or pause

[shell gull]

You guys got any idea why when i try to record in a level sequencer one of my particle systems just won't spawn in the recording?

[fierce tulip]

its been a long time, but for some reason some do not want to activate for some reason

had to put them into a blueprint that activates em

(few years ago)

[shell gull]

Well it worked for a single recording and then stopped xD

so you think its just kinda bugged?

[fierce tulip]

its been a while since I used the sequencer, but it did made me pull out some hairs.

[ornate ice]

hey guys anyone of you know if there is a way like to composite the Animation Blueprint

like if I had a climbing system that has several stuff in it, is there a way to have those animations independent from the player anim graph

[dark rune]

anyway to open up a preview of what the camera will be seeing in this scene?

[true finch]

You can drag the actor into a scene and then select the camera

There will appear a little preview window with the camera view

[dark rune]

ah ok thx

[shell gull]

@fierce tulip I've just discovered that even when i just play the level/simulate it just will randomly not work sometimes 🤣

[uncut echo]

https://gyazo.com/c746559edb299d54689c40a5a269de7d

Can anyone explain why this is happening?

[fierce tulip]

looks like the materials have the old image, but where ported wrong or a mat function or whatever broke and now they all show the generic material.

[fierce tulip]

you either moved em and killed the redirectors, or moved them trough explorer and well.. killed the redirectors in a different way

[cloud cobalt]

Killed the references, really

[lone tapir]

Does anyone know how I can play a sequence of .png images within oculus quest? If you can I pay you some money to help me.

[grim ore]

do material 2d flipbooks not work?

[gaunt tide]

So even with my character bp stating no physics are being simulated, my player is still falling through the map and dying due to the map not loading fast enough

[grim ore]

don't spawn in the player by default. Change the default pawn in the game mode to none. In your level BP or wherever you manage you level loading wait until it's loaded then spawn in the player manually

[gaunt tide]

Yeah ig that’ll work. For the world setting is it more efficient to set the mode, pawn, controller, etc to already established presets or write it manually for each level?

[grim ore]

depends on what you need, preset is better as you change it once and any levels can change that use it. If you do it manually per level you might need to change them all or forget some. Basically setting a variable for the game mode is more efficient then doing it by hand for each level

[gaunt tide]

Okay, ty Mathew!

[nimble moat]

anyone need any 3d models making lol

[worn peak]

err

its commom to have screen freeze like every 5min

[lone tapir]

@grim ore Well, how could I do this? They are short sequences of 100 to 300 frames, but each frame has 2048x2048

[grim ore]

@worn peak it should not be

have you look at the paper2d flipbooks @lone tapir ?

[lone tapir]

@grim ore Thks for the help! I tried, but I'm not sure if I understood how it works, because my final .png with all images in 2048x2048 got 100mb

[pale forge]

Hello everyone... Is there a viable workflow for getting UE4 Character animations, into Blender... make some tweeks... and then get it back into UE4? I can import the character, and the animation, but not together. They are always separated...

[normal burrow]

It’s more of a blender question spammer

[visual pawn]

Unreal good for a 2D pixel art game? 🤔

[normal burrow]

When you import animations the animations are actions

Use the action editor to switch current animation

Read general guidelines on this stuff

[pale forge]

@normal burrow Ok Thanks

[solemn lava]

Hello im new to unreal engine and need help installing unreal after trying to install I get this message

[wary wave]

exactly what it says, the path is too long

[gaunt tide]

Thats crazy. My path length is almost double that :/

Wierd he is getting that error

[normal burrow]

wonder what the longest path is inside the install dir

[gaunt tide]

What is a reasonable light mass importance volume size? I think I will need alot of them for my tiled landscape but I am unsure

[normal burrow]

dunno if its the right thing to do, but i'll block out importance volumes

having one big importance volume kinda missed the point?

[serene birch]

the path length limit is not just for the root folder 😛

[normal burrow]

yea thats why i was curious stof lol

[gaunt tide]

The volume would be 64km^2 so it would probably take a a day or two to build the lighting

[sharp crest]

[gaunt tide]

I read an article on creating an empty copy of the level. Making the lighting than adding the lighting to my built level but they didnt really go into detail on it

https://gyazo.com/bbd7c931b2f0b1fa1f27763feeb03f74 Besides that I got the player spawning finally.

Except the hud is only present on one. 💩

And I cant control them

[dawn plover]

Is there an updated version of this course? https://www.udemy.com/course/unreale4/

[gaunt tide]

https://gyazo.com/5024ecbaa896f88d261c5f34b0f6b8a0 https://gyazo.com/0f9d1eac8d117adbf5c3a0bec8280bc8 This is my player spawning system but I still dont have control over the character spawned..

[sharp crest]

whats this get player controller index?

if it's singleplayer then just leave that as default @gaunt tide

[gaunt tide]

It is going to be a multiplayer or single player game

[sharp crest]

how r u getting the index?
maybe just use a reference?

whats exactly not working?

the possess?

[fierce tulip]

@dawn plover just use the ue4 version mentioned in that course and you are golden.,

[gaunt tide]

Yeah possess isnt working. Everything else works like a charm

[sharp crest]

try get player controller without index and see if that works?

with the default number 0 I think

Idk personally I never used the get player controller pretty sure thats only for singleplayer lol

[gaunt tide]

Yeah I followed this off a multiplayer tutorial

[sharp crest]

o god tutorials

why do u think they are making tutorials

cuz they cant make games

jk

well try without index and see if it works

[gaunt tide]

The index is based off max player count which is currently 4

[sharp crest]

try just one player online

and set the value to default

disconnect the index from the get player controller

also print it to see it gives u something and not null

just basic debugging

[gaunt tide]

Yeah it just "hello" 4 times

When spawning

[sharp crest]

print the player controller string

[gaunt tide]

Duh my bad lol

[sharp crest]

it's running from the server right?

[gaunt tide]

yeah only executes on server

[sharp crest]

btw instead of that player index shit, if you want to do this for all logged in players, then I would just do a getallactorsofclass playercontroller

[runic iron]

isn't getallactorsofclass super expensive though ?

[sharp crest]

mm

not sure about that, maybe @runic iron

maybe there is some var in game state of logged in players

Idk

here

first google result

[gaunt tide]

Ill be honest Idk where I broke the player controls

[sharp crest]

@gaunt tide did u try to print

[gaunt tide]

Yeah got nothing

[sharp crest]

and see if the player controller you are possessing is valid

then try what I suggested

and dont use that node anymore

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/225448446956404738/650027256584077343/unknown.png

[gaunt tide]

I removed the index node as well and still same issue so

[sharp crest]

do that then from player state do get player controller or something like that

Idk how that node works exactly in multiplayer so I cant help u if u r using it

[gaunt tide]

Wait one second.

[sharp crest]

I removed the index node as well and still same issue so
if it's not printing anything with no connected index var then clearly that node sucks as I said

[gaunt tide]

Exactly so either way it isnt working lol

[sharp crest]

yes so just change the way u r gettign the player controller

[dawn plover]

@fierce tulip alright, cheers

[sharp crest]

@dawn plover what about my cheer

[runic iron]

@sharp crest Didn't check the actual question lol, just reacted to getallactorsfromclass. Afaik it's something to really avoid cause iirc it reads the class from all actors on the level so it's a waste for a big levels with lights, meshes and stuff

[sharp crest]

hm ok interesting thx for the info

👌 ahh I knew I saw this warning somewhere lol

[gaunt tide]

Yeah this level is 64km^2 and already crashes Ue4 most of the time is I play the level directly

[sharp crest]

lol

if it crashes then thats a diff issue

[gaunt tide]

But if I go through and play from my main menu and hit "singleplayer" it works fine

[sharp crest]

what works fine

[gaunt tide]

here one second'

Yes I know it says singleplayer. This is just for testing purposes atm https://gyazo.com/d7f9f8484d6246cf850f160bb0b91f4d

8km^2 empty area of the map

[sharp crest]

I dont get what u r trying to show

[gaunt tide]

Nevermind. Ima take a break. lol

[sharp crest]

lol alright

[gaunt tide]

Idk when the last time I slept was and im getting lost tbh

[sharp crest]

6am?

[gaunt tide]

Uhhh

I think I woke up yesterday at like 10am or so?

[sharp crest]

wow

incredible

I wake up at 2pm go to sleep at 4 am

[gaunt tide]

Been trying to figure alot of this stuff out

[dawn plover]

@gaunt tide just to establish a baseline, what do you think is the current year? 😄

[gaunt tide]

Uh Ive been forgetting what day of the week it is but year i think 2019

[dawn plover]

@sharp crest that was my last one, out of cheer points

[sharp crest]

@dawn plover

[gaunt tide]

Been trying to get something presentable for kickstart or whatever other platform I decide to use to advertise the game. Im also giving myself 30days max so Im cramming lol

[sharp crest]

Success takes time

I suggest change that to 3 years

[dawn plover]

I think he meant 30 days for the kickstarter 😉

[sharp crest]

too short too

[gaunt tide]

I would change it to 3yrs but im already 1yr into this

[sharp crest]

o rip

[gaunt tide]

Well actually. I worked on it for awhile than got a job and was working 70-90 hours a week so developement stopped.

[sharp crest]

day jobs suck

[gaunt tide]

Yeah they do. Now that Im unemployed I figured Id start back at it again

[dawn plover]

what do you like to achieve with the kickstarter? the hire of team members?

[gaunt tide]

Yeah that was going to be the goal to hire some extra help

[sharp crest]

I don't believe in kickstarter