ue4-general

[plush thicket]

lol

[vernal thicket]

@plush thicket Since you're becoming a bit of a lighting expert maybe you can help me 😂 I have day - night cycle, but when the directional light goes under my map it still lights up part of the map, and foliage, any idea?

Ah I know, tbf it is a free to use engine though so I'm definitely not complaining too much!

[plush thicket]

well step one would be

make sure your meshes or landscape mesh aren't one-sided

that can cause a TON of lighting issues when the sun is below your terrain

you can either make a blueprint script that disables the light when it's between certain rotation angles

OR

make sure your terrain is two-sided

i don't know where that's at lol

but yee

[vernal thicket]

I didn't want to disable the light as my sky updates based on light rotation, but maybe theres a way to keep the light rotating but disable the light?

But yeah I think that's the way to go definitely

Definitely my map that's leaking i'll scrnsht

That's with the light underneath the map lol

[plush thicket]

set the intensity of the light to 0 when it hits that point

[vernal thicket]

Nah I figured it out, just need to find a fix

So It's because my landscape has no layer underneath the map, I could fix this by adding a simple box underneath the landscape to block light coming from underneath, but maybe theres a way to add a layer inside the terrain settings?

without simple box under terrain

With simple box under terrain

It hasn't hurt anything it's not really much to render, maybe I should just keep the box there? lol

Nope still not fixed

[plush thicket]

@vernal thicket this is off-topic

but you should try to look into some other HDRI's like this

for your sky

[vernal thicket]

Still looks like this even with the light under a mesh, wonder where it's coming from 😞 seems to orient based on where my camera is pointing aswell.

[plush thicket]

changing the skysphere adds SO much to something

[vernal thicket]

Change the sky sphere based on the direction of the light? but there wouldn't be a blend between day-night

I'll carry on looking later haha, I gotta go out cya later bud

[valid pike]

Anyone uses agile in gamedev ?

Agile is that thingy - with daily stand up time wasting meetings

And a whole day waste once 2 weeks

[cloud cobalt]

That's not what agile is

Agile means you deliver working builds very often with a focus on iterating and improving piece by piece

Somehow some companies devolved it into a controlling culture with 17 different roles, daily meetings and deadline-oriented people

[valid pike]

@cloud cobalt well in me exp - thats exactly what it is

But I wonder

If its used

In gamedev

Not what is it - i know what is it

Its a time waste

[cloud cobalt]

Here's what agile is : https://agilemanifesto.org/

It's literally 4 short lines

Nothing in there says you have to spend 3 hours every day talking about every line you wrote

[valid pike]

I asked a different question

[cloud cobalt]

The answer depends on what you think agile is

Most companies who say they're doing agile, are not

Your company clearly doesn't

[valid pike]

Tbh

My company... is...

It doesn’t know what it is doing at all

But I am not working in gamedev

[tall pendant]

daily meetups are a thing in most studios. but not for 3 hrs

i'd say 10-25 mins mostly

and 25 is a rather long one already

also mostly team based meetups obv

[valid pike]

Well@we have em for atleast a hour 😐 but as I states before my company is a role model - how not to manage company

They also doing it cross teams

Like QA R&D SW Designers all in one meetup

100% time wasted

gG

The thing is

I worked in 3 didferent companies - and they all were the same

[cloud cobalt]

And none of them understood agile as a state of mind, rather than fixed processes

Agile is not having fixed processes

[valid pike]

Tell me about it

So far mu exp with agile...

Maybe I need to find a normal company to fix it up ?

@cloud cobalt also we are working on a new product

That will take atleast a year

To be deliverable working

How can agile even apply here?

By definition

[ripe saffron]

I used to work at a company that was full of long useless meetings ... Including meetings about upcoming meetings. That's not a joke btw.

[valid pike]

Feel you...

IMHO problem starts with “smart” ppl who hears about new methodology and thinks like -“Thats cool we should use it!!” Regardless if its applicable or not 😦

[ripe saffron]

I don't know their reasons but we always had tight deadlines and I always had lots of work to do. It just seemed like such a waste of time. Please just let me get on with what you pay me to do.

[cloud cobalt]

@valid pike Well, you can't really agile a year-long product but you can start with parts of it

"deliverable" would be like one of the systems that passes unit tests

That way you can expand with every sprint and keep ensuring the first part keeps working, etc

[swift spindle]

Ugh sprints suck on a small team heh

[cloud cobalt]

I mean basically,

Agile is about not being waterfall

Waterfall model being you write specs for the whole finished product, then plan it, then develop it, then test it, then ship it

Basically how you produced an airplane in 1990

Games always are developed agile-y in at least some way if they're any well handled because you change the concept of the game a lot during development

But the best way to develop your game is to have a playable, no matter how it looks, game very early and then work up on that

Jedi Fallen Order has a hour-long documentary that shows their "UX research" game slice

That's essentially agile stuff here - the initial core team delivered that, playtested it, and kept iterating

Being agile here would mean doing this for the whole production with playable game releases every 1/2 week

[valid pike]

Well idk - not in gamedev - working on streaming hevc and stuff

And having no video for atleast a month

How can it fall to the agile category anyway

Also it is the same task for a month

Sitting in that standup meetings and telling the same fucking thing all the time

Is more than furstrating

😦

[cloud cobalt]

Well, like I said earlier, that's a failure of an agile process

[valid pike]

So we can come to conclusion

That agile doesnt work for every project ?

[cloud cobalt]

No, we can come to the conclusion that your company sucks at agile

[valid pike]

My company suck at every single thing

Honestly

We dont even have source code

And no devops

[cloud cobalt]

And yes, you can't decide to do an agile jumbo jet and have the first delivery be an actual jumbo jet

[valid pike]

And noone gives a damn

Source control I meant

Amount of red static lights exceed INT_MAX

[cloud cobalt]

But in software, if you're doing a video game, your first sprint can be a camera moving in UE4's default scene. If you're doing a website, it can be the "under construction" style page. etc

[valid pike]

I agree

But I am doing a life long task which is encoding algs

I cant make a part of 1/inf alg ?

Or can I ?

[cloud cobalt]

Is it a research project of creating new video encoding math ? Then yeah, agile isn't for this, it's a research project

If it implementing video encoding math for production software ? Can work

The first sprint can be "can read data from a buffer and output a blank frame"

[valid pike]

Yes kind of

Thats meaning less ?

I mean ... whats the goal in it

It will be in this state for years

[cloud cobalt]

If it takes years of work by multiple people, it's fair to say you're going to be writing tens of thousands of lines across hundreds of files

[valid pike]

So what is your agilization ? Splitting the sprint goal along the amount of files ?

Whats the benefit ?

[cloud cobalt]

No, the agile idea is to work feature by feature, release new features when they're here, and not break previous features.

[honest vale]

that's not what agile means

[valid pike]

But there is only 1 feature

Encode and decode

Takes more than 2 weeks

Cant see why to even use agile

[cloud cobalt]

So your entire project is just two C++ methods ?

[valid pike]

1 - int main()

[cloud cobalt]

There's no file management, or streaming system, or color conversion, or ?

[valid pike]

Not for the first start

When we only have to encode decode to start with

The rest should be built up on this

Or regardless actually

But...

[cloud cobalt]

Then if it's impossible to split your multiple-year project in features, yes, you probably can't make this agile

[honest vale]

agile: individuals and interaction over process and tools, working software over documentation, collaborating with customers instead of negotiating over the contract, responding to changes instead of sticking to a plan 100% of the time

[cloud cobalt]

I've linked that earlier in the convo tbf

[honest vale]

ah, okay 😄

[valid pike]

So we did cane to conclusion

[honest vale]

imo sprints in game dev don't seem that useful

[valid pike]

That this doesnt fit wvery single project in the world

[honest vale]

I'd rather have a kanban style board

with no sprints

since sprints are mostly about showing the customer what you accomplished in these past two weeks so that they can feel engaged in the project

[valid pike]

I would change agile to FDD

[cloud cobalt]

The "working software" part of Agile is what sprints are about, though

[valid pike]

Feature driven development

[honest vale]

working software means that you don't spend two years documenting each use case

I've seen a project like that

two years of project, all documentation

[valid pike]

Lol

[honest vale]

7 GB worth of word documents

[valid pike]

Ahaha

[cloud cobalt]

It also means you have shippable software all the time

[valid pike]

Thats tons of strings

Cool

[honest vale]

it was all about the company covering their asses from a contract stand point

[valid pike]

So agile requirement is to start with working project

Regardless how tiny is it

[honest vale]

document the shit out of everything and then you can point to them when something doesn't go the way customer assumes

[valid pike]

But not suitable for a years of research stuff

That wont have any product

Till POC

Alpha lets say

Pre alpha

Executable

Lol

[honest vale]

agile in itself has very little to do with the actual process of developing software

[valid pike]

sudo rm -R agile_methodology

[honest vale]

I'd say that in essence you want to have a constant pace of completed work

[valid pike]

I think in general

The product gets completed when ppl working on it and not sitting in pointless meetings

IMHO

[honest vale]

you still want to have some form of meetings show that you can see what everyone is doing

otherwise you have people working in the trenches without knowing what's going on in the big picture

and that shit sucks

[valid pike]

Daily 101 - today I did the same as yesterday - but ai did a twist - I divided a float by 0.0f and got nan -inf :-B

The biggest furstration

Is that I am working alone on my priject

Rest of the ppl are working on web

<

Why the hell should I care about them

Well as we all@concluded

Mu company suck at everything

I think we talked enough about agile

And we can mark my question as closed generally

Just wish that managers would think a little bit before making such decisions as to make everything wrong and suck

And yesterday

Needless to mention that I am actively looking for a new job right ?

[plush yew]

can anyone help me with unreal engine ?

[sharp crest]

we cant help u if u dont post ur question

sadly not wizards yet

[plush yew]

oke so im making an mmorpg, with 20 procent of knowledge of coding , the othert 80 procent is stuff like Ui and stuff xD

[sharp crest]

sounds like u should make a simpler game first

[plush yew]

haha xD this is a simple game haha xD

so the question:

can anyone help me set up the atribute systen

[sharp crest]

if u just got started u better make a simple game first otherwise u will have to remake ur game when u actually understand how to use ue4

[plush yew]

im using structures enums and database

[sharp crest]

did u try youtubing that?

[plush yew]

yes i did try it bud its al simple coding, the coding i need is that u can use it for more then only attributes, like if mental strenght is 50 you can attack like 200/250 damage, if its 1 then u can hit like 2 or 3 damage

it has to be connected to the skills and database to

im in unreal engine for 1.5 years now, this is my last chapter i need to learn

[sharp crest]

might want to be a bit more specific on what u dont understand how to do
dont feel like writing it all out

[plush yew]

yeah i know its really a lot of stuff

oke i send a screenshot then u know what i mean

[cosmic matrix]

Hello

[cosmic matrix]

Anyi know how to force add a 4.23 asset to a 4.22 project?

[sharp crest]

not possible @cosmic matrix

[plush yew]

so if i want this to be attributes that has its own level system, do i need this then ? or shall i make a database like this , coming in a second

[sharp crest]

this cant be changed in game

so if u want changable variables

use structs

it's called datatables not databases btw

[plush yew]

oke yes, and if i want to summon the database into the third character, how do i do this ?

i open the blueprint o the thirdpersoncharacter and what do i do ? XD

[sharp crest]

database doesnt exist in ue4

[plush yew]

i mean datatable *

[sharp crest]

hmm I dont rly work with these often but I think there are nodes for that

try typing the datatable file name in the node search

[plush yew]

oke

i think i will need the datatablerow

if i break this curse of not knowing how to do this i cant make my game

[plush yew]

got it !

woq finely xD

wow

[plush yew]

thanks 😄

[sharp crest]

[plush yew]

iw thats nice of you thanks for getting your time

[cosmic matrix]

@sharp crest thx

😦

[plush yew]

@sharp crest thank you

[sharp crest]

@cosmic matrix I have one for you too

[cosmic matrix]

Ok but is a porps pack

[sharp crest]

upgrade ur project then

and it's still a file

so

[cosmic matrix]

so i see no reason for lockong downward compatibility

yeah i see

[sharp crest]

ok guys help me decide

should I work or play switch

[plush yew]

if you feel good then i shal work xD

[sharp crest]

[leaden bear]

Hey all! Can anyone tell me if Mesh Distance fields can be used with World Composition? I know that it warns not to use with level streaming, but i'd just like to ask in-case World Composition is different enough from the level streaming tool.

[oblique tangle]

any1 know how to limit the maximum velocity an actor can reach in game?

so say I want to limit my character from going past 20,000 in terms of its velocity, how would I do so

[plush thicket]

@oblique tangle that's INSANELY fast, but yes it's definitely limitable

anything is possible either through blueprinting or through the C++ code

[sharp crest]

whats the node to make me fly in real life then? @plush thicket

[plush thicket]

you gotta gain access to the real life cheat manager @sharp crest

[sharp crest]

how

u said

aNyThInG Is pOsSiBlE

[plush thicket]

enter heaven

[sharp crest]

whats the node name for that?

[plush thicket]

eaven

[sharp crest]

cant find it

4.21

is it in a newer version?

also how do I get the player controller of my real life body?

is it Get Soul node?

k

[plush thicket]

@leaden bear don't see why not to use mesh distance fields with world composition

[sharp crest]

just try it worst case it breaks

[plush thicket]

try it, and try monitoring performance and output log

if you get no performance breaks or errors, then it's fine

don't see why you wouldn't be able to do that

[leaden bear]

@plush thicket Thanks for the response! I'll head forward with the combo.

[plush thicket]

just be weary of your distance fields "resolution" (or whatever it's called)

I haven't messed with mesh distance fields in a while

but I know there's a distance cut off resolution thingie

if you're gonna have a huge world just watch that

[remote roost]

how can I get windows mixed reality joystick to work with UE4 input?

[plush thicket]

yeah i was about to say

bruh

@remote roost https://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+mixed+reality+joystick+ue4

[sharp crest]

I dont like that website anymore, they started promoting their own shitty engine

[plush thicket]

i see that now

lmao

[remote roost]

the only link i saw when i googled was one saying to use Steam Input plugin but that doesn't work.

[sharp crest]

we need to make our own ue4 one

[remote roost]

i'll check the other ones tho

[sharp crest]

try googling what I did in the screenshot

[plush thicket]

@remote roost https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/vr-ar-development/1499700-windows-mixed-reality-input-mappin

have you checked this one

[remote roost]

yeah that doesn't work as he said there "the thumbstick is not mapped at all"

uhhh

i guess there's a wmr plugin tho

[sharp crest]

I think they added something like that in the last version

I saw in the patch notes something about windows vr

[remote roost]

i'm on 4.23 already

[sharp crest]

mm

[remote roost]

lol

[sharp crest]

[remote roost]

i'll try the windows one but they name the inputs weird

[plush thicket]

damn

now i have a problem lol

anyone here know why

https://i.imgur.com/ge5spUI.mp4

when my character goes onto this ramp

the cloth simulation fucks itself

[sharp crest]

usually I fix that by deleting my assets and going to the marketplace

so cant help u more than that

[rancid lynx]

does a sphere collisions size effect performance in any way ? I doubt anyone knows this one X_x.

well.. i guess size could technically produce excess collisions checks. so on the average game, the answer should be yes.

but aside from collision test count... . i wonder

[sharp crest]

yea but I wouldnt bother optimizing these kind of stuff

I'm sure it's hella optimized

basic stuff

[rancid lynx]

youre probably correct. but if i need to spam 200 of them in my viewport. 199 actors testing for 198 other collisions might take a hit

[sharp crest]

try it

[rancid lynx]

i should try and test it. yea haha X_x

[remote roost]

(solved my issue by just using the SteamVR plugin instead of the Windows MR one)

the fuck is up with that emoji btw

lol

[plush thicket]

hdsmiley

[sharp crest]

it's the best emoji ever wdym?

I had a big version with 9 emojis too

but now no need cuz discord made emojis bigger

[remote roost]

looks like the first time i used blender

[sharp crest]

lol

[sharp crest]

no

[plush thicket]

br*h

[sharp crest]

[remote roost]

lol it still doesnt work

im seriously regretting buying windows mr

[sharp crest]

whats this

is that the super cool thing

that costs like $4k

[remote roost]

cheapest vr headset

[sharp crest]

I thought about buying it just to flex my friends

ah nv

whats the name of that thing

that costs 4k

[remote roost]

i think you're talking about the plimax 4k or something

[sharp crest]

HoloLens

thats the name

[remote roost]

o

[sharp crest]

it looks super cool

but I wont use it

lol

[remote roost]

i thought that died and never released

i think i know what the issue is

steamvr isnt gonna work until i build it

so im gonna need to build it everytime i want to test my controllers

tsk

or test anything in the game i guess

lol

because clearly its not working in preview

[sharp crest]

"Hello I'm bored what should I do?"

[remote roost]

wow

this steamvr plugin really doesnt work well with windows mr

lol

[alpine zephyr]

hey, is this server offical ?

[tall pendant]

No.

[sharp crest]

editor crashed on compile and I didnt save before

:-:

this auto save on compile should really save before compile............

[slender mist]

Is there a not-so-high-effort way of seeing what causes UE4 to crash?
I'm trying to record a sequence but it crashes every single time, I'm wondering if I can change anything to get it to record

[vernal thicket]

Alright lads

[calm widget]

i'm getting this compile error
"The variable PlacementStruct declared in AnimBP has an invalid type Structure"
after deleting an interface used by the animBP but the variable no longer exists under variables so i can't delete it. but i cant recreate it either, it says name already in use. any way i can remove this variable?

[vernal thicket]

@calm widget is this variable still referenced somewhere outside animbp?

Try compiling other places it was referenced

[slender mist]

Did you try restarting UE4? I had a similiar problem once

[calm widget]

it shouln't be referenced in other places, i'm pretty sure. hm, yeah should probably try restarting before asking questions. ill try thanks : )

[vernal thicket]

You could also try hitting play in the editor and it'll tell you if there's errors and where they are

[calm widget]

play in editor worked even tho i had the compile error and the animbp worked properly it seemed. restarting the editor gave me the option to remove it. thanks guys

[vernal thicket]

Anyone know why my mesh is doing this on simulating physics?

Sorta bending from the spine, like the spine is stuck where it would normally be but everything else acts as normal

[sharp crest]

when u find out u cant replicate maps

[remote fulcrum]

Seriously who do I need to suck off to get unreal to fix the play rate track in sequencer

And no rendering in high fps is not an option, it kills motion blur

[sharp crest]

@remote fulcrum me me me!

[remote fulcrum]

Oh yeah, speak up then

I can't believe they just broke this fucking track for no good reason and are not fixing it

[sharp crest]

oh Idk just read the sucking part and got excited

need to get a new bf

[remote fulcrum]

Very helpful

[sharp crest]

[hidden aurora]

I need someone to inject me game ideas, whenever I want to develop a game I cannot came up to an idea and it’s so frustrating

[sharp crest]

make a platformer where the main character is bitcoin (and co op character being eth) and the enemies are fiat and shitcoins @hidden aurora

I want 50% of revenue for this

I want to do this but busy with other stuff 😂

https://orteil.dashnet.org/gamegen

[coarse bronze]

@hidden aurora Do something with VR, Half-Life: Alyx is coming out next year.

[remote fulcrum]

You know I had a dream that I smoked a shit ton of weed tonight. It appears that someone else got high instead.

[coarse bronze]

Something moddable with UE4 would kickass.

[sharp crest]

lol

[tall pendant]

lol mfw: reading stuff like wanting to develop a game w/o even having an idea or a vision...https://media1.tenor.com/images/1808f11c5cbe69016d6ef7f8c3397a81/tenor.gif?itemid=5564467

[sharp crest]

most people's issue is they keep thinking about new ideas 😅

[remote fulcrum]

So does nobody have a solution to the play rate track that does not include high framerates or matinee?

[sharp crest]

that sounds like a very specific question for answerhub

[remote fulcrum]

There's no questions channel on this server

[sharp crest]

I mean here https://answers.unrealengine.com/index.html

[remote fulcrum]

Ah

[sharp crest]

and u can also ask in the right channel here doubt anyone in general will be able to help with that

first time I use map

omg thats so helpful

[gaunt tide]

I’m still trying to reduce meshes for the kite demo trees. UE4 doesn’t like them too much

When building lighting

[cloud cobalt]

If they're trees you probably want them dynamic

[gaunt tide]

The problem is their light mass volumes and the meshes according to the log.

[hidden aurora]

Its really frustrating, whenever i start a new project i left it within 1 week due to lack of ideas

@coarse bronze i would really like to, but i currently dont have any vr headset

[plush yew]

Do you ever start laughing

[vernal thicket]

LOL

[plush yew]

at the abominations you make

[vernal thicket]

The modelling god pinched his shoulders too hard

[cloud cobalt]

@gaunt tide Again, trees probably should be dynamically lit and thus ignored by Lightmass

[gaunt tide]

Yeah I thought that would fix it as well

[plush yew]

All jokes aside, I did manage to retarget the Daz3D skeleton to the UE4 one...

However this has happened to the fingers

[grim ore]

yep just keep retargetting till you get it correct

[plush yew]

what do you mean?

run the retargeting function again?

[grim ore]

there might be 5 bones in the hands per finger for example and you chose one too far down the chain when retargeting

[plush yew]

I didnt choose any

I used Humanoid rig in the retarget manager

which doesnt have fingers

in the targets

[grim ore]

click the show advanced option in the retarget manager for the rig

[plush yew]

Thank you

❤️

[vernal thicket]

Anyone know if you can do a Select type decision in an anim state machine?

[solid sierra]

How do I lock my cursor in the center of my screen? I'm using the first person template

[nimble moat]

set input mode? @solid sierra

[sharp crest]

[solid sierra]

to UI only? @nimble moat

sry I'm still a noob

[nimble moat]

what exactly do you want, to see your mouse in game?

[solid sierra]

No, I have my first person game and I can move around just fine, but I want to click things using the center of my screen and for that I need my cursor to stay in the center

[nimble moat]

you will wanna use line trace

[cloud cobalt]

Hide the cursor, show a virtual cursor in the middle of the screen.

[solid sierra]

@nimble moat may I dm you about this for help?

[nimble moat]

https://i.gyazo.com/003854969b418264a85de357f6b84429.mp4

i assume you want something like this (that red square will act as a cursor so to speak)

[solid sierra]

yeah

[nimble moat]

https://i.gyazo.com/640ff97a0c2252fba1c8af75b8c7b804.png

[solid sierra]

is this for my player character?

[nimble moat]

yeah

[solid sierra]

ah thanks!

[vernal thicket]

@nimble moat dejavu?

[nimble moat]

yup

[vernal thicket]

😂 😂

The only thing I couldn't do was set the hitmarkers colour based on whether an enemy was killed

[hidden aurora]

Does someone knows how can i achieve the gang beast feel in their characters?

[vernal thicket]

I gave up on that though didn't care enough about it

@hidden aurora someone else was asking about that lol

[hidden aurora]

I dont actually know if it is physics driven or something else

[vernal thicket]

@hidden aurora you can start by using this "set all bodies below simulate physics", use the character mesh as the target, then drag off the mesh, get socket name, and type in the name of the bones you want to be ragdoll

So if you type "clavicle_l" on the bone name the left arm will be ragdoll

[hidden aurora]

Maybe i can achieve smt with setting some bones to kinematic and physics to radgoll

[vernal thicket]

Well I tried my suggestion earlier, applied it to my characters head, so the head was wobbly but the rest of the animations played as normal

If you want to try, go into your character blueprint, just type event begin play > set all bodies below simulate physics > mesh as target > drag off mesh type get socket name > type in the bone name from the skeleton tree you wish to ragdoll

Then connect that up to the simulate physics

[polar viper]

Where's the show-only list?

In a actor

[normal burrow]

What would you mean by this?

[polar viper]

I'm following a tutorial for interactive grass and it says something about show-only list with a actor

Or tags or something

Nvm

[normal burrow]

Found it? I’ve done nothing with tags before

[polar viper]

Kinda

[brisk girder]

Trying to make a bool named isMoving to be triggered false when my player character reaches his destination. Can anyone assist?

[nimble moat]

@brisk girder use a box trigger to set bool?

[brisk girder]

I am unfamiliar with that method. Can you shoot a link or an explanation?

Basically, the movement system is like Diablo, top-down point and click move

When the player reaches the point that has been clicked for movement, I want my bool to trigger, but can't find a node that will do this for me

[nimble moat]

https://i.gyazo.com/96947786ba3cb54b2542a2ee176d8ced.png

create a blueprint and add a box collision then use the on component hit

[brisk girder]

Yeah that would work if I was only going to one location

But I need it to trigger anywhere

Unless I am missing something here?

[nimble moat]

whats the bool? you wanna check if the player is moving after clicking?

[brisk girder]

I am setting up a Stamina bar, similar to Diablo II

[gaunt tide]

@cloud cobalt Can’t dynamic lighting using LPV be pretty hardware intensive tho?

[brisk girder]

When the player is running, I want it to drain stam, when they are walking, I want it to regen stam

But to trigger those, I need a bool which determines if the character is moving or not

[gaunt tide]

I have a system for that

[wispy comet]

just use velocity

[brisk girder]

Derp.

[cloud cobalt]

@gaunt tide Dynamic lighting is more expensive, yes, but trees usually look bad with static & cost a lot more to bake. LPV is discontinued

[wispy comet]

and then if velocity is greater than 0

bool is true

and then if not

i.e. velocity is 0

then bool is false

[gaunt tide]

My stamina system seems a lot more complex than that lol

[wispy comet]

or the other way around with the bools

[polar viper]

New issue o

Tho

[brisk girder]

TY @wispy comet

[gaunt tide]

@brisk girder you also don’t want stamina draining if you are falling

[brisk girder]

There is no falling. Its a top down diablo style

[gaunt tide]

Ah well Nevermind than on the pic I was about to post lol

[brisk girder]

Thanks guys!

[wispy comet]

No worries, glad to help :D

[gaunt tide]

@cloud cobalt Oh dang I didn’t see that on their help pages for lighting

[cloud cobalt]

They're not exactly really up to date

[polar viper]

I'm confused again

I can't find MF_GetProjectionUVs in the material palate

[gaunt tide]

Just add a light source, sky light, make them moveable? @cloud cobalt

[polar viper]

That's a nope

[cloud cobalt]

Amazon ?

[polar viper]

I'm seriously confused

[normal burrow]

Digital ocean

[plush yew]

Hello guys

[polar viper]

So i can't find now MaxRotation and MF_GetProjectionUVs

I seriously need help

[gaunt tide]

Yeah same lol

Just plugging a bunch of stuff in atm and hoping it works

[vernal thicket]

Best way to learn mate lol

[normal burrow]

Sounds like a bad tutorial Scottish if they aren’t verbosely explaining

[abstract relic]

I’m wondering if that tut was using custom mat functions

[polar viper]

I just can't figure out how to do custom parameters

It's good if you know the software

[gaunt tide]

For my skysphere I should probably just have it load for each set of levels Im streaming as opposed to having it load for the entire 64km^2 landscape huh?

[normal burrow]

That was my first thought too high tide, custom function

Tuts that are good if you know the software may not be great tuts for now if your learning it

[polar viper]

I figured out custom parameters

Now it's just one kore node

More

The MF_GetProjectionUVs is left 😖

[normal burrow]

Google it, may be custom node

[polar viper]

Zilch literally nothing shows up

[gaunt tide]

Yeah I feel that too. Alot of the tutorials I watch and with what I need to do with my map are outdated

[normal burrow]

Search content browser but include other developers in search

[polar viper]

Idk that colour.

[normal burrow]

Picture doesn’t help us know what it does inside

[polar viper]

Lol. That's the picture on the tutorial ofcourse because it's non existent

[abstract relic]

What’s it supposed to do? Time to teach you material functions

[normal burrow]

theres a screen texcoords node.. but yea maybe sharing a link to the tut would be helpful. hard to assume what that thing is supposed to do

[polar viper]

I got it. God damn didn't matchup to the name

[normal burrow]

yea idk if thats what you want though

[polar viper]

It is

[normal burrow]

was a wild assumption

[abstract relic]

Is it? 😜

[polar viper]

It was MaterialFuntionCall

Why not put it as that then

[abstract relic]

That’s generally what MF stands for

[slender mist]

Is there any way I can change the rotation of a static mesh?
Head and camera are both 0,0,0 - I'd like them to be aligned

[normal burrow]

what if you rotate the head?

[slender mist]

I need the heads rotation to match the cameras

[normal burrow]

k since it looks like its one actor

go to the details panel

and find the head in the list of components

click it, and then you can rotate it independently, unless the camera is a child of the head, then you need to select the camera and rotate it.

[slender mist]

@normal burrow I set the heads RotLoc to match the camera's on tick

so I'd like to change the heads orientation so it matches the camera

[normal burrow]

compose rotation or compose rotators

or combine?

combine rotators?

one of these things get you what you want

[abstract relic]

Initial orientation is important though

[polar viper]

Okay.... wtf. It works but in a weird way

[slender mist]

@abstract relic do you know how I can change it?

[abstract relic]

Do as pat said

Rotate it in the bp

[slender mist]

I dont really understand how that helps when I set it to something else on tick, but Ill give it a try

[normal burrow]

you use this on tick.

where you are setting it on tick, you set it to the combined rotators where one of the operands is 90 for z (yaw)

[slender mist]

I've tried this

but then it still doesnt look quite right

[normal burrow]

nope

[vale osprey]

rotators don't work like that, need to combine them

[slender mist]

okay, Ill try it, thank you

[normal burrow]

if thats off, flip the operands. its hard to remember the order bp does things

[slender mist]

it applies A first then B

[normal burrow]

yea which is like saying it rotates before it rotates

[slender mist]

yeah the first one worked, but with -90

thank you

[gaunt tide]

https://gyazo.com/c56d44bddfd582324e980b07c0a0b4a6 Dont mind FPS as it doesn that when I take screenshots. I just had a question. IMHO for a game that is going to be realistic. Does anyone else find objects in the distance kinda blurry?

Kinda reminds me of when I dont have my glasses on..

[slender mist]

you mean whether the things in the background of your screenshot look blurry?

It looks fine to me, but Im not an expert

[gaunt tide]

Yeah objects close by seem fine but anything further than like 10m are blurry

[abstract relic]

It’s a combination of LODs, depth of field, and the pixel density of your render

[normal burrow]

idk if unreal uses impostors

but that might be a thing

[gaunt tide]

It kinda seems like a DOF thing to me

[normal burrow]

impostor trees

[abstract relic]

Billboarding pat? 😜

[late verge]

is the latest version of UE4 4.23.1? i swear i saw a link to 4.23.3

could've just been going crazy idk

[gaunt tide]

Hmm

[normal burrow]

idk lol, trees that always face one direction and the approach you view them from determines their orientation when they become 3d

[gaunt tide]

Changed a few DOF settings in the post processing volume and it didnt seem to change anything

[abstract relic]

You may be thinking of the third preview of 4.24

[normal burrow]

4.23.1 is the latest non preview i do believe nerf.

[late verge]

yep, i was going Pepega

thanks guys!

[abstract relic]

We’re all mad here

[gaunt tide]

Seems the trees dont actually have LODs for the KiteDemo

58k vertices tho

[abstract relic]

First mistake is using kite demo

It isn’t remotely optimized

[gaunt tide]

Well as said they are just a little blurry but even with all of these trees in my 8km^2 landscape still get over 100fps so far

[abstract relic]

Now imagine using game ready trees!

[gaunt tide]

Imagine

trys to imagine

[abstract relic]

Draw extra pixels

[plush yew]

where do I learn level design

[vague sable]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Resources/ContentExamples/Lighting/3_2/index.html is this redirecting to the Korean page for anyone else?

wtf now it works

[gaunt tide]

Lol

[abstract relic]

No

[gaunt tide]

Was gonna say it didnt for me

[vague sable]

https://www.google.com/search?q=ue4+light+functions try clicking it to from Google

[abstract relic]

Still no

[gaunt tide]

Sorry no speaky the language

[vague sable]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Rendering/LightingAndShadows/LightFunctions/index.html

that page

[normal burrow]

tldr: Light Functions are - in essence - a Material that can be applied to filter a light's intensity.

[vague sable]

does the above link go to en-US page or redirect for you?

even Discord's cache has it wrong

[normal burrow]

they may have missed this section https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Gameplay/Localization/index.html

also, just noticed that theres a dark theme for the docs

but it brings me to en-us (both)

[reef mist]

Hey guys -Is it possible to make it so all edges of my mesh fade (feather) into 0 opacity? All I could find were tutorials on how to make materials to blend into landscape, but I want the mesh to have feathered edges without intersected anything else.

[abstract relic]

Look into fresnel

Use that as opacity blend

[plush yew]

could someone with UE 22.3 pls export somethin as .fbx for me?

[normal burrow]

fresnel is the answer to many questions

[plush yew]

anyone with UE 4.22.3? please?

[abstract relic]

Fresnel everything pat

[grave nebula]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9rgG2vPAvQ

[normal burrow]

absolutely, more glowy things

[gaunt tide]

https://gyazo.com/9a556c406b895d4020541358594d345c Correct me if I am wrong but I will have to redo this landscape material in order to add grass, rock, etc to my landscape when it is loaded?

Rn it is colored based on my imported heightmaps

@abstract relic The almighty

[abstract relic]

I ain’t a landscape lad

[gaunt tide]

Well poop. Are you a texture streaming lad?

[abstract relic]

I don’t know what I am

[gaunt tide]

Dang. Ive had editor open about 2hours now and it just now popped up the whole "Texture Streaming Pool Over 163.843 MiB Budget"

[abstract relic]

Did you build texture streaming data?

This is a topic I’m researching this week at least

But if you want a bandage. Open console and type, r.Streaming.PoolSize [insert desired value]

[halcyon flame]

I'm having an issue with my packaged version involving video mode with Game User Settings...

setting to fullscreen mode with a resolution less than the resolution of my monitor seems to upscale all of my other monitors too... is this working as intended? shouldn't just the monitor containing the game be upscaled?

[gaunt tide]

@abstract relic Well I did try to add grass but than reverted back to just having trees

But that’s the only thing I changed

[plush yew]

please im looking for somebody with UE 4.22.3. anyone?

[halcyon flame]

@plush yew I'm using that

[charred chasm]

Can I bother someone for help

I am just getting start with unreal and I am trying to create a night scene

I am able to make the sky night but when I play the scene the ground gets brighter and brighter

until max brigthness

[halcyon flame]

@charred chasm this has to do with post process settings. by default it's adjusting kindof like the human eye does, but it sounds like you want to tamp this down a bit

[charred chasm]

How would I do that?

I se something called GlobalPostProcessVolume

[abstract relic]

In project settings >>> type Exposure in the search bar>>> disable that sucker

[ruby ocean]

Hey I just have a general question about character creation. Can anyone point me to a reliable source that can teach me how to transfer the weights and armature of one model to another?

^Specifically in blender

[normal burrow]

the bone names are different between armatures?

[ruby ocean]

I know UE4 has the option for skeleton retargeting, the only problem I have with it, is that naming convention for the models I'm using don't follow the normal naming convention.

[hidden aurora]

Do you guys recommend using vscode instead of vs for unreal_

[normal burrow]

would only recommend vax and vs retrosen

[hidden aurora]

Im currently using that setup but i really hate the visuals of vs and vax

[kindred viper]

I hate the visuals of VS too. Like the 95% of stuff I dont use being there.

[normal burrow]

its more about utility for me

vscode is quite new age with its highlighting and aliasing tho

[hidden aurora]

Thats true but it hurts my eyes lol

[normal burrow]

you can change the colors

and the fonts, if you like handwriting fonts

[hidden aurora]

But vs code themes are lit

[normal burrow]

its kinda like the new winamp yea

[hidden aurora]

I mean look at this beauty

[reef mist]

@abstract relic A black and white fresnel gradient that serves as an opacity mask?

[normal burrow]

i tend to care less about that stuff, i've used things like atom which i think that is going after (and developed by the same people afaik)

and it didn't help me program any better, vax's color theme is ugly but memorable lol

[tribal steeple]

What would the cull distance for meshes command be for the console?

Or like render distance. I found some meshes for grass that I'm using in a landscape but they disappear after a distance

Like this. The grass doesn't appear after a certain point. The grass also doesn't show in foliage.

My issue also seems to carry between projects

[gaunt tide]

Hmmm

[tribal steeple]

@ me if anyone has an answer

[swift spindle]

you can't store anything inside of a function

including a counter

sigh... my brain is not good at writing right now

[kindred viper]

Some things dont work, so I get what alt means. Like using a delay in a loop.

try it

[swift spindle]

your incrementing a float.

you can't store the float variable inside of the function itself

needs to be outside of it

a function can not store information

[kindred viper]

@autumn crystal you misunderstood me. I meant a For Loop

[static raft]

@deep grotto thats because I use an interface so the target changes accordingly

[dreamy talon]

hI! if someone can help me to solve problem with my project. i trying to render car animation, but wheels doesnt spin when i playing animation.. also when trying to export video (capture) car totally staying in place and start s to fall through the ground or flips..

[kindred viper]

aids?

:p

i dont even know what you are doing tbh. Im having serious anxiety attacks so my brain is rotating

I suffer from anxiety attacks due to mental distress

its probably a do-once in a function being iffy

so use the do-once outside of the function

think about it. Everything in a function that is defined in the function, is scoped to the function. Once the second function call happens, the Do-Once doesn't exist. It makes a new one

[sharp crest]

I'm bored because I can't decide what I should finish first

7000 hrs

do u know what u could have done in that time

probably became a millioner

well depends on ur iq

no

[kindred viper]

my IQ is 136 apparently, although Im sure I've smoked a few points away

[sharp crest]

anyone who does an iq test instantly gets his iq reduced

I don't need no test to tell me my IQ is high

[kindred viper]

I did two IQ tests, 3 years apart and they both had the same result.

its not the points that matter tho, it's what you do with it.

[sharp crest]

lol

[kindred viper]

I use them to help others if I can, whilst I starve trying to make my own projects work :p

[cloud cobalt]

#lounge

[kindred viper]

sorry didnt realise

[sharp crest]

[kindred viper]

think he meant me for talking non-unreal stuff. Its all good

[lyric bane]

anyone have experience working with ragdolls?

[sharp crest]

u have better chances to just post ur question

[plush yew]

hi i want to know if code in blueprint can rise the fps or make some bug

[lyric bane]

trying to get my capsule component to stay on the character when ragdolling

[plush yew]

I'm trying to increase a float based on the player's velocity relative to the direction of the attack. So if the player is moving backwards away from the target the damage will be decreased but if the player is moving toward the target the damage will be increased. Just adding the players velocity magnitude to the float obviously isn't enough. What term should I search to get this figured out?

[sharp crest]

c++ is faster than blueprints (fps wise) but it should work fine for most games @lyric bane

[plush yew]

@lyric bane I feel like I was able to set the ragdoll to not inherit the location of the capsule and then just have the capsule set its location to the pelvis bone but that might have caused issues, its been a while

[polar viper]

Fuck. The thing i did now isn't working but it's all there

[lyric bane]

could you walk me through it? haha

i have enemys that ragdoll when they are launched in the air. but if i want to hit them while they are airborne i need the capsule to be attached

[polar viper]

I created interactive grass there was a big issue (it was showing a square insteal of circle but now there's nothing

[plush yew]

I think I gave up on my process because moving the capsule in turn moved the ragdoll and caused it to fly around like a dementor. But my current system has two capsules. One for hits and one for collision. If you used a similar two capsule solution I think you'd be fine. Just have the hit capsule follow the pelvis and leave the collision capsule behind until the ragdoll is over

I haven't implemented ragdolls in my newer project yet so I don't know if that'd work for sure but I don't see why it wouldn't

[lyric bane]

Hmm that seems like a good idea. but my soft lock system will make my attacks target the capsule still

[plush yew]

oh true

damn that's how mine works, I'll put that in the notes

yeah it'd be annoying to cast to my target every time and then specify that I'm looking for the hit capsule

It's not ideal but a branch might help. If it's ragdolling track the other capsule. At some point I planned on having the camera track the target's chest bone but that might get pretty wacky

[zinc ginkgo]

Anyone come across an issue where changing any of quality settings causes the engine to completely freeze up, going from Epic to low/medium. Same with material quality settings.

[glossy shoal]

does anyone else have a problem where delays work strangly when you open a PIE window while looking at the blueprint?

[opaque vector]

Hey, I have a peculiar problem relating to Skeletal Mesh Material Slots. I have a licensed skeletal mesh asset originally made in Maya, I'm simply trying to add more material slots on the asset. What I'm doing is, exporting the asset through fbx, importing it into Blender, adding said slots, and exporting it back to fbx. The exported asset has some skeletal issues and is throwing errors left and right. Is there any way to just overwrite the original material slot assignment without having to fully re-import?

[kindred viper]

null != 0 so im not sure why you expected null?

that depends on the output entirely

what gives 0? the index Integer content?

technically if you have an array with a max index of 2, and you try access a third, it gives an out of bounds error

maybe not in blueprint as it would crash the editor, but I would need to see the code

hmm doesnt sound right but if it works

yeah all those outputs are floats. Im surprised it spits out 0 tho. That is gonna break if underneath it's trying to access what you tell the editor is a valid index

well thats because you are returning a struct. They have defaults

[mossy nymph]

BP can't handle pointers to struct

and accessing an invalid index (something that outputs an error in the log and would outright crash in c++)

[kindred viper]

^^

[mossy nymph]

is not really something editor should fix for you automagically

[kindred viper]

yeah its confusing, except he's returning struct values that are split. So they will be 0 as it will take the default I guess

blueprint ❤️

well it did save you from crashing the editor so it did its job :p

[mossy nymph]

either check if NextRotation isValidIndex in that array before you exec the code

[lyric bane]

@mossy nymph you have any ideas about keeping a capsule attached to a ragdoll?

[mossy nymph]

or if it can loop back to 0 and cycle, when you increment it also do a modulo <number of array items>, and it will never go out of bounds

literally by using IsValidIndex

@lyric bane i never tried doing that

you do it before the exec node that pulls that array get

[candid stratus]

i had walls built up using the geometry blocks but for some reason all of them are gone. Also when i add a new block it disappears too. i went in wire frame and i couldn't see them as well as ctrl H

... i dont know how to fix it

[mossy nymph]

i don't think there is a difference

[lone tapir]

Guys can someone help me with creating a flipbook?

[slender mist]

Can I modify an Actor in a recorded sequence?
I've recorded a sequence with my Motion Controller Pawn, but I need to have two variations if this exact sequence:

• 1: with a static mesh (head)
• 2: with a plane that has a media texture on it (playing a video)

[rotund scroll]

so when posing a skeleton in the skeletal mesh viewer, is there any way to move bones so that the rest of the body follows that bone? e.g. move a finger out to a position, and the rest of the skeleton follows that movement while respecting individual pivots?

or alternatively a way to snap a parent bone to a child's location

[kindred viper]

@lone tapir Flipbooks aint difficult. Just have your Spritesheet, note the number of rows and columns there are, then use AnimationTime input as a normalised time (0-1) between each frame.

there are tutorials online for it. Should take you 5 mins if you have a spritesheet

[lone tapir]

@kindred viper Got it! Can I create a flipbook inside unreal with the image sequence I have?

[kindred viper]

sure

I wouldn't use an image sequence though directly. Turn it into a spritesheet

dont forget there is an 8K maximum on the image size tho

you can chain flipbooks tho

[lone tapir]

How can I fire the animation of a flipbook inside unreal?

[kindred viper]

it will be part of the tutorial you are about to go watch. Good luck :p

[lone tapir]

So the final image cannot be more than 8k?

[kindred viper]

per spritesheet yeah

you could have half your anim in one Flipbook material, and the other half in another, then chain them together

[lone tapir]

Can I link two spritesheet one in the animation? play two 8k files?

[kindred viper]

no it will be seperated per material. You will see

[sharp crest]

New emoji trend

[kindred viper]

you can combine them though with event based triggering of the anims

[lone tapir]

Do you have any good tutorials for me? I'm watching some I found but it's 30min!

[kindred viper]

cmon man if you can't find a tutorial on flipbooks, then I wont be any help to you because Im not a tutorial machine

I just advise 🙂

[lone tapir]

No problem just because I will have to convert several files. And delivery is for today.

[kindred viper]

I told you earlier @autumn crystal . Use sound cues

there is a whole audio subsystem for this and its massively changed since Rama added that method

why?

[sharp crest]

@lone tapir

[kindred viper]

did you know you can dynamically load assets?

did you know you can use Youtube within UE4 via a WebBrowser widget?

[sharp crest]

ye it's cool u can use any website @kindred viper

[kindred viper]

lots of caveats to that but it can be done

[sharp crest]

well regular ones

[kindred viper]

yeah I've used it as part of login systems before I went the vaREST route

yeah

and it needs to be manually activated

although that might have changed. its been a while

yeah the web browser route is not what you want. Its the Sound Cues and audio subsystem you want

AssetRegistry and AssetManager in C++ have what you need

to load assets

I recommended it because if you just want users to have a play list, and you showed me a YT image link, then why not just load Youtube

the Web Browser could use some work tho so its not always useful

yeah so use the normal method. Sound Cues

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Audio/index.html

ffs man

I know you are running before you walk here, but trust me. If you want to control audio. The audio subsystem and sound cues is the way

it has been since UT godknows what

ok you figure it out

[lone tapir]

Thanks for the hint of speed I could see the video! Now I'm stuck in a problem, how am I going to create a stereo output if FlipBoook creates an output on my UV channel? 🤔

[timid jacinth]

How do I stop jittery movement on clients

For multiplayer

[candid stratus]

how do i mirror/ flip this

[timid jacinth]

Rotate

Or scale by -1

[candid stratus]

yeah but its not symmetrical so i cant do it that way

[timid jacinth]

Scale it down until it's upside down

[candid stratus]

thanks that worked

👍

[timid jacinth]

Or right click and click transform and then mirror

[placid yarrow]

During runtime, I am using a TakeHighResScreenshot node to create a screenshot, and it saves to Saved\Windows\ by default. Great. But I also want to be able to delete that screenshot during runtime. How do I do that?

Well, now I'm starting to wonder -- does the TakeHighResScreenshot node work during actual gameplay in a packaged build, or is it an editor-only function?

[thin tendon]

Instead of Remove Instance, How can I hide a single instanced Tree? Everything I try hides all my trees at once

[grave nebula]

Why not remove instance ?

[thin tendon]

Remove instance causes really bad Lag in Unreal. I'm trying to figure a way to code around that. By Hiding them instead and removing them when the lag won't be noticed

Because unless I can find a way to hide them. I'm going to have to have already scripted trees at all times

[grave nebula]

Update transform of the instance only.

And scale it to 0

[thin tendon]

Thanks I'll give it a go

[autumn grail]

Hi , i can't change the streaming methos of my maps to "always loaded" because tis option is not shown when i right click on my map

[thin tendon]

Turns out no matter how I approach it. The act of doing anything to a single instance will cause lag.

[kindred viper]

presumably because it rebuilds the whole data?

[gaunt tide]

I ran my map for about two hours before it gave me the message for streaming pool

But than again my entire map isnt loaded all the time and it is split up into 10km^2 sections

I am also working on figuring the streaming pool stuff out @thin tendon

Whoops we are talking about two different things nevermind

[thin tendon]

@gaunt tide With the level streaming stuff. What I figured out is its better to split your map as much as possible and only stream in small sections as you need them. But I still haven't figured out how to decrease load times for level streaming.

[gaunt tide]

Yeah I split it into 10km^2 sections and it loads instantly for me

Thats with just the terrain and trees tho

[thin tendon]

If you have a section set to always loaded it still uses resources

[gaunt tide]

Yeah but I had to use larger sections because I have 961 tiles for my entire map

[thin tendon]

For my project I have 16km with towns and POIs. So I don't have the same luck. For me load times can be anywhere up to about 30 seconds

[gaunt tide]

Yeah mine will have a few POIs and cabins sparsely populated throughout but that is about it

[thin tendon]

The one thing I have figured out though when it comes to streaming the smaller each section the better

And watch your construction scripts. You don't want too much constructing at once

[gaunt tide]

Yeah. I mean ig I could make the sections smaller but that just means more work for me lol as the current section size is 5x5 tiles

[thin tendon]

Instead of using tile streaming. I opted to have landscape persistent. And load foliage and towns using streaming trigger volumes

[gaunt tide]

Yeah I was considering doing that actually as I would like to add multiplayer and streaming Im using only works for singleplayer atm

[thin tendon]

I used that set up because I wanted to use a system that removes all AI and loads new ones back in on each transition

[gaunt tide]

So you have trigger volumes at the edge of each tile?

[thin tendon]

Nah I ignore tiles completely. And just use trigger boxes. Then overlap the triggers. And add all actors inside each box to its own level

[gaunt tide]

Oh. Yeah idk if I wanna do that unless Im able to write a blueprint that does that for each of my tiles. Would take me probably a month to do all the tiles I have

[thin tendon]

Yeah it takes a fair bit of set up. Took me about a week when I first realised I needed streaming

[gaunt tide]

How many tiles?

[thin tendon]

I have about 20 sub levels set up

[gaunt tide]

https://gyazo.com/fa892cb8c53e54b41331a1460b0191e2 This is how I have mine sectioned atm

Based on a landscape from East Africa

[dull oyster]

Failed to import 'C:\Users\spraw\Desktop\33233.jpg'. Failed to create asset '/Game/objects/small/very_small/jewerly/decal/33233'.
Please see Output Log for details. Unreal doesnt let me to import JPG , what might be the reason ?

This is the JPG im trying to import to unreal

[sharp crest]

try to convert to png? lol

[dull oyster]

worked, thx

[glass rapids]

quick question, My projectile goes through all objects that don't simulate physics like the default walls in the template, any ideas on how to fix it?

[sharp crest]

are collisions supposed to block them? @glass rapids

if u didnt check the collisions, that should be the first thing

[glass rapids]

I have it on block all

[sharp crest]

hmm I remember havijng this issue too, cant remember how I fixed it, and going to sleep now so not gonna check,
make sure to try googling it
if u cant find anything just debug until u find the root of the issue

gl

[glass rapids]

ty

[halcyon flame]

is your resolution just irrelevant in windowed fullscreen mode? when I set to that mode (aka borderless) any resolution changes I set don't seem to take effect

[swift spindle]

ugh... found a fun bug

replace material with another one.. while raytracing enabled... boom. crash out

[thin tendon]

Does anyone know of a reason why sub-levels would be affecting FPS? I thought if they weren't loaded they wouldn't affect the game until they are.

[swift spindle]

are you sure they are not loaded at all ?

[thin tendon]

They aren't supposed to be. I have trigger volumes that load them in

[swift spindle]

😐

[dim plover]

Anyone know why my rootbone would be rotated X 90degrees? When exporting from Maya to UE4?
I just can't figure these export configs out.

[normal burrow]

idk but almost everything points y character wise in ue4

may be related

[dim plover]

If I don't Force Front X, everything points in Y, which is like the UE4 Mannequin. But the root bone is rotated.
If I do Force Front X, everything but the mesh points X. The mesh and animations are all weirdly rotated.

[normal burrow]

unsure how maya works tbh

only tried the free month and was unimpressed with scripting in it

[dim plover]

I only chose it because it seems to be the standard, which I assume means less problems.
But strangely, I haven't been able to find much about anything.

[normal burrow]

probably why students get it free 😂

[ripe saffron]

y is up in maya

[dim plover]

It seems that UE4 does the Y to Z conversions automatically, the mesh is rotated correctly, but the bones are wonky.
Let me try one thing.

[ripe saffron]

havnt used maya in ages but i think you can set it to z up .... you maybe able to export with z up too

[dim plover]

Apparently you don't need to do that anymore? Either way, I tried changing between Z and Y up exporting from Maya, I don't think it does anything.

[ripe saffron]

it could also be your root joint orientation

iirc the top joint in the hierarchy doesn't align itself automatically

[dim plover]

Oooooooh.... Yeah... right when you said that, I opened the UE4 mannequin FBX. It's root is rotated -90 in X.

Thanks, Craig.

[ripe saffron]

you are welcome Floss!

[dim plover]

Yeah, it worked.

[ripe saffron]

excellent.

[swift spindle]

anyone remember where the HDR test box is in ue4 ?

[supple vault]

I manage a handful of computers for students where we installed Unreal as admin. As I have discovered, in a non-admin account, students are able to edit engine content which has caused some problems. For example, if you edit the simple collision box of a cube in one project, that persists across all projects.

Been searching around for a while, but can't seem to get the right search terms. Is there a way for me to disable this entirely? I'll probably need to reinstall to restore whatever else has been changed, I'd like to only need to do this once as it takes quite a while 😉

[supple vault]

@autumn crystal not sure if this will work, but if you do file -> package project -> package settings then in the "Packaging" section there's a little arrow dropdown, click that. I think you can add it to "Directories to never cook"?

darn :/ the only other thing i could find that seemed maybe relevant (you should undo that cooking thing btw...) is in the project settings Game -> Asset Manager tab, there's a "Directories to Exclude". The intent seems to be for test assets, but I think if you put /Maps in there then it might exclude it ?

I'm a novice though ... so if that's not it hopefully somebody else can help you

[lone tapir]

Guys anyone know any good tutorial for Unreal SteamVR hands?

[thin tendon]

How come I can't change the Max draw distance for current draw distance? Changing the desired draw distance does nothing in game

[supple vault]

@autumn crystal oh nice! so for your other question, don't know if this is a legit way to do this but i think your problem is you don't have a way to expand %appdata% in blueprint (though I'm not sure).

the below hack gets you to appdata (unless the user has changed this value...), so you can at least use this as a backup plan. you'd then add on the remainder of the path you want (CircleRhythm\Maps), there's also a DirectoryExists node too that may be worth incorporating to make sure you can use it 🙂

@lone tapir are you talking about the plugin SteamVR Input? If so, the sample project in their wiki was pretty helpful in getting oriented https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamvr_unreal_plugin/wiki

[lone tapir]

Oh man! How could I fail to see this on GitHub! Thank you very much @supple vault

[supple vault]

hehe no problem, i did the same thing xD

[lone tapir]

@supple vault A question I already searched in the documentation and did not find! Do you know if these hands work in Oculus Quest?

[supple vault]

not sure. they worked on Rift S. only not perfectly (e.g., I can't figure out how to set down the BP_Longbow :S)

i feel like your chances are good, most likely they support all oculus through some common interface or something

[trim trail]

is there anyone on 4.24 p4 that could check, if Undo works on changes on material instance parameters? I'm getting only message they get undone, but effect/numbers remain intact

[strong mesa]

I have a problem setting a simple Int , it used to work okay but when calling it using a deferent event the entire code executes as it was except that specific Int

Even code after the Setting of the Int Executes okay

[hot goblet]

Morning

[valid pike]

mmorning

[normal burrow]

@strong mesa context please

Unless the game is about setting an int

[humble ridge]

Does anyone know if its possible to create initialization fields dynamically? Say if you want to paint instanced actors from geometry collections?

[strong mesa]

@normal burrow apparently unreal doesn't like firing tow Macros in a row , insted i had to put the 2nd macro inside the first one and it woked as expected, it's literally rhe same everything just instead of draging of the end pin of the first macro and connecting it to the execute pin of the second macro, just called the second macro inside the first one and it worked fine

[remote roost]

there's nothing i love more than making bad blueprint formatting and choices

[manic pawn]

step 1: print the screenshot
step 2: set it on fire

[normal burrow]

Lol

Do you prefer collapsed graph to infinity tho

[manic pawn]

I wonder if it would help readability to make exec wires 4x wide

[normal burrow]

Kamayamaha

[wary wave]

I mean, that could be cleaned up pretty quickly and made readable

better to keep it readable as you go

[rustic crow]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/602819615827034132/642314545913659392/QQ20191107195549.gif

[manic pawn]

yeah if it was from hell it would already be on fire so no need to burn it then

[normal burrow]

Eternal flame

[remote roost]

@wary wave i know its just rapid prototyping but i find it funny when i make a mess

[normal burrow]

I’ve made better messes

[remote roost]

#blueprint-horror channel when

[normal burrow]

#server-feedback

Make a whole procrastination category

[normal burrow]

#fingerpainting

[wary wave]

wtf

[normal burrow]

It’s funny cuz switch is meant to be like that

I’ve never seen switch of many cases look not haypile

[wary wave]

eh, that whole image is just spaghetti

I don't get how people can work like that

[normal burrow]

I feel like constantly pulling nodes around takes a lot of time though

[wary wave]

it really doesn't

and keeping code organised means you can actually read it

saving a huge amount of time in the long run

[normal burrow]

“I need to put a node in here” zoom out, box select move, insert node draw connections. “I need another node”

I get why people lose prettiness anyways but yea should clean up at some point

[wary wave]

I mean, this is my rapid prototype BP for something I'm currently working on;

much more complex graph, but the flow is readily apparent and it's clear what happens where in the graph

[manic pawn]

when can we have auto layout for bp

[normal burrow]

Voice recognition blueprints

[manic pawn]

wouldn't those be yellowprints

actually why is it even called a blueprint nothing about them is blue or printed

[normal burrow]

“Insert GetPhysicsAngularVelocity node connect to node cross product as input A set target to self”

[supple vault]

that would be a screamprint...

[normal burrow]

Lol

[supple vault]

@manic pawn it's historical, architectural diagrams and the like

[obsidian nimbus]

the mess isnt too bad if you know whats goin on,. there are a few bad practices in there tho

like u dont cast on tick

i dont see how that is ever needed

[kindred viper]

@wary wave tsk. Not enough reroute nodes. OCD-God is not pleased 😄

[wary wave]

I dunno, that middle section got to the point where reroute nodes break 😄

[obsidian nimbus]

thats where u promote

[wary wave]

'promote'?

[obsidian nimbus]

make a new var and drag it out