ue4-general

[azure shore]

oo realistic hair and fur

[exotic lion]

Yeah I can't find anything on google either.

[normal burrow]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Programming/Development/VisualStudioSetup/index.html this stuff A*

[grim ore]

a simple question but have you tried creating the folder and seeing what happens?

[grave nebula]

@dim merlin Likely, because you are trying to render all landscapes at once, and not using level LODs

[plush yew]

nice, landscape stamps in the free monthly content

[radiant haven]

how can i make the atmosphere red and not the sun wanna make atmosphere of mars

or can someone help me in general how i should do mars at all

[plush yew]

you could use a post processing volume

[plush marsh]

In VS I also get MSB3075 - please verify you have sufficient right to run this command

[normal burrow]

oi

[cloud cobalt]

@plush marsh full log ?

[grim ore]

sounds like your admin setup is not the same between machines?

[plush marsh]

yep, this machine is at work and we have all sorts of security

[radiant haven]

@plush yew u know how?#

wanna add
Rocks
Red Atmosphere
Hills
Mountains

Already got the models but I am to bad to make this so i need help

[plush marsh]

that is what I have in vs

[plush yew]

well check out the free content they just added a buncha landscape stamps

[cloud cobalt]

That's not the output log @plush marsh

[radiant haven]

😐

[cloud cobalt]

Go to the window called output

Open that, copypaste the results

[plush yew]

@radiant haven You can edit those color curves: https://hsto.org/webt/hc/b6/0q/hcb60qrpea9jjmt5epkmyo92gve.png

[radiant haven]

dont want to use sky sphere

because there are no clouds or other stuff on marsä

[plush marsh]

I'm not a programmer yes. I'm learning ```1>------ Skipped Build: Project: UE4, Configuration: BuiltWithUnrealBuildTool Win32 ------
1>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
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2>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
3>------ Build started: Project: MyProasject, Configuration: Development_Editor x64 ------
3>Parsing headers for MyProasjectEditor
3> Running UnrealHeaderTool "D:\UEP\MyProasject\MyProasject.uproject" "D:\UEP\MyProasject\Intermediate\Build\Win64\MyProasjectEditor\Development\MyProasjectEditor.uhtmanifest" -LogCmds="loginit warning, logexit warning, logdatabase error" -Unattended -WarningsAsErrors -installed
3>Reflection code generated for MyProasjectEditor in 5.5422375 seconds
3>Using Visual Studio 2017 14.16.27023 toolchain (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023) and Windows 10.0.16299.0 SDK (C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10).
3>[1/9] Resource Default.rc2
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3>
3>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\VC\VCTargets\Microsoft.MakeFile.Targets(44,5): error MSB3075: The command "D:\UE4Vault\UE_4.22\Engine\Build\BatchFiles\Build.bat MyProasjectEditor Win64 Development -Project="D:\UEP\MyProasject\MyProasject.uproject" -WaitMutex -FromMsBuild" exited with code 5. Please verify that you have sufficient rights to run this command.
3>Done building project "MyProasject.vcxproj" -- FAILED.
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 2 skipped ==========

[cloud cobalt]

SndbsTemplates ringing a bell ?

[plush yew]

you can set cloud opacity to 0 in skysphere, but yeah

[plush marsh]

nope

[cloud cobalt]

Try verifying the engine

[plush marsh]

did this

and reinstalled

[grim ore]

the sufficient rights error is a false error in this case due to the previous stuff failing just keep that in mind

[plush yew]

@radiant haven not a sky sphere, but a post processing volume might be what you're looking for, you can change the colors of your surroundings with it

[exotic lion]

@plush marsh Someone said "I had a member of a class with the wrong "UPROPRRTY" values.
When you put "UPROPERTY(EditDefaultsOnly, VisibleAnywhere, Category = "Mesh")" above your class member, you will get that error. Simply omit one of these keywords (EditDefaultsOnly or VisibleAnywhere) from all of your class member that has the two of them together and you should be good.
"

https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/content-creation/106792-waitmutex-exited-with-code-5-please-verify-that-you-have-sufficient-rights-to-run-this-command

[radiant haven]

@plush yew well thats not what I want only the surrounding and not the entire screen

[plush marsh]

but I'm creating blank c++ project , without any data

[radiant haven]

as u see the entire screen isnt covored with the sky color

[honest vale]

oh 4.24 is out

sweet

[radiant haven]

already tested it?

[plush yew]

beta or full?

[verbal moon]

I'm using it currently. I thought the new sun system would already be set up and noticeable but it still looks like the old sky. Anyone know how to activate the new sky ?

[radiant haven]

how does the new sky should look?

How do I rotate textures?????

Randomly to avoud repeating textures

[plush yew]

it says 4.24 is out but i dont see a download option

[plush yew]

restart your launcher

someone said few minutes ago

[radiant haven]

oh yeah ure right

[proper crane]

UE4 search feature isn't working

Wondering the height of the mannequin in relative to irl. I know it's said here, but no search

SHIT

DISCORD SEARCH FEATURE

NOT UE4

Anyone else getting that "Crap, we dropped the magnifying glass. Uh... Can you try searching again?"?

[plush yew]

i think it was 1.8m. if thats what you mean

[proper crane]

I imagine somewhere near 5'10"

[verbal moon]

Top picture is from the dev days stream. Sky atmosphere is new and what I am looking for but it does not seem to do anything when dragged into scene.

[sonic pagoda]

@verbal moon ~~ have you tried removing the other elements such as the directional light, im not 100% but i remember reading something about it being like a 1 stop shop ~~

for the "sun" light in your game

you might need to remove the sky sphere actually

[verbal moon]

That's what I was hoping for lol - I have tried with only the sky atmosphere. I have not done that ^ yet - That is what I am looking for ! Thank you.

[sonic pagoda]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Actors/FogEffects/SkyAtmosphere/index.html

[plush yew]

Im scared. 🆘

[exotic lion]

lol

[plush yew]

What ever happened to Android app bundles? It was supposed to come out in 4.24

[scenic snow]

I think the camera is going to eat the ship :p

[hard quarry]

Is there an outline material such as this one as default somehwere or do I have to create one as well?
https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/rendering/11146-material-for-orange-outlines-on-selected-actor

[hasty osprey]

hi so my cape clips heavily with the rest of the model with cloth paint on

any solution?

[trim trail]

uh. I had 37gb free space on ssd, uninstalled 4.24 p4, installed 4.24 stable release. now I have 9gb free space. How come?

[cloud cobalt]

Probably forgot debug symbols or something

[grim ore]

@hard quarry as far as I have seen there is no outline material or Post Process effect included in the engine at this time but there are plenty of examples out there to use

[fervent sigil]

"New: Any enums that are marked as "BlueprintType" must have a zero initializer. Here is an example:" (nothing after)

amazing.

[trim trail]

ahhh, right, in p4 i unchecked junk options at install, ty @cloud cobalt

[grim ore]

3D text still has "For details, see [TODO:doc link]." lol soo... they tried 🙂

[hard quarry]

@grim ore thanks, do you know how I can get the Mask (R) Blueprint node inside the materials blueprint editor?

[grim ore]

it's the Component Mask node, once you add it you can add or remove channels

[misty violet]

So you can't actually add UE 4.23 Marketplace content to UE 4.24 projects?

Ow wait you can!

[cloud cobalt]

Some of them will need upgrading

Most will work fine

[hard quarry]

Does anyone know how those SceneTexture:CustomDepth Nodes are now called?
https://forums.unrealengine.com/filedata/fetch?id=1052938&d=1406238744

[fervent sigil]

Just scene texture nodes no?

[misty violet]

I'll keep that in mind!

[hard quarry]

@fervent sigil seems like I cannot use SceneTexture:SceneColor inside a PostProcess Material

[heady frost]

ooh, new unreal update

[uncut vigil]

get all atached actors is gone in 4.24???

[fervent sigil]

If you're looking for the actual scene color as part of the scene post process material, I believe it's in the PostProcessInput0 type

[hard quarry]

Well, it tells me I have done something wrong here, I dont really know what

[fervent sigil]

It tells you exactly, look. arithmetic between type float4 and float3, on lerp node.
Meaning lerp is working on float4 (top) and float3 (middle).
Your color needs to have an alpha to it

[opaque mantle]

@hard quarry Or more simply use a component mask on your scene color and check on RGB while leaving alpha unchecked.

[fervent sigil]

Won't the emissive color input want alpha? although generally there's opacity node, it's not enabled so..

[loud knoll]

I am getting to 95% on project convert to 4.24.0 and it is crashing on APEX in the first line

[hard quarry]

Thank you guys, I fixed it. First time I work with Materials.
But now I cannot select this Material as a blendable in my postprocess volume

[fervent sigil]

You don't need mask for the color btw, it's already float3

[loud knoll]

has APEX been removed from 4.24?

[scenic snow]

I do not believe so

[loud knoll]

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000000

UE4Editor_ApexDestruction
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_CoreUObject
UE4Editor_UnrealEd
UE4Editor_UnrealEd
UE4Editor_UnrealEd
UE4Editor_UnrealEd
UE4Editor_UnrealEd
UE4Editor_UnrealEd
UE4Editor_UnrealEd
UE4Editor_UnrealEd
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
UE4Editor
kernel32
ntdll

what do you guys think is causing it to crash?

[grave nebula]

I am afraid it is too hard to guess without debugging symbols and crash dump.

[grim ore]

^ install the debug symbols from the options for that version in the launcher and crash it again lol

[obsidian nimbus]

it could be gremlins

[loud knoll]

yeah I am trying to fire up a default project first

default project is working

[wise stone]

What is the best way to learn about unreal?

[grim ore]

http://learn.unrealengine.com ?

[warped tangle]

dive in

google

youtube

docs

for the love of god have an idea of what you want to do/make....

[grim ore]

mmorpgfpsrts?

[warped tangle]

LOL

[loud knoll]

how about a simple arcade game

[wise stone]

I feel bullied now lmao

[warped tangle]

lol not at all

[loud knoll]

dont fear the truth they are telling you

[warped tangle]

I'm being 100% serious, there any tons of people who just want to learn it but have no ideas of their own. You should have something you're passionate about

[scenic snow]

what about a FPs inside a FPS inSIDE of a FPS

If you want to learn, UE got actual good qualitt documentation

[wise stone]

Alright, I know Im a newbie at this just wanna use my creativity but its hard when I dont know hoe to use the program lol

[scenic snow]

Look to tutorials

I would say

and documentation

[warped tangle]

Start with some tutorials, get a grip on the editor itself, then try to start making gameplay mechanics for your idea

[scenic snow]

documentation first so you can get a good idea about what you want to work on

but thats my view

[grim ore]

http://learn.unrealengine.com ...

[wise stone]

@grim ore I saw the first time im not ignoring you

[warped tangle]

@grim ore but you followed that up with suggesting an mmorpgfpsrts

how can anybody take you seriously after that? lol

[tulip pine]

Anybody else constantly getting "Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000018"?

The editor crashes within 2 minutes of launching

[grim ore]

There is literally a learning path called "Getting Started with Unreal Engine".... lol

[warped tangle]

lolol

[wise stone]

Getting started it is then

[warped tangle]

gl

[grim ore]

I'm not saying it's the best but it does have the title of getting started 🙂

[warped tangle]

And you know what they say, always judge a book by its cover

[wise stone]

Yeah right lol

Alright anyone doing any first person stuff?

[scenic snow]

I'm doing a stealth based game in 3rd so eh

But I did some basic first person stuff

What is ur game idea

[wise stone]

How do I remove the damned gun

I wanna make a explorer game

[scenic snow]

Why?

ok

a RPG?

[wise stone]

Not really at start, just a game where you can walk around in diffrent enviorments and buildings

Later maybe add some story

[scenic snow]

ok so a basic level

[wise stone]

Yeah

[outer yarrow]

i am making a "notification system" should i keep the logic in playerController or move it to playerstate or something else ?

[quasi topaz]

Anyone know of any good tutorials for makeing a FPS game?

[scenic snow]

search it up on YT

or even better

go put ur eyes with UE's documentation

I would say that it's sort of inadvisable to go direct to tutorials

because it teachs on a linear path

if u want to add a unique function, you wont know how

but again, my view

Take a look at this @quasi topaz @wise stone

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

or this par-tic-tacular

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

I would say understanding the Framework is most important

in order to proceed

[wise stone]

@scenic snow thank you

[scenic snow]

Anytime my friend 🙂

[humble ridge]

What would cause textures to initially be high quality and after a few seconds reduce to low quality?

[quasi topaz]

Thx 🙂

[hard quarry]

Ok I successfully made my PostProcess Material and it works, but it is flickering, so the intensity goes up and down very fast, can I somehow avoid this?

[grim ore]

@wise stone your question on removing the gun, you would replace the skeletal mesh with none or remove the skeletal mesh component on the character.

[hard quarry]

It seems to vibrate

[wise stone]

@grim ore I will try to do that once I know how to do it

[scenic snow]

@humble ridge is it possible ur engine scaled down the texture?

[humble ridge]

Maybe what would cause that?

Its almost like all textures

[scenic snow]

engine settings?

high,medium,low?

[humble ridge]

Oh i dont think so

[warped tangle]

check your engine scalability settings

are you getting a texture streaming over budget warning in the viewport?

[scenic snow]

maybe UE4 possibly lowered LOD automatically?

LOD Bias I think it the problem

Possibly

[grim ore]

best parts of new releases for me is reading all the point release notes and playing in the content examples. whoooo release day

[scenic snow]

Man, Quixel assets take a longgg time to import

think I crashed UE xd

[humble ridge]

Yeah im getting the over budget warning

[scenic snow]

oh....

I uhhh

I'm apparently importing a 8K texture into my poor macbook

[thin gate]

how do you get rid of all stat commands?

[warped tangle]

stat none

[thin gate]

hah thanks 😄

[dreamy talon]

guys ! one question. how to reference camera from blueprint to sequencer. i have a car and camera nicly attached to the car with spring arm. now i want to render Sequence of how i driving. but seems like i cant find a camera in Outliner. thanks

[scenic snow]

Does anyone think Quixel is hard to work with?

[warped tangle]

yes I too hate working with free content libraries

[dreamy talon]

@scenic snow 3% royalty it is hardest part what you have to work with Quixel_

[scenic snow]

Really? it's just I cant get the right stuff to make it look like quixel does it

[dreamy talon]

i mean if you doing for real game then they want 3% royalty.. it is a lot. thats why i dont see much company who work with Quixel

[dawn plover]

What email address do I need to reach out to Epic with questions regarding the use of the Paragon and Soul assets? Specific questions include: Can I modify the assets? Can I rewrite their backstory? Can I have a Paragon character get killed by a non-Epic character? etc. I just like to have this cleared up before forming and prepping a project.

And I prefer via email to keep a professional level of getting clearance, instead of asking the list of questions here in discord.

[versed spear]

This is all I would worry about. Paragon assets are only licensed for use in Unreal Engine 4

[cloud cobalt]

@dawn plover AFAIK you have no particular restriction other than "UE4 only"

[thick herald]

the marketplace eula covers everything you need to know

[cloud cobalt]

I would also not use them in any project because they'll look out of place literally anywhere, but...

[dawn plover]

well I'm not worried about that actually, as I'm not planning to make a game, but a cinematic about the origin stories of the characters

[versed spear]

I converted them to flipbooks and I don't think they look out of place 😛

[cloud cobalt]

Just read the marketplace license text. Rule of thumb though, you're fine.

[dawn plover]

hence some of my questions are related to their stories when they were developed, I wouldn't be surprised if they offer the assets, but mind of someone making a ridiculous story about them

[versed spear]

I don't think they would mind as long as you don't copy write their story.

[loud knoll]

well I can see what line it is crashing on in the APEX code with the symbols on, going to update my drivers and see if that fixes it.

[wise stone]

set my materials to low and UE froze? common that it does that?

[grim ore]

so has anyone else played with the new DataPrep import system for Datasmith in .24? It's.... really sexy

@wise stone chances are it is recompiling all of the shaders to low now so yes

[wise stone]

ah okay

[dawn plover]

ok so imagine a cinematic with paragon assets and a story entirely written by the project team, which parts of the end result (the short movie) are copyright owned by us and which parts by epic? let's go crazy ... suppose the result is pretty awesome and we decide to submit it to short movie and animated film festivals, they always need filled in release forms ... then the copyright parts become very important

[pearl sonnet]

this virtual studio stuff is cool

been thinking about the need for this

[dawn plover]

also I have my epic launcher open and clicked on the help button, where exactly is the EULA? lool

[cloud cobalt]

@dawn plover If you're asking about story specifically, then all of that is owned by whoever wrote it, or the company they worked for at the time if any.

In this case Epic does absolutely own the Paragon story characters

[thorny quarry]

Is it just me, or is the Discord search not working for other people?

[dawn plover]

so i would need to contact them for the release forms, so festival know they are oke with the short movie using epic's assets?

[pearl sonnet]

it's just you, everyone knows people don't use search

[dawn plover]

bc that's what release forms are for 😉

[cloud cobalt]

In the same way if a storytelling marketplace asset was sold with an example story, the story could be licensed to you for use in projects, but failing that, the author could probably sue you over copyright

Copyright is weird like that

[dawn plover]

yeah exactly

[cloud cobalt]

So yeah, do ask Epic about using their story specifically

They probably don't give a shit

[dawn plover]

we are probably going to write a new story, bc honestly, i dont even know if paragon has well developed lore, it was dead before i could dive into it, it's the character assets im most worried about

[thorny quarry]

Ah, the search feature being broken actually seems to be a wider, recent issue:
https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360055565692-Search-function-not-working-and-is-always-showing-no-results-

[cloud cobalt]

Honestly I would never touch anyone else's work

[dawn plover]

it's similar to using a logo or real human within a normal film, where one would need a release for and by both so there is proof that the copyright owner explicitly gave permission

hmmmm

I was excited about using paragon assets haha but it's decreasing very fast due to the lack of officially communicated clarity

anyway thanks, I guess we gonna brainstorm further lol

[wise stone]

any good 3d modeling/sculpting programs comp. with UE?

[pearl sonnet]

Stranger, then you're privileged, i can't do art so got nothing to work with

a world of primitive shapes has already been done (minecraft) boo

[tulip pine]

Nah, voxels are still cool

I'm making a voxel game

[pearl sonnet]

true, but it takes the art to make it into something 😛

[cloud cobalt]

@pearl sonnet I'm not an artist either, but that shouldn't stop you. Create cool gameplay, find an artist to work with, or find an art style that works with little art skills

[pearl sonnet]

i'm stuck to just tinkering with what can be done, i find it fun
who knows, maybe some interesting mechanics or concept sprouts from that but i don't mind 😛

[tulip pine]

Has anybody gotten the raytraced reflections working? No matter what I do I get screenspace reflections

[cloud cobalt]

Also art is learned

There's no magic

[pearl sonnet]

everyone knows that after being a programmer for long it's like a learning disability

(:

[cloud cobalt]

Artists just spend hundreds, thousands of hours practicing what they've learned

Like every other craft

[pearl sonnet]

yea

i'm cant pick it up any more as easily

[wise stone]

@grim ore think it was you who told me about removing the gun. I did remove the "vr gun" tab but now I cant move the camera

[pearl sonnet]

closest thing to art that will come out of me is a fractal because hey, logical

XD

[grim ore]

@tulip pine they work fine when I test them yes, is your engine settings correct and your card supported?

[tulip pine]

How do I know if my card supports it?

It is old so chances are it actually doesn't

[cloud cobalt]

Is it a RTX 10xx or 20xx ?

[tulip pine]

I just thought that any card could, some with worse performance than others

[grim ore]

@wise stone if you just removed the VR Gun mesh component you probably need to compile and fix the blueprint so it doesnt reference it anymore

[cloud cobalt]

Nah

[tulip pine]

What was the program called, something related to DirectX I believe, that showed stuff like CPU, GPU and RAM?

[grim ore]

dxinfo ?

[tulip pine]

so I thought but that doesn't seem to exist on my PC

[grim ore]

if you are using windows 10 you can just open the task manager and go to the 2nd tab and see what it shows

[pearl sonnet]

lol havent heard of dxinfo in 15 years

[grim ore]

oh yeah its dxdiag now

[cloud cobalt]

Is it a RTX GPU ?

Is it a 10XX or 20XX ?

[tulip pine]

Ah yeah, GTX 770, might just be awfully outdated

[cloud cobalt]

If not, then it doesn't support it

Simple as that

[grim ore]

770 is not supported for DXR yep

[tulip pine]

Well that sucks

[cloud cobalt]

It would also be nowhere near powerful enough for even 1fps

[dark depot]

1fpm maybe

[tulip pine]

I love how when I had the raytracing "enabled" and UE4 open, the font on Discord would continuously alternate between blurry and clear

Ah well, that likely explains why UE4 was crashing every other minute, too 😛

[lofty wave]

So I'm using the node "Was recently rendered" for a mechanic however it somes that the "render" goes trough walls, so if I am behind a wall and look in the direction of the actor it is still being "rendered" even though it is technically not rendered

Am I missing something?

[plush yew]

So with default keybinds, when you press ctrl-shift-L to rotate secodary light with the new sky.. and then you press mouse button, it adds point light 😛

also anyone know is there a way to set values on those lights instead of guessing with mouse?

[lofty wave]

@plush yew click on the value then type in the value you want

[pearl sonnet]

@grim ore you were right a number of weeks ago, new templates are cool

[lofty wave]

New templates?

[pearl sonnet]

maybe not the correct word
the way you choose to start a project

[lofty wave]

Yeah that is a template but since when are there new ones?

[pearl sonnet]

there's some new stuff i havent seen or heard of before

ie. the virtual studio i'm reading about in release notes while it's downloading/installing

[lofty wave]

Can anybody please help me with my problem?

[plush yew]

@lofty wave umm, what value? the light itself? it doesnt change the rotation

[lofty wave]

@plush yew What kind of light are you using?

[pearl sonnet]

https://previews.123rf.com/images/martialred/martialred1707/martialred170700085/82179492-lightbulb-light-bulb-idea-innovation-or-entrepreneurship-line-art-vector-icon-for-apps-and-websites.jpg

[lofty wave]

W A T E R M A R K S

[pearl sonnet]

lol ya

[plush yew]

@lofty wave 2 directional lights with the new sky atmosphere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqrtIfUGw_4

But can i type those values somewhere?

[lofty wave]

If you want to rotate something go on the details of the object (your light) and you can type in values

[plush yew]

...

[pearl sonnet]

so when you move it around, it has a transform,
when you press a button get its transform and place a pointlight at given transform

is that what you mean

[wise stone]

anyone making first person games?

[lofty wave]

@wise stone Why?

[wise stone]

Need to remove the gun on the premade first person character but can' manage to

[lofty wave]

set the mesh to nothing

[abstract relic]

Just ask your question. There’s 30k members in here

[pearl sonnet]

he's working on a 1st person walk around and look at things

[eager anvil]

hi everyone!

[wise stone]

lmao @pearl sonnet yes I am

[pearl sonnet]

haha

[lofty wave]

You cant remove the gun itself as far as i know but you can set the mesh to nothing and remove the shooting mechanic @wise stone

[wise stone]

Shooting mechanic is off, same as crosshair. do i change mesh2 to mesh0`?

[plush yew]

Would it be worth it to make my own textures as a beginner or should i use the default one or the the ones in the unreal engine store?

[abstract relic]

You can just delete it

[lofty wave]

Click on the gun then on the left at the detail panel set the mesh to nothing

[eager anvil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-_d1zAGDhM something like this?

it helped me alot

[abstract relic]

Remember to delete the shooting logic too

[wise stone]

Did it, thanks

looks off with a hand tho

[lofty wave]

@abstract relic Can you just delete the gun? I thought the FirstpersonActor was a child-actor

[pearl sonnet]

could you go with the 3rd person template and move the camera 😄

[abstract relic]

Yes

It’s just a mesh

[wise stone]

daamn it. the gun floats under me

[abstract relic]

Nothing that spooky or magical about it 😜

[pearl sonnet]

floating guns are pretty spooky to me bud

[plush yew]

ooh, i had to restart the editor to make those lights to update

[pearl sonnet]

john wayne came to spook us

[plush yew]

its just weird that it doesnt rotate the light actor itself

[wise stone]

@abstract relic will the gun still be shown in the "full" version?

[abstract relic]

You deleted from existence

[pearl sonnet]

thats an accurate assesment

[fervent sigil]

OMG break hit result is finally collapsible. I thought I'd never see the day

[pearl sonnet]

lmao

[worldly dust]

has anyone ever gotten the LS-0013 error for ue4 4.23.1? I literally woke up this morning to this specific version not running anymore, everything online is to try and fix paragon and fortnite, running as admin does nothing to fix, verify does nothing to fix

[pearl sonnet]

no, it's been kind to me

[worldly dust]

you click the error, and epic has documentation for LS-0014 and 18 but no 13 😄

at the very least, can I get some F's for all my learning projects?

[twilit hill]

are the volumetric clouds shown in the demo already in 4.24?

[eager anvil]

i dont think so, im not too sure

[lofty wave]

Guys please help me out my actor is based on a "Is being looked at?"-principle and for that I am using the "Was recently rendered"-node however every few seconds the actor counts as "is not being viewed" for a split second even though I am looking at it

[serene birch]

pretty sure 4.24 was first the cloudless sky and they said the clouds would come on a later version

[pearl sonnet]

well poo, that didnt work

[lofty wave]

Guys please help me

[loud knoll]

4.24 will need a few point releases

[lofty wave]

Thanks for ignoring me...

[pearl sonnet]

lol i just tried to search for everything you said trying to figure out what your question is

[lofty wave]

And didnt find anything, right?

[pearl sonnet]

'No Results'
i guess you're more stealthy than i am

[lofty wave]

xD

[pearl sonnet]

lol

[worn granite]

no worries, anytime mate

[lofty wave]

There ya go https://canary.discordapp.com/channels/187217643009212416/225448446956404738/653689938625167392

[twilit hill]

i dont get the "sunsky" plugin .. why doesnt the skylight work and why is the direct light set to 75000 lux

[pearl sonnet]

the only approach to that i've used was a linetrace*

[lofty wave]

To who did you just reply @pearl sonnet ?

[rotund scroll]

anyone got the bug submission link somewhere?

[loud knoll]

Epic's pattern is to shove as much in before the xmas break which is cool they got a ton of stuff in the engine but like the last few years it will be Feb 2020 before the engine gets solid again

[pearl sonnet]

that was for you SlenLen:

[lofty wave]

Oh

[twilit hill]

i see that, thats pretty much useless at least for me in its current state

[rotund scroll]

nm got it

[twilit hill]

demo trailer was a lie

back to truesky, rip performance

[lofty wave]

But I want to have a boolean that says if the actor is being watched at all not if it is in a line before the player

@pearl sonnet

[dim oriole]

Any videos about fur and hair system in this patch?

[loud knoll]

@dim oriole I didn't see any but a few screen shots

[lofty wave]

One thing I just noticed is that it only happens it in fullscreen mode

[pearl sonnet]

you can do multiple traces but i can see how that is not a very nice option :P
and just flip a bool once it was hit

[loud knoll]

I already uninstalled 4.24 for now

[pearl sonnet]

it is however the only one i've seen

as for volumetric sky, i don't know if there's a demo
but the functionality is there
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Actors/FogEffects/SkyAtmosphere/index.html

ctrl+f rayleigh

[worldly dust]

whats wrong with 4.24?

[maiden swift]

@pearl sonnet Sorry for the trouble. Unfortunately Discord's search is still recovering from an outage that happened over the weekend. A fix is on the way, no ETA.

[pearl sonnet]

yea dude, i followed the google issue and discord status
it's a bit wonky still

[maiden swift]

Indeed. Don't know if any servers have recovered, but I haven't seen any personally.

[abstract relic]

I think it’s disabled across the board

[pearl sonnet]

you guys are doing good stuff
read the blog every now and then too

[twilit hill]

also weird that only discord was affected

[pearl sonnet]

Flam is a buddy of mine but havent seen him in a while

cat needs to stop drinking my coffee wth

[plush yew]

@twilit hill what issues are you having with the skylight? i got mine working by hitting recapture every time i made changes. also seems to work as stationary with day/night setup

rotations are super weird

[pearl sonnet]

@_@

[twilit hill]

it doesnt work at all here, only the directional light (subobject of sunsky) emitts light

basically after importing sunsky and without changing anything, my scene looks like i would stare into the sun from the surface of the moon, black and white

a weird out of the box experience if i might say so

[plush yew]

oh, so sunsky is a plugin or..? I used the default skylight

[twilit hill]

is this raytrace-only or something i missed?

[plush yew]

or bp

[twilit hill]

yeah, i imported sunsky to fiddle around with that as shown in their recent sunsky video (not even a hour old)

[plush yew]

ah, i see. well the default one seems to work

[twilit hill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUY3kBGEhUg

[plush yew]

ill check that out

[twilit hill]

i opened a pretty-much default scene with some basic landscape stuff from 4.23, deleted all light and sky stuff and added sunsky - well that doesnt work 😄

option-wise it was pretty much default from 4.23 i mean

[plush yew]

same for me

[twilit hill]

imma quickly try a new project

[autumn trout]

HOW swap between CHARACTERS

?

[twilit hill]

easy, learn how to swap between characters

[kindred viper]

I think he was asking for help

[autumn trout]

HOW?

[plush yew]

also 2 dynamic directional lights for day/night cycle seems to be a bit too hard hit for performance 😄

[rich rose]

Not related to what you guys ^ are talking about but: If I were to start a new project. Would it be wise to stick to 4.23 due to its stability? Or since 4.24 is out, I might as well get into it and enjoy the new features as issues arising are unlikely [or quickly fixed]?

[kindred viper]

it shouldn't be really. It's often how you counter not having global illumination setup with a bounce @plush yew

[twilit hill]

default scene in new project with "sunsky" 😄

[autumn trout]

?

[plush yew]

seems a bit bright 😄

[kindred viper]

@rich rose if you are starting now. Start with 4.24

[rich rose]

@kindred viper this might be a silly question but im assuming its stable enough right?

[kindred viper]

yes its released.

[serene birch]

the new sunsky

[kindred viper]

technically, I like to wait for the first patch on a release version, but it will be here in a week or less

[serene birch]

has pretty realistic defaut lux settings

you need to configure the camera exposure range in your project settings to be "extended"

[plush yew]

@kindred viper Do you have anything to read about that topic? Im fairly new to that

[serene birch]

then it'll work out of the box

[rich rose]

Ah ok great. Then i'll do some research + learning + organising before that patch is released. Thanks for the tip @kindred viper

[scenic snow]

anyone have a fix for this?

[abstract relic]

Do you have multiple mess in that scene

Looks like z fighting

[scenic snow]

no its just one landscape

[kindred viper]

with multiple materials zfighting

?

or layers at least

[scenic snow]

im not sure

[wise stone]

when I create a game hud do I create it in construction script?

[scenic snow]

you get a widget

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/UMG/HowTo/CreatingWidgets/index.html @wise stone

[wise stone]

Thank you

[scenic snow]

np 🙂

[wise stone]

seems more complex than removing the gun

[scenic snow]

yeah

[sonic gust]

uhmmm... ok 🤣

[scenic snow]

ahhh windows defender

[pearl sonnet]

hate windows defender and win10 not respecting my gpedit policy to perma disable that shiz

[frozen pond]

hi, so i got struct of ints, and i want to set dynamicly one of it members, i only see set memberS of struct, i want instead set one picked member

[sonic gust]

still is it real of a false positive?

[somber steeple]

Has anyone around here used Shotgun in their pipeline? https://www.shotgunsoftware.com/ I'm trying to figure out if it's a decent solution to what I need. I'd like to talk to people who can either talk me into using Shotgun or talk me out of using Shotgun.

I'm open to alternatives as well.

[dreamy lake]

Anyone tried the Shape Drawing on landscapes yet ? - It says im supposed to hit space to place new points, but - all it does is switching between the gizmo types :/

[severe smelt]

hmmm... getting some annoying behavior in 4.23 (source and vanilla). When I try to delete a physic body from my skeletal mesh, in editor, the engine crash. tried with any character in two projects... same behavior. Don't remember that this was happening before today. any guess?

[normal burrow]

@scenic snow thats definitely something up with the depth buffer/z fighting. poke the eyeballs in the outliner of landscapes and such. you must have two there or something

[scenic snow]

I turned anti aliasing off and it doesnt appear in the finished game, just the viewport

so ill work on it

[wise stone]

need help, I accedently deleted my starter character. how do I get him back?

[warped tangle]

you deleted the entire BP? or an instance of it from the world?

[wise stone]

the bp, wanted to remove the arms and I could not get them back so I deleted it in hope of being able to remake it

[warped tangle]

then it's basically gone

You'd be far better off just making a new BP based on character class, that has none of the FPS template extras in it

[grim ore]

You can make a new first person project, migrate over the blueprint again, and it will come back (this is the "cleaner" way) or you can import the first person feature pack to add it back in

[wise stone]

can I still keep like my hud bps?

if I creat a new project

[worldly dust]

Welp, I know none of you have the bad karma I do, so go ahead and ignore this post, but if you ever do run into the LS-0013 error, its because the latest windows defender update forces the UE to be disabled in the firewall, and you need to force it in the advanced options and then re verify. so, I guess I learned the hard way..

what do you guys use for pc security? apparently the latest windows defender definition update effects 4.23.1 (for me), what do you use instead?

[warped tangle]

What Mathhew is saying is to create a new FPS project, and migrate the character BP to your project

not to start the whole project over again

[grim ore]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Content/Browser/UserGuide/Migrate/index.html

@worldly dust I use windows defender lol

[wise stone]

Failed to import 'D:/Alla spel/UE_4.24/FeaturePacks/FP_FirstPerson.upack'. Failed to create asset '/Game/FP_FirstPerson'.
Please see Output Log for details.

this comes up

[worldly dust]

did you grab the latest defender update last night without issues?

[grim ore]

@wise stone you would basically create a new first person project, migrate out the first person character that is missing from your 1st project into that 1st project, then go back into the first project and it should be back.

@worldly dust I doubt it? I have it all on auto

[worldly dust]

I'm new to UE4, I was learning how the multiplayer system works, I was opening ue4 in the command prompt, by: "EDITOR_PATH" "PROJECT PATH" /Game/THE_MAP_TO_LOAD -server -log

then "EDITOR_PATH" "PROJECT PATH" LOCAL_IP -game -log

after doing that, giving ue4 new network permissions, and updating defender, thats what happened, is that the safe way to launch ue from cmd prompt?

[grim ore]

sounds right

you can also just test directly in the editor

[worldly dust]

how do you launch the dedicated server from the editor? is there a doc page for that?

[wise stone]

@grim ore Do I copy refrence or how do I do?

[kindred viper]

goto Project Settings and search "Multiplayer" and it will show you all the MP options.

[worldly dust]

awesome, thank you guys for your replies, I will play around with that, the guides I was reading was just for cmd prompt

[kindred viper]

dont forget to check the "Single Process" off if you want to test properly otherwise it will spawn multiple windows in an instance which can cause errors

make sure the editor runs as client and you are good to go

[worldly dust]

isin't that what you want? multiple windows per player?

[kindred viper]

yeah but in their own instances. If they are combined, some errors can occur. For most things you can ignore that, but if you were streaming levels, it can cause problems

[worldly dust]

good to know, thank you for the heads up, as learning how level streaming works is on my todo list

[kindred viper]

good luck. It's easy to get going and fun 🙂

[grim ore]

@worldly dust there is a check box for dedicated as well in that drop down next to play

[worldly dust]

oh wow thank you! all of you! that literally takes away the need for cmd prompt, I think I was following a bad tutorial lol

[grim ore]

nah

[worldly dust]

not bad, just old, 4.16 lol

[grim ore]

its not perfect and the other way, or doing it in packaged is "best" but its good enough for testing

[worldly dust]

by other way, do you mean the way within the editor?

[kindred viper]

yeah I tend to go the .bat route for dedicated servers. Although a quick test here and there isn't a bad thing

[grim ore]

yes, sorry lol. the PIE way is not "perfect" as its still running it uncooked in the editor so you have overhead and such

[kindred viper]

the streaming lag from loading new streaming levels in PIE is horrid for hitching.

[grim ore]

running the .uproject in game or server mode is probably next best then packaged and dedicated builds would be real

[severe smelt]

Ok, my problem is a known issue, just in case anyone get the same issue, https://issues.unrealengine.com/issue/UE-79152

[grim ore]

😦

[worldly dust]

still sounds like it's worth it to go through the packaging hassle to do proper testing, thank you for the info

[grim ore]

yep you would always test the real way at some point 🙂

I would definitely just use the PIE for testing in editor and iteration time tho, don't let it stop you from doing that

[plush yew]

What's the status of Chaos destruction?

[cloud cobalt]

Early access

[grim ore]

would you say the status is.... in Chaos?

[wise stone]

what action adds running?

[sharp crest]

What's the difference between these?

(For calling a Blueprint Interface Function)

[raw whale]

should I be using vs 19 or vs 17 currently for unreal engine, I have read that it mainly supports 17 but also works with 19?

[grim ore]

whichever works for your personal environment. both will work, 19 should technically have better intellisense support and longer lifetime support as it's newer.

[molten path]

Can anyone tell my why this is not working?

[raw whale]

ok thankyou

[grim ore]

I beleive it should be r.setres

[molten path]

alright ill try it thanks

[grim ore]

you might also want to look into the Game User Settings at some point if doing settings as it can all be handled by engine functions and it uses the .ini files to save/load settings.

[molten path]

wait really?

that's pretty cool

didnt know that

[grim ore]

yep they added it a few versions ago. It's integrated into the existing settings so it can handle stuff like trying to find optimal settings and using scalability presets like you see in the engine

I still don't think there are docs on it tho lol

[maiden swift]

I saw in 4.24 there's a new Game Maps and Modes Settings getter, but it doesn't seem to get anything. 😦

[grim ore]

well I found one node that works with it but its weird. "set skip assigning gamepad to player 1" lol

[molten path]

@grim ore just realised i'm literally using your own video to understand game user settings

LMAO

[grim ore]

😉

I went looking for the docs first to link them but they seem to still be missing

[molten path]

they are on the wiki at least

[safe rose]

this new flat ui...kinda sucks

throws me off over in content browser also, with no division

[grim ore]

It's weird and it's only going to get weirder lol

I dont know if I like the content and collections split they have now

[plush yew]

Last night I was looking at my bloated animBP wondering how I was going to optimize a BP that held animation sets for several different weapons and today I woke up to animation blueprint blending being a new feature

[dreamy lake]

Oh shit

I need to try that out

completely forgot about the animation blending feature

[plush yew]

Yeah I need to look at what Inertial blending is too since it seems like something I could use but I'm not exactly sure what it is or how to implement it

[dreamy lake]

I've mostly been trying to figure the new landscape tools out.

[grim ore]

the docs for Inertial Blending are done and up on the docs pages and helped me figure it out, it works pretty well. There is also a content example 😉 @plush yew

[plush yew]

Looking at animation inertialization it looks pretty self explanatory. But I see here that they use blend spaces for jump loops. Is that better than using montages for the loops?

Thanks @grim ore I think I've got a better grasp on it now. Should I be expecting new videos in my youtube inbox too?

[grim ore]

I tried it out just changing the TPP character and it worked fine, no blendspaces or montages for jumping

lol I was planning on doing videos but I want to try and find some longer clips I can cut down to show the advantage of Inertial Blending first

the TPP ones are short enough as is

[ruby folio]

OK. In the new 4.24 day and night start map. How in the world are you able to control the light rotation with ctrl+L+mouse?
I cannot see how its implemented at all

[worldly dust]

out of sheer curiosity, wtf is the purpose of skookum script, and why did epic buy it? it appears they have at least 2 people employed today doing something with it

[ruby folio]

https://wiki.unrealengine.com/SkookumScript
I knew I'd heard of it

[manic pawn]

skookum script is dead

they hired them to work on something else

[pearl sonnet]

good stuff

[manic pawn]

no one knows exactly what though

it might be the enterprise python stuff

[pearl sonnet]

not the topic
the new release

lol

[manic pawn]

still have to read the 4.24 release notes novel

[granite cedar]

anybody know if UE mobile builds still hugeness?

[pearl sonnet]

it builds epicness

this made me giggle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuPSibuIKIg *
us vectorheads go like hihihi

copied url from wrong tab lol

[molten path]

@grim ore thanks to you I made a super clean user interface

C:

[pearl sonnet]

love his videos

[molten path]

I can finally rest easy tomorrow lmfao

[grim ore]

@molten path yay!

And man I just saw the news on the Oculus quest getting hand tracking this week... I so hope they update the ue4 sdk with that soon

[halcyon flame]

has anyone ever had an issue with being unable to check out a file from Perforce, even though source control is working properly?

[pearl sonnet]

i just wish i could justify the cost of those toys to my wife lol
the idea of VR is wild

not just for games but interactive spatial experiences as a much bigger thing
going to the virtual 3d movies and what not

hell, even participate in them

[jolly cairn]

Recreating Diablo 1 on revers base on assembler code and how its look by ~1 person...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tADL_fmsHQ

[pearl sonnet]

lol, software was much less complex and jumpy back then compared to the garbage we produce now

i mean, OOP fine
but the higher up the HLL tree we climb the crazier it gets

good luck reversing that 😄

[worldly dust]

That's the hopeful side of VR, the sad reality of VR IMHO is things like hololens 2, where a few of the MS devs who worked on hololens 1 were coming out saying they don't approve of MS using their groundwork to create the military combat technology of hololens 2, MS is literally putting blood on the hands of people who entered what they thought was just a harmless software development career

[pearl sonnet]

well thats the other side of the coin in anything business
it's a sad world if we're honest

[worldly dust]

agreed indeed

thats why i likes me some vidjama james instead 😉

your not gonna take any game AI I ever make and implement it into war robots lol (i hope)

[pearl sonnet]

i think it's more clear than ever how divided wealth and knowledge are and these gaps are increasing exponentially
all we can do is hope that law makes an effort to try and catch up and that the fastest climbers don't have too ill of intentions 😛

[jolly cairn]

@pearl sonnet I think today computer is almost add like toy to chocolate. But selling need be on. 100hZ monitor you can not see different and MPX you can not see. Everything have so good level. What is missing is this good product for 10 year.

Do we use something in computer by 10 year?

But funny about music devices car and some freezer its quite possible.

[pearl sonnet]

the strength is that potentially nasty practises hide behind clever "good" products that the masses want

[jolly cairn]

We speak abaout MAC?

[pearl sonnet]

there is a chance that 10 years from now we control our mouse with our brainwaves or influence other things
but the question is always, what of that data is captured for other means 😛

capturing emotional responses, behavioural patterns, etc

[jolly cairn]

@pearl sonnet Yes this is the point and this is really progress

@pearl sonnet Or better advance brain connection to create software. AI its allredy used in programing.

This is what i fell when i see peoples do think like diablo its i out of competition.

Back to work

sory

I get stresssss.

[pearl sonnet]

no worries :P
just keep it cool, keep it fun for yourself

whatever will be, will be

[unkempt delta]

okay im confused

so im trying to use the film stuff

but it wont let me load the project because its missing the blackmagicmedia plugin

which is for 4.23.0

[jolly cairn]

so use 4.23?

[unkempt delta]

but i'm trying to use the new project settings for 4.24.0

as well as the new hair grooming features

[jolly cairn]

that will be upgrade find author site and ask

[unkempt delta]

i was able to get an update for ajamedia

but not for this

[jolly cairn]

I install windows to use rtx 🙂

I think its possible to make its work

[unkempt delta]

I GOT IT

went to github

[jolly cairn]

by pushing but will be upgraded

[pearl sonnet]

lucky

1.30 AM how did that happen

good night guys, happy tinkering 🙂

[vague sable]

new update hype 🤤

[pearl sonnet]

lol totally

[unkempt delta]

W H Y

i INSTALLED THE UPDATES

FOR 4.24

[pearl sonnet]

the one release i see on his github is for 4.23
the codebase has not been updated in months

last month*

[unkempt delta]

so i can't use the film project presets

[pearl sonnet]

i suppose it does claim to have been updated for 4.24

[unkempt delta]

unbelievable

[abstract relic]

On a random and unhelpful note. You have a delicious name

[unkempt delta]

thank you

[pearl sonnet]

you might be able to get away with using that version and a rebuild could work

[unkempt delta]

the old versions?

i tried a rebuild and they failed

ill try again

[pearl sonnet]

in /Saved/Logs/ you can check the build log

[unkempt delta]

it wont work

[pearl sonnet]

there might be a template that has ajamedia

the virtual production one

funny enough when you create that project it will notify you that you need it

i guess they were done for the preview
just give them some time

[vague sable]

yep a day or two

good lesson to learn don't update on day 1 of new release with a real project 👼

[ruby folio]

Version Control!

[vague sable]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Tutorial/Mobile/InstallingiTunesTutorial.InstallingiTunesTutorial/index.html
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Tutorial/Mobile/SettingUpAndroidTutorial.SettingUpAndroidTutorial/index.html
these links show up when trying to package for each without them being setup, but they point to nowhere

should be like
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Platforms/Mobile/iOS/QuickStart/index.html
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Platforms/Mobile/Android/GettingStarted/index.html
instead

doing a test for science to see how small a packaged blank project is in 4.24 🧐

199 MB

seems bizarre still that a blank default project would be so huge

no starter assets, low quality set

by changing these settings it's now 155MB, which still seems too big

[hoary silo]

How do you enable the fracture editor, i cant get it to appear (4.24)

[past pilot]

did anyone QA 4.24? New project and i cant even let it idle for more than 10 mins without it just vanishing. If i change any settings, clicking anything after causes the editor to vanish lol.

[maiden swift]

@past pilot I recommend submitting a bug report.

https://epicsupport.force.com/unrealengine/s/

Depends on what the something is.

It looks like you're adding a pause screen to the viewport, correct?

OK. So are you pausing the game when the mouse isn't in the viewport?

OK, then I assume you're running this PauseOutOfBounds function on Event Tick?

Is this a strategy game or something similar where you can move the mouse cursor around the screen independent of the game action?

Alright, then you're handling mouse input somewhere, either in a player controller or pawn, correct?

Ah, I see. Did you set up the input bindings that make the mouse work? In Project Settings → Input?

That looks like a player controller, judging by the asset icon.

Do you have that set up as the player controller in your game mode or something?

No worries. Can I see the graph for that Mouse class? That's your player controller, so your mouse input is probably handled in there.

Oh OK. Yeah that means it has an empty graph.

Since you said you're using that class to show the mouse cursor, I'm guessing you just set Show Mouse Cursor checked on in there, and that's pretty much it.

Gotcha. So... this one looks like you're trying to spawn an enemy at a specific time. Is that right?

Is it purely based on elapsed game time, or are there other conditions that can spawn this enemy?

Does each enemy only spawn once? Is this something like... enemy A spawns after 1 minute, B spawns after 2 minutes, etc. Something like that?

OK. Now... where is all this stuff ticking? in your player pawn or what?

OK. So you just place this actor in the world and it holds all this logic for you?

Alright, I see.

I think there's a few ways you could go about this, but one approach that I've taken is to handle each enemy's spawning behavior in the enemy's Blueprint class.

That's a unique approach. What's your motivation for handling all the game logic inside an actor placed in the world?

Ah ha, I see. That's how you ended up with a ton of stuff on Event Tick.

It's all kind of hanging out together in that one actor.

Oh OK, that's not terrible.

Tick is not universally bad.

It's just really easy to abuse it, that's all. 🙂

No worries, I've been there. I think we've all abused tick, especially when we were new. 😄

It's so damn easy to use, and it's right there when you open a new Blueprint.

[dark depot]

i really wish they had it off by default but then if you plug something in it was like are you sure you want to use this it means this here are some other methods and linked the docs to a timer

[maiden swift]

Sounds like you're starting to take a healthier approach, though. The easiest way to move things off tick is one function at a time. Examine what it does and how often it needs to run, then find the alternative solution that offers better performance, and move on to the next.

Otherwise it gets too intimidating.

@dark depot Yeah I feel ya. They do have a pretty good justification for leaving it on by default, though: Blueprints are designed for ease of use first, optimal performance second.

There are a few ways, depending on what the condition is and how many times you want to trigger the event (once, once every x interval, etc.).

I will say that housing all of your game logic in one actor may be limiting your options.

For logic related to game rules, you could place it in your Game Mode class.

Which eliminates the need to place the actor in your level.

Then I would recommend moving more specific functionality to their respective classes. For example, you could make enemy spawners that wait x seconds, then spawn a specified enemy class. Then you can place several of those spawners and choose a different class and spawn time for each one.

Sort of unrelated tip: If you don't already know, you can mark Blueprint variables as Instance Editable to make them customizable from the details panel. It's an easy way to make each instance of your actor unique, like different spawn times, different enemy types, etc.

That can be tricky! Do what you can to break it down into smaller tasks.

That's how I feel when I go back and try to refactor a game I made 3 years ago and think "Wtf did I do?!" 😂

So if it's practical for your game, I recommend looking into creating an enemy spawner Blueprint class, a generic one. You can set up very simple spawning logic there, and then have customizable variables for the class and wait time to spawn.

Sure.

[vale silo]

if anyone still needs this https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/content-creation/1696257-blender-2-81-fbx-lod-groups-and-extra-root-bone-armature-how-to-fix ...

[dark depot]

oh nice i have just started renaming armature it would be nice to have one less step

[kindred viper]

I have to go edit a mesh in blender and im putting it off. too much to do. not my forte yadayada

[blissful trail]

is there a way to select a few box brushes and convert them into a static mesh ?

[urban meadow]

oh my lord, 4.24 is 65gb

[blissful trail]

wait rly ?

[urban meadow]

uninstalling 3 versions to fit it lol

[blissful trail]

omg

so my unreal engine crashed and my project is now empty

like i have the folders but nothing in them

i legit just lost everything

[swift spindle]

did you just add a pile of assets without saving ?

[abstract relic]

Can’t even recommend source control. Gotta at least save first 😜

Though that has happened to everyone at some point

[blissful trail]

no my unreal engine just crashed when i applied a material and i lost all assets

[safe rose]

Or just use Maya

[blissful trail]

so basically in the engine it has no content but if i goto the folder it has all the folders but theres nothing inthem

it happened when i applied the changes to a material and it crashed
(i have been saving every now and then)
i started working on this project about a year ago if anyone can help the would rly be nice

[jovial pewter]

hello can anyone help me with something

first i want u to know ive never used unreal befoer

[blissful trail]

what do u need help with ?

[jovial pewter]

do u know how to use houdini engine on unreal?

[blissful trail]

i dont think you can

nvm i think u can
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/unreal/_getting_started.html

[jovial pewter]

i have it but im having a problem with it

[winter oxide]

is there a support channel at all?

[kindred viper]

loads of em

[exotic lion]

I went to bed everything was fine. I woke up and tried to reopen a .24 project now I'm getting this

[normal burrow]

Yer quixels need maintenance

No idea if quixel bridge supports 4.24 but if it does @exotic lion it’s not installed to 4.24

[exotic lion]

But it's not set to .24. It's set to 23.

I haven't tried with 24 yet.

[normal burrow]

The project?

[exotic lion]

That's an error from trying to start a new project.

[normal burrow]

Yes but what is not set to .24?

The problem appears to be whatever engine version your using does not have quixel bridge installed to it

[exotic lion]

I'm looking through my quixels to see if I messed something up in my sleepy mind I had earlier.

[pulsar badge]

Does anyknow if im allowed to use Paragon in a game?

[exotic lion]

Oh okay, I see where I goofed. When I reinstalled Mixer I goofed on the engine version and it left the file in .24 plugins folder.

Troy unless they changed it recently you are allowed.

[pulsar badge]

Ok Thank you

[exotic lion]

When you go into one of them on the market place, it will say it in there somewhere.

[pulsar badge]

I cant find it

[normal burrow]

You just can’t switch engines Troy

[pulsar badge]

ya thats fine

[normal burrow]

That’s the gotcha on them between all other mp content

[exotic lion]

Pat ...Before I delete this python folder, is it safe to just delete it?

[pulsar badge]

@exotic lion I got that error too

Are u trying to install quixel?

lol

its a easy fix

You dont need to delete it

[exotic lion]

No, I have it on 23 but me in my infinate wisdom (and 5 cups of coffee) goofed on the reinstall.

[pulsar badge]

you need to close epic games all the way and UE4

reinstall the plugin to the plugin file

wait

and relunch everything

it will fix it

[exotic lion]

Reinstall via Quixel?

[pulsar badge]

yes

bridge

[exotic lion]

oooh

[pulsar badge]

go to settings plugins

and redo the plugin location to install

[exotic lion]

Bridge is only up to 23 so i don't know why I tried adding it to 24.

[pulsar badge]

ctrl alt delete and make sure epic games is closed if u click the x button it iwll not close all the way

lol

Do not open anything until bridge says it installed

again

wait before u click install relunch bridge

[exotic lion]

Thanks Troy, I'll try it now.

[pulsar badge]

works for every time

I reimaiged my computer because of that error i got so mad

I lost everything

Let me know if it worked 😉

[exotic lion]

So it's set right for 23. But still don't see how to update it to fix 24.

[pulsar badge]

ohhh your trying it for 24

that i have no clue i was trying to help you get rid of that error

We have the same time zone 💯

[normal burrow]

Your both ahead one hour

[pulsar badge]

I live in United states

in Florida

east side

[abstract relic]

I don’t think .23 works anyways

[pulsar badge]

yes it does

I use it

[normal burrow]

Not for git

[abstract relic]

Had to ask a certain someone to do some hacky solution because it was using a buggy version of python

Or technically set to .23?

Kinda wiped it from my memory

[normal burrow]

The source code they provide with it is for some way old version of ue4

[abstract relic]

Ah

[normal burrow]

Binaries aren’t from the source they give you

So git engine/custom builds just don’t work

Shady stuff

[abstract relic]

[exotic lion]

https://tenor.com/view/futurama-professor-news-gif-5110959

Deleting the python plugin folder worked.

[pulsar badge]

hes ulgy

[exotic lion]

Which is funny since when fixing a mistake usually brings a bunch of new errors

[jovial pewter]

im using houdini plugin on unreal but when i import my hda file i dont see a parameters channel

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/350406053843828749/653822188733857794/unknown.png

i only see this

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/350406053843828749/653825587772784640/unknown.png

i need this

i need to sleep if u know how to fix it dm me or ping me

ill leave the file here to see if this happens to anyone else

[humble ridge]

@warped tangle if im getting the over budget warning could that be related to the texture down scaling?

[warped tangle]

yes

[humble ridge]

What causes the over budget

how do i go about fixing

sorry relatively new around here

[warped tangle]

if you are getting the warning in the viewport, you can r.streaming.poolsize xxxx to increase the texture streaming pool size

I think default is like....800mb?

[humble ridge]

How does it affect in game?

[warped tangle]

could try something like 1000 or 1500 and see if it goes away

if you use a ton of 4k textures and such you could be going over budget

[humble ridge]

Ok what are the limitations for that obviously i cant just keep increasing it

Yeah i have alot of 4k textures

[warped tangle]

limitations are your GPU's VRAM

[humble ridge]

Ok so i guess if i keep increasing i will eventually start seeing fps drops

Then i guess i'll know my limitation for quality?

For at least my card

Is that a correct assumption

[warped tangle]

the larger your pool size, the less VRAM there is for other GPU related stuffs

[humble ridge]

Alright awesome i'll do some more research and have a play

thanks mate!

[native marsh]

LOD question 🙂

How UE4 measure the object to decide which LOD need to apply?
is it based on distance of object to camera?
OR how much area dedicated to the object on the screen?

[warped tangle]

size on screen

[native marsh]

is that % unit? like 0.07% of the screen?

and how the steps define for LOD0 to 4 for example?

[warped tangle]

there are LOD settings in the static/skel mesh editor

UE4 auto generates LOD distances, but you can overwrite

[native marsh]

i mean is, if let say we have 4 LODs and the object got only 10% of the screen size, how the engine decide if tool 10% of screen use LOD 4 / 20% use LOD 3 so on.. ?

i mean is the steps

[steel patio]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Content/Types/StaticMeshes/HowTo/LODs/index.html
screensize is defined per LOD

[native marsh]

@steel patio Thank you

[unreal comet]

So what all did UE 4.24 break today?

[plush yew]

Couldnt figure out the right channel but I have this issue where if I jump off a steep ledge while testing my level its kills of my character and inget this error. Anyone know what's up. I'm pretty new to unreal

[pulsar badge]

Go to world settings

And take a picture of that forgot what it’s called

Maybe fall out of fall off something need to see

@plush yew

[lyric tusk]

Does anybody know about virtual texture streaming and which channel can i find more information about it

[cosmic veldt]

guys anyone have an idea about the new Chaos::FCommandList class?

I'm having problems with my raycast vehicle in low frame rate hooking add force and torque to FCommandList helps although i am clueless about how to do it.

[atomic hull]

guys how do I distribute my custom compiled engine to designers and developers ?

[normal burrow]

@atomic hull google “installed build”

[rustic imp]

can you see the total bone count of a skeleton somewhere?

I know there's the skeleton tree, but is there just a sum number somewhere

@atomic hull http://jackknobel.com/How-To/BuildGraph

[atomic hull]

@normal burrow @rustic imp thanks that helps a lot I am reading it

[rich hornet]

@plush yew i guess we dont need Graphene anymore

[midnight tree]

I don't understand, this new hair feature for render only not for creating hair crads

[rustic imp]

@rich hornet maybe that's a good thing since Unity actually acquired Graphine

[rich hornet]

hadn't noticed, that's cool

glad to see they got paid before their plugin died 😛

[plush yew]

big companies just tend to fuck all when they buy another company

kinda wonder what will happen to quixel now

why does set actor relative location act as set actor location? when i set actor relative location to 0,0,0 instead of the expected behaviour of not moving, it resets the world location?

[cloud cobalt]

Well, what is the actor attached to ?

If it's attached to the world directly, then relative and world are the same thing

[plush yew]

since its become free its userbase probably increased tenfold

if there was a company to get bought out off its epic

not like getting strangled by adobe

@cloud cobalt basically i'm lerping from current height to height + 100, is there any non-convoluted way of doing that?

[cloud cobalt]

Yeah, of course

Store the initial height, and the final desired height

Then use lerp between both values, on every tick

You can also use timelines

[plush yew]

ah, i was being stupid nvm

[hasty smelt]

Hey 🙂 is this a good channel to ask a technical question?

[sudden agate]

depends on the question

[hasty smelt]

Having a packaging error that i cant make sense of and nothing on google

[dim plover]

There's #packaging. But this channel is fine too. Just post your question.

[hasty smelt]

what does "Program.Main: ERROR: AutomationTool terminated with exception: AutomationTool.AutomationException: Editor target not found!" mean?

[oblique tangle]

Yo, could someone give me some advice/pointers on what I'd need to know to recreate a combat system similar to this, with combo punches, dodges and webbing as seen in the GIF? Any response is greatly appreciated, cheers! : )

https://gyazo.com/611a2fc82eb1bb95e950a4f789ce7997

[thick herald]

Could someone be so kind as to point me in the direction of example content for the new Landscape Layers? 🙂

[plush yew]

it says i need to download this but the plugin is only for 4.23

🤔

[cloud cobalt]

Well, if your project uses a plugin that's not available for 4.24, you probably need to wait to convert to 4.24

[plush yew]

its a new project

so i dont know why this is a thing

[cloud cobalt]

Well that's weird.

[blissful trail]

https://gyazo.com/7b826a01da496e6964b892c6101330e8
is there a way to get this to stick into physics objects and move with them ?

cos currently it doesnt

[sudden agate]

attach it

[blissful trail]

ty

https://gyazo.com/f0899179e586f03acfb5a93e172762e7
worked flawlessly

[dense gate]

Anyone else get an error when compiling 4.24 from source with Chaos enabled?

[merry oasis]

Hey I am trying to attach a weapon I made to a model I made. Model is in unreal, animated and working. Weapon is imported to unreal and appears fine.

Do I import the weapon as static or skeletal mesh? Not animations required (possible particle effects)

I added a socket to my character through viewport of skeletal mesh. Imported weapon as static, set the weapon mesh to moveable. Right click weapon>attach to>character BP shows up, but theres no way to expand to see the socket?

[spice scarab]

After updating from 4.23 to 4.24 I've been getting this message in every level. Even in cinematic levels with almost nothing inside but the character and a video playing in front of him.

Even if I rebuild everything in my level the problem persists.

[edgy moat]

try moving the navmesh around?

Does it cover a large area?

[spice scarab]

No navmesh.

Still getting the message.

[edgy moat]

When did the message start popping up?

[spice scarab]

When I went from 4.23 to 4.24

[edgy moat]

Thats odd

[spice scarab]

Went from 4.20 to 4.23 to fix one bug only to find out 4.23 crashes packaged games in fullscreen mode, which was reported as a bug by many, and waited for 4.24 only to get this weird error I can't get rid of. 😄

Maybe I should try adding navmesh to each level even if they don't need it.

[edgy moat]

Maybe try adding a small navmesh into your scene to see if the error dissapears

yes

[spice scarab]

Yeah I shall try that out.... in a minute. Went and opened one of my levels with an actual navmesh and AI to see how they are doing but "compiling shaders" happened so. "To be continued..." x)

[edgy moat]

Oh ok, hope everything goes according to plan 💯

[noble barn]

Does anyone know what exactly that new Sparse Class Data in UE4.24 is or does?

It sounds interesting but I can't see what it is and how I would implement that

The Sparse Class Data feature reduces the footprint of actor instances by converting unchanging variables into shared, class-wide constants. This can lead to significant savings if a commonly-occurring actor class has properties that native and Blueprint code don't change after construction, and that doesn't vary between instances. In addition, this process has minimal impact on code; after replacing the appropriate properties with shared values, developers working in native code will only need to replace direct references to the old properties with calls to their new getter functions, while developers working in Blueprint will be entirely unaffected. Even the current values of the properties will be preserved by the conversion process. This feature has its greatest impact when developers use it on actors that appear in large numbers, and contain several properties that can be converted to shared constants.

[wary wave]

feature not class

[noble barn]

yeah figured that

but where is that "feature", in what shape or form

[wary wave]

it seems like it's something like a UPROPERTY specifier

for the most part, you don't need to do anything at all

[noble barn]

is it supposed to cut memory footprint?

[wary wave]

that's an effect it will have, yes

[noble barn]

yeah, it indeed is a UPROPERTY

[lapis vine]

Sounds nothing new. But guess the UHT integration is what is new.

[noble barn]

    // Some properties are stored once per class in a sidecar structure and not on instances of the class
    SparseClassDataType,

don't understand what they mean with "will only need to replace direct references to the old properties with calls to their new getter functions", but I guess I'll just try to add that property and see what happens

[lapis vine]

Its just shared storage. So ofc you need to use some function to access it, direct this references will make it redundant.

[noble barn]

yeah that's what I don't understand though. Maybe just being stupid rn.

How would a UPROPERTY tag make my variable inaccessible? do they actually parse it out and add some getter into the .generated.h file?

well.. I'll see

ah I think I got it now. You have to outsource those into a special struct and provide that struct in the meta specifier

[spice scarab]

@edgy moat Yea the problem seems to disappear if I just have navmesh on my level. Thanks for taking part in the pondering! : )

With 4.24 came another problem as well: My landscapes don't return physical material footstep information anymore and walking on any landscape is silent. But I just found this so I haven't even been looking much into it yet. Just thought if this is a common problem with the 4.24 or not.

My friends have the same as well. Their landscapes don't give footsteps anymore in 4.24.

[edgy moat]

Trying setting the landscapes max lod level to 0 or 1

Just click on the landscape and search “lod” then it will show. The default is set to -1. Try make it 0 or 1

[pearl sonnet]

whats new

askin introverts whats new
kernel panic

[cloud cobalt]

#lounge for off-topic chat

[pearl sonnet]

i was poking for ontopic news

😛

[ornate ice]

Hey Good morning

has anyone tried to make a Push/Pull System in 3D space?

like pushing or pulling a block

I'm having some mindfuck with the physics

cause I've explored moving the object by attaching it to my player and moving in one direction with him at a different speed

and stopping movement with a tracer for collision detection

that seems to work on a flat surface

but for example if I try to drop the cube from a ledge

and "simulate physics"

the object will teleport to its original position

[edgy moat]

https://youtu.be/OltZ-xFz8IQ are you talking about something like this?

[ornate ice]

more like this

https://youtu.be/qxQug-c4hgk

but when you try to drop that cube from a ledge

using that approach

it will fly away into space

lol

[edgy moat]

have you done the tutorial

[ornate ice]

indeed

and done a lot of reading in forums

[edgy moat]

so your problem is when the object goes past a ledge its physics are broken

[ornate ice]

but there is little info

right

[edgy moat]

and is its physics on?

simulate physics?

[ornate ice]

yes

[edgy moat]

what is its mass

try increasing it to something very large

[pearl sonnet]

🍆

[edgy moat]

and set its linear dampening and angular dampening to something very large also

[pearl sonnet]

darth vader is happily married

[edgy moat]

did it work

[cloud cobalt]

@pearl sonnet Can you please keep off-topic stuff to #lounge ?

[pearl sonnet]

chill out, chat is slow

if you want to be a moderator consider that fun is an important element

[cloud cobalt]

No, I don't want to be a moderator, I'm asking nicely to keep off-topic where it's supposed to be 😉

[grave nebula]

🔨

[ornate ice]

@edgy moat wait I believe I got it working differently

[edgy moat]

what do you mean

[ornate ice]

by moving it while physics on with se actor location

its working the edge fall

[edgy moat]

oh ok cool 💯

[blazing owl]

Hi, now that 4.24 is out, is quixel bridge and other quixel applications free for unreal use?

[obsidian nimbus]

yup

[blazing owl]

Great! I will download them now

why is malwarebytes being triggered by the download links to both mixer and bridge? is this definitely false positive?

[pearl sonnet]

yea

file is signed

doubt they'll ship out virus to a million users

[wise stone]

so many assets and textures not compatable with 4.24

[pearl sonnet]

even textures?

that's cool

[edgy moat]

İs there anyway to subdivide a landscape? so that tesselation can be used.

[cloud cobalt]

@wise stone It's been less than a day, so it makes sense most assets haven't been updated.

In most case, assets (textures or materials in particular) should update perfectly fine anyway

Blueprint have the most risk