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grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:08 AM

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I really hope you didn't lol, it doesnt take donations so you donated to someone else 😦

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https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/services is the answer to the question about player names and it's not a public feature right now

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 7:09 AM

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Nah was kidding, I recall that conversation

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 7:09 AM

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Does it go straight to YouTube instead of 95% of it?

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:09 AM

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and Unreal Engine is not a platform so.....

modern sinew Jan 28, 2020, 7:09 AM

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Epic Games Launcher is

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:10 AM

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the Epic Game Store is a platorm, Unreal Engine is not.

modern sinew Jan 28, 2020, 7:10 AM

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That's what I just said

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 7:10 AM

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Have a pizza at least

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modern sinew Jan 28, 2020, 7:10 AM

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I thought, since EGS is the native launcher for UE4, there would obviously be some way to link them, if there is for Steam

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:10 AM

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There is but you cannot do it, I linked the info on that

modern sinew Jan 28, 2020, 7:11 AM

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Wait, someone can?

still stag Jan 28, 2020, 7:11 AM

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so abou that spline mesh creation, any1 have any ideea? 😂 just export a bezier curve from with a mesh from maya? 😋

modern sinew Jan 28, 2020, 7:11 AM

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:11 AM

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Dauntless is an example of a game that can, same with fortnite

modern sinew Jan 28, 2020, 7:12 AM

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Well Fortnite is from EG, so obvs. Don't know about Dauntless

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 7:12 AM

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You bake the mesh Nandy. If you want a true spline mesh, you use the spline within the engine

modern sinew Jan 28, 2020, 7:13 AM

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But what's the point of giving players a lower royalty if they're not even going to include basic stuff like this? I have to go with Steam for my Multiplayer project unless that changes simply because of that

still stag Jan 28, 2020, 7:13 AM

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I was searching for tuts on that but I only get bp tuts, not the actual mesh

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wanna make a plant vine mesh to put around my lvl

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 7:14 AM

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You use a mesh component

gleaming lotus Jan 28, 2020, 7:15 AM

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I'm trying to upgrade my game engine version from 4.21 to 4.23.
I have upgraded the engine and now I have regenerated vs project files. I'm trying to now start debugging the .sln file but I get this error:

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Any idea why? google isnt telling me much.

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 7:15 AM

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Players don’t get royalties red

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 7:15 AM

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I.e a cylinder for rope. You create an array, stack the meshes along the spline, boom, spline mesh

modern sinew Jan 28, 2020, 7:16 AM

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You know what I meant. Devs

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whatever

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:16 AM

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@gleaming lotus change your project default to your project itself and not one of the UE4 projects (top bar changed unused to your project name) or right click your project in the solution explorer and set as startup

modern sinew Jan 28, 2020, 7:16 AM

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and "give a lower royalty" doesn't mean they get the royalty, it means they pay a lower royalty

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 7:16 AM

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Just like how 3 doesn’t mean 3? 😜

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 7:17 AM

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Over and over

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It sounds like a closed platform red.

gleaming lotus Jan 28, 2020, 7:18 AM

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Thank you very much @grim ore 🙂

still stag Jan 28, 2020, 7:18 AM

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@abstract relic cheers, will try that as soon as I get home 😍

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 7:18 AM

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Isn’t it though?

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:18 AM

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@gleaming lotus lol I didnt get the wording right but hopefully you got it figured out

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 7:18 AM

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I believe Matheww

modern sinew Jan 28, 2020, 7:18 AM

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Well, hopefully by the time I have anything close to a finished game EGS will have these basic features included so I can switch back

gleaming lotus Jan 28, 2020, 7:19 AM

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😛

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:19 AM

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EGS does, hence Dauntless

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 7:19 AM

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Switch from where? You have to be accepted first to use egs 😜

regal mulch Jan 28, 2020, 7:19 AM

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@halcyon flame The Option String can be used for this, yes.

modern sinew Jan 28, 2020, 7:20 AM

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You know what I mean, High Tide. You have a problem with taking things literally

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Obvs I'd go through the approval process, that was implied. That's part of the switching process

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 7:20 AM

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I enjoy logic yes

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 7:20 AM

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You pinged 3 people one after another for something not close

modern sinew Jan 28, 2020, 7:21 AM

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Not *one after another

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 7:21 AM

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Some say logic is the basis of language 😜

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 7:21 AM

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Lol 😂

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How would you describe it red?

wheat dirge Jan 28, 2020, 7:21 AM

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@modern sinew you know there is a free forever plugin that deals with make your own ingame store

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:21 AM

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I can't fault them for wanting to have your network stuff in place when starting, just the full EGS platform is not open right now so you would have to partner with epic or purchase a license in order to do it right now.

modern sinew Jan 28, 2020, 7:22 AM

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Detoxxe I'm not talking about IAPs. Talking about getting the account name from EGS and setting that as the player name

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Which apparently isn't an option rn

wheat dirge Jan 28, 2020, 7:23 AM

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ahh sorry..... missed that part of the conversation

modern sinew Jan 28, 2020, 7:23 AM

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So I have to set my whole thing up with Steam and just hope that it is a simple matter to switch platforms whenever I have a complete game and can sign up for approval

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I don't know how different the two are in terms of getting info

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 7:25 AM

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It’s usually just a 64 bit int

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Player ID

modern sinew Jan 28, 2020, 7:25 AM

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Player ID and Player Name are two different things AFAIK

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:33 AM

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the FAQ was updated to show more date info ```When can I use these online services?

You can already use the Game Analytics and the Ticketing Systems services today by signing up for Epic Online Services. For dates relating to additional r services, we will be sharing our definitive plans and updated vision for the future of Epic Online Services at GDC 2020.```

modern sinew Jan 28, 2020, 7:33 AM

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ok

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I enabled the Online Subsystem Steam plugin and Get Player Name is still giving me my computer's name, so I guess I did something wrong

halcyon flame Jan 28, 2020, 7:34 AM

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@regal mulch dude thank you

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 7:36 AM

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As a random aside. Are you attending this year’s gdc Mathew? Or any lurkers here.

gleaming lotus Jan 28, 2020, 7:36 AM

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Part two of requesting advice on updating engine version: I did what Matthew said and now the project files can be debugged! However, I get these warnings. I am using the voxel plugin with this (I've already updated the plugin files to be the latest 4.23 version as I'm upgrading my project to that version) Is this issue I'm having something to do with the plugin, or something I am doing wrong? I appreciate the help so far, kinda rubbish with this sort of thing, thanks!

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abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 7:38 AM

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I would ask phy to be honest. Head over to his discord if you haven’t already

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He should be awake soon I believe

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:39 AM

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did you delete your intermediate and binaries folder before building? just to be safe since you are upgrading

gleaming lotus Jan 28, 2020, 7:40 AM

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I deleted my intermediate project files but not binaries, I shall try that

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:40 AM

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@abstract relic I will be at GDC yup doing nothing professionally as usual 🙂

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but I would also do what they suggested and try the discord. It looks like your missing files for some reason

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which kinda makes me curious on how you upgraded the plugin (maybe they moved files between version and it needs a clean install?)

gleaming lotus Jan 28, 2020, 7:41 AM

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Thanks, thought it might be an issue with that as Phy made some code for me since I was doing some hacky stuff with the plugin

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:41 AM

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ah..

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well that's gonna suck to fix 😦

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 7:42 AM

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Rip yet bless phy and his hacks

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 7:42 AM

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I will say grandma

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Those seem like 4.24 bugs, your not accidentally on 4.24?

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:44 AM

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I bet it's due to the procedural mesh component being a plugin and it's not in his buildy thingy as a module

gleaming lotus Jan 28, 2020, 7:44 AM

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Nop, defo 4.23

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:45 AM

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if he rebuilt his solution stuff it probably doesnt have the reference to it as needed IE: the first parts here https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Procedural_Mesh_Component_in_C%2B%2B:Getting_Started

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I also just realized that might not even matter as it's the plugin failing and wouldnt this need to be declared in the plugin build files lol... no experience with plugins here

gleaming lotus Jan 28, 2020, 7:49 AM

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No idea! Its almost 8am here... its been a long night and trying to work this out is bugging me 😛

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:50 AM

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yep that's all I've got but even then the other error about the actual plugin missing part of itself isn't a good sign lol

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 7:51 AM

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Good lord, sleep.

gleaming lotus Jan 28, 2020, 7:51 AM

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I appreciate the help, hopefully Phy might have a trick up his sleeve

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:51 AM

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but what if they just got up!

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8am is early when you get up at 5am 🤔

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 7:52 AM

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Even phy isn’t that crazy. No debugging until after tea or 3

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 7:59 AM

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Phy be west coast so it’s like lunch time there or something

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Do think mathew is right in the plugin thing though, with procedural mesh

brittle gulch Jan 28, 2020, 9:33 AM

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Hi guys, I created a light setup in a map, now I'd like to merge them in a single Blueprint Actor. How could I do that?
I know that there's the Merge Actor tool, but it only takes meshes in account, not lights.

orchid hare Jan 28, 2020, 9:56 AM

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Hello c:

bright cloud Jan 28, 2020, 10:40 AM

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After updating my radeon card to latest drivers all my stand alone builds freezes and have performance issues. Anyone experiencing this with AMD cards?

languid topaz Jan 28, 2020, 11:07 AM

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Hi, I'm spending a lot of time to find a way to set a camera in a 2d game that fits pixel to pixel (pixel perfect) Is that hard? I tried ortho wide, changing UW units etc etc. Is there any way to make it? Nowadays 2d games are very popular again, should not UE offer an easy way to achieve it?

trim silo Jan 28, 2020, 11:13 AM

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Does unreal engine support 1080p video as an intro for the game?

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Everywhere on the internet people are saying that videos have to be MP4 at 720p

sudden agate Jan 28, 2020, 11:21 AM

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yes it does

trim silo Jan 28, 2020, 11:21 AM

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But these are quite old comments, has anything changed or is it still 720p?

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I'm thinking about purchasing a custom made animation for my logo and not sure if i need to pay extra for 1080p or if i just should buy 720p

plush yew Jan 28, 2020, 11:22 AM

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How do I register the copyright for my game? :3

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do i need to create a studio title to publish a game?

uncut vigil Jan 28, 2020, 11:27 AM

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@trim silo you can test with these maybe? https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/branding

Unreal Engine Branding Guidelines and Trademark Usage

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they're 1080p

trim silo Jan 28, 2020, 11:28 AM

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Thanks! will test

humble stirrup Jan 28, 2020, 11:31 AM

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Hi everyone! So, i have a low to medium-end laptop. after 4.20, it started to run heavier the editor. Already watched the cideos from epic about performance. done somethings here and there. anybody got any tips on how to aproach the editor performance on medium to low end notbooks/pc?

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or better yet, how to manage better memory cnsuption from my notebook? cuz lately, the engine has been eating a lot from my memory

sudden agate Jan 28, 2020, 11:40 AM

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You simply need atleast 8gb of ram for unreal. Anything below is unbearable

plush yew Jan 28, 2020, 11:41 AM

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I have 8gb of ram and I have the same problem

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apparently the good is 16gb ram + 4gb of Vram

humble stirrup Jan 28, 2020, 11:46 AM

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or better yet, how to manage better memory cnsuption from my notebook?

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yep, 8 gbs

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cpu and gpu

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not the best ones, but i do have separated

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and stil, sometimes, th editor simply decides "Oh, tasty memory ! let me take somesips"

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and "drinks" the whole bottle of my notebook memory

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"Oh but you need a regular PC, not notebooks"

plush yew Jan 28, 2020, 11:49 AM

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@humble stirrup yes

humble stirrup Jan 28, 2020, 11:50 AM

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I live in Brazil, with the taxes we pay, is not an option right now to buy a pc

foggy marten Jan 28, 2020, 12:00 PM

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so i figured out the health system finally but now i have to do the death animation implement!

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trying to figure it out where do i do the animation at which end, the Ai bp or the third charter bp?

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i did the take away damage function in the first character blueprint, tried doing play animation at the end but won't work for me

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did the other haft in my AI bp so that why i have take damage in my third person bp, just so u know anyone that tries to help me

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river bridge Jan 28, 2020, 12:39 PM

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Hello guys, is there anyone who used before Steam User Stat system with blueprint? Thanks! 🙂

exotic cave Jan 28, 2020, 3:29 PM

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@humble stirrup , @plush yew : Does the editor work slowly even on an empty project, or just on your own projects?

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UE is very powerful. It's truly not hard to create a scene that will slow your computer way down, if you're not properly optimizing.

plush yew Jan 28, 2020, 3:30 PM

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winter gale Jan 28, 2020, 3:33 PM

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4.24.2 hotfix released

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https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/announcements-and-releases/1714121-4-24-2-hotfix-released

Unreal Engine Forums

The 4.24.1 Hotfix is now live!

Feel free to discuss this release on the 4.24 forum thread. (https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/announcements-and-releases/1695917)

If you experience a bug with the 4.24.2 Hotfix, please follow the How To Report a Bug Guide (https:/...

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Hopefully they might have fixed the nasty D3D fatal crashes.

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Not sure though.

uncut vigil Jan 28, 2020, 3:54 PM

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At last! And the uv channel 1 issue that didnt allow me to bake lightmaps 😬

brave gate Jan 28, 2020, 4:01 PM

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@plush yew
honestly?

I have no idea what's game is about from the trailer, showing off generic space station - these days it won't draw any attention, sorry...
half a minute to show logos isn't what I love in trailers, also placing unknown names in trailer? nobody cares, it's only worth if you're using famous names
content is in English, but description of video not anymore...
can't say anything about project because trailer doesn't show me the game 😉

exotic thicket Jan 28, 2020, 4:05 PM

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Yeah that video feels more like an intro sequence to the game itself instead of a trailer... sort of to get you into the mood of the game before giving you the controls

knotty summit Jan 28, 2020, 4:12 PM

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Landscape phyiscs material problem is fixed with 4.24.2. Finally

thick herald Jan 28, 2020, 4:13 PM

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which problem was that?

knotty summit Jan 28, 2020, 4:24 PM

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physics materials were not working on landscapes, because of that my footstep sound systems were broken

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I couldn't get any physics material info when I send line trace to the landscape, now I can do that with the new version

frail sail Jan 28, 2020, 4:35 PM

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so in that hotfix, restore previous tabs fixed?

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About topic: https://discordapp.com/channels/187217643009212416/225448446956404738/671057987313598475

winter gale Jan 28, 2020, 5:06 PM

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Looks like the D3D crashes are targeted for 4.25

frail sail Jan 28, 2020, 5:08 PM

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But i doubt 4.25 will come in two month pepehands

winter gale Jan 28, 2020, 5:11 PM

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Yeah. Literally can't work in 4.24. Frequently crashing.

exotic cave Jan 28, 2020, 5:17 PM

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Any Marketplace creators here? If so, what's your opinion on which versions packs need to target?

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Is it okay to go with the latest release, or is it better to make an effort to support a lot of previous versions?

uncut vigil Jan 28, 2020, 5:25 PM

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@exotic cave I usually start from 4.21. it depends, i think most enthusiasts or indie will be up to date, but bigger studios (with more money 🤑 ) might be locked in with earlier versions

serene birch Jan 28, 2020, 5:27 PM

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D3D crashes in drivers feel more like an issue for NVidia/AMD to fix

next badger Jan 28, 2020, 5:28 PM

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Unreal website broken again ;_;

scenic gale Jan 28, 2020, 5:35 PM

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anyone managed to build chaos with 4.23? I get this error: UnrealEngine-4.23.1-release/Engine/Source/Runtime/Engine/Private/PhysicsEngine/Experimental/PhysInterface_Chaos.cpp(127): error C2106 because of left operator "="

next badger Jan 28, 2020, 5:36 PM

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I did...compiled fine. You should keep in mind it required source build of ue4.

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also it will be like 100+Gb

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#legacy-physics and #engine-source

zenith narwhal Jan 28, 2020, 6:12 PM

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I'm trying to run a UMG widget in another thread, so it can play while we load a map, but it seems like spawning and running the widget on another thread can only be done by using an FRunnable task that manages it - am I going about this the right way?

worn granite Jan 28, 2020, 6:13 PM

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Well there's already a thing that does that in the engine and it can take a widget

zenith narwhal Jan 28, 2020, 6:13 PM

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What's it called?

tame bluff Jan 28, 2020, 6:17 PM

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/495912200695709696/671779958112387072/VID_20200128_181228.mp4

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Sorry about the frame rate

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But how do I stop it from repeating the animation?

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 6:18 PM

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Is it a skeletal animation? just click on the node playing the clip and uncheck loop.

short onyx Jan 28, 2020, 6:37 PM

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4.24.2, need to recompile all the shader of your project, nice kappaross

harsh tiger Jan 28, 2020, 6:45 PM

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has anyone created a EUW for selecting a large amount of meshes with just one click?

rotund scroll Jan 28, 2020, 6:46 PM

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@plush yew the only channels where promotions are allowed are #work-in-progress and #released. please read the #more-resources.

tame bluff Jan 28, 2020, 6:52 PM

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Thank you @ @normal burrow

bold iris Jan 28, 2020, 6:54 PM

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Has anyone used a USphereComponent and found it would trigger hit events on itself but not other objects?
I was able to solve this by Using a UStaticMeshComponent assigned with a sphere mesh.
I also made sure the collision settings were the exact same.

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@harsh tiger what does euw stand for?

harsh tiger Jan 28, 2020, 6:58 PM

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editor utility widget

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i dont know the target for that cast, im just trying to get something working before i continue on with it

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i think that node might be useful but it doesnt show on the for each loop

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bold iris Jan 28, 2020, 7:01 PM

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Oh okay gotcha.

harsh tiger Jan 28, 2020, 7:01 PM

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this works, but hiding them isnt what i want. i want to select the actors

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grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:01 PM

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you are trying to select actors in the scene and do something with them or ?

harsh tiger Jan 28, 2020, 7:01 PM

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yeah mathew

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i've seen your vid

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but my plan is to be able select a lot of meshes in an area with certain tags that i can input in the euw

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:03 PM

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and then do what with them?

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or just have them selected in the viewport

harsh tiger Jan 28, 2020, 7:03 PM

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be able to move, rotate, scale, group etc

bold iris Jan 28, 2020, 7:03 PM

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Can't you just call set actor selection state directly on the actors. I am pretty sure you can just connect the array to the node too.

harsh tiger Jan 28, 2020, 7:04 PM

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grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:06 PM

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so you want to type in a tag, find all the actors with that tag, then have them selected in the viewport?

harsh tiger Jan 28, 2020, 7:06 PM

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yeahhhh

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if i can get that to work i can add more ways to select meshes at a later date

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:07 PM

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jolly steppe Jan 28, 2020, 7:07 PM

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Does anyone know how I can adjust the fall acceleration of my main character using a curve?
I watched some of this and I would love to use this, but idk if I can understand what they are doing in C++
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcxtpSLMnH4
Is there a way to do it in Blueprints or would I have to go into the script?

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grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:07 PM

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this seems to work for me, grabs all the items with the Actor Tag of One and selects it

harsh tiger Jan 28, 2020, 7:08 PM

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wait

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is that "get selected level actors" from a plugin?

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:08 PM

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the set selected level actors?

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it might be from the Editor Scripting Utilities plugin

harsh tiger Jan 28, 2020, 7:08 PM

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yeah is it that?

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i never had it enabled 😂

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:09 PM

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heh. in a video coming to the learning portal for EUW's I make sure I clarify that it needs to be enabled more than once just because of this lol

harsh tiger Jan 28, 2020, 7:10 PM

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sounds awesome, do you have a release date?

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:10 PM

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Out of my hands lol, between now and never

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the funny part is I was second guessing myself on if i should make the goof on video (not enabling plugin) so I could point it out again and I guess it was the right answer 🙂

harsh tiger Jan 28, 2020, 7:14 PM

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fair enough, an i had it turned on when i first watched your video. but that was some time ago and i just created this project last week and forgot haha. it wasnt until i seen your ss that i remembered

sonic pagoda Jan 28, 2020, 7:15 PM

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ogBlueprintNodeCache: Display: The blueprint template-node cache is full. As a result, you may experience interactions which are slower than normal. To avoid this, increase the cache's cap in the blueprint editor prefences.

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what art thou meaning in english?

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what sorta interactions is it talking about

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:16 PM

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uhm maybe the ones where you interact with the nodes?... ok that was bad

sonic pagoda Jan 28, 2020, 7:16 PM

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lmao

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:16 PM

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that is cool tho I have never seen that warning

sonic pagoda Jan 28, 2020, 7:16 PM

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brand new 4.24.2 warning, i think

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 7:17 PM

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please tell me its actually ogBlueprintNodeCache

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:17 PM

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lol We couldn’t find any code matching 'BlueprintNodeCache' in EpicGames/UnrealEngine

sonic pagoda Jan 28, 2020, 7:17 PM

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lol OGBlueprint

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from Unreal 1

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 7:17 PM

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please i want this. lol

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:18 PM

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huh yeah there is an option for Node-Template Cache Cap

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but it's in .23 for sure so it's not new

sonic pagoda Jan 28, 2020, 7:19 PM

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grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:19 PM

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looks like it caches the menu stuff

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yep lol was just looking thru the source

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but that error message is not part of the source, must be a strings file somewhere else

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 7:20 PM

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is LogBlueprintNodeCache in the code?

sonic pagoda Jan 28, 2020, 7:20 PM

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its not an error or warning

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just a message

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:22 PM

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man that's weird, I wonder how you did that

rotund scroll Jan 28, 2020, 7:22 PM

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someone slung some rumor about that fortnite somehow was made in UT1 version of Unreal but made to look like UE4... 🤔

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:23 PM

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well.... how much of the original UE source code is still in the UE4 code base

sonic pagoda Jan 28, 2020, 7:34 PM

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unrealception ☝️

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how i did that was 3 years of shoving blueprint code into 1 character BP

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and then inherit from a parent class itself bloated with blueprint code, that inherits from another 1

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 7:47 PM

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lol

calm widget Jan 28, 2020, 8:07 PM

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Can someone explain to me how UE thinks about compiling materials, It compiles 5K shaders initally, decided i want to change something and click compile again, now it's 10K shaders, changed something again, 15K. How can it just add everything up, it's the same material? Also wants to compile when i save after adding a single comment? Don't know much about programming but this seems a bit lazy to me.

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 8:12 PM

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all of the nodes in the material translate into text code which is the shader. every permutation for your material has a shader (platform, static mesh, etc.) which can lead to multiple shaders per 1 material in the editor. Every change has to recompile that shader from material nodes into shader code so even if it's "just a comment" to you it's a change for the shader. This is why they have material instances to allow changes of parameters for tweaking without requiring full compiles. If you lower your supported platforms and the material permutations needed in your project you might see this number go down

calm widget Jan 28, 2020, 8:13 PM

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Hm, alright thanks for clearing that up : )

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 8:14 PM

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the bigger chain of problems come from when you do it on a material function or something that is contained in another material which just causes all hell to break loose

calm widget Jan 28, 2020, 8:15 PM

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Got a few of those, all in all, small price to pay for such a nice tool

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But uh, thing is also.. So i just finished compiling all the 15k Shaders, and somehow the compile button is still green. I click save and now it's compiling again. There has been no changes since i compiled. Seems just clicking in the editor itself makes it think something's changed

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I better just click save since it saves and then compiles

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Or both anyway

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 8:24 PM

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hello, I have a map I made and added a auto material landscape to it, and I get 20 FPS average, what is the best way to increase fps.

brave widget Jan 28, 2020, 8:29 PM

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Remove the auto material

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 8:29 PM

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yeah i know about that. that fixes it. but I want to see how it can be decreased

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so I know in the future

brave widget Jan 28, 2020, 8:31 PM

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There is literally no way for us to know. There are a million things it could be and we have no possible way to identify any of them when all the info we are given is "my auto material makes low fps, how fix?"
In a nutshell, thats all the info provided to us and we can't work with that 😉

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 8:32 PM

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hmmm, well im not experienced. But I would say that there arent any LOD's for the textures, and that makes it low fps. is that possible?

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i understand what you are saying

brave widget Jan 28, 2020, 8:34 PM

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Sure, its possible just the same as its possible that tessellation is enabled and causing FPS or that there are to many shader instructions. Among a million other things.
How do you know there are no LODs for the textures?
Landscape auto materials are usually pretty expensive so my best guess is simply that you are using a auto material thats just to expensive

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 8:34 PM

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LOD for texture is called mipmaps. Not quite what you think it is though

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 8:35 PM

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well im looking at the landscape and I dont see any differences in textures in front of me and those in the far

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thats why I think there are no lods

brave widget Jan 28, 2020, 8:35 PM

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And I can respect that you are inexperienced, but you need to learn how to help us help you. Without more information about what you are needing help with, then we will just be spitballing answers and thats never fun

calm widget Jan 28, 2020, 8:35 PM

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Mipmaps are automatically generated by UE4, and you probably wouldn't notice them

brave widget Jan 28, 2020, 8:36 PM

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^^^ what Ziecore said

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 8:37 PM

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If I made my own material and painted the terrain, that would work fine to some extent. wouldnt get me the same fps, but would be better, so Im not sure whats going on here

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 8:37 PM

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if you use a better texture format like exr you can define mips yourself

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but otherwise yeah you configure how ue4 generates them

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 8:38 PM

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I got this one https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/automatic-landscape-material

Automatic Landscape Material by RezTech Studios in Materials - UE4...

This auto-material lets you texture any size landscape with one single click of the mouse. No need for heightmaps or splat maps!

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 8:38 PM

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There's always detail texturing but that doesn't really affect performance as much, just reduces tiling when view at a distance.

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 8:40 PM

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a good question to ask is what should you be getting with your hardware for fps?

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 8:40 PM

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Another: What's my baseline fps?

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 8:40 PM

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i got 32ram and a gtx1660

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 8:41 PM

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if your not constantly reading the profiler you'll miss what is expensive and what is not

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 8:41 PM

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profiler?

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never heard of that

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 8:41 PM

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oof

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

Profiler Tool Reference

An overview on the Profiler Tool used to monitor game performance.

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 8:41 PM

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what is your uncapped FPS that you get on the landscape before you apply the LAM?

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 8:41 PM

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yeah that and or some stat commands

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stat rhi
stat fps

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https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Performance/StatCommands/index.html @worthy flame

Stat Commands

Console commands specific to displaying game statistics.

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 8:44 PM

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120 fps

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before the material

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 8:44 PM

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that is the cap

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t.maxfps 1000

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put that into console (unless there is a way to actually uncap it?)

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 8:45 PM

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in editor settings I believe

old fulcrum Jan 28, 2020, 8:45 PM

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hi guys, wanted to know the best place to place variables(ex. wood, metal, money) for rts type of game. To an actor manager or game instance?

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 8:45 PM

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that or project settings. I'm 80% sure I saw it before

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 8:46 PM

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i'll look around, quite curious myself

cosmic panther Jan 28, 2020, 8:46 PM

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Its t.maxfps 0

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 8:46 PM

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nah that implies a 120 cap t2

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it may be a "use editor preferences" thing though, looking into it.

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 8:46 PM

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my console key isnt working tf

brave gate Jan 28, 2020, 8:46 PM

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@old fulcrum depends on variable
is it definition of resource or actual inventory - counting them? 😉

old fulcrum Jan 28, 2020, 8:47 PM

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i plan to have both.

brave gate Jan 28, 2020, 8:48 PM

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probably you should have an "inventory" class, resource class/struct definition often should go to separate InventoryTypes.h so you can easily use in various classes

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 8:48 PM

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i get 240fps

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without the cap

brave gate Jan 28, 2020, 8:48 PM

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player an AI player should have separate instances of inventory, i.e. InventoryComponent

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game instance would be useful if you want to store inventory state between maps, otherwise could be better to keep in the inventory components of player/AI

old fulcrum Jan 28, 2020, 8:51 PM

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i see ill go with inv components thank you very much doc

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 8:51 PM

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and dropping a normal material using a few textures doesn't drop the FPS on the landscape right? losing 220fps seems a bit odd for the LAM stuff

cosmic panther Jan 28, 2020, 8:52 PM

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@normal burrow when I use T.MaxFPS 0 it sets it to unlimited

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 8:52 PM

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ok i get 140fps witht the fps, there was a noTes material. that solves it

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 8:52 PM

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i'll test t2

cosmic panther Jan 28, 2020, 8:53 PM

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I'm getting 800fps looking at my landscape at cinematic settings @normal burrow using the command T.MaxFPS 0

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 8:53 PM

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📎 2020-01-28_14-52-40.mp4

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setting it to zero enforces 120 cap on me 🤷

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 8:53 PM

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but my player start spawns under the landscape now

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 8:54 PM

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its always been like that for me t2

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can't locate project settings for it unfortunately either

cosmic panther Jan 28, 2020, 8:54 PM

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📎 Captureggs.PNG

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 8:55 PM

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did you see the video though?

cosmic panther Jan 28, 2020, 8:55 PM

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Yea, I did

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 8:55 PM

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i realize thats how it's documented

brave widget Jan 28, 2020, 8:55 PM

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Documentation =/= Reality 😂

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 8:55 PM

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ye

cosmic panther Jan 28, 2020, 8:56 PM

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ill look for something

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 8:57 PM

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anyone know how to fix player start spawning under the landscape

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 8:58 PM

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I would assume move your player start above the landscape?

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 8:58 PM

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i did

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 8:58 PM

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does it fall thru then?

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 8:59 PM

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it doesnt fall it just spawns under it

cosmic panther Jan 28, 2020, 8:59 PM

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Are you setting a spawn inside ur blueprint?

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 8:59 PM

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no

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i have even deleted and pulled a new one in there but still nothing

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i even moved it above the landscape, still the same result

cosmic panther Jan 28, 2020, 9:03 PM

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try this go to ur landscape>details panel, and try turning of Relevant for level bounds

worthy flame Jan 28, 2020, 9:04 PM

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that doesnt work

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on my other map it works fine

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this one it doesnt

cosmic panther Jan 28, 2020, 9:05 PM

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hmm

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 9:21 PM

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@dense gate "mehtehtrollface09/24/2019
Such a file doesn't exist in the source and doesn't get generated during building
Thing is, it worked absolutely fine, it seems like something doesn't generate this header file
CompileChaos=true in the editor build, so everything is as should be
There's not much on Chaos but I've been working on implementing some destructibles in my project
So suddenly getting this random Chaos error after trying to add discord rich presence is beyond me
After the "not found" error there's a big bunch of "ispc not a class or namespace" errors which seems to be from that same header"

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Did you figure this out?

brave gate Jan 28, 2020, 9:23 PM

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oh, so it's ISPC thing... this files of ISPC (2 extensions) where initially ignored (.gitignore ignore everything and then they whitelisted extensions) and they made a change later to include them on GitHub, but it got messy for some people... somebody had simple solution

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 9:24 PM

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I tried resaving this...3> [260/3605] Module.Chaos.cpp
3>E:/UE4Source/Engine/Source/Runtime/Experimental/Chaos/Private/Chaos/PBDCollisionConstraint.cpp(24): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'PBDCollisionConstraint.ispc.generated.h': No such file or directory

brave gate Jan 28, 2020, 9:24 PM

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maybe in #engine-source, can't remember

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 9:26 PM

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Thing is, PDBCollisionConstraint.cpp has this... #if INTEL_ISPC
#include "PBDCollisionConstraint.ispc.generated.h"
#endif

brave gate Jan 28, 2020, 9:26 PM

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yes, you're probably don't have this few files downloaded

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😉

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there are few .ispc and .isph files totally in the source

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 9:29 PM

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hmm...it compiled in 4.24.1 and this file was there too...ugh. so frustrating.

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Heh. These got removed.

📎 unknown.png

brave widget Jan 28, 2020, 9:36 PM

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Please tell me I don't need to go through all the non-existent ISPC/ISPH files and put them back in manually? 🤦

brave gate Jan 28, 2020, 9:36 PM

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what I did, I moved them out to desktop when GitHub Desktop asked me to resolve these files and put them after sync 😄

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I'm not git expert, just went this way and continued 😉

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 9:38 PM

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@brave widget I won't tell you that, but I have a lot of them removed. Sigh.

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Yah, about to figure out how to get them back.

brave widget Jan 28, 2020, 9:40 PM

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Same, and they are scattered all over 😂 And now I need to go find each and every one of them somewhere 😛 And pretty sure I don't have a backup (dumb move 😂)

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 9:46 PM

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@lethal iron I've downgraded back to 4.23 for the time being

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4.24 also introduced a bunch of bugs for me so it only got so far

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But also I get gigatilted because currently the engine compiles for ~4 hours on my machine, I'm waiting on a PC upgrade before attempting again

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I dunno if there have been any improvements to Chaos for 4.24, even if some features I'd like to have in that engine version

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But for the time being I've reverted to 4.23 and I've had no issue

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 9:49 PM

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Gotcha. I can appreciate that decision.

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 9:50 PM

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4.23 has been a really stable version for me anyway, I've only had some abstract issues with some plugins

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Unless something groundbreaking releases in 4.25, I think I'll have my project stick to 4.23 for the time being

fierce tulip Jan 28, 2020, 9:51 PM

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yet I heard so many people complain about bugs/crashes when trying to cook their game in .23

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then again, with so many variables, its bound to happen

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 9:52 PM

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I haven't had an issue myself even though I've cut off a bunch of iOS/MacOS platform support and other aspects I don't use

cloud cobalt Jan 28, 2020, 9:52 PM

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Every version has bugs for some people

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4.23 was the unstable one for me

fierce tulip Jan 28, 2020, 9:53 PM

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working with it on ghostrunner, and it has not failed me so far

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 9:53 PM

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The only issues I've had with it is trying to enable multithreading

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Though it's from plugins that expose threading functionality to BPs, so that probs explains it

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 9:53 PM

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I am going to stop updating the same day. Of course, i have said that before 😦

fierce tulip Jan 28, 2020, 9:54 PM

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I was on 4.16 until a few months ago

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:p

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 9:54 PM

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lol

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 9:54 PM

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I tried updating same day because some features I'd really like to have

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But alas, it only made me literally unable to develop

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 9:55 PM

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I am still in learning/hobby mode is one reason I just update so soon. Just need to get a bit better at where I spend my time. Let others work the bugs out.

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 9:55 PM

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Tbh I think I can yoink some of the features from the 4.24 source and import it in the current 4.23 version

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Though dunno how worth it would be considering it might just bring extra headache

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 9:56 PM

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Agree

brave gate Jan 28, 2020, 9:57 PM

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it's update "so soon", if your project does require huge work to integrate new version and you're not close to the release - it's not weird to keep upgrading
at least for me they add sweet stuff all the time 😉

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 9:57 PM

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Well, I use SourceTree for my source control. I went through the list and got the files back. Now to wait for this 3rd compile attempt to finish.

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 9:57 PM

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Oof, from the "future releases" in the roadmap, the only thing I'd like is production ready Chaos

brave gate Jan 28, 2020, 9:58 PM

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btw, I started my gamedev life with in-house tech, crashing all the time, core things broken every day, as quest designer much of my work was getting others to make "engine not messed up" 😄

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after that little issues with integration is like kindergarten 😄 😄 😄

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 9:59 PM

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For version control I basically use a folder sync to my home server

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 9:59 PM

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Saw a post that Fortnite is just now starting 4.25 cycle to use Chaos. I can wait on that.

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 9:59 PM

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And after every engine change I go with "skip converting"

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 9:59 PM

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I do software dev for a living. I have to have ver control.

brave gate Jan 28, 2020, 9:59 PM

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folder sync? that's brave, I've got to say

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 10:00 PM

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I mean, every few days I sync it to my local HDD and then the server

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Y'know what they say

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If it doesn't exist in at least 3 places, it doesn't really exist

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 10:00 PM

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lol

brave gate Jan 28, 2020, 10:00 PM

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😄

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 10:00 PM

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And I don't dare to use version control because the folder is 140 GB right now

cosmic panther Jan 28, 2020, 10:00 PM

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That's true lol

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 10:00 PM

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All those asset packs been juicy

brave gate Jan 28, 2020, 10:01 PM

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you're an asset grabber type 😛

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although p4 would still eat that for a breakfast

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😉

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 10:01 PM

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Oh, I just ver control code, not assets.

brave gate Jan 28, 2020, 10:01 PM

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nice compression of versioned assets they have

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 10:01 PM

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Tbh I just grab small bits of many asset packs, but I need to keep them in

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Also I use pretty much entirely BPs for my project

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Makes it easier when I go and release since I'm planning on enabling modding support

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And it runs decently on an old-gen 2.7 GHz Intel, so I'll take it

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 10:03 PM

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Nice....and finally, I have 4.24.2 compiled. Sheesh.

cosmic panther Jan 28, 2020, 10:03 PM

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Lol

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 10:03 PM

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I'm swapping to a 2700+1070Ti rig soon so I'm waiting on that

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I don't dare compiling code on either my current PC (old ass laptop) or the server (old ass i7 with 6 GB RAM)

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 10:04 PM

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I have a sweet laptop to compile it on. That will be nice for you.

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 10:05 PM

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Main PC is quadcore 2.9 GHz, server is quadcore 2.7 GHz, but I'm getting a hexcore 3.1 GHz soon

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And the Ryzen of course coming soon

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Either way, I don't dare compiling on either because it takes too long

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 10:06 PM

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Nice. Got a 32g ram, 2.9ghz 6 core i9 works pretty well on my laptop

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 10:06 PM

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Offloading swarm to the server has been a saving grace for not waiting too long on doing BPs tho

cosmic panther Jan 28, 2020, 10:06 PM

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@normal burrow I fixed the uncapping FPS after I updated I deleted

Intermediate

Build

Saved

and then re-launched the project and tried T.MaxFPS 0 and it works now

tawdry heath Jan 28, 2020, 10:07 PM

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hey guys is it easy to make a main menu? like is hiding other widgets easy or hard because I don't want my map and health bar to show in the main menu

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 10:07 PM

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Have a separate GM with the main menu

lethal iron Jan 28, 2020, 10:07 PM

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Ok, I can stop pretending to work and now work on the ue4 project.

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 10:07 PM

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Custom pawn and controller to spawn the menu widget

tawdry heath Jan 28, 2020, 10:07 PM

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@dense gate that's smart

cosmic panther Jan 28, 2020, 10:07 PM

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yep what @dense gate said

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 10:07 PM

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Upon selecting a game, loading, connecting, etc, just load the new mode

tawdry heath Jan 28, 2020, 10:07 PM

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I didn't think of that

dense gate Jan 28, 2020, 10:07 PM

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That's literally standard tho

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Just remember to have your main menu map to the menu GM and keep the default GM as your gameplay GM

tawdry heath Jan 28, 2020, 10:09 PM

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alr

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thanks

grim ore Jan 28, 2020, 10:13 PM

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@tawdry heath there is a UMG course on the learn portal that covers having a main menu, in game hud, and pause menu that clears the hud off the screen just an an FYI https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/your-first-hour-with-umg

tawdry heath Jan 28, 2020, 10:18 PM

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the documentation is very useful I can understand it

obsidian crystal Jan 28, 2020, 10:27 PM

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Guys am I the Only one who is missing YouTube UE tutorials? :/
Do you recommend anything to watch/read?

feral crow Jan 28, 2020, 10:29 PM

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I need help

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Can someone help me?

spark sonnet Jan 28, 2020, 10:33 PM

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With what @feral crow ?

feral crow Jan 28, 2020, 10:34 PM

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So I bought the Polygon City Pack

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and im using the Thirdperson template

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When I click play the character spawns where my I am in editor . How do I make the character spawn in a specific location?

tawdry heath Jan 28, 2020, 10:36 PM

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click the arrow next to the play button and change it

feral crow Jan 28, 2020, 10:36 PM

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There is none

spark sonnet Jan 28, 2020, 10:36 PM

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📎 unknown.png

tawdry heath Jan 28, 2020, 10:36 PM

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oh you have to move your player spawn

feral crow Jan 28, 2020, 10:36 PM

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The charcter doesnt show

spark sonnet Jan 28, 2020, 10:37 PM

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Either use a player start or drag in a pawn and select this :

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📎 unknown.png

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Auto possess player

tawdry heath Jan 28, 2020, 10:37 PM

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at top right right there is the actors, search for something like player start and move it to where u want it

feral crow Jan 28, 2020, 10:39 PM

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@tawdry heath?

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Can I screen share? It may be easier

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@spark sonnet @tawdry heath

brave widget Jan 28, 2020, 10:47 PM

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@lethal iron I feel completely stupid 😂 All I had to do was Discard changes in Github Desktop and the files reappeared 🤔 😂

bitter iris Jan 28, 2020, 11:05 PM

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I moved my map to a different folder

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now ue4 can't find the map

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wtf is going on

abstract relic Jan 28, 2020, 11:06 PM

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fix up redirector and pray

errant sundial Jan 28, 2020, 11:07 PM

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can someone assist me with multiplayer.. i opened ports 7777 and have a listen server running yet my friend cannot join

bitter iris Jan 28, 2020, 11:13 PM

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@abstract relic is there a way to refresh directory in ue4

fallen marten Jan 28, 2020, 11:14 PM

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Shut it down, boot it back up

bitter iris Jan 28, 2020, 11:14 PM

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have done

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doesnt do anything

next badger Jan 28, 2020, 11:14 PM

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@normal burrow PIE is hardcoded to cap 120fps, you can only bypass it inside standalone

normal burrow Jan 28, 2020, 11:15 PM

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t.maxfps 1000 will bypass it

next badger Jan 28, 2020, 11:18 PM

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oh..indeed

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when that has changed? i remember it was not possible before

honest rune Jan 28, 2020, 11:25 PM

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Is there a way to use per-level WorldSettings out of the box or would this involve implementing it yourself through a custom engine build that handles re-initializing the world settings of UWorld etc?

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The only way I can see to possibly do this is custom engine build with special handling done in the UWorld and UGameEngine/UEngine

brave gate Jan 28, 2020, 11:38 PM

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wait, a different class of WorldSettings per every world?

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why, if I may ask? 🙂

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maybe there's easier solution

shy silo Jan 28, 2020, 11:54 PM

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not sure where to ask this, but can you use blender to create the groom assets that the new hair plugin uses or do you have to use a different program?

brave gate Jan 29, 2020, 12:16 AM

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@shy silo no word on blender here

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https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/tech-blog/an-early-look-at-next-generation-real-time-hair-and-fur

Unreal Engine

An early look at next-generation real-time hair and fur

An experimental look at next-generation hair and fur in Unreal Engine.

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neither here

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https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/ue4-real-time-hair-advances/

fxguide

Mike Seymour

UE4 Real-time Hair Advances

We take a deep look at UE4's new Hair, including an exclusive video deep dive.

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"Since acquiring Shave and a Haircut, Epic Games has made it’s v9.6 Maya plugin and associated shaders available on GitHub as both source code and compiled binaries."

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:24 AM

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Guys I need some serious assistance. Nvidia wants to play our game for a little partnership however we have a slight.... bug. Our water is flickering and we cannot seem to figure it out

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I am open to just about any ideas right now.

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📎 2020-01-28_19-25-47.mp4

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they are aware we recently changed sky systems but i really dont want to hand them a copy of it like this....

delicate tusk Jan 29, 2020, 12:32 AM

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Hey can anyone help me with multigates? I want to have multiple actors cycle through a multigate which sets their materials, what's the most efficient way to prevent the objects from displaying duplicate materials?

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 12:34 AM

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Uh. Check near clip plane darinis?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:34 AM

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What do you mean by that?

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is that a setting in project or?

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 12:34 AM

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Project setting yes

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:35 AM

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lemme look

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set to 10

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 12:35 AM

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Try 2. Just to see if there’s any change

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:36 AM

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restart needed?

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 12:36 AM

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Yes

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:36 AM

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ok

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so 2 is no real difference. Maybe a little better

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0.0 def messes up EVERYTHING. lol

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:39 AM

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how far away is the camera usually?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:40 AM

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its 3rd person but it happens usually when your facing away from the sun

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however it can happen when your far away facing the sun

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:40 AM

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hmmmmmmm

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:40 AM

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but removing the sky lights and directional lights still have the same issue

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we can bring another water material and the water in that works

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however we still have flickering happening on trees and other things with the shadows

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 12:41 AM

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Is water that’s flickering translucent?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:41 AM

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yes

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 12:41 AM

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Oh? Trees too? Hmm

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:41 AM

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📎 unknown.png

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this may give you some insight?

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 12:42 AM

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Was about to say

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Time to turn on the buffer vis

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:42 AM

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📎 2020-01-28_19-42-31.mp4

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this is after we removed the water.

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 12:43 AM

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Does it happen to all the machines?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:43 AM

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started after the engine upgrade to 4.23

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and yeah it happens on all devs PC

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 12:43 AM

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Not hardware then

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:44 AM

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we are testing a cook as well to see if it happens in cook

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:44 AM

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this might sound strange but do you control lights by modulating their color or intensity at all?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:44 AM

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im going to open up the buffer here in a sec

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:44 AM

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like at runtime, wobble them at all?

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or turn them off

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:44 AM

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yes i do

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save points and candles

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:44 AM

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are you clamping at zero?

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ie

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not setting intensity or any color to negative

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:44 AM

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no it never goes down to 0

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 12:45 AM

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Clamp anyways

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:45 AM

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does that wobble you do for candles look similar to what you see here?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:45 AM

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its clamped usually around 1-10 depending on light

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:45 AM

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yeah definitely clamp anyways

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:45 AM

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ehhhhh slightly?

fierce tulip Jan 29, 2020, 12:45 AM

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are you clamping at zero?

Pat

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:45 AM

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okay! I will check that

fierce tulip Jan 29, 2020, 12:45 AM

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LEAVE @grim sinew ALONE

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wait, not lounge.

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walks off

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:45 AM

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hahaha

rain lintel Jan 29, 2020, 12:46 AM

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Has anyone here experimented with cel shading in unreal 4?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:46 AM

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and i will clamp just in case but those videos are not during runtime either.

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 12:46 AM

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There’s a new quote function in discord Luos. You should try it out

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Especially on pat

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:46 AM

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walks off
@fierce tulip

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that ping was for science luos

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:46 AM

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😂

grim sinew Jan 29, 2020, 12:46 AM

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Zero

fierce tulip Jan 29, 2020, 12:46 AM

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banned

Luos

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:47 AM

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darinius, any way you could not have the candles flicker temporarily?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:47 AM

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lemme go edit

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📎 2020-01-28_19-47-27.mp4

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and theres the buffer vis

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:48 AM

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ye

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its definitely translucents

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no signs anything i can see

rain lintel Jan 29, 2020, 12:48 AM

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What channel would I go to if I wanted to ask about cel shading in Unreal?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:48 AM

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so in other words the buffer screens look okay?

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:48 AM

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surprising amount of wobble on the camera there..

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:48 AM

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its something specific to the translucent materials

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:49 AM

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you got some vertex boiling for sure

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:49 AM

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? the camera isnt moving. lol

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:49 AM

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how far out from the center of the world are you

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like the most furthest away from the center of numbers

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:49 AM

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not far off at all. maybe 1000u

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 12:50 AM

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Translucency setting would be the next area to look into

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:50 AM

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okay ill take a look at those here next.

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 12:50 AM

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And if you have post processing

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:50 AM

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this could NOT be a worse time to finally get an oppertunity like this and have this kinda issue. 😂

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:51 AM

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that could totally be post processing related yeah, did not think of that

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:51 AM

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i do have a new post process

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:51 AM

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disable it all, temporarily

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:51 AM

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all of it. all the processing. delete it all! 😂

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:52 AM

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yeah i responded too hastily there

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:52 AM

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removed it and its still happening

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 12:53 AM

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I’m looking around. Some are saying it’s an occlusion issue

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lRbIbGPcux8

YouTube

alphabetapapa

Rendering Artifacts

▶ Play video

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:53 AM

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hmmmmm

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:54 AM

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yeah, if you look at the flahses in that last video you put up

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 12:54 AM

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https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/rendering/60628-occlusion-flickering

Unreal Engine Forums

For discussions about Materials, Textures, Lighting, Particle Systems, and Post Process Effects.

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:54 AM

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pay attention to the shadow of the tree, over the water

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:54 AM

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the shadow never changes on the ground of the tree

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just the tree itself

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:55 AM

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it looks like a real light is being culled out anyways. the shadow of the tree matches the color of the water in all frames

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 12:57 AM

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And just as a quick aside. Try turning off two sided material

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:58 AM

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🤔 that occlusion article you linked is interesting. I had not come across that one yet.

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 12:59 AM

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or have you

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 12:59 AM

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lol

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okay soooo we just deleted everything from our map....

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and no more flicker

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one of the devs just reported

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all that is left the post process, the sky, landscape and water

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:02 AM

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no more map?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:02 AM

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candles?

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😂

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:02 AM

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oh, you deleted everything candles?

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:02 AM

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Could be the trees

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:02 AM

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the trees are there too

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:03 AM

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Oh

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:03 AM

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but yeah we deleted all actors, static meshes and whatnot

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:03 AM

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Now do that again but just the candles 😜

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:04 AM

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Yeah, lol was gonna say that too.
https://gph.is/183qL8g

Giphy

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:04 AM

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😄

kindred crag Jan 29, 2020, 1:08 AM

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Can anyone help me with a level sequencer issue I have?

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Just wanting to check if this is the appropriate channel for it

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:09 AM

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#cinematics

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well then again...

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i guess it really depends

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:09 AM

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ask and we'll decide

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:10 AM

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You shall be placed into the correct channel via the judgement of the sorting hat

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:10 AM

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Think only good thoughts

kindred crag Jan 29, 2020, 1:10 AM

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alright so I have this small animation set up where a lamp falls from the ceiling when I enter my trigger box but after the animation is done, the lamp is reset to its original position (the ceiling)

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my blueprint

📎 unknown.png

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:11 AM

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what is intended result?

kindred crag Jan 29, 2020, 1:11 AM

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that the lamp stays on the floor after the animation is played

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:11 AM

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I would imagine you need to set the position afterwards

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:12 AM

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Yeah

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perhaps there is an event you can tap for the sequence finishing?

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:13 AM

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I’m wondering if they were merely rendering it out

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:13 AM

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actually dont sequencers have options to leave objects in place when its finished?

kindred crag Jan 29, 2020, 1:13 AM

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I dont think I need to tick any of these right?

📎 unknown.png

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:13 AM

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yeah the Restore State i think is what would put it back

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:13 AM

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how about Loop

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what are your options on Loop

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is there a hold?

kindred crag Jan 29, 2020, 1:14 AM

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loop indefinitely and loop exactly

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not sure what exactly means

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@marsh swallow tried it, still no luck

tawdry heath Jan 29, 2020, 1:14 AM

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hey guys how would I be able to remove this crosshair

📎 2020-01-28_20-13-56.mp4

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:15 AM

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also idea....

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soooo any chance that Lights in particles could be causing the issue?>!

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:15 AM

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Yes

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:15 AM

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anything is possible for sure

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:15 AM

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because those flicker outside of run time

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:16 AM

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Lights + particles are a combination that makes me internally weep on sight

tawdry heath Jan 29, 2020, 1:16 AM

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sorry I mean cursor not crosshair

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:16 AM

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lol why?

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:16 AM

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lol 😂

kindred crag Jan 29, 2020, 1:16 AM

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@marsh swallow not really

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:17 AM

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well darinius, its possible a negative light value is in there somewhere and its causing trouble too. really any source of light should be considered

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:17 AM

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not really what?

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yeah were going through each BP right now

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particles were just a sudden idea

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i could always just deliver it with no lighting at all.

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:17 AM

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It is a reaction you should have. People tend to go crazy with particles 😜

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:17 AM

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😂

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:17 AM

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😂 then the RTX would be a MASSIVE improvement

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:17 AM

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particles are cool, but lets add lights

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boom

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:18 AM

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Let’s add more particles

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Then more light

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It’s not shiny enough, add a 100+ emissive

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And lens flare and bloom

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:18 AM

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the particles weren't bright enough, needed point lights

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:19 AM

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And more particles

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:19 AM

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lol

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and more particles!

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:19 AM

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why not spawn lights randomly with particles

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i also just decided to run the new 4.24.2 update....

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that was a mistake

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:19 AM

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darinius... oof.

rotund scroll Jan 29, 2020, 1:19 AM

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what was the mistake?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:19 AM

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📎 unknown.png

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:19 AM

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something to do after we fix it lol

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:19 AM

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Ever put your feet on the computer to stay warm? That’s how you do it 😜

rotund scroll Jan 29, 2020, 1:20 AM

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just out of curiosity?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:20 AM

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i started at 70k so its not that bad

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:20 AM

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I should put my computer on the floor really

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you need this tomorrow right?

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i just would have held off on any more updates after the first one introduced something lol

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:22 AM

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well i have 2 other guys trying all these things

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so im just 1

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and they want it tonight

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okay we killed all candles

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and it seems to be okay now

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:22 AM

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before 4.24.2?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:22 AM

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yeah they are running 4.24.1

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only i just upgraded

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but i have save states on my PC so i can revert quickly

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:23 AM

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cool

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:23 AM

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@lusty surge is watching this convo, hes just being silent

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😂

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:23 AM

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a lurker.

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well, like i said. check that the values aren't below the thing that seprates negative and positive ones

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:25 AM

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so you had two other's scrambling at our suggestions? 😂

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:25 AM

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lol 😄 I have to assume at the number of people on this server, that is a commonality

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:25 AM

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of course

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you think im the only 1 in panic

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:25 AM

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got yo peeps on post

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:25 AM

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😂

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:25 AM

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It amuses me so for some reason

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:25 AM

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ikr?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:25 AM

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its not like we get another chance at this oppertunity. 😂

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:26 AM

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"I'm trying pat's suggestion, you read the occlusion forum post, and you turn off two sided material"

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:26 AM

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😂

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:26 AM

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😂

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I really appreciate the help guys/gals!

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honestly

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:27 AM

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all my people are like, "I can't think of anyhting funny for pat to say!"

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:27 AM

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#askpat

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:27 AM

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Theres another dev lurker!

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😂

frank kelp Jan 29, 2020, 1:27 AM

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👀

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:29 AM

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So @kindred crag still stuck?

kindred crag Jan 29, 2020, 1:29 AM

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yeah unfortunately

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:29 AM

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It seems be particles. Lights in the particles

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were narrowing down and its looking good

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:29 AM

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https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Sequencer/HowTo/WhenFinished/index.html
boom

Keeping or Restoring Changes Made by Sequencer

Describes how to keep any changes made through Sequencer when it has completed or restore changes back to their original state.

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:29 AM

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ohhh!!!!!

kindred crag Jan 29, 2020, 1:29 AM

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my lamp doesnt have any lights atm

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:30 AM

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I assume if you read that article, it might help

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sounds like you have to tag the lamp's transform to not restore state explicitly.

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:30 AM

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ahhhh there it is

lusty surge Jan 29, 2020, 1:30 AM

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I ❤️ you all

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:30 AM

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when Finished Keep State

kindred crag Jan 29, 2020, 1:30 AM

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hmmm let me try that

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:30 AM

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on the track itself

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:33 AM

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You similar php threw me off. You all look like mini Darinius 😛

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:34 AM

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😂 yeah we all have a color

kindred crag Jan 29, 2020, 1:34 AM

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hmm its kind of working, but now the game starts off with the lamp already on the floor but I think with a few tweaks I got this

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:34 AM

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@versed stratus can talk too

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then we can have all kinds of colors going

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:35 AM

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It's very power rangers

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:35 AM

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lmfao

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:35 AM

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or tmnt

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:36 AM

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Yeah a certain someone had fun with mine borb burb birb berb

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:36 AM

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idk if thats a good thing.......

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or a bad thing

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I wanna say thats a good thing

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Dragon's Unite!

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idk well work on the catch phrase

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:36 AM

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its a good thing.

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:37 AM

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~~insert Captain Planet theme song but this isn’t lounge~~

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:38 AM

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ye

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:38 AM

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omg

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NO

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you cant do that. i literally know you by your php

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:38 AM

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it's so much better.

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:39 AM

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okay yeah we found it

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It was def the lights on the particles causing issues.

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:40 AM

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I’m not pleased with this turn of events

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:40 AM

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but not sure why after the engine upgrade its doing that.

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:40 AM

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lol

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:40 AM

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when we were on 4.16-4.21 lights on particles just never worked period

exotic thicket Jan 29, 2020, 1:40 AM

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<?php echo "wut"; ?>

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:40 AM

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then we upgraded to 4.22 and suddnely they worked

kindred crag Jan 29, 2020, 1:40 AM

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@normal burrow @marsh swallow I finally got it to work, thank you all. Dorime

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:41 AM

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well actually @abstract relic found you the article

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and now were on 4.24 and they are broken again. 😦 this makes me sad

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back to point lights

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:42 AM

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would report that bug

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:42 AM

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oh wait. P@t did find the article for you

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😂

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bug report

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ahhh man. I hate reports

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 1:43 AM

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https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/564876880113827842/666409386381672458/WhyYouDoThis.gif

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 1:44 AM

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but i guess its my civic duty

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ill replicate in a new project first

honest rune Jan 29, 2020, 1:45 AM

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@brave gate not necessarily using a different world settings for each world but the option to do so. Sometimes a "world" should/could represent something vastly different than another. Certain systems sometimes get added into WorldSettings that you might not want exposed to all worlds. There is always another way to do things though. Would just be nice if per-level world settings was possible

carmine garnet Jan 29, 2020, 1:51 AM

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oh my god

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what is happening

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📎 cKv2nEvSfb.mp4

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theres no other asset

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what is it controlling

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:55 AM

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what was expected behavior?

carmine garnet Jan 29, 2020, 1:55 AM

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for it to control the skeleton that is in the scene

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instead it creates a new skeleton

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when i press play

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:55 AM

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ah

honest rune Jan 29, 2020, 1:55 AM

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doesn't work that way

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:55 AM

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well

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you have to tell it to work that way

honest rune Jan 29, 2020, 1:56 AM

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by default

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:56 AM

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yeah

honest rune Jan 29, 2020, 1:56 AM

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basically its spawning a new one when you run PIE

carmine garnet Jan 29, 2020, 1:57 AM

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so

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how do i

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make it use the one i want

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 1:58 AM

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search for a setting called auto possess, i think

carmine garnet Jan 29, 2020, 2:00 AM

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thanks dude

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woorkd

wary wind Jan 29, 2020, 2:39 AM

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Hello All, i am new to UE4 and stuck on something simple i think. I have an object reference to an object called "CurrentEquipment" and i would like to know what makes up this object. how can i figure this out? Sorry to bother with the newbie question

plush yew Jan 29, 2020, 2:51 AM

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📎 111111111111.PNG

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idk what im doing wrong but i cant move

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i can move the camera but i cant go forwards backwards or up or down

dark rune Jan 29, 2020, 3:52 AM

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@plush yew you mean in the editor? just hold RMB and WASD

plush yew Jan 29, 2020, 3:52 AM

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its like the point cloud isnt attached to anything

dark rune Jan 29, 2020, 3:54 AM

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@plush yew oh. i don't know anthing abt point clouds

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sry but i cant help you

plush yew Jan 29, 2020, 3:55 AM

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@dark rune

📎 12321321321321.PNG

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the only way i can move is moving the axis thing in the middle of the screen

neat forge Jan 29, 2020, 3:59 AM

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What node could I use to check if a float is greater or less than multiple values?

#

📎 unknown.png

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 4:01 AM

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@normal burrow @abstract relic So we found the issues.... it was literally all of our lights. Something/some setting was messed up after engine upgrades. We had to remove all point lights and readd them... the results....were well...

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📎 HighresScreenshot00000.png

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incredible.

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No more flickering either.

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 4:02 AM

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ah so just to be clear, it wasn't particle lights?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 4:02 AM

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twas not

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in the end

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 4:10 AM

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thanks for following up, was curious

plush yew Jan 29, 2020, 4:10 AM

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How do you mount a object to the axis

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like what makes a object still

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 4:13 AM

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Glad to hear it. Thanks for the update Darinius. Hope the presentation or whatever it is will run smoothly for you lot. Goodluck

brittle parrot Jan 29, 2020, 4:20 AM

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Hey so I'm trying to mod in some new geometry to mechs in MW5, I export the FBX to blender, change nothing, reimport and get a message saying UE4 can't merge the bones

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What might be causing that?

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If the asset is completely unchanged

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I'm targeting a file called Mech_SKL which is a shared skeleton file that every mech uses

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The original SKM file I ripped the FBX from targets the same file, and when I import the FBX back in and direct it towards that SKL file I get "cant merge bones"

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and this

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📎 unknown.png

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It asks if I want to auto generate, if I say yes it still says merge bone error

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 4:30 AM

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Okay so while adding more of them back in.... the flicker came back?

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we were able to get about 3-4 lights in the area before it began again

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 4:34 AM

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are you wobbling them still?

fallen marten Jan 29, 2020, 4:41 AM

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@brittle parrot might want to check that flea_skm bone. If it's missing then that will probably be your issue

brittle parrot Jan 29, 2020, 4:44 AM

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There is no Flea_SKM bone that I'm aware of, it's just the name of the SKM

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Is there some weirdness with Blender and Unreal?

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📎 unknown.png

fallen marten Jan 29, 2020, 4:45 AM

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It'll be a reference thing

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It's hard to say without seeing the before and after hierarchy

brittle parrot Jan 29, 2020, 4:47 AM

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I can show you the hierarchy in unreal, just reverifying my files as it went a bit haywire

fallen marten Jan 29, 2020, 4:51 AM

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Maybe blender added that flea_skm as a node and unreal is treating it as a bone or something. Just make sure the hierarchy is identical from the first exported fbx, to your exported one from blender

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I use Maya and 3ds max so I do t really have much insight to blender specifics

brittle parrot Jan 29, 2020, 4:55 AM

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That's what I'm thinking the problem is

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Although I could test by exporting the fbx in unreal, and reimporting straight away

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 4:57 AM

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@normal burrow nope. no wobble at all. this is just default light

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 4:58 AM

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Hmm

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how many lights do you think there are?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 4:58 AM

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yeah its almost like were being limited by something...

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we took it to 0

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with 1 no issue

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2 no issue

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3/4 is where we get an issue

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but were talking 2-3 in a whole building

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not next to each other

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 4:59 AM

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are they stationary?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 4:59 AM

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default

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so it might be

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 5:00 AM

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Yeah likely are.

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I know there are placement rules with stationary but I wouldn't really assume thats whats going on either. You could try putting them to static, though you'd loose the ability to wobble them

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 5:03 AM

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i wouod be totally fine with that

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and it only effects translucent materials

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at least that seems to be it.

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we also did try a new map

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just in the event kicking truesky out did some weird stuff

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 5:05 AM

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hm

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perhaps it's possible its not a light issue after all

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i mean it is a light issue, but maybe its unrelated to a count of light. it just doesn't show when there aren't any shadows

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 5:07 AM

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i did not check different render settings these are happening on epic

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 5:07 AM

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yeah

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 5:07 AM

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and high

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but didnt try medium/low

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 5:08 AM

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hm are your trees translucent?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 5:09 AM

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well the leaves are yeah

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 5:09 AM

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not masked?

marsh swallow Jan 29, 2020, 5:09 AM

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lemme check that too

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 5:27 AM

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Wrong channel. Take that to #work-in-progress

minor thicket Jan 29, 2020, 5:30 AM

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Dope. Thanks for letting me know the proper place.

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Reposted in the correct chat.

brittle parrot Jan 29, 2020, 5:47 AM

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Ok, it's a blender thing

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I imported straight from export, no blender work, and it imports fine

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although it does import without animations and stuff

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 6:10 AM

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Looks like you forgot to disable the empty group from bone hierarchy

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That’s pretty normal. You can fix that upon import. Or it might be a project setting. It’s been awhile since I had to fix something similar

brittle parrot Jan 29, 2020, 6:19 AM

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In blender?

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Which is the empty group?

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 6:28 AM

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📎 image0.png

fallen marten Jan 29, 2020, 6:30 AM

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Just make sure the flea_skm isn't parented to the root or view versa

weary basalt Jan 29, 2020, 6:32 AM

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Does anyone know if its intended behaviour for GameInstanceSubsystems to not call Deinitialize after exiting PIE? They certainly call Initialize when PIE session begins, but if a PIE session ends they dont call Deinitialize.

brittle parrot Jan 29, 2020, 6:34 AM

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Fixed the issue. You have to call the root Armature, it's a weird unreal thing where it has a fit if you don't specify that in the name.

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Now I just need to skin it. And test it with a modified mesh. This is all with nothing actually changed.

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 6:36 AM

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Naming it Armature will cause the animation to appear invisible in unreal

brittle parrot Jan 29, 2020, 6:37 AM

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Is that bad?

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It seems to be working

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📎 unknown.png

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just loses the skin now, that's the only issue left at the moment

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 6:38 AM

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Would need to check it later. Perhaps the issue has been fixed after all these years. Just keep it in the back of your mind if that comes up. This was the old work around https://www.deplorablemountaineer.com/tutorial/importing-exporting-mannequin-ue4-blender/

Deplorable Mountaineer

deplorablemountaineer

Export Mannequin from UE4 to Blender and Reimport – Deplorable M...

How to export mannequin character provided by Epic with UE4 to model a new character in Blender. This was tricky but doable.

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17 onward

brittle parrot Jan 29, 2020, 6:39 AM

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Thanks @abstract relic , I may find it doesn't work after all

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and need that fix

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 6:39 AM

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I will be singing to the heavens if they did finally fix the Armature issue

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 6:40 AM

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Curious what that code looks like for handling that specific name

abstract relic Jan 29, 2020, 6:41 AM

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It’s like the mat none instead of mat null bug pat

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 6:41 AM

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I bet it is

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trembling

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Everything goes through the wringer multiple times with fbx

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@weary basalt I dunno but what if you end pie with the exit node?

weary basalt Jan 29, 2020, 6:45 AM

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This is in C++

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But it shouldnt matter.

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 6:45 AM

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I mean the node that normally terminates the game runtime

weary basalt Jan 29, 2020, 6:46 AM

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Same result

normal burrow Jan 29, 2020, 6:46 AM

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Hm yeah, I guess I’d check docs on when that’s called

weary basalt Jan 29, 2020, 6:47 AM

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My assumption would have been that if Initialize is called at every PIE session beginning, then wouldnt it be safe to assume that Deintialize would be called at PIE session end?

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Its not an issue for me at least, just was curious if anyone knew of a reason this is the behaviour for GI Subsystems within the Editor

brittle parrot Jan 29, 2020, 7:20 AM

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It's working. All I need to do now is figure out why textures don't load onto imported assets.

📎 unknown.png

plush yew Jan 29, 2020, 7:23 AM

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nice 🙂

brittle parrot Jan 29, 2020, 7:24 AM

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Doesn't look much but that flea proves the concept of changing and importing geometry

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Few kinks to work out with the mesh importing nicely with smoothing but that's minor

halcyon flame Jan 29, 2020, 7:38 AM

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would someone who's pretty familiar with BP class inheritance mind chatting back and forth w/ me for a few minutes... want to confirm my assumptions and ID any blind spots

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eh I think I'm set actually. just being a chicken.

zealous cloak Jan 29, 2020, 9:13 AM

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im lokking for the display Cluster Root Component, but when adding component i cant find it. As you see it is there in a BP_DemoPawn. Its from the nDisplay Example Template

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📎 unknown.png

serene birch Jan 29, 2020, 9:18 AM

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my launcher doesn't want to update 4.24.2

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it just doesn't see the patch or so

severe ibex Jan 29, 2020, 9:25 AM

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Where is best to ask about GPULightmass? Got a CPU kernel not found error when installing.

sudden agate Jan 29, 2020, 9:26 AM

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@zealous cloak looks like a normal scenecomponent to me. hover over it to see it's actual type

zealous cloak Jan 29, 2020, 9:27 AM

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@sudden agate its a Display Cluster Root Component

sudden agate Jan 29, 2020, 9:27 AM

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have you enabled the plugin?

zealous cloak Jan 29, 2020, 9:31 AM

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jap

severe ibex Jan 29, 2020, 9:32 AM

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Never mind. GPULightmass was sorted.

plush yew Jan 29, 2020, 9:33 AM

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@severe ibex What was the problem, for future reference? You're talking about https://github.com/AlanIWBFT/GPULightmass right?

GitHub

AlanIWBFT/GPULightmass

Luoshuang's GPULightmass for UE4. Contribute to AlanIWBFT/GPULightmass development by creating an account on GitHub.

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And of course what the solution 🙂

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 9:33 AM

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Hey Guys

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I need some help

severe ibex Jan 29, 2020, 9:34 AM

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@plush yewthink a version incompatibility. 4.25.1 GPULM on UE4.24.2. My colleague just had to reinstall unified settings.

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 9:34 AM

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Can somebody help me please?

plush yew Jan 29, 2020, 9:34 AM

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@hoary flint We don't know yet 🙂

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 9:34 AM

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yeah

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so i made a main menu

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but the images and buttons are all very dull

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ill send screenshots

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This is what it should look like

📎 Screenshot_2020-01-29_at_3.06.08_PM.png

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This is how it looks like

📎 Screenshot_2020-01-29_at_3.06.19_PM.png

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How do i fix this

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???

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someone please help

plush yew Jan 29, 2020, 9:39 AM

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@hoary flint Your widget has some sort of alpha transparency turned on, I think

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can you double check by putting something behind your widget?

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 9:39 AM

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behind my widget?

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what does that mean

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im pretty new to ue sorry

plush yew Jan 29, 2020, 9:40 AM

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In the world, in your level, is it a black emptiness? is it a gray emptiness?

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 9:40 AM

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no my level is in full color

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ill show you

plush yew Jan 29, 2020, 9:41 AM

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hmmm, That is something,...

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 9:42 AM

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are you using a post process material?

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also jesus christ what is that resolution? 😅

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 9:42 AM

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📎 Screenshot_2020-01-29_at_3.12.21_PM.png

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this is while playing the game

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 9:43 AM

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yeah that rules out transparency 🤔

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 9:44 AM

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hmm

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do you guys have any other fix?

plush yew Jan 29, 2020, 9:47 AM

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I do not 😦 no transparency problem, I don't see any postprocessing volume either In your world outliner, I'm out of ideas

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 9:48 AM

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🙁

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can we increase light settings of the widget in some way

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?

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Please help somebody

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 9:56 AM

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actually we don't know if he has a post process volume

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@hoary flint if there's one in your scene can you disable it?

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 9:56 AM

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whats a post process

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no there isnt

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i searched it

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@tawdry storm

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 9:59 AM

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hmm

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create a new widget, make it just a pure white plane and replace your current menu with that

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 9:59 AM

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ok

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 9:59 AM

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let's see if it happens inside the widget itself or if it's the scene

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 9:59 AM

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just a pure white image?

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 9:59 AM

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yeah

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 9:59 AM

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ok

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 9:59 AM

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or just whatever you have

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 10:01 AM

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📎 Screenshot_2020-01-29_at_3.31.18_PM.png

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@tawdry storm

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 10:03 AM

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so far so good, so it seems like the menu itself is doing it

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 10:04 AM

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hmm

real pasture Jan 29, 2020, 10:04 AM

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Is there a way to give suggestions for a course on the Unreal Online learning path?

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 10:04 AM

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can you go to the widget of your menu and show the details panel of the background image?

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especially the appearance section

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 10:05 AM

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ok

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📎 Screenshot_2020-01-29_at_3.36.21_PM.png

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@tawdry storm

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 10:07 AM

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hm weird

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any the canvas panel?

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basically the one above it

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 10:07 AM

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ok

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just a sec

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 10:07 AM

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wait nevermind

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the [GameStart] one

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 10:09 AM

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GameStart is the name of the widget

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you want a screenshot of the details of the canvas right?

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 10:09 AM

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yeah but it also has an appearance panel and maybe you've got a color override

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the canvas panel doesn't have one, so no

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I thought it has one, that's why I initially asked for it

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 10:10 AM

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📎 Screenshot_2020-01-29_at_3.39.53_PM.png

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hmm i didnt set this

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 10:10 AM

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very weird, everything seems normal

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are you doing anything in the blueprint graph?

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 10:10 AM

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RGB G is 0

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 10:11 AM

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that's normal

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 10:11 AM

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oh ok

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blueorint graph

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plueprint of what

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blueprint?

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 10:11 AM

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oh the widget

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top right it says graph

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 10:12 AM

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wait ill check

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📎 Screenshot_2020-01-29_at_3.42.27_PM.png

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nothing

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 10:14 AM

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hm and where do you create it and attach it to the viewport? can you show that too?

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 10:14 AM

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yeah

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📎 Screenshot_2020-01-29_at_3.44.45_PM.png

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maybe it has something to do with the build

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@tawdry storm

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 10:16 AM

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yeah this is super weird, everything seems to be fine

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 10:16 AM

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i think it has something to do with the build

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 10:16 AM

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build?

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 10:17 AM

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lighting build

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 10:17 AM

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yeah no that shouldn't be it, the lighting doesn't affet the UI

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 10:17 AM

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oh ok

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oh ue just crashed

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 10:22 AM

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so did the crash fix is? 😄

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 10:23 AM

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idk

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hmm it asked me to restore

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i selected all but it failed on the widget parts

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 10:25 AM

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hm okay

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 10:26 AM

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it didnt fix it

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 10:28 AM

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I guess you could try to create a new widget and just build it up again, doesn't look like it's too complex. maybe there's one weird setting you hit, I really don't know at this point

hoary flint Jan 29, 2020, 10:28 AM

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yeah ill try again

zealous spear Jan 29, 2020, 10:28 AM

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@hoary flint i think you forgot something on the owning player

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Oh, I think is fine

storm venture Jan 29, 2020, 10:28 AM

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is there any benefit to using the Camera Manager (instead of just a camera on the pawn) if it's solely a first person game?

zealous spear Jan 29, 2020, 10:28 AM

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My multiplayer bp is more complicated so that's why I got confused

tawdry storm Jan 29, 2020, 10:29 AM

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@zealous spear just checked, it doesn't seem to matter if there's anything in owning player or not

zealous spear Jan 29, 2020, 10:30 AM

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Yes, it was right... my game is more complicated and I got confused