What's the problem exactly tho?
#ue4-general
zealous spear
tawdry storm
his menu is grey-ish for whatever reason when he plays
plush yew
@storm venture You can safely ignore Camera Manager If you don't need it, and just use the camera on the pawn
A camera manager is handy if you need a spectator, or you need to create fancy conversation with multiple cameras, and so on
zealous spear
Yes
plush yew
If you never plan to change the players view, it shouldn't be a problem if you ignore the camera manager @storm venture
zealous spear
@hoary flint have you tried to re-make the menu widget?
hoary flint
It fixed itself
zealous spear
Oh
hoary flint
i remaked it
but theres 1 more thing i need to ask
if i change the size of the play window
tawdry storm
yeah you must've hit some weird setting somewhere
hoary flint
the image doesnt cover the whole screen
hoary flint
so if i play on different platforms will this happen
tawdry storm
use this anchor in the bottom right
zealous spear
Show me the widget then
hoary flint
just a sec
zealous spear
Go ahead
zealous spear
Umm this happened to me before but I don't know how to fix it, I think
tawdry storm
that's what the anchors are for
zealous spear
That was all?
tawdry storm
they define which part of the screen the UI moves with when you scale it
hoary flint
thanks everybody for the help
zealous spear
Np
tawdry storm
depends on what you're trying to do
storm venture
@plush yew awesome, thank you! ๐
west jewel
how are you guys stopping rain and snow from coming into dynamic buildings?
west jewel
i am using particles that i keep above the player as he moves
i do not really want to generate mesh distance fields in project settings because it wont help me with dynamic buildings
and things that my player builds at runtime
cloud cobalt
Yeah, you're not making it easy to have accurate rain there
west jewel
it works great right now but it does rain indoors... which is kind of a bummer
cloud cobalt
You need to look into some kind of kill volume for particles that you'll spawn inside your buildings
west jewel
i see, and i can spawn these at runtime then?
cloud cobalt
Basically the easy part is making your particles die on collision
That will work for low roofs
serene birch
well dynamic buildings are still made out of static meshes no?
cloud cobalt
For higher roofs that will be above your particle spawn zone, you'd use a volume
serene birch
as long as you don't scale them non uniformly I don't see why mesh distance fields won't work
cloud cobalt
You don't have distance fields on dynamically placed elements
serene birch
what? weird
west jewel
I know that's why I added a distance mesh to my roof mesh, and tried it on one i had placed in my world in PIE. I changed the collision on my rain to distance instead of depth of field. it stopped the rain under the roof, but also stopped it outside which i dont get
brave gate
@honest rune if you're on 4.24, sounds like you could use various World Subsystems (manager object instantiated for each world, also in editor) - you can have few different World Subsystem classes and decide which one to use in the given world by overriding USubsystem::ShouldCreateSubsystem()
overriden class MyWorldSettings would only set class of World Subsystem to use in different worlds
and this would be elegant solution, subsystems are kinda designed for this ๐
honest rune
Ah good suggestion
They added world-specific subsytem types in 4.24?
Ah nevermind, I see what you're saying. Pulling subsystems out of the world object. Yep that'd do fine
wheat nest
For some reason, when I make a new project, I don't have any templates available. There's only blank project. ๐ค
cloud cobalt
Maybe you didn't install them with the engine
wheat nest
aha, looks like it is missing ๐ฑ
serene birch
found my update issue
I had a rogue UE4 editor process in the background, the launcher knew that but didn't say it was the reason the update button was missing
left epoch
anyone has an idea how to minimize load time of a landscape
it's a pretty subdivided mesh(in the material)
easiest would be not to make it subdivided
but
ยฏ_(ใ)_/ยฏ
radiant haven
how can i set the rotation while i drag it?
calm widget
@left epoch You mean tessellated. How long does it take to load? Tessellation should add some but i don't think it should be very noticeable unless you've disabled the built in tessellation multiplier limit of ue4.
@radiant haven No idea what you mean?
left epoch
24secs xD
zealous cloak
is there a way to activate VR Preview? its greyed out, since im using a non VR template
radiant haven
@calm widget I have this Pickup system
left epoch
@calm widget
left epoch
kano check the vr plugins in your project @zealous cloak
zealous cloak
thank you
regal path
Why I can't even cook the first person template on 4.24
with this erroir
error
An item with the same key has already been added.
zealous cloak
hm it seeems Steam VR is not compatible with nDisplay :/
frail sail
Guys, can possibly come custom database for UE4 ?
Like runtime datatable edit and saving (like mysql,mssql or smth.)
How would be good
wary wave
is there a way to prevent the mouse cursor from escaping the editor viewport during PIE?
it's driving me insane
cloud cobalt
Yes
It's all about mouse capture
The project settings has default options for that, which are meant for no-cursor games
wary wave
those settings aren't working :/
plush yew
hello there i was wondering if some if anyone can help me or point me in the right direction i am looking for in-depth information on how the lens flare and bloom system work and how its setup
cloud cobalt
When you set the input mode to UI or game+UI, the mouse isn't captured anymore
wary wave
I think it's occurring when some random debug window pops up, after which it isn't locked any more
cloud cobalt
Yeah, because another window took the focus
wary wave
aye, but once back in focus, the cursor is no longer locked
it's an editor debug window, so it's not even gameplay related :/
cloud cobalt
It is, because UE4 uses the same windowing system for everything
Welcome to PIE
What's your current setting for capture ?
severe ibex
Would anyone know what can greatly affect GPULightmass baking times? I have fluctuated from sub 20 minutes to well over an hour. No extra lights and only material changes. Unless some values in the directional and sky lights affect it?
cloud cobalt
@wary wave Is your game in UI mode when this stuff happens ?
wary wave
no
cloud cobalt
You can try binding a key or command to SetInputMode with game as a parameter
That should recapture
wary wave
worth a shot, cheers
cloud cobalt
Focus, mouse capture and mouse pointers are the stuff of nightmare, very OS dependent etc
I honestly spent two solid weeks doing that in UE4 since it came out across multiple projects
And it's a lot better now
cloud cobalt
How much RAM on that machine ?
cloud cobalt
How much used when it freezes ?
lusty carbon
idk
cloud cobalt
So check it
cloud cobalt
Keep the task manager open while packaging
lusty carbon
something that does happen slightly before that is this message in the log
LogD3D11RHI: Timed out while waiting for GPU to catch up
cloud cobalt
Means your GPU driver crashed
Probably means out of date driver, driver bug, or hardware issue
Or bad cooling, for a laptop
lusty carbon
well
my drivers are up to date, my GPU is fine in all other programs and im not using a laptop
also, how intensive on the GPU is packaging a project? It works well in the editor.
cloud cobalt
pretty sure compiling shaders goes through driver
Which is also not something you do in other programs
lusty carbon
I don't believe it's a GPU issue in my case
cloud cobalt
Okay then
lusty carbon
Packages fine on other projects.
Could this be a project specific issue? if so, what could it be?
cloud cobalt
Yes, it could be that this project has a shader that triggers the bug in your GPU driver that crashes your computer
radiant haven
and want to set a rotation of the actor that is held
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/225448446956404738/672056285990092803/unknown.png
cloud cobalt
But you've ruled out the GPU crash to be a GPU issue, so I don't know.
lusty carbon
If it's a GPU issue then, how can I fix it?
cloud cobalt
Update to a driver that does not crash
lusty carbon
My drivers are up to date.
lusty carbon
I see.
frail sail
Whats ur graphic manufaturer? amd or nvidia
lusty carbon
NVidia 1080ti
abstract relic
A good card ๐
frail sail
in my game all amd players had trouble "fatal error" in that newest drivers. sometime new drivers are not stable. so we did revert back drivers to 4-5 previous driver then its worked. maybe you can try this instead newest driver.
radiant haven
Can someone HELP me with my problem
cloud cobalt
@radiant haven Explain your problem in depth, stating what you want, what you try, what happens, what needs to happen, show the code, and explain. Then people will help if they can
heady saddle
Regarding linetracing for shooting in a ThirdPersonShooter; I currently have it set up so I always shoot a linetrace towards the center of my follow camera (crosshair) but whenever I start strafing in a new direction it will go way beyond the crosshair in the same direction.
Anyone recognize this issue and have any tips?
it will only be inaccurate for the first shot when starting to strafe in a new direction, everything after that is perfectly accurate
radiant haven
@cloud cobalt you know the pickup system from HalfLife
cloud cobalt
Gonna need to explain a UE4 issue
cloud cobalt
I can help real fast if the question can be answered by yes/no
or if there is actually a question really
rotund scroll
I was being facetious really
cloud cobalt
I know ๐
abstract relic
Is life good stranger? ๐
lapis vine
Life is strange.
cloud cobalt
It is
radiant haven
I havea Pickup system and I want IF I pick up an actor that the rotation is static
cloud cobalt
Okay
cloud cobalt
So how are you moving it right now ?
radiant haven
Physics handle
cloud cobalt
Well, don't use physics
cloud cobalt
Physics is only the answer is you're making a physics game
In your case you just need to attach
radiant haven
well i dont
Okay what is a physics game?
cloud cobalt
Games that use physics
radiant haven
ehm
frail sail
cloud cobalt
Just disable physics when picking up the object and attach it to whatever your physics handle thing is attached to
Problem solved
frail sail
"Attach to " search it
cloud cobalt
Tutorials never give you exactly what you want.
They're for learning, not for doing.
radiant haven
ye
cloud cobalt
Once you have learned, you can throw it all away and do something that actually works
radiant haven
well ok what should I do now i am a bit pointless
cloud cobalt
You should learn, and then do
wary wave
well, if you learned anything from it, you can make something that does what you actually want
rotund scroll
victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warrior go to war and then seek to win
lusty carbon
What kind of error is this?
lusty carbon
It's a ton. should I really paste it all here?
rotund scroll
look through them first?
abstract relic
Use pastebin
cloud cobalt
You should put it on pastebin and put it on #packaging
radiant haven
BTW do i really need a LineTrace?
rotund scroll
probably not, but are you really at a level where you should be asking that?
radiant haven
its actually just the visuallizing
cloud cobalt
What's the purpose of a line trace, and what are you using it for currently ?
That will answer your question
No offense, but you need to actually think about every single node you use
radiant haven
I mean is it important
cloud cobalt
How the fuck would we know ? It's your project
rotund scroll
we don't know
floral aspen
My playrate in sequencer does not affect my render movie output, any solution to this?
radiant haven
dont curse my Friend
cloud cobalt
No one here is going to dive into your entire project, look at every single node you built, read your game design doc, and tell you after days of research, yes or no
grave nebula
I do expect being allowed to swear, after seeing a bit of life. It is integral part of being alive.
rotund scroll
agreed
brazen hull
if I put unreal skeleton in mixamo then export again with anims and import to ue4 would I need to remake root bone and shit?
lusty carbon
Stranger is a very useful guy, but he could use a better attitude indeed.
tawdry storm
๐
cloud cobalt
lmao, have a block @lusty carbon
floral aspen
guess my question is ill timed, you guys got a real discussion going ๐
lusty carbon
a block?
wary wave
@hoary flint - if you have a specific question, just ask away, if someone knows, they'll answer
cloud cobalt
Now @radiant haven - swearing here should be read as, this is not a question you will get answers to, and this should be obvious. Questions about your game, we can't answer. We just can't
tawdry storm
stranger loves to block people... he blocked me a few days ago because I kept trying to help someone he was trying to help ๐ค
rotund scroll
@floral aspen while the war is ongoing, you could try reading #more-resources to find the appropriate channel to post in
hoary flint
so i am making a ue4 game and coding on visual studio code
lusty carbon
So does that mean HE can't see my messages?
hoary flint
i declared some values in the .h file
tawdry storm
basically
floral aspen
@rotund scroll ah yes animation ofc ๐
rotund scroll
@hoary flint you google as a first port of call
cloud cobalt
That's quite easy @hoary flint , use UPROPERTY
Google it for more information on the various options
hoary flint
ok
grave nebula
I kept trying to help someone he was trying to help Counterhelping hmmm๐ค
tawdry storm
basically
rotund scroll
were you giving advice a la a loop with a delay in it @tawdry storm ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค
brazen hull
if I put unreal skeleton in mixamo then export again with anims and import to ue4 would I need to remake root bone and shit? 
calm widget
๐ฟ
cloud cobalt
@brazen hull This is supposed to work without remaking stuff
Not that it always work on first try, animation is hard
abstract relic
Better off just retargeting
lusty carbon
https://pastebin.com/6pa1N6sA Here's the log. I can't get much of it. Any ideas why my packaging fails?
brazen hull
cant retarget as it needs to be 100% same skeleton
calm widget
There is an addon on blender, if that's what you're using
tawdry storm
PackagingResults: Error: Unknown Error
thanks unreal ๐
brazen hull
can you link ziecore
lusty carbon
@tawdry storm meh. What can it be?
rotund scroll
@lusty carbon perhaps you should try #packaging as was suggested
calm widget
tawdry storm
I'm no expert, but
error C2374: 'GForeignEngineDir': redefinition; multiple initialization
and
error C2084: function 'void operator delete[](void *,const std::nothrow_t &) throw()' already has a body
don't sound healthy, but not sure what to do there, better follor Cranz's advice
cloud cobalt
If that's still the same issue, it's a common problem that pops up on Google searches for the first "error" word
lusty carbon
@rotund scroll I did. nobody reads there anyway. And as I said, Can't figure it out myself that's why I came here. Why are people so harsh ?
cloud cobalt
Not that I'm seeing these posts anymore now ๐
lusty carbon
^ sigh
rotund scroll
@lusty carbon if you think people here are harsh, I don't recommend you joining the industry
you'll be in for a rude awakening
lusty carbon
Ok bro. thanks for the tip.
tawdry storm
I mean people are harsh at times, but you either power through and find a way to fix it somehow or you fail. it's a tough industry
abstract relic
This is a bit unnecessary honestly. Chill you lot
calm widget
Ya'll need jesus. As they say
rotund scroll
or as he's know on this discord, Pat
tawdry storm
praise p@t ๐
cloud cobalt
I don't think anyone was harsh, to be honest. If you ask a question and your feedback to the answer is "I disagree with your answer", then people aren't going to answer much more.
lusty carbon
It's not that I can't handle harsh, it's that some of you people presume not trying myself first before asking for help. And if you're so rude then why even bother hanging around here anyway?
rotund scroll
I don't think I am rude?
tawdry storm
I love how stranger blocks people and then keeps arguing about them ๐
cloud cobalt
You aren't
abstract relic
#askpat
wary wave
couldn't figure what out?
wary wave
ah right, read up
grave nebula
why even bother hanging around here Office policy. No 100 messages per day on slackers discord- no bonus.
hoary flint
ill try this
wary wave
yeah they're just macros with specifiers, each specifier has a purpose
they're documented
cloud cobalt
This will teach you the basics of UE4 specialties for C++
Including UPROPERTY which is quite the most drastic of them
tawdry storm
while we're gathered here, would someone be so nice and ask Stranger to unblock me? I'll promise to not 'argue' with him in the future. ๐
calm widget
everyone dispersed ๐
grave nebula
But.. have you considered that it could have worked a tad better without the last part ?
tawdry storm
while we're gathered here, would someone be so nice and ask Stranger to unblock me?
like this? ๐ค
well now the very first part is factually wrong
dangit
rotund scroll
@lusty carbon I don't know if you noticed though, that people come in here asking for help as a first port of call. you don't mention that you've done things yourself, so we take it as a default that you haven't. it's not a jab against you anymore than it is a guarded response.
digital anchor
yea, telling what you tried is part of asking a good question
lusty carbon
All I see is smart people who are willing to help other potentially smart people who are relatively new to UE4, by telling them things like "How about you read it yourself first?!" and "How the fuck should I know? It's your project" and things like that. If you're already here that means you're eager to help, which is very nice of you.. might aswell be a more patient human being though.
rotund scroll
it's a question of attitude as well
lusty carbon
But you know what, whatever, I'm not gonna stick here and continue this argument. got job to do.
abstract relic
Iโm still trying to develop mind reading for those individuals who ask whatโs wrong with their project without context
wary wave
^
cloud cobalt
I have the same issue
wary wave
especially those individuals who seem to come in here almost daily
digital anchor
just be patient, use 50 min of your time to help while i ask questions in a second
rotund scroll
it's not like we're being paid to be here, so coming in with an attitude that seems entitled generally leads to bad results. the same for people where the questions about what they're trying to do aren't really present
exactly
cloud cobalt
I'm being paid to not be here, if we're honest about it
brave widget
lol @cloud cobalt ๐
rotund scroll
yeah but let's not talk about that ๐
cloud cobalt
I don't feel like asking for basic context is too much, or impolite or anything. I just literally can't spend half an hour of back & forth, read your entire Blueprint, understand what the goal for the feature is mechanically, and then answer
wary wave
half the problem is that the person asking is often also unwilling to actually learn how to do things
so after coming here for 6+ months asking these kinds of questions, still hasn't advanced far enough to actually understand the answer :/
abstract relic
Rip crusher ๐
wary wave
lol, do not speak the forbidden name
tawdry storm
well to be fair, I've been here for years now and only yesterday I ran into a problem that required me to learn about unreal's tonemapper... sometimes some of the basic stuff just isn't on your scope before you run into problems with it
unless that makes me exactly one of those people, in that case I'm sorry for being one of them ๐ฆ
wary wave
sure, but at least you learnt about the tonemapper
tawdry storm
that's true though
wary wave
the difference there is you haven't come in here and posted;
"help"
wary wave
then waited for a response, then asked "my blueprint doesn't work"
abstract relic
People are willing to help so long as youโre polite and willing to learn
tawdry storm
HILFE!
wary wave
that kind of back and forth sometimes goes on for ages
tawdry storm
you forgot 'in german'
wary wave
getting the actual information to solve the problem is like trying to extract ten litres of blood from a stone using only a spoon
cloud cobalt
People who aren't good at learning comes with the territory, imho. It's not a problem, it's a step in everyone's life. The problem is when you answer, get shit attitude over your answer not being immediately helpful, or not being the answer the person wanted, or straight up "this is not actually a correct answer"
rotund scroll
haha
cloud cobalt
Like, if you won't use my help, i'll stop providing it
Which for me is a block so that I don't lose additional time on that person
rotund scroll
oh man yeah the people who argue with you about the solution you give them
the best
wary wave
haha, I remember one guy who kept coming back a few days each time complaining about the same issue
serene birch
there's that point where people aren't complete total noobs and start picking up some skills, but they are still incredibly new at stuff
wary wave
turns out he never understood the answers
cloud cobalt
I'm not even mad, I'd just rather help people more likely to use the answers
serene birch
except they don't like the answers we get anymore
abstract relic
Those are called the โnahโ people. A fast way to burn bridges ๐
rotund scroll
like yeah my dude, please teach me on the subject that you have just asked a question about and I have spent some time teaching you how works
serene birch
people need to understand that lot of issues are communication failures
wary wave
perfectly happy to waste hours of people's time, multiple times over a couple of weeks
serene birch
specifically, if you don't explain well your issue, you'll not be getting good answers
garbage in, garbage out ๐
wary wave
it's even worse when they've followed a tutorial, and don't even understand the issue
tawdry storm
THIS is what bugs me
wary wave
following tutorials blindly, and not actually taking the time to try and understand what they're doing or why
tawdry storm
like sometimes I even take the time in DM and coach people through some of the steps, and a few days later I get a ping and it's some basic stuff that I covered earlier
wary wave
then the question is "I followed this tutorial (90 minute youtube link) and it doesn't work"
tawdry storm
so I know that nothing of that actually stuck ๐ฆ
abstract relic
Iโm starting to see a new breed. There have been some who post a tutorial then ask how to do the tutorial...
serene birch
there's the classic "what's wrong with this" accompanied by some random image that could be perfectly fine
wary wave
haha
wary wave
sprawling spaghetti that makes no sense at all
serene birch
in thumbnail version
wary wave
random node mashers, had one of those a few weeks back
tawdry storm
to be fair that's literally what my blueprints are while I'm trying things until somethign works and I clean it up a bit
wary wave
I've seen a few where even the basic flow makes literally no sense
cloud cobalt
That's a fun one, though it's important to keep in mind some people here are young, and logic is not as innate as we often make it out to be
tawdry storm
lol wtf is that
grim ore
@lusty carbon did you ever get your problem fixed?
grim ore
well that doesnt look like packaging issues it looks like CPP issues, is this a CPP project?
lusty carbon
It's a BP project
cloud cobalt
It's not really a C++ issue @grim ore
lusty carbon
Thing is, even migrating the project around different templates won't help
grim ore
well for a BP project it certainly is trying to compile CPP lol
cloud cobalt
It's a problem when cloning or migrating projects
All projects need to compile for shipping
Part of the packaging process
Sparks just need to remove intermediate and it will be fine, provided that's the error he posted an hour ago
Anyway, see you later guys
lusty carbon
ill try
rotund scroll
Iโm starting to see a new breed. There have been some who post a tutorial then ask how to do the tutorial...
@abstract relic I've watched a lot of horror movies, but that is a genuine scary thought
tawdry storm
I mean to be fair, some tutorials out there are so bad...
radiant haven
y
brave widget
Like tutorials where someone is trying to show you how to do something, but then they have to spend 30 minutes trying to figure out to then tell you what to do. And it turns out to be wrong the entire time ๐
rotund scroll
@tawdry storm I don't disagree, but it's not really up to us to try and patch up tutorials that are bad, especially for systems or elements that are way out of league for whoever's attempting them
lapis vine
some tutorials out there are so bad - VectorLengthSquared ๐ค Where is pat? ๐
grave nebula
y u no liek VectorLengthSquared ?
zealous cloak
short general question:
i have a config file in which i have loc and rot values, that are used, when i start my level(cameras for nDisplay). It shall update the new loc and rotation during runtime. Can i update my config file within unreal?
hasty smelt
Hey, does anyone know if ue4 has a problem with ryzen cpu? i just switched some components in my pc and now my computer reboots when i try to build lighting
zealous cloak
initializing the level again or such a thing?
old fulcrum
hi guys may i know if i still have the variables on my player controller if i change maps like game instance?
cosmic panther
@lusty carbon since you said it is a only BP project its trying to convert your project to CPP for packaging and you need to enable that or it wont compile or BP wont work too. if you got to Project Settings > Packaging > Blueprint Nativization Method, and if you change it to Inclusive it will unblock all blueprints and if you change it to Exclusive you will have to pick what blueprints you want to unblock if you know which blueprints you are going to be using, but for your testing to see if this is the issue you should change it to Inclusive
radiant haven
old fulcrum
thank you Cranz
cosmic panther
@radiant haven Can you show me the blueprint for this error?
radiant haven
lament saddle
you forgot to connect the branch node to the boolean
cosmic panther
Thanks for helping @lament saddle I was working on something
radiant haven
how cna i change the mass so it will fall down quicker
cosmic panther
Its for you character? or a Static Mesh?
cosmic panther
You could change gravity
near notch
Hello. I have created a world composition map. The map loads correctly when in editor but does not when in a build.Help please.
cosmic panther
What about changing ur blueprints to Inclusive in project settings
is it a streamed level?
near notch
Yes the Level_01 is persistent and the 3 others are streamed, have a look on the first image for the hierarchy.
cosmic panther
oh my bad i see it
did you put all those other streamed levels onto the packaged build
near notch
Yes, in the packaging section.
radiant haven
cant find it anyway and btw how can i make the rotation constant while picked up? @cosmic panther
cosmic panther
You could also change the loading time of it, if its taking to long to load in the packaging settings for level streaming @near notch
near notch
On the contrary their is no load time , as soon as i start press on the menu it spawns in the air and starts falling๐
I am looking into what you said
cosmic panther
If you need anymore help PM me I'm going to go get some coffee
near notch
@cosmic panther Thank you for your answers. I will let you know if it works.
grim ore
@hasty smelt No issues here with a 2700x. If that happens, building lighting tries to max out all CPU cores, then you have a power draw issue more than likely
fierce forge
why i can't see the fracture , it is working on game but here i can see it , what i can do
?
finite grove
So, would anyone happen to know where i could find a video tutorial on creating a customizable character? Like, for Face Sculpting?
fierce forge
do you want to sculpt the face in ue4 or what ?
or to do a character like in blender ?
finite grove
It would be for players. They start the game and get to creat their player character.
fierce forge
from what i know you can't sculpt the face in game or anything like else , you can make more options for player like change face
grim ore
@finite grove so something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wWGaJL_Q_8 ?
aww man. Funcom is hiring UE4 devs and they are in the same place as Epic, that sounds like a sweet gig
plush yew
Join them and let us know if they're working on a new secret world game ๐
grim ore
lol. I don't think they are ๐ฆ It's mainly for the Dune stuff right now
midnight root
Haven't used yet but url> see several posts to use blender instead which isn't surprising,,or sub ptr is better than shown UI - ofc this is a 3 yr old video o_0
win 10 1909 update >ltr
plush yew
hello guys I have friend who can't setup the source tree-we have the project but when he log with the info of his acc and paste the link of the gitlab project it writes invalid url but it is now-how to fix this problem?
ornate ice
Hey
people one question
I got a the kubold movement animation pack
that includes 180 animations with root motion
and the same 180 in place
to make a good Player Locomotion Controller
is it better to use the root motion or in place animations?
celest creek
hey - if I import a character with joints from Maya, is it bad to include groups?
Shall I have only mesh and joints?
next badger
Can anyone check the Crash bug in UE4 4.24.2 ?
It's simple, just change the import location of the mesh
grim ore
@plush yew You could try in #source-control but without more information, such as url and such which you shouldn't give us, there is not much we can do
plush yew
ok
glacial pecan
how do I install unreal engine 4.24.1?
glacial pecan
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
even with udn access? there's no like hidden enterprise unreal engine download?
grim ore
I would think you would ask your UDN contact on that one
finite grove
@grim ore YES! Iโll have to watch the whole video later, but from what i seen, thats what iโm going for.
So when my players start the game they can shape the player Characters face to make it look like a unique face...
Like making your Comander Shepard at the begining of MassEffect...
grim ore
yep. Morph Targets is what you are looking for
glacial pecan
yes, WMR performance bug is back
normal burrow
it is weird udn is still a thing
glacial pecan
well, I made the call... I guess I'll find out soon if they money was worth it or not ๐
next badger
can you play montages w.o ABP ?
normal burrow
you are my udn contact then
sly coyote
Alexey yeah you can
And the anwser is probably both...an anim bp for combat that plays different montages for different weapons
plush yew
but I could make a structure to hold animations and play them through montages
it would be a more neat way right?
what do the big names do?
sly coyote
Unless each and every weapon will be its own bp with all anim handling in the graph...but that sounds like a nightmare to maintain
They make combat anim bps that play montages created for different weapons lol
plush yew
and use interfaces I guess?
next badger
hm...i'd probably made a state machine to switch between weapons
next badger
but i never made any FPS ABP...may be wrong way
sly coyote
Yeah that's all dependent on how you set up your weapons
plush yew
I use interfaces to send events to the weapon system
Right now I'm at the making of animations and sounds
I was thinking maybe make a structure like I control the weapon system with the animations
grim ore
I know when I was testing I used a unique Anim BP for every weapon stance/set and just swapped the instance on the character as needed. I handled all the animations themselves in the anim bp's.
it was a bunch of work but let each anim set be unique if needed and just let it handle what happens
I don't think this was the smartest way, hence I was testing all the ways, but it let me keep all the animation in the anim BP itself per weapon set (two handed, dual wield, wand, etc.) so if my combo was 2 swings or 10 swings it didnt matter I just held attack and let the anim BP handle the animations and used notifies for damage if needed etc.
now with that said there is the Action RPG example if you want to see how epic handled it ๐
sly coyote
They used gameplay abilities system in that though... That's a whole other monster to learn in itself
grim ore
for the animations?
ashen heart
quick question
is it somehow possible to get access to ue3 anywhere or open .upk files with ue4 (maybe with a plugin or somethin like that)
grim ore
depending on what you want to do you might be able to open it in UDK which is still freely available to download
ashen heart
where can I find the UDK downloads?
viral sluice
Hi everyone, I'm trying to set some collisions on a monster but I'm not sure how to do it. If I set them like in the first image I would have to attach each one to a bone but I don't know if it's ok to do that with a lot of collision boxes/capsules/spheres. The second image is the physics of the character, but I don't know how to interact with those cubes in my blueprints. How should I set the collisions of monsters like this one?
https://i.imgur.com/9Z2wqS0.png
https://i.imgur.com/CphOQOu.png
grim ore
the Physics assets are less about interacting and more about how they react when using physics (weight, collision, etc.) https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Physics/PhysicsAssetEditor/index.html
ashen heart
@grim ore where can I find the UDK downloads?
abstract relic
Google is your friend
little spade
Hello, i have a project in which emmisive intensity of some objects is driven by fft cooked data yet when i cook and package for windows everything that is connected to it doesn't work and appears black. Is there any way to fix this issue?
ashen heart
most of those sites arent save so I thought I'm better of asking here
viral sluice
My objective is to have some grouped collision capsules like head group, body group and tail group so, for example, if I hit the head I can then ignore the neck hit event but i could still hit 1 part of the body group and 1 part of the tail group. But I don't understand well enough the physics or collision thing. I did it creating capsule collisions on my mannekin for torso and legs but I was wondering if making too many capsules was a bad practice or if there was a better option for something like this
fading vector
Does anyone remember where to get InputAction from? I remember setting it to a key but not sure how to pull the bp in.
abstract relic
Type input action in the search bar
fading vector
Tried that, sadly didn't see anything. That or im blind lol
abstract relic
Unless you mean setting it. That will be in project settings > input
fading vector
That is where I set it, I'm looking for
abstract relic
And it will need to be in a pawn obviously
grim ore
yep it's possible you are trying to use that input action node in a blueprint class that doesn't support it (such as UMG)
little spade
what about using fft in packaged project D:
plush yew
what can i use for 2d animation?
abstract relic
Making or implementing?
sudden agate
@fading vector make sure your project has Inputs specified. they are magic nodes that correspond to your project input settings
Input is only available in Pawns and Controllers afaik
not ure if actors in general also have these nodes
fading vector
Yeah its for a specific pawn
sudden agate
atlease i only use input in Pawns and controllers
abstract relic
Actors donโt
fading vector
Thanks for the info ๐
grim ore
you can cerftainly use input on an actor, just have to make sure input is enabled from the player controller to it and the other inputs dont consume it.
plush yew
@abstract relic making
unique kraken
okey im confuseld a lil bit here.
iv exported my skeleton exactly like a ue4 skeleton. ik seem to be fine and what not. but in persona, when moving the ikยดs for the mannequin it moves the whole leg (like it should)
but for my skeleton the ikยดs dont move the bones it should move. do i need to set this up in ue4 or something?
ooooooooooooh
do i need to setup the ikยดs in the blueprints?
fading vector
Is there a Branch in the bp that has more than one condition?
unique kraken
@fading vector for what if u have " and/or" boolean
fading vector
That would work, I was actually just reading on google lol
Never used those on unreal, but lets give it a try
grim ore
depending on what you are checking there are select nodes and uh the other one... Switch lol
unique kraken
would be nice if someone could give me a hint
next badger
switch requires enum
grim ore
nope there is switch on int for example
next badger
oh...yep
grim ore
@unique kraken you might have more help in #animation if anywhere
unique kraken
ill try thx
next badger
there is an ik in Persona?
grim ore
I think they are referring to the physics asset editor window
kindred crag
So I recently started playing around with level streaming, is this basically draw distance that we see in video games?
viral sluice
I'm trying to attack a capsule collision component to a bone but once it's attached it changes the size and rotation of my capsule collision. Is that how it works?
brave gate
@kindred crag probably you're thinking about draw distance set for every mesh
unreal's level streaming loads all the actors at once, so rather one huge pop of entire level
you don't want player to see, so it's occasional bug - rather than gradual appearing of meshes or foliage (based on the mesh draw distance)
Unreal will have proper per-actor streaming soon, but it won't use sublevels in that case
kindred crag
thank you
So how would I go about to changing the draw distance? I assume I have to tamper with the designated mesh's LOD settings?
pallid talon
Is it possible for Niagara to spawn a Skeleton mesh? I know it can spawn a Particle Mesh, but is a Skeleton mesh possible?
fading vector
Is there a way to make a flipbook only play 1 time?
I have this bit, but the jump animation spams as I thought it would.
tame bluff
rotund scroll
is there a way to force a rendermesh to occlude?
next badger
@tame bluff
tame bluff
Sorry I'm still a bit new how do I get to that?
next badger
you have your flipbook you called it "Sprite"
tame bluff
umm
fading vector
@tame bluff Go to whatever is doing the animation, right click search for set looping, im pretty false = no loop and true = loop
Im new as well, I actually just found that.
plush yew
fierce forge
star wars separatist tank ?
tame bluff
yes
fierce forge
i'm a big star wars fan ๐
tame bluff
me too
fierce forge
i want to make a star wars game too but is not legal to publish a star wars fan game
fierce forge
disney and ea ๐ฆ
you know what's happened to the company who made first star wars bf 1 and bf 2 ?
@tame bluff
cloud cobalt
It's not legal to publish anyone's work without permission, not just Star Wars stuff
Game or not
fierce forge
it's legal to make a star wars fan film ๐
fading vector
@tame bluff It'll be in the blueprints, so double click on the object that is animating and go to event graph.
fierce forge
from what i know from disney they give prizes for fan films
cloud cobalt
@fierce forge It's legal to make a Star Wars fan film if you have permission to do so
Like I said
fierce forge
you don't need it
cloud cobalt
You absolutely do need it
cloud cobalt
Permission can take many forms, maybe Disney has a blanket "all fan films are okay" rule
No idea honestly
Just saying copyright is automatic, universal, and has few exceptions - if someone creates something, you generally need permission first
fierce forge
there's some star wars fan film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Official_Star_Wars_Fan_Film_Awards
cloud cobalt
So maybe LucasArts has a fan film license
tame bluff
Lol
fierce forge
lucasarts was closed a long time ago
cloud cobalt
I'm just saying the default is not allowed, unless permission is granted
fierce forge
and pandemic games , who made bf1 and 2
cloud cobalt
Your own link explains the rules too
fierce forge
pandemic games was closed by ea ๐ฆ
tame bluff
Indeed
cloud cobalt
The reason there are rules on fan films is, they default to be entirely illegal
The rules just give you license to do this, as long as you follow them
tame bluff
fierce forge
lament star
Is the new audio mixer enabled by default in 4.24?
brave widget
Saying its legal to use copyrighted material because someone else has done it, is like broadcasting out licensed music without permission because you heard another radio station do it.
cloud cobalt
Honestly I don't care much about it, people can spend years on their fan games and then get sued by the richest company in the world if they want to
Just saying
wooden leaf
I know that there's limited support here. I wanted to see if I could find out why this function is not doing what it should be doing. On a Mouse event I need to pin a function on the end of a branch. The video I been watching says to drag and drop it in and connect the pins together. Look at this screen shot.
I should be able to pin the function to the mouse down event. and as you can see I can't. anyone have any ideas
The function Name is RefreshSlot.
cosmic panther
one second
wooden leaf
maybe it would be better if you saw the full window
upper karma
Hi! Quick question, where's a good channel to ask for help on something?
cosmic panther
What are you needing help with? @upper karma
upper karma
Just music looping. I'm pretty new to unreal, but I'm wondering how to loop background music at a certain point of the song.
upper karma
Thanks!
cosmic panther
@wooden leaf what are you trying to do
wooden leaf
like I said, I need to pin the function ReFreshSlots to the end of the On Mouse down event, and you can see. The function should have exe pins on it so I can connect it to the on mouse function
cosmic panther
Well you have it set as a Pure, let me explain An Impure function is only called when Exec pins are connected to it whereas a Pure Function is called anytime data is fed into it.
wooden leaf
it says it's pure at the top, It says InventorySlot> Refresh Slot (pure)
cosmic panther
yea i know
wooden leaf
so if it's a pure function. why can't I connect it
cosmic panther
Pure function are connected by Variables and NonPure are with exec
fierce forge
how i can make a destructible mesh to don't fall on destruction ?
wooden leaf
ok, so what do I have to do to get the Refreshslot to pin to this event
cosmic panther
uncheck pure
wooden leaf
Cool. Thank you
pallid talon
What is the cheapest blueprint code to move itself in a direction? "Set Relative Location"?
fierce forge
Why everything is destructing and not just where i hit ?
mortal cedar
once destruction was initiated, your mesh will be replaced with another one, composed of pre-destructed pieces. as far as I know, there may be few levels of destruction and pieces may have force constraints that will keep them in place until they will be moved or destructed further with greater force. I am not familiar with details of destruction setup as I didn't work with destruction yet
mortal cedar
all views in orthographic section are "2d" views
however, editor viewport settings don't define game perspective. you need to set orthographic projection in your cameras and align as you wish
arctic notch
Hey guys i'm re-asking if anyone knows a way to detect a dropped file into game window at runtime, it would be quite helpful, thanks in advance โค๏ธ
fallen marten
@fierce forge if you want something to destroy piece by piece, you have to construct your building in multiple pieces, and make destructible actors for those pieces - or - make you seperate mesh pieces have morphs, so when you shoot it, you can activate the morphs and have the piece deform first before initiating the destructible stuff to take over
To make each mesh work for morphs, it must have a bone, so it can then have an anim bp to set the morph value. You can group your meshes together in an actor that has a bunch of skeletal mesh components.
grim ore
the other option is to look into the new Chaos system in the engine and try to get it to work for what you want
fallen marten
Actually wait, you can set morphs in the actor bp
@grim ore haven't even looked at that yet lol... It's hard to move away from the tried and proven old methods
tawdry storm
so I was watching the robo recall project highlight and I noticed that the modding tab is missing in the launcher
did they completely remove that or is it just hidden somewhere?
dark depot
@tawdry storm all mods are now on the game store
cursive dirge
it's actually been like that quite long time already
(but easy to miss if you don't look for these)
tawdry storm
well I'm not into modding so I never really payed much attention to the tab itself
so it's easy to miss when it's gone ๐
crimson vector
Does anyone know how to fix the paths/makefiles being wrong when working on a project on a different machine? I cloned the project and copied my visual studio settings file over, but pressing F5 in visual studio tried to run a batch file that's on the wrong drive location, and I can't load any engine code because the paths are all wrong
Also seems like intellisense underlines every built-in name and can't find the namespaces
grim ore
it might be best to delete your intermediate/binaries folder in your project, delete the .sln file, then right click the .uproject and rebuild the solution/Generate Project Files so it's correct on your machine for your install
thin tendon
Is there a way I can increase the resolution of my terrain so that when painting textures to it I for lack of a better word get more accurate brush strokes
grim ore
its in the options for your terrain
just keep in mind more cpu intensive and all, you might also look at your brush settings
thin tendon
Do you know what the setting is called? I can't find anything that sounds suitable
grim ore
click on the landscape, go to manage in the landscape tools menu, change the drop down below it to Change Component Size, then you can adjust your section size
grim ore
yay
woven flax
Hey quick question for the community, im trying to enable openMP and openMPI support on my unreal project but the visual studio project it generated is missing the C/C++ field in its properties so i cant access the language sub property to enable these options anyone know how to fix this?
thin tendon
So it turns out every time I hit apply with the tool for change component size it crashes the engine
hoary silo
@fierce forge How did you get destruction working?
fading vector
Is there a way to load a png into unreal engine? It's for a hud.
grim ore
it should take a png directly as an import
tawdry heath
Hey guys do the templates come with motion blur on default?
brave widget
Motion Blur on is default for the engine (I believe) and so most templates/projects from Epic have it on by default
brave widget
Project Settings
tawdry heath
oh I see, ty
mossy plover
is there a way that i can force the scene to take the current light settings? it happend to me a few times. i change something in the lighting, and doesnt fully update the scene. like here, i deleted every light. and it should be pitch dark, but it's like it didnt update what i did.
lost reef
@mossy plover delete the built lighting and rebuild
mossy plover
oh. thank you
rain lintel
Can I pack an emissive texture in an alpha channel on a color texture?
rancid lynx
if I add 5 arrays (10 x static mesh each) to a blueprint, and then put 10 copies of that blueprint into my level, is unreal going to reserve ram for all 500 static meshes? or does unreal only dedicate ram once the mesh (or element item) is use inside the blueprint ?
for example, if the blueprint only spawns 1 static mesh, surely its not holding 50 mesh worth of ram, on meshes that were never called. right ?
if my blueprint only calls 1 mesh from this list of 50, it should be safe to use right ?
pallid talon
Question - Is it possible to use a float as a bool on a Material? Right now I'm trying to lerp between two functions on a material, but I get this error message, "arithmetic between types float4 and float3 are undefined." Haven't figured out how to solve. Any alterative way to switch between the two?
rancid lynx
you could branch test Zero and pretend thats false.
oh oops nm
i dont think numbers technically bool. i think they just test vrs Zero or not zero. im terrible though. i have no idea.
pallid talon
Numbers can be bool, 0 is false and 1 is true.
Anything over 0.01 is considered True.
rancid lynx
but you dont plug the zero right into the branch red tick
it converts
it equals zero. but its not used as a bool. i thought you asked.
but actually im just guessing based on what i see on the node box. i dont really know.
fallen marten
@rancid lynx maybe bring up some memory usage stats during play - start with empty arrays, and then set it so the arrays fill when you press something and see if there's a difference In that bps footprint ๐คทโโ๏ธ
I think it's stat unit object or something like that
mossy plover
wish you could render like other programs. let it sample n' sutff and have a rendered out image. path tracer is pretty good
fading vector
Is there a way to disable flipbooks from happening? I'm trying to create a dead sequence aka player dies however if you press like the attack key the attack animation starts. Disabling input isn't an option because they need to be able to navigate a menu to restart or quit etc.
fallen marten
Use a bool before your attack animation activation that checks for death
If dead- dont activate
chilly egret
Hello people, I wanted to know how I can reduce the size of a texture, is for a red dot of a scope
I tried to scale it down, but it didn't work out.
sullen wraith
im wanting to make a europe sized map, where you have all the countries made using landscape, (Scaled down obviously) is there a quick way to do with with previous projects/models/addons? or do i just need to get a picture of europe and start doing it by hand. ideally theres some kind of template or model you can use
abstract relic
Iโve seen people use satellite data to input into world machine, Gaia, etc for real world height maps
sullen wraith
im just wanting to make a political map, such as empire total war, Europa universalis etc, just have no clue best way to get the terrain
abstract relic
There was your answer
sullen wraith
thats the best way to go about making maps like in those games?
brave widget
Thats what we do whenever we make a map. Doesn't just magically appear in our editors ๐ No such thing as easy buttons in computer development ๐
brave widget
And even those better ways involve some elbow grease ๐ค
abstract relic
Any amount of effort will involve grease
sullen wraith
chipmunk, you guys import height maps? on a global scale?
normal burrow
grease is always the better way yeah. satellite data is basically the way to do it, but you may need rights to the data you use
lapis vine
@sullen wraith Just play around first with importing and tuning heightmaps within UE. You can use some available around world heightmaps (e.g. terrain party) if you want to.
frigid needle
"We are generally scared of JavaScript".
Same.
weary basalt
This is old news. Its basically a wait and see game at this point.
Epic will implement whatever they feel comfortable with, if they find something. They might not do anything at all.
My bet is they wont do anything.
normal burrow
It better be duck typed
weary basalt
I dont see the need honestly.
abstract relic
Iโm betting no too
normal burrow
If it happens it wonโt make sense on a performance front. So JavaScript would be the most enticing option imo.
weary basalt
The way i see it, the people that want a scripting language are the ones that dont want to adapt to the tool thats been given to them ๐
abstract relic
I donโt see how itโll affect fortnight. The ultimate denominator ๐
weary basalt
Learn Blueprint, learn C++, hire someone to do those things. Those are your options basically.
frigid needle
And preferably, learn both, so you can use them in conjunction with each other!
normal burrow
They wouldnโt be adding a scripting language to deal with blueprint performance was what I meant @worldly dust
It would be to keep the people trying to avoid c++ happy
weary basalt
I think it will turn its a spiralling mess, what happens when they implement a language some people dont want to use. Those people will continue to complain.
I see very little pros in adding another language to UE4
Especially a scripting one.
normal burrow
Well, mods
weary basalt
Blueprint is a Scripting language, it just has prettier graphics.
What do you mean Mods?
Plenty of examples of Games with Mods that use the Editor.
normal burrow
People being able to write js for a game mode or something
Yeah but you know what I mean. Having eval is a thing
abstract relic
The average gamer uses JavaScript? ๐ค
abstract relic
Guess the Minecraft generation
exotic thicket
JS it for IT boomers
Oh boy...
normal burrow
Yeah, itโs also the website language highschools teach etc
abstract relic
High school still teaches how to use Microsoft word as their most advance course pat ๐
normal burrow
Yeah zomg, but what about those people who really donโt want to learn either
Hahaha true
Js isnโt only web anymore. Nodejs has been a thing for awhile
weary basalt
I dont want to learn JS.
normal burrow
Hahah
exotic thicket
var x = new ActiveXObject('Scripting.FileSystemObject');
no negative comments about ActiveX? I guess nevermind then.
:D
weary basalt
I saw var and i stopped reading.
frigid needle
Minecraft Command Block is a whole โnother level of black magic.
normal burrow
Why care about the slow scripting alternative though
frigid needle
Just like Redstone. My props to those who dedicated themselves to it
exotic thicket
imo they should just implement the TIS-100 machine
it would be great for modern multicore machines since it forces you to think in parallel!
frigid needle
Isnโt gameplay engine-related tasks?
What do they argue? C# vs C++ performance or similar?
weary basalt
@frigid needle Not when your discussing gameplay about another engine/game that isnt related to UE4.... Your discussing the symantics of a language that isnt related to UE4, therefore its offtopic.
Hence, since you have moved the discussion on, it needs to go to #lounge.
frigid needle
Hmm? I was responding to Scipio who was discussing performance differences in relation to Unreal since thatโs how the JavaScript discussion game up
normal burrow
Imma trying to move it devils lol
weary basalt
@frigid needle Just do as your directed please mate...
frigid needle
All right, all right
rain venture
ok? this is kinda weird
when I try to open unreal engine
it loads up normally
but when it begins to show up
the interface is completely hidden
my cursor changes shape when I try moving it around the screen
it even shows in the taskbar that unreal engine is open
plush yew
tidiii, there should be no problem packaging a project with the unreal mannequin, you'll likely have to look further up the error list to see the root problem
rain venture
I can even close the game engine with the X button from the top right corner
even tho its not there
this did not happened to me with 4.24.1
frigid needle
Maybe a bad install or driver package. Try to verify the installation, and then update your GPU drivers
feral acorn
Anybody facing crashes in 4.24.1 version? i was previous using 4.21 is never crashed as such, but 4.24.1 is crashing a lot mostly when doing the undo operations and editing the lights.
drowsy turtle
i need help with adding several languages to my game
i simply don't know how to do it using string tables
honest vale
aren't there any localization tutorials?
drowsy turtle
none of these are helpful
honest vale
what about the docs?
drowsy turtle
same
serene birch
@feral acorn well that's why 4.24.2 was released as a hotfix just the other day, with crash fixes
feral acorn
Great! Thanks for the info!!
zealous cloak
can i vhange text files during runtime?
plush yew
@zealous cloak Would it be possible to share a scenario where you need this? Just curious to understand the goal ๐
zealous cloak
@plush yew ndisplay sets up his screens based on a config file in which screens are based on loc (XYZ) and rot(XYZ) it loads place in based on these
i found this node, maybe thats my solution, but is there a way how i can overwrite values and save them when i start a new session?
plush yew
@zealous cloak Perhaps you may want to consider the save class? In C++ you can use standard C++ syntax to read and write text files. But if you use blueprints only, perhaps it's easier to dump everything in a variable that the global that is being saved and loaded during runtimes, maybe?
zealous cloak
sry n display has a camera at root and several screens that rendered with a camera and these screens have to be set up based on where it left the last time
plush yew
I apologize, I don't know anything about ndisplay except the very basics, but nothing related to its configuration...:(
zealous cloak
the node above should do the job ๐ but can i simply create a variable and update it during runtime?
plush yew
Absolutely, and you can save it in a save class should you need For the next runtime
zealous cloak
ok what ecxactly is a safe class?
own BP_class in Unreal?
plush yew
@zealous cloak A save class Is used for saving your variables before you shut down your game. So next time when you start up your project, you don't start from the beginning, but instead you start from where you left off
polar hawk
google -> "ue4 C++ how to determine if headless" = my own blog post about how to set up a dedicated server
GOOGLE y u do dis
timber minnow
Hi, is it possible to update heightmap when i use world composition ?
lament star
Is UE4 getting support for mesh shader?
cloud cobalt
Probably not, since it's a Nvidia thing IIRC
lament star
Are you sure? DX12 has mesh shaders now
brittle gulch
Hi there, Box traces are handled by the CPU or GPU?
brittle gulch
Okay thanks, that means that I can switch my box overlap checks to a CPU logic with the Box traces then.
I'd like to know something, Would it be a good idea to use Ray-Marching to optimize a traffic simulation?
I want to check what road is visible and the ones that are visible are simulated and cars can pop on them.
I tried with overlapping but it doesn't care about walls. So I thought maybe Ray-Marching would be the solution ? ๐ค
serene birch
overlapping, so you mean using the engine collision checks?
is the issue you have that the check "teleports" through walls? you could try doing a trace/sweep check instead I guess
brittle gulch
@serene birch My main issue, with both overlap check and trace/sweep checks, is that It doesn't tell me if the object I want to check (the traffic box, where my cars are simulated), is visible, or hidden by a wall.
serene birch
visibility check is always a tricky business with complex 3D worlds
but a ray check should take walls into consideration if you configured correctly the collision masks/stuff
brittle gulch
@serene birch Ray checks does indeed take walls into consideration. But they don't know if the wall is partially, or completely hiding the traffic box.
serene birch
you'll not get a perfect solution
do more ray checks ๐
not perfect obviously but you can check the corners of the traffic box instead of the center/etc...
brittle gulch
I was thinking about something like that. It would do the trick no? And then I can subdivide the grid if I want more precision, or unsubdivide it for more performance?
The blue dotted boxes would be the traffic boxes. When it does check against a traffic boxe, it activates it, then it continues (multi-line trace), until it touches a blocking wall.
serene birch
you can always subdivide the area more to do more ray checks
it's just a matter of performance in the end
brittle gulch
๐ I'll give that a try, thanks for helping!
mossy cloud
Anybody else had problems with metallic materials with the new sky atmosphere component? for some reason, it doesn't reflect anything.
like, top pic is how it looks like with the new sky atmosphere component, below is with the default map. Also, i'm bad at materials and lights, so i may have just forgotten something silly
also, this is how it looks in the material instance editor. Also, sorry if this is in the wrong channel.
austere scroll
the character doesnt shoot where the crosshair is
i have been trying to fix it for multiple weeks now
mossy cloud
Where does the bullet come from, the gun or the middle of the screen?
austere scroll
no its a socket in teh gun's skeleton
mossy cloud
i see i see. Let me open up one of my old projects, i think i know the solution to it.
I'm not 100% sure though
austere scroll
i would greatly appreciate that
mossy cloud
the crosshair is just a widget in the middle of the screen, yes?
fathom glade
Does anyone know if there's a way to make an object drop to the ground without simulating physics?
Basically, to only apply gravity?
mossy cloud
could add offset every tick, i guess?
sterile zodiac
@gleaming narwhal Any news on a new unreal wiki?
mossy cloud
ah, sorry @austere scroll , ended up just shooting from camera.
answered q099's question
austere scroll
ok
the big problem is that im following a tutorial
but for him it worked
but it didnt for me
honest vale
you need to spawn the projectile from the camera and not gun
austere scroll
could it be the socket rotation ? because even when i aim down , it still shoot a bit to the left
/right
honest vale
of course it shoots right, the gun is right from your aim's point of view
the bore line and sight line aren't the same there ๐
fathom glade
Thanks, I don't like the solution, but it's a solution haha.
mossy cloud
hahah same
austere scroll
this is the graph
it doesnt seem i can change the spawn location
IM REALLY CONFUSEDDDD
mossy cloud
whats your fire function?
austere scroll
where tf do i find that
thats the fire function
in the pic
isnt that what u mean
tawdry storm
when I tried to experiment with that I used the first person shooter example as a basis, but then I did a trace from the camera forward and when it hit something I made a trace from the socket of the gun towards that new point in the center of the camera, and that's the direction I used to shoot the bullet
it's really simple and always hits the middle of the screen
tame delta
Hi, I have an issue that says it's fixed in a commit. Said commit looks like it's been merged in the release breanch and tagged 4.24.2-release, yet the fix doesn't appear in the list of bugfixes for 4.24.2. Anyone knows what's up?
I ask only because I have a terrible, terrible bandwidth
timber minnow
Hi, is it possible to update heightmap when i use world composition ?
heady saddle
@austere scroll can you show the blueprint for the weapons Fire event?
placid arrow
lets say i wanted to make a tower on wheels, made of cube shaped components, each floor of the tower is 9 cubes square, with say 10 storeys. i want all the cubes to be bound together by a weak attractive force, so that enough inertia or external acting force will force them apart, once forced apart they cant go back together. the movement of the wheels should exert some force on the object as a whole. Can this be done with the built in physx engine of ue4, or should i come up with some custom cartoony physics model for it?
A bit like that
austere scroll
heady saddle
@austere scroll not the PrimaryFire event, the "Equipped weapon"s Fire event
placid arrow
im not sure if my question belongs i the physics channel, because i dont know if its possible... yet
austere scroll
but where do i find that ?
heady saddle
you don't know where your weapon blueprint is?
heady saddle
yes
austere scroll
whats ur soloution ? change the spawn from the socket to camera ?
heady saddle
no but you need to tell it in which direction it should go
heady saddle
yes i believe so, you need the cameras forward vector
austere scroll
and how do i get that ?
viral sluice
Is it possible to use actor components as a variable type for map variables? I'm trying it but when I get to choose from the drop down list it appears empty
cloud cobalt
You can't use component instances in UPROPERTY at all
Only classes, level actors, content or basic types
austere scroll
@heady saddle how do i call the camera "forward vector"
viral sluice
I have to attach a dozen or so of capsule collisions to bones and I thought I could simplify the blueprint with a loop and a map with the capsule and the bone name :/
cloud cobalt
You can use the component name and fetch that component
heady saddle
@austere scroll get a reference to the camera
timber minnow
Hi, is it possible to update heightmap when i use world composition ?
heady saddle
@austere scroll i think the solution is to use "find look at rotation" as rotation in make transform for the projectile spawn. use your weapon muzzle as your start vector and your cameras forward vector as target
oh the target should be the cameras location vector + its foward vector
heady saddle
i dont know what camera your character bp uses
but i would just get player pawn > cast to your character > get follow camera
austere scroll
there is nothing such as "get follow camera"
heady saddle
you need to use the "as character" pin
since your camera most likely is a component of your character
heady saddle
go into your character bp and check the name of the camera component
heady saddle
just type camera?
austere scroll
heady saddle
just "camera"
mossy cloud
yeah, you gotta cast to ThirdPersonCharacter then
austere scroll
oof i thought of that ๐คฆ
austere scroll
ah yes
mossy cloud
there we go
heady saddle
sec ill just show you how I did it
austere scroll
ok
novel mauve
did anyone had problems with 4.24.2?
novel mauve
the epic game launcher is all messed up as well ๐ฎ
heady saddle
you plug that into find look at rotation "target" and your muzzle vector as "start"
mossy cloud
i haven't had any problems Nobel
austere scroll
I Dont UNDERSTAND ! whta do i put instead of this ????
novel mauve
it all messed my graphics, i don't know if it's my graphics card or the unreal engine and epic game launcher itself, it suddenly broken
viral sluice
I can't figure out how to search for a component using a name :S
heady saddle
@austere scroll i dont know how to help you better, but this works for me. the gist of it is you need to get a vector from your "start point" (where you want the projectile to spawn) and the vector from the end point. The reason you use the cameras forward vector is so that the projectiles trajectory will go in a straight line right towards the camera (assuming your crosshair is perfectly centered)
from wherever your start location is that is
novel mauve
@mossy cloud yeah it's on the latest, i've noticed an update from the epic game launcher so i did, after that everything went bad !
heady saddle
you need the "find look at rotation" from these 2 vectors, as well as the starting location vector (which is the same as the start vector for the rotation) @austere scroll
mossy cloud
I see, i have no clue why then, sorry