ue4-general

[fleet stirrup]

Once my FBX files have been imported into Unreal, from Unreal's point of view, are these FBX files needed any more?

Does Unreal convert these FBX files to some kind of internal file format?

[gleaming wing]

It converts @fleet stirrup , save it somewhere else if you need a backup tho

[spice canopy]

@gleaming wing what do the insides of your anim BP state machine graph nodes look like? Both the states and the transitions

Maybe the problem is there. You can open each one by double clicking it

[onyx merlin]

i got a question regarding the editor, is there any way to show inherited variables/functions etc, but only those that are inherited from blueprints/classes i created myself?

[gleaming wing]

X for stop is which foot are on the ground, not related to play rate or anything btw

[barren cargo]

Hey, I'm currently working with a few people on making a level for Unreal Tournament. Our goal is to keep the stuff we add under 400mb, including the map itself, because we learned that people are less likely to download a map that is larger than 400mb.
My question is, is there a nifty way to keep track of the data you're adding to the game? (excluding recycled assets from existing maps)

[gleaming wing]

@spice canopy can we talk by DM? I think its best so i can just show you

[brave gate]

@barren cargo you could set up automation server like Jenkins and make him run packaging your content every day/night + add simple script writing down total size somewhere...
(although have no idea what's the setup of preparing map to distribute with UT)
this could be overkill for tracking map size itself... but once you automated packaging, you could also run simple automated tests - track performance, memory usage, check for crashes, etc.

[pallid talon]

Question. Im LineTracing in BP from a skeletal mesh. Works great. But I want to offset it. I've added the location of the skeletal mesh by an float, but when the mesh rotates, it doesn't offset correctly. How could I offset the location of this line trace to be relative to the location of the mesh?

[brave gate]

@barren cargo or maybe sth simpler, if you're using source control like P4 - there's way to set up trigger script after every submit (literally called p4 trigger) that would check total size of your assets, but that's editor data size

[barren cargo]

How similar will that be compared to the build size?

I assume there will be quite some compression

I'm a simple artist, so I don't know too much about this haha

[brave gate]

yeah, but if somebody would shamelessly add 8K texture, you'd notice that

[barren cargo]

true

[dense gate]

@pallid talon get difference of end and start location (essentially the vector), multiply it by a small offset (like 0.05, 5%) and add it to the start location

Also familiar name

[barren cargo]

But thanks! I'll check out Jenkins, and I guess I'll simply check the folder size in the meanwhile, and hope it's fairly accurate 😛

[dense gate]

Alternatively, if you want to control how much is offset in specific distance, normalize the difference and multiply it by how much you want the offset

[brave gate]

size of heavy assets in packaged game would proportional to the editor's size, not the same, but you'd notice "trend"

[pallid talon]

@dense gate Thanks! I'll try that!

[barren cargo]

alright, sounds fair

[open eagle]

How do I use my C++ BlueprintType struct in a data table

[pallid talon]

@dense gate Are you saying something like this? I couldn't get this to work...

[spare dust]

Does anyone here have an unwrapped texture for Unreal's default 100x100x100 cube?

[pallid talon]

I changed from add to multiply.

[dense gate]

@pallid talon get yourself a node that's <original trace end> - <original trace start>

That's the vector that your trace would be going through

Multiply that vector either by a % or normalize it then multiply by a number to get a specific distance

Once you've chosen which one, add that %/offset to the trace start

Trace end remains as is

Also I don't know why you'd multiply the WorldPos Y by 1.5, that just makes things a lot less predictable

[pallid talon]

I just need it to shift on the Y a little.

I thought that was what your original reply was instructing.

[dense gate]

Ah, then I assume you need to start a bit from the side then rather than offsetting the trace

What I said is basically, to avoid collision issues from trace going 0-400, you go 50-400

Has happened a few times to me

[pallid talon]

Basically it's a car. And Im trying to line trace in front of it for when it hits another car. But I dont want the trace in the center of the car. One trace will be on the right side, another trace on the left side. So Im trying to offset a line trace on the left and right side of the car.

[dense gate]

Why not use box trace then?

Or capsule trace to emulate a smoother front body

[pallid talon]

Because I need to trace multiple directions after I resolve the front trace. It would be nice if I can offset its starting position manually.

[dense gate]

Shape traces aren't that much more expensive compared to line traces, I can confirm that since I've made my own projectiles based entirely on shape tracing

[spice canopy]

@gleaming wing sorry I cant I am driving now

[dense gate]

I think it'd make it significantly easier for your case

[pallid talon]

Ok, I'll give box trace a try.

Thanks bud!

[spice canopy]

@gleaming wing the screenshot for the Stop state wont load.

Sorry I have to drive now but when i have these kinds of problems I check:

• did anim BP set the variables?
• Do may states use the variables correctly?
• Do my transitions nodes use the variables correctly? Double click them to open them and see how they set the transition.

[slender veldt]

Is 4.23.1 using Chaos by default in some capacity? Compiled a new project and saw it being built.

[limpid surge]

Does anyone know how to use the localization dashboard to gather key/source data stored as a .csv file?

[fervent sigil]

Any idea how to create destructible mesh (APEX plugin) for skeletal mesh?

[fleet stirrup]

Fascinating that in Unreal, an FBX is internally stored as a uasset
I'm totally okay with this
Just that in other projects, usually, it's required to keep the FBX around
not-Unreal projects, that is

[abstract relic]

you always want to author the fbx outside of the project

[fleet stirrup]

yes, definitely

I keep the FBX files on the authoring side folders

Maya, in my case

just super interesting that when you import the FBX from the Maya folders, it doesn't save the FBX file on the Unreal side. Totally cool.

[crisp fable]

NOT what i was looking for

[fervent sigil]

lol

[brave turret]

help?

[abstract relic]

you already pasted the answer

[brave turret]

I have visual studio tho

[abstract relic]

literally tells you what to do

[fervent sigil]

I've started implementing a save system for game, currently working and saving & loading the player position.
What's the common way of dealing with all enemies around? My current idea is for each npc to save it's own data to a TArray<NpcData>, destroy it self, and on load spawn them and set data.
What do you guys think? any better way / other common method?

[spice rune]

there is an existing save game system you can use

[dreamy lake]

ANyone who would possibly know if it would potentially be better, if using world composition, to have your inventory based on structs, aka - you destroy the object when picking it up, and then store its values in a struct to generate the object again when its going to be used, or instead; destroy the object, then recreate it as a new actor, hide it when its not in use, and then teleport it and otherwise unhide it in the game world when its in use ?
Edit: I should probably add that my items are procedurally generated as well, so mostly anything could be different from that of another object

[brave gate]

@dreamy lake IDK what world composition has to do with it, but generally yes - usually you want to have Inventory Item Definition as struct entry or object or data asset (whatever suits you) and separate actor to represent it in the world - so you can spawn it and pick it up, on pickup Inventory would add new Inventory Item but actor would be destroyed

[dreamy lake]

@brave gate Well I mean, World Comp will unload the item as well when the that part of the world is unloaded, and simply just trying to wrap my head around how I should do my inventory system, especially with so many different variables for each type..

I guess like I would create different arrays for different item structs then that would fit into the inventory, like one for weapons and one for consumables then ?

Is it possible to create a new data asset at runtime ?

[brave gate]

common thing is to have "inventory slots", this is how you group items in inventory
yes, UDataAsset is UObject, you can create a new one and fill it with procedurally generated data

at least in C++ 😉

[dreamy lake]

aaah thanks man

This should def make it easier for me

Ive been using data tables so far - But often run into the problem of being unable to write to them - Data Asset it is

[brave gate]

if you procedurally generate loot, spawn them, then actors by default belongs to persistent levels, not sublevels
and you're picking up items, they should be either destroyed or attached to the player (persistent level again), so still I can't see why streaming would unload item's actor?

Data Asset can be easily "discovered" in runtime (look at Primary Data Asset and Asset Registry), so you wouldn't even have to create manual list of items

[dreamy lake]

I suppose I could spawn them - though the actor - like a chest, that would container loot in it would belong to a sub level, so the item, in case it was an actor, would then be unloaded with that sublevel in case I wouldn't destroy and recreate the item, or convert it into a struct, on in this case uasset

man.. uasset should def help a lot.. Why diddent I think of this before lol

[brave gate]

dunno, if container with loot hasn't been looted why to keep its loot while unloading level?

spawned actors belongs to the persistent level by default anyway AFAIK

[dreamy lake]

essentially items such as weapons will have different metal values, and otherwise a quality level to them, which further modifies its stats - I suppose I could keep the resources values that is used for crafting in a datatable - though Hm, or maybe I should just create an data asset out of it as well as it would be difficult to loot otherwise.

right.. sorry just trying to wrap my head around it all

[brave gate]

resource would be an inventory item to, I guess

[spark sonnet]

@autumn crystal You can try this

[dreamy lake]

Yeah data asset for all of it

[spark sonnet]

Then use an interface or cast to the clicked actor to trigger whatever you want

[dreamy lake]

thanks man

[brave gate]

happy crafting 🙂

[dreamy lake]

haha thanks xD

Will most likely be back with more questions soon lol

[spark sonnet]

No?

Why not?

[abstract relic]

I recall you need to enable collision(?) or enable generate hit in the detail panel. Something along that line

Generate hit on?

[spark sonnet]

This should work then

[abstract relic]

Nope. It has been a long time since I used on click events.

[spark sonnet]

The OnClicked(StaticMesh) works for me with this collision preset @autumn crystal

Are you showing the mouse cursor ingame?

Have you tried the solution at the top of this page?
https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/blueprint-visual-scripting/54607-onclick-ontouch-not-working

If this is ticked, that could be the issue

In the project settings ^

[crimson plume]

Not sure which channel this question falls under, but how can I safely transfer .uasset files from one project to another? More specifically, is there anything wrong with copying one .umap from one content browser to another?

It works, but just wondering if there's a more official way of doing it

[abstract relic]

Asset action >>> migrate

[fathom glade]

Does anyone know of a way to calculate the midpoint of a mesh? Just taking like a chair or something and trying to find the middle of it for easier rotation?

[craggy flax]

can someone help me figure out whats wrong with a variable type setting? Ive got a pawn/springarm/camera named MayorPawn, which I create a variable for named "MayorPawnRef" and set its Variable Type to Mayor Pawn (Object). when using it in blueprinting for some reason its not getting assigned properly and giving me "Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property MayorPawnRef". Blueprint: MayorController Function: Movement Speed Calculation Graph: MovementSpeedCalculation Node: Return Node "

[warped tangle]

@craggy flax you have to set the variable to the instance of the actor you are trying to reference

just having the variable gives you access to functions/components of that class, but you have to point it to the actual instance of that actor still. So if it's a pawn that you're possessing, you can do "get player pawn" and cast to your pawn class, then use that to set the var

[fathom glade]

Is there a way to actually get the height/width? I can't find a function like that in blueprint

[craggy flax]

@warped tangle I believe thats what I am doing here right?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221798862938046464/672989894900973568/unknown.png

details panel is MayorPawnRef variable settings btw

[warped tangle]

yep. So if you're getting a accessed none error at runtime, you either forgot to call that macro somewhere on your graph, or there isn't currently a player pawn (maybe you're simulating instead of playing?), or it's the wrong class

[craggy flax]

hmm

Ill dig further lol ty

[jovial pollen]

can anyone help me with a gun in Unreal VR

it wont shoot

[warped tangle]

you got bullets?

[jovial pollen]

I have line trace

I feel like this should be correct

but it isnt

[warped tangle]

can't at all read that

[jovial pollen]

line trace for objects start is the player, end is the enemy. out hit is break hit result, cast to enemy ai destroy actor

[warped tangle]

is that a "get owner"?

[jovial pollen]

yes

what should I put there instead

wont work without that

[warped tangle]

yeah that all doesn't work

[jovial pollen]

what should I put

[warped tangle]

you need a reference to the "enemy" actor you're trying to get the location of

[jovial pollen]

yes

[warped tangle]

the easiest way is a get all actors of class -> get(0)....this is not normally how you want to go about this though

also, you're making it so you can't ever miss?

[jovial pollen]

no

is this a good start?

if you're holding the weapon canshoot is true

[fading vector]

Question, I'm trying to change the animation in the state machine based off of a variable on my character. My state machine is in my Animation blueprint, could anyone help me with this?

[jovial pollen]

ima just go like

do random shit and hope it works

[abstract relic]

Well you have a bp interface set up. So I applaud you for that.

[fathom glade]

@autumn crystal Thank you!!

[jolly steppe]

anyone know why this happens? that's not the texture, lol

[fading vector]

@abstract relic Yeah, I've had some help but its really confusing. No videos are helping with this part either. So far I have:

Thats in the event graph of the animation blueprint.

I called a function, not for any reason exactly but just to see if I could.

I have a death variable on my character but I dont know how to actually make the animation play when that variable is true

[abstract relic]

animation montages

[fading vector]

Watched 2 videos

Maybe I'm watching the wrong thing

[abstract relic]

letme send you an old sample project I used to teach

[humble stirrup]

Sup follks
On the global game jam to
So, if I animated a mesh with pareting instead of joints, would it also update the mesh in Unreal?
Like, i am not updating the frames through joints position interpolation, but rather applying transposiion within the mesh, trough parent constrainning.

[jovial pollen]

@abstract relic ive been using unreal for 2 months. I havent coded a gun in VR yet so thats why im stuck

[jovial pollen]

ok I got it to shoot but it shoots only when you pick it up

I need it to be the trigger button

@warped tangle got any ideas

[fading vector]

@jovial pollen Do an input action

[jovial pollen]

I did that

doesnt work

its a VR game

so a little more complicated

[fading vector]

I mean its gonna be roughly the same, obviously visuals are different

If its not shooting

that means it caught up somewhere

[jovial pollen]

mhm

[fading vector]

You can play the game and watch your code

or use prints to see where it is

[jovial pollen]

no the code is fine, it draws a line to where it hits and if I put that on pickup event then it will only shoot when I pick it up and I dont want that to happen

[fading vector]

If it only shoots when you pick it up

Then thats probably a code issue

[jovial pollen]

bro I know

[fading vector]

Do you have like a bool saying pickup is true?

[jovial pollen]

no

[fading vector]

Im no pro but on pickup I would set something like that

[jovial pollen]

ok

[fading vector]

So that you know you're allowed to shoot

It wont fix the issue, honestly hard to say what the issue is without looking at it all

I'd just look over and try to see where the issue might be

[cerulean sorrel]

am i a noob how tf do you get something location in anether blueprint

like i wanna get the door location in my char blueprint

[jovial pollen]

there isnt an issue everything is working its just the pickup thing is calling the shoot and I dont want that to happen

[cerulean sorrel]

NOOBB

[jovial pollen]

wait thats an issue

[fading vector]

^^

[jovial pollen]

nvm then

[fading vector]

Haha

[jovial pollen]

my friend gave me a plugin

[fading vector]

Yeah that is likely it

[jovial pollen]

but

I cant get it to work

the tutorial doesnt give me shit about it asking to readd the plugin

and it ALWAYS FAILS

[fading vector]

@cerulean sorrel I'm pretty sure there is a simple way to reference location

You cast to "name of blueprint"

[jovial pollen]

like why the fuck do you make a plugin FOR FREE and not put it on the epic marketplace

[fading vector]

xD

[cerulean sorrel]

@fading vector yep im a noob but how?

[fading vector]

1 sec

[jovial pollen]

bro just drag off and type "cast to 'blueprint'"

@cerulean sorrel

its easy af

[fading vector]

^

[jovial pollen]

a baby could do it

I need a new plugin

[cerulean sorrel]

oh

[jovial pollen]

AH FUCKIN HA

I FOUND ONE

[jovial pollen]

JUST ONE QUICK GOOGLE SEARCH

[cerulean sorrel]

would i cast char to door or door to char

[jovial pollen]

AND THERES A PRE-MADE GUN PACK FOR FREE

[fading vector]

Depends on what you're trying to do

[jovial pollen]

HAHA!!!

[fading vector]

If you're wanting the car to have the door location

You cast to door in the car blueprint

[cerulean sorrel]

yes i'm a conpelete noob to this

[fading vector]

It also allows you to pull variables

Which can be handy

[cerulean sorrel]

how?

[fading vector]

So that has some useful info on the location

For variables

[cerulean sorrel]

ah

[fading vector]

Thats not exactly what you want but something off a video I saw a bit ago

I'd honestly go through a video or two for some basic reference

[cerulean sorrel]

i think i got it now thanks

[fading vector]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ly5HQ5LE-w&t=620s

Pretty easy series if you wanna try it

Welp the animation channel is dead, would anyone mind helping me retarget an animation? It's just a duplicate of the skeletal mesh.

[rancid lynx]

when i spawn an actor from class, and try to set a player reference for the new actor, it doesnt get set before the begin play happens. how can i set variables in a new actor before they begin play, ? for example, if my PLAYER character spawns a rock, and i try to make the rock "look at target'", i have to give that rock a player reference variable . then inside the rocks begin play, face target ((or what ever more important code))

how can i spawn a actor from class, and add a reference to that actor, before its begin play ?

begin play > delay .1 works, but thats a trash hack

[ruby crow]

Does attempting to add that reference in the constructor (or construction script) of the new actor work?

[rancid lynx]

well i assumed constructor happened before begin play. ill try that also, just to be sure.

i have to pass the ref from the spawn"ER"

ill try and find a way to do it with level blueprint maybe. idk

can i access variables inside the level blueprint inside random world actors ?

[ruby crow]

hmm, looks like referencing the level blueprint in arbitrary actors isn't good practice https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/blueprint-visual-scripting/34951-how-to-reference-level-blueprint

Yeah, the constructor happens before BeginPlay(), but I see what you mean now about getting the spawner to give the spawnee a reference to itself

you can try putting that logic in the game mode / game state instead?

I'm with you on the hunch that it feels like there should be a better way to do what you wanna do

[rancid lynx]

i just read that on google also, game mode. i know nothing about gamemode or state yet. ill check those. thanks alot ! and also, maybe i can just use 'get player controller ' cast to '

there should be a list of references i can place somewhere.

[ruby crow]

oh yeah, if the spawner is the player character that actually makes it super easy

i was assuming the spawner was some random actor that wasn't necessarily the player character

[rancid lynx]

cast too X is not bad for CPU right ?

i know get all actors of class is not technically fast.

but i guess cast too's are fine

[ruby crow]

*shrug * I'm still pretty new myself so I'm not super sure what the performance impact of a cast in blueprints is, lol. C++ side it's generally not bad enough to really care unless you're trying to do some really intense micro-optimizations

[rigid ocean]

hey guys, i got a question, is there any way i can transform the player character on a button press ? Im trying to google it but i can't find anything about it and i got no idea how to do it cause im new

[abstract relic]

Pawn Possession would be the magic word

[rigid ocean]

i'll look it up thanks

why do i have complex idea to do as a beginner, whyyyyyy

[ruby crow]

lol, wait by transform what do you mean exactly?

like, move, change its shape, or switch the mesh?

[rigid ocean]

well, it would be like swapping betweens characters so the size, mesh, speed and everything else i add would changes

[normal burrow]

lol

[ruby crow]

okay, like in place?

[rigid ocean]

like in place ? What do you mean ?

[abstract relic]

This will be your best friend
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Gameplay/HowTo/PossessPawns/Blueprints/index.html

[rigid ocean]

yeah so i just got an exemple in mind, the werewolf/vampire lord transformation in skyrim

thats what i want to do

[marsh swallow]

@rigid ocean do u want to replace current controlled character with a different one and make the first one go away (in place) or just control another character?

[abstract relic]

Morph target will be another key word

You did pick a difficult topic

I wish you luck

[normal burrow]

yeah hard one

[rigid ocean]

its most likely difficult but its inspiring

[marsh swallow]

yeah you have morph target, swap BP, change controlled character, or simple swap mesh

[abstract relic]

Dissolving material will be another one

[marsh swallow]

many options.

oh yeah that too!

[abstract relic]

Lots on moving parts to make that come together so to speak

[marsh swallow]

we do 4 of those 5 in our depending on whats going on

we dont use morph targets

[abstract relic]

I wouldn’t 😜

Unless you want stupid amount of detail

[ruby crow]

yeah, so in place meaning like how pokemon trainer switches pokemon in smash bros. For that you'd want to swap out the mesh. or if all these characters already exist in the world and you want to switch perspectives/control between them, you'd want to look into Pawn Possession like @abstract relic 's suggesting.

[normal burrow]

if it were sparkles, maybe.

[abstract relic]

Particles is another as pat suggest

But that’s more of a cherry feature

[rigid ocean]

no it would like pokemon dresser in smash

[abstract relic]

Lots of smalls thing in-conjunction to get the effect

[ruby crow]

okay, yeah, i think the easiest way would be to look into swapping the mesh on a character

[normal burrow]

how long is the effect? (in seconds)

[ruby crow]

I'd start with a really simple instantaneous swap as a first pass before trying to apply fancy effects, but that's just me, lol

[normal burrow]

was gonna say vertex animation with vertex colors or something if we're listing complicated approaches

[abstract relic]

Nah that’s smart. We’re more hammering in how “complex “ a simple concept is 😜

[normal burrow]

👍

https://youtu.be/zGmElCpxZnk?t=1124

[normal burrow]

that would be harder with skeletal mesh

[humble oyster]

QUESTION

Why do when I right click to make something new like a material or a blueprint half of those options go off screen where I can’t even click them

[normal burrow]

what is your resolution?

[humble oyster]

What

[abstract relic]

Screen size

[normal burrow]

ye, the pixels horizontally/vertically

theres this button in the area you look least

i made the mistake of thinking it was green yesterday

er, saying import was green

but the Add New big green button will do the same thing right click will do malachiosss

it may be better at not running out of space on the left side as it is

[humble oyster]

Tanks

Thanks*

[jovial pollen]

Heh tanks

Tanks are cool

[humble oyster]

Yea

Pew pew

[jovial pollen]

I should make a tank game

[humble oyster]

It was doing this

[jovial pollen]

Need to work on my ai though, all they do (when they are humans) is walk around and just do a line trace when they see the player and they can see through walls and I'll have to fix that

[normal burrow]

ouch yeah that screen resolution is low or you've got your ui scale way up

[jovial pollen]

The res looks like a 1920x1080 🤔

[normal burrow]

hm maybe i made my content browser icons smaller then

it kinda looks like 720p to me, but idk. kinda tired

[jovial pollen]

Hey pat you know how to code right? Mind helping me on a shooting script for vr? Everytime I grab the gun it just shoots so if you want to shoot you have to grab the gun but I dont want that to happen. I want it to be if it's being picked up then you can shoot. But how do I do that if its bot connected to the pickup?

Also I'm not at my pc atm

But since you're here I thought I'd ask

Before I forget

[normal burrow]

unsure what controls are like on htc, but with oculus grab is usually the middle finger button and shoot the trigger.

[jovial pollen]

Yeah I'm using oculus

[normal burrow]

they are on the same button? grab and shoot

[humble oyster]

Ok so new problem

[jovial pollen]

No shoot is trigger

But it doesn't call the button

[humble oyster]

I’m tryna use miscellaneous and it’s like glitching so hard

[jovial pollen]

I've connected it though

[humble oyster]

I can’t scroll up and get what I need

[jovial pollen]

And I dont want it to shoot when you arent holding it

So I connected it to the pickup event but it just shoots when you pick it up and doesnt call my trigger function

[normal burrow]

@humble oyster make sure your ui scale is 100 on windows (right click on desktop and go to Display Settings)

[humble oyster]

Thanks man your the best

[jovial pollen]

Lol

[normal burrow]

does the gun shoot itself or does the character shoot it?

[jovial pollen]

The player shoots the gun

Like in pavlov

And onward

And contractors vr

[normal burrow]

Rather is the input event on the character or the gun?

[jovial pollen]

Both

Idk which one was the right one

[normal burrow]

make a new event on the event graph called Fire for your weapon

[humble oyster]

UGGGHHHHH

[jovial pollen]

Ok

[normal burrow]

then when the character pulls the trigger

on the character blueprint

check if the character is holding a weapon

if it is, fire the fire event on your weapon

[humble oyster]

So I did everything the person told me to do and the landscape didn’t turn black nor is the material in the paint thing

[jovial pollen]

Would I make a custom function called bIsHolding?

Then branch then cann fire event

Call*

[normal burrow]

You'd probably want to just return the thing being held instead of a boolean

[jovial pollen]

Ok

[normal burrow]

so either a variable of what is held or a function that finds it yea

[jovial pollen]

Ok thanks I'll try that tomorrow

But right now I got to get to bed

So goodnight

[humble oyster]

Why ain’t this shiznet black yet?!

And why won’t it paint

These gosh darn videos

[jovial pollen]

Mal I feel your pain

As a true beginner it was hard

[humble oyster]

It’s not painting

[jovial pollen]

You'll get used to it over time and then itll be easier

I've never painted befor 😳

[humble oyster]

It’s not showing up wtf

I did everything he said to do

[jovial pollen]

Try another tutorial

[humble oyster]

EVERYTHING

[jovial pollen]

Maybe a more recent nine

[humble oyster]

I’ve been trying

[jovial pollen]

Recent one

[humble oyster]

Every tutorial is the same over and over

[jovial pollen]

Those could be out dated

[humble oyster]

And once you do this it should turn black and show up here

Everyone says that

And it won’t work for me

[jovial pollen]

The engine is 4.23 or somethin like that those tutorials could have been made with like version 4

Anyways gtg to sleep

Hope you figure it out mal

[fallen lake]

hi guys the skeletal meshes have a 90 degree offset how do I make it 0?

[normal burrow]

https://discordapp.com/channels/187217643009212416/225448446956404738/669067509877440524 all of these are good resources @humble oyster

[fallen lake]

the root bone is not facing the same direction as the mesh

[humble oyster]

Thanks

[normal burrow]

people like the nana one

@fallen lake find the character blueprint

locate the mesh component and modify its rotation to the right value

it'll be directly under the capsule

[fallen lake]

@p@t thank you, but the root bone still wont face the same dir as the mesh

maybe cuz the mesh is made using may which has a different coordinate system\

maya

[normal burrow]

for whatever reason this is stanard for characters in ue4

mannequin also has a 90 degree off rotation

and if you look at the viewport, when you choose front

it shows XZ for some reason (looking down Y)

its not real consistent lol

[fallen lake]

is there a way to change that?

[normal burrow]

not really

you can put a rotate root bone node at the end of your anim graph

but then it makes any world operations wrong

[fallen lake]

i just want to root bone to face the same dir as the mesh 😫

thank you tho

[humble oyster]

Do y’all know any websites where I can import low poly skeletal meshes

Or idk literally anything

[normal burrow]

marketplace has some freebies

[lethal briar]

Hi guys!I'm new in game industry.I wonder how the big game maps are made?Because I played silent hunter 5 and it has the whole North sea.Is that map made with heightmap or its sculpted?Thanks

[whole quarry]

I would assume that a sea is mostly a plane

[forest tree]

Hey guys, looking for some advice on rigs/animations in UE4.

I have 2 animals that are very similar, but are different enough that I was screwing with 2 different skeletons. Unreal seems to be pushing me towards having 1 shared skeleton (and 1 base animation blueprint), so I was trying to figure out ways of doing that. Leads me to two questions:

1): Both animals have a tail, but one is much more flexible and mobile than the other. To show that in the animations, I previously just removed bones from one of the animals, but this leads down the path of having 2 different skeletons. How would you approach this problem?
2): How would you handle the problem of having to move bones around to better fit the anatomy of the other animal? That is to say, would it not constitute a new secondary skeleton when I have moved the bones around?

[plush yew]

there was a tutorial that included a green beam shader i saw once and can't find anymore i think it was from epic

[fleet scroll]

new record for laptop?

[thorny perch]

anyone stepped upon this error when loading a scene?

Fatal error: [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Windows/D3D11RHI/Private/D3D11Util.cpp] [Line: 198] Unreal Engine is exiting due to D3D device being lost. (Error: 0x887A0006 - 'HUNG')

just for a VR project, others work fine

[fleet scroll]

That happened to me earlier. Restarting seemed to fix. Googling leads me to believe it was related to going afk with the editor open, but another application focused on. Its apparently been an issue for several years that hasnt been fixed.

[unique kraken]

okey im going insane about a small detail

for some reason i can alligne my widgets in the widget editor?

it makes me go insane

like how does that make sense

im the first time in this editor but i learned print design. i know all this stuff, it just doest react

anyone of help here o.o

[thorny perch]

@fleet scroll just booted up 🙂

[fleet scroll]

cool

[thorny perch]

and just ue4 editor opened

so might be bigger issue then

[fleet scroll]

What I've gleamed, it's got something to do with the data to and from the graphics card getting out of sync.

Not sure beyond that

the only real info on the internet about it is here
https://appuals.com/how-to-fix-the-error-unreal-engine-is-exiting-due-to-d3d-device-being-lost/

[patent apex]

hey guys, i've upgraded to 4.24.2 and i have a specific blueprint that if i change any default property it crashes on FSerializedObject::SetObject, any idea why?

[lethal briar]

I would assume that a sea is mostly a plane
@whole quarry yes it is, but the coasts and ports are made too

[heady moon]

" #include found after .generated.h file - the .generated.h file should always be the last #include in a header "
Unreal Newbie here.
Any help?

[patent apex]

@heady moon you can't have includes below the .generated.h file. Examples:

Bad:

#include "TestActor.generated.h"
#include "CoreMinimal.h"

Good:

#include "CoreMinimal.h"
#include "TestActor.generated.h"

[heady moon]

Thanks let me try it (:

[patent apex]

it should, compile and try it 😛

[heady moon]

ok (:

what da

;-;

access denied??

im the admin tho.

[patent apex]

not sure about that, make sure you have visual studio properly installed

[heady moon]

I did

it is saying that this line exited with code 5 - access denied

please verify that you have sufficient rights to run this command

** The command ""C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.24\Engine\Build\BatchFiles\Build.bat" ActivityOneEditor Win64 Development -Project="C:\Users\(my username)\Documents\Unreal Projects\ActivityOne\ActivityOne.uproject" -WaitMutex -FromMsBuild" exited with code 5. Please verify that you have sufficient rights to run this command.
**

[patent apex]

he typically says that when he has another error

like a compilation or linking error

[brave gate]

@rancid lynx @ruby crow if you're casting to a blueprint class, blueprint gets loaded no matter if you do anything with it later
that's reason why you should avoid casting to big blueprints and one more reason to use soft references in blueprints where possible - so loading blueprint A won't automatically load all assets used by this blueprint and then loading all the reference chain
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Resources/SampleGames/ARPG/BalancingBlueprintAndCPP/index.html

[icy egret]

hello
can i ask some question in here or other channnel?

[plush yew]

@icy egret Try here, for general question, there are channels for more specialized questions

[icy egret]

okay thank you
I have question
I use retargeting AnimStartarPack's Motion to MMD model
but she won't look front but diagonally...
how can I fix it?

[fierce forge]

how i can make this destructible mesh to be destructed by objects but not from character , how i can do this ?

[plush yew]

@icy egret I personally do not know the answer to your question. But do not be discouraged because other people may 🙂 we also have #animation , You can post the question there if no one answers here, but etiquette dictates that some patience may be required before reposting

[icy egret]

of course! thank you

[tender kraken]

Hello, I'm looking for some explanation about how UObjects are being removed, basically I have an object which outer is the gamemode blueprint, would that mean object will stay alive as long as gamemode is alive?

[plush yew]

@tender kraken https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Programming/UnrealArchitecture/Objects/index.html
`Destroying Objects
Note that Weak Pointers have no impact on whether an Object is garbage collected or not.

Object destruction is handled automatically by the garbage collection system when an Object is no longer referenced. This means that no UPROPERTY pointers, or engine containers or smart pointer class instances should have any strong references to it. When the garbage collector runs, unreferenced Objects that are found will be deleted. In addition, the function MarkPendingKill() can be called directly on an Object, and this function will set all pointers to the Object to NULL, as well as remove the Object from global searches. Once again, the Object will be fully deleted on the next garbage collection pass.`

[dire flame]

https://i.imgur.com/5daWYhu.png how do i Create the bottom thing? where the index, where the green line goes in the purple one goes out. how is that called

[plush yew]

@dire flame Hover over, it should tell you the library and the function

[dire flame]

I only have a screenshot of it

[plush yew]

it's basically converting an integer to string

[dire flame]

And how do I create that one in a blueprint? What do I need to put in? Function? Sorry im really new to UE

[plush yew]

one sec

[lost reef]

@plush yew for each loop to a print string, when you drag off index into the string it will automatically give you the conversion node

[tender kraken]

Hmm how often garbage collector is running? As I've tried listing objects in log and they seems to be still valid even after a couple of minutes

[lost reef]

@tender kraken look in project settings, i do believe you can adjust that in there

[plush yew]

@dire flame

@lost reef Thank you Paul, but @dire flame was actually asking this question 🙂

[tender kraken]

Thanks will check it out

[dire flame]

thanks guys

Really sucks when you learn for your exam just with those screenshots

[abstract relic]

Slap that teacher

[dawn gull]

Hey so, I am making a game with planetary gravity using this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2J45z6aoJQ
and I got to 12:40 and pretty much the character is always moving to the right of the camera and when I rotate the spring arm to the right it moves backwards. Here is a picture of my code:

[thorn vector]

hey guys so another problem with the mount okay im trying to attach the character to the mount but i got bounce back https://gyazo.com/3c4e4d2e499d3132cb727c7551488c29

here the code https://gyazo.com/9161be172328bd9566283525ffed2ee0

[plush yew]

is this get everything from the market and make a game challenge?

[hoary silo]

How do I fix this bug with UE4's bloom (on the right)

Im using standard bloom

[azure shore]

hey whats the best substitute for event tick? if for example I have the players eye watching where the cursor goes along with a bunch of other stuff Id like if theres something else I could use

@hoary silo I think theres a bloom setting in project settings but idk if itll help this problem specifically

[hoary silo]

Ok thanks I take a look at it

[heady quartz]

Does anyone here know how to make animtrails smooth?

[tender kraken]

so I need to get back to my question of I have an object which outer that is the gamemode blueprint, would that mean object will stay alive as long as gamemode is alive?, adludum gave me this link https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Programming/UnrealArchitecture/Objects/index.html which if I understand correctly basically tells me that as long as anything holds onto the object it will be kept alive, so in this case as long as outer is alive object will be alive. Did I get it right?

[frail sail]

@hoary silo yo whatsup linus

[vital cosmos]

is it possible to have a spine with multiple meshes

[hoary silo]

Haha

My profile pic is great, isn't it XD

[thick herald]

@vital cosmos yes

[frail sail]

Very memeal great

[vital cosmos]

I tried doing that with segmens but the issue is the meshes are not appearing both the same point, for some section along the spline, one mesh appears and for the rest the other mesh appears

not both simultaneously

[thick herald]

It's been a while since I looked at my splines, but it is possible to have different ones at different segments.

[vital cosmos]

nah I want it so that both of the meshes appear in the same segment, which they do but they dont overlap, which is what I want them do to

this is the issue im having

the road appears for some part and the side appears for the rest

[thick herald]

What are you expecting to see here? Just so I can understand better.

[vital cosmos]

basically the sidepart should go all along the side of the road

not appear on its own in some random part along the spline

[thick herald]

Sorry, I've not used splines for roads or in that way before. It's also impossible to know what's going on without seeing the code, which should be in either #graphics or #blueprint probably

[vital cosmos]

there is no code?

[plush yew]

hi guys quick question - should blackboards be set in the AI controller or the AI character? it's possible to do both? or is it just based on preference

[thick herald]

There must be on the spline itself.

[vital cosmos]

I'm using the landscape spline mesh

dont think that needs any code

[thick herald]

check this out https://forums.unrealengine.com/community/community-content-tools-and-tutorials/1492096-free-modular-road-tool

[vital cosmos]

yeah I alr used that, its way too heavy and requires too many draw calls for my liking

[thick herald]

You can always combine the spline meshes into a single asset. But as I said, this is probably a blueprint or graphics type of issue, and without more info on how you set it up it's hard to diagnose

[craggy flax]

can anyone tell me why my event beginplay isnt triggering? I have a print string set up immediately after it I never get any messages from it. GameMode Override and settings are proper but for some reason nothing seems to start.

event beginplay being in my controller

[forest tree]

Is it normal that adding an animation class changes the scale of a model?

I have an issue where the scale of my skeletal mesh changes when I add an animation blueprint

[heady saddle]

@craggy flax did you change to your custom game mode in project settings?

[summer zealot]

Anyone has idea, why can't open FL_CPP_Info.h? The file is there. I try to convert project for 4.24

[forest tree]

Rather, toggling animations seems to scale the character....anyone know why? It seems to scale the mesh to the skeleton, instead of the skeleton to the mesh

@summer zealot Is it an intellisense or build error? I had weird intellisense errors but could build just fine.

[heady quartz]

Is there a clean editor UI i can download? Like this maybe:

[forest tree]

Holy shit, is that a real UI or a mock-up @heady quartz ?

[heady quartz]

I dunno i found it online while looking for a way to enable a "dark theme"

[forest tree]

Looks awesome, hope you can find it. That would make me so happy.

[heady quartz]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/feedback-for-epic/109801-unreal-engine-4-deserves-clean-ui

[forest tree]

@heady quartz https://github.com/Sythenz/UE4Minimal

From that thread

[heady quartz]

Try it and let me know if it works currently not in home and doing a dark theme just popped in my head

This ue4minimal looks promising

[fading vector]

I'm having some troubles activating a nav mesh bounds volume, I pressed P but nothing happened.

[jolly steppe]

@hoary silo did you fix the bloom issue? You could also try a post process volume. I usually use that to adjust exposer, but it could work for bloom if you have a specific area in your map that you want to adjust.

[hoary silo]

I haven't fixed the bloom problem

It has happened in the past with other graphics cards if that gives you any info

Is it happening to you as well?

[jolly steppe]

It only happens on certain graphics cards? You sure it isn't a graphics setting or something?

[hoary silo]

Its definently in UE4

it even happens in other games made with ue4

[jolly steppe]

I'm not too sure yet. I'm new to the engine and been working on gameplay mechanics and stuff. I've only done minor stuff to graphics.

[crystal ruin]

Hello everyone I have simple question... I have character i imported in unreal.. She have skirt.. The skirt is not rigger or have a bones.. And if I added run animtions the skirt is clipping in her body... How would I fix that?

[hoary silo]

@jolly steppe That's fine, I think it may just be a bug, ill try to work around it

[jolly steppe]

ahh okii. good luck!

[hoary silo]

thanks

[honest rune]

actually, I'll move that to source channel

[ruby crow]

@brave gate cool, didn't know that, thanks for the info/link!

[crystal ruin]

Any help maybe!

[heady quartz]

@crystal ruin cloth simulation

And edit the physics asset of the character

[crystal ruin]

@heady quartz is there a good tutorial about it?

[heady quartz]

Tons of tutorials in YouTube just search "UE4 Cloth simulation" or "Ue4 Skirt cloth simulation"

[crystal ruin]

Ah thank you but generally I don't need to rigg the clothes or add bons to them I can do it without these in unrela

[heady quartz]

I'd recommend using bones and simulating physics if your character is an anime girl or whatever

You don't need to rig clothes if you're doing cloth simulation

[crystal ruin]

Ok

I have the character with clothes with high ends like akirts and not attach or intact with the body

[heady quartz]

What

[summer zealot]

@forest tree It's a build error

[crystal ruin]

Nvm thank you tho

[fading vector]

Could anyone give me some tips? I have a "zombie" with basic AI. The zombie chases my player, but I'm not sure how to go about the damage part, I have a box collision on the front of the zombie.

[heady quartz]

https://youtu.be/v4nO1igc09A you can look at the cape here, i used bones and simulating physics to get this effect

[crystal ruin]

Well done!

It's look good

Here take look at my character

[heady quartz]

@fading vector if you have an attack animation just do an anim notify with "start attack" and "stop attack". These notifies will start a timer that will linetrace from the start of the hand to the end if it hits the player at will cast to the player that it was hit. Pretty simple 😉

@crystal ruin https://youtu.be/OO8v-yzeuBo

[fading vector]

@heady quartz atm not attack animation, just trying to put the damage in for the zombie. I know a way it could work but I'm trying to learn how to be a better programmer.

Normally I'd just do a begin overlap cast to character, set bool inrange to true, then if thats true call damage function

[crystal ruin]

Thank you man

[heady quartz]

Do you want to damage the player or the zombie

[fading vector]

player

Which I have a function

[heady quartz]

I don't like using begin overlap because i can't get the location of the impact to spawn a particle

[fading vector]

Fair enough, it is a rather basic form haha

This is also why I ask

I'm still new, still learning, people like you and such have a lot of info that is very useful 🙂

[heady quartz]

Also using begin overlap if the player is hit and is still overlapping ot will not fire another event

[fading vector]

Correct

[heady quartz]

Thats why using a line trace is way better

[fading vector]

Mmm, I've heard of line trace but have never put it to practice.

[heady quartz]

I use linetrace for everything lol.

[fading vector]

Is there a video you would suggest?

[heady quartz]

I dunno i made my own system but you can probably find tutorials

[fading vector]

Will do

[heady quartz]

Look up how to use linetrace not how to make a zombie damage the player

[fading vector]

Haha

Yeah, that could lead to some other things xD

[heady quartz]

This is what i used to do at the beginning and never made any progress because i was just following tutorials not knowing what things do

[fading vector]

Yeah, it can be rough at the start

[heady quartz]

https://youtu.be/yo9VrxFgUJY this channel is my goto channel for info

[fading vector]

That was actually the video I was watching xDD

[vast fossil]

tomatoes

[fading vector]

I think I've got a decent understanding of a linetrace, but still not sure how to fire it off. What should my method of detection be for the zombie detecting the player?

[worthy flame]

is there a way to remove 1 foliage without it affecting other foliage? so it deletes everything from that one

?

nvm figured out

[heady quartz]

For my "zombies" i check the distance between the player and the zombie if its greater than 300 it moves to the player if its less it attacks and when the "attack" animation fires there are anim notifies that start a timer and clear it with "start attack" and "stop attack" and this timer does a line trace every frame and if its blocked by something it checks if the player was hit and then it fires my with do once "hit event" and a delay at the end that resets the do once node

[fading vector]

Yeah but what is telling your zombie attack animation to go off?

[heady quartz]

Its a behavior tree

[fading vector]

Ohh

I see

I don't have that part

All my "zombie" does is run towards the player

[heady quartz]

Read about behavior trees

[fading vector]

Thats exactly where I'm at 😛

Thanks 😄

[heady quartz]

https://youtu.be/zNJEvAGiw7w

I watched this series

[rancid lynx]

Are there different physics engines for UE4 that i can try? Or just the one that comes with ue4?

[heady quartz]

Why

[rancid lynx]

If the cavemen said that after inventing pointy sticks, we wouodnt even have diapers

Physics are the coolest part about engines. Im just curious

Also, block overlaps seem to be pretty finiky in ue4

Is there a way to make blocking more stable?

Its really easy to get blocking items to overlP in ue4. Are there Ny optionz to make blocking collisions much more solid?

[heady quartz]

I haven't working with physics to the point that i wanted to look up alternatives

[rancid lynx]

Ue4 physics are great. Im just curious about other optionz

What is nvidia physx? Those videos always look impressive. For example

[wary wave]

....UE4 uses Physx

[heady quartz]

🌚

[rancid lynx]

As easy as it is for two rectangular cubes to mush into each other. ThT surprises me.

[heady quartz]

Did you check the settings in the physics there are alot of settings to achive alot of different "physics?"

[rancid lynx]

Ill look harder.

[next badger]

Have anyone here issues with Epic logging you out too often? (website)

[rancid lynx]

No. But my nvidia experience shadowplay will never stay logged into youtube. Which is annoying as hell

[heady quartz]

No. But my Google account will never stay logged into mixamo. Which is annoying as hell

[lilac crow]

Hi, does anyone knows if you create project on low end GPU to run at for example 30fps, later on if you use better card to run the build will the fps increase? I created my project on 1060 gtx and I feel like it has few areas where fps drop down, so I was thinking to use my friends 1080Ti GPU to present my Thesis work.

[exotic thicket]

It will almost definitely run better on high end hardware yes, it's same as with any game really

[lament saddle]

If you have no framerate limit set, then yeah

OTOH if it's slowing down due to CPU reasons (game thread, draw thread) then no...

[lilac crow]

No I profiled it and its GPU

Sweet..thank you for help.

[tawdry heath]

hey guys how would I be able to disable jump when reloading weapon?

[carmine garnet]

I cant seem to figure out casting

It needs an object input

But im casting to an anim blueprint and nothing seems to work

What is the object input supposed to be

[exotic thicket]

you use casting to go from a "generic" class to a more "specific" class, ie. from parent to child class

for example, if you have an actor object, and you know it's a pawn, you can cast it to pawn

@tawdry heath you could probably have a bool variable IsReloading or something, and set it to true when you start reloading and to false when reload finishes. Then, check in your jump handling code whether the value is true or not

[tawdry heath]

I got the first part but wym by jump handling code

[exotic thicket]

Well, you need to have some code that decides when to jump :)

[tawdry heath]

it's when space is pressed it jumps

[exotic thicket]

Right, so you could check it there

[tawdry heath]

so I have to create a variable for jump?

[exotic thicket]

If you're using a Character, it might have a value that tells you if it's jumping, not sure

if it does, you can probably use that, but otherwise you would need to create your own variable

[fading vector]

I have this bit of code on my zombie, I'm using an AIPerception for touch and I have the stimulus on my player, however this is not working, any suggestions?

[plush yew]

Can someone help me with my problem I want to attach a gun to my character and when I do it its not there when I play error code: AttachTo: PersistentLevel.ThirdPersonCharacter_C_0.CollisionCylinder' root component cannot be attached to other components in the same actor. Aborting.

[heady quartz]

Check if you are attaching your player to the gun or the other way around

[tawdry heath]

@exotic thicket so this?

[exotic thicket]

@tawdry heath something like that could work, but note that it would turn it off as soon as you release the jump key

[tawdry heath]

so connect the released to the branch?

[fading vector]

Okay so I used a print

and its not firing off at all

[heady quartz]

Add a print to the updated event alone without the cast or branches

[fading vector]

let me try that

[heady quartz]

And check if its firing if its not then you found the problem

[fading vector]

It's not

Hmm

I wonder why its not firing

[heady quartz]

Then you ai perception is not working

Your

[fading vector]

Mhmm

Now the question is why

[heady quartz]

Did you add a hearing sense

[fading vector]

touch

[plush yew]

My gun is in da floor

[fading vector]

I could try another sense

I got sight to work, but had to enable enemies neutral and friendly

[tawdry heath]

@exotic thicket thanks I figured it out

[heady quartz]

So sight is working

You need to make a decerator that check for the player distance in the behavior tree

like this

[heady moon]

anybody knows the official resources? Cuz the course i enrolled in turned out to be outdated :/.

[heady quartz]

to achieve this

[worthy flame]

can anyone check this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1mSSi6PcfM&t=127s
and tell me how to get the aicontroller node in the CanSeePlayer Service

[heady quartz]

this is the decorator

@worthy flame

that video was before they added "pure" functions i believe so this works the same just type "get AiController" after dragging owner actor

[worthy flame]

ok thanks

[plush yew]

I have a mechanic where you shoot a stun gun at a enemy and he flees. Can I do this with pawn sensing or do i have to use behavior trees?

[heady moon]

anybody knows the official resources? Cuz the course i enrolled in turned out to be outdated :/.

sorry for asking this question twice

im just really concerned

[worthy flame]

@heady quartz can you check the vid again at 2:58? the decorator doesnt exist

sorry for ping

[worthy flame]

2:50* the decorator in the sequence

[fading vector]

I got this so far

[supple totem]

hi all, does anyone know if it is possible to hide a bone but show the children bones?

I might just have to use a material mask, but if I could do it in code I'd prefer it

thanks

[heady quartz]

@worthy flame what decorator?

[worthy flame]

this one

can see player

and also the find exit doesnt exist

[heady quartz]

you have to make them

these are custom

[worthy flame]

ok thanks

[fading vector]

@heady quartz So I added another perception to my AIperception on my zombie. So at this point I have touch and sight. I'm currently using sight to determine when the zombie will run at the player. However I'm not sure how to call on my touch..

[thick herald]

touch isn't the same as damage. #gameplay-ai

[fading vector]

I know touch and damage are different, I'm literally just trying to set a bool based on touch. I guess my question is how do I call on touch if I'm already calling on sight from the Break Stimulus.

[undone sinew]

What is the Concert Frontend module?

[thick herald]

@stark patio if you've not saw this before, it may help. it covers finding what sense is sensed. https://youtu.be/sbV7MT1nn28?list=PL4G2bSPE_8ukuajpXPlAE47Yez7EAyKMu&t=475

time stamped at the relevant bit.

[marsh swallow]

so i am not quite sure what i need to look at here. We are using Ultra Dynamic Sky and I am not sure its that because even if i disconnect the execution part of it the issue still occurs. Here is what the lighting looks in PIE when not in play

this is that same area.... while in play

the Skylight/sunlight are set to moveable.

Is this some post process setting or something

[thick herald]

adaptive eye/lens thingy?

[abstract relic]

If it is. Check in project setting and the post process volume

[marsh swallow]

i turned that off..... 🤔 i mean i did like 3 engines ago

lol

[abstract relic]

Blame the candles then

[marsh swallow]

😂

Nuuuuu

[west jewel]

does servertravel work when testing in standalone game mode? I saw it does not in PIE, but what about stand alone game mode?

[abstract relic]

Pie simulates both client and server.

So unlikely with stand alone

[marsh swallow]

oh wow.... im done for the day yall

[abstract relic]

Without proper set up at least

[marsh swallow]

ive had a post process setup on our character.

[abstract relic]

Nooo

[marsh swallow]

i did this like.... 4-5 months ago.

[abstract relic]

Noooooo

Why man

[marsh swallow]

to fight trueskys issues

we dumped truesky so now im still cleaning up

there was quite a few settings

[normal burrow]

DBZ uses "ultra dynamic sky sphere" on mp

[abstract relic]

To be fair. I’d like to know a better method to organize dumpster fire fixes too

[marsh swallow]

u serious?!

[normal burrow]

kakarot ye

[marsh swallow]

neat.

[normal burrow]

i dunno much about the skies on mp, but i think a lot of games go with that one.

[marsh swallow]

well i was wondering if he replicates the skies

i dont see it

but controlling the time variable literally controls the rest of the setup.

so im sure it would be easy to just replicate it.

he doesnt advert it as one however

[normal burrow]

idea of a single float in charge of so much makes my face want to implode a bit

but yeah, could base it on server time too

[marsh swallow]

😂

i am a man of simplicity

he does have randomization built in as well

[jovial pollen]

how do I fix this

both pins are connected

[heady quartz]

because whatever is connected to the "spawn actor" is not connected to anything

[plush yew]

can you send what does the message log say

[heady quartz]

if its connected to something that fires it will go away

[jovial pollen]

ok

ive never had this problem before ngl

its the same code for all my other AI

[fading vector]

Okay so good progress, but I ran into a bug

[honest rune]

was UWorldSubsystem just added in 4.24? I have never seen this one before

[fading vector]

I am the left character and my AI is the right. When I move back into the AI I instantly die, regardless of my health (max 100). The AI damage is set to 20 atm.

The code is a bit messy, but a lot better than my original stuff lol

[atomic onyx]

Show the Damage Player event bp

[honest rune]

try stepping through the blueprint's execution.

[fading vector]

Thats the damage player

[honest rune]

CheckPlayerDeath

[fading vector]

Well, I should note it damages normally in almost every other regard

Also traps work perfectly as well

It's just in this weird scenario that he 1 shots me

I'm thinking its an AI bug

[honest rune]

I'd step through the bp's execution to see if its being fired several times in sequence for some odd reason

[thick herald]

^ it looks like that would happen.

every time the receive activation runs it checks distance and if in range deals damage, so as long as the AI see's and is in range it will fire. Every frame, unless you've limited it elsewhere.

[open eagle]

I was bored

[fading vector]

Fixed it

Put the damage after the animation on the zombie itself

[topaz thunder]

Does anyone know how I can navigate through these files with only keyboard?

[exotic thicket]

Doesn't ctrl-tab go between the files at least?

ctrl-shift-tab probably in reverse order

[worldly dust]

So you cant reference the level blueprint, meaning you can't get or set variables, if you had UMG buttons to set and warp to locations, how would you go about setting those warp vectors per level?

[marsh swallow]

u would use blueprints.

with names and whatnot

and actually u can reference the level BP

i have done it for testing, but i dont think its good practice.

u can store the reference in game instance on level begin play.

[craggy flax]

Do I need anything special to display printed strings in viewport of game?

[worldly dust]

I am not able to figure out how to reference the level BP, other forum posts say it's impossible, it's only to allow others to quickly set and warp to points per level

[fluid ore]

howdy

[grim ore]

please try to not use the level BP if you can help it. Do you need level specific information? You can try setting it into the game mode for that level if you want to have multiple game modes. Alternately you could have something specific in that level that you could grab, say a BP actor called "LevelSpecificInfo" that just holds data you want to reference. Alternately if this is just data you can create a data table to hold the data and pull from that

[worldly dust]

I was just trying to create a simple way to get and set warp points with UMG buttons, I thought it would be best to store the warp point vectors in the level blueprint, so whenever someone else loads up the project with a different level, their buttons would be able to get and set the warp vectors from the level they have open, this would just be for development and removed on project completion

[fluid ore]

has anyone had success spawning actors? I am running into a weird issue where I'm trying to spawn a Character Blueprint, but the mesh stays floating in space while the capsule falls to the ground and does all of the actual movement. The mesh does all the correct animations as the capsule moves, and the only fix is to change any setting on the blueprint at runtime during simulation. I am starting to think that I've run into a weird UE bug.

[grim ore]

yep you can just use an editor only BP to store that info then if you want. new blueprint actor. make sure it's tagged as editor only inside of the details panel for it. Expose an array variable of your warp points and you can set them from inside the editor itself .

alternately you can technically push your points to the umg itself if you want, your level blueprint can find other stuff its just other stuff really cant find the level blueprint. It's a remnant from a day long ago and is reaaaaaally not the best place to do anything if possible

there are a few ways of doing it but I have a feeling you are using the level BP just due to the ease of being able to hard reference an actor in the level by right clicking in the level bp

[worldly dust]

I see, I also understand now that level BP is kind of a unique deal, maybe it would be best to, as you say, create a BP or datatable for LevelSpecificInfo to hold the vectors for each level

[grim ore]

in the olden days of the engine kismet (blueprints now) was tied to the level. there was no real concept of unique actors holding the kismet code it was all done in the level but with UE4 they have changed that but the level BP is there because some stuff used to need it like matinee events (which is no longer the case)

[grizzled ember]

Hey guys. Can you help me? I have a problem with skeleton virtual bones. They cannot be found/disappeared when I test the build.

[grim ore]

@fluid ore they should work fine when spawned. Is this just a new blank character bp you added your mesh to? it sounds like you might have changed some of the collision settings somewhere if this is happening

[worldly dust]

Ah okay, thank you for the help!

[grim ore]

eliminate the obvious first, make a new level using the level with just the sky and the ground and hit play

[fluid ore]

it was first my own cpp character extending class, I am able to reproduce it with just a Character that I made into a blueprint

@grim ore manually placing the Characters has them working perfectly

[grim ore]

in a new level hitting play will use the player start point and they will spawn in

[fluid ore]

ahhh ok, thanks ill try the new level

[grim ore]

that will let us know if its the level, the character, the way you spawn it, etc. depending on what happens

[fluid ore]

is it ever advisable to update projects from 1 version to another?

[grim ore]

assuming you make a backup, yes. A new version might have a feature or fix you need. On a long term real project? Normally you commit to a version and ship on it.

[fluid ore]

same issue :(

I believe the project was on 4.23 and was bumped to 4.24

[grim ore]

so in a new level it spawns in your character without you making any changes but your character is not attached to the capsule anymore?

[fluid ore]

if i change the characters name he snaps back

[main fulcrum]

Has annyone used TrueSKY? I am trying to make a ship mode float and bounce reacting to waves and following the tutorial from them i can seem to make it to work

[fluid ore]

@grim ore if i change anything it snaps back

[fading vector]

How can I reference a variable from my blackboard on my character/ai

[hearty walrus]

Hey has anyone got a FIXED svg of the unreal engine's logo. Every time I open it in blender it just shows a lot of blank squares

[grim ore]

all of the logos on the branding page work for me in AI or Inkscape. maybe import it into one of those then re export it out?

@fluid ore that is weird. since this is custom code I dont know if I could even guess without seeing more but even then 😦

[hearty walrus]

Here's what all the files look like in blender

[fluid ore]

@grim ore thanks for looking at my question, do you know if there's a way to have super verbose logs?

[hearty walrus]

Also, how do I design and use icons for games

[grim ore]

@fading vector it looks like you should be able to get the blackboard from the AI character itself, then do a get value from that blackboard for what you want

[hearty walrus]

They've always stumped me - i'm talking about desktop icons e.g.

[grim ore]

https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/23170/why-cant-i-import-a-svg-file-from-adobe-illustrator-or-inkscape

and you can use any art program to make icons they are just pixels

[hearty walrus]

It's converted using online-convert

How do I design good logos

The game I'm focusing on is about stormchasing, with a planned sub-zero DLC

[grim ore]

your literally asking how to do art

[hearty walrus]

yes

I can do everything else BUT desktop icons

[grim ore]

@fluid ore by default the logging level is kinda set by the log command itself when it's called and the output log has it all enabled. can't really get more unless you were to do some weird stuff like walking the code stack in VS debugging mode

[trim trail]

were there any hints for new lightmass baker in 4.25? 😦

[fading vector]

Is there a way I could enable a ragdoll effect using the mannequin's bones?

In blueprints that is

[fading vector]

nvm

[fluid ore]

@fading vector dont you just enable physics on the mesh?

[fading vector]

Kind of

I didn't know that was a thing lol

Also had to set the collision to ragdoll

[manic burrow]

how do i make the sky all black, so there is no light on the bottom?

im using bp_skysphere

[carmine garnet]

Yikes

[manic burrow]

do know? @carmine garnet

[abstract relic]

Set the horizon colour in override setting to black

[placid arrow]

argh

whats happened to copy and paste in the ue4.24 editor?!

if i select a bunch of cubes static mesh components and paste them, it pastes them all with one of the objects i paste set as its parent

i dont want one of them to be the parent of the rest, can this new behaviour be turned off please?

[manic burrow]

@abstract relic doesnt seem to work

i tried making them all black, and still doesn't work

[abstract relic]

Make sure you refresh it

If not, turn off use directional light to calculate

[fading vector]

Could I get some assistance with this line trace?

I'm trying to make it to where if my character is not facing an enemy they don't do damage

Because the animation swings the sword and the back of it keeps hitting them

Like behind the character

I'm like that shouldn't do damage...

[abstract relic]

Grab from On hit, then add Break hit result

[fading vector]

On hit?

Let me explain my setup rq

[abstract relic]

The dark blue pin

No

[fading vector]

oh ok

[abstract relic]

😜

[fading vector]

Okay so this break hit result

I have never seen it before xD

[abstract relic]

Regardless of everything, you’re going to need break hit result

[fading vector]

Fair point

Can break this down for me?

Linetrace is a new concept to me entirely

[abstract relic]

Basically you want to sort what’s triggering the line trace

Otherwise it’ll always trigger if you point it to a cube or wall or literally anything

[fading vector]

I see

So in this case hit component?

or an actor

[abstract relic]

It can be actor

And set it to watch for pawns

Or the player specifically

[fading vector]

little messy but will this do?

[abstract relic]

This is in the player bp?

[fading vector]

Yeah

I was gonna make a function

[abstract relic]

Alright time to learn something new

[fading vector]

Atm just testing functionality and all that

Yay

[abstract relic]

Use blueprint interface

[fading vector]

bp interface?

Ohh

See I'm using a combat interface from a tutorial

is it sorta like that?

[abstract relic]

It’s a declare function. Good for when you need to send information to another bp based on events

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Blueprints/UserGuide/Types/Interface/index.html

https://youtu.be/G_hLUkm7v44

[fading vector]

Hmm, so I should re-do my damage system then?

Because atm damage is based off of a function in each character/ai

[abstract relic]

You hurt my heart

[fading vector]

I'm sorry ;-;

[abstract relic]

There should already be a Damage node

[fading vector]

Like built in?

[abstract relic]

Yes

[fading vector]

Mmm, wow

The more ya know

But what about a health system?

[abstract relic]

Double checking that the node exist

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

Yeah

You’ll still need to hp logic

Of course Mathew has a video for everything

https://youtu.be/8RuMckVAA4c

[rancid lynx]

CAST TO Actor is much faster than Get All Actors of Class, right ?

[fading vector]

Haha, I'll check it out

[rancid lynx]

cast tos are alot safer to use, correct ?

[abstract relic]

Isn’t cast to still checking for all regardless?

@normal burrow , need wisdom

[normal burrow]

Cast is not slow in general

Get All Actors of Class is going to be many times worse when you are looking for a single object

Basically, you use Get All Actors of Class when you need all actors of the class.

you use cast when you want to check if something is of that class

having a list of all actors and trying to cast all of them to your type should be avoided

[rancid lynx]

oh pat, what if there is only 1 instance of an actor, and then i "get all actors"

is that much much faster?

[normal burrow]

not faster than cast

[fading vector]

I wanna cry

So I could've used this whole damage system

and made my life a lot easier

[normal burrow]

cast == very fast

[fading vector]

Not to mention its more hack/cheat proof because its on the server

[abstract relic]

You learnt stuff though yes?

[fading vector]

Yes

[abstract relic]

Then it’s never a lost

[fading vector]

Ah true true

I'm gonna go setup this damage now

[normal burrow]

You should enjoy the days where you learn things :D

[rancid lynx]

yea. it took me a long time to find interface information. but once i did, the editor got much stronger.

[normal burrow]

having a day where you put effort in and learn nothing happens sometimes

[rancid lynx]

ue4 interfaces really should be a sticky video tip when you load up ue4 X_x haha

[normal burrow]

important to remember that your the one in charge

but yeah knowing the procedures is good

[rancid lynx]

i started making "goal" "notes" on twitter.

when i sit down at ue4, sometimes im blank about what to do next.

so i just check my 4am wake up idea twitter

i used to use pencil and paper, it was really fun feeling.. but a hastle, when i want to sleep haha

[abstract relic]

Experience is the bitterest yet the most powerful

[exotic thicket]

I like using the OneNote app in Windows 10 for notes and other quick things

[rancid lynx]

my wife loves that app

[exotic thicket]

It allows just enough formatting and stuff like images to be nice, but not so much that I'd spend all day formatting things lol

[rancid lynx]

oh

[tawdry heath]

hey guys why does this not work? https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/dkz-58x7/

[rancid lynx]

do you have to jack with saving the notes? i dont like trying to fish thought old notes.

thats why i just use "wtf was i thinking 2 days ago " twitter

[exotic thicket]

OneNote saves and syncs whatever you put in it automatically

[rancid lynx]

ahh. thats why my wife loves it i guess.

[abstract relic]

Twitter is a place for word diarrhea

[exotic thicket]

@tawdry heath that looks like it should work. Are you sure the problem is in that block and not in Deactivate ADS?

[rancid lynx]

it also doubles as a free auto sync across everything notepad : )

[normal burrow]

On twiter, can i complain about stuff?

[rancid lynx]

not in china

lol

[exotic thicket]

I've taken to unfollowing people who bitch and moan too much on twitter :p

[abstract relic]

google drive

[tawdry heath]

ok so I set an animation notify where if it starts to jump it disables ads, that works, but when character jumps then you can ads in the air

[exotic thicket]

because I've noticed most people who do that never actually do anything else so I have no reason to follow them lol

[tawdry heath]

is it possible to set an animation notify for the whole animation?

[rancid lynx]

is there a "if jumping true" node ?

i think, that should work.

[exotic thicket]

Before you go into ADS, you could check for the variables, no? Ie. check is jumping and check is in the air

There is a "Can Jump" value in Character - you might actually be able to use that

I would assume that Can Jump will be false if you have jumped or are in the air, because obviously you can't jump when that happens

although you probably should check to make sure it actually works that way, I'm just going based on my assumptions :)

[fading vector]

@abstract relic Do you think it would be smart to use a line trace with a sword?

[abstract relic]

Yes

[fading vector]

Okay

[tawdry heath]

I am confusion

are you saying I should do it here? https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/z4phpg-9/

[abstract relic]

You don’t want to use a box collision or similar on moving objects. Unreasonably performance heavy

[exotic thicket]

@tawdry heath yeah, if you don't want to be able to ADS during jumping or while in the air, you would need to check those conditions when the user tries to ADS :)

[tawdry heath]

ok that works, now when my character lands he no longer can ADS

[exotic thicket]

It sounds like one of the booleans maybe did not get reset correctly after landing

Maybe try using the Can Jump value from Character instead?

[tawdry heath]

so now I need a "Landed" variable?

[exotic thicket]

I think the Can Jump property should update automatically depending on if the Character is landed or not, so you could just check that instead of having to use several variables to track the state

[halcyon flame]

hey guys just wanted to share a beautiful little bundle of nodes. they rarely fit together this well.

[fading vector]

@abstract relic The reason I'm supposed to use the BPI is so that I don't have to use different variables on each ai/character?

[tawdry heath]

ok everything works but now when my character lands the ADS no longer works

[abstract relic]

More so you don’t need to cast to every possible actor that may be able to receive damage. Instead, you’re telling it to check if the affected actor has the interface and running whatever function you set up for it

[fading vector]

Oh, because casting is expensive right?