ue4-general

[plush yew]

am trying to do this way the way i think i will able to

i will make some parts Static and put it on the wep

and apply the emission to them

is that a bad thing?

So I've reinstalled UE4, and my problem still persists. Should I mess around with my network settings and switch some ports or..?

 1:12:39 AM:  ... registering SwarmAgent with remoting service
 1:12:39 AM:  ... registering SwarmAgent network channels
 1:12:39 AM: [ERROR] Channel registration failed. Reason: No such host is known
 , Callstack:    at System.Net.Dns.GetAddrInfo(String name)
    at System.Net.Dns.InternalGetHostByName(String hostName, Boolean includeIPv6)
    at System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(String hostNameOrAddress)
    at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.CoreChannel.GetMachineName()
    at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.CoreChannel.GetMachineIp()
    at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpServerChannel.SetupMachineName()
    at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpServerChannel..ctor(Int32 port)
    at Agent.AgentApplication.Main(String[] args) in D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Saved\CsTools\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealSwarm\Agent\AgentApplication.cs:line 133.```

[jolly steppe]

if you're using Blender 2.8 you have to make sure you're in pose mode and rotate the bone by clicking on it, and pressing R @hollow tusk

[grim ore]

well for a simple mask like an emissive I think the alpha would be fine as a place to store it since most textures wont use it anyways for good use

[normal burrow]

hm yeah, multiplied emissive is a weird thing though

[jolly steppe]

really?

[grim ore]

@plush yew it's not a bad thing. You could technically if you have the model just apply a 2nd material channel to those items and when it's in UE4 you have 2 materials on that mesh

[jolly steppe]

That's how I do it

I thought that's how you had to do it

to make it brighter.

[plush yew]

OK mate i will give it a try and let you know what happened big thanks

[hollow tusk]

@jolly steppe could you dm me?

[jolly steppe]

sure

[normal burrow]

you don't have to use the base color for emissive

you can make something green emit red etc

[grim ore]

@plush yew when UE4 first kicks on lightmass and swarm it asks for network permissions. Is it possible your firewall blocked it?

[jolly steppe]

Yeah but when I make something emissive and use a different color/texture it still isn't that bright unless I multiply it.

[normal burrow]

yeah you need to crank up emissive to get the right brightness regardless

i mean unless your using float32 textures formats with exr

where you can go above 1 in the texture

you just don't need have the base color pick up on emissive in a way it shouldn't

or vice versa

[grim ore]

emissive neeeeeeeeds to go to 11 to get the poooower!

[plush yew]

In both Inbound and Outbound Rules, my Swarm Agent has access to both Private and Public networks

[jolly steppe]

MOAR POWA!!!

[normal burrow]

sparkles need like * 8000

[jolly steppe]

damn

[normal burrow]

the emissive component of the image is the only thing that doesn't go to a gbuffer

so its not clamped by texture constraints

[jolly steppe]

oooh I see

I think I might be missing something then. I'll play around with it when I get home.

[grim ore]

@plush yew ok so the next questions is have you tried to build on a new blank map and project? Is it specific to this project or everything. New project, blank, hit build, and?

[plush yew]

I have made a new project and it did the same thing

[abstract relic]

These sparkles pat? Never knew, though sounds about right :P

https://youtu.be/bIZpT21Pnm4?t=24

[grim ore]

@plush yew so the code looks like it tries to connect to 127.0.0.1 directly unless you set it to another address. Assuming you didnt change your swarm settings have you messed with anthing in your hosts file in windows?

[plush yew]

No, not that I know of

[calm crow]

Hi, I'm having trouble logging in to the unreal-engine forum, I have this message:

[normal burrow]

@abstract relic ye those sparkles are like 8000^3

at the center.

[abstract relic]

oh lord

[dull hawk]

I am unsure where this question should go, I am unsure of what the LogAbilitySystem: Warning: is wanting me to do. Only reason I ask now is because my project will be getting larger.

I'm in the .ini file now

[grim ore]

@plush yew damn at this point maybe check your swarm agent and see if you can reset it or any of it's settings looks weird ENGINE INSTALL DIR\Engine\Binaries\DotNET\swarmagent.exe and run it then open it from the task bar

[blissful sorrel]

@grim ore how did you get your pixelstreaming setup to work? mine stays stuck on the "click to start"

[plush yew]

Under Developer dropdown, Restarting QA and Worker Agents throws a dotnet exception, same with Network dropdown options.

[grim ore]

@blissful sorrel is the server running on the local machine or a separate machine?

[blissful sorrel]

local

[grim ore]

does the server show that the project is connected to the server?

I beleive it will say the streamer has connected

[calm crow]

Can you connect ?

[grim ore]

@plush yew damn at this point something is weird with your network would be my only guess but it just happened when you upgraded right?

[blissful sorrel]

stays like this after opening project

[plush yew]

Yep. I haven't been touching anything before it.

[grim ore]

you dont need the web rtc proxy running, and your project is not connected is why

does the project have the plugin enabled, is it running in standalone or packaged, does it have the correct command line options

[blissful sorrel]

I do this with both standalone and package

this is my parameters

[grim ore]

I am guessing you are running stuff you dont need, the matchmaker stuff is not needed if doing this

[plush yew]

Could it be because I'm connected to a sub network of my wifi network? Should I go back to the main net and attempt to build again?

[grim ore]

@plush yew you could try disabling networking completely

[blissful sorrel]

@grim ore nah I'm just using the singlewebserver, is it the npm setup causing it?

[plush yew]

ALright and should I attempt to build after disabling it?

[grim ore]

it might be, mine only opens 1 screen as you can see. you should be able to just run run.bat and it works

@plush yew if we think it's a networking thing yeah. Disable the adapter in your network settings, make sure you restart UE if needed ,and try building

[calm crow]

@FORUM_MODS Why i have this message

with firefox

[plush yew]

Aight

[calm crow]

but opera for example have right toolbar ?

is it possible to mention someone that work for forum ?

[blissful sorrel]

@grim ore what npm version do you use? are they pre-built binaries

[grim ore]

I am using the LTS version of Node and everything it came with, nothing special

I literally am doing a video on this on a clean machine recently and i just installed the LTS, ran the run.bat, and it worked. looks like its 12.16.0

[calm crow]

privacy badger seem's to block unreal sign-in

[grim ore]

not much we can do if your plugin is blocking it

[calm crow]

Well, plugin block facebook sign-in

not epic games

[grim ore]

well plugin seems to block epic game as well

[calm crow]

Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers. Instead of keeping lists of what to block, Privacy Badger learns by watching which domains appear to be tracking you as you browse the Web.

Privacy Badger sends the Do Not Track signal with your browsing. If trackers ignore your wishes, your Badger will learn to block them. Privacy Badger starts blocking once it sees the same tracker on three different websites.

🤔

ok

i'll send report to the firefox plugin team

Thanks anyways

[maiden swift]

Done in 4.25 list was updated. 👀 https://trello.com/b/TTAVI7Ny/ue4-roadmap

[hollow tusk]

@grim ore Are you good with retargeting?

[grim ore]

@hollow tusk I should be but I am not, I know the basics on the web page

[hollow tusk]

Ahh well, someone said you were.

[grim ore]

man the "Auto Exposure Updates" should basically just say "disabled by default"

[maiden swift]

😂

[grim ore]

you cant fix rotation in retargeting as far as I know

[hollow tusk]

Can I fix this with retargeting alone? I've tried altering the mesh itself with no luck

Shoot

[grim ore]

but in the retarget options on the skeleton have you tried retargeting against the animation and not the skeleton

[hollow tusk]

How would I do that?

[grim ore]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/Images/Engine/Animation/AnimationRetargeting/RetargetingSettings.jpg

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

its in the skeleton itself, there is a drop down for advanced options and one of them unlocks the translation retargeting.

by default I am pretty sure it's skeleton, you could try animation and see if it changes anything

but if you have rotations that don't match your retarget it's just gonna have an issue

[plush yew]

Same thing with the network disabled.

I restarted Epic and UE4 and made sure there were no background instances of both and of Swarm too

[grim ore]

@plush yew it sounds like something is wrong with your network for some reason but that makes no sense if it works in previous versions (epic must have changed something obviously)

[plush yew]

I'll try it on my main network as well

[grim ore]

if you never manually adjusted your hosts file, maybe something else did but even then that would be odd

I mean you could check the file to see if it's got weird entries but that is a long shot

[plush yew]

@grim ore My way didnt work 😄

just ganna ask you one last thing

I'm about to do that

i can Type on the sword and maybe make that one Esmission color

i need masking for that ask well?

[grim ore]

pretty much yep, you need to somehow tell your color (your emissive color) to only show up on certain parts of the model

if your certain parts are one complete material then you are fine, if it's parts of a larger texture then yeah you have to mask it out usually

[plush yew]

From the looks of it the file hasn't been touched

[grim ore]

yep looks clean. I doubt something is on that port I mean I guess you could try deleting the entries from the firewall and have it ask again but normally the firewall access issue is just a simple "it never runs, its stuck at 0%" and not crash lol

[plush yew]

I'll try deleting the entries

[blissful sorrel]

@grim ore I think I got it right now, did a new install of node 😄

now I just need to know why it does this

[grim ore]

eep but the first part looks great, it's just waiting on the plugin to connect to it now

if I might ask what did you have installed before for node that was not working.

you might also try connecting to localhost instead of 127.0.0.1 in the event that helps in the launch parameters in your project

[blissful sorrel]

I had node 8 installed

[grim ore]

oh...

[blissful sorrel]

the pixelstreaming for 4.23 was older and node 12 wasn't working with it

[hollow tusk]

@grim ore can I just change the base rotation of a joint, to make it look a little nicer?

Or does thjat not work?

[grim ore]

that is a good point the docs do not specify a version lol

[blissful sorrel]

which sucks big time lol, kept wondering why the heck it's not working

4.24 and 4.23 got different packages

[grim ore]

no I am glad you ran into it, might be a good idea for me to test it on 8,10,12,13 to figure out the baseline and what works and let epic know

[blissful sorrel]

thanks, will do!

[grim ore]

@hollow tusk you can yes, if you open the skeleton you can see the location and rotation for each bone and change them and save the skeleton back out.

[brave salmon]

I'm sorry but this version is the worst since 4.3

so many issues with Editor...

[grim ore]

@hollow tusk for the most part tho it should be fixed if you have the source in your source program

[abstract relic]

Delete /intermediate folder. Open task manager, make sure there isn't a duplicate project running

[plush yew]

No change in the output whatsoever, I removed the Firewall rules, launched, same thing and added my own rules, launched, still nada.

[normal burrow]

Also twofaced, check your errors

your message log, it might be screaming at you on why its not able to save

[open eagle]

dead mannequin pile anyone?

[thick herald]

yes

it is.

[blissful sorrel]

you might also try connecting to localhost instead of 127.0.0.1 in the event that helps in the launch parameters in your project
@grim ore hmm, using localhost gives me a IPv4 parsing error

will try just directly connecting my IP to see if that changes anything

[grim ore]

-PixelStreamingIP=localhost -PixelStreamingPort=8888 is what I use without issue.

so many people having network issues today 😦

[blissful sorrel]

ran a portcheck to see if it's just me being bamboozled but all my ports are open 😅

[jolly steppe]

What have you done to the mannequin!!!

[blissful sorrel]

at a lost, fix one thing and another pops up 💀

[plush yew]

https://gyazo.com/24a2c87b83426f591e4f024d365e44d4

I am using Event BeginPlay to add the sword to my hand as the game start

but

i want to use BeginPlay as well for other stuff to add more items to my body

and i cant do that each time i try to make BeginPlay it show me this one

any thoughts?

BatMan MatheW where are you

:DDD

I think if you shine a spotlight with a bat onto the cloudy night sky, Batman might appear. Dunno.

[misty creek]

@plush yew You can only have one event being play, but you could either use a sequence node or just add the code after what you already have

[grim ore]

^^^

Event Begin Play is you, there is only one you. Just shove more stuff into you if you want it to do more 😛

[plush yew]

@misty creek Sequene?

[open eagle]

Why are my fps going from 100 to 29 when i hit the play in editor buttomn

and when I eject, they go back to normal

[jolly steppe]

if you right click and type sequence you'll find it

[plush yew]

@grim ore 😄

[jolly steppe]

it's pretty handy

[craggy flax]

Def

[plush yew]

Holy shit

[jolly steppe]

but you might be able to just put it in after something else

[plush yew]

Sequene will split it into as much as i want?

Will split on beginplay*

[jolly steppe]

Yeah but idk if it's a great idea to make 100 sequences? xD Someone else know?

[misty creek]

You should be able to add as many pins as you want

[craggy flax]

^

[plush yew]

@jolly steppe You are my god

this is new to me hehe

was having trouble with that stuff

[jolly steppe]

Hey it was Tate that mentioned it 😅

[plush yew]

wth

[grim ore]

you dont "need" the sequence to do what you want, it just cleans it up. After you attached there was nothing stopping you from spawning another and attaching again

[craggy flax]

^ again lol

[plush yew]

@misty creek meant you mate 😄

[jolly steppe]

Tate, I'm taking your credit! >:D xD

aw : <

[plush yew]

@grim ore i want to add if he have the sword or not

[jolly steppe]

Is it okay to use as many sequences as you want then?

[plush yew]

if he dosent have it i want it to spawn next to hes chest

Or is it bad idea to use too many sequences?

[grim ore]

then you use an if and change the attach point

[misty creek]

Hey, you are welcome to it! 😄

[jolly steppe]

like it won't be performance heavy?

[open eagle]

could someone help me with this FPS issue

[craggy flax]

Branch with hassword conditon?

[open eagle]

they go down drastically whenever I play in editor

[grim ore]

you dont even need an if if you are just selecting between 2 things. You can use a select on boolean node and feed in two sockets

[plush yew]

And i dont think that will work as BeginPlay will only happen

[jolly steppe]

buy an RTX Titan for better fps

[grim ore]

@open eagle run stat unit in the console and see what it says

[plush yew]

as i start the game

[jolly steppe]

x)

kidding, don't

[plush yew]

@grim ore last question

how i can make if i Press T do this

and if i Press T again turn it off

[open eagle]

when I eject i get 12ms on frame

when I play in editor and possess a pawn I get 35

[wary wave]

now would be a good time for you to read up on profiling tools on the UE4 docs site

[open eagle]

something tells me optimizing my level is not the problem

it runs fine when I am not possessing a pawn

[grim ore]

when you do stat unit it shows more info, like CPU GPU and such. Is your CPU going up? you might have stuff running on tick heavily

and profiling can tell you what is taking up that frame time exactly

[open eagle]

game thread stays at 5ms

[grim ore]

profile when possessed, few seconds later eject and then stop and check the entire profile

[wary wave]

^

[open eagle]

how do I start profile capture

its command right

[grim ore]

so which stat goes up when you possess?

[open eagle]

GPU and Frame

[grim ore]

so maybe you have a post process effect running on the player camera?

or the FPS is set to cap at 30fps

[open eagle]

oh yeah idk what this post process volume was doing

as soon as I deleted it everything went to 120

[grim ore]

and solution

[open eagle]

(FPS)

[grim ore]

@plush yew you can use the same code to attach the object (dont need to respawn it unless you want to delete the old and spawn a new) on key press (set up input on project settings. You can use a flip flop node to toggle between the two

you can either get the attached object and move it or you can save the object after you spawn it for later and refer to it that way

[jolly steppe]

I made a cursed image in #lounge if anyone wants to see x)

[open eagle]

holy crap idk what that post process was doing

[jolly steppe]

I have no idea if that's bad or not

[open eagle]

oh when I open snipping tool the stats get messed up

[jolly steppe]

cpu 18.90 ms.

[open eagle]

its because UE4 is not the active window

[jolly steppe]

oh

[open eagle]

I can make the game thread go up to 143 if i click on the window and drag for a long time

[brazen knot]

Wondering what the best and cheapest online source control would be

Currently I just have a Google Edu account that I use Google Drive Sync with so I can access all the files

[grim ore]

i use bitbucket and git as its free

[open eagle]

git limits to 1GB

so you can only sync source folder

not the actual project files

I mean github

[grim ore]

you can sync whatever you want if its under that limit plus you have git-lfs

otherwise you can look into a cheap hosted perforce setup on like digitalocean or rolling your own on a free amazon ec2

[storm burrow]

UE4 saves the engine install directories/paths in the registry.

But only until version 4.22

I can't find 4.23 and 4.24

[jolly steppe]

So I'm trying to figure out how to have a color curve that I can control with an alpha.

This is what I have now, but I'd like to have more colors in there

is there something like a graph where I can add a third color and have that color apply at 0?

0-.1

[normal burrow]

you make a gradient thing

[brazen knot]

#graphics Will answer your question @jolly steppe

Ask in there

[sweet relic]

@jolly steppe https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Rendering/Materials/CurveAtlasesInMaterials/index.html

[jolly steppe]

oooh okay! thanks!

[rotund scroll]

well here's a gem from the documentation:

[plush yew]

https://gyazo.com/16fa2be81355c311aa329292e4403eab

Guys wth is this :DDD

The sword is not even in a socket

how is it still there?>

[fallen marten]

Maybe it's part of the mesh? Why isnt the mesh located at 0,0,0 btw? Did you move it in the editor?

[frail rover]

is there a help section?

[abstract relic]

#more-resources

[frail rover]

i don't see any help section

I guess this section is?

[normal burrow]

All the sections are the help sections except lounge

[frail rover]

Notice the line ? There is like 4 plane between them. Is this on my end for the material or somethin else

[normal burrow]

not seeing the line?

[frail rover]

see it better now?

Look at the center

[normal burrow]

yeah

is this a landscape?

[frail rover]

no

A cube

of 4

with more polys

[normal burrow]

how are you generating the uv coordinates in the material?

(maybe post a image of the material)

[frail rover]

Tex Coordinate and consts ? the default value.

[normal burrow]

If the texture repeats, try using [world vertex position] then [component mask] to R and G and [multiply] that by 0.1 then plug it into the texture coordinate on the texture sample

[frail rover]

it isn't repeating xD

I made 5 or 6 cube

and placed them together

[normal burrow]

it could be the material or the placement of the cubes

[frail rover]

they r aligned properly

Could be the material I guess

sheittt.

[normal burrow]

because the preview has different' lighting

[rancid lynx]

is it possible to change the color of the white line between notes? id like to make mine like .5 brightness

i think not. i tried to look at the color bars.

[high sedge]

Which one should I pick if I'm trying to create still images? Sorry I'm new and switching from SFM to Unreal

[grave osprey]

Looking for critics for my work.

[sharp crest]

I upgraded from 4.22 to 4.24 and my vehicle broke, it's similar to the advanced template one. Any idea why? I can't move with it anymore. Please ping @ me if you respond. Thanks.

[rustic python]

Hey. Bit of a noob question. I've got the character setup, I've got the idle > walk all good to go, how do I play as the character haha?

[sharp crest]

google animation blueprint tutorial @rustic python

[rustic python]

tyty

[plush yew]

@rustic python you would set it up from project settings or world settings,world settings is in window>world settings I imagine

[sharp crest]

what

he is talking about the animations

[plush yew]

@sharp crest he is not asking for a tutorial,he is asking how to play as the character

[sharp crest]

oh then just select the skeletal mesh in the mesh component of the character in bp folder

he still needs an anim bp tho

[plush yew]

He hasnt even set up a anim,just saw that

How did he do that then 🥴

[sharp crest]

do what

😅

[rustic python]

oooooooh right haha

[plush yew]

Knew the steps to make the idle walk if he wasnt watching a tutorial lol

[rustic python]

I did follow a tutorial

[sharp crest]

Idk magic maybe

[rustic python]

guess it wasnt a good 1 lol

[plush yew]

@high sedge i don't know about the new interface they have,but i would imagine if you pick games it would get you to another tab where you pick a preset

I made a github visualization of my project

It would be so cool if i started using github earlier

[rustic python]

Still trying to find the option haha. Followed the BP's and stuff but everytime I hit play I just get to control a floating camers. is there a button Im supposed to press haha? again sorry if this is super obvious its my first day loool

[grim ore]

is that a character?

if so click on the blueprint in the world outliner in the top right, find the Auto Possess Player options, and change it to Player 0

[sharp crest]

@rustic python did you try the character template?

[high sedge]

And how do I make Unreal engine stop booting up fucking steamvr every single time I start it

[grim ore]

go to plugins in the editor, search for VR, disable plugins, restart, profit?

[sharp crest]

I don't think that's quite the profit part

[rustic python]

Havent done any character template yet.

Just looking for the auto posses button

[grim ore]

it wont be there if that is not a character

hence the "is that a character? if so ... " part

so what is the parent class of that?

[rustic python]

The tutorial I followed showed me to set it up as a character

[grim ore]

then you should be good. There is a search bar you can use

[high sedge]

And why is it freezing at 39% what the fuck

[grim ore]

building shaders/annoying people

actually I think 39% is more DDC creation

45% is shader and uh 83% is another set of shader

[high sedge]

its completely stuck

[grim ore]

check your task manager

[normal burrow]

do you just have a lot of projects matheww? or is there some resource on these numbers lol

[high sedge]

Yeah it's not budging at all. Technically not "Not responding", but it's memory use is stagnant and it's holding around 9-10% cpu usage

[normal burrow]

what cpu?

if its a quad core, it could take some time dragonslayer

if you see ShaderCompileWorker.exe running (multiple of them) its doing something

[grim ore]

do you have visual studio installed?

@normal burrow I have installed UE4 many times and made many many many many projects and opened many many (all) examples

[normal burrow]

pretty good you can remember percents like that hah

[grim ore]

plus that question is now what 5 years old lol?

like I said earlier I just remember alot of stuff lol

[high sedge]

Ryzen 5 1600 oc'd to 3.75ghz

[grim ore]

do you have visual studio installed? or have you installed it at some point?

[high sedge]

It's not using much cpu

and vs is installed

[grim ore]

did you install incredibuild because it said it would make your stuff faster

because if you did and didn't pay for it.....

[high sedge]

ugh

I installed it because i had to take a programming class earlier in the semester and grabbed a bunch of things I thought I might need

[grim ore]

the free version limits the # of cores that can be used and it uses incredibuild for this stuff

just run the VS installer and remove incredibuild and restart you should be fine

[normal burrow]

second time i've seen that happen to someone.

[abstract relic]

Pretty nasty tactic

[normal burrow]

I think unreal must check if its installed or something when it goes to build. It is pretty evil though yeah

[high sedge]

As if the programming class didn't stress me out enough from just the course material...

i just wanna make pretty pictures dammit

[grim ore]

these are all good problems tho because hopefully there might be a faq type collection of videos that might be somewhere for reasons like this 🙂

[carmine garnet]

is there a way to just

smooth out a single float value without a bunch of complex nodes

just reduce the max rate of change

[normal burrow]

Define complex

[carmine garnet]

seems like all the nodews for it are so specific and complicated

lerp and finterp need 2 values

i just wanna smooth out one

[normal burrow]

F interp to constant does the limiting you speak of pudin

[carmine garnet]

to constant?

[lilac wedge]

No idea why but all my create save games stopped working on my andriod but work in editor (using blueprints 4.24), i can not longer create save game files

[normal burrow]

F interp (constant) yeah

[carmine garnet]

doesnt that need 2 input values?

[normal burrow]

Need delta seconds yeah

Otherwise frame rate would determine how fast the thing can move

[carmine garnet]

no

that has the current and the target intput

i need it to not have a target

and just smoothh out that float

[normal burrow]

Then you need another float

Variable

[carmine garnet]

but i dont have another varyable and dont know how to make one

i just wanna smoth it

can i do this?

it crashed my comp last time

[grim ore]

no you cannot do that

and shouldnt as you would never use that value

and you need variables, you need atleast your input, your goal, and how much you want between (your smooth value), that you would then use over time to get your smooth effect

so what do you mean by smooth might be a better question, what are you trying to do

[carmine garnet]

im trying to limit the rate of change of the floor angle into my root bone transform

my world is low poly so it makes the root bone jump around

i want it to smoothly go from one value to the next

[grim ore]

ok so you need the start value, the end value, and the amount it should change over time and then you need the new value to set. then you repeat till your time to goal is reached or your value is reached

you can use a timeline to do it over time, or you can use an interp like above to do it over time but you still need to do it over time (your anim bp ticks so simply feeding the values into the interp would be fine letting it go over time from the current to the goal)

[carmine garnet]

oaky

im gonna try somethin

uuuuuuuuuuuuugh

o shiti did it

it didnt work with finterp but it worked with ease

finterp gave me crazy values

[normal burrow]

Finterp constant is what you want

[rustic python]

Thanks for everyones help today! Managed to get a start on my personal project. Looking forward to continue learning and developing 🙂

[sweet relic]

@rustic python You are strong and wise, and I am very proud of you.

[rustic python]

❤️

[plush yew]

I am doing equip and un equip weapon using Static weapon without skeletel mesh

that will cause me problems as i start with damage stuff?

any thoughts?

[grim ore]

no reason why it would

skeletal mesh is if you need bones and usually to animate. You could use Skeletal or Static for your weapon and be fine especially since your likely using a collider to actually detect when you should damage

[normal burrow]

Yeah, I do wish there were a animatable static mesh of sorts with no skin blending

[uncut vigil]

@normal burrow have you tried just linking meshes to bones? No skinning needed

[normal burrow]

Empty skeleton mesh?

I’ve not tried that but have considered it

[uncut vigil]

Yeah, I used it for some mech animations and it was a lot easier to get it in game

[normal burrow]

Cool, will consider it the next time I’ve got something mechanical

[pastel raven]

Hi Guys , I am trying to create a mesh which should scale itself, I want the mesh to remain the same size independent of the distance from the camera.
Mesh is kind of a line.
I have tried methods, to scale the mesh according to the distance using point ditance to line vector formula , but some how that only works for the pivot.
I am also looking for a way to do this via shader.
please help me.

[uncut vigil]

@pastel raven use render target and add it to a screen space 3D widget?

[sly hare]

Looking for some peeps to talk in the VC chat?

[pastel raven]

I can draw this line at runtime.
it is kind of a ruler to scale things in the world.
So i click at one point then it starts creating a line ,then i click on another point . Line is drawn.

@uncut vigil Would i be able to do it via render target.

[uncut vigil]

Hmm i dont know

[pastel raven]

Can some one tell me how can i make a shader which is screen scaled.

just like arrow component, is it possible i can see the shader for Arrow component ?

[sly hare]

That is officially over my head man.

Wish I could help.

I am still looking for a way to make a HUD like from bright memory.

I enjoy the aesthetic.

Or even how to change game modes through-out the game like going from FPS mode to flying.

In like a space-ship...

[uncut vigil]

@pastel raven billboard actor?

I think thats what you need, material billboars component

[sly hare]

Mind if I ask what that is even? 😆

@uncut vigil

[uncut vigil]

It will always render facing the camera

And constant screen size

[sly hare]

I am legit watching a few dozens of unreal videos attempting to learn by completely smashing it into my head.

[uncut vigil]

Any material works, its just applied to a plane

I think the best way to learn is get dirty and try doing stuff

75% of my work is just googling how to do this and that

[sly hare]

Well, I learn hands on to...

Issue is I learn best when someone explains the parameters I have to work with...

[uncut vigil]

True, but hard to come by

[sly hare]

Almost no tutorial will go through those things...
I have legit watched Ai tutorials that forget to mention 50% of what you need for an AI...

And I am like WUT!

[uncut vigil]

Yeah

[sly hare]

So just about now I learned how to stretch textures on a landscape, make caves...
Use multiple textures on a landscape to make it realistic... and that's about all I got...
That's like 2 weeks of research?

Beyond that I have basic concepts so trivial it doesn't even come to use in the slightest as every tutorial on the web is like in a fist fight with each other.. XD

Oh and character animation and skeletons and stuff... I got that too.

I know how to switch out the MC model.

Currently focusing on huds...
If you got any good ideas on that....
@uncut vigil

[uncut vigil]

Depends on what you want

But i dont have any

😄

[sly hare]

Because, I take my time and learn things thoroughly...
I do not like unprofessional level work at all...

Even if it is simple as long as it looks nice and fresh...

And crispy.

@uncut vigil you got a microphone?

[uncut vigil]

I do

[sly hare]

Wanna chat?

[uncut vigil]

Maybe later? Im on mobile

Not at home

[sly hare]

I do better in voice...
My eyes die from swapping between this and unreal.

[uncut vigil]

😄

[sly hare]

Where do I download a more recent version of unreal? mine is 4.24.2?
Is that the most recent?

[uncut vigil]

Thats the one

[sly hare]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/unreal-engine-44-released

What is this then? O_O

Did they legit go in reverse on their release numbers?

THEY DID.

O_O

@vast fossil ?

[wheat dirge]

you do know the current year is 2020 right?

[vast fossil]

Hi guys, quick question. When I started out I didnt know about setting up macro`s for values so I used functions. Will they hit my game in performance ? They are used for to calculate variables (floats and vectors) for another fuction thats on a tick.

[sly hare]

I legit don't know that stuff man...
Will I run into that stuff using BPs?

[vast fossil]

theres a bunch of them, but if it wont do a difference in performance then im not gonna bother changing them

[sly hare]

I have checked out some tools that seem like they would be useful and slightly uncommon...

Want a link?

[thin tendon]

I'm working on a custom font to support multiple languages. Does anyone know what setting I need here to support Japanese characters?

[wary wave]

"Did they legit go in reverse on their release numbers?"

24 is 20 higher than 4...

[sly hare]

@wary wave O_O

[wary wave]

what part of version numbers do you not understand? They're not decimals

[wheat dirge]

did any of you actually click the link????? i dont think its August 2014... smfh!!!!

[sly hare]

@thin tendon
Honestly not a clue but I recommend going for English first... and mastering all of your stuff for English first before going to another language. That might spread yourself a bit thin.

That's something I genuinely fear....

[wary wave]

4.4 was one of the earliest engine versions available to the public, it's 20 revisions ago

[sly hare]

I get it amber...

[thin tendon]

@sly hare This is just the next feature I happen to be working on. Something I have been promising to players for a while. I have all my other languages working. But I can't seem to find a character range setting specific to Japanese. I have 10 other languages already implemented.

[sly hare]

WHAT.

[thin tendon]

Its ok I found it on the list through trial and error. If anyone is wanting to know the setting for Japanese is Hiragana

[sly hare]

COOL beans mind if I ask what game are you developing?

@thin tendon

I swear if you say bright memory I will make you my waifu.

[thin tendon]

At the moment I call it Outback Survival. Its an Australian themed Survival game. Its single player. Instead of zombies I use farmers with guns. Its still super early in development. But soon will be moving in the direction of questing

[sly hare]

I love single players!

SEND ME A LINK in them DMS!

Or here.

[thin tendon]

Same. I hate being forced to play online ok give me a sec

[sly hare]

NVM!

Is cool!

[thin tendon]

Its okay atm. But it gets better every day

[sly hare]

How did you make all these assets?

[thin tendon]

Some where from assets that were modified. Some from scratch. But a lot of the focus lately has been redesigning everything to be custom.

[sly hare]

Also, Straight up the only thing I am amazing at so far is level designing....
And your assets really don't seem to be following a real amount of consistency....

No offence...

I do like it however....
I am curious....

[thin tendon]

Thats because the pack stuff from the beginning is placeholder. And the last few months has been replacing it all with custom in between working on other features and fixes

[sly hare]

That is fair...
I am guessing this is also going to be multiplayer later?

[thin tendon]

If it gets enough interest. But for now I don't see a reason to focus on anything other then single player

[sly hare]

Also, did you take some of these screenshots in some kind of de-bug mode?

[thin tendon]

No they are all from the Steam screenshot gameplay feature

[sly hare]

Then changing graphic options?

Because some of these have those thick cartoon lines like in borderlands... and some don't.

[thin tendon]

Ohhh yeah

Its an option players can toggle. If they want realistic graphics or cartoon graphics.

[sly hare]

Hey just FYI if you want me to go in there and take a look at everything....
And go on a head and do a solid detailed analysis of the game I will free...
I love giving plenty of feedback.

Also, I like that Idea...
However I would have mentioned that in the video or something...

Because you had to explain that and it really doesn't mention things like that....
The game just seems inconsistent right off the bat.

[thin tendon]

Honestly I spend so much time working on the actual game. I'm struggling to keep the store page and trailer up to date

[sly hare]

That is very fair.

I haven't even begun going into gameplay mechanics yet...

I like to make things look pretty first...
YA KNOW?

[abstract relic]

Pretty things don’t make the game fun ~says an artist

[placid arrow]

what is the advantage of storing something in PlayerState rather than directly as a property of the Character?

both seem to be replicated in a multiplayer environment, but PlayerState doesn't exist for AI Characters, generally an AI bot/character would have the same properties as a player for the most part, e.g. health, ammo etc?

[serene birch]

well, store things that matter only for human players then

[sly hare]

@abstract relic Your right pretty things just make people want to buy the shiny.

[placid arrow]

@serene birch so, things like the state of the hud?

[serene birch]

could be

[placid arrow]

and the object reference to the UMG widgets?

although... those dont even need to be replicated

@sly hare common sense says make a prototype and make it fun before you start doing anything else. but sometimes, the appearance is part of the fun. my last game involved a lot of explosions as part of the core game mechanic so i had to make something that presented well before i could see if it was fun or not

[sly hare]

That's the problem.... I start and I just go this isn't pretty enough.

Then I just focus on making everything super pretty and I am like several hours in before I know it.

[placid arrow]

my current game is between prototype and first alpha, and its a healthy middle ground. i got rid of the vehicle template 'arena' and replaced it with some terrain, it doesnt exactly look next gen but it looks more appealing than the default example. i also created a kitbashed vehicle that will likely stick around until at least very near relese or might even remain in it forever depending on how i feel:

i guess it comes down to what you think matters and what you think doesnt matter, in the end its your game

i'd just say play your own game often, and if you dont feel the urge to keep pressing play-in-editor and 'lets do THAT again' for any other reason than to troubleshoot an issue... maybe it isnt fun yet

[abstract relic]

Not sure why. But that looks like a gun on wheels at a glance

[placid arrow]

well, the engineering of guns and engines is very similar, they both contain an explosion

maybe its the exhaust muffler?

its basically a flat base vehicle the player can stack tall structures of connected parts onto

[dark rune]

anyone know how to freely move the crosshair around the screen? I'm trying to make an on rails shooter. Or if there is a tutorial that would be good too

[plush yew]

@dark rune What is your current template that you are using? the top down view template has the feature you are asking for... Basically disconnect the camera rotation from your mouse move and Show the crosshair.

[tawdry storm]

is there a way to let UE4 recalculate the object bounds of a mesh? I can't re-import it since it's part of an asset pack, but for some reason one of the meshes has a giant bounding box

[plush yew]

@tawdry storm Are you looking for something like this float BoundingRadius = GameCharacter->GetRootComponent()->Bounds.SphereRadius; ?

[tawdry storm]

I was more looking for an editor specific option, as it's only a single static mesh and I'm not good with C++

basically this is what it looks like in the mesh editor

[dark rune]

@plush yew yes thank you, but since I am making a shooter, how to do a raycast to the crosshair position? (or some type of hit detection with other actors)

[tawdry storm]

I tried showing vertecies, collisions and everything that can be enabled to see if there's something that extends the bounds, but there doesn't seem to be anything

[plush yew]

@dark rune GetHitResultUnderCursor probably

I'm sorry I don't know blueprints, only C++

[dark rune]

@plush yew alright thanks for giving me a start

[plush yew]

@dark rune You can study the top down view template, it's all there 🙂

[dark rune]

alrighty, thanks

[plush yew]

in the player controller class in particular

[dark rune]

cool

[timber minnow]

Hi everybody , is there any way to move a landscapestreaming proxy from a level to another level ?

[jaunty quiver]

Any one else having their source build crash in 4.24, inside SteamVRRender cpp file

[hollow tusk]

can someone tell me why me skeletal mesh isnt saving? i've rotated bones and pressed save button, but then when i close the tab and reopen it, the mesh is in t pose again.

[uncut vigil]

@hollow tusk dont think you can do that. Rotating bones there is just for preview

[normal frost]

can anyone help me with that?

[plush yew]

@hollow tusk

You basically saved the mesh but not the pose 🙂

[hollow tusk]

Ohh, so I need to use another software to change the pose?

Or shoeld I be able to do so?

[plush yew]

You rotated the bones in the skeleton tree view right? @hollow tusk

and then

Then click on modify pose, and set your pose

unless I completely misunderstood what is it you need 😄

[sonic gust]

Not sure where I should put this, but I got an issue with the web browser in UE. I can't seem to clear the cookies / cache of it properly. Even if I delete the Saved folder from the project it still remembers some cookies which I'm not able to find. Any clue how I can clear them?

[abstract relic]

This is starting to become a running joke.
/intermediate it holds shader info and temporary files

[abstract relic]

Turn on tessellation

[gilded igloo]

Hey guys, Say I want to make a hollow circular hitbox for my circular door, how do I do that? I tried to make a pipe but it's hitbox is filled-in...

[strong moss]

Can you delete stuff from the reference viewer?

[tawdry storm]

hey, when I try to generate clusters for my hlod UE4 crashes and I get this error:
Assertion failed: OverlapRadius1 >= 0.f [File:D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Editor\UnrealEd\Private\LODCluster.cpp] [Line: 70]
any ideas what could cause this?

so looking at the code I noticed that in 4.20, which is the version I'm using for this, has the following line of code:
check (OverlapRadius1 >= 0.f);
funnily enough, that's not there in the current version

but I don't fully understand what OverlapRadius1 actually is

[shut oxide]

why cant i drag and drop some assets

i just started learning unreal engine

[fierce tulip]

depends on the assets

[shut oxide]

it shows a red no go sign when i try dragging into scene

[tawdry storm]

what's the asset type?

[shut oxide]

UASSET

[tawdry storm]

when you mouse over it in the content browser you should see the type right next to it's name

[plush yew]

Hi,Following ue4 documentation and official tutorials I've made a menu,but when I click the button to start a level nothing happens,what I'm probably missing?

[tawdry storm]

pretty sure you can't drag and drop foliage into your szene, that's what the foliage brush is for @shut oxide

[shut oxide]

oh the brush thing?

[tawdry storm]

yes

[shy goblet]

Hello guys, I'm trying to open the c++ class from a blueprint by clicking on "Goto definition"

but nothing happens, there just this popup saying "Reading C++ Symbols"

is there anyone who had this problem in the past?

[exotic thicket]

Mine does that almost every time I try it, it works with some random things but mostly not... Never quite figured out what causes it :P

[brazen hull]

100% new at UE4 widget how would I make a image show in menu when I press on button in the menu

like what would I put on clicked

[plush yew]

You can set image's visibility to Visible on click

And if you want it to hide and appear if you click on the button constantly, check if it's visible and then set it's visiblity depending on the boolean

[radiant haven]

hey ppl why does this not rotation the actor as my camera?

[ruby finch]

good afternoon i want to do this in unreal can someone help me

[plush yew]

May God bless your RAM with all those tabs

Do you want to create the glow or what do you mean?

[exotic cave]

Whoever put in joystick support for the Unreal Editor, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

@ruby finch : Just learn particle effects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXK2Xbd7D9w

[grave nebula]

Wait, I can develop in Unreal Engine using Saitek X52 and TrackIR? That would be the pleasantmost experience!

[exotic cave]

You can make each one of those flames with a particle emitter that has an appropriately short decay and a curve that follows a sphere centered moderately above that burner, @ruby finch

[icy egret]

hi
I have question
Can I make skeletal mesh from static mesh?(not static from skeletal)

[plush yew]

fuck my life

just deleted a folder that included my level :S

[exotic thicket]

^ time to learn how to use source control

won't save your level but will save you from similar problems in the future

[round hawk]

True.. using source control in general is good to save yourself from mistakes

[lime gull]

Perhaps someone could help. I asked about this but I coulsnt figure it out. Every time I spawn something, the begin overlap component triggers multiple times despite having a do once node. Somebody had said it take count for each one in the level. So how do i differentiate each one

[ruby finch]

@exotic cave thanks you

[plush yew]

do i have to pay for source control

[grim ore]

no

[normal burrow]

@plush yew https://www.visualsvn.com/server/ you install this to make the server
then https://osdn.net/projects/tortoisesvn/storage/1.13.1/Application/TortoiseSVN-1.13.1.28686-x64-svn-1.13.0.msi/ tortoise svn for the client (which can be on the same computer).

you do these two things and you'll have local source control which isn't as safe as having it on another computer but at least you'll be able to back up a lot faster and check changes etc

if your looking to work with other people, then you'd need to make a server people can access, or buy one

could potentially still run the server on your computer, but if your computer is off then the svn server will be too

[exotic cave]

I 😍 Epic

[plush yew]

what is this server upper and for what? @normal burrow

for multiplayer or?

[normal burrow]

gives you source/version control

maintains a zipped copy of your project and records all changes in it as you commit them to the server

[plush yew]

?

what

[normal burrow]

unfamiliar with source control?

[plush yew]

so I use source tree for source control-so this that you sent to him is the same you mean?

[normal burrow]

yea source tree is a git thing, git isn't great for huge binary files so was recommending SVN instead. that server runs an apache svn server locally that boots with your computer and its the fastest way i've found to just get source control

and there is no weird license issues like with perforce, and svn is also integrated into engine too

[plush yew]

ok

in git there is license or what?

[normal burrow]

you could run a local git server as well but like i mentioned its not as good for huge binary files like all the uasset files etc

svn keeps delta updates compressed

so it'll reuse data between changes to binaries in theory

its also extremely old though

[plush yew]

ok

which is old?

[normal burrow]

but still a good option for the binaries

SVN

[plush yew]

ok

so which to use source tree or this new that you told me?

[normal burrow]

use whatever works really, i'd just recommend the stuff i have there for someone that is unfamiliar with source control

if source tree works and you can get along with it, would keep on with it. but if your looking to get a local source control solution you don't need to pay for, svn is a easy/great option

[abstract relic]

Sourcetree is nice, I understand the reluctance to leave it

[stark acorn]

guys how do i post to looking for a talent ?

[normal burrow]

📌

[stark acorn]

where

[lapis vine]

Dropbox! leaves quickly

[stark acorn]

:/

[abstract relic]

Or #more-resources

[stark acorn]

https://tenor.com/view/baby-face-palm-really-sigh-stupid-gif-12738431

[plush yew]

I need serious help,everytime i move a structure it can't find it anymore,and i have to redo the interface event and go through all the blueprints and fix them

I can't do it everytime

[brazen hull]

got a problem where I cant seem to find my custom event https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/662253998006337556/677200002539585548/unknown.png?width=1202&height=677 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/662253998006337556/677199979256872992/unknown.png

tryna set it after https://gyazo.com/a3709cf83e997585f185990ea5a81332

but it dosent show up

it only recognises main BP not a child BP

[abstract relic]

Compile it. It should show up afterwards

[brazen hull]

I did

no difference

[candid stratus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ7j6p6MFxA
this is a quick video showing how my ai wont follow my actor for what ever reason

[exotic cave]

Hey @normal burrow , you have always been super helpful and supportive here...what is your main project if I may ask? Would love to see/help support

[plush yew]

Is there a way to NOT make box brushes affect navigation? I'm using a box brush as a subtractive doorway and i want my ai to enter it but the navmesh is split apart

I want it to go into the box brush

[normal burrow]

https://bubblepony.com/game-titles/blades-over-the-horizon/ is the project, we've got a discord too but can't put a link

[plush yew]

bruh

[exotic cave]

@plush yew : Not too sure, haven't heavily worked with non-terrain nav yet...but, does just turning off the collider work?

[plush yew]

i cant because i dont want the whole wall to be walk through

@exotic cave

[austere scroll]

in blender my wooden crate is perfectly fine

[exotic cave]

@plush yew : Export the doorway and the rest of it to separate static meshes maybe? And then turn off the collider on just the door?

There may be a better way.

I'm still pretty new to UE :/

[austere scroll]

but in unreal the crate looks so wierd and some of the faces are vanished

HELP how do i fix this

[exotic cave]

@normal burrow : Oh that's right you did send me the link! :>

[normal burrow]

True :), your very helpful too though

what do you do with the engine?

[exotic cave]

I'm working on the environment pack I keep occasionally posting screenies from 🙂

Hopefully the first of many! 😄 You make me want to take a stab at an underwater environment one day

[austere scroll]

@normal burrow can u help with my problem ?

[normal burrow]

Its a lot of fun

[plush yew]

Sorry, Pat is currently in a conversation

[normal burrow]

underwater stuff is a blast

[plush yew]

Please wait until someoen else helps you

[austere scroll]

@exotic cave whats the name of the enviroment pack

[normal burrow]

@austere scroll flip triangles in blender or turn off two sided rendering (in blender)

[exotic cave]

@austere scroll : Not released yet! Not even submitted. But getting there. I'll keep you posted.

[austere scroll]

k

[normal burrow]

you know faris_ninja

it might be that you have ngons too

[austere scroll]

what are those

?

[normal burrow]

try vertex cleanup in blender to merge vertices that are near each other.

ngons is like, when you have a polygon that bends. ngons means more than 4 points per face but, here i'm referring more to the problem of bending around a corner
you might have a stray vertex messing things up. but turn off double sided in blender, or turn on backface cull i can't recall High Tide would know the thing to do tbh haha

[plush yew]

i fixed it @exotic cave I didnt have the box brush aligned with the top of the floor

[exotic cave]

Yeah, that can definitely screw up navmeshes generally

They need a really flat, well formed surface in order to work best in my experience

I've been known to actually just "draw" my navsurfaces on with colliders before in instances where things get too hairy

Though that was not in UE, and I can't vouch for it as a strategy here

[candid stratus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ7j6p6MFxA

showing a promblem on how my ai wont follow my character

[austere scroll]

PLEASE anyone ANSWER

but in unreal the crate looks so wierd and some of the faces are vanished
@austere scroll

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/225448446956404738/677215795352436775/unknown.png

in blender : https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/225448446956404738/677215544419680286/unknown.png

why does that happen

[candid stratus]

might be your normals

[austere scroll]

can u explain further ?

[edgy halo]

if i make a change to a file (LandscapeCollision.cpp) in engine source, how do i make sure my other team members get the change aswell? can i make a change in the project files that overwrite the engine file?

[austere scroll]

what do u mean by "normals"

[candid stratus]

try that

[exotic cave]

@austere scroll :

That's a basic picture that kinda explains the idea of what a surface normal is

[candid stratus]

yep

[exotic cave]

It's a ray that points out from the surface of your polygon. Most normals are "hard" normals that are perpendicular to the surface, but this can be overridden to cause different lighting effects

p@t gave you some suggestions, did you try them?

[plush yew]

Hi,Following ue4 guide I've made a menù,when I press the "play" button,game start but menù won't disappear,what can I do?

[normal burrow]

just recommended this, might be a stray vertex flipping the face or something

[exotic cave]

I suppose I linked to vertex normals instead

[normal burrow]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/677221079219175424/677222064444407814/unknown.png

this as well

[exotic cave]

But it's kinda the same concept

[austere scroll]

p@t gave you some suggestions, did you try them?
@exotic cave ues.

yes

[normal burrow]

yeah i mean somehow unreal is flipping the faces on you

[exotic cave]

It looks like his normals might be 180 degrees off

So there's probably a checkbox on the import settings to fix that

[austere scroll]

wow thats rude

yeah i mean somehow unreal is flipping the faces on you
@normal burrow wow thats rude 😆

[exotic cave]

So wude

[austere scroll]

It looks like his normals might be 180 degrees off
@exotic cave i will see

[normal burrow]

turning on backface culling should show you the problem in blender but idk why its flipping tbh

[exotic cave]

Yeah, if you want to make sure that's what it is

You can turn on "Two sided" in your material in UE

That will show you if there are faces there that just aren't getting rendered cause the normals point the wrong way

You don't want that as the ultimate solution, but it will help lock down the problem

[austere scroll]

You can turn on "Two sided" in your material in UE
@exotic cave that doesnt fix it

[plush yew]

Is there a way to disable error logs?

[exotic cave]

That's bad then 😄

'Cause it implies that the geometry isn't actually there.

Though I guess normals could maybe still do that

[austere scroll]

im pretty sure normals are wrong

but how do i change those normals

[exotic cave]

The normals shouldn't need to honestly be changed. There's some import setting I think you're missing.

[austere scroll]

wait a sec.. in blender do i have to save before exporting to apply changes... ?

[exotic cave]

I mean, of course

[austere scroll]

NOOOOOOOOOOO

hh

[exotic cave]

If you make changes in Blender, you absolutely have to save them and then reimport before UE can pick it up

Why?

[austere scroll]

i wasnt saving it

just changing and exporting

BUT

that didnt help as well

im gonna restart the editor

[exotic cave]

Double click your mesh file from the UE palette

No

I don't think it's that

Get your Static Mesh settings up

There's a section I want to show you

[austere scroll]

the import setti ngs

?

[exotic cave]

Yes, there are lots of options there including at least a few related to reversing particular UV's/normals IIRC

[austere scroll]

oh yea here ?

[exotic cave]

No, that's build

Give me a moment while I open my UE

[austere scroll]

well , there is alot here that i dont understand

[exotic cave]

You found it, the Import settings are where it's likely to be

Try setting the Normal Import Method to Compute Normals

[austere scroll]

i found this

it was unchecked

[exotic cave]

That might help too 🙂

[austere scroll]

i checked it but it didnt work..

[exotic cave]

But you didn't reimport yet

[austere scroll]

wdym

i did

[exotic cave]

Clicka dat button

[austere scroll]

oh

oof

[exotic cave]

😄

[austere scroll]

ok ?

[exotic cave]

Did it work? You have to click that button after you change any setting to see if the reimport works or not

[austere scroll]

btw when i turned on backface culling as p@t suggested

this happend

on of the faxes

had these lines removed

i gtg

its late in my time

sorry

[exotic cave]

K, sorry if everything didn't fix your problem

[austere scroll]

thanks for the help tho 😄

[wooden leaf]

I wanted to see if someone had some time to help me redo my character sheet. I wanted to use slots and not the button option. And so anyone here how how to add a crafting system

just DM me when someone has time to help with the character sheet

[brave lark]

is it just me or is 4.24 lighting system all messed up? AO, sky atmosphere stuff, screen spaced GI, etc. it's giving me some absolutely weird results. colors are ultra blown out, theres weird fade effects on edges, some faces just go white completely for no reason, the distance is always wicked dark even with a bright sun and fog scattering, and on and on

has anyone run into any of these issues/found a way around them?

[timber junco]

Quick question to all: When you're doing BSP blockouts, do you extrude from the geometry, scale, or adjust the XYZ in the brush settings? Cheers!

[hard quarry]

Does anyone know why the MegascansPlugin could not get loaded in a packaged game?

[grim ore]

@brave lark the new sky system has some weird issues with overblown lights by default if you are using it

[hard quarry]

When I start the game, it does launch but instantly close, this is the log

[grim ore]

that is weird for sure, I had no idea the plugin was used out of the editor. Try disabling the plugin and package?

[hard quarry]

@grim ore I did that, but than I got an error, that I need to use VIsualStuido 2017 or 2019 with the toolchain, to package the project.

So the build was not successful

[grim ore]

that is weird. did you disable the unreal python plugin as well?

[hard quarry]

No I can try that

[grim ore]

you can also look in the .uproject itself and make sure they are not listed as being used

[hard quarry]

How can I open it, with a txt editor?

@grim ore thats the content of the .uproject file

[grim ore]

i wonder if it failed to package due to PS4 as a target

but ignoring that you could try removing the entire plugins section

[hard quarry]

It is the default VRProject

[grim ore]

so packaging was fine but running it crashes?

[hard quarry]

When the Megascans plugin is enabled, it can build just fine, but than if I start the packaged build, it crashes instantly.

If the Megascans plugin is not enabled, the build fails

If I close the project, delete the plugin section in the .uproject file, and open the project again, the plugin is automatically enabled and the uproject file is rebuild as if I did not change anything

Is it possible to delete plugins?
Or do I have to remove them from the folder?

[grim ore]

yeah I bet its enabled by default since its an engine plugin

but in the end it shouldnt matter it should not be required

and that is weird if disabling it kills the project

if you want you can go into your engine dir, go into engine -> plugins -> megascansplugin and edit the .uplugin in there to disable the enabled by default

that should stop it from auto adding to your .uproject

but.... shouldnt have to do this lol

the supported whitelisted platforms for it is win64, mac, linux so I do wonder if you just found some weird combination of the VR template having PS4 enabled and this plugin

if I could get the VR template shaders to compile I could test lol

[hard quarry]

I just disabled it the way you suggested.

I can disable PS4 i dont need it, and will tell you the result

[grim ore]

cant hurt to try it all there has to be a solution besides deleting it

Engine shaders compiled, now for the project shaders.... durned VR template

[hard quarry]

Ok so the build targets are still Windows 64 and PS4, the MegascansPlugin is disabled by editing its uproject plugin file.
The build was successful

And now it even starts the packaged game, thanks you are a hero

@grim ore

[grim ore]

so you changed which file?

[hard quarry]

D:\Unreal Engine\Engines\UE_4.24\Engine\Plugins\MegascansPlugin\MegascansPlugin.uplugin

"EnabledByDefault" : true
is now set to
"EnabledByDefault" : false

[grim ore]

gotcha so disabled the forced load of the plugin. Then removed it from the project uproject?

[hard quarry]

No, the uproject file is still the same, and the plugin is also listed there

{
"FileVersion": 3,
"EngineAssociation": "4.24",
"Category": "",
"Description": "",
"Plugins": [
{
"Name": "MegascansPlugin",
"Enabled": false,
"SupportedTargetPlatforms": [
"Win64",
"Mac",
"Linux"
]
}
],
"TargetPlatforms": [
"PS4",
"WindowsNoEditor"
]
}

[grim ore]

ah but disabled it

[hard quarry]

Cant believe that worked, lol

It should not make any difference

[grim ore]

so that's how its supposed to be atleast, disable it to make it work weird it was failing before

no it should not have heh

atleast not by itself so shrug

[hard quarry]

Where could you see, that Megasans does not support PS4

[grim ore]

if you look at the uplugin you changed earlier you can see the whitelisted platforms

doesnt mean it doesnt support it just means its not supported lol. besides its an editor plugin I really dont know why it's causing a packaged issues

[hard quarry]

ah oh wow, so much to learn

[grim ore]

well.. I assume it's an editor only plugin. It's just the bridge interface isnt it?

[hard quarry]

Yes

And I dont even use any asset of it

its a clean new project with this as the only plugin activated

[grim ore]

yeah due to it being an editor plugin

[hard quarry]

Super weird, if the MegascansPlugin is activated, and I package the game, the SteamVR Input System bindings are not getting copied to the packagee folder.

If I completely disable it with the steps above, it copies the file to the package folder...

I was wondering since three days, why the motion controllers do not work since downloading the QuixelBridge, which also installs the megascans plugin

[brave lark]

@grim ore is there anything I can do about it?

[hard quarry]

@brave lark is there the same problem when you create a new project with a sample?

[gray jetty]

Idk if I can send this here but I’m wondering how to make a dynamic weather system involving rain and snowy conditions I want the rain to make puddles on the ground and the snow to build up on the surface can someone help?

[brave lark]

@hard quarry haven't checked yet. The problem may partly be tied to that all the components are in Ultra dynamic sky, but I have poked all over that thing and not been able to see a reason to why they'd be related to it

I'll do a quick fresh project to check

[gray jetty]

If anyone knows what to do involving the dynamic weather I mentioned dm me details because I’m fairly new to unreal and need serious help

[sweet relic]

@gray jetty You probably will want to look into material parameter collections

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/material-parameter-collections

[gray jetty]

Idk what that is lol I use blueprint and I’m extremely new to it

[lime gull]

Perhaps someone could help. I asked about this but I coulsnt figure it out. Every time I spawn something, the begin overlap component triggers multiple times despite having a do once node. Somebody had said it take count for each one in the level. So how do i differentiate each one

[primal furnace]

Hey all, any ideas why I'm getting this error when trying to launch my game? "
PackagingResults: Error: Launch failed! Failed to delete staging directory. This could be because something is currently using the staging directory (ps4/xbox/etc)"

[dry beacon]

Does anyone have a good recommendation for a good rock/cliff pack on the marketplace?

[abstract relic]

Megascan killed that market 😜

[candid stratus]

video showing a promblem on how my ai wont follow the character
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ7j6p6MFxA

[hushed hare]

i cant even log into the epic games launcher rn

[tough marsh]

@candid stratus you may not have an actor to move to

[candid stratus]

wdym

[tough marsh]

I mean the onseepawn may be returning nothing so thats why you arent moving to anything bc there is nothing to move to

get an isvalid and if its valid then do the moveto logic is its not validf then print string no actor seen

[candid stratus]

k

@tough marsh i think im miss understanding. Are you saying try something like this

[tough marsh]

Yes

you could put a print string off the is valid just to see if it ever even is valid

[ember shadow]

Hey! im trying to change the crouch eye view height, where do i do this

[abstract relic]

Deleting your previous post doesn’t exempt you from spamming 😜

[spark sonnet]

@ember shadow

[ember shadow]

thanks

[spark sonnet]

You can also do it in the class default settings of your actor

[ember shadow]

i tried that, didnt work

[spark sonnet]

Have you enabled crouching?

[ember shadow]

yes

@spark sonnet still doesnt work

[spark sonnet]

You can try this instead @ember shadow

Are you making a first person?

[ember shadow]

yes

[spark sonnet]

Then that should work^

[ember shadow]

hmm it doesnt change eye level tho

[rotund scroll]

eye height changes automatically

you can't modify the value

[ember shadow]

oh

[abstract relic]

This is under the assumption that the camera is parented to the capsule

[normal burrow]

Isn't eye height always zero unless you've got c++?

Its the BaseEyeHeight variable

@ember shadow

you want to set base eye height in both

rather

[ember shadow]

nah its cool! i got it now

[normal burrow]

what your doing there is already done by the engine (by the time it crouches)

cool cool

[wary quartz]

does anyone know why it is, that when I import a specific fbx into my project, it will only allow me to import it if combine meshes is turned off, if combine meshes is turned on it will cancel the import. Also other fbx's have no problems whatsoever when importing with combine meshes on, just this specific one.

[grim ore]

it just disables the import option or it crashes?

[wary quartz]

disables import, after I click import all I get a message in the message log that says "Failed to import "etc". Failed to create asset "etc"

[grim ore]

maybe check the log log, in the logs folder to see if it has more info

[short onyx]

Is there a console command to activate or deactivate the Realtime ? (like the CTRL+R in the viewport)

I have only find a r.RenderTimeFrozen but it's not this :/

[rotund scroll]

what's more performant: 7 line traces or a sphere trace and a line trace?

[short onyx]

Finded ; FREEZERENDERING

And this command have no help or description x)

[sly hare]

I just can't help but notice a massive lack of a particle section.

OH WAIT.

🙂

[plush yew]

what skeleton does zbrush use?

is it close to the ue4 one?

[fierce tulip]

slaps @sly hare :p

[sly hare]

LOL

[simple hemlock]

Is there a way to make the editor compile shaders from all maps in a project? I just added a bunch of packs to my "asset testing" project and would like to leave everything compiling overnight so tomorrow I can just work instead of waiting lol

[normal burrow]

@simple hemlock you could use editor scripting maybe

maybe, not sure

[sly hare]

You could try batching?

[normal burrow]

game instance would be able to iterate the maps too at runtime

so you could just load each level that way

[sly hare]

P@T I have a question...

[simple hemlock]

that seems like a cool hack. I'l try and hopefully my pc won't explode

thanks! lol

[abstract relic]

#askpat

[sly hare]

What method do you use for adding functions?

Bps, or C++?

[sly hare]

Hmm?

What is that for Hightide?

[rotund scroll]

at this point it might as well be a channel in this discord

[normal burrow]

Adding functions?

[abstract relic]

Running joke. Pat has his own discord where he has an help channel.

[sly hare]

Like abilities, skill trees etc...

I am still having issues other than making everything pretty...

[normal burrow]

I did not create this channel however lol

[abstract relic]

It was by popular demand 😜

[sly hare]

Is there a simple method of adding these things and producing new game modes within the same level?

[normal burrow]

Function library in either language would work diablo

[sly hare]

No IDEA WHAT THAT IS.

[normal burrow]

this one

[sly hare]

OH.

How would you produce different game modes within the same map / level though...

I find that very difficult.

[normal burrow]

when you load the level you can specify whatever mode you want

[sly hare]

I have yet to find a solution.

[normal burrow]

you set the default mode in world settings, which is used when you don't specify the mode when you load the level

[wicked kettle]

hey guys , does any1 know why my hair / skin looks different, in 2 different projects? Does this issue is related to different lighting or is there a Project settings im missing?
https://prnt.sc/r1i6eo
https://prnt.sc/r1i6up

[sly hare]

That's the thing...
I want to be able to add like vehicles...
And travel options...

[wicked kettle]

hair render on my main project is blurry so the skin

[sly hare]

Hmm...

[rotund scroll]

@sly hare have you considered scoping down and making something work first before you go crazy with ideas?

[sly hare]

THat's the thing I already have basic functionalities.

[rotund scroll]

how basic

[sly hare]

I got understanding of sockets, animating weapons, persons, characters, facial animations, pretty much everything on how to make everything pretty...
And how to create menus etc....
My issue comes in when I want something like my skill tree to actually unlock the abilities I have already made...

I am even having issues on my "Options" Menu as I want those graphical options to be available...

[rotund scroll]

but have you made anything yet?

is there a game?

[sly hare]

I made allot of stuff...

[rotund scroll]

can you play the game

[normal burrow]

@wicked kettle is one dx12?

[rotund scroll]

can you do things in the game

can you complete a level

etc.

this is what you should focus on first

[sly hare]

YES/

[rotund scroll]

everything else is just wishful thinking tbh

[wicked kettle]

@normal burrow where can I see it?

[normal burrow]

did you enable rtx?

[wicked kettle]

no

[normal burrow]

then its probably not dx12

[sly hare]

@rotund scroll What do you mean wishful thinking?

[rotund scroll]

I mean it's not helping you create a game

[normal burrow]

are they not the same versions of the engine?

[rotund scroll]

it's just placing illusory obstacles in your path

focus on creating stuff first

then see how you can expand it

[zenith flower]

What they mean to say, is having ambition is great, but a lot of us learned the hard way to take it easy.

[rotund scroll]

but if you don't have a game, there's nothing to extend