Lol no I have a good bit of space on the hard drive
#ue4-general
obtuse nest
It worked completely fine I turned off my pc one night.. came back the next day and the engine had stopped working
tawdry storm
in the launcher, can you click the little dropdown menu next to "start" on your engine version and hit 'verify'?
sounds like something is broken somewhere
fierce tulip
thats oddly always the case with things that break. they worked fine before breaking.
- My old Turbo Pascal teacher
obtuse nest
I just did verify before I messaged on here
tawdry storm
would've been too easy, huh?
obtuse nest
If only!
tawdry storm
joy!
fierce tulip
bit random, can you open the .uproject in notepad? see whats active pluginwise
I did learn one thing from that log
Danny :p
plush yew
bit random, can you open the .uproject in notepad? see whats active pluginwise
yeah, you can
fierce tulip
the main one, its a hunch, and probably wrong
@plush yew I was asking hern so he can check it
I know you can
:p
plush yew
my bad!😫
fierce tulip
its all good :)
obtuse nest
The only plugin installed is Datasmith
fierce tulip
log tells me some stuff is missing, but its outside my paygrade as to what it means :/
obtuse nest
The stuff at the top of the log?
fierce tulip
not only there, and something about being 11 chars too long. but.. well.. no clue
obtuse nest
I have no idea either I followed a thread about it that said to delete local data but again that'd have been too easy
fervent topaz
I tried to run UE4 on my macbook pro and it went to 95C
anyone know why ?
is mac just not powerful enough to run it ? or is it a driver/software issue
brave salmon
when will we get replication support for TMap? 😄
hollow tusk
anyone that knows of any nice cartoonish effects assets packs? im using UE4
fierce tulip
@hollow tusk might be better to ask in the right channel
like #fab
though people probably tell you to just browse the marketplace
plush yew
xp11 == xp10 + upgrades.minor;
mastersim == xp11 + p3d * 10;
this weird thing keep coming up as i equip my weapon using sockets
any thoughts??
vale silo
Hmm.. Just saw 2020 release targets on the road map: 4.25 in Q1 (subject to change), 4.26+ TBD.. (like, never, because of UE5 ? 🤔 😏 )
fierce tulip
I wonder at what point almost all ue4 modules become plugins
tender flume
UE5 will exist?
serene birch
unlikely unless some massive paradigm shift is needed in 3D engines
or a rewrite in another language maybe
incremental evolution seems more to be the norm
serene birch
well there's also the option where Epic just takes the next UE4 version and decides it's time to call it UE5 I guess
normal burrow
Yep
plush yew
Am trying to equip and unEquip my weapon i kinda tried everything its killing my mind
i just want when i press 1 it comes to my hand and when i press 2 it go bac kto my back without animations
Just a snap
Any thoughts
vale silo
well, I hope to hear more good news from GDC... Unless GDC gets cancelled like MWC did
rare dagger
they might just rebrand unreal engine 4 to Unreal Engine™️
normal burrow
The hell is mwc?
rare dagger
kinda like what windows is trying to do
vale silo
@normal burrow https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/13/mwc-2020-morning-after/
normal burrow
Have you heard of mwc before it got cancelled though?
normal burrow
I’ve not lol, don’t expect gdc to cancel
Epic would likely still announce whatever
vale silo
and it's a massive conference.. If you ever had smartphone and thought of getting a new one, you probably should take a note 🙂
normal burrow
It was in Spain too
celest creek
Hey, if I were to add a tongue joint to my character that already exists and has animation in UE, will that new rig (again, just a tongue joint added) need a full retargeting process to work?
I'll ask in #animation instead actually..
tawdry storm
is there a way to show the mesh bounds inside the level viewport?
jazz music stops
hm alright I found the offender, but why would the object bounts be so far out of place?
it's not the collision and when I activate the vertecies display it's not showing one floating up there 🤔
crude vessel
I'm just happy to think Tim Sweeny will probably not add loot boxes and microtransactions to the UE4 editor
@celest creek
My rig had a full face and tail and ears
Tldr if you retarget, they'll just ignore those Bones
But won't break retargeting as long as they're on top of the default hierchical
So you'll need to manually add animations for your tongue or drive it off physics or whatever
fathom mortar
does anybody know how i can make a damage notify only do damage once?
exotic thicket
You could probably disable damage events when you get damaged the first time, or use a Do Once or a boolean check or something
fathom mortar
@exotic thicket ok so im trying to do this but it says that the variable is read only and cannot be assigned a new value
exotic thicket
You're not trying to modify it in the RepNotify function for it are you?
Not sure how that would behave if so..
But if not, check that you haven't set the variable as read only in your blueprint, I believe that's one of the options you can set for variables
fathom mortar
doing it in a blueprint class
mossy thorn
Hi im looking for someone is very creating material and texture in style like anime? Where i should go?
brazen hull
Using Project file BP for the alien ship and looking for a way to make it like so without holding ctrl it goes down
mossy thorn
try with an event tick with a decrement on z, and add another one with the ctrl that nullify that decrement?
brazen hull
hmhmhm dont know a shit about vehiecles so
lime gull
@normal burrow (I don't wanna annoy you with the ping So im sorry) but I believe it was you who mentioned this about the game is counting damage for every instance.
Turns out its not
I spawned in 1 and it still hit me 3 times
normal burrow
ah your talking about overlap?
lime gull
Yea
plush yew
Can any1 explain what Is valid means
am trying to understand it
not having it 100% 😄
tawdry storm
it checks if your variable has anything assigned to it. So basically if it's empty or not.
so basically if you don't initialize your variable it won't be valid
@plush yew
tawdry storm
exactly
lime gull
Can I cast to certain components on a character
Like only have a overlap event happen when casting to a capsule component
grim ore
@lime gull overlap events have the actor/component that it overlaps with, you can always do a cast for a check or an interface event yes
have you tried printing out the items that are calling the overlap event to fire so you can determine why it's firing 3 times?
lime gull
Yea lemme try that
normal burrow
matheww they're trying to have it fire one time only
lime gull
Its exactly what I thought
grim ore
yep I gotcha but do we know for sure why it's triggering more than expected
lime gull
What is iirc? Im a bit dumb
normal burrow
if i recall correctly
grim ore
if I recal correctly
normal burrow
well they had a Do Once node that didn't work some how
maybe you should post a screen of the bp
grim ore
so it says capsule compent but is it the same actors component?
lime gull
Yep
grim ore
I know these are redundant and stupid questions but...
yeah like p@t suggested the BP or an example of this happening might be best.
normal burrow
gotta be asked, but yeah i think i understand where your going with that component comment matheww
grim ore
these are all good btw, I'm doing a blueprint debugging write up now and I need real world examples for debugging use 😉
normal burrow
woo
grim ore
I am hoping to have 1 broken project and to just work thru fixing all the issues using all of the BP debugging methods but I need many many more examples so I can piece it together lol
tawdry storm
is there a way to create automatic LODs for multiple meshes at once?
normal burrow
static?
tawdry storm
yes
grim ore
it looks fine here
lime gull
and then after that its just destroying the actor
grim ore
what is it printing? Idont see connections
normal burrow
and you did try using a boolean?
lime gull
I did
grim ore
you should literally have on component begin overlap -> print string with the other actor into it -> the rest of your code
lime gull
grim ore
so you can eliminate all other code
lime gull
okay ill do that too, but its printing out the "other component"
grim ore
print out the actor so we can verify its the same thing causing it to overlap
and to be honest you should be printing out the value of SELF and the OTHER ACTOR
normal burrow
^
grim ore
so like use an append node to print out the self value and the other actor right after the overlap event
hell you could just unhook the rest and do just the print string to eliminate other issues
normal burrow
@tawdry stormhttps://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Content/Types/StaticMeshes/HowTo/AutomaticLODGeneration/index.html
haven't ever used that
so not sure about batch processing it
lime gull
tawdry storm
yeah I found that aswell, I was just curious if there's a way to do that for multiple meshes at once 🤔
lime gull
thats the one thats activating multiple times
tawdry storm
but the bit about the LOD groups is really speeding up the workflow
grim ore
ok we need you to print out the SELF value (so we know who is callign the print string) and the OTHER ACTOR so we know who that item is colliding with (dont care about the component for now)
if it's doing it 4 times we would see 4 identical print strings
lime gull
I had it on a delay so we can see the component that its colliding with
ill show you it happening multiple times
grim ore
no reason for a delay, change the duration on the print string (the drop down menu below it) to something like 10 seconds
should be plenty of time to get it to trigger and print out
normal burrow
still didnt add self
grim ore
yep 3 bullets not 1
grim ore
thats why we wanted self to print out
lime gull
cause it did the same thing before
Okay what the hell
there is 1 bullet spawned in the map
🤔
I tested it out in selected viewport and it onle spawns one, but the name does change. Like the first one is bullet, then the second one is bullet 1
This might be the issue, but what im essentially doing is every time its the enemies turn, I spawn in an actor, that spawns in the bullets
hidden aurora
https://gyazo.com/5c92ac121fdfd75e75cc9d723e73f315 Any help with this error?
brazen hull
Making a hover vehiecle but it just falls down after I use add force to go up and down
how can I make it just stay in place and I have to use down to get it down
normal burrow
lightsaber matheww is right
hollow tusk
normal burrow
unless your actually changing the name
hollow tusk
Can someone tell me why my animation isnt playing this way?
grim ore
@hidden aurora make sure they are up to date, or roll back a few months and try older ones is about all that can be suggested
@hollow tusk you have no animation selected in the play animation node
lime gull
If you wanna see this abomination of code, maybe this is causing the issue
Ill kinda explain what its doing
hollow tusk
@grim ore still doesnt work when I do 😦
normal burrow
are you using an animation blueprint milan?
lime gull
hidden aurora
Its strange cause other projects in the same version work
lime gull
This is what spawns the bullets. I pick a random box (its 4 boxes so it spawns outside not inside) and spawns the bullet using the same transform as the box
and the reason im spawning this in, instead of using something like target points is because in the future theres supposed to be many different attacks. Like ones that shoot in one direction or something
So there probably a better way of making a bullet spawner id imagine?
tawdry storm
there most definitely is
lime gull
hahaha
grim ore
@hollow tusk how are you playing the existing animation? If you re using an anim bp and not just an asset (single animation) you need to either use a montage as part of your anim bp, trigger the animation in the anim bp, or tell your Skeletal mesh to use assets instead of the anim bp so it can play the animation asset.
tawdry storm
the sequence with the branches that also refer to each other is hard to decipher, but I wouldn't be surprised if that system could somehow break and cause your error
lime gull
ill zoom in on it and see if i even know what the hell i did haha
grim ore
uh your code looks like its spawning 3 every time
pick random #, spawn up to 4 bullets if the number doesnt match
3 out of your 4 != will be not equal to the number you pick
lime gull
barren bear
why is the screenshot so tiny? are you working on a nintendo switch?
barren bear
do you have skillshare?
lime gull
I do not
barren bear
theres a tutorial there with a bullet spawner at the end of the tutorial. not sure if thats what you're looking for
tawdry storm
@lime gull get rid of the sequence and just go into the first branch
lime gull
alright
barren bear
id give you my account but we're not bfffs....yet
grim ore
something you can look into instead of using a buch of sequence or branches is the Select node. IT allows you to put in a value to select results from. For example you could select from int (your value) and then put in your 4 box variables and it would output the 1 box based on your value you put in
select not switch, no need for 4 executes
lime gull
haha
grim ore
your screen quality is low BTW since you are using bandicam, just use print screen heh
lime gull
Thank you
grim ore
tawdry storm
dangit
grim ore
could replace a large amount of that mess in the middle
tawdry storm
I just did that too 😄
lime gull
hahahaha
grim ore
you would have to change your random int in range to be 0 to 3 then of course
lime gull
Yea i did that
barren bear
Art V1 experience anyone?
It only allows me to install to 4.21 but I'd like to have it on 4.24 also
lime gull
Okay thank you all so much for the help. Not only does it work but I learned a lot and theres not a giant mess of programming
lime gull
Hahaha of course my soon to be best friend
grim ore
so the select node we showed above, what is a good question "how do I blah blah" that would be alead in to using the select node
maybe "How can we pick one choice out of many without using multiple branches?"
lime gull
Yea something along those lines
grim ore
basically have to come up with questions so I can answer them lol 🙂 I've got the answers it's coming up with a good "question" in one line that is fun
lime gull
How do I pick a random (Value, component, something like that perhaps
also Matthew, are you gonna upload these questions on YouTube, or like put them all in a forums / readable type thing, or something else?
It seems extremely useful
nocturne dragon
hi. How do I get a rendered image from UE4?
grim ore
technically they would get uploaded somewhere for some reason at sometime and that's about all I know right now lol
@nocturne dragon there is a high resolution screenshot option in the viewport in the top left or you can use a blueprint node to take one
nocturne dragon
I maware. So thats how we get a render? Theres not a "render" button? hehe
sorry, im newbie.
grim ore
Unreal Engine is a real time engine, it does not render the image
so what you see is what you have
barren bear
how do I edit a .py file?
I need to merge my existing one in my maya directory with a new one
restive mist
@grim ore Hi, I was wondering, is there a way to parse texture2d with blueprints and collect pixel values from that?
barren bear
nvm i got it
grim ore
@restive mist you can use C++ and expose a node or you can use something like the Rama BP library to do it. Natively in the engine I thnk there is a way but it's very expensive as it uses render targets and materials
restive mist
@grim ore Gotcha, managed to google the C++ ones before, was wondering if there is a BP one, thanks
brazen hull
anything else I can use then add force https://gyazo.com/61351e28d77837960fbd0160433c86d1 so I dont have to enable simulate physics
cuz Its a hover and if I simulate physics it just goes straight down again (specific one on pic is the one to go down again)
https://gyazo.com/d5d596f5c0744b1cc236694f2b4a1e11 this is the one to go up
restive mist
If you dont simulate physics then dont use force, add local translation over time instead
brazen hull
how can I add so it goes over time and not straight to it
brazen hull
mhm
grim ore
@restive mist I know I have used a line trace -> material then used the UV coords and a render target to get the exact pixel that was hit and did something with that. The issue is it's a slow process so you can't really do it every frame and you need the info above such as the UV coords for the pixel you want and it needed to be in a material. In pure BP you can't access the texture 2d info itself.
restive mist
@grim ore thats what I tried before, yes, not very reliable, Im struggling to find a full list of features of Rama's plugin, where shoudl I look? form post updated with recent changes from what I can see
forum*
brazen hull
if I do a timeline wont it just replay the thing or will it keep going up when holding
restive mist
there is a blueprint called do Once @brazen hull might help?
plush yew
If i set my wep to invisible it wont overlap with anyting?
restive mist
@plush yew you can remove collisions as well
grim ore
visible rendering and collision are separate
brazen hull
hmhm
restive mist
yes
grim ore
yep it's a common problem people run into when they make the mesh invisible on a character but the collision is still there and they go WTF?
brazen hull
seem to got it working instead off clicking to play how can I hold ?
plush yew
@grim ore really thanks for always helping out 😄
can you tell me how i disable colloison
i just need to call it with visibailty thing but what should i type in graph
lime gull
Theres a node for that I believe
like enable collision, and you can set it to no collision or enable physics / query
grim ore
yep if you just want to disable it you would use that node
lime gull
May be a strange question, but how would I save how far im into an audio clip and play from that point?
grim ore
it just depends on how you play it, some of the nodes return the sounds object and you can check. Other wise if you are using an audio component and play the sound on it I beleive you can check
lime gull
Okay I'll see what happens
grim ore
I could be completely wrong as well looking at it now I can't seem to find elapsed time 😦
lime gull
I could never find anything on it before, and I lack the unreal knowledge to figure it out
grim ore
yep I thought you could but it's weird... There is an event you can bind called "On Audio Playback Percent" that you have to bind to that updates with the percent but even then I dont think you can play the audio back from a certain percent
lime gull
oh jeez
grim ore
oh wait no when you just use play on the audio component you can pick the time
man this is complicated you figure you could get the current playback time of the current audio component
lime gull
Yea
The only thing I can think is having a thing that will count down each second, and save that when I enter a new area or something
but that seems dumb to me
grim ore
so you want the sound to continue between loading areas when you get to the next one?
lime gull
Yea, like for instance I enter a shop. When I leave the shop I dont want the sound of the main lcoation to restart
Or when I enter a battle
grim ore
gotcha. is this a new level load completely so it destroys the old audio component?
I know it's silly but if you had a sound blueprint in your main level that was always loaded (using level streaming) you could have it hold the sounds that should be playing and in that case you could have a main sound component (your main location) and another for inside locations and then pause the main one, start the inside one and then reverse it when you leave.
otherwise uh binding to get the percent then having it start again seems to be the only option in pure BP
lime gull
The level streaming does seem like a good option too. But the way I set everything up I feel it might be easier to try to use pure blueprints.
I can save the percent in a variable in either my game instance or game mode, but how would I save it
grim ore
welp level streaming is pure BP, it's just the way levels load in the background
using level streaming you could just use your main container level to hold everthing else
lime gull
But actually now I think about it, the world will be split up into main sections ( Like forest, plains, that sorta thing ) and I only have 1 level that handles all the battle, so does that mean Id need to make multiple battle levels? Or have the same one streaming in multiple worlds
grim ore
the crummy part is videos can get the current time but the old audio engine cant lol
lime gull
haha well damn
grim ore
you can probably just use one battle level
like right now you are handling it however, using level streaming pretty much just puts a wrapper level that is persistent (its called the persistent level lol) and you could have your persistent objects in there (audio manager for example) so they never get unloaded
not saying its the best answer but it would let you keep something alive at all times and do stuff with it
quick and dirty for now would be playing the sound and getting the playback percent and when you transition you save that to your game instance and when you load back into that level you get the percent, figure out the time to start again based on the time of the music file, and when you play you tell it to play from that part
its not elegant but uh the other option is to just have the music be "generic" and fade in and out so they never really notice it starting over or hell just randomly pick a new start point whenever they come out lol
now you have me curious on the corrent way of doing this
lime gull
hahaha
and picking a random start point could also work because the battle level is gonna have its own music playing, so the player will probably not even realise
grim ore
its a solution to a problem for sure lol
but I want to find out the correct solution if it's possible
lime gull
I dont blame you lol
sly hare
🙂
grim ore
I can understand why the time or percent might not be available just due to audio streaming and being able to use cues which could contain multiple audio waves
but damnit thats not a good excuse 😛
abstract relic
Paper 2D was basically an office jam done by one dude.
abstract relic
Not a market they seem interested on tapping into unfortunately
frosty bloom
Polyart studio just got a grant for their 2D stuff in UE4, that might be of interest in this convo
crude vessel
Anyone else think the grant to Godot has something to do with this
Or just poking unity in the eye
lime gull
I cant give a say, Im just now hearing about any of this haha
frosty bloom
Can a moderator tell me if I'm allowed to drop a gumroad link here?
It's to said product I mentioned
crude vessel
Since ue4 really isn't targeting the 2d market, and unity is... And Godot is but Godot isn't really a competitor to ue4...
lime gull
In this case it kinda is yea?
fierce tulip
thats @chrome prism's stuff iirc
frosty bloom
Sure is 😄
frosty bloom
Not even working on 2D, but joined his discord because of the insane work he put into it
lime gull
I am working on 2d so I think ill give it a join as well
Erik could you DM me a link or are invites off
frosty bloom
It's in the description on gumroad
lime gull
link wont load for me
ruby ocean
Can I export anim bps and import them to another unreal kit?
next badger
ruby ocean
I'm trying to recreate this anim bp from the Atlas dev kit in the Ark dev kit, and I can't find the nodes used
next badger
@light lintel in the mesh view, find details tab, scroll down to physics, there will be physics asset, you can make one
sorry?
the asset details tab, on your screenshot
tiny sonnet
I keep getting this cook failure error, can someone help?
hidden aurora
Does anyone knows how can physics be networked with low performance impact?
wheat dirge
@light lintel if you open the skeletal mesh of the weapon...there is an option on the top to make it a static mesh. Then you can set the collision in the static mesh
you shouldnt have to...you can still use skeletal meshes
if you click on the skeletal mesh in your character and in your details panel.....scroll down to collision section and you can set your collision there
that whole collision section lets you generate overlap events...ignore, overlap and block channels
try setting collision to custom and then messing with the settings
simple hemlock
I've been searching for a few minutes now and couldn't seem to find a way to set the default font for text objects inside widgets. Is there a way to do that? 🤔
wheat dirge
@light lintel sorry i cant be more of a help...im actually working on a tutorial series atm that will lead me to this exact senario....will let you know what happens 🙂
simple hemlock
that Default thingy is just "Typeface: Default"
sly hare
Changing fonts are easy...
wheat dirge
@light lintel open world by codelikeme
rotund scroll
hey guys, has anyone found out where in the third person template the binding for mouse 2 exists?
sly hare
Real problems start happening when you want to go into the options... etc.
wheat dirge
lol
yea no kidding....this is my third attempt at them.....i skipped all the landscape bs because of problems with things not turning out like they should and got tired of taking 4 hours for one 25 minute video
funny...i JUST completed that video with the camera chake and ttack move
sleek fable
Hi, I wonder if anyone got the "Vehicle AI Plugin" from Marketspace ? I bought it, but I have not clue how to use it 😦 and there is no Tutorial
wheat dirge
in the comments of the one video there is a link to the video where he does the aatack move code..... I've learned with his videos you have to read comments to see if a. others run into the same problems and b. there are typically links to videos where he shows how he did something because he forgot to add it in the video
wheat dirge
the camera shake video has the link to the Attack Move part.....the attack move video is only about 5 minutes long
the video number is #55 in the series
yea im mainly using this as a learning experience.....i have seen so many different ways of doings things it makes me dizzy lol
brave lark
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Basics/DerivedDataCache/index.html this article does not state if this is engine specific. Can I share a DDC between several engine versions? is a DDC shared between projects or is it at a project level?
gusty ocean
Hey guys I'm trying to package to my Android device and I'm getting a R32_UINT texture not supported (sRGB=0).I have an empty map with a sky sphere.Where do I make configurations.
forest tree
Not sure if it's quite visible, but I have a really weird jitter when I move, where the character seems to "scale up" for a moment while I press the left/right movement keys. Anyone ever seen this?
Nevermind, got it. For posterity: issue in my blendspace where I had an animation with a different scale 🙂
grim ore
@brave lark the DDC is generally engine specific, by default there will be one per engine version in the general cache folder. You can make them project specific as well which is basically engine specific but in that project folder/structure
sacred inlet
is Udemy a good place to learn C++ and more in depth UE4?
ive been using UE4 for a few months and have used the visual scripting, but want to get a better understanding
sly hare
@sacred inlet I honestly don't know if that's the best route to go...
sacred inlet
im saying I want to learn actual coding
rotund scroll
@grim ore any chance you'd know how to hook up the camera manager's camera to behave just like the default follow camera from the third person template?
swift hearth
Anyone know how to work with particle systems? I'm trying to adjust one I made following a video, trying to make it fade from one end to the other slowly, instead of all fading simultaneously
ruby ocean
what do I need to do to make this tank operable?
grim ore
@rotund scroll the camera manager is just a class used to manage the active camera. The default follow camera behaviour is just due to what it is attached to and using the spring arm with the settings
rotund scroll
yeah I understand, but for instance using the UpdateCamera or BlueprintUpdateCamera functions I'd like to at least mimic it to a point where I could use it as an attachment. it doesn't seem like they're the same camera, but rather 2 different cameras
proven aurora
Is it possible to set a custom thumbnail for a blueprint? I know you can edit the thumbnail and rotate/zoom it, but is there a way to use a custom image or texture for the thumbnail?
chrome prism
@fierce tulip Epic did come back to me a few days ago and offered a grant for the project 😄
@frosty bloom Thanks for the support 🙂
thin tendon
@chrome prism Pretty lucky mate. I have been waiting forever to hear back from epic for a grant
chrome prism
@thin tendon Well it took 8 months to get back to me in my case. So just keep hanging on
frosty bloom
@chrome prism Thank you for your hard work! 🙂
thin tendon
ohh wow yeah okay. I think I have been waiting about 3 months. So I probably have a ton more waiting lol
chrome prism
@thin tendon I've heard there were a lot of submissions and they need to sort through them all. So it's taking longer than the initial 3 months.
thin tendon
Yeah I imagine they would get alot. The first time they did it I missed out. Submitted to late. They didn't even get a chance to look at it
chrome prism
That's unlucky
wise ridge
I am super new to unreal engine so don't judge me please
Anyway how do I change a part's transparency? Cause I am trying to make a window
wise ridge
Thanks
plush yew
So why do people use this over Unity?
worn granite
Lotta reasons. Any particular thing drawing your eye?
opal portal
anyone else get weird bursts of your CPU fan whenever you're scaling an object (in my case a default box)
craggy flax
At this point the only people I know who use Unity do it for 2 main reasons:
-more free content and tutorials
-greed (when I make my millions off my game idea, greedy epic wont be stealing my 5% ontop of all those other fees from steam and such!)
Or at least that’s the best way to sum up :p
abstract relic
-easy to prototype, gives programmers instant gratification
-schools
wise ridge
I accidentally closed all the stuff that is in the hud How do I open it again?
willow gull
hey guys I need help with something
how do I make it so that when I hold crouch and press jump the character gets launched?
it’s backwards rn
craggy flax
I’m not positive but does crouch effect the ability to launch/ jump? As in you might need to disable crouch in the same branch as launching without the need for the player to release crouch button, or change the way crouch and jump are handled.
Would need to know a lot more about your setup for more specific insight but that’s the first thing I would consider if you’re not getting any specific errors
safe obsidian
no idea
willow gull
@craggy flax I followed a different tutorial that replaced jumping with launching
so yeah, I can jump while crouched
safe obsidian
^nice
willow gull
I tried is input key down but it’s still backwards
zenith flower
What would you says is the most abusive thing you've ever gotten the engine to do?
willow gull
almost crash because of plants
tiny sonnet
I Keep getting this error. I set the default server gamemode as well.
ProcessResult.StdOut: LogPackageName: Error: DoesPackageExist: DoesPackageExist FAILED: 'None' is not a standard unreal filename or a long path name. Reason: Path should start with a '/'
help
normal burrow
need more log
tiny sonnet
i fixed the other errors except this one
normal burrow
do you have a log without the errors that have been fixed?
tiny sonnet
i had to get off my pc, i searched the entire thing
i couldve got another copy im sry
normal burrow
all good
tiny sonnet
They Delete the assets from the Epic Games library
Delete all instances of the assets from your map
Delete the assets folder
thats the fix lmao
@normal burrow
normal burrow
do you have these folders?
tiny sonnet
no
the fix you gave me is a troll
@normal burrow the only fix i found was the default server gamemode, which i changed
normal burrow
Do you have a blank map in level list or something?
tiny sonnet
no
normal burrow
likely associates to something missing?
normal burrow
did you try #packaging ?
normal burrow
would give that a shot, i'm not real sure what it means by DoesPackageExist
tiny sonnet
kk thx for trying
normal burrow
could be a blank field somewhere, they might know right away, this question is all over the internet without answer
yep
swift spindle
BP to C++ sorta
there is nativasation
but you need to understand that Blueprints are a core function of how unreal functions
open eagle
normal burrow
Nativization is broken afaik
swift spindle
^ along with 500 other things
normal burrow
👆
sacred inlet
What if there's two of us who want to work together on a project, one used blueprints the other C++
normal burrow
thats the fun part
swift spindle
that's not an issue
swift spindle
there is no need to convert back and forth
swift spindle
useless pain
normal burrow
delegates etc, should do what you need
sacred inlet
is it worth me learning C++
if im going to be blueprinting
will i
will it benefit me?
normal burrow
the person on the c++ is gonna be more in abstract land by nature
don't have to do it this way but its usually the case
abstract relic
do you know how to program in general
swift spindle
learning the logic behind programming is useful
things like forloops and what ticks are and gates....and more advanced stuff like events and binding
sacred inlet
ive taken a few college classes, but im a chem E by nature. i'm just learning C++ now got into blueprints before doing the coding
swift spindle
but actually coding.... it's kinda meh unless your already there
not needed
you can skip the c++
normal burrow
blueprints is coding tho
sacred inlet
I still dont fully understand it all though
swift spindle
it is... just not typed out
abstract relic
So long as you know the fundamentals
sacred inlet
so should I just look up blueprint tutorials
swift spindle
yes
abstract relic
ye
sacred inlet
instead of this C++ unreal tutorial?
normal burrow
yaw
abstract relic
zed
normal burrow
roll
swift spindle
I've been using ue4 for 5 years... only needed to use C++ 3 times...
abstract relic
eulers oh my
normal burrow
eulers!
swift spindle
hmmm lets make him do quaternions right away ! 🙂
normal burrow
this is the very next thing they need to know for sure.
1,0,0,0 == 180 degrees of rotation around X
-1,0,0,0 == 180 degrees of rotation around X
and so on
willow gull
hey guys I need help again
how would I set a character’s friction so low that it’s like sliding on ice?
abstract relic
reduce acceleration (this also determines deceleration)
normal burrow
hm actually yeah, I don't think characters use physics materials?
abstract relic
do you want to use physic material anyway? 😛
normal burrow
maybe
but I think the character movement component does all the math (without one), so yeah lowering acceleration of inputs would make it feel more slippery in response
willow gull
I got it
it was braking deceleration
alright I have one more question
how would I implement momentum to this?
so like
while going down a slope you gain speed
normal burrow
would you be making a snowboarding game?
grim ore
Does the cmc keep track of that?
normal burrow
yes, its the ground hit result variable
normal burrow
i got ya no worries
grim ore
I did not know that, I know you can tell if it's grounded
normal burrow
yeah the hit result sits on there as a member
grim ore
Well awesome
willow gull
I’m not making a snowboarding game
grim ore
Yay for learning
plush yew
hi everyone!
I'm having issues when I compile the C++ the code, it doesn't saves the changes but I'm getting no error at all, it compiles successfully, it's like if it has some sort of cache, I'm using 4.24
any idea? : (
normal burrow
grim ore
Compiling in editor or in vs?
grim ore
Hot reload is a little sketchy as is, most recommend doing it in the code editor it can cause weirdness like this
And it could be using the cached intermediate files and your just not seeing an error
willow gull
ok so
to not change the topic
if anyone has the solution to my problem then please dm me
grim ore
I thought we suggested stuff
normal burrow
willow gull
oh wow
normal burrow
*believe that would accelerate you down the slope
it might accelerate you up the slope if my cross is reversed
but heres hoping
willow gull
and it’ll only work while sliding?
normal burrow
that 1 in there
is degrees from up
the 1 in >
you can set that to whatever slope (Degree)
normal burrow
no but, it'll take some doing to figure out what numbers work right (try really really big numbers on force if its in g)
willow gull
alright
normal burrow
may end up wanting to make a curve evaluation out of that acosd angle
plush yew
tried to compile from the VS Code command line but is giving me dependency errors, I'm sure it's because it doesn't know where the dependencies are
normal burrow
for the force amount
plush yew
is there a way to delete any type of cache UnrealEditor might be storing?
normal burrow
Intermediate folder Cloudzard
but couldn't give you pointers on using vscode with unreal
plush yew
thanks! I delete it all?
normal burrow
that'll blow away the build files yeah, binaries too
plush yew
kk thanks I'll give it a try
normal burrow
there are caches in Saved folder which can also be deleted but not really code related
plush yew
omg finally made it work thanks!
the intermediate folder didn't work
but I deleted the binaries one
and after UE rebuilt them finally everything is fine
normal burrow
damn cache!
abstract relic
🔪
normal burrow
willow gull
@normal burrow ok I tried it and it didn’t work
normal burrow
Which branch stops it? You could sinD the angle from the acosd instead of using the cosine. I overlooked that part
But see which branch stops executing. You should be running it every tick
normal burrow
What is it connected to now?
willow gull
part of some stuff for a wall running mechanic
normal burrow
You could use a sequence node
willow gull
but I also only want it to happen while sliding
normal burrow
As long as it’s called every frame while sliding it should be ok
Try setting the first branch to use the blocking hit above the Boolean it’s currently plugged into
abstract relic
which terms
willow gull
what's a blocking hit?
normal burrow
All good
willow gull
so change it from walkable floor to that?
normal burrow
Yeah
willow gull
alright
normal burrow
When you enter play mode does anything light up in the blueprint?
normal burrow
It’s possible 500 is too low of force to multiply by too, could try 10000 but make sure the add force node execs
Ah cool
willow gull
when I press the slide key it only happens for a second
normal burrow
Any idea why?
willow gull
nope
normal burrow
Could post the blueprint
willow gull
it's a bit big
and all it does is set your braking deceleration
I might just save this for tomorrow
undone pollen
Does anyone have any experience playing around with input in Unreal. I have a question about their implementation. Why do they have an Input Vector they claim is Accumulated when it's called by from the pawn class to the movement component and then back. Why does this matter if all we care is to get the transform from the Actor and the input scaled from -1.0 to 1.0 from the player controller and send it off to the Movement Component for processing (physics etc..) then send it back to its pawn owner and Update its Screen root transform in world space. I see AddMovementInput called inside to the MC which passes its vector back to pawn to be Accumulated but in any implementation where any class of MC is used it's never actually passing a vector to the AddMovementInput function? Thoughts?
fleet stirrup
Has anyone worked with Azure Kinect and Live Link to Unreal Engine?
normal burrow
there are a few reasons staticjpl
one would be mutliple bindings to the same axis
such as mouse movement and joystick * delta seconds
the movement component also doesn't always route this way, everything along the chain can choose to cut off input
the reason it goes in this loop is so that you could potentially override the behavior (at any destination along the way)
its a dumb oop thing
undone pollen
that's exactly the intuition I felt
I wasn't confident enough to assure that in my head
it seems they did the add movement if you have some physics vectors or something you want to pass into AddMovmentInput
Externally
then on tick the next consumeInputVector from the Movement Comp can use that accumulated vector for some other processing or w.e
@normal burrow Do you know what this OOP methodology is called? to have this chain behave this way I wanna read up on it.
normal burrow
mmm i'd probably get terminology wrong every other time tbh
maybe a visitor pattern or something
undone pollen
i know about observer pattern but never visitor
normal burrow
I've taught myself so am not keen on the terms
undone pollen
hmm
i'll look into it
but seems odd to have Control Input Accumulate even tho on the next tick it gets zero'd out
past pilot
anyone find a way to use the launcher without wanting to tear your hair out? going between content packs and even just scrolling the damn thing feels like windows 10 on a 486
abstract relic
You can browse the marketplace through the website. Otherwise, launch your project directly from project folder and grab a stiff drink whenever you do need to visit the launcher.
past pilot
kind of the answer i anticipated
dim dragon
Very quick question, is there a way to apply post-process volumes to only specific objects, and not spaces?
Oh no wait this isn't vfx lol
abstract relic
Yeah, you use custom depth within the material and enable custom depth to any object you want to be influenced
dim arch
trying to import a mesh from ZBrush into UE
it says its all degenerate triangles
what do
storm venture
Does anyone know how to get the thumbnail of a variant in bps?
brave salmon
can anyone confirm this is not a good way of making materials? I think all those materials are related to different assets. Do we load all those textures everytime we load an asset?
fringe crest
@brave lark just continuing this from here: https://discordapp.com/channels/187217643009212416/375019235853729805/677740948406534154
was just curious as 4.25 is labeled in trello to have improvements to atmospheric sky ( which is blown out in 4.24 ) so yeah
do you mean the lighting? it is meant to be that high, because that's physically accurate light from the sun. it's meant to be used with auto exposure with extended luminance range
plush yew
Triple A games use Bps as well?
Am just wondering if people like us keep doing bps and wanted to find a job and some place that uses Unreal
would that be easy or they taking people who do C++?
brave salmon
imagine using c++ in 2020 lmao
elfin radish
hello i have a issue with selecting multiple faces on a static mesh. basically while ctrl clicking to select multiple faces, it will randomly deselect all faces - so i then have to press ctrl z to get my previous selection back. it feels like 50/50 chance it will select the face
bsp not static mesh i mean
brave gate
@plush yew AAA usually uses both, C++ and BP
fringe crest
@brave salmon You can check by using the Size Map, right click on an asset that uses it, and select the memory option from the drop down
plush yew
Am trying to add skeletal mesh but it keep calling Cape Skeletal Mesh i know i just can change it from inside but why isnt it calling the normal skeletal mesh from the first place?
Hello, I created a project and imported all my assets, but i accedentially selected C++, is there a way (without creating a new one) to switch it to blueprint?
sudden agate
in the upper right corner is a button "Disk Space". click on it to see the size in memory
thats much more important
plush yew
https://msgpwebsites.azureedge.net/fsi/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Airway383443-scaled.jpg is it possible to make the game generate and spawn 3d objects for this ground mesh by a.i?
until now i only see buildings. but no cars, or bushes on the streets
streets will be there too, thats not the problem. but bushes, parked cars will probably miss in this fligh sim
plush yew
but how would you tell the game where to place parked cars and bushes on the street, fences etc?
openstreetmap has not data for fences or bushes
a.i. should detect parked cars and bushes and then place it procedurally
@honest vale
is this possible? 😮
honest vale
yes it is possible
fringe crest
everything is possible
honest vale
question is: can you do it?
plush yew
im more into knowing what will the new flight simulator game have
i think the game wont have that 😦
lapis vine
Flight simulators nowdays:
forest tree
I see some people doing their physics configuration in 3D software like Maya/Max. Whereas you can also set up the character's physics asset in Unreal. Can anyone explain me the difference/how these two things work together in a pipeline?
Perhaps the initial config can be imported into Unreal and further configured?
wise ridge
My dog is a dick he stole my bed
floral arrow
looks like you tucked him in there
plush yew
Here I come again, hoping someone might have an answer to this.
This problem started since I've updated to 4.24.2 yesterday. Once I select to build lighting only, Unreal gets stuck on "Starting up Swarm Connection... (100%)" and freezes. When opening Swarm Agent and looking at the Log, I have an error regarding host being unknown. This is what I'm getting in the Swarm Agent's Log.
1:12:39 AM: Starting up SwarmAgent ...
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.```
If there's any possible fix to my problem, please let me know. Thank you.
shadow pawn
Can we get some upvotes on this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cldkL157x_o
forest tree
I heard of some controversy regarding it. Watching the full thing now.
shadow pawn
Basically caused by IGN taking his quotes out of context. And I'm sure Tim ruffled some feathers talking about consumer-adversarial business models that Google/Facebook/Apple/Steam thrive on
forest tree
So far it makes a lot of sense what he's saying
I'm slightly skeptical about the cross-platform thing, but then again, I'm primarily a PC gamer/dev. I can't quite wrap my head around how you could properly translate that experience, simply because of the input limitations. It's an interesting thought though.
dire coral
Where can i sell my epicgames account
serene birch
input limitations exist sure but I'm sure users will be understanding
it's better to allow it than flat out block it really
forest tree
Oh hey Stof! 😄
serene birch
o/
earnest pawn
hey
plush yew
Hi,I'm trying to share my project with a firend using the multi user editing plugin,but it's not working,when I start the server I can join it only from my pc,my friends can't find it,I've tried using wlan,lan,router and switches or putting static ip addresses but it won't work
What can I do?
earnest pawn
anyone know why if I set the yaw rotation to 90, it gets turned into 89.999992
forest tree
input limitations exist sure but I'm sure users will be understanding
But can you properly translate it at all? The experience?
Mobile controls are horrible, though playing with a controller would already help to a large degree. Save for some exceptionally input heavy games.
shadow pawn
May not be particularly feasible for all games currently, but like you said you can use controller and there's some mouse/keyboard hardware for mobile phones
forest tree
Mind controlled games wen? 😄
His message about lootboxes and general trends of user exploitation really resonates with me.
shadow pawn
Same
forest tree
Love the emphasis on games as open creative platforms. Modding, user generated content.
I never understood games that banned modding or made it intentionally difficult to do
It's given the industry so much.
Skeptical about the ads thing, but I think I understand what he means. The political thing I don't quite understand. On one hand he seems to want neutral platforms where discourse happens freely. On the other, he also seems to say a company needs to be neutral in their message through their work? That I find odd.
zealous cloak
a general question?
What is the best way to make large map for example the moon surface on which you can drive around?
what methods can be used when working with a 1080
to save performance
common ways to do such a thing
plush yew
You peice of shits, go develop a rp gta like mmo game now
floral arrow
you can use world machine
zealous cloak
naaah just a moon simulation
floral arrow
and set LOD's correctly for optimization
forest tree
World Machine - https://www.world-machine.com/
Gaea - https://quadspinner.com
There's another one I think...world creator?
floral arrow
yeah
forest tree
floral arrow
i think something like that
zealous cloak
and they work like normal maps in unreal?
shadow pawn
and TerreSculptor which is free
floral arrow
never heard of gaea is it free
forest tree
It is, with a 1K render limit
floral arrow
oh
zealous cloak
i have no idea how to built terrain in unreal
forest tree
I tried the free version first, liked it so much I bought the indie version
serene birch
I think you can use Houdini too I guess?
forest tree
Like 100 bucks I think
floral arrow
nice not bad
zealous cloak
ok what i need is a large moon surface on which you can drive around
forest tree
Not sure if that's true or not, I'm not familiar with Houdini
Have heard it's been improved a lot though
serene birch
ah, there's something it can't do well in the end!
plush yew
flight simulator 2020 https://msgpwebsites.azureedge.net/fsi/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/vicpaulini-2048x864.jpeg
❤️
floral arrow
dude that game is going to be insane
plush yew
did you just assume its a game
floral arrow
lol
plush yew
zealous cloak
@floral arrow i have to work on aproject at work and the person had no idea how to work with unreal :/
floral arrow
@zealous cloak yeah, either they spend the time and research learning how to make a moon landscape or buy it or find some other source online
plush yew
for fuck satan, stop callilng it game
forest tree
@zealous cloak This is a good introductory video. It is for world creator, but you can skip that part and do a tutorial for whatever tool you choose to use to create the heightmap. The rest of the tutorial is exactly the same https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsfCJD9FAMs
floral arrow
its real life @plush yew
zealous cloak
i just find some SM_LandscapeStreamingProxy
plush yew
@floral arrow neither
floral arrow
its the 4th dimension
zealous cloak
in the content browser and the other half of my map is black
plush yew
@floral arrow sadly. i think fs20 auto gen wont be much better than xp11s
floral arrow
yeah idk having the real life globe map would be cool
streamed from cloud
fly to your house
plush yew
i mean the auto gen untilö now only exists of buildings https://msgpwebsites.azureedge.net/fsi/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Airway383443-scaled.jpg
zealous cloak
wouldnt be such alarge map created in world creator be hit hard on fps?
plush yew
there is something called loading
floral arrow
its huge
floral arrow
relatively kite demo is huge
plush yew
pft
floral arrow
lol
zealous cloak
loading means it automatically loads and unloads?
plush yew
yes of course
zealous cloak
a relative area around the player?
plush yew
i think that is UE4
forest tree
It's a bit hard to see, but this can give you an idea of the scale I'm testing out. So far it's fine in performance.
zealous cloak
and it does it automatically?
plush yew
no idea 😄
zealous cloak
our work map is around 70fps and i have no idea how to solve it
floral arrow
@zealous cloak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clakekAHQx0
this would teach you quite a bit
on making a landscape and optimizing correctly
floral arrow
lots of tips and tricks
zealous cloak
will watch the video first and then continue with my questions
plush yew
@floral arrow °°°°!!!!!!!!
forest tree
@plush yew
kite demo is tiny
10X Skyrim, that's rather big
plush yew
so big?
forest tree
Yeah, he says in the talk
plush yew
@plush yew are u a woman or a man ?
if your a woman i want to lick ur ass and sniff it
it doesnt matter
^^
i can be anything
floral arrow
too bad flying planes is boring af
cool map though
imagine a gta with that same map
@zealous cloak learning to make a landscape is good but getting a really good moon landscape will take some time to research. guess it comes down to weather you think its worth the time or the $40 to buy the moon landscape off the marketplac e
floral arrow
yeah itll be cool for a bit
plush yew
Make it auto pilot and have an amazing view
floral arrow
being able to do more than just fly over though would be amazing
plush yew
just use it and then watch streaming on the second monitor
floral arrow
or where you can walk into every building
and there are quests and objectives
economies
etc
plush yew
that would be very complex
floral arrow
yup prob would have to be largely done by AI
plush yew
we all want a real RP mmo game that replecates earth environments, but the networking side is very complex
floral arrow
putting the basic params in could be done by humans
i could see it being done in 15-20 years
or 10 maybe
plush yew
yeah maybe in 2030 we could have mmo’s that could support thousands of players in a single shard with zero instances
mmo gaming studios should focus on the networking side rather than the game idea itself
plush yew
thats near future we could see it in 2025
with many players getting 5g later we can
@floral arrow check out these games, they are aiming for 1 single server 1 instance
StarBase
Dual Universe
plush yew
forget about the name just check what they plan to do with servers and networking
floral arrow
yeah looks interesting
both space games
dual universe seems like a cool concept
still in alpha though 4 years in development
looks like another star citizen situation lol
forest tree
The photogrammetry stats are pretty wild @floral arrow
plush yew
are there no game studios who talk about such a game?
forest tree
20mil polies, 16K textures, 7-45GB of data per asset
To get rid of the lighting info in the textures they re-create the lighting on the day of the photo and then bake out a delighting map. Like seriously, what is even this wizardry.
Crazy
Mad respect
floral arrow
yeah its pretty crazy
they did a lot of shit
shows what you can do with a team of people
floral arrow
yeah they had the funding and right team
trying to make unreal look as good as possible lol
floral arrow
its getting easier and easier to get quality like that on your own though
forest tree
This was back in 2015 already
forest tree
Exactly
floral arrow
i think that unreal the next few years is gunna do a lot of really cool shit
i like seeing them get more into arch vis and stuff now too
wet brook
Has anyone tested Ray Tracing for in VR?
forest tree
I'm super curious too @floral arrow 🙂
plush yew
StarBase and Dual Universe @plush yew
floral arrow
ray tracing is okay if you optimize it well
still a ways off of good quality ray tracing in real time though
prob will get more realistic next gen of nvidia cards and the one after
forest tree
Their example of Ray Traced Distance Field shadows is really cool
floral arrow
yeah those are really cool
plush yew
what he mean with "Has anyone tested Ray Tracing for in VR?" ??
wet brook
Does it work
wet brook
You can't even do simple things like SSR in VR
wet brook
Two eyes
floral arrow
@forest tree https://youtu.be/1S8KNXXkfH4?t=89
wet brook
There are 2 screens so Screen Space Reflections can't be done
plush yew
?!
wet brook
Each eyes screen space is different
floral arrow
use reflection captures instead
wet brook
So one eye would have things in the reflection that the other one does not
Anyways I want to know if RTR worked in VR because that would solve this problem
floral arrow
you could just use reflection captures
but im sure ray tracing works dont see why it wouldnt. just have to optimize it so the framerate is right
wet brook
But they don't look as nice
floral arrow
ray tracing is just expensive af
@wet brook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3VWv-GwXHE
if you do use raytracing this guy has some good tips on optimizing
wet brook
Thank you
forest tree
Thanks @floral arrow !
Will give that a try
I did enable the distance field shadows
wet brook
I'm using the Nvidia RTX ue4 branch so I have some more optimizations
forest tree
But the shadows are nowhere near as nice on the epic open world video (at this timestamp https://youtu.be/clakekAHQx0?t=1264 )
floral arrow
you can tweak shadows pretty extensively in ray tracing settings
forest tree
Checking that now
floral arrow
that vid i sent to bgidiere has some tips @forest tree
forest tree
Checking that too now
zealous cloak
unreal is learning little by little 😄
while diving deep in some parts, other are just discovered on the surface
floral arrow
yeah that never ends
ive been diving into lighting quite a bit lately
quite a bit of learning on that home front
wet brook
How much slower are RTS than standard non dynamic shadows
floral arrow
what do you mean slower
wet brook
Runtime cost
floral arrow
prob depends. i know ray traced real time shadows can get really expensive depending on how you set it up. but if youre using like a moveable/stationary light without raytracing or something its not terrible performance hit
i havent been on the engine in a couple days was the update today