ue4-general

[plush yew]

how to get location of instanced mesh that i clicked

i have weird glitch with my (works only with one instance mesh blueprint)

[normal burrow]

Cast hit component to instanced static mesh component then use the get transform node where you pass the hit index

[loud flicker]

hey guys. i'm building a spaceship!
so, what i have is a static mesh (my ship), a blueprint for my ship, and components. the ship blueprint uses some structs to define what object goes where in the ship (doors, lights, computers that can all theoretically be changed out and interacted with separately.
so... right now i'm using sockets. I'm using the literal socket names in the structs to call and spawn objects. However, it's starting to look like i may have a few dozen of them, even on my v0 ship. is there a better method?

[tiny sonnet]

@normal burrow hey there again! i still have my problem but if i turn off pak file, it works. only problem is now my file is 20 GB

umm

[plush yew]

wouldnt that play the post process if the custom depth stencil is 15?

[left citrus]

Hey I made the mistake of turning up the resolution of the lightmaps on some foliage I use on a landscape, I have since reverted it to the default size, but my lightbake is taking forever and I'm getting warnings about the lightmap being too large..

Is there a way for me to work out what part of my light bake is taking so long? The errors I'm getting are about the instanced mesh foliage painted on the landscape.

[normal burrow]

Pee pee stencil settings are on the material settings. You define how the masking works there

Comparison mode and reference value

[plush yew]

lmao

i was like

what pee pee stencil

and then remembered my name

[normal burrow]

I got it wrong?

[plush yew]

also can you show me what you mean

[normal burrow]

Moment

[plush yew]

just found it

u mean enable stencil test right?

[normal burrow]

yep

[plush yew]

did they added that recently?cause i dont remember that option

[normal burrow]

don't think so

[left citrus]

This error message suggests I should be able to adjust the lightmap resolution for the instanced mesh component, but that doesn't seem to be an option

[normal burrow]

believe its talking about the baking resolution of the entire map

but maybe not

is redusing number of meshes out of the question?

the thing with instanced meshes is they all need to use same lightmap texture

so using one instanced mesh component for the entire world means you have a texture with all that lightmap data in it for the entire world (of those things)

[plush yew]

just noticed that custom stencil doesnt work

alright never mind,custom stencil works

but I have in mind what if it doesnt show the post process cause i get the area around the player

[normal burrow]

i think ideally you make another post process for that case

but not sure really, could ask in #graphics

[vocal island]

when you go from third person to first person camera, how do you get the body move with the camera?

right now only the camera moves

[plush yew]

what if i lerp

or add

the scene texture post process input with the effect

[normal burrow]

don't think this is how you are supposed to use stencils but i've been wrong before

stencils are pixel perfect in a sense

so its probably better to let the material hadnle the test/ operation than trying to read some back buffer

again though, i could be wrong

[plush yew]

I did this

and it worked

[wicked kettle]

hey guys, any1 could help me for some minutes please? I cant really apply cloth simulation even though I did it from a little tutorial and i didnt miss any steps i feel like im missing something checked or unchecked

[plush yew]

aight nvm

[left citrus]

@normal burrow that's just the thing, this wasn't a problem until I fucked with the lightmap resolution, if i delete the existing instanced meshes and paint a bunch more, even more than I have right now, the error goes away and the build is fine

it's as though the high resolutions are locked on these existing meshes

and I'd obviously like to avoid redoing all the foliage..

[normal burrow]

does it refuse to lightmap catch2?

@wicked kettle you know that the distance goes over 100?

the paint value

if its a huge thing you have to use bigger values than 100

[wicked kettle]

its same size as ue4 mannequinn, also i exported it from blender with units set 0.001 = ue4 friendly

[normal burrow]

0.01 i hope you mean

what is the issue? it does not apply?

how are you testing ? you must close the paint window, don't dock it

[wicked kettle]

yea 0.01 sorry,

[normal burrow]

And if you still receive lightmaps catch2 the warning would be just informing you that the quality is lower than you set over the map i'd expect

[wicked kettle]

hold on for a sec

Do i need any specific weight paint outside of ue4? cuz I've heard it can be done in ue4 itself

https://prnt.sc/r2sj9v

also if I paint this area white, it should be simulation driven and not weight driven anymore right?

its weird though cuz i tried with a static mesh too from a yt video and the guy made it work , i did the same but nothing happened

[normal burrow]

things are always weight driven

that distance value map your painting is measuring distance from the weighted position

when the simulation point is within that distance range then it's simulated, if that makes sense. So you do need good weights in general still

but if you could answer how your testing the weights, like you have to close that painting screen for them to simulate at all

[left citrus]

@normal burrow light bake goes through, but it takes half an hour and throws those errors

well.. warnings

[wicked kettle]

making some tests ill get back in some mins

[normal burrow]

may want to consider if you even want foliage to be lightmapped catch2. volumetric lightmap may be okay for it

[normal burrow]

the pink and white is not weight

its distance from weighted vertex

weighed vertex is still used in that sense

but its not an influence mask of sorts, its a distance lookup in cm.

pink means zero by default visibility range, which means no distance

with the physics asset the weights also matter because intersections at tested from the weighed vertex to the simulated one

so if the weighed vertex crosses into the physics asset its a problem

[craggy flax]

Ive somehow hidden my cursor and cant track down how. Eff.

[forest tree]

Has anyone ever set up collision/overlap events on a spline mesh actor?

Google results are a graveyard

Poor souls who also got slain by it, with little information as to how one should conquer this particular demon

[plush yew]

As i downloaded my animation like 1 month ago i deleted the physics that it came with it

i do have the animation FBX if i redownloaded it and took the pyhiscs they will auto apply again? 😄

Any thoughts?

[abstract relic]

I’m going off super old memory. You can right click on the skeletal mesh and generate physic asset (?). If not, open the skeletal and the option to regenerate physic asset is in there

[plush yew]

https://gyazo.com/499652737817129752d22f9f54d690df

HighTide

i can do it from here?>

cuz this is the on ly thing i got left from the animation

@abstract relic

[misty creek]

Okay, so this is going to sound really funny, but does anyone know how to undo disaster recovery?

I crashed my project and hit yes to disaster recovery but it somehow loaded an old version that what the editor loaded originally

[austere scroll]

Does anyone have a tutorial on how to make a changeable weapon skin ?

[abstract relic]

https://youtu.be/qus9WjHX4_4

[austere scroll]

Thx

[plush yew]

hi guys

i am just asking if any of you know why i can't launch my game to html5?

[late verge]

does Unreal 4.23 support environmental destruction in runtime?

[plush yew]

yes i think so.

[jolly steppe]

wtf is

Unreal Engine 4

x)

[drowsy compass]

@plush yew
From the 4.23 release notes page

"...HTML5 platform support will be migrated to GitHub as a community-supported Platform Extension and no longer officially supported by Epic in upcoming releases..."
https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/announcements-and-releases/1617783-attention-platform-changes-ahead

[jolly steppe]

imagine if Mathew actually made that vid

[plush yew]

oh thanks svv3d

[manic pawn]

community supported platform = dead platform

[plush yew]

i mean it is still usable in the form it was originally released.

[indigo inlet]

Hi all. I just found the server and its great to see so many fans of ue4 all in one place

[rotund scroll]

lol

you make it sound like you're the MC at a concert

[indigo inlet]

Im only here to warm up the crowd for the headliner

[late verge]

never mind, destruction in runtime still isn’t supported

[abstract relic]

Tis a love-hate relationship

[late verge]

huh, i thought it was

so what’s the big deal about destruction in 4.23?

[abstract relic]

Well there's a new physic engine

If you enable it from source

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Chaos/ChaosDestruction/index.html

[rotund scroll]

can't you enable it from plugins as well?

I saw it was version 0.1 or something

also why I'm not touching it

[ocean merlin]

unreal engine compiles all files in project, even that is not used?

When I use Package project and he is starting building, a have a lot of comments like

UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): LogTexture: Display: Building textures: T_Leather_01_N (BC5, 2048X2048)

but i dont use that texture. So, do I need to remove all things that I dont use?

[rotund scroll]

I recall there was a way to mark stuff not to add to the cooked build

but I can't remember where

[normal burrow]

kind of makes sense that anything web related be community supported hah

@late verge believe 4.23 still has apex destruction

if not 4.24 as well

but you'd be committing to something that'll probably be removed soon at this point

[plush yew]

pls give me short 10 min UE4 to UNITY4D video

https://gyazo.com/0b8d2c0ed612a2aea85bbea175290d04

what is the name of this node?

its for material

[abstract relic]

Vector3

[plush yew]

https://gyazo.com/8792b7ca54bc1c806fe34c77b9f7e7c3

@abstract relic This one?

am watching a spanish youtube tutorial and he is using short cuts 😄

[abstract relic]

vector1 converted to a parameter

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Rendering/Materials/ExpressionReference/index.html

[rotund scroll]

readily available information on the documentation page

[plush yew]

Humm cant find the last one

Vector1

when i search inside unreal

[abstract relic]

constant

refer to the doc I posted

[rotund scroll]

^^^^^^^^

[sacred inlet]

Whats the best learning source for blueprints? If I want to sit in a bathtub and watch videos?

[rotund scroll]

@sacred inlet depends

generally I don't recommend stacking up on knowledge

but rather look for solutions when a problem occurs

[abstract relic]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/?sessionInvalidated=true

[sacred inlet]

but I am no new

[plush yew]

https://gyazo.com/238c14c8b84251519721c468f2e1b89f

[rotund scroll]

in the blueprint channel there's a bunch of pinned videos

[sacred inlet]

that I want to familiarize with the functions and shit in there since theres so many

[plush yew]

i think i found it

[rotund scroll]

I recommend going through those

[plush yew]

this is it right?

[abstract relic]

https://www.raywenderlich.com/771-unreal-engine-4-tutorial-for-beginners-getting-started

[sacred inlet]

I was learning C++ but not sure how helpful that will be?

[rotund scroll]

@sacred inlet yeah but nobody knows all of the functions in blueprints

there's too many

[sacred inlet]

is C++ even handy?

or should I jump right in to blueprints

[rotund scroll]

what's your experience level

[abstract relic]

you already asked this question

[sacred inlet]

novice

yea hightide but im still contemplating

[rotund scroll]

then use blueprints

[abstract relic]

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

[sacred inlet]

in the middle of this Udemy course

[rotund scroll]

look in the pinned videos

of the #blueprint channel

most of what you will need are those

blueprint communication chief among them

[plush yew]

whats a good tutorial for going from ue4 to unity?

[thick herald]

What to know BP nodes are etc? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOVfF7PfLbRdVEm0hONTrNQ

@plush yew maybe ask on the Unity forums?

[rotund scroll]

@thick herald the general idea of accumulating knowledge isn't a good way of learning things

you'll forget what everything is before you learn to use it

[thick herald]

I know, but he asked so he got. lol

[rotund scroll]

the videos are good when you have a problem that can be specifically solved by certain nodes

[abstract relic]

Trial by fire Cranz. They'll figure it out eventually 😛

[rotund scroll]

I suppose

[grim ore]

learn.unrealengine.com , go thru the getting started path so you can learn how the engine works at the minimum then find something to do and do it =0

mother.... my right shift broke

[rotund scroll]

explore, discover, divide and conquer

[grim ore]

what do I want to do? what exactly do I want to do? how do I do part of that? how do I do part of that part? whooo 1 of 239485834 tasks down!

[normal burrow]

find any more crap matheww?

[grim ore]

nothing major beyond what I posted. There is something called shallow water simulation plugin in Physics but I couldnt find it in editor

[rotund scroll]

@grim ore what's the issue?

[grim ore]

no issues, he was asking if I found anything new in the master branch release

[rotund scroll]

oh

[craggy flax]

What would be the best way to approach a group of soldiers as a single selectable unit, and handling their grouping formations?

Like hypothetical “build infantry” and a group of 5 come out as a single unit

[rotund scroll]

if it's just a single unit you can arrange them to always consider the same location

alternatively if they clip past each other it's probably not that much of an issue

[craggy flax]

It’s more their standing around positions. Box, line formation, etc

[rotund scroll]

depends on your grid type

box is the most compact, which usually makes it the preferred choice

[bright basin]

Can someone explain, by the way of blueprint events, how can I make item go from the inventory that has a number of similar items to the socket, when player choses so? It's probably very easy?

[rotund scroll]

not sure what you mean, do you have a reference?

[bright basin]

I have an inventory, I looted and item, so I pick it from the inventory and it needs to attach itself to a socket and disappear from the inventory

[rotund scroll]

again it'd be easier to understand if you could show me a game that already has this? like diablo's inventory but if you equip something it disappears from inventory?

[bright basin]

i was just brainstorming on how I can do this in general, Blueprints and I don't go well together 😄

[rotund scroll]

well if you can't get your idea across it's really difficult to help you

[bright basin]

I mean every game has this functionality right? You loot something then you later equip it as a weapon in your hands

[rotund scroll]

I just gave you a counter example

diablo's items stay equipped when they are in your hands for instance, and are part of the inventory

[plush yew]

I am trying to import FBX model made with Daz to Unreal and I got this

but

Only unreal see double hip bone

[serene birch]

this doesn't mean there isn't two "hip" bones in the exported FBX though

[grim ore]

also if you collapse the hip bone at the top does it show anything else next to it?

[plush yew]

oh you right

xD

[serene birch]

not to mention you only showed like 1/4 of the bones 😛

[plush yew]

but

it's two mehs inside

so, of course they have the same rigging model

[rotund scroll]

just rename it?

the second hip

[serene birch]

UE4 skeletal mesh I think only wants a single mesh inside a FBX file

[plush yew]

alright

thanks ^^

it's a standard ?

having one mesh inside FBX

tho, Daz can put two mesh inside FBX

weird

[rotund scroll]

fbx is a generic format

it's not specific to unreal

many applications can use it

some of which maybe allow for 2 meshes

[plush yew]

alright

Else I never know which version of FBX to choose, should I use 2018 version only ?

latest version

UE4 propose 2013 by default

[abstract relic]

hell, 2014 works

[rotund scroll]

yea

most fbx versions will work really, don't think a lot has changed in them tbh

[abstract relic]

So it doesn't really matter. Never had an issue

[plush yew]

but daz propose 2012 by default

😄

okey

[rotund scroll]

yeah but daz doesn't know you use unreal

[plush yew]

so, choose the FBX version as low as possible

2006 ?

😄

[abstract relic]

test them out

[plush yew]

I still have the same option exportable, even in 2006

[grim ore]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Content/Importing/FBX/Animations/index.html The UE4 FBX import pipeline uses FBX 2018. Using a different version during export may result in incompatibilities.

[plush yew]

oof

interesting

[unique kraken]

hey anyone hase some info on how to use flowmaps for hair

[hidden aurora]

Are there any updated videos on how to make standalone servers?

[rotund scroll]

@grim ore do you know what triggers the RMB camera function in the third person template? there is no input functionality by default, so I'm wondering where it stems from

[inner heath]

Hey Guys!

I'm trying to do some cloth sim for this flag in UE4 but for some reason I can't get it to work, I have made it to this point but for some reason I can't make it sim the actual model, just the wireframe and in engine just doesn't move... any Idea about what could it be?

[plush yew]

@rotund scroll there is no RMB input in this template by default

[rotund scroll]

that's my point

[plush yew]

what it does ?

[rotund scroll]

but if you hold rmb you can move the camera

[plush yew]

lol

[rotund scroll]

so where does that functionality come from

[plush yew]

can you show the blueprint ?

of the main character

[rotund scroll]

no

you're missing the point

[plush yew]

can you show the input ?

of the project

is it when you launch the game ?

or before

Did you click on this ?

[rotund scroll]

just forget it

[plush yew]

weird problem ^^

Iray of Daz is the same thing as RTX ?

or even VXGI

[steep meadow]

im trying to install ue and i've benn sitting at Verifying 94% for an hour and a half

what do i do, its not making any progress

[open eagle]

can someone help me with DamageTypes

[wet brook]

Is it possible to switch maps with out a loading screen? Like have a ship or an elevator or something stay loaded while you are switching maps?

[boreal plinth]

So I see the emissive node, but I can't fully figure it out

Trying to illuminate these bulbs, I know to unlit for performancee

[plush yew]

can someone tell me how to start adding custom animations

im using alsv4 and nothing works or works but keeps going away when i restart the editor. all is saved though.

[abstract relic]

This? Contact the developer https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/advanced-locomotion-system-v1

[plush yew]

does anyone know how to fix this?

[normal burrow]

how much ram do you have luke?

[rotund scroll]

do you have a lot of lights

[plush yew]

64gb of ram

I have 1743 lights

Ive baked maps with 5k lights before so I dont understand what is different about this scene

[normal burrow]

that address its trying to reach is low

what does your ram usage look like?

[plush yew]

during?

[normal burrow]

yeah leading up to

[plush yew]

Normal in editor usage

oh

let me check

it gets up to about 600mb used then force quits

[normal burrow]

does it give you the same address everytime?

3b641320

[serene birch]

access violation can be something else really

do a memtest on your computer for starter 😮

if it is that sudden

[plush yew]

no it doesnt give me the same address

now gives me 2736____

whatever

[serene birch]

it's unlikely it'd give you the same address for the memory of the heap is involved

[plush yew]

I know my memory is fine because lighting bakes fine on every other map

This is the only map that doesnt work

And Ive lit the scene the same way I light every other one

I did notice that removing the directional light fixes the light building but I need that light in

[serene birch]

engine version?

[plush yew]

4.24.2

[serene birch]

could be a simple bug you found

[normal burrow]

are many stationary?

[plush yew]

all of them are due to how the materials are set up

some cast shadows some dont

[normal burrow]

is it just one stationary directional?

[plush yew]

One stationary directional yes

but all the lights except the skylight is stationary

[normal burrow]

familiar with visual studio?

[plush yew]

barely

[normal burrow]

since its not giving the same address everytime, would probably say its a bug that should be reported

Wouldn't expect it to be your fault, if there is an issue preventing you from doing it, it should be presented better than a access critical

that said, you might find ways around it such as that directional light

hard to say

[plush yew]

Setting the light to movable works but again, Id prefer stationary

Its whatever though

[normal burrow]

lots of overhead in stationary yeah, may be overloading what its ready for or something. regardless it should do a better job of informing you and would report

[plush yew]

Okay

I just find it ironic and funny that I just did a map last night that literally had 3600 stationary lights and faced no issues

UE4 works in mysterious ways

[normal burrow]

yeah i wouldn't be able to connect those dots really, no idea what it is

[abstract relic]

Delete /intermediate 🥁

[plush yew]

Could try that but rebuilding shaders is a bitch lol

Theres so many maps in my project that rebuilding the shaders would take hours

[drowsy compass]

@plush yew
Sometimes the system requires expanding virtual memory. Also try to Clean and Validate the Swarm agent cache.
https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Swarm_Agent_Troubleshooting

[abstract relic]

Very much doubt it’ll help luke

[normal burrow]

yeah unlikely, but maybe

[plush yew]

I already exceed the memory cap for ue4

As in I have more RAM than UE4 allows

[normal burrow]

unreal will use all the ram

[plush yew]

UE4 only uses 32gb max

Atleast according to what I read

I've never seen it use more than 20 on my end though

[serene birch]

but UE4 lightmass computer seems to be a different exe than the editor anyway, there's no telling how much RAM it can use 🙂

[normal burrow]

where did you hear that it only uses up to 32gb?

[serene birch]

seems a weird limit anyway

[normal burrow]

I know my unreal doesn't cap at 32gb

as exporting voxels would prove

[plush yew]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[abstract relic]

Lies and slander Luke. You can never have too much ram

[normal burrow]

unreal will happily eat it all hah

[plush yew]

"Never have too much ram"

Tell that to the judge

Which is me

[manic pawn]

is it too much ram when you run out of slots to plug it in?

[plush yew]

^^^

[jagged scroll]

this is the weirdest thing ever.
I downloaded UE4.12 to look at an old project but non of the dropdown menus in engine open. No right click menus open. Nothing. Anyone has any idea?!

[plush yew]

I was actually going to pick up 128 originally but my mobo doesnt support it

[normal burrow]

objection

retrial

[plush yew]

https://tenor.com/view/objection-court-judge-object-lol-gif-4833328

[normal burrow]

you need more computer then zeb

[plush yew]

K thats enough from me, I gotta model a star destroyer :))

[manic pawn]

you don't have enough computers until you have one core per job when compiling the engine

[normal burrow]

compiling shaders is way more of a payoff for cores than c++

[plush yew]

I just updated UnrealEnginePython and MotionMatching plugins on github to 4.24.2
https://github.com/20tab/UnrealEnginePython/pull/833
https://github.com/Hethger/UE4_MotionMatching-/pull/5
🙂 Hopefully someone find these useful, I know I did!

[thin tendon]

So I just found an issue with creating a day and night and I'm wondering how other people have addressed it. The issue being that Unreal engine doesn't change to a night time scene unless your light that rotates is pointing directly up. And as soon as it moves it starts a dawn or dusk scene. Every tutorial I have seen. Doesn't account for this and they end up getting dusk from like 5pm all the way through to midnight.

I'm thinking of just putting a different set of rules for setting rotation during night time hours. But I'm curious how others have managed it.

[fierce tulip]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UeApOIj0jY moar from frank

[crystal jackal]

Hi all. Inside a blueprint component section, I'd like to group some items together.. but I'm struggling to find/identify some contrainer of sorts that simply has transforms as a parent and not much else. does anything like this actually exist in ue?

.. is that just a Scene component actually.. just saw this one

[sharp crest]

how do I check if a vehicle is on the ground or not

latest ue4

[blissful trail]

https://gyazo.com/52735b91a470a65606b1356f05b2c558 idk how it took me soo long to figure out how to do this xd

[sharp crest]

@spare kernel I like your status

It is very true

well rip should have gone to #lounge too late now Ig

[thin tendon]

Is the far view plane something that can be manipulated at runtime in a packaged game? Or does it only apply to the editor?

[normal burrow]

Believe it’s on the camera

Default is in project settings

[thin tendon]

Thanks heaps.

[normal burrow]

@thin tendon I guess I was wrong on that

[thin tendon]

lol its all good it gave me somewhere to look. I just find it odd that the editor has a true render distance plane but I can't find a way to access it in game

[normal burrow]

There is a console variable for it, but it’s perplexing to me that it’s not exposed to blueprints

[thin tendon]

Yeah I can't wrap my head around it either. Because the different fogs all they do is add fog. But stuff is still rendered behind them. And the far view plane is the only thing I have seen that comes close to a true render distance plane.

[carmine garnet]

i love the feeling

when your just throwing together nodes at max speed

[sacred sluice]

if i took a character mesh from another project and put it on my already set up skeleton would everything work the same?

[normal burrow]

Thrown nodes

You could potentially modify the projection matrix in c++ waffle but sounds like that is tricky as well

[thin tendon]

@sacred sluice If they share a skeleton yes

@normal burrow Thanks I might put together something hacky like a sphere that occludes outside actors

[sacred sluice]

@thin tendon how can i make them share?

[normal burrow]

Assign skeleton by right clicking

[sacred sluice]

Where it says allow all animations blah blah?

[normal burrow]

Bone orientation must align between meshes otherwise you’ll get twisty characters

Hm not sure what your referring to, but if it’s a warning, probably

[sacred sluice]

i dont see the assign skeleton button

i see retarget to another skeleton

[normal burrow]

Mesh?

You assign a different skeleton to the mesh

Assign the skeleton with the animations you want to the character not using that skeleton

[sacred sluice]

pic incoming

[normal burrow]

Close this

Then in content browser locate the mesh. Right click it and select assign skeleton

[sacred sluice]

trying that. hangon

[thin tendon]

The option to share a skeleton is also when you first import the character into unreal. Its good practice to make as many of your characters share skeletons as possible. So that you don't need a different set of animations for each character

[sacred sluice]

freak, yeah i have to redo anims for these guys

[thin tendon]

If all your characters share the 1 skeleton. You can have literally 1 set of animations used by them all. Its kind of awesome.

[sacred sluice]

sadly, they dont

i dont want to redo the BP either

[merry gazelle]

Does anyone know if there's an options in Unreal Editor to increase the size of the UI? I'm working from a distance on an ultra wide monitor and the text is tiny lol

[uncut vigil]

Use the window scaling instead?

[merry gazelle]

window scaling in UE?

not sure what that means unless maybe you mean changing something in OS settings

[uncut vigil]

Yeah i mean windows settings

Dpi scaling per monitor

[merry gazelle]

hmm that kinda helps actually, thanks

[forest tree]

I'm pretty impressed with the physics Unreal lets you do, TheIsle's devs are nailing it.
https://youtu.be/KMCnb6C4FMA

[floral arrow]

hmm anyone ever have an issue with skylight radiosity baking taking forever. using the same ppv/lightmass/world settings as another project but it is taking like 100x longer to bake

[shell compass]

Do you guys check in raw source assets to version control? Like models, textures, .psd files, audio etc?

Or how do you manage all that stuff on a company/project level? Would a shared Google Drive with all those better than checking it in with Git-LFS?

[forest tree]

Perforce is a big thing I think @shell compass

[shell compass]

Yeah, I think that's the de-facto standard for UE4. It's just that I'm not too keen on it. Too much hassle with the locks and all that

It's probably powerful if you know it

[uncut vigil]

You should, perforce or maybe svn are the easiest

Hassle is worth it when you have access to revision history

[shell compass]

I saw that Project Borealis used Git, but they did some custom setup with scripts etc.

Not sure why they didn't want P4 either.

@forest tree btw, I've always been disappointed with the physics in UE4. For me, it's always felt floaty, starts to jitter like mad when things are forced together, and there's been many times where small things fly through walls etc.

I think it has to do with floating point imprecision with small scale stuff, so what has helped for me when working with physics in small environments for VR for example, has been to simply scale everything up to like 10x. It's super hacky.

I wish UE4 just had some... world scale parameter or something, so you could get better small-scale floating points, but be limited to smaller world sizes.

Cause I very rarely need those 8x8km maps

But often need good physics right next to the player

[forest tree]

I'm using Git for now like yourself, did you encounter issues with it? @shell compass

btw, I've always been disappointed with the physics in UE4. For me, it's always felt floaty, starts to jitter like mad when things are forced together, and there's been many times where small things fly through walls etc.
Interesting. I haven't done much with it myself. I want to learn, but it's another huge rabbit hole to get into I feel like

Adds so much life to the game though, it's amazing shit when it works

[runic fern]

Good Afternoon guys
When im trying to run 2 different game instance using PowerShell one of them working normally but 2nd one crashes show me this error

DXGI_ERROR_INVALID_CALL

DX11RHI

Im using now Version 24.2

[brave gate]

@shell compass use proper source control, not a Google Drive

• there's no noticeable hassle using p4 - you click "check out" why saving asset initially, but that allows you to easily revert current work and you're not gonna have conflicts with other people
• you can easily go back in time with source control (going back with entire project, selected folder or file), track since when bug appeared or performance regressed
• you can always diff - compare changes between code/blueprint changes
  if using Google Drive would be efficient, gamedev would use it
  but p4 is common for Unreal teams and big boys - your repository size gonna grow quickly and that's where p4 shines (efficient with enormous amount of assets, file locking and easy-to-use client since forever)
  Git is obviously preferred by programmers and because it always gonna be open source and free of charge, easy to find cloud services hosting Git - but it wasn't designed for huge binary datasets

[forest tree]

You can self host P4 for free, right? @brave gate

Up to a certain team-size?

I've been meaning to get into it, but so far as a single dev, I don't feel like I really need P4 yet? Git seems to do the job

[brave gate]

up to approx 20 people (free license is like 5 "users", 20 workspace) - "workspace" is what actually a single developer use (not "user"), user in p4 is account with password, it can be shared by many workspaces/persons since you don't "personal password" on source control really

[shell compass]

@forest tree no issues with Git other than the repo being rather large. But then again, I'm just working solo right now, so no conflicts of any kind are bound to happen.

[brave gate]

depends on needs, I'd use p4 on every game project, no matter of size

• no need for Git branches in this case and all the stuff what makes using Git annoying if we don't need branches all the time
• P4 plugin for VS automatically checks out edited files, so no usability disadvantage compared to the Git while coding
• still is useful to have p4 client - many "pending changelists", getting older revisions on specific folder/file easily, human-readable version numbers (integers growing from 1, 2, 3, 4) instead of Git hashes 😉

[forest tree]

Sounds like a cool tool, I'll probably set it up if I manage to scale up the project

Thanks for the info!

[uncut vigil]

@brave gate can you set up p4 on a NAS?

[forest tree]

https://forums.perforce.com/index.php?/topic/5103-perforce-setup-on-a-nas/

NAS is just storage, so I can't imagine you can

Unless you built it yourself and have a capable OS running on it?

If not, I'd imagine a Raspberry-Pi would work, you'd have to check the sys requirements

But beware that you don't have an out of house backup then. And that means you just don't have a backup, really.

[uncut vigil]

I dont know, i was thinking about other options rather than renting a server

Yeah, true

[forest tree]

https://www.vultr.com/

Dirty cheap

You'd need some more storage probably, but yeah.

[uncut vigil]

That is pretty cheap

[forest tree]

Yeah, it's not so bad these days really.

[uncut vigil]

I was thinking of adding all my shit though, sources and all and it could be 500 gb or more. I have a 2x rack in raid, and a NAS would be cool to do. Ill search for options

[forest tree]

Don't know how comfortable you are with sysops, but it's very doable to learn. Plenty of resources.

I was thinking of adding all my shit though, sources and all and it could be 500 gb or more. I have a 2x rack in raid, and a NAS would be cool to do. Ill search for options
That's quite a bit yeah.

Hmm

[uncut vigil]

I wanted to get one of those mini intel sticks just for p4

[forest tree]

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html

Backblaze is great if you want only a place to backup

[uncut vigil]

Cool, thx

[brave gate]

@uncut vigil I had one Intel compute sticks for p4
it surprisingly worked... kinda... it was super-slow with uploading/downloading a huge number of files, even on WLAN
it wouldn't be enough if using custom engine, but then it's often efficient to set up a build machine - a single machine for p4, building code for a team, cooking, automation tests, etc

although netbooks with decent amount of RAM would be ok

P4 works fast thanks to putting its database journal into RAM, querying entire history blazing fast

2GB RAM on compute stick and some Atom CPU... well... not enough for efficient P4 machine 😉

[uncut vigil]

Hmmm I see..not doing that then 😄

[thin tendon]

Is there any option in Unreal that I can use to reduce the resolution of a texture? For example if I have an 4k or 8k texture and I want to make it 512 or 256

[uncut vigil]

@thin tendon lod bias, max texture size?

[thin tendon]

@uncut vigil Thanks it looks like max texture size is exactly what I wanted

[forest tree]

There's also this @thin tendon https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/imageresizuer

Free

[thin tendon]

That looks really interesting. Looks like you can just hit a button and it does all your textures at once

[shut oxide]

whenever i import something from quixel bridge it shows like this

🤔

[forest tree]

I think I had the same @shut oxide

No issues so far though

[shut oxide]

so just dont mind that thing ryt?

[shell compass]

Is it normal to have a 4.5GB sized precompiled headers folder for visual studio in a pretty much blank c++ code ue4 project?

(the .vs folder in the root of the project)

[rugged sparrow]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/blueprint-visual-scripting/1721801-how-can-i-bind-a-custom-event-on-a-key-and-a-overlap-event can someone help me?

How can i bind a Custom event on a Key and a Overlap event?

[shell compass]

You just create the custom event, then you call the custom event from the key event, and do the same thing on your overlap event

Right click and type in the name of your custom event, and it will show up

[rugged sparrow]

but is the one event for both?

can you show me a example?

[shell compass]

Same custom event I guess, but 2 different call event nodes

Or the same, shouldn't matter

[rugged sparrow]

i dont understand sorry ...what do I have to connect

[thin tendon]

Plug your custom event to the enter on the gate

[rugged sparrow]

and the e key?

[thin tendon]

Then from the E and overlap run the custom event

[rugged sparrow]

?

I got this now

[thin tendon]

now drag out from "E" and type enterhaken

to get a blue version of your custom event

[rugged sparrow]

okay... but the isnt doing then anything?

right?

[thin tendon]

hold up

you also want your overlap plugged into the blue version

Then if it doesn't work try not using the enter and try open or toggle the gate

[rugged sparrow]

yes

ok

it isnt working

but i got another solution

[thin tendon]

@forest tree That plugin just crashes when ever I try to use it

[rugged sparrow]

my solution works

thx for the help

[fading nova]

does anyone have troubleshooting for getting the Chaos Destruction Demo working? I tried compiling a 4.24 build from the github source, but it fails to compile and then slowly increases the CPU load and RAM usage of the windows antimalware service until it bricks my computer and i have to do a hard reboot

Im attempting a 4.23 compile now but im just up a creek over here

[brave gate]

@fading nova #engine-source room would be better for that
but probably you should turn off this antimalware crap or whitelist compiler process
compiling 4.24 with Chaos works for me, but Chaos is unstable in 4.24 version + most of the Chaos Demo doesn't work 😉

[fading nova]

that much is good to know, ill continue pressing forward in 4.23

but i cant really turn off the service since its Windows' antimalware

[brave gate]

oh that's weird, I'm also using Windows Defender for years

what's your hardware?

[fading nova]

yesterday i gave up when the memory hit about 4.5gb, and CPU at ~70%

uhhh 16gb ram, i5 recent gen @3.4ghz, 1070ti

earlier in the day i let it go until it stopped itself and it straight froze my whole computer, start menu/taskbar and all

[brave gate]

well, it should work nicely
Windows just betrayed you 😄

[fading nova]

GREAT

if the 4.23 source works, thats fine for me

[brave gate]

dunno, it you want Chaos, wait at least for 4.25 - it won't be enabled by default, but guys say it's stable in the game

[shut oxide]

why does my particles look dull

[brave gate]

they just started testing/polishing it with Fortnite

[fading nova]

yeah i just wanna see if its something im interested in

[shut oxide]

i mean with soo much less light

[fading nova]

for a work project

thanks!

[fading nova]

@brave gate where did you see that epic was testing chaos in fortnite?

[brave gate]

it's official

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/battle-royale-update-whats-new-in-v11-50

[fading nova]

oh shit yeah, neat

i was looking for news in unreal engine articles, not fortnite

thanks man

[rotund scroll]

what are the advantages of chaos though?

anything worth mentioning in terms of design?

@brave gate

[brave gate]

https://youtu.be/mwbSi2R49ZY

the most promoted for now: efficient and art-directable, controlled destruction

there are entire systems built around it, i.e. field system

[rotund scroll]

ah fair

[brave gate]

destruction simulated is pre-cached so it can be played in Sequencer, paused, rewinded

[rotund scroll]

people are gonna have a field day creating dynamic compositions with destruction then it seems

[brave gate]

plus lot of stuff better than PhysX: same cost for convex and non-convex collisions

[rotund scroll]

although the workflow might still be slower and less efficient than faking it

so idk

that's great

[brave gate]

it's just to just set explicitly the mass of object in Geometry Cache asset

[rotund scroll]

I can finally get some decent collisions on my concave stuff

[fading nova]

i like the idea of being able to break parts of an object rather than shattering a whole thing a la Apex destruction

thats my main draw

[rotund scroll]

I get that

[brave gate]

yep, all this thing could be properly replicated over the network some day

[rotund scroll]

does it relate to the simple collision in the engine at all?

[honest vale]

in the video they mention that the goal is to be fully replicated

[brave gate]

Tim Sweeney already mentioned they want realtime FEM physics

Hollywood-grade fluids and other shit 😉

[rotund scroll]

because on more than one occasion I've had that fuck up

so if it fixes that I'll be a very happy chappy

[brave gate]

it does relate to every collision shape 😉

[plush yew]

MothDoctor

how do you make backups for your project?

[brave gate]

with Perforce 😉

[fierce tulip]

perforce, svn, plastic, alienbrain, etc

[brave gate]

wow, what's alienbrain? 😄

it sounds as good as this Brainfuck programming language 😄

[fierce tulip]

about as old as the others, but was used at bigger corps back in the day

https://www.alienbrain.com/

[plush yew]

Luos Which one you recommend the most?

[fierce tulip]

they are starting to focus on smaller/indies now

I personally prefer svn, but they all work fine

Plastic has imho the best branch overview

[plush yew]

As am going to learn one of those saving my project folder where it saved at

that count as a backup?

if something got missed up with my project?

[fierce tulip]

whut

[plush yew]

😄

https://gyazo.com/37537787d4b483528bc251bfd53fc47c

https://gyazo.com/6b4981f4d278275444bc5b1cd8a2ea13

This is my project called Game

if i saved it as a rar for backup

that works ? 😄

[fierce tulip]

its a very poor way of doing it, but it works

problem is that this way things can break more easily

[plush yew]

I will just go and learn svn i think that will save me

[brave gate]

so AlienBrain is even more expensive than Perforce, good luck with $250 per artist per year ;)
or $150 per programmer 😉

Houdini Indie costs $269year and it does provide value for that 😄

[plush yew]

Sorry this is gonna seem really bad of me, I am new to UE4, I am creating a world and I to landscape and then Paint, I see a tab called "Layers" but nothing is there. I have got lots of materials, but how to I add them as layers so i can paint with them

Kind Regards

Edward

[thick herald]

@plush yew https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Landscape/QuickStart/index.html

[plush yew]

How could i create gas planet material

gas planet inside*

clouds in sphere shape moving fast

like this but planet

@thick herald When i assign the Landscape material nothing appears in the Layers. unlike the turtorial

[thick herald]

@plush yew Can you show me a picture of your landscape material?

[shell compass]

There is

The lowest left one for example

sticks to left side, full height

you just specify the width

to 50% instead of 33

[plush yew]

@thick herald Here

[shell compass]

Well the easiest thing for your scenario would be to just have those be 100% wide and set them as children under a horizontal box that's also 100% wide

Probably some DPI scaling issue you got there. Can disable that in the project settings

[thick herald]

@plush yew no, I meant the actual material graph, not pic of the landscape 🙂

[shell compass]

Not complicated. Just right click one of the widgets you got there > Wrap With > Horizontal Box. Drag the other one into it as well. Done.

[plush yew]

@thick herald Here

[shell compass]

ctrl+shift click the FULL anchor on the hor box to have it take up the entire screen.

[thick herald]

If you scroll down to the bottom of the page that I linked, you will learn how to add multiple textures to use in the landscape 😉

[shell compass]

It's just a wrapper for layout. Does nothing

It's just a box to place widgets in 😛

Anchors are only valid on children of Canvas widgets

[rotund scroll]

anchor is the 2d pivot

[shell compass]

np, gl, there's lot of documentation on UMG

No idea, sorry :/

No, that makes sense. It depends on what anchor type you set.

The one below will always have 960px to the left and stick to all other edges

The one above will always be 960px wide

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/UMG/UserGuide/Anchors/index.html

That page explains everything you need to know

[plush yew]

hello guys I want to put progress bar in border but I can't-what to do now?

I want to put here progress bar for xp/level system but I can't

[thick herald]

#umg

[plush yew]

no

[fierce tulip]

#umg :p

[plush yew]

what is this :p ?

[fierce tulip]

well, while we prefer to keep the right topics in the right channel, many others should have been using #umg as well

[plush yew]

I post here because here all the people are talking for each theme and they don't keep the channels for the theme-that's why @fierce tulip

[fierce tulip]

even better if ya'all used em :p

its a gameplay abilities channel, for a specific tool in ue4

[plush yew]

yup I saw it now

ok so can you help me in #blueprint ?

[fierce tulip]

i blame lazy people over discord :p

[plush yew]

I am not lazy to do it in the specific channel, the problem is that the other people do it and I follow them-xD also the most people are following this channel

[smoky sonnet]

Hey is there a plugin for ue4 like a phone emulator to play your game instantly in a android environment

[plush yew]

and it is not a good idea one server to has 30 channels

......

you package the game for android and play it @smoky sonnet

[fierce tulip]

take it up to #server-feedback

[plush yew]

just move it there

copy and paste it

yup @plush yew

[smoky sonnet]

@plush yew yeah but if you change some parts you need to package it everytime that isnt efficient isnt there a other way?

[plush yew]

yup but I don't think there is plugin for this-so that's why you finish the game and you package it-not to package when you add something new @smoky sonnet

[smoky sonnet]

ok there is a built in feature in ue4

thanks anyway found it

[boreal plinth]

Only static lights are supported on this project

[rotund scroll]

a material function isn't a material

all problems should really go in their respective channels

it's only really issues that are hard to pinpoint that should go here

but people aren't smart, and they are lazy

[smoky sonnet]

am i stupid is there a way to adjust your objects ingame (2d) for phone devices

on some devices the screen is to small so its not fullscreen

other times its too big

i mean the entire playfield*

[abstract relic]

Why not adjust camera instead?

[smoky sonnet]

how to?

i want to set the playfield fullscreen

that the red bar at the bottom is barely visible as well as the left and right wall

this should be anchored to the device resolution

to provide fullscreen

but idk how

and on tutorials everyone is just talking about interfaces and widgets

[abstract relic]

Hmm

There’s a node called get screen resolution

You basically need to remake anchor point

[smoky sonnet]

where

you mean get viewport size?

[abstract relic]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Settings/GetScreenResolution/index.html

[smoky sonnet]

which target do this node need

ok worked

any tips how i can set my playfield now to the screen resolution

[abstract relic]

Haven’t work on a mobile game in unreal. Wouldn’t know any tricks. But hopefully #mobile or here might. I’m curious myself

[steep meadow]

how would i add recoil to the starter gun to make the player get launched in the opposite direction the gun is firing?

[grim ore]

you can use the launch character node. You can get the forward vector of the character then multiply it by a negative to go backwards instead of forwards

this assumes you want them to go in a direction locked on the Z (parallel to the ground) and not a rocket jump. IF you want it to be camera facing plug in the First Person Camera, get the world rotation of it, and plug that into the get forward vector instead but.... thats weird

[plush yew]

i been searching lately if i can hit enemies and they can react with physics

Any1 tried that?

Like as i hit them i don t want a animation to happen its more like bones react

[abstract relic]

Look up physically based animation

[quick dirge]

What could be the reason of not getting any DoF, vignette or chromatic aberration in a default map. Using either cinematic camera or volume.
4.24 and 4.23, both existing projects and new ones.
It's driving me nuts

[grim ore]

https://assets.ctfassets.net/y4twieuxp19i/5WBm8ecHVC2EIQEGS26mMS/3435e9e01ffd7e57091597d67f7af7ca/ReactiveMeleeCombat.pdf

[drowsy turtle]

how to make splitscreen?

[plush yew]

@abstract relic are you familiar with cloth simulation?

i did everything video says

but for some reason its not applying

https://gyazo.com/89936287afcbefe820a20fb4e471b335

Any thoughts why it isnt working?

@normal burrow @grim ore So thank you guys for doing your best to help me with my error, apparently you can't have non-latin characters as your PC name. 😂

[normal burrow]

appreciate the followup mei, this is something i can now add to the list of things to ask

[jaunty cedar]

ripping my hair out here

What could cause the whole world to turn black at random points when playing?

I can still see the sun in the sky shining if i pan the camera up, but on unlit, literally nothing is being rendered to screen

nvm... i figured it out..

[placid arrow]

how to know when youre going to have a bad days coding:

epic oof.

[plush yew]

:DDD

[grim ore]

@plush yew What was the issue that was caused due to that naming thing?

[plush yew]

C# consoles don't handle non-latin very well without the "" string markings

[normal burrow]

I assume that means you had some unicode character in the path to the project file

[drowsy turtle]

how to attach character to player start?

[normal burrow]

The game mode determines spawning blake

I think it just picks the first one by default

[drowsy turtle]

oh

[abstract relic]

If you only have one character then simply go to project settings >>> maps and modes >>> default pawn

[drowsy turtle]

i have 2 characters

[abstract relic]

Then follow what pat suggested

[normal burrow]

for that blake

you'd want to make a new player spawn type

then edit your game mode to pick the right one

or

change the pawn selection for spawn based on which it picks

(this is one way to do it, its not the only way)

[drowsy turtle]

i've already found the way to do it

thanks

[vapid coral]

Hello everyone, can please anyone help me: when i attach some actor to my character's static mesh by using socket, character starts to move like he has a rocket in his hand, not sword, i press key to go right - he goes left, jumps throw him everywhere, etc. It happens only when i am moving character with attached actor, and i can't understand why

[normal burrow]

they might be colliding

[vapid coral]

they might be colliding
@normal burrow yep, they were XD thank you a lot!

[mossy cloud]

question about optimization and stuff, i've heard from a not-so credible source that a masked material is better render-wise than a translucent material, is this true?

[normal burrow]

yes

to a point

but when you can use masked over translucent you should

it won't guarantee any one masked material will run better than any other one transparent material but masked is what you should prefer when you can

[grim ore]

https://developer.oculus.com/blog/translucent-vs-masked-rendering-in-real-time-applications/?locale=en_US

[mossy cloud]

awesome, thanks @normal burrow & @grim ore

[grim ore]

actual factual google search results on the actual factual numbers from actual factual testing from actual factual companies

[mossy cloud]

yeah, searched for it and couldnt findi t, i guess i searched for the wrong thing

but thanks a lot

[normal burrow]

yeah actual factual actual facts

but yeah masking is not transparency/translucency so, you cant use masking when you need translucency

[dusk brook]

Hi guys

Pls help! How to disengage auto shaders compile?

(если можно на русском)))

[grim ore]

don't change the shaders

[normal burrow]

is it when you use marketplace import hakujin?

[dusk brook]

alt-f4
@plush yew very joke

[normal burrow]

[dusk brook]

not a joke, I am doing this if I want to stop it
@plush yew well, compilation will definitely stop

[normal burrow]

anyways, if its when you do an add to project in marketplace hakujin, always close the project first

[dusk brook]

There used to be a checkbox to disable automatic compilation in the build menu, but now it’s not there

[normal burrow]

add to project only when its closed, and it wont trigger shader rebuilds of everything inside

don't think so hakujin, could be wrong but don't know how the engine would do that

[dusk brook]

add to project only when its closed, and it wont trigger shader rebuilds of everything inside
@normal burrow I don’t add to the marketplace, I'm tired of waiting for the shaders to compile every time I save material

[normal burrow]

hmm in that case too, i don't know how the engine would be able to save the data layout without compilation

[wind abyss]

how do i post a msg in #looking-for-talent and #looking-for-work

[dusk brook]

Where is it now? https://sun9-29.userapi.com/c205824/v205824903/6e7e6/njIIR5pQWGc.jpg

[normal burrow]

hmm interesting

did saving not trigger compile with that on or something?

[dusk brook]

hmm interesting
@normal burrow Previously, compilation could be turned off and saved as long as needed without compilation

[normal burrow]

It probably was removed hakujin 🤷

if you set your editor to load a blank level at startup and start editor fresh when you do material work, i'd think you'd be recompiling less

[dusk brook]

It probably was removed hakujin 🤷
@normal burrow I think so

[plush yew]

am trying to search for breaking wall stuff

cant find it is there a right way to google it?

[jagged violet]

why does unreal engine completely freeze the engine and my pc when i add textures to stuff

[faint juniper]

I am Exporting a character FBX from Maya. I have my "World Coordinate system" in Settings set as "Up Axis; Z" and on Export I have the same setting. However in Unreal my character is lying down on the ground. What do I need to do differently?

[plush yew]

I made a cape with cloth simulation

but i feel its too heavy

is there an option for that??

[neat rune]

Hi guys you know how you can check for only positive numbers with ABS, is there a way to do the opposite, so that the number is always negative?

[sacred inlet]

So I made my .exe file with my program, how can I share this with a friend?

getting this error when I send out the .exe file

[tiny sonnet]

this might be really stupid, but i added settings into my game, however, i had a corrupted variable which crashes the game whenever i turn it on. How do I fix this now lmao

it was in game instance too btw

it was the fullscreen functionality

[smoky sonnet]

hey i want to adjust my playfield to the screen resolution of my phone
i got the screen resolution but dont know what to do next
any tiops?

want to adjust the red bars you can see to the phone edges
(fullscreen)

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221799368884355072/678643574102818836/unknown.png

[sacred inlet]

Can anyone help with my issue? I am trying to package my project. I packaged it and I ran run it from my machine. When I try to send it to a friend they get this error:

[dusk brook]

Can anyone help with my issue? I am trying to package my project. I packaged it and I ran run it from my machine. When I try to send it to a friend they get this error:
@sacred inlet all dlls attached?

and I see different slashes in filepath

[sacred inlet]

oh

no do I need to attach all the dlls?

I thought I just pop that .exe sucker in there

[green sky]

Is ue 4.24.2 crashing for anyone when you try to import a character?

[lost reef]

anybody else having issues still since 4.24 with consistent crashing

[green sky]

Me 4.24.2 is completely broken

[lost reef]

even on an unopened level and simply just checking a blueprint or a skeletal mesh it will crash at random

[green sky]

exactly

[lost reef]

okay just wanted to verify it wasnt only me

thanks!

[green sky]

No your not alone, its happening to me actually on all 4 machines and there all extremely high end i mean i can play GTA 5 with Jesus there so beefy

[lost reef]

same

[green sky]

And theres no mention about a fix or nothing its so frustrating

by the way has anyone been able to export body morphs from Character creator 3 into ue4?

[glad karma]

It's possible to get heightmaps from google map/earth?

[green sky]

Try this https://terrain.party/ for heightmaps

[fallen marten]

@green sky with Jesus eh? I'd be worried he would run around in 'god' mode 😏

[green sky]

jaja good one 🙂

Hey is it possible to get ALS V4 for 4.23 since 4.23 also has Anim Layers and inertialization isnt really needed

[lean fractal]

Why can't I change the light map coordinate index?

[green sky]

Dont tell me. Your using 4.24?

[naive comet]

he who wanna see what ive done so far as an eleven year old

[green sky]

So does anyone know if 4.24.2 will be fixed soon? When? Anything

[brazen hull]

https://gyazo.com/9f5691f29a18251ae4f2d1b3de3d397f cant select foliage

Ive tried select all but didnt work either

[green sky]

what engine version are you using?

[brazen hull]

4.22

[fallen marten]

Sample use single Instance mode and see if you can pick one

I had this trouble too

[brazen hull]

nupe

I can select other foliage just specificaly not these

[green sky]

Maybe they dont like being touched

[lean fractal]

@green sky yes

[naive comet]

who wanna see my game so far im in voice chat

he

he

he

[green sky]

I had an issue similar to that and it turned out to be a volume was obstructing the foliage, you could check that

[fallen marten]

Sample can you pick the foliage if you are in object mode or whatever it's called ie not in the foliage tool

[brazen hull]

cant touch it at all

[lean fractal]

Is there another way to change the light map coordinate index?

[green sky]

Yes your using 4.24 if thats the case 4.24 is broken

[lean fractal]

cool

[green sky]

Thats was for Moe

[fallen marten]

If you pick some other foliage does the shit you want to get rid of get selected too?

In object mode

[brazen hull]

figured it out it was under paint removing procedular

something in the landscape itself

[fallen marten]

Cool

[lean fractal]

If I make my own light maps and bring them into 4.24 would that work?

[green sky]

Hey Moe i just filled an entire paper with a list of bugs in 4.24.2 which doesnt make it worth even using

You can try it but your only going to come across more issues

[lean fractal]

So what version do you recommend?

[fallen marten]

Moe yes that's a good idea

[lean fractal]

I'll give it a try

[green sky]

Good Luck

[fallen marten]

Ue4 will import and use them

[green sky]

Hey ConFucious have you been experiencing crashes with 4.24.2?

[glad karma]

@green sky this terrain.party working good? I saw few opinions and people said about few landscape not working excellent. But when I came to home I'll check it

[smoky sonnet]

hey how can i use emissive color on android

with bloom and hdr activated everything is grey now

[half panther]

quick (rather theoretical) question by a newbie:
how would you achieve an ingame-editable(/sculptable) landscape?

[rotund scroll]

use voxels or something like that

pretty sure the standard landscape doesn't have real time deformation

[half panther]

yeah, also heard this term a lot while looking up things.
could you try to expain what it roughly means and how it works?

[rotund scroll]

it's like a mesh built out of simple atomic shapes

like tiny squares

@abstract relic where you at with that voxel plugin

[abstract relic]

giving phy cookies

I'd kiss him but he'd probably call my bluff

[naive comet]

who wanna join voice chat

[fallen marten]

@green sky nope cos I don't use it. I'm still on 4.21 launcher version, and for another guys project I use the 4.23 source version

[glossy shoal]

Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property K2Node_DynamicCast_AsAgent_554GM". Blueprint: POI_Component Function: Execute Ubergraph POI Component Graph: EventGraph Node: Branch

what leads to this?

its not very clear

[abstract relic]

Add a is valid node before that branch

[glossy shoal]

do i do anything with the input object?

[abstract relic]

It’s likely empty when that bit of code is being run. Hence the error. Is valid node is a quick way to check that

[glossy shoal]

im just trying to change my game mode base to a normal game mode

its proving harder than i anticipated

[steep meadow]

so i have a mechanic set up for rocket jumping with a shotgun

but i only want the player to get launched when they are close enough to a solid surface

how would i implement that?

[carmine garnet]

@steep meadow that would be very easy with a linetracebychannel

[steep meadow]

i have no idea what that is

im very new to unreal

[abstract relic]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yo9VrxFgUJY

[steep meadow]

thanks

[smoky sonnet]

hey guys pls help, i want to spawn objects at a specific time of a track what is the best option to do this?

i thought to get every second out of the track where i want to spawn something and put it in an array and check in an if loop if the "get time seconds" function is equals with one of the elements of my array where i put all those numbers in

is there a better and efficient method?

[green sky]

What are you trying to spawn?

[smoky sonnet]

an object

basically

[green sky]

Ok, but what are you looking to accomplish

[smoky sonnet]

in my track there a sections where i want to spawn an object

i thought smth like this could work

[green sky]

A track like a train track

[smoky sonnet]

no a sound music track

*music track

sorry for not writing it detailed

[green sky]

Oh i see, you know i saw something similar but it was done with Fmod, and they used Fmod because it allowed you to use something similar to anim notifies but with sound

[abstract relic]

There’s get audio time seconds. Assuming you’re going to use that once you have a track to test

[steep meadow]

how would i use line trace to make it so that recoil will only propel the player when they are close enough to a solid object

[ancient lotus]

check the distance of the line trace (either by starting/hit point subtraction) or i think theres a function for the distance to the first hit on the HitResult it returns

[green sky]

Yeah you can use track time but take game time into acount. Which may or may not be consisten

[abstract relic]

Very true

[smoky sonnet]

yea but my problem is that my event tick runs randomly, it looks like that because if i save the adio time where it overlaps with my music track and if i then put it in my array it skips this second

what is track time @green sky

[green sky]

that's what i mean about game time, even the slightest lag or frame drop will skip. That's why i recommended looking into Fmod, im very positive that you can accomplish what you want to do with it and it's free. Also it's indepent to ue

Look i personally use Fmod, actually i did an entire replica of GTA 5's Radio staion mechanics with fmod and it ran flawlessly

[smoky sonnet]

so you mean i can accomplish what i want to do with fmod

[green sky]

It has events that can go off at certain tracks too

[smoky sonnet]

is there a function that calls another function at a specific second of the music track

[green sky]

It's also way lighter on the performance side than ue4's audio system both new and old

If you ever used programs such as froot loops it looks similar

[smoky sonnet]

i never used one of them

[green sky]

There are tons of tutorials on fmod

[smoky sonnet]

but is it possible ? to call a function at a specific second of my music track? @green sky

[green sky]

It's actually quite easy

[smoky sonnet]

okay

any recommendations, i mean a good video that fit in my current problem

[green sky]

Yes with Fmod at least

As for videos you would have to search i dont remember off the top of my head at the moment

Try searching for like fmod radio station and have a look, something should click

Oh you may want to check this out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyT1k1GC9ns

[carmine garnet]

i love unreal engine

right

right?

isnt it so good

[marsh swallow]

how might you apply a texture to each face of a cube?

right now the texture is wrapping itself around the cube

[carmine garnet]

unreal engine is absolutely orgasmic

except material editor

[polar hawk]

iunno

about that

I have many a emotional struggle with the engine

[green sky]

Hi Darinius , Unless your cube is UV'd for separate materials or a mask it's going to rap around, normally you would want to do this in maya, 3dmax or blender

[steep meadow]

how do i change the model used for the default fps gun

i made my own model and want to use it

[marsh swallow]

Yeah i just saw this. The default unreal one is unwrapped by each side

so i just created one using the unreal

[torpid badge]

Is it possible to unparent the racket from the box collision, I am fairly new to Unreal

[marsh swallow]

@torpid badge you removed your default scene

so something has to remain a root

[torpid badge]

I see ppl on tutorials remove it

oh i see

is it a good practice to remove the defaultt root

[marsh swallow]

yeah without it, something else has to be the root. in this case you made you Collision box root

i often dont.

[green sky]

Well if your using UE's to create boxes you can select a face and apply a material to each face then you can create a staticmesh out of it

[marsh swallow]

depends on what its being used for

i need to create a destructible mesh

im making a transition screen like the kind you see in Final Fantasy or other similar games

with the screen shattering

i tried for months to get a screen shattering effect with materials and it just doesnt seem possible

[thin tendon]

So I'm starting to look into optimisation. And there are soo many different things that come into play. And I'm just wondering if anyone here had any success with large open world maps? And what things did you do that you felt made a huge difference to performance?

[green sky]

Lod, Lod Lod

[somber quail]

HLOD specifically will help you immensely

[thin tendon]

Yeah I have LODS set up and world comp. FPS is still shoddy. been looking at lowering textures lately. Whats the difference from LOD to HLOD?

[somber quail]

HLOD combines actors to save on draw calls

so instead of a village being made up of 100 actors say, it gets proxied into one actor, but iteratively in clusters.

Furthest LOD will be one actor, but clusters will be made up based on objects distance relative to eachother. So like the fist stage of HLOD might group together a table and chairs into one mesh, then the next step up, the whole room and so on

[thin tendon]

Doing that am I able to still access individual things? Like if I combine a house but want to be able to loot a cupboard?

[green sky]

If you have alot of things that need to be lod, instead of doing them one by one this https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/easy-lod-maker will do the job for you all at once. We use it religiously on all our projects

[somber quail]

It's a LOD system, when you're up close the actors will be individual

[thin tendon]

ahh ok awesome

[somber quail]

it's only once you leave the area HLOD will kick in and swap out the actors for the merged variants

I'm not sure how you handle inventories in cases like that as I don't know if actors are actually destroyed or just made not not to render

HLOD isn't something I've really had to use so I don't know much about it in practice but I understand it's overall purpose

[green sky]

also use world composition and poll distance checks. As well as use culling where ever posible

[somber quail]

world composition can also proxy LOD an entire landscape component and everything on it

[thin tendon]

That looks like a great plugin but can't use it as I'm on 4.24.2 Atm I have everything handled just using LODs and render distances.

[somber quail]

so you could have a whole city still render from a distance except it's been proxied into only a handful of decimated meshes

[thin tendon]

That would actually be super helpful

[somber quail]

I'm sure the documentation shows how it's used in fortnite

[thin tendon]

So it kind of works like billboarding at a certain distance?

[somber quail]

even then you can boot up fornite and see it in action by looking at buildings in the distance, you'll see they're merged and the geo is really low poly. As you approach the buildings start turning into their individual pieces - the same thing can be spotted in a lot of UE4 titles such as insurgency

[green sky]

We are currently working on an open world apocalypse game which takes place in Manhatttan New York, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Albany and NewJersey with ton's of fully detailed buildings, streets, Along with all of its detail, vehicles ect

[somber quail]

it's not really billboarding. I know Simplygon had a proxy function that would treat the mesh as if you could only ever see it from one direction and cull anything not visible. Afaik the only implementation for that in UE4 is for complex intersecting geo like that in CAD models

[green sky]

Are you using world composition?

[thin tendon]

I'm working on an open world Australian themed survival. Its hard to manage performance. Because of the very large amounts of open space with tons of foliage.

[somber quail]

HLOD is essential for open world

[idle cedar]

Hi, I have a little question if anyone can help. I made a blue print so taht the input of my character movement moves him along a spline, I modified the third person character to do this. I also havea blueprint that used to work for a moving plat form, but since ive made the character follow the spline , he doesnt ''stick'' to the moving platform anymore. Anyone has any idea what could cause this ?

[somber quail]

#blueprint

[thin tendon]

Thanks. I'm going to do some research on HLOD. Does limiting texture resolutions have much impact?

[green sky]

Well we have accomplished that and our map is 3x bigger than gta 5

[thin tendon]

Mine's 36km2

[green sky]

Oh thats just Manhattan

[somber quail]

largest map I've ever done was 200km2 but that wasn't in UE4 😛

[green sky]

Where pushing a bit larger

[thin tendon]

Wow nice

Thanks for the help. I'm off to research HLOD and how to implement it

[somber quail]

Good luck, hope it turns out to be what you need 🙂