ue4-general

[next badger]

elegant BP does not have spaces where you have

wire tracing a massive amount of space

[rotund scroll]

that's a lie

[grim ore]

put more than 1 nodes in it's own macro or function for elegance!

[next badger]

sequence nodes, macroses, functions...all that makes BP clean

[rotund scroll]

elegance should be a function of readability

every time you change scope you make it less readable

[next badger]

pwahahahah

[latent moth]

all, this is my animation:

this is my animation once in a montage:

notice the hand misplacement

[rotund scroll]

looks like a hand IK issue

[latent moth]

what could cause this?

there’s no ik

[rotund scroll]

exactly

[latent moth]

not my point

i just “create montage from anim”

and the anim changes..?

[rotund scroll]

try #animation

[next badger]

@latent moth looks like lengths of the bones if different...

[latent moth]

it’s an anim that i just create a montage from...

[rotund scroll]

it's perspective

[latent moth]

how could the bones be of different length?

[rotund scroll]

still, better go ask the animation people

[latent moth]

no it’s not

[rotund scroll]

well yeah it's perspective, not bone length

probably some added rotation from who knows where

but again #animation would know

[latent moth]

“create anim montage” adds rotation?

but i’m sure you know better.

[abstract relic]

For a moment, I thought you were talking to yourself

[latent moth]

lol

[next badger]

@latent moth are you using slots?

[latent moth]

no

i’m not doing anything besides “create ...”

oh well. time to go to bed.

thanks anyway

[rotund scroll]

I still don't understand why you wouldn't wanna ask animation

oh well

[latent moth]

i still don’t understand why you add noise ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[next badger]

well, you don't have to add slots if they are already there

[latent moth]

we all have questions

🙂

[rotund scroll]

people who actually know about animation frequent there, not here

but sure, be a dick about it

[latent moth]

❤️

[next badger]

@latent moth just make sure you have no there

[latent moth]

thank you akexey, default is the only one in there

[scarlet birch]

The animation is probably using curve key frames and losing them in the montage.

[latent moth]

the animation does have an added curve in there

[scarlet birch]

to move one of the joints?

[latent moth]

more than one

[scarlet birch]

yeah, that's your issue.

[latent moth]

hum

without those curves the hands are holding a gun in front

[scarlet birch]

You'll have to actually edit the animation or use ik

[latent moth]

so apparently it keeps them but they become a little different

[next badger]

@latent moth maybe you have many skel meshes?, is the correct picked here?

[latent moth]

yes

ok thank you both

[scarlet birch]

or not use it in a montage

I think you can use a sequence in a montage though instead of the curves

[latent moth]

he... i’m using it to raise arms when close to walls

[scarlet birch]

I've seen it done, but it's above my knowledge

[latent moth]

still weird that it does not lose the keys, it keeps them, but slightly offset

yeah time to go to sleep

thank you

[next badger]

@latent moth you have time sampling setting in montage, check tomorrow

[latent moth]

oh that’s interesting

didn’t think of that

thank you

[brave lark]

anyone have a set up for notifications when the project starts and finishes a build? I know of a jenkins thing that does this through slack, but I'm looking to set up my discord bot to say when a build was kicked off and finished or failed

[atomic onyx]

WIP Stealth Template 🙂

by me for marketplace

[rotund scroll]

#work-in-progress

@atomic onyx

[fierce tulip]

wip goes into #work-in-progress :p

[atomic onyx]

sorry guys, will upload there next time, haha 🙂

[plush yew]

Can someone tell me why my character stops roaming after ai move to?https://gyazo.com/93b72d877efd2215f8541bb05601066c

[rancid lynx]

when i make a new "Landscale Grass Type" for material based landscape,automatic grass placement , the new file is totally empty. it has zero elements, and i can not add new elements to the file. anyone know why ?

wow... "details" were toggled off.

and now that i toggled them on, its not an option to toggle them off.

wasted yesterday X_x

[fickle barn]

hello guys, is there a way to enforce unreal to open new windows as attached tabs to the main one?

[fierce tulip]

you can somewhere in editor settings

[median wigeon]

Hey guys, thought I'd ask cause I am a bit stumped on a seam issue I am running into. I have noticed that whenever I export the UE4 mannequin and re-import it, it gets sharp seams. At first I thought it was something simple like normals not being smooth or averaged, but neither seem to be the fix. Any ideas on what might be causing this? I was bringing the default mannequin into Mixamo for animations and on return it has this seam issue.

Probably something super simple >.>

[fierce tulip]

cant you just retarget the animation to the original mannequin?

also, did you import tangents/normals?

[median wigeon]

fairly certain, I can check that.

yeah seems to be enabled

I am going to try an older fbx format. Maybe could be incompatibility?

[fierce tulip]

tried without?

[median wigeon]

I have not tried without

[fierce tulip]

it has something to do with the mesh normals afaik

[median wigeon]

I can give that a go to

yeah that was my initial thought

that is what it is..

but WHAI

lol

[fierce tulip]

so, again. why not just use the original mannequin?

[median wigeon]

Umm

The main issues are with Mixamo

the results come in skewed without 'their' rig. Not always, but in some cases

[fierce tulip]

odd :/

[median wigeon]

I'll resolve it, but it's definitely a normal issue. And it's being silly.

[scarlet birch]

With Mixamo your best bet is to pick one of their models like the Xbot and import all animations on it and then retarget in the editor.

[median wigeon]

Yeah normally I would...

Here is the thing

I have to follow specific instructions unfortunately. So for the sake of my purposes I can't expect students to have to go through that before hand.

[brisk folio]

Ok question time, if I used GIS data inside blender to create my map terrain, and export to ue4, what measures can I take to make the mesh more mobile friendly?

[median wigeon]

Would need a few more details, but I'd watch out for your material instructions and poly count. Don't go too overboard with the polys.

I have worked with GIS data as well in blender. Actually used it for early level design on a multiplayer map I am working on 😄

[brisk folio]

I have no plans to extrude. in basically looking for flat map data for my hometown to be the location for my game. The games main camera will be a top down. ussing 2d assets

too down 2d car game to be exact

I wanted all of the US to be the map. Now that I understand the realities of the tech, I am aiming for something more realistic. So I'm starting small with just my County.

[median wigeon]

Hmm okay

[hexed tendon]

Off-the-wall question. I have a design that uses basically a "galaxy" as an object

like a map

I have that working well as a widget, standard 2D texture sort of thing, but I want to make it more... deep feeling

I created an in-game widget of it, gave it a nice tilt of 45 degrees, and that sort of worked

trying to think of how I could create a more 'real' feeling map like that, though, without actually making several hundred individual objects

[swift spindle]

parallax is your friend 🙂

only need a few layers

[scarlet birch]

Make a couple of layers with stars and whatever and create a mild parallax in front of a dark background

[hexed tendon]

Yes, was definitely thinking parallax + tilt shift

then the UMG layer on the top for clickability

tried that already with some planes, but it didn't seem to mesh very well. Perhaps I need to split the objects more

[scarlet birch]

If you use a perspective camera with a high DOF and a big distance it will create the effect with only a little movement.

[hexed tendon]

Ooo. That's a good point

especially if I make it slightly cylindrical

(fixed camera, but can be pivoted)

I think I'll give that a go - the parallax with the high DOF camera, I hadn't tried that combo yet. Thanks!

[scarlet birch]

err I meant low dof

like 48 to 12

[hexed tendon]

Right, I'll experiment with the camera settings, basically

hadn't thought of that angle at all

[scarlet birch]

and big distances

[hexed tendon]

yeah, I'd been doing close up, and pretty vanilla camera

I need to do... not that

[scarlet birch]

yeah I think I've used them at like 2700 units upto 48k

away

[hexed tendon]

yeaaaaaaah. That's a much better idea

I was grasping at like particles and other weird ideas

this is better, certainly cheaper

Thanks @scarlet birch and @swift spindle

[scarlet birch]

You could do it in a material too using panner nodes.

[fading vector]

Is there a way to set the RGBA/tint of an image in a widget?

via blueprint I mean ^

[swift spindle]

yes... most of them just require a Set Color... but that does not work on all of them 😦

[fading vector]

Any ideas how I can fix this?

It's on a sphere, I just want it lineup even if the shapes are changed.

[opal hornet]

should property bindings be avoided whenever possible?

[manic pawn]

yes

avoiding them is always possible, and there exists a project setting that completely bans the usage and hides the UI for it

[opal hornet]

oh there is?

that would be convenient

[manic pawn]

it will result in all existing bindings you might have forgotten about causing compile errors

[opal hornet]

so for a game like a diablo-clone, where the player has hundreds of stats that can be modified multiple times a second, it should still all be event-based?

[manic pawn]

absolutely

[opal hornet]

currently i have not setup any property bindings

alright, thank you

[manic pawn]

updating hundreds of bindings per frame =

[opal hornet]

gonna be annoying setting up the stats screen to display in realtime lol

wonder if theres a better way of doing it, like having a base object for each variable and that object shares all the same logic of updating UMG and changing the target variable

[soft atlas]

I feel like I've been spending too long trying to figure out how to get a pawn to orient itself while following the player.

[opal hornet]

set its orientation to the Look At angle

[soft atlas]

Where do I find that?

[soft atlas]

Figured out what was up with the following but now when it hits the player the pawn stops moving

Fixed it!

[wintry summit]

Moving the End component doesn't re-trigger the Construction Script when it's moved on a placed instance of the BP. Works fine in the BP Editor Viewport though.

Do I have to create a new Actor component by deriving from USceneComponent, hook into TransformUpdated and manually Actor->RerunConstructionScripts() to do this?

Crappy example screenshot maybe. Moving the right sphere in the top view doesn't re-run the construction script basically.

[opal hornet]

anyone know why if i import a mesh as static from Blender, it retains its flat shading, but if its imported as a skeletal mesh, it smooths it all?

[random ginkgo]

Just wanted to thrown under the bus an UE4 hater, and worst colleague ever : Hélios

[teal tulip]

That monitor have a better glass than the new tesla car

[random ginkgo]

Tell me about it xD

[fierce tulip]

Awwwwww Helios is adorbs

[blazing owl]

i have a cat that is like this too. But I won't let her touch the screen. Luckily my other cat doesn't care about the mouse on the screen. Instead that one likes the mouse cable and keeps grabbing that if I dare move it.

[fierce tulip]

https://realtimevfx.com/t/vfx-pets-animals/7012 we vfx-peeps have a thread with some great pet photos

[fading vector]

Any idea why my pawn wont spawn on my level? I have a gamemode setup and the default pawn is selected to the right one

[fierce tulip]

shout-out to bayonetta, the most metal hamster name ever
https://realtimevfx.com/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b24799f45af632bd36ee087389735698bbdf839b.jpeg

@fading vector iunno, hope someone is around to answer.

[fading vector]

They're the exact same

[junior vessel]

@fading vector Does your gamemode inherit GameModeBase?

[fading vector]

Not sure

[junior vessel]

If you mouse over the gamemode in the content browser, you can see the parent class there

[fading vector]

yes it does

[junior vessel]

Hm

I thought it was set there

I mean I thought the spawn was set in the parent class

Ooooh

Oh never mind

[fading vector]

It's not a gamemode issue

I made a new pawn

through a static mesh

and a camera

and it spawned

[junior vessel]

So, if it spawns, what is the problem? I thought the issue was that it doesn't

[fading vector]

My pawn with all the bp's does not

Not sure how tho

[junior vessel]

Then it must be an issue that there is no code for spawning it. Did you inherit the default one when creating it?

[fading vector]

yes

[junior vessel]

🤔

[fading vector]

AH

Got it

I just went and set a bunch of things to default

on the static mesh

[junior vessel]

Aah okay

So did you figure out the reason why it wouldn't spawn on the Player Start?

Good to until next time

[fading vector]

Yeah im looking

but so far nothing

[junior vessel]

Alright

[fading vector]

Before this my physics system broke for just the ball

w/o me changing anything

Super weird

[junior vessel]

Weird indeed

I would delete the Binaries and and Intermediate folder if I were you

Let unreal generate new ones

[fading vector]

Oh?

[junior vessel]

Something seems to be weird and I always do that if something seems strange

You can just delete them and Unreal will generate fresh ones

When you build/compile ofc

[fading vector]

Yeah I will for sure go do that

[fierce tulip]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAm4wkuROrg

[fading vector]

I am able to edit a texture cord via another class?

I am trying to create like a skin editor where the player can change the texture and color

[zealous cloak]

how can i set my editor preferences for all projects?

new ones. USe small font icons

[rotund scroll]

@zealous cloak it's not an engine setting, but maybe you can do some trickery and add the ini file to the default ini files of the engine

[zealous cloak]

good idea, will look into it

[plush yew]

hi all

when you destroy an AIController's pawn, does the controller also get destroyed?

or does it linger in memory

[junior vessel]

@zealous cloak There is a "Set as Default" button under the setting title

[zealous cloak]

@junior vessel yep but it doesnt saves it for new projects

[junior vessel]

Oh okay

I don't know then but there is also an Export button

I suppose you could export the setting file, find the location of the default one and swap it out for the newly created one

[radiant wolf]

Hi dear Unreal lovers, I have a question about game for mobile.
I have the game which created on Unreal Engine and now me need to test it on iOS, I can't find the serious resources on the google and youtube about that.

Now can you describe all of the proceses, what me need to do for test that game on iOS?

Thanks,
Suren

[upbeat trench]

So was there meant to be some state of unreal thingo?

[grim ore]

There was tomorrow at GDC

[rotund scroll]

GDC is still on?

[upbeat trench]

Are they going to do a stream on their Twitch or what

[grim ore]

@radiant wolf https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Platforms/Mobile/iOS/index.html

[upbeat trench]

do we get State of Unreal live from Tims Mansion now

[grim ore]

There is no official info on what Epic will be doing, if anything

[upbeat trench]

Major suckage

[radiant wolf]

thanks @grim ore

[upbeat trench]

I dont remember the world ever coming to a complete halt for the HIV pandemic which has been going for 4 decades

But some pissweak flu with a mild kill ratio

[rotund scroll]

HIV didn't carry as easily as corona does

[upbeat trench]

31 million people have HIV

how many have corona again, barely 250k

[rotund scroll]

HIV had 4 decades

and spreads mostly sexually

corona infects through the air and we're still just in the initial phases of the pandemic

[upbeat trench]

HIV actually spread the fastest in its first few years

[fierce tulip]

#lounge

cough

[upbeat trench]

ewww

washes hands

[fierce tulip]

I have a massive brainfart

whats the node called that changes tangent to world space

(mat editor)

transform

derp

[rich reef]

Idk if this is the best place to post this but I dont seem to get any help anywhere so

I have been getting this crash lately that happens every time I launch the editor

My UE4.log
https://pastebin.com/6vX1vJVh

What the crash looks like:
https://imgur.com/a/ftySW4A

The crash report:
https://pastebin.com/izaGk742

Does anyone know whats causing the crash exactly? I dont understand the crash report.

It happens every time I launch the editor (check links ^ ), happens on both UE4.24.1, UE4.24.3 and UE4.25 Preview 2 but not on UE4.23 (Unreal used to run fine until last Friday)

I've tried reinstalling Unreal Editor itself and reverting a recent Windows update (Theres also a security update that it wont let me revert for some reason, so that might be the cause, tho I havent heard of anyone else having this error so it feels unlikely)

Please ping me 🙂

[fierce tulip]

heads up ! Preview 3 is now available for remote injection in your brains
https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/announcements-and-releases/1728453-unreal-engine-4-25-preview?p=1733748#post1733748

[zealous cloak]

unreal crashed and i cant open any projects anymore :/

4.24.3

i was editing normal blueprints

[grim ore]

install the debug symbols and crash it again. Is it just the projects or is it the entire engine when you launch it without a project? https://i.gyazo.com/d9ba3d04b4aaa81be26b72f946a70457.gif

[zealous cloak]

the engine

[grim ore]

also restart your PC if you have not, your video card may have just gone wonky

[zealous cloak]

is a gtx7070 so quite old

could this be a reason?

[grim ore]

could be, no way of knowing till you get the full crash stack and restart the pc

[zealous cloak]

yep installing the editor debug symbols and then restart my pc

[urban basin]

why this is again can't be contoroled

[rotund scroll]

it can if you're a render programmer

that's why they are made of literal gold

[polar falcon]

it stuck

[manic pawn]

just wait

[polar falcon]

12 hours?

no way

[manic pawn]

now that doesn't seem right

unless you're running this on a totally underpowered pc

[polar falcon]

Ryzen 7 3800X

32gb ram

[manic pawn]

ok so probably not

try deleting derived data cache folder and restarting it

[grim ore]

or... or... do you have visual studio installed?

[polar falcon]

Yes I have

[grim ore]

did you install Incredibuild like a naughty person

[polar falcon]

I think yes...

[grim ore]

then.....

[polar falcon]

Get rid of it

I got it

[grim ore]

Incredibuild will tank your compiles if you don't pay for it

[manic pawn]

get rid of that, but even then it should not take 12 hours

[grim ore]

it can if you consider its basically using 1 thread for compiling now

[manic pawn]

doesn't it limit you to 4

[grim ore]

it doesnt seem to work right with the shader compiler

in the free version

[manic pawn]

oof

that'd explain it

they really need to add a warning to that expensivebuild checkbox

"you need a license for this to work"

[polar falcon]

i think this is the reason

[grim ore]

I always just remove it from the VS installer

[manic pawn]

btw, unless you have multiple pcs, incredibuild does nothing

ubt and the shader compiling already parallelizes the build

[grim ore]

It's really annoying that Incredibuild is suggested when adding the C++ game dev stuff

[abstract relic]

Just tell us what the value of the default is

[polar falcon]

o my god thank you, I removed incredibuild and it's loading

that works

[abstract relic]

Do you have anything messing with movement in Begin play or Construction script?

[manic pawn]

interesting that they turned the xge shader compiler on by default now

it used to be disabled, so this wouldn't have happened

[abstract relic]

Print movement value in event tick

[weak cypress]

is it worth it to switch to unreal? what was your experience?

[rotund scroll]

from what

I switched from UDK

it was well worth

[weak cypress]

Unity ofc

[rotund scroll]

highly loaded question

[weak cypress]

hmmmm

[junior vessel]

@weak cypress If it's worth kind of depends on what's your reason for thinking about it

[weak cypress]

graphics

[junior vessel]

Then yes imo

Are you an artist or programmer or designer or what do you do, bit of everything?

[weak cypress]

programmer

[abstract relic]

for my bias, unity is second to none on how terrible it is

[cold halo]

🙂

any advice and help would be great!!

[junior vessel]

@weak cypress One thing I absolutely love with unreal is their recent collaboration with Quixel. You basically get free 3D-assets, perfect if you wanna focus on programming

and still make something good looking by yourself

[weak cypress]

i do have the quixel pack for unity

[junior vessel]

Oh they released for unity too for free?

Nice

[abstract relic]

No

[weak cypress]

idk i remember that i had a folder full of quixel assets

[junior vessel]

I mean, I haven't really used Unity that much but actually the biggest reason for me is C++

C++ > C# any day

I just like it more

But actually with coding in Unreal and not pure C++ the difference may not be that big

I don't know actually, it just depends on if you want to or not really

Unreal has always appealed to me more

I would recommend this course if you want a good intro to it https://www.udemy.com/course/unrealcourse/

[ancient lotus]

working with unreal and c++ is similar to working with C# outside of any game engine. UE4 gives you so much to speed up and help you along. if your working outside of a game engine then c# is going to be much faster and easier to do what your trying to do since there is so much offered to you from the start

[junior vessel]

I see

[ancient lotus]

also to self advertise 😉 some tutorials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfCq_pK78yw&list=PLnHeglBaPYu_aUsm78py_O_OENKhdCGZS

[weak cypress]

like the big problem is that i have worked so much on unity that the switch to unreal would be steep

like over 5-6 years of working on unity

[junior vessel]

I have experience from coding in C++ and C#.NET and haven't been using Unreal for that long. But a big reason is just because I really prefer the syntax

[abstract relic]

Adaptability comes with the territory

[ancient lotus]

^

[weak cypress]

i would need atleast 2-3 years to adapt to unreal

[junior vessel]

I don't think so, not if you've worked with an engine before

[ancient lotus]

plus after a week or so in UE4 you should start to get comfortable. its laid out in a friendly manner and since you have alot of experience in unity you should already know roughly what you want to do and the steps to take to solve your problem, you just will be googling where or what UE4 is giving you to do what your trying to do. really bad explanation but its not as bad as you think going into it with your past experience

[abstract relic]

Once you learn one tool (ie unity), you’ve learned them all

[urban basin]

i have this weird bug what is that things are al over the place

[junior vessel]

I wouldn't go that far but Unreal and Unity aren't that different. I think it would be much much harder coming from something like Pygot or Gamemaker

But to be honest, it isn't really that hard to begin with. It just takes time

[weak cypress]

and my other concern is that i would have to port my current project to unreal

[junior vessel]

Oh yeah. That will probably be annoying as hell

@urban basin What do you mean by "things"? There are a lot of things in those pictures

[scarlet birch]

Coming from Unity and engines without a WYSIWG editor it took about 2 to 3 weeks to be making a simple game and about 1.5 years to feel somewhat competent. I'm at just over 2 years with UE now.

[jolly pumice]

Hello

[weak cypress]

also i need to figure out if my pc is good enough for unreal

[jolly pumice]

Are there good youtube vids about how to setup a scene with UE4 and megascans?

[junior vessel]

@jolly pumice Yeah and it's extremely easy with the plugin

I think unreal will run on most PCs, the difference is how long you will have to wait for things to load

[weak cypress]

i am not that patient

xd

[abstract relic]

Just remember to uninstall incredibuild 😜

[junior vessel]

I think the recommended specs are like 2.5ghz processor and a gtx 970

[ancient lotus]

the heck is incredibuild

[urban basin]

@junior vessel objects are randomlly scatterd all the sudden

[weak cypress]

uhm how do i check specs again

🤔

@junior vessel

[ancient lotus]

type dxdiag in your windows search

[junior vessel]

Or open Powershell and typ Get-ComputerInfo

[weak cypress]

ok so where do i look?

[ancient lotus]

the mans way

display shows gpu

[junior vessel]

Nevermind what I said, that's something else. Use dxdiag

[junior vessel]

@urban basin Sorry, I have no idea why

[weak cypress]

is the gpu in there?

[junior vessel]

Under display

display tab

[ancient lotus]

remember when i said display shows gpu XD

[ancient lotus]

dude your pc is more than fine for UE4

your good

[weak cypress]

sure?

poggers

[ancient lotus]

stronger than my system by a good bit

and ive never once struggled

[weak cypress]

i am worried about my laptop

that i use on the go

[junior vessel]

I don't know radeon cards o.O

[ancient lotus]

then you should be checking on your laptop lol

[weak cypress]

let me check

[junior vessel]

Oh so it's like a 1060

[ancient lotus]

the 480 is around the 970

or 1060 yes

[weak cypress]

i remember in the summer i splashed alot of money for the cpu upgrade

[junior vessel]

Yeah I run with a 1060, I do have the 6gb version but I don't think it would matter, it's way more than you need for unreal anyway

[ancient lotus]

going old school. your going to struggle off of the igpu

cant say on the cpu but you should still be able to code, just testing it should be ok but dont expect it to be a smooth experience (off more than a default project)

[junior vessel]

What's this

Didn't you just send a Ryzen 7 3.5Ghz?

[weak cypress]

laptop

[ancient lotus]

smart fridge

[junior vessel]

I mean the absolute minimum for running unreal is basically having DirectX installed

But it won't be smooth sailing with that

cpu is probably ok but using integrated graphics must be slowww

For simple projects probably fine though

Maybe just install and try it

[normal burrow]

#lounge for hardware talk

[ancient lotus]

to give you a rough idea, i tested on my moms pc which i put a pentium g4400 in to use as a separate pc for testing a packaged game. just by running a default third person project with almost nothing done to it it was pushing between 10-20 fps. compare your laptops cpu to
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015VPX05A/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

alrighty p@t, sorry

[weak cypress]

if only unreal wasnt so big

10gb to download

[willow void]

anyone have 3ds max here ?

[fierce tulip]

yes

[abstract relic]

Queue dm

[bitter iris]

i put a widget name tag above the master character, so it shows steam name above. How can i hide it from owners view? but visible for everyone else

[brittle gulch]

Hi! There's no more free rotations in 4.24?

[scarlet birch]

For multiplayer? if local controlled set visibility to false

[ancient lotus]

@bitter iris ownerNoSee = true. i think thats what its called

[bitter iris]

see ive enable that but it doesnt work?

[scarlet birch]

That might work, depends on if the camera is owned by the same thing

[ancient lotus]

in your oncomponentsinitialized or whatever its called, you can check and see if your the owning client, if you are then set the text for the name to an empty string? or force hide it in there?

[scarlet birch]

if pawn is locally controlled then visibility = false.

[bitter iris]

okay

[vernal spoke]

Hey guys,

I hope it's alright to ask this here:

I'm having massive issues with the Media Player all of a sudden.

Whenever I open it and double-click on a Media Source, it's being added to the Playlists and plays perfectly both in Preview and in Editor; as soon as I close the Media Player, however, it stops playing and goes blank, even though I save and save the Media Player.

Can anyone help?

Before closing, after closing / on re-opening

[misty creek]

How can I check if a widget is being rendered?

[rotund scroll]

ask it

[weak cypress]

@ancient lotus any good youtube guides for starting a new game on UE4

?

[ancient lotus]

mine lol. its up to you to decide if its good

[weak cypress]

sure

also any assets that i could use?

[ancient lotus]

i whip up quick stuff for the tutorials, their poorly done as its just so there is something there, same goes for animations. meshes for med kits, food/water bottles, the chest for inventory and such are provided, the meshes for the weapons are free on the marketplace and such. everything used is free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfCq_pK78yw&list=PLnHeglBaPYu_aUsm78py_O_OENKhdCGZS

do you need something in particular?

[weak cypress]

just how i can start modeling a level and doing player movement

[misty creek]

@rotund scroll How might I go about that? IsVisible doesn't actually return if it is rendering

[rotund scroll]

tutorials@weak cypress

[ancient lotus]

character movement component as a base and start modifying it until you get a good understanding of what your doing or feel like you want to make your own from scratch. place down a landscape and sculpt it. use a 3d modeling program like blender or 3ds to make assets, you can use armor paint (free if compiled yourself) or substance to create materials for those assets if you wish such as buildings or trees and such to populate your world with

[weak cypress]

thanks

[rotund scroll]

@misty creek why would it not?

[weak cypress]

ok thanks

i am going to check everything after

i have stuff to do

[misty creek]

That's not rendering, right?

[rotund scroll]

what because it's not saying "rendering" explicitly?

what else would it be

[misty creek]

I assumed it wasn't as when I was trying to use it, it seemed to be giving me false positives

[rotund scroll]

are you self hit testing?

[grave radish]

One bright side about covid, is that I can finally take time to work on my C++/UE4 courses

[misty creek]

I'm not at my computer right now so I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think that I am

[fair storm]

after 2 days. finally my ragdoll works fine 😄 damn blender rigify xD

i rigged my character like 7 times

[rotund scroll]

@misty creek if you read the message, it tells you that if you're self hit test invisible, it will treat it as such

[misty creek]

Okay, so how could I figure out it I have a widget behind a different widget?

[rotund scroll]

check if it's spawned

as in, check if it's not null

[misty creek]

Hmmm, that's probably not going to work as I'm randomly spawning widgets on the screen

That's why I'm having so much trouble actually getting it to work 😐

[scarlet birch]

There's a wasRecentlyRendered. You have to be careful with it though. It might not work exactly how you would expect.

I've used it to kill projectiles moving off screen

[rotund scroll]

@scarlet birch that won't work for widgets

it's for actors

[scarlet birch]

ah, that's what I get for barely skimming

[misty creek]

Yeah, I've actually looked at that thought

[rotund scroll]

@misty creek you should ALWAYS have a reference on screen

[scarlet birch]

Yeah, create a reference when you spawn it and then use that.

[misty creek]

It isn't that I don't have a reference, the problem is that I need to know if that are spawning behind one another

[rotund scroll]

then use IsVisible

if it's not visible it will tell you false

as long as you have hit test enabled

[scarlet birch]

What is it you're trying to do exactly?

[rotund scroll]

detect widget behind another widget

[misty creek]

Okay, thank you! I'll check that when I'm back at my computer

[rotund scroll]

really you should check that it is valid and not visible at the same time

just to avoid any kind of mishaps

[knotty vessel]

i just got unreal engine and my texture wont fit onto my mesh like it did in blender what do i do?

[scarlet birch]

There's probably a not too complex way to determine if the bounds of one widget is overlapping the bounds of another.

[rotund scroll]

@scarlet birch hit test does that

hence, isVisible

[knotty vessel]

i also want to import a model but it wont let me let me find the error message again

this

sorry if im being obnoxious or asking dumb questions but i really want to be able to use this

output log

[rotund scroll]

@knotty vessel have you googled the issue?

[knotty vessel]

yeah nothings fixing my issues

fitting textures doesent do anything and i cant find much on my error thats helping me

[rotund scroll]

it literally says what it is

you should google that

[knotty vessel]

but theres also my texture issue

[rotund scroll]

well if it doesn't import how can you test the texture?

you should look up some tutorials

[bitter iris]

dont think ive done this right @scarlet birch 😄

[knotty vessel]

its another mesh its not the character and the bones are parented

[scarlet birch]

Cold DMs for help are frowned on. I would suggest setting the visibility not owner no see. I'm also unclear as to why a cast is necessary. I think it would be safe to call it in Begin play but I think in the constructor might not be. I'd have to look to be sure.

[knotty vessel]

if it helps im gonna send my blender model and the one in unreal

blender

unreal

the texture isnt matching up to the uv map

how do i get it to match properly?

[scarlet birch]

@bitter iris I would set the visibility of the widgetComponent in the playerController during the OnPossess event using a branch hooked up to a isLocalPlayerController.

and use visibility not ownerNoSee

Someone else will have to chime in if that's bad. It's been a while.

[rotund scroll]

@scarlet birch for cold DMs I definitely recommend turning on friends only DM mode

[scarlet birch]

Yeah, I know but every now and then I get one from someone reaching out with opportunities.

[knotty vessel]

im gonna have a stroke

there has to be a way to fix this is there?

[scarlet birch]

Are the faces flipped?

[knotty vessel]

i dont think so

how do i check if they are?

i just got this today so i have no clue what im doing im sorry

[scarlet birch]

In blender there's an option to show face orientation. It's one of the icons at the top right.

[pulsar badge]

Anyone know why my textures are applying on my model so small?

[knotty vessel]

i dont think they are

in blender the model and textures are fine

its just when i import them into unreal it messes it up

[next badger]

@knotty vessel show normals in ue4

[grim ore]

@pulsar badge It would be based on your material and your UV/Texture Coordinate space. What does your material look like? what does your UV layout look like for the model

[pulsar badge]

I just wanted to test something I have a pack that has a good materials, so i made a random wall and applied it to it

I'm just using a basic 3d editor

[next badger]

if random wall was BSP - it may be the reason

[weak cypress]

can anyone help?

[junior vessel]

@pulsar badge

Recreate this Blueprint on your material

[pulsar badge]

I'm using someone elses material though

[junior vessel]

It will give you the parameters U and V on your material instances

[pulsar badge]

His material is a mess lol

[junior vessel]

Aha lol

[pulsar badge]

idk where to add it in

at

[knotty vessel]

im just gonna give up

apparentyl this isnt for me

sorry for wasting time

[next badger]

@weak cypress you need to ask the question

[weak cypress]

what do i choose?

[pulsar badge]

@junior vessel

O_o

[junior vessel]

@weak cypress C++, maximum quality, ray-tracing pick yourself but I would pick disabled as it takes a lot of performance

Desktop/Console

Starter content is just a few models in your scene if you want. I think it's 2 chairs and a table

[weak cypress]

can i just turn on the raytracing thing?

and what does it do?

[next badger]

@weak cypress it enables raytracing...the RTX one

[weak cypress]

how much performance does it take?

[rotund scroll]

@weak cypress I recommend finding a tutorial

[junior vessel]

a lot

[next badger]

500%

[junior vessel]

It's basically

[weak cypress]

wait dont i need special hardware for it?

[next badger]

you need RTX card

[rotund scroll]

yes you do

[junior vessel]

Basically it calculates "sunrays" from lights in your scenes

[rotund scroll]

but @weak cypress really just look for a tutorial

[mellow turret]

Any idea what this ghost images are, its a 4.25 source build, PIE has them too, didn't happen in 4.23

[weak cypress]

i do have an RX card

something like that

[junior vessel]

Actually you don't need an RTX card, but it will run much better on one

@weak cypress They are talking about Nvidia RTX, not Radeon RX that you have

[weak cypress]

oh

[pulsar badge]

Does anyone know how to stop texturing repeating?

[next badger]

@junior vessel running DXR on 1080 is...well...arrow in the knee

[junior vessel]

I mean you can if you keep it light. But I really don't think it's as amazing as people claim

[next badger]

@mellow turret 4.25 is not released, so i guess everything is possible. But i dont' have anything like it in my 4.25 rocket build

[junior vessel]

I mean of course it is freaking cool but that price jump compared to what you get isn't worth it, at least not for me

[next badger]

@pulsar badge use clamp instead of wrap in texture settings

[pulsar badge]

how?

Where do i find that @next badger

[rotund scroll]

@pulsar badge nothing stops you from googling it

[junior vessel]

@weak cypress Anyway, basically imagine you take the sun, and calculate the path of each sunray and how it reflects on objects. It becomes a lot of vectors, which eats up a lot of performance. Even the games that have it nowadays can only do it on a few things, like water reflections. If you do it everywhere it will eat too much performance

[pulsar badge]

Whats wrong asking someone here?

O_o

[weak cypress]

can i do it with my current setup?

[mellow turret]

What do you mean by not released? not safe to use?

[next badger]

@pulsar badge open a texture

[rotund scroll]

@pulsar badge generally anything you can google, you should google

so much information for free out there

[next badger]

@rotund scroll like Energy from Vacuum tutorials

UE4 ones are generally more useful

[silent harbor]

Can I get this straight

[jolly pumice]

Does UE4 support UDIMS?

[silent harbor]

You cant add more than the capsule collision in your characters right? So if I have a broad, large character, the capsule component will be very inaccurate. Is it possible to have more than one collision component in your characters?

[junior vessel]

I mean I guess you could try it. I think the people who use it are generally people working on games like Battlefield, but sure you could probably try it. There's probably something on youtube about it

You can actually code a raytracer that isn't "live" pretty easily, but you do need to know a bit of linear algebra

[rotund scroll]

@silent harbor you can but really you should just resize the capsule component

[junior vessel]

I mean you can code one yourself, without unreal. If you want to experiment

Free ebook on the subject

[next badger]

no joke, raytracer with source that fits the postcard
http://fabiensanglard.net/postcard_pathtracer/

[pulsar badge]

Is there away u can see how big a wall is in UE4

lol

[rotund scroll]

middle click is a measuring tape tool

as long as you hold it down

[silent harbor]

No you cant have more collisions in your characters apparently

Also capsule components will be very inaccurate on non proportional characters, broad characters, wide characters etc

Imagine you have a non proportional character where the legs and feet and slim but the upper body broad (like cArtoons) the capsule component is very inaccur

[rotund scroll]

@silent harbor you can

have more collisions

[silent harbor]

Ive read everywhere

And I cant get it to worj

[rotund scroll]

have you tried?

[silent harbor]

I am the guy with the shopping cart through wall guy

[rotund scroll]

besides that

capsule is only really used for character movement component

if you're talking about collisions, you should use the mesh

[silent harbor]

I have looked up everywhere and it seems to be a common probelm

[rotund scroll]

perhaps by people that don't know what they're doing

[silent harbor]

Heres a example

[rotund scroll]

is a tank a character? 🤔

[silent harbor]

Imagine someone is controlling the tank (player 2 or whatever) and the collision box is inaccurate, i hVe tried everything to have a custom collision box on characters yesterday it wont work

[rotund scroll]

maybe try creating a custom class for it

I'd genuinely try using the vehicle template for it instead

since that will have more options for what you're looking for

[silent harbor]

The tank is just an example

Lets say you havw a character with large wings and a door way

Wings will always clip

[rotund scroll]

you use IK

[silent harbor]

Here is an reddit answer

[rotund scroll]

yeah people using it when they shouldn't be

[silent harbor]

Letz say you have a human holding a cart like in my case, a character movement for the human capsule, and then a static mesh compomemt being the shopping carr

*cart

Now in order for the cart not to clip througg walls, you would need to make the capsule of the character encapsule the cart as well and you can imagine how inaccurate the collisions then become

[rotund scroll]

collisions should work

[silent harbor]

The carts own collision get completely ignored by static meshes

[rotund scroll]

and I have personally worked with additional collisions on a character with a capsule collision on it already

[silent harbor]

Apparently not, characters can only have one collision, the capsule

[rotund scroll]

not true

[silent harbor]

Can you maybe try on your end

[rotund scroll]

I have

[silent harbor]

Whwn

When

[rotund scroll]

in the project I'm working now i have an additional sphere component

works flawlessly

[silent harbor]

Can you try to redo right now? Collision works fine for simulating physics objects, not static meshes like walls on my ened

Can you send a gif or screen

[rotund scroll]

not really, but it's pretty simple to add

you can try in an empty project to do the same

idk why your particular case doesn't work

[silent harbor]

Well on forums im reading only one capsule collision is supported, and you say it works so now im confused. Any reason you cant show me a screenshot if it works on your end

[rotund scroll]

plenty of reasons

but like I said you should try yourself in an empty project

it should work

[silent harbor]

I dont see why it should be different but let me try

[rotund scroll]

be sure to screenshot your components

[weak cypress]

uhm

[ruby ocean]

So I rotated the legs of the weapons biped 80 degrees and I want to save it as a either a new skeletal mesh or an altered version of the original, any way I can do that?

[junior vessel]

@weak cypress https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/sdk-archive/

[weak cypress]

what exactly is that?

[junior vessel]

Oh, actually this is the updated one https://developer.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk

SDK = software development kit

[weak cypress]

hmm why isnt it included in UE

🤔

[junior vessel]

No idea

I didn't have to install it like that but

maybe you have an older version already or something

[weak cypress]

of windows?

[junior vessel]

Oh yeah the link I sent is for Windows 10

But no I meant, maybe you already have Windows sdk but an older version

What IDE do you use? I think if you get the latest visual studio community you will get it with that

[weak cypress]

i do have VS 2019

[junior vessel]

If you open the visual studio installer

You can just tick the one that's for Unreal

Click modify and you will get this

More->modify

This is the one you should get I think, it should include everything you need for Unreal

[weak cypress]

ok

i only had the one for unity

thats why

lul

[bronze cedar]

hey guys what's up 😄

i want to know that is it possible to preview the project direct on the mobile without making an apk file, or i have to make that apk every time i want to check

anyone 🙂

[grim ore]

if you launch on device it doesnt make an apk every time

[abstract relic]

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

[weak cypress]

@junior vessel ok so i did all that

[plush yew]

Is Directional Wind Source physics Broken with 4.24.2? I have a cloth painted flag and it won't respond to directional wind at all.

[silent harbor]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/feedback-for-epic/50399-more-capsule-collisions-in-characters-blueprint

@rotund scroll

[opaque vector]

Is Steam down for anyone else? Looking at the unofficial status page looks like it's down everywhere.

[marsh cloak]

Hello, I come from Unity and decided to make the switch to Unreal because Unity is meh compared now.. But I was wondering if it is possible to make say a projectile template. then I can drag my projectiles and impacts into slots (like the inspector in unity with game objects as components) or however Unreal does its thing

[abstract relic]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/GettingStarted/FromUnity/index.html

[iron goblet]

So my UE4 installation is kinda huge and I'm sorta wondering if maybe I could slim it down. Can the Source folder get deleted without breaking things?

daniel@Pascal:/mnt/d/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_4.24$ duh
0       sizes.txt
2.9M    FeaturePacks
828M    Samples
2.5G    Templates
29G     Engine
32G     total
daniel@Pascal:/mnt/d/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_4.24$ cd Engine/
daniel@Pascal:/mnt/d/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_4.24/Engine$ duh
28K     Programs
548K    Config
5.4M    Shaders
12M     Build
97M     Extras
224M    Documentation
869M    DerivedDataCache
999M    Content
4.7G    Intermediate
5.0G    Plugins
7.9G    Source
8.8G    Binaries
29G     total

[marsh cloak]

Ahh fantastic HighTide, I will give this a read

[crisp fable]

Is state of unreal still happening

[quiet token]

32gigs is actually good

mine is 38gb

[abstract relic]

130gb for source build 😜

[normal burrow]

I hear the unreal -> unity guide can be a nice read for reverse logic @marsh cloak

[weak cypress]

sigh

c++ and unreal are hard

[iron goblet]

Oh this stuff can be removed via the Epic launcher, I'm silly

[weak cypress]

it looks like i am going to give unreal another shot some other day 😦

[swift spindle]

it's not something you pick up overnight @storm snow

[ancient lotus]

@weak cypress would you like some one on one help? whats an example of something your trying to do

[weak cypress]

i tried watching your tutorials

[abstract relic]

Brain injection therapy for immediate gratification hasn’t been developed yet unfortunately

[swift spindle]

it's called drugs @abstract relic 😛

[weak cypress]

i am already going a survival game so i though your tutorials would be good

they help

but i am still an amatuer in c++

[abstract relic]

Where’s our unreal drugs

[ancient lotus]

what is it that your struggling with specifically? is it the language itself? the syntax? something specific within the language?

[marsh cloak]

Ahh I get it now, so I would create the template of the projectile going from a to b then in the viewport I would add the particle blue prints I had created in the projectile template

[weak cypress]

language itself,syntax

[ancient lotus]

well its not really that different than C#

heck i jump between the two without really a second thought

[marsh cloak]

C# i found pretty simple

I hear in C++ you need to make methods that don't dump data or store it, you need to delete the cache or somthing

(I don't know the terminology)

[ancient lotus]

are you referring to pointers?

[abstract relic]

Garbage collection. Aka lifting the toilet lid 😜

[ancient lotus]

and tossing unity into it

sorry

had to

[marsh cloak]

For example I spawn an object move it to x,y,z then delete the asset. but you need to delete it from some other place aswell

some memory leak thing

[ancient lotus]

call destroy and the engine should take care of the rest on that actor

plus UE has its own form of garbage collection like unity does to help with it

[marsh cloak]

I'm no expert so I will just agree hahaha

[ancient lotus]

earth is flat

[marsh cloak]

Yes

[ancient lotus]

lol

[marsh cloak]

The sun is too

[ancient lotus]

woah

[abstract relic]

Z is up 😜

[ancient lotus]

prove it

[abstract relic]

Look up. There’s a giant z

[marsh cloak]

the 4th dimension is time so where does w come from in x,y,z,w

[ancient lotus]

all i see is a fan and drywall

wumbo?

[weak cypress]

4th dimension is where ideas for games come from

[marsh cloak]

Ahh yes

Wumbo, the great time lord

[ancient lotus]

this conversation has hit the pinnacle (right word?) of stupidity

[scarlet birch]

Can anyone help me narrow down what's causing this mesh to disappear?

[normal burrow]

https://petapixel.com/2015/04/24/photographer-snaps-meteor-leaving-a-z-in-the-sky/

[marsh cloak]

It's Wumbo

[ancient lotus]

thats really strange

[normal burrow]

Science

[ancient lotus]

i mean the mesh lol

but that to

[scarlet birch]

IIRC the artist who made it uses Maya.

[weak cypress]

@ancient lotus ok i am doing a bit better now

understanding more

[ancient lotus]

good

[scarlet birch]

No that fixed it. I forgot you had to do it in the actor and not the mesh.

I had the same issue before with another mesh.

yeah

[fading vector]

Does anyone know why a sphere static mesh with a simple sphere collision would bounce on a geometry box? Like just moving down it and it jumps up randomly. I have no blueprints that would do this and it works on a normal cube.

[frail sail]

Memory Insights when?

i wanna reduce memory usage but dunno

memreports doesnt work

[abstract relic]

Look into profiler and unreal insight

[frail sail]

its gather memory profile?

just seeing only cpu gpu usage

[fading vector]

@abstract relic Any idea on my issue?

[rotund scroll]

@silent harbor dude if you can't make it work then I'm sorry. it works for everyone else

[normal burrow]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Programming/Development/Tools/LowLevelMemoryTracker/index.html there’s this too

[plush yew]

need help

how to i reopen the world outliner

accidently closed it

[scarlet birch]

window menu

[fading vector]

@normal burrow Any ideas on that issue? ^^^^^^^

[plush yew]

oh

thx

:P

i'm brand new to this

started like 2 hours agp

[rotund scroll]

I swear some question make me want to beat my head in

[fierce tulip]

@fading vector please dont ask the same question (or bother others)

[plush yew]

how do i drag a copy of an object?

[rotund scroll]

have you tried googling it?

[plush yew]

no

[rotund scroll]

well there ya go then

[plush yew]

have you tried helping?

[rotund scroll]

I just did

I taught you how to fish

[frail sail]

@normal burrow thank you ill look at, also how i can use this with dedicated server? it does write in to logs?

[normal burrow]

The windows menu item at the top gnocchi should somewhere contain a plethora of windows you can open and dock such as world outliner

[fierce tulip]

basically, dont expect people to help you if you dont help yourself.
I'd suggest to check out the "getting started" documentation to get... started with the basics of ue4

[rotund scroll]

^^^^^

[frail sail]

what this "^^^^^"

invisible letter?

[fading vector]

Upon further exploration of my issue, I have discovered that even on a brand new project, brand new level and brand new pawn it still persists. Not sure why but negative geometry on a additive geometry shape causes a simple sphere collision to jump upward when it goes near the negatives. I've tried messing with the physics settings, but so far nothing.

[scarlet birch]

open the mesh in the editor and look at the simple collision

[fading vector]

I dont think its related to the mesh

Because it doesn't do this on like a cube

[scarlet birch]

just look at it

[fading vector]

Looks fairly normal, just like a sphere.

[scarlet birch]

BSP isn't really meant to use for final. Convert them to static meshes and see if the problem is still there.

[fading vector]

Hmm, what does BSP stand for?

[fierce tulip]

binary space partitioning

[scarlet birch]

BSP can cause errors with some of the collision stuff.

[fading vector]

Makes sense

I was not aware I could convert them to static meshes

I'll try this

[fierce tulip]

not many are, hence it being rather quiet in umg hehe

[abstract relic]

Grumps reside here mind you 😜

[worldly dust]

can I repost my BP question here if it gets lost in the BP channel?

one sentence

[fierce tulip]

if you asked it in the right channel, please give it two hours, try the forums, answerhub, reddit, etc.

[worldly dust]

okay thank you

[fading vector]

So when I convert the BSP to static mesh is there an easy way to keep the collision or do I have to remake it all?

[fierce tulip]

as for the offset, its related to its pivot. if its in the center, it scales from the center. so you either offset the height while scaling, or change its pivot location. @worldly dust (dont know how exactly, im not a blueprinter)

[rotund scroll]

@fading vector you'd have to remake it I'm pretty sure

but it's not hard

the static mesh editor is built for it

[fading vector]

Cranz is there a tutorial you would suggest? I'm not familiar with the static mesh editor.

[worldly dust]

thank you @fierce tulip that gives me what I need to research how to change the pivot point of a spawned volume, I wasn't aware that volumes had pivot points, much appreciated,

[rotund scroll]

I don't have a tutorial ready for everything

[fading vector]

haha

[rotund scroll]

perhaps MathewW's youtube

[fading vector]

I'll look around

[rotund scroll]

or perhaps just try it yourself

[worldly dust]

double click on the static mesh @fading vector and play with these settings

[fading vector]

Well I need to create some holes in my static mesh, but I'll mess with these

[worldly dust]

you can create and shape boxes and capsules to form holes

[rotund scroll]

really though you're better of using a 3d package to make stuff

yeah it's not impossible to work around it

it's not going to be great if you want concave stuff

but it'll work

[fading vector]

I mean its mostly hexagons and squares

[worldly dust]

it's good to get the ball rolling quick though, that's why they say polish later

[fierce tulip]

https://i.gyazo.com/e5f0564ad22227b254ef81423f46d558.gif when you wonder what the "normal" in the local-aligned node does.
Nothing, it does nothing.

[worldly dust]

it's not a bug it's a feature

[normal burrow]

“No”

[rotund scroll]

stronk of genius

[fierce tulip]

< imports sky-texture
ue4: oohh a normal map

hehe

[fading vector]

When trying to edit some of these collisions is there somewhere I can view the scaling? Trying to set these with the in world tool is kind of a pain

nvm

[next badger]

I've started to work on my old theme again...

[scarlet birch]

Nice.

[green sky]

@next badger Dude that looks awsome

[marsh cloak]

So, I have this that just scales an object over time, thing is it works %80 of the time and sometimes just skips the timeline all together

is there any particular reason for this

always on the 8th spawn

nope :l

Think I might just remove it, idk why it only works 80%

Yeah Idk, same thing works fine for a point light

but not vector 3s I guess?

who knows

I just removed it and left it with a trail

[leaden bear]

Heya can anyone assist me in figuring out why this is happening when i use the procedural foliage spawner?

[marsh cloak]

screw mesh

[fierce tulip]

https://youtu.be/j6mskTgL7kU

https://youtu.be/0YMS2wnykbc

[fading vector]

So I created a mesh from my multiple bsps. I added a few collision boxes to see if there would be any issues. I have 1 before the square gap and 2 beside that same gap, and then 1 after it. When my ball rolls across these collisions it bounces upon changing, they are all level so I'm not sure why its doing that. Any ideas?

[normal burrow]

Video of the problem might help

[fading vector]

@normal burrow So when the ball crosses where the collisions are it bounces.

1 sec

See the ball bouncing when it crosses into a new collision

[normal burrow]

Bsps generate harsh normals like that on corners

Wall like corners

Could have carried over to the converted static mesh

[coarse wigeon]

@weary basalt You around?

[normal burrow]

Any way you could use box collision?

[weary basalt]

?

[coarse wigeon]

I need to talk to you... RIght now

One sec

[half turtle]

i am having a neurism... the is valid node is the one giving me th error...?

like... the whole purpose of it is to not run if is not valid. so why is it even erroring whatsoever?

[next badger]

Finally! I can tell which is stationary and which is Movable w/o trying to remember the colors

[normal burrow]

Can you fix the fast path indicator?

[half turtle]

so unreal question, in unreal the player itself.. its abstract, is it the player controller? like if i want to keep tracks of score per player, should i build that on the controller?

[normal burrow]

PlayerState

That is the reincarnated thing

[half turtle]

oh is a c class

[normal burrow]

You shouldn’t need to do much with controller

PlayerState is exposed in blueprints too

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/API/Runtime/Engine/GameFramework/APlayerState/index.html

[half turtle]

maybe i shouldnt use that for tracking poitns and just use my game mode

[normal burrow]

Entirely up to you

[fading vector]

@normal burrow So if I don't use box collisions there are no collisions at all

[normal burrow]

You aren’t using mesh collision there?

[half turtle]

i am kind of confused with th player state, i can see i can get score information from it, but how do i cast set score to it?

[normal burrow]

I believe the server sets the score value and it is replicated to the clients

[modern sinew]

Can anyone help me with this Launch Error? LogPlayLevel: Error: ERROR: Stage Failed. Missing receipt 'C:\Users\-----Desktop\Documents\Unreal Projects\MultiplayerTutorial\Binaries\Win64\MultiplayerTutorial.target'. Check that this target has been built. LogPlayLevel: (see C:\Users\-----Desktop\AppData\Roaming\Unreal Engine\AutomationTool\Logs\C+Program+Files+Epic+Games+UE_4.21\Log.txt for full exception trace) LogPlayLevel: AutomationTool exiting with ExitCode=103 (Error_MissingExecutable) LogPlayLevel: Completed Launch On Stage: Build Task, Time: 0.749956 LogPlayLevel: Completed Launch On Stage: Deploy Task, Time: 0.000031 LogPlayLevel: BUILD FAILED PackagingResults: Error: Launch failed! Missing UE4Game binary. You may have to build the UE4 project with your IDE. Alternatively, build using UnrealBuildTool with the commandline: UE4Game <Platform> <Configuration>

(Dashes are used in the path name bc my computer name has my name)

[fading vector]

@normal burrow What do you mean mesh collision? Can I just use the mesh itself as a collision?

[opal portal]

anyone know how I can fix these two? Not sure what the right channel is for this

I'm trying to delete this but i have no idea how to delete memory references to the landscape and the world

[modern sinew]

Still need help with my issure ^-^"""

[half turtle]

so how exactly should i go about creating an pickable item?

[dark rune]

why is it that when I load into my level from another one, all my physics actors seem to glitch out, but if I load into the level directly using PIE, everything's fine?
I have made sure that the actors were not intersecting with level geometry

[modern sinew]

can someone help?

[ancient lotus]

@modern sinew your issue is stated right in the log

[modern sinew]

yes but I don't know what it's asking me to do

I rebuilt it

and it gave me the same error

So it's not that, @ancient lotus

[ancient lotus]

youve compiled?

[modern sinew]

I...clicked the "Build" button, if that's what you mean

I haven't changed the blueprints any

[ancient lotus]

so this is a default template project?

do you see the compile button?

[modern sinew]

I'm following the Multiplayer Tutorial, but watched a video on how to get Steam interaction and added that

This is what I have

[ancient lotus]

guess blueprint projects dont have a compile option

do you have visual studio setup and installed?

[modern sinew]

uhh, no, why? I don't use that

[ancient lotus]

you have c++ classes and no ide(visual studio for example) to compile them

install and setup visual studio and give it another try, im willing to bet thats the reason

[modern sinew]

I haven't touched C++ this whole project tho

[ancient lotus]

if i recall the steam interaction thing youve setup has c++ classes. your project might have them from when youve added that, check

[modern sinew]

no, the only thing the video has had me do so far is edit the Default Engine file

[ancient lotus]

nothing more?

[modern sinew]

nothing more

[ancient lotus]

did you have the issue before that?

[modern sinew]

no

This video, and I'm at 5:45 rn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGwmmgOZeNs

[ancient lotus]

can i see your engine file and what you changed

ok

[modern sinew]

Also, around that point in the same video, he just clicks "play" and is able to access the Shift-Tab menu for Steam

that doesn't work for me

[ancient lotus]

is steam open

[modern sinew]

yes

[ancient lotus]

i have no clue then

id make sure its setup right and that the paths have not been changed to an incorrect path

[modern sinew]

can you help figure out why it's crashing at least

or anyone else

[modern sinew]

Ok! Got the Steam bit to work

it just still crashes when I choose the Launch option, but whatever

[gray jetty]

Can someone help me in support vc im trying to finish this paper 2d blueprint

[weak cypress]

how can i get the quixel assets in UE?

[manic pawn]

use bridge 2020

sign in with epic account

[weak cypress]

uhm

what is that

[manic pawn]

a thing by quixel

[weak cypress]

nvm

they have some of their things in the market place

[manic pawn]

not nearly all of the collection I don't think

[opal berry]

How many developers here are on windows or mac or linux

[manic pawn]

probably all of them, what else would you use?

[weak cypress]

Samsung Smart Fridge @manic pawn

xd

[manic pawn]

don't those run windows too?

[weak cypress]

i have no idea

[opal berry]

what I ment which one do u use ? @manic pawn

[manic pawn]

most people use windows and it's completely incomprehensible to me how anyone can deal with the inconvenience that is working with a linux desktop, but people in #linux probably disagree

[weak cypress]

hmmm

[manic pawn]

hmm

[weak cypress]

how to fix that

[weak cypress]

still havent found a fix

[radiant haven]

What material does the skybox use?

Need custom skybox

[dark rune]

This happens everytime I open my development build. How can I fix this?

That folder structure does not exist anymore, I've changed it

[dusky inlet]

Did you change it from outside unreal? That's a big no no

[dark rune]

no i didnt
deleting the map was also inside unreal too

the game doesnt reference the map at any point either

[dusky inlet]

Hmm well it's talking about the command line so do you have command line options set anywhere? There's a way to do that somewhere in vs, never needed to use it myself though