Wiki is gone if that’s the question Erik
#ue4-general
normal burrow
frosty bloom
Didn't really get to use it, had a lot of bookmarked stuff tho. Like GAS etc
grave nebula
I've been bookmarking stuff for several years. Haven't opened a single one 😭
worldly axle
Hello, how can i use a more precise/smooth way to moove multiple objects ?https://gyazo.com/ec17f6fc847beb37234c172d4d64bd30
grave nebula
You can disable grid snapping, buttons in top right corner of your viewport or corresponding hotkeys.
worldly axle
thanks !
idle compass
is it possible to create something like this in ue 4 ? it was created in c4d with octane, i only used a specular material (glass), with some hdri
I tried creating the scene in unreal but the result is like this
how do I apply HDRI the correct way in unreal ? to get the reflection of the HDRI on the glass, and also how do I create a legit glass material like on the one I created in c4d ?
here is my node setup for the glass
slate basalt
is there a way to tell the build tool to print the include paths?
whole quarry
@idle compass you can but the performance wont be good
idle compass
do you mean because of the hdri ? @whole quarry
slate basalt
-Verbose
frank escarp
@idle compass not possible to do
whole quarry
No, reflection is usually just very expensive to use
frank escarp
you need raytracing reflection
frank escarp
and i dont think raytracing reflection can do that many bounces
nor at that quality for the light rays
slate basalt
not event
idle compass
well then I think I'll just do this one in c4d
also another unrelated question, when should I press the 'build' button in unreal ? can I do a project without baking at all?
also can anyone tell me how to apply hdri in unreal ? I tried to find tutorials in youtube but everyone seems to have different method
limber mesa
hey can anyone help me with a problem that im having in ue4
im trying to make health and stamina regen at the same time
grave nebula
limber mesa
hey deathrey could you help me if you dont mind
violet goblet
is there a doc for shading model "cloth" ?
my cloth material looks washed out when i use that shading somehow
grave nebula
( •_•)σ@limber mesa I'm afraid I specialize on visuals things, and cannot comprehend the magic behind blueprints.
heady moon
which header file should i include for the GEngine boolean?
limber mesa
ok thx though
midnight gate
how do i make ue4 renderer crash less? and yes my drivers are all updated
placid arrow
run ue4 less
both answers above just as valid as your question, can you be more specific? 😄
what are you doing when it crashes? what else have you tried?
what have you changed?
manic pawn
you wanna open the secret tab in the project settings and disable "crash at random intervals to make your work more exciting"
placid arrow
oh that old chestnut? isnt that where there's a "complete my project for me" button?
grave nebula
Should have ran the engine with -nocrash parameter, and preferably, from a safe window.
normal burrow
-pleasant
whole quarry
-stablerun
normal burrow
-autommorpgfps
whole quarry
-onemanskyrimgame
placid arrow
@normal burrow shush, youll give away the switches they used to build fortnite
then they'll lose their advantage
whole quarry
-inflatablegoats (favorite of @fierce tulip )
normal burrow
fierce tulip
*inflatablegoatsimulator
placid arrow
you know, theres probably enough assets on the various stores etc to build a one man skyrim, its just a matter of how much time you want to spend coding it
😄
and if youre happy knowing most of your assets exist in others games
timber nacelle
Hey i have a serious problem with translucency and DOF. I dont know if its a Raytracing problem because it kinda works with the standart "Raster" method. So yeah im pretty new to Raytracing and overall not the biggest pro so maybe im just missing something, but after searching everywhere i cant find a working solution. Here is the problem: I want to use the DOF from the cine-camera but as soon as the background behind the bottle gets blurry it just clips through it. I know the issue is in the Dbuffer because you cant see it in the debug view but even after enabling the custom depth i dont know how to use it right. Thanks in advance :D
whole quarry
If someone would do that, he/she/non-binary gender should call the game studio 'suicide games'
placid arrow
JIRA IGS-357: Inflatible goat filled with helium, lost in stratosphere
@whole quarry what, third rate homocide? 🤣
sleek spear
i have been asked to give a quote for developing something in unreal, can someone help me please? msg me.
whole quarry
@placid arrow imagine the reviews: "has its moments" and "sloppy at best"
abstract relic
fierce tulip
treefiddy
placid arrow
lol
@whole quarry i generally buy premade assets, but in my last game nobody outside the gamedev community ever noticed and it didnt affect its reviews
when i say assets i mean 3d meshes
whole quarry
Real world is repetitive as well, its okay as long they are not prominent
placid arrow
i wouldnt buy premade code, generally because 99% of it is crap and needs to be heavily rewritten to work anyway
some of my purchased assets are prominent in the game but i hide the fact with a bit of kitbashing
whole quarry
I found that too, but games are very specific with code so it does make some sense
placid arrow
there is one premade module im using now in my latest game, and that's smooth sync
i did once try to use rama's libraries, but had to take them back out again, they made upgrades a total chore
in the end i just re-engineered the few functions i liked separately into my own blueprint function library
whole quarry
Rama is great but the hints are so littered with non relevant text :P
Its a good practice to write your own code, even if its used for BP anyways
placid arrow
yeah
whole quarry
Nothing wrong with small short cuts but knoeing how it works under the hood gives a better understanding
placid arrow
ive even been known to replace chunks of ue4 with other libs... like, ue4 has json parsing, but i dont like it, so internally i use nlohmann::json
whole quarry
Thats some next level shit for me 😅
whole quarry
Tho but extactly that, learning every day a new thing to explore is what makes it fun for me
Im a bit spread out
Learning motion tracking for video cgi, remaking portfolio site from skratch, trying to make server-client between java server and ue4 working :d
turbid pumice
shit
whole quarry
My coding knowledge is at beginner level so it takes a lot of trial and error
placid arrow
theres one way to break that cycle, work alone and take on helpers for small parts, not dev partners
ah, ive been making games for decades
whole quarry
I started only 3 years ago, my bp knowledge is a bit better than my coding knowledge
turbid pumice
I think that is why we are on a Unreal Engine server and not a Unity one lol
whole quarry
If you know the dunning kreuger effect, im at thr lowest point atm 😄
turbid pumice
because bp's are better tbh
whole quarry
Its a great way to get basic understanding of coding, but i think its just a gateway to coding
lucid magnet
Anyone that can explain why my reference is'nt compatible
whole quarry
How did you set the reference?
floral lion
Character is a Character Class Object
your Character blueprint probably is subclasses from Character so use that class instead
lucid magnet
how do i do that?
floral lion
Use another cast node
don't use Cast to Character but rather Cast To <Whatever your blueprint is called>
floral lion
and change the variable type too
midnight gate
is this tutorial still valid
for 4.24
i tried it but there is no update location node
it just makes my door be either in that location or toher
floral lion
Yeah still should work (just skipped through)
midnight gate
weird
floral lion
Update Location Node?
midnight gate
yes
still bough
I don't see them using anything called Update Location there
still bough
they're using a timeline to drive SetRelativeLocation, did you do that bit?
midnight gate
yea but the object teleports from 1 to the other
even tho i gave it 10 seconds to do the animation
midnight gate
i want to do that but for rotation
lucid magnet
Right now im faking, returning to walk after running out of speed - is there any way for me to make this action set my input key to released?
orchid bobcat
I can't see any messages from users on the site. Is this a known issue?
orchid bobcat
The content of the message is missing, but the email notification I got showed the start of the content. Anyone else experiencing this?
mint raptor
Is there a place to get some legal advice for a contract?
grim ore
@midnight gate What does your timeline look like?
midnight gate
ill screenshot
normal burrow
If it’s for a job could try #career-chat
midnight gate
grim ore
so over 5 seconds a vector track with the Y goes from 0 to 90?
midnight gate
no over no seconds at all
it just goes instantly from 0 to 90
and i cant explain it
grim ore
im talking about what your timeline is
grim ore
ok and what node are you using after the timeline? what do you expect to happen
my guess is what you want to happen is not what you are actually doing
midnight gate
i just need it to rotate over 5 seconds
next jetty
I wonder if RotationFromXVector is the node you're looking for here.
Looks like you want to set the rotation value directly yeah?
grim ore
^^
midnight gate
but instead it teleports
next jetty
try removing the RotationFromXVector node
right click the New Track 3 pin > Break vector
midnight gate
next jetty
Right click NewRoation > break
midnight gate
i cant plug in the break node
grim ore
do something like this
next jetty
yes, like that!
grim ore
with just a float track with the 1 value since you only want to change 1 value
grim ore
yep green is float
next jetty
good point, dont need vector at all
midnight gate
how did you get that set relative rotation node? @grim ore
i only have the ones with blue inputs
how did you get the green inputs
next jetty
right click the rotation pin > break
next jetty
Split struct variable!
grim ore
yep split the struct pin
next jetty
thats the name I was looking for
midnight gate
ah finaly
grim ore
all of your structs have that ability in BP, so transforms rotators vectors etc.
next jetty
very cool
midnight gate
YES
dark briar
what time does the 'free for the month' come out?
abstract relic
Usually the first week of the month
dark briar
thanks!
midnight gate
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THAT FOR A WHILE
grim ore
First Tuesday of the Month = Free Assets
next jetty
I'm wondering what's going to happen now that the wiki is kil. I've seen 2 alternative wikis spring up, there's probably more coming
Reaction on the forums has been 100% negative so far, at least in that thread
This Discord server is great and all, but it doesn't serve well as a persistent database of answers, like the wiki did. The copy+paste examples were amazing
midnight gate
that is quite correct
but im glad most of the time this server is helpful
@grim ore could you explain why do all the methods of ai fail?
i mean the ones i did none of them would move
i did print string they all work
theres a nav mesh
but they still wont move
grim ore
your AI is not set up to use an ai controller? its not possessed by an AI controller? it's in the ground. lots of reasons why
grim ore
set it on fire and start again
midnight gate
in the ground 🤔
next jetty
I think there's an AI move to node that gives a reason why it failed, is there?
midnight gate
alrithy ill come back soon with whats working and not
grim ore
its just a generic "it doesnt work" really doesnt help
next jetty
@midnight gate https://youtu.be/B6KK0WaZwLI 😉
might help
legendary videos btw, watched so many
thank you!
midnight gate
ah one thing with nav mesh it doesnt display the ground green for some reason
is theres a setting that does that automaticly or something?
when everyone else uses nav mesh it shows the ground in green
mine doesnt
thick herald
p
grim ore
ok so a valid nav mesh (shows green)
the character on the nav mesh somewhere
set up to use an ai controller, and the controller set to turn on correctly
and using some AI (BT or an AI node)
usually the AI controller and possess stuff is the issue
grim ore
your not using a behaviour tree right? just an ai move to node or something similar?
midnight gate
yes ai move to
grim ore
in the pawn, either in the bp or the instance
you can just search for AI in the details panel to find it
grim ore
if its set to placed in world, is that AI in the world at game start?
grim ore
and your code fires, the one you pasted? after the AI move to it prints out
midnight gate
yes
grim ore
can it get to the player? your target
grim ore
its not finding the player I would assume
lucid magnet
Do any of you know why theres an error on this and how i can fix it?
midnight gate
@grim ore how do i cast it?
wary birch
What would be the easiest way to get the camera component attached to an actor, if any?
I don't want to loop through all children components, since this check will be done a lot, is there any workaround?
grim ore
@midnight gate ok so first off there is one issue I can see, and I just noticed it duplicating your code. This Code is on your AI, so the pawn sensing is returning the PAWN that it sees (your player). The issue is your are using the AI Move To and telling it the pawn to move is your player. The AI Move To should be using Self as the Pawn to move if this is on your AI
there should be no need to cast or get the location if you just want it to move to the pawn it senses (the player) you would just use Self as the Pawn to move and Pawn from the Sensing event as the Target Actor
grim ore
it will so if it has to be the player you can still cast, just the issue is in your code you are saying "hey player, I want you to move" and not telling the AI to move
look back at your original code, your PAWN input on the AI MOVE TO is supposed to be the AI that needs to move and you are plugging in the player that was sensed
midnight gate
that setup doesnt work aswell
grim ore
so yes if you want it to just find the player
grim ore
welp I can say that works for me for sure, is your player close enough to trigger? if you put a print string after the on pawn sensing does it work. Alternately just do a begin play test to make sure your pawn sensing isnt the issue
both of these work for me, I just tested
this is cool, new template (Product Configurator) in the latest master branch.
regal shard
Anyone know why my OnDrop method for drag and drop operations isnt accurately registering? I have OnDrop on a widget consisting of a sizebox and image,(for inventory slots) but sometimes it would not register adjacent widget ondrop methods. Is it a zaxis problem? or do I need to have a precise-click button for the widgets
fair storm
how is called the function to check if a character is taken, possessed by a pawn?
lucid magnet
So how do i define a target for this, and which should it be?
grim ore
your target should be your target, what are you calling update health on
lucid magnet
the character
grim ore
ok so you need a way to get the character then. You can use the Get Character node or you can use a reference to it if you have one already somewhere.
@fair storm If something is controlled it should have a controller, you can always check for the controller to see if it's possessed or if the AI has it
midnight gate
@grim ore ill test after dinner
plush yew
does ue4 automatically not render objects like foliage behind objects?
normal burrow
turn on wireframe
plush yew
Am kind of confused
if i had around 40 event ticks like this
would that be heavy ?
on the game
normal burrow
no
plush yew
or its nothing?
normal burrow
assuming you need this
yea that would be almost nothing
you really should learn how to use unreal insights though
if you care about performance: measure it.
plush yew
"if you care about performance: measure it." p@t
what do you mean by that if you can explain?
normal burrow
there is a suite of profiling tools you can use that will give you very precise timing
so you can see exactly where your processor cycles are being spent
if you get used to keeping an eye on that sort of thing, you'll instantly identify when things balloon out of control
plush yew
Is there tools inside ue4 for that?
Thats new for me tbh glad that i heard it from you
normal burrow
thats the overview on it
make sure to visit the next page
which has the command line args you'll need to provide
you should prefer profiling in packaged builds instead of in-editor. you can do either (as long as you launch either with the args listed there) but editor has so much more overhead that your measurements are likely not going to be worth much in terms of end-user performance
peak merlin
Can someone tell me how to pain terrain fast and easy
plush yew
Thanks for the tip mate helped alot am check the docs you sent me atm
normal burrow
yeah so you just launch UnrealInsights.exe and then you launch the packaged build or editor with
-cpuprofilertrace -statnamedevents -filetrace -loadtimetrace
and once those launch you'll see a new item in insights to connect to the launched thing and can view the timings as such:
fair storm
and once those launch you'll see a new item in insights to connect to the launched thing and can view the timings as such:
@normal burrow what is that
grim ore
you can also adjust the tick rate of those items to something other than per frame if you dont need them to tick every frame
grim ore
insights is relatively new and not "released" yes so I havent looked at it much
fair storm
im still using mysql with mariadb
grim ore
"released" and "released" is 2 different beasts for epic lol
normal burrow
ah we talking epic language lol
plush yew
MathewW i can chagne the tick rate?
grim ore
but the page is updated for .25 and its probably out of beta now
normal burrow
again @fair storm https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Performance/UnrealInsights/Overview/index.html there
grim ore
@plush yew yep check the details on the actor, should be one of the first options at the top for tick rate
?
grim ore
oh I should, I am out of work tomorrow for the rest of the virus so I do have time lol
plush yew
normal burrow
aw lol
grim ore
tick interval, tick rate, tick speed... at some point it would be nice if it was consistent lol
normal burrow
i'd sponsor a matheww video about insights
grim ore
its like splitting a struct or breaking it, same thing different words, same confusion
grim ore
welp ill look at insights in .25, theres some stuff in the docs that looks like its out dated so maybe its working in .25
grim ore
yep but....
so it's "epic in progress" lol
with preview 5 out of .25 I am betting we get a stable release in the next 3 weeks at the worst which means docs team is in crunch mode
grim ore
i mean honestly I would hope for 2 weeks, 1 week without a preview and then stable but we might get another preview so who knows
normal burrow
yeah idk either
i'm guessing preview 7, after preview 7, no preview 8
first velcro #lounge
grim ore
@normal burrow according to the docs that is a minimum ticking interval, but I have never tested it
normal burrow
was just curious if it would do two ticks over double the elapsed time but yeah min tick interval sounds more realistic
limber mesa
can someone help me with a small issue that im having
fathom mortar
can anyone explain why my save system wont save the player name variable? Its as if the variable value just gets wiped. And I've checked and it does get passed through/changed from the function. Its just when saving that it seems to disappear
grim ore
well how do you know it gets wiped? where do you load and set it for later?
limber mesa
how would you fix this
grim ore
also you will never save anything unless the score is greater than high score so I don't know if that matters
fathom mortar
@grim ore i have a editable text box on the main menu which then passes that value when the player selects play. i have tested with print strings and it does come out the other end. just doesnt seem to exist when trying to save it
@grim ore yeah I'm aware of that
grim ore
so if you were to debug this and print out the player name right after the SaveScore event fires (before your create the save game object) does it show the name or nothing?
gilded lichen
Hello, how would I go about making the 'World of Warcraft' notification system? This being text that appears on screen to tell the player: out of range, not enough mana etc. Here is an example:
fathom mortar
dont think ive tried that yet. Ive tested it with having a print string after its set from the SetPlayerNameVariable
limber mesa
hey @grim ore if you dont mind can you help me out real quick
grim ore
try to see if it's valid when you call the save game, if it is then its a problem in here somewhere. If it's not good then we need to back track to where you set it and figure out why it's not setting it
@limber mesa BadSize normally means the collider (capsule for the character) is in the ground or somewhere it's not supposed to be. Is it in the ground, or in a wall or somewhere?
limber mesa
so im trying to make a parallex effect but when i type it into my blueprint it doesnt work
fathom mortar
@grim ore just tested it and it also doesnt work there. Could it be something to do with the fact that theyre two different functions?
limber mesa
how can i get the parallex camera
grim ore
if the variable is in the same blueprint it should be fine, but if its in more than one place then is it 2 different variables?
What parallax camera? there is none included with the engine
limber mesa
i was looking at a vide3o and the guy just typed it in
limber mesa
he just said make a folder then type parallex camer
a
@grim ore how would you suggest that i make the parallex camera
grim ore
I honestly have no idea, I don't work in 2D much
limber mesa
ok thanks though
trying to make something when you hit a key the stamina goes down. how can i do it
patent wigeon
I legit don't know what I have to do. I've used my class exactly like this many times before
ancient lotus
question, does the null subsystem set NumOpenPublicConnections? if i recall it didnt several UE versions back but im unsure if it does now. its showing 0 like it did before
grim ore
@patent wigeon your error might be in another spot and thats a false error
ancient lotus
@patent wigeon close UE4 and compile in visual studio. dont compile through the editor, when you make header file changes its generally a good idea to close UE4 and compile and then restart UE4. this is a must if your creating a new struct or something in the header, but for general work like a new function or variable its usually ok to leave the engine open while you compile. you might need to forward declare your class to like this
UPROPERTY()
class ABaseCharacter* wielder
yeah adding class there would forward declare it
but
putting class ABaseCharacter; under your last include would be the same.
i'm fairly sure UHT accepts class keyword where cody put it though
plush yew
How long does it take for you guys to compile about 200 shaders?
acoustic wraith
Hey guys, I can't import an 8K texture because Unreal keeps running out of memory. Is there anything I can do in my project to reduce its memory footprint?
normal burrow
can you remove the alpha?
acoustic wraith
@plush yew Maybe three or five minutes.
grim ore
@plush yew 30 shaders a second on one machine, 10 shaders every 2 seconds on another
plush yew
what cpu do you have??
normal burrow
its almost instant for me 3970x
acoustic wraith
Me? 6600K, not OC'd
normal burrow
not all shader permutations are equal though
acoustic wraith
^
So, does anyone know what contributes to a project taking up the memory that it does while in-editor?
normal burrow
how much do you have to start with?
acoustic wraith
8GB with roughly 1GB used by Chrome
The 8K texture is really simple, it's just an RGB mask, I could share if it would help.
plush yew
do you have all 4 dimm slots used?
normal burrow
i mean you should be able to load (at least a) single 8k texture but maybe not with editor overhead
lime bough
Why is it so hard to make foliage look good
plush yew
cause it's difficult replicating the randomness of the natural world
kindred viper
@patent wigeon bool bHeld = false: should be bool bHeld = false;
lime bough
When i bake my Foliage it produces really dark shadows
WHich makes the entire scene black
All of the grass becomes dark for no reason
patent wigeon
@kindred viper It is, it's just cut off in the picture
kindred viper
@patent wigeon ok post Line 91 of the class pls
lime bough
Looks like this before bake
kindred viper
@patent wigeon also that error does come up from errors on previous lines sometimes, depending on the mistake. Like Mathew pointed out.
lime bough
Trying to get the trees to look good while being optimized seems impossible idk how people make thier leaves look so good
patent wigeon
@kindred viper Line 91 is the ABaseCharacter* there. Putting class before it made me able to compile from VS Code. Waiting for it to compile from within Unreal now
kindred viper
oh man you didn't forward declare or include then?
I've made that mistake many times.
easy fix when you have slapped your own face for it many times :p
patent wigeon
I have the class included, it just decided to not let me use it. I still don't know when you need to forward declare and when not to, it seems so inconsistent
Yep, it compiled successfully. Sometimes Unreal really confuses me
grim ore
replace Unreal with Coding in general and yep that's about right
patent wigeon
^
kindred viper
@patent wigeon Forward declare when you only need to reference the class like the way you did with a pointer, where you dont need any functions or anything else, just for the class to know the other one exists. Include when you need to use anything from the class itself.
limber mesa
hey can anyone help me with this, treying to make it so when you hit a key it consumes stamina
grim ore
i dont know what we can do, thats a snippet of code and you have more before it and we dont know when its called. Your A key should reduce your stamina by 0.08 when you press it , does that not work?
limber mesa
it doesnt because its not connected to stamina
plush yew
How do I set custom snap sizes?
limber mesa
when i connect it it still consumes stamina without me hitting it
grim ore
welp your system is all over the place and we dont know what does and doesnt work. Your code right there should reduce the stamina variable when you push the A key but you say it doesnt
limber mesa
those two nodes matt before the sequence need to be connected
oh wait i may have an idea
i can connect the stamina regen to false
patent wigeon
Are you using the Branch for anything? You're not comparing it with anything
limber mesa
i will in a sec
patent wigeon
Are you printing out the stamina value so you see if it actually changes or not?
limber mesa
yea
so i tried this but idk how i can make it a condition
but it doesnt work
how can i make the two keys a condition
patent wigeon
Add a boolean ("moving" or something) and set it to true when you're moving/sprinting, then you connect that bool into the condition and then if you're not moving it should regenerate stamina and not when you're moving
But switch the white pins around if you call it "moving". Otherwise it will work the other way around
patent wigeon
When you've released all movement keys you set the bool variable to false. If any keys are pressed set it to true
Then get the bool and plug it into the branch there
limber mesa
ok i get what your saying
ill try that thanks
it works
thanks here is what i did
should i plug anything into the condition
@patent wigeon
patent wigeon
You've already plugged the bool into the condition, so no need to do that
limber mesa
ok will either way work
patent wigeon
What do you mean?
limber mesa
if i plug the red node from moving False
plush yew
Is unreal a more cpu or gpu heavy software?
grim ore
yes
plush yew
yes
grim ore
GPU for graphics stuff, CPU for not graphics stuff
normal burrow
mmm kinda
plush yew
I notice my cpu maxes out faster than my gpu
normal burrow
it could be more cpu utilizing but it does a good job of both
grim ore
CPU for normal lightmass and shader compiles for example, CPU for cpu sim particles or effects, GPU for making stuff on the screen or GPU particles, CPU for physics, etc.
plush yew
Okay
grim ore
turn on RTX, that's a gpu bottleneck
turn on android, thats a cpu bottleneck while it compiles
etc..
plush yew
Okay'
patent wigeon
@limber mesa Ah, no it works either way. What you're doing there is getting the "Moving" variable and checking if it's true at the point where you run the branch. It doesn't matter which one you get it from, just that you get it from somewhere
limber mesa
i get it thanks very much marmot
patent wigeon
No probs 👌
limber mesa
actually marmot i have one small question
since i have that figured out i was trying to see since the stamina is full then i can health regen but if its not then i cant @patent wigeon
plush yew
Do you need an rtx gpu to use RT textures in ue4?
patent wigeon
@limber mesa Just a sec, making a little example
limber mesa
kk
patent wigeon
@limber mesa This would be a way to do that
Basically, if stamina is full, start regenerating health
limber mesa
ok then ill add my hp stuff into the function
patent wigeon
You can have it where your tick event is. Just check if stamina is full and then go onto adding health every tick
limber mesa
yea those two nodes were tied into event tick
patent wigeon
Alright
fair storm
how can i cast an event from something to a widget?
frozen pond
fast question, so i want to model something for unreal, lets say it will be wall of planks, should i model wall of planks in blender or create planks and make it wall in unreal ?
patent wigeon
@limber mesa For example
stiff marlin
Is it possible to use a static mesh with cable components?
limber mesa
oof that is so complex to me @patent wigeon. here is what i came up with but it doesnt work
fair storm
limber mesa
kindred viper
@frozen pond depends how you want to use it. If you want to re-use it and it can be in many forms, then create a single plank and a script in unreal to align it along a spline as a spline mesh component. Or... create a single plank in Blender, then use the Array modifier and dump out a complete fence, repeat if you need 2 or 3.
frozen pond
@kindred viper more like create set of 10-30 planks and create diffrent stuffs from it, bridges, wall, fences, roofs etc.
kindred viper
yeah in that case I might create a one-stop-shop but only because I love doing dynamic stuff like that. I'd do it for the jollies 😄
split stirrup
@keen igloo I found this in github, someone nice is working in a mirror site 🙂 https://github.com/MichaelJCole/wiki.unrealengine.com
left arrow
Hey guys, is there anyway I can make the plane edge from my water follow the "flow" of the mountain? I mean like extrude or bend the plane 🤔
fair storm
Hey guys, is there anyway I can make the plane edge from my water follow the "flow" of the mountain? I mean like extrude or bend the plane 🤔
@left arrow save the level
oh wait
you mean a ramp
fair storm
i guess you can use the. path
wait let me check how is called
spline?
@plush yew guess so. is like a green pattern
where you can attach material in it
left arrow
Im a noob in U4 thats my first project, I have no idea what you guys mean
fair storm
Im a noob in U4 thats my first project, I have no idea what you guys mean
@left arrow usually you have to "hide" the things when create shapes
for example my mountain is an actual 3d model
left arrow
Yes
fair storm
you have 2 choise
create a 3d shape where you attach the material of the wather . or use the green pattern im trying to explain what is it
plush yew
How to i get my sky sphere to match the sun directional light?
That was my worst phrased question yet
Attempt 2:
How would i get my sky sphere's "sun" to match the direction that my directional light is pointing?
floral arrow
@plush yew you have to refresh the sky sphere in details panel
left arrow
@fair storm So I need to create a plane in Maya and make some Spline shit on it. Or I use green pattern in Unity?
fair storm
@fair storm So I need to create a plane in Maya and make some Spline shit on it. Or I use green pattern in Unity?
@left arrow is better to use the second option. let me open a project and i'll find that name xD
left arrow
@fair storm Okay, thanks a lot!
plush yew
how does one refresh a sky sphere?
floral arrow
@plush yew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIMxpEmPyM4
fair storm
you can
@fair storm Okay, thanks a lot!
@left arrow you can find it there
plush yew
Thanks :)
left arrow
Lemme look
fair storm
i never used before. is very usefull
floral arrow
I have a project idea where I want to have a building on the side of an ocean cliff with an underwater view dug into the cliff looking out to a reef and an above ground section of the building with different lighting post processing settings. would this be possible does anyone know how to achieve this
im assuming just have a PPV for the ocean part and another for the above ground part?
tiny sonnet
when does april free 4 month stuff com out
floral arrow
@tiny sonnet i think it took till like march 4 for the march stuff to come out
last month
tiny sonnet
kk
left arrow
@fair storm Thank you so much! it worked
lime bough
How do i stop my lighting from baking like this
kindred viper
I want to say turn the oven down, but its probably not the correct answer 😄 Perhaps lightmap resolution?
plush yew
Hentai spotted
sick stirrup
[QUESTION] Is it legit to have low poly normal looking like that for mobile game (in UE4) as far as it's looking good with normal map?
I had hardtime with bake a smoothed poly on hard edge and the only way I found it to work, is make everything (on the low poly) in one smooth group but the low poly normal look crap without the normal baked map. So I just wanted to know if it's legit or not 🙂
left arrow
Can someone tell me please how I can delete this? I created a spline landscape and got this 😦
flat idol
piece of a spline mesh creeping in
plush yew
Alt + f4
left arrow
@flat idol Its always there where a mountain picture icon is
flat idol
That's the spline node where a mesh ends and another begins. You can probably work on the mesh you use here to avoid these clipping areas, or the material. Probably someone else knows this better.
left arrow
@flat idol Thanks!
plush yew
alt f4?
left arrow
I tried it but my U4 always crash when i press it @plush yew
left arrow
Yeah 😦
misty creek
And then tie the alpha to the players health
I didn't look at it in depth but this: http://shootertutorial.com/2015/08/10/player-damage-indicators-and-dying-effect/ looks like it could work for what you are trying to do
swift spindle
there's a few different things you can do.... where are you at in your project status ?
lucid magnet
Hi does anyone know how i can set my widget to only appear when my ''current health'' is under 25% - how can i implement it to this
swift spindle
are you just starting out.. or are you far along in the dev path ?
like.. custom C++... or just assets and BP
sounds like you are missing some of the dev tools that visual studio needs
inside the Visual Studio Installer.. there is a series of modules.. you'll be wanting the game dev pack... it even mentions unreal
fair storm
@fair storm Thank you so much! it worked
@left arrow 😄
grim ore
@lucid magnet widgets have visibility, you can change that when you are damaged. Creating the widget once and have it hidden when you are not using it then make it visible when you need it.
swift spindle
Odd
lucid magnet
@grim ore how do i set this up
swift spindle
Make a non C++ project. You can always convert it over
grim ore
@lucid magnet wherever you adjust the players health, check to see if they are below 25% then change your visibility on that widget. beyond that how you set it up is based on your code.
fair storm
someone can explain me why when i convert a string to text it is blank?
lucid magnet
but should i make a branch or...?
i have a Health percentage
that could work i think
grim ore
I dont know, I dont know where your code is at for damage or where that code above is or any of that stuff. Again that is how you do it, where you put that code is up to you
@fair storm are you sure your string is not blank in the first place?
swift spindle
you wont need most of that
but first few steps should do it
but unless you need C++ I'd not worry about it
grim ore
did the visual studio project open up after adding the C++ class in the editor?
fair storm
@fair storm are you sure your string is not blank in the first place?
@grim ore 100%
grim ore
show your code then? a simple string -> text conversion node should work without an issue
@plush yew you have mentioned you compiled the editor from source, which version and are you sure you are running that version of the editor?
so you compiled the source from github, it finished, you went into the binaries folder for your machine and ran the ue4 editor, created a new project from a template, chose C++ as the type and when it created it gives an error?
swift spindle
wait.... is the issue that you just can't double click it ?
do u have plugins visible ?
grim ore
so if you are taking a blueprint project, adding a new C++ class that is not blank, and creating it you should see that it is compiling then VS will open and the new class will be in your editor. IF you dont see the last parts then yeah there is an issue with VS
swift spindle
where are you expecting it to show up...
grim ore
in the C++ part?
grim ore
well if they created a new project like they said they did and it opened it would show c++ classes by default
sooo I would hope that is not the issue lol
grim ore
I would start from the start and actually try and fix errors if there are any. If you create a new project, choose say Third person template, choose C++ for the type, name it and create what happens
it should open the project and VS
swift spindle
agree
grim ore
should be, this is what I got
basic Editor opened with the basic expected project with C++ classes for the project and VS 2019 opened with the project selected as the default project and the default classes
uh
you cant create to root
thats a no no in windows
swift spindle
LOL
grim ore
try d:\projects
making sure you have that folder of course
and try TPPSOURCE as the file name so we all know its unique
well the location would be D:\Projects and the name would be TPPSOURCE so I assume thats what you did
ok so what is inside that folder on your drive? did it create the TPPSOURCE. if so what is inside of that?
ok so eliminate the engine is the issue and its C++ related, do the same thing but BP project not C++ and name it something else like TPPSOURCEBP
okdoke you can close it down, no need to wait
if you right click your uproject, the one for the CPP project, and switch unreal engine version what option is it on already?
so we can verify its using your custom source build which we assume is working
hoary elm
hello. just wondering if anyone knows how i implement a plug in i downloaded to allow global gravity in UE4. tried putting the folder into the runtime plugin folder but maybe im doing it wrong. sorry very new.
grim ore
yep so that looks right. If you delete the .sln and right click the uproject and Generate Visual Studio project files does it error out?
yep
you want the build tools to create it again
@hoary elm depending on if its an engine or a project plugin it has a folder it should go in https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Programming/Plugins/#pluginfolders
tiny sonnet
apparently this is a infinite loop? any reason why
grim ore
@plush yew yep so it will recreate the solution file
grim ore
open up the solution file and VS should open up
okdoke so yeah its a conflict issue, I know you pasted that before but didnt know when it was coming into play. IF you click on the platform toolset drop down what does it show
thats the weirdest thing
you just have VS 2019 installed right?
its almost like your engine was compiled with an older toolset for some reason
that might be causing it then, the engine could have found that and used it to compile itself
yeah the build tools would be from vs 2017 and would be needed if you used say VS Code instead of studio
remove the 2017 build tools
if you didnt generate the project files for the engine it wouldnt have used the correct toolset
download source -> setup.bat -> generate project files.bat -> open sln -> build
any changes to VS or any SDK or any other compiler crap the generate project files has to be re ran
that goes thru your machine, detects VS install and toolchain versions, etc etc.
I would suggest uninstalling 2017 atleast and making sure on 2019 you have this as the only build tools (14.22)
did you do the generate project files with the 2017 tools installed tho?
you might have generated it against the older toolchain from 2017 , then it failed, then youforced it to open in 2019 which would still be using the older toolchain, and now your VS is against that one
yep remove the 2017 stuff, make sure you have just the 14.22 tools installed and just 2019 then delete the .sln in your source editor folder and tell it to generate again. it should then find all the 2019 only stuff and it should work after you rebuild
tiny sonnet
matthewW can u help me with my problem
grim ore
you could always try NOT upgrading your project btw when you open it by hand, the no upgrade option, but I wouldnt hack it I would just make it only use 2019
@tiny sonnet its hard to tell based on just that but are you spawning a sword then that sword now overlaps so it spawns it again and that sword overlaps and .... ?
tiny sonnet
oh kk
shit
i just realized
i forgot to iunclue the isEquipped boolean branch lmao
grim ore
@plush yew no you dont need ARM at all, and I would remove the 14.25 and replace it with the 14.22, the .25 can have weird errors with some of the UE4 code
try checking .22 and then remove .25. If not I mean you can leave it as is but you might get errors eventually they moved some stuff and certain libraries have weird issues
I never check the game dev with C++ stuff so it doesnt give me that error 😦
Install VS , check .net desktop development, C++ desktop development. Try and compile UE4, it will fail a few times with missing SDKs, I install the SDKs until it stops complaining, win lol. Thats what I end up doing every time
I can say I dont have cmake installed, or the profiling tools or the gpu debugger and UE4 compiles fine
super weird 2017 got installed tho, thats normally a separate install from the website
@peak merlin You might need a little more detail on what you are asking? That image looks like a plane mesh with a texture on it below the white and green blocks
delete the .sln from the source folder then run generateprojectfiles.bat again so it finds your installed tools and creates the SLN for that
then open it back up and recompile. it should open up 2019 and it should compile against just that toolchain now
not recompile, rebuild. or clean and build.
peak merlin
@grim ore i want to add a picture of a 3v3 map so i need to create it so i saw that video that that dude used bps and something to allow him to draw the map easy
grim ore
ask the author? or share the video? or do they explain? If the "picture" is just an image you would use a material with that image and put it on a plane mesh which is your ground
grim ore
yep the background/floor of the map is just a flat plane with an image on it then he used the geometry tools to draw out the basics
@plush yew yep. When you run generate project files the unreal build tools scan your computer to find the correct visual studio to use and sets up the solution file for visual studio for you.
peak merlin
I turned the photo into a material and then past it to the cude and expanded thr cude
grim ore
you can also force it to use a specific one and have other options but I am guessing the build tools used the older tools to build the engine but the engine itself was set to use the newer tools installed with 2019 so it was panicking
@peak merlin yep that works
peak merlin
@grim ore i made also materials in terrain but i it does t paint
grim ore
if you do the rebuild option in VS or clean then build you should be fine
if you just build it might use older intermediate files and not work right
@peak merlin painting landscape is much more complicated you should check out the docs
peak merlin
Yeah i need to learn that professionally
tiny sonnet
@grim ore how would u authority guard a equip sword from ground ability, or do u even need to?
grim ore
I would delete the 2 test projects we created and after it finishes try again with a new project
yeah I dont know what would happen opening the ones we made but I would rather be safe than sorry. It seems like the engine was creating them using the older toolset info which we dont like lol
well 10 hours is way past my bedtime but there are other people that might be able to help. Based on what happend tho assuming this doesnt fail to build (it shouldnt it built before so the source is good) you should be ok again
grim ore
Shh....
swift spindle
not true
grim ore
its not the same as using source so keep that in mind
swift spindle
well.. to be fair.. your planning on doing a lot of debugging 😛
short echo
Any way to bulk-update animations to lock root motion?
grim ore
you can attach the debugging to the editor/project but your not going to get the exact code or be able to change it for example like you would running a debug build from VS
swift spindle
unless your really invested in needing to debug to that level.. your asking for a lot of extra hurt...
grim ore
if your using C++ with UE4 might as well strap in for the hurt anyways 😛
swift spindle
true... but still... overriding class's and what not is just less.... pain
grim ore
@short echo look a the Property Matrix to do that
grim ore
its an artist that can do magic
swift spindle
basically
kinda rare like a chicken with teeth
but more useful
sell-described..... kinda mean 😛 @plush yew
heady quartz
Stamina or cool down or both. what do you guys think is better for a combat system for an rpg/adventure game?
fallen wing
hey guys, i really need to know how to change the speed of a character bp. ❤️ thank you so much.
swift spindle
whoops... found out...
heady quartz
Character movement > set max walk speed
grim ore
@heady quartz two different ways for 2 different games, just depends on what your game is
heady quartz
Rpg/adventure game (zelda botw)
grim ore
if its more actionish then stamina seems more likely as you plan your moves and each one has weight (more surviving than just hitting the best button that is up)
can use both tho, actions can use stamina and skills can use cooldowns
heady quartz
I have skills and normal attacks
I already implemented a cool down system but was depating if i shouls make a stamina system as well
grim ore
if you have time try it, you wont know until you test
heady quartz
Problem is, i have never played an rpg or an adventure game and i'm attemping to make one..
tiny vigil
Hi i recently got unreal engine and know the basic stuff for it and i wanted to ask when i downloaded and install ue4 what other programs are recommended i download that help with character design and codeing for ue4
grim ore
Visual Studio for coding, pick a program that fits your need for character design
abstract relic
Zbrush, Blender, Marvelous Designer, Substance Painter, Photoshop, Substance Designer, Topogun, Maya, 3d studio max
tiny vigil
which one do yall recommend from experience
viscid pebble
So I have a local mutiplayer game I have developed. I was wondering if their was a way to implement a plugin (something quick and dirty) to play the game over a network
I posted this on multiplayer
delicate elk
hey everyone, have a problem that i get an assertion which im not sure how to fix, anybody got a clue?
Assertion failed: !bCleanedUpWorld
ver 4.23.1
grim ore
Debugging symbols!
abstract relic
Packaging? Go to [project]/intermediate and delete that folder. I get a cookie, every time it works
delicate elk
ill give that a try, packaging indeed
grim ore
btw https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/announcements-and-releases/1658668-unreal-engine-4-23-released/page10 has the exact issue with that version
delicate elk
i heard it has to do with 4.23.1 level streaming , but previous packaging works
@grim ore thanks!
But yeah i find it weird that previous packages worked yesterday etc
abstract relic
damn, wanted that cookie
normal burrow
Not yet hev lol
grim ore
hey it could still be intermediate, it's a good simple thing to try
normal burrow
it certainly could be
delicate elk
yep! trying right now
removed saved etc as well to make sure
and binaries
lets hope it is as simple as that
cause there's quite a complex level streaming in the project
normal burrow
anticipation
grim ore
I bet it's the level streaming, hopefully he can roll back to when it used to work and figure out the changes and beat UE4 into submission
delicate elk
ooofff the problem is that we are a team of 5 so if im rolling back thats gonna be some big troubles
XDD
abstract relic
🍪
delicate elk
sadly stil lthe same
abstract relic
atlas
normal burrow
shucks, have you considered going to 4.24?
we might have just spent two days going to 4.24 but, worth it? idk
delicate elk
definitly, art part of the team didn't want to though, apparantly there were issues in 4.24.1 /2/3 that obstructed them
abstract relic
indeed there are
delicate elk
so yeah damn this will be quite rough
normal burrow
you would have to weigh potentially being able to package a game vs not
grim ore
well you might not have to roll back, just roll back another copy and try and figure out the difference especially if you can narrow it down to level streaming changes
abstract relic
like that vector length in the mat graph 
normal burrow
big-oof. "lets put 2D where 3D is and 3D where 2D was"
delicate elk
hmm i see, ill give it a go, though as far as i know there were no changes specifically to streaming
grim ore
time to set up a build system so it automates testing and building every day/hour/commit 😦
delicate elk
weirdly enough i know someone in a different project else who had the exact same issue today as well after packaging worked few days ago for them as well
grim ore
maybe it's an april fools gag.....
delicate elk
LOl
normal burrow
gremlins.
abstract relic
reset project settings 😛
grim ore
someone at epic wanted everyone to update to the latest version so it's a timebomb for today
clean the project, roll back the clock to a few days ago, give it a whack lol 😛
normal burrow
i noticed some strange things on their git today. the hell is 4.25 plus?
delicate elk
yup ill try beating it a few times, thanks a lot
grim ore
I mean stupider shit has happened with math and durations
4.25 plus is the beta for the secret UE6 version
abstract relic
preview ++ pat
normal burrow
unrealengine6 you say? 
abstract relic
when you run out of numbers
grim ore
yep you need to input the secret code tho in order to unlock the new features
normal burrow
fimaly.
delicate elk
is there a chance that the cause could be cause of someone else having the Uproject checked out
(perforce)
normal burrow
yeah i thought that probably was what it was hightide but the commit times were like hours between 4.25 preview and 4.25 plus
would recommend you get debug symbols as mathew suggested
delicate elk
alright ill do that C:
normal burrow
we'd be guessing, without
grim ore
its highly suspect tho that exact error on that same version was linked to streaming tho
normal burrow
yeah i am in your boat there too, sounds like what they are working on too
grim ore
like it's having an issue loading because your loading because its loading and it cant unload and it might be a recursion stuck
abstract relic
Desperate times calls for desperate measure. Get those symbols, lock everyone out, and test an updated build
delicate elk
Alrighttt thanks!
grim ore
Desperate times call for starting over 😛
grim ore
how is it that like 20% of images people upload from their computers for project crashing or needing help are pictures from their phones 😦
abstract relic
can't see the problem = no problems
normal burrow
lol "help me i don't know how, what am i doing?" snaps picture with phone
polar hawk
the + still hasn't been identified?
grim ore
im telling ya its UE6 if you use the unlock code
didnt you notice all the copyright tags on the code base removed the dates recently...
it's a conspiracy
normal burrow
i've seen some account on twitch too, unrealengine6
grim ore
ok so most of it was changed, they are Epic after all so getting it right the first time.... 😆
normal burrow
lol is the change to notice only in +?
grim ore
see all the new stuff....
delicate elk
confirmed that it is level streaming
quickly deleted all streaming and packaging is ok now
normal burrow
they fixed that by 4.24.3 mathew?
solid matrix
so my landscape isn't generating foliage in a packaged build. It's just the brushify landscape with a few tweaks and assets. Anyone have similar problems?
soft atlas
I'm working with what appears to be an outdated tutorial. I'm trying to make a pause menu and it is telling me to set vertical box to wrap with size box and set size property to fill but I cant find that option
grim ore
I actually like this commit "Menu animations are now disabled by default. They cause flickering popups in high DPI unaware applications." I mean technically it fixes the issue lol
@soft atlas do you have more details as that sounds weird
soft atlas
It seems I was in the wrong details page ignore what I said 😅
grim ore
😉
polar hawk
That has been my strategy lately
get a bug report?
disable the feature
people stop reporting bugs
grim ore
High DPI seems to be a recurring issue, maybe have it refuse to run on anything but 1920 displays?
normal burrow
😄 that is rough. "Do I want to report this flickering or retain animated ui?"
abstract relic
No what you do is break the Submit bug report button
polar hawk
I'm convinced UE4 and High DPI are mutually exclusive
delicate elk
So yeah just wanna update, seems like the issue is somewhere cause of streaming from levels into eachother, Streaming other levels to main level works out fine, but then streaming the main level back to the other levels causes cook error
grim ore
@solid matrix is it not generating the meshes or the textures/materials are bad?
normal burrow
i'd like to see hdr be taken seriously. idk if you've read the docs on that mess yet. but high dpi sounds difficult too.
solid matrix
@grim ore It's not generating the meshes. The landscape materials look fine
and it works if I click Launch
grim ore
yeah in packaged builds materials can be set incorrectly but work fine in editor but the meshes would still show up
@delicate elk hopefully you can work around it
soft atlas
Ok, so when making an element for UI there is a thing called size box. When making a size box in this tutorial there is an option on the detail page that isnt there for me called Size, for me they are each of the respective position and size X and Y
golden dawn
Yo can someone give me a hand with something? It’s probably really simple.
I’m having an issue with decals looking washed out. It seems like every time I fix something there’s another issue. I figured out why the decals look washed out. But to fix that I have to change some nodes in the material editor, and when I open the materials editor I don’t see the window with the nodes.
normal burrow
which change arounds did you you do?
grim ore
@soft atlas show a screenshot but are you trying to make your size box a specific size or the content in it a specific size? there are 2 parts to a size box and the first part changes based on it's parent
delicate elk
@grim ore Trying right now indeed to do so, not looking to good though
grim ore
@golden dawn are you opening a material or a material instance?
grim ore
one has the word Instance appended to it
soft atlas
In the tutorial there is the orange boxes and a size option
grim ore
in UE4 tho one is the actual material that has nodes, the other is the front end for it that lets you change it's settings (parameters) @golden dawn so if you want to edit the nodes make sure you are editing the Material itself
soft atlas
Sorry for the quality
grim ore
yep look at the top right
Slot (SOMETHING)
the Something is different on each one and determines how the child can be controlled
the bottom picture the size box is a child of the horizontal box, the top picture its a sibling (next to it)
soft atlas
Thank you
grim ore
yay
abstract relic
Use the screenshot hotkey
grim ore
use Shift-WindowsKey-S !
normal burrow
it works great when you have discord installed on the same computer
you can use the web based discord though too
golden dawn
Where would I find the material if I just see a material instance
grim ore
I use the web based discord 🙂
normal burrow
🔍
grim ore
If it's and instance, you want the Parent @golden dawn
normal burrow
i don't judge. i just was correcting need to install
delicate elk
Weirdly enough, it seems like the cooking fail only happens when cross streaming 3+ levels
below 3 levels it does not occur
grim ore
I dont like using the app itself, i just keep the web loaded
normal burrow
web app seems to get features faster too
grim ore
like 99% of the crap I do is web based now besides UE4 so I figure why use another app. It's chromium based anyways the app right?
or whatever the wrapper is
normal burrow
something like that, i don't think its chrome based but it might be
grim ore
oh electrum I think its called
normal burrow
that one yes. its hard to keep track of what is and isn't chromium now
grim ore
Electron!
normal burrow
It combines the Chromium rendering engine and the Node.js runtime.
grim ore
yep thats what it was
normal burrow
close enough lol
grim ore
i think its a common way to appify web stuff
normal burrow
yeah, node.js is pretty fun. i imagine if unreal needs a slow but easy scripting language it goes js.
grim ore
yep I did a backend for testing out a MP game in UE4 using node to do the login/storage stuff for fun. I use node and mongo on a free AWS server here at work. I really don't know what I am doing but it's easy enough to just fake it lol. the REST plugins work well with UE4 and Node out of the box
normal burrow
😄 yeah, my learning of js was basically: I need a web backend hm?
oh i can just treat everything like a dictionary? nice.
grim ore
pretty much the same here. I mean programming is programming you just have to learn the syntax
normal burrow
yeah
grim ore
json is nice to just pass info tho for sure, C# loves it just call it as a dynamic and done
normal burrow
'differen'"'"'t' if python else True
mh yeah both java and c# i don't understand why they exist
grim ore
I like C#
normal burrow
they are 'fast' lanuages comapared to ones that are less restrictive but then they are fast because of how restrictive and mindnumbingly full of rules
yeah I don't mind C# really either as long as I don't have to follow its rules for performance
grim ore
ah well I don't worry about performance so 🙂
normal burrow
then you could be using something funner like js haha
grim ore
for the stuff I use it for, business apps most of the hangup is in bandwith or server processing anyways
normal burrow
ah yeah
grim ore
well C# and VS is nice right now due to Xamarin. I have ios/windows/web/android all in the same codebase
normal burrow
with js you pretty much need to spawn many processes to do things efficiently, so c# and javascript have this but then python is kinda complete there too.
yeah, java has always kinda been this way though
grim ore
I never got into python and probably never will lol
tho I have to as it's part of UE4 but I don't have to like it and I can delay as long as possible
normal burrow
I learned it through blender
scripts in blender are similar to key strokes and stuff. like you have to change to edit mode before you can do some things just as you would using the mouse and keyboard. but it was a good way to pick up python. nice python console and api sense in it etc.
delicate elk
so yeah, just want to update u guys again, it really seems the issue is having more than 3 maps streaming into eachother, using a different map etc does not resolve the issue
normal burrow
are you listing only the persistent level?
grim ore
if 2 maps stream into a map then that map streams into another map does that get past the limit lol?
and that an interesting thing, I beleive the kite demo would break in this case
normal burrow
old forum post is saying to only add the main persistent level to cooking, but i'm not sure whats going on here.
cyan robin
hi, how i would go about transferring the first person idle animation from the standard template, to the third person idle animation? the first person idle animation only has the skeleton for the arms, so i'm wondering how to take this part and somehow combine with a complete skeleton?
i have this idle animation that seems to work really well with the first person arms, but the rest need the third person skeleton so not sure what to do
normal burrow
start with just getting the arms going javin. then you can use a blend per bone node to isolate it to the arms and have whatever other animation exists now play under the arms
delicate elk
Ah wait ill give some more context,
Basically there's the following:
- Main Level
- 3x Art Level
- 1x Light Level
The main level gets everything streamed to it (so light and 3 art levels)
the art levels get the main and the other remaining art level + light levels streamed
and the light level gets the main and Art levels streamed
All of them use the Always loaded streaming method
cyan robin
normal burrow
shouldn't there only be one main level that loads it all together?
delicate elk
Thats the idea indeed, but the problem was that artists would not be able to see the level in full in their own dedicated level since it was not streaming back
I'm not 100% sure what the workaround for that would be
normal burrow
have one persistent level
that is used for packaging
and loads all the levels in it
then only specify that level for cooking?
alternatively, have whatever the art levels load from the main level.. not be the main level split it up?
normal burrow
That is the only way i understand streaming to be, but that doesn't mean i'm not wrong
believe that is why the call it a persistent level though
delicate elk
wait ill give a litttleee example, now im curious if i went on this level streaming stuff all wrong
this would be the Main level (persistent),
and art level for example:
normal burrow
is DEADBEAT_MainLevel the Persistent level in the first screenshot?
normal burrow
So i don't know honestly if that is allowed or not, but it should be avoidable
delicate elk
i see hmmm
normal burrow
if you open up the main level
you can turn off the other levels, so i am not sure that nesting of level streaming is intended.
delicate elk
good point
normal burrow
i think the idea is you just turn off what your not working on
but again, i could be wrong here.
normal burrow
yeah @cyan robin that sort of thing
cyan robin
thanks
normal burrow
Layered Blend per Bone
delicate elk
hmmm it seems indeed @normal burrow , after searching a bit , that the correct workflow would be selecting the level IN the main level u want to work on and than adjust it there instead of in the map itself
like u said
golden dawn
I figured out the materials thing, but the decals all still look washed out
surreal gyro
Why do there seem to be templates for everything except fighting games?
hollow raven
Anyone have time to help me? I need help on my anim montage, I already check the skeleton and it's linked and I'm not so sure what to do now
true sail
Hey everyone can I have some help? I'm trying to set up a bare minimum blueprints multiplayer game. All I really want is for a player to be the server, then another player to join that player (Not even a screen to show servers available), but I've run into a roadblock. I've looked at the tutorials online and they're good, but they're not very practical. Like, yes, I get it, you can push the drop down arrow next to the play button and set the player count from 1 to 4, but how do I get that to work with two standalone windows, or even two different computers? I just need to be pointed in the right direction as to how I can have one window run, where the player spawns, creating the server, then another player spawns, sees that there's a server available, and joins
Thank you!
kindred viper
@true sail that should be straight forward in the official docs for multiplayer. I would go through a basic tutorial on it, official if possible. The core basics aren't difficult for this but as with anything, you just have to do it the right way.
fair storm
theres anyone who know if is possible from mysql database to create player inventory? (im usin varest already to comunicate things like, credits, levels, etc)
arctic flame
How can I find all animations that are using a certain Anim Notify State? The "Animation Notifies" window seems to list all Skeleton Notifies but no Notify States
true sail
@kindred viper I just don't get it. It's not working for me. Could you help me?
kindred viper
@true sail its 4am and im knackered mate. I would just do the official docs. I did and got it working first time. Also check out Cedric's Network Compendium. It's a great source
scarlet birch
Just start with the third person template it should be all setup.
kindred viper
@fair storm Absolutely.
kindred viper
@fair storm well you need a language between VaREST and the mySQL (mariaDB). I use PHP on a webserver myself
fair storm
i already did
but if for example i want to know if a user got that specific item but the others no?
golden dawn
Can anyone help with these decals? They all look really washed out and don’t blend well with the scene
fair storm
where is the data stored? a boolean each item?
obsidian kettle
i think they look good ^^
but i dont know better, so sry xD
golden dawn
This is my first time doing anything with unreal. So I have no idea what do
kindred viper
@fair storm well you could store it locally in the struct for the inventory (when time critical request happen), or in the database (if you have time to query it). Ideally you would only be using the database for pre and post-runtime. ie. pre-runtime, get the data, setup the UE struct side, only save to database when you finish and keep a local copy in a savegame object. Then update the database post-runtime or when you need a critical update.
@golden dawn a simple first person shooter with pickups would be great
fair storm
but like this someone is able to hack the game
obsidian kettle
@golden dawn its my first time too. i assume yuo followed a tutorial for this. what i usally do is trying to understand what the tutorial is doing and trying to change to my needs. Isnt a really good answer sry :3
kindred viper
if thats your worry, you can serialize the data, but if you think thats not enough, then you need another engine as this one is open source and can be hacked easier than others (except for Source engine which is absolutely wrecked at this point)
fair storm
what do you mean with serialize? (im not english at all xD)
bitter iris
Hey I'd like to convert my 8192 x 8192 map into tiles, to do this can I just export height map and UE4 can split it? or do i need to split the heightmap into how many tiles i want?
kindred viper
It's like a compressed data format, unreadable without unserialisation. You can also encrypt during serialisation
@bitter iris export the heightmap to World Machine and it has tiling options in there
soft atlas
Me and my friend are trying to figure out how to have an ammo counter on screen, we have an ammo pool set up with integers but dont know how to make that connect to a widget and have it appear
bitter iris
okay cheers @kindred viper
kindred viper
@soft atlas Thats a simple tutorial fix mate. Go check any health bar tutorial
fair storm
so. the progress should be. client read the data from the database via php , the database echo the informations, then that information in a save game, then the data in the savegame is encrypted, then when the client end the game just save things on the database?
is not better to save data in a dedicated server
kindred viper
yeah or at periods when its important for the database to have the information. Only you can say when that is though
obsidian kettle
Generally speaking. I am trying to understand ue rudimentary. As practise right now i am trying to set as example skill tree in child actor and call it from parent. I am not sure how to handle the 2x reference in the widget Bps. I made their 2 child actor reference.
Im missing programmer logic here. I am trying to avoid chain castings