ue4-general

[granite heron]

4

[fierce tulip]

I am not talking about how many material slots.

[granite heron]

It has 4x uv sets from maya

2x 2k 2x 512

[fierce tulip]

have you used the texture coordinate node inside the material to assign the textures to the right uv-channel?

no

thats texture sets

[frank oar]

I seem to Have a player collision issue, is anyone able to give me some pointers please

[fierce tulip]

uv's do not have a size

[granite heron]

Thats the texture res I'm working with,

yeah sorry

dont know why I mentioned it

alright, I figured it out

thanks

[fierce tulip]

yay

[dire coral]

so im making a game and i really like the inventory system are there any tutorials on how to make it

[thick herald]

yup, load in youtube. Ryan Laley has one, amongst others.

[dire coral]

i had a problem with that one

but il try it agein

names

found a free inventory system

[zealous cloak]

i have a question involving level streaming

can i have an complete empty persistent level? that

then load in a Hub level selection level and unload the hub and load in a level map?

[dire coral]

when you equip a weapon or pickaxe is the animation split into an unequip animation and an equip animation

[pseudo scroll]

Hey guys/girls, can anyone help me with Bridge and UE4? It was working fine for a while but now when i hit export in Bridge (My UE4 project open the same time) Bridge says exporting and then export successful but then UE4 is not importing or doing anything?

[normal burrow]

Version of ue4?

[worldly axle]

Hello , why does the Begin Play Event is called in the viewport version but not in the standalone version ?

[whole quarry]

Its being called when the actor begins to play

[vital lagoon]

Hey guys! I really hope someone here knows what's going on. I started getting this on everything-UnrealEngine, a few days ago. In the editor, in our own game on Steam, even Sniper Elite. Nothing else crashes, just UE4 stuffs.

What I've done so far:

• First updated all my drivers
• Then fully removed and reinstalled drivers
• Fully reinstalled Windows

Seems like a drivers/cache issue, but what's boggling me is it happening after a full windows reinstall.

The log.

Crash on trying to cook a UE4 project. (Different project).

[heavy flicker]

This might sound like a daft question but does RTX work if you dont have a directional sunlight? Specifically reflections, if I am trying to make a night time scenario.

[worldly axle]

@whole quarry i know, but it fires in viewport version but not in standalone version

[whole quarry]

when you hit play, either in viewport or launches PIE, when an actor begines play, the event is being triggered

[worldly axle]

hum

so it might be because my actor is not playing

in the standalone version

[serene birch]

you can use RTX with a skylight only fine

[astral phoenix]

how do i call a specific point in my level sequencer?

@ebon linden im pretty sure u do that from the animation

[lusty rampart]

I want to make a more detailed path for my AIs to follow.. but nav mesh volumes seem to be a very broad brush stroke. I was learning about making spline-based roads, but can't figure out any way to associate a nav mesh with that. Am I thinking about this in anywhere near the right way?

[astral phoenix]

@ebon linden in the AnimGraph

[whole quarry]

Make a boolean isJumping set it to true when jumping, check that boolean when Attack?

Ez

[astral phoenix]

yeah in the animgraph right?

[whole quarry]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Game/Components/WheeledVehicleMovement/IsinAir/index.html

Could use this instead of making a new boolean

Or this

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/AI/Components/NavMovement/IsFalling/index.html

[long thicket]

Hey guys, Im facing an issue where when i try to export animation frames it just crashes the engine

any ideas?

ive used this feature before so im not sure why this is happening

[dim arch]

@fierce forge there is a set cursor node

[fleet inlet]

Did anyone get an automated message saying that they got an account created for them on epic’s learning platform? Seems kinda shady

[long thicket]

no tidii

its just camera movement

ah alright

thats fine

[dusty quartz]

which version of linux is new user friendly?

[misty owl]

Ubuntu or Mint?

[leaden bear]

Happy Monday everyone! Can anyone tell me how to beginplay from a sub level whilst using world composition?

[dusty quartz]

I have no idea which one will not give me great pain

[kindred viper]

@leaden bear There are caveats to level design in World Comp. That is one. It's the persistent level that will run begin play. You should be using checks to see if the level has loaded first then running functions/events in it. The reason being that levels can be loaded at any time (except the persistent that needs a level change to do so).

[leaden bear]

Gotcha,I think I have an idea, but could you do a mach example in a screenshot?

[astral phoenix]

Hello idk where to put this
But how do i call a specific point in my level sequencer? 🙂

[merry gazelle]

is it possible to cast to the active level blueprint from a player character? I want to fire an event inside the level bp

[tulip helm]

anyone else get an email about an "epic games training platform account" getting created for them?

[manic pawn]

nope

[green sky]

Has anyone had any luck fixing the physx vehicle in unreal, i mean that bug where the vehicle spazes out when it crash with another vehicle

[grim ore]

@tulip helm go to https://onlinelearninghelp.unrealengine.com/ for the learning site and let them know so they can look into

[kindred viper]

@green sky that wouldn't necessarily be a bug. It could be the nature of physics in a time-stepped framebased environment. Sometimes ObjectA enters ObjectB at the time a physics calc should happen, but the objects shouldn't be intersecting. So the physics is kind of skewed. The trick is to always have calculations at frame intervals and remember that collisions break physics if not figured out at the exact point of contact.

[grim ore]

@merry gazelle no it's not, that is the problem with using the level blueprint to do anything. Try and avoid it if you can because of this and other reasons

[green sky]

What mainly interest me is that when a vehicle crashes with another, that it wont stop dead on its tracks, it should hit the vehicle back as it would in a real world situation

[kindred viper]

then it would need tweaking as such to allow for opposing forces through physics assets I guess

plus what I said before.

[green sky]

I have and no matter what i do no effect on vehicle

[merry gazelle]

@grim ore cool thanks, I just read about using gamestate instead

[green sky]

I have made a raycast vehicle but i would rather use the default for ease of use

[plush yew]

can I asked here about help with solve some bug?

[green sky]

at least my raycast car does what it should

So its not physics related

[kindred viper]

yep often the work involved in getting accurate vehicle physics with the VMC is exponentially more than faking it with some other method

input vector is a direction. velocity is also a direction, but it doesn't come from the Input, it gets translated from the input

[stuck prawn]

how do I import a blueprint project to github

[kindred viper]

you create a repository, then mark files for add so they are uploaded to the repo.

i dont know what you mean by that

[stuck prawn]

what do I do here

[kindred viper]

you add the readme to setup the repo

[stuck prawn]

what about the gitgnore

[kindred viper]

ignore the gitignore for now

[green sky]

One question, if i convert blueprint to c++ class can i make another blueprint from that new class and will that class have all the blueprint stuff included?

[kindred viper]

@light lintel left means nothing in 3d space. You need to translate to an input style vector

@green sky yes

[stuck prawn]

should I add an MIT License

[kindred viper]

@light lintel well you would need to keep track of the character forward vector compered to the world direction normal and offset it

[green sky]

So let's see if i got this straight, i have a blueprint with some logic, And i goto ( File> Developer > Generate Native code ) that will make a c++ class of the blueprint and all of its logic right?

[kindred viper]

no it will nativise it. That isn't what you want to be working with. Its better to manually redo it in C++.

[green sky]

I know the code looks funky but say this blueprint isnt going to modified it's completed, no bugs and just works, if i do as mentioned will it work, i just want to make that blueprint c++, i dont plan on working on its original code

I only need its functinality

[grim ore]

did you try to see what that does when you do it?

[green sky]

I havent yet just afraid it might mess up my project that why im asking before i try

[grim ore]

well it wont, but it also wont do what you are asking it to do

[green sky]

so converting to natived class wont work? than whats that for?

[grim ore]

it wont give you what you want no, it might give you something that might work correctly without any changes or modification but then again it might not as nativization is not a guarantee it will work when it converts it to c++

try it, it doesnt make a file in your projects source folder but in the intermediate so you can see what it does

[restive arrow]

Hey, I have an integer with a range of 0 to 100, but I have an item, that when I pick it up, it adds 50 to that integer. The integer is random and when it is above 50, it goes over 100 instead of clamping to 100.

[grim ore]

how does your integer have a range of 0 to 100?

[restive arrow]

In the details panel for an integer

[abstract relic]

That’s not how you clamp

[stuck prawn]

I can rename repositories, right?

[green sky]

ok cool, Ive been try to get the whole c++ learning thing but it's way to hard for me 😦

[restive arrow]

Huh, that's what it says when you hover over it

[kindred viper]

@stuck prawn yes

[stuck prawn]

ok

[grim ore]

those details are just for show and tell in the editor, they are not stopping the variable from being changed internally thru code

[abstract relic]

It’s a slider that clamp. Code wise, no

[green sky]

I mean if could atleast learn how to make c++ functions but cant find a way to convert from BP to c++

[kindred viper]

@stuck prawn you might want to goto #source-control to get more help if you get into it

[soft panther]

and back to his original location in the thirst frame ?

[grim ore]

@green sky There is no magic way to convert from BP to C++. you will do it by hand by learning C++ or looking at the included code with the engine

[restive arrow]

There's a slide range and a value range. So both of those don't do anything?

[grim ore]

those details are just for show and tell in the editor, they are not stopping the variable from being changed internally thru code
@grim ore

[green sky]

How can i find included code in engine?

I mean i rather learn

[kindred viper]

@green sky if you want to learn how to do this, the best way is doing it. Workarounds waste time and effort and usually dont teach you more than how to avoid the issue. Just get stuck in with making your blueprint in C++ and you will learn a lot of good lessons

[grim ore]

@green sky look at the nodes C++ code on the github, every blueprint node has C++ behind it.

@restive arrow if you want to clamp a variable you can use the clamp node after you change it.

[abstract relic]

This channel feels like a mess today 😜

[kindred viper]

Sorry but I can't help thinking of this when you say clamp

[restive arrow]

Thanks @grim ore

[plush yew]

Quuickk question, can you run a game and MySQL server on the same computer for that game simultaneously?

[bitter iris]

Does UE4 4.24 Source just not have multi user editing/

?

[kindred viper]

@plush yew yes but why would you?

[stuck prawn]

@kindred viper ok

[plush yew]

@kindred viper to test

And thanks

[kindred viper]

@plush yew then sure. even better is using sql-lite or some other flatpack db

[plush yew]

Answers the question lol

[soft panther]

Does UE4 4.24 Source just not have multi user editing/
@bitter iris i dont beliveve u

thats my dream

[bitter iris]

huh

[kindred viper]

@bitter iris pretty sure the editor does or is that a 4.25 thing?

[bitter iris]

ue4 4.24 normal has it

but source no?

[grim ore]

@light lintel Ctrl-S like you show it works for me in the editor in a third person project. If you are using the same key, perhaps S for something else, make sure that input event does not haver Consume Input checked

[kindred viper]

the thing is, the source editing is multi-user via source control

[soft panther]

yea they said about a big a update in 4.25

[kindred viper]

you need to lock files for editing etc

[misty owl]

@grim ore Hey, small world. I just found your YouTube channel this morning. your videos are great!

[soft panther]

omg lol its u

i also watched ur vids OMG

[grim ore]

weiiird but yeah no issues with action mapping here with ctrl-key, both controls work

[kindred viper]

last time someone said that to me, I had to get all my adult videos removed from pronhub :p

[grim ore]

so like your dodge isnt co operating with dodgeforward?

might be something else, works fine here. I duplicated your stuff. Left CTRL = Dodge , S + Ctrl = DodgeForward

perhaps you have something stuck in your input .ini, it happens sometimes. an invisible entry

yarp its something odd on your side 😦 darn but hey it works is what counts 🙂

[kindred viper]

base it on the world direction.

if I could remember the exact node for it, I'd say but im having a brainfart day of anger and stress

in fact. I should probably take the day off social media as it exacerbates it

[grim ore]

is this in a behaviour tree?

[misty owl]

@light lintel could use a boolean for the button press, then just check the boolean status

[uncut heron]

Hi, I want to do my first steps into unreal do you think that this course is a good start for computer science student? https://www.udemy.com/course/unrealcourse/

[normal burrow]

give it a shot

[misty owl]

Looks like a comprehensive course, though I'd probably start with some free resources, just to be sure Unreal development is something you're certain you want to invest money into

[normal burrow]

check out the care package in the pins too golaaaaan

[wispy sonnet]

@uncut heron Go to Youtube first. There are plenty of free unreal courses, even for C++ What I do reccomend Udemy for is the "Perceptive AI" course as AI is something that is slim on youtube.

[uncut heron]

Looks like a comprehensive course, though I'd probably start with some free resources, just to be sure Unreal development is something you're certain you want to invest money into
@misty owl its only 10$ for 55hours

[wispy sonnet]

Also. Udemy has sales every once in a while, if you're patient you can get courses for $40-50 instead of $200+

[uncut heron]

They have sales every week lol

[thick herald]

Every day more like lol

[wispy sonnet]

I was talking The Unreal courses specifically. They had one that just ended.

[uncut heron]

@misty owl un real development?

[misty owl]

Developing a game in the Unreal Engine

[raw rock]

hello one questions if I update the ue4 version of a project can it get corrupt or is it safe and straight foward

[grim ore]

yes it can stop working or you can lose a feature. When you try and open a project in a new version it will ask to make a copy for you. If you use source control you are safer as well.

[static sparrow]

@uncut heron I think it depends on how new you are to programming and computer science in general. Do you know any C++ at all? You may want to learn C++ independently and use blueprints within Unreal instead of trying to learn C++ while you use it in Unreal. Blueprints is programming, just a graphical version of it, and without the absolute 100% control over every aspect of development that C++ would give you.

[raw rock]

@grim ore so if i make a copy of the project before hand and any error occurs i can just replace it and it will have the previous version?

[keen moss]

is there a tool or solution available for unreal to batch rename assets?

[uncut heron]

@static sparrow I have experience with node.js and c#

[static sparrow]

I have been writing C++ for 10+ years and am well-versed in it, but I'm still using blueprints for my first Unreal project for two reasons: 1. cuz it's pretty cool and I want to be able to use it to teach my young nephews to code. 2. Because blueprints provide less options to the developer, they are probably able to be a bit more portable and less likely to become confusing to anyone else that wishes to work with me on it. (i.e. they don't have to adapt to my specific coding style, etc. cuz any arbitrary blueprint will be more alike to any other arbitrary blueprint than any arbitrary piece of C++ code will be to another.)

[celest creek]

Any news on when 4.25 would be released? I was totally expecting today, for no actual reason at all

[static sparrow]

@uncut heron You may want to try Unity if you have experience with C#

Cuz that's the language Unity uses

[uncut heron]

I tried

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18c3MTX0PK0&list=PLlrATfBNZ98dudnM48yfGUldqGD0S4FFb I heard a lot of good things on this c++ course

[static sparrow]

But if you're determined to use Unreal (or C++... and I do have an affinity for C++ personally, I like it way more than C#), then just consider trying blueprints for your first project, is all I'm sayin

[uncut heron]

I want to learn a lang with Memory management options thats why im going to cpp

more control you know

some pointers

lol

[grim ore]

@raw rock yes the project itself should be self contained in it's own folder as well as the engines are seperate. Making a copy or backup of your project would let you go back to it later or just keep them side by side, one on each version

@celest creek if it's this week I would expect it tomorrow, tuesday seems to be the normal release day

[static sparrow]

If you're learning C++, another great resource is https://isocpp.org/faq

[uncut heron]

In the university i have a course that based on C lang but it will be in 8 months

[celest creek]

@grim ore Thanks!

[uncut heron]

@static sparrow Do you know a cpp book?

[static sparrow]

@uncut heron That sounds like you should start with C. IMO, every C++ developer should start in C, and then once they've built something of decent complexity with C, then move on to C++

[uncut heron]

Oh really

[static sparrow]

Use the link I posted a few lines up. That basically is the best C++ book on the internet. Just not quite in book form. I used that FAQ (back when it was Marshall Cline's C++ FAQ) fuckin... extensively, when I was working on my first company's product right after college. I mean, every day, all day, I had it open and was referencing it.

[uncut heron]

Maybe some arduino and embedded projects

[static sparrow]

I recommend starting in C because C forces you to learn memory management. In modern C++, it's not really (as) necessary to know how all that works, but it is a huge help. Just my opinion.

Our product was a networked system of graphics renderers (IoT) that I initially built in C because I wanted direct control over every pixel that got painted to the screen. I converted it to C++ when it started to become unwieldy to manage. It was the right choice, but starting in C forced me to become familiar with exactly how a lot of the C++ libraries I would eventually use (especially the OpenGL ones) worked under the hood.

[uncut heron]

And c book?

[static sparrow]

So, my path isn't and shouldn't be followed by everyone. It just worked well for me and I like the perspective that learning C gave me on my work in C++

[uncut heron]

B.W. Kernighan & D.M. Richie, The C Programming Language (‏Prentice Hall, 1988‎)‏ I heard a lot on this book

[static sparrow]

Um... nothing particular comes to mind for learning C. There are quite a few excellent C books, since the language is so old.

I've probably read that one lol. I'm sure it's fine. Keep in mind, though, that C is not an easy language. In some respects, it's harder than C++, and that's saying a lot, cuz C++ is already a hard language to learn.

[uncut heron]

Pointers😦

[static sparrow]

Pointers! 😄

so powerful, yet so misused

[uncut heron]

LOL thank you so much

[static sparrow]

np

good luck

[uncut heron]

btw did you have experience with embedded projects?

[static sparrow]

you could even check this out

there is a link looks tailored just for you

https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/csharp-java

embedded projects? not... really. But C is the language you'd want to learn to do that kind of stuff

almost all device drivers are written in C, afaik

not since college, anyway

[frozen mural]

why when my stamina is going down my hud widget dont have any changes but when my stamina goes to 0 the hudwidget will completely become 0 ?

[clever niche]

how are you calculating how filled it is

[sudden agate]

you probably use integer division

[clever niche]

that's my guess but i was going to see how he was doing it

[misty owl]

What is the licensing situation for assets purchased on the Marketplace? Are they all royalty-free? Just purchase them, and I can use them in my game without having to pay anything on the backend?

nvm, found this: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/marketplace-faq

royalty-free. sweet.

[ruby folio]

I can use "r.ForceLOD" in the editor to force LOD level. Anyone know a command to set it back to auto?

[rough hound]

So i loaded up my project today and the physics seem to have completely broke lol. https://i.gyazo.com/e3a56f584eb409bb934b8b34e0b488b3.gif

[plush yew]

Is a game that updates/syncs to the server every 2000-3000ms more hackable than one that syncs every 100ms? If they are practically the same, is there any extra measure I might take anyway?

[midnight bolt]

out of curiosity; have someone imported old UT99 levels into UE4?

[dire coral]

i need an aim space for a pistol just left right up down ect. but for free

[gilded eagle]

hello

actor pawn and characters, can i create with blueprints a pawn starting from an actor?

[brisk urchin]

How high can I make lightmap resolutions?? My gates shadows are coming out bad.

[limber mesa]

can someone help me with a problem that im having

i want my character to increase agility when overlapping something but i want the agility to stop at a certain limit. it goes over that limit, anyone know why

this is my character

[abstract relic]

Use a clamp node

[limber mesa]

Would I place it after the lerp

[normal burrow]

depends on if you wanted to clamp the max or the thing interpolating

if you clamp alpha, you wont be able to exceed B

[limber mesa]

Hmm

I got

Thanks @normal burrow

The cube is what implements the change when you overlap it @light lintel

Thanks for the help though

this code works

[abstract relic]

Stealin my glory pat 😜

[hearty walrus]

has anyone got advice on making dev textures like this

[gilded eagle]

what happens if i add more than one camera to a character? can i choose which one to use?

[normal burrow]

ye lol 😄

[gilded eagle]

how=

PlayerCameraManager ?

[normal burrow]

it will use one of them menoz, likely the first one on the list

You can maybe deactivate the one you don't want to use

[grim ore]

@hearty walrus https://www.tomlooman.com/download-auto-uv-color-mockup-material/ is the reference for this when I made one

[hearty walrus]

wow, suprised that exists. thanks!

[grim ore]

did an entire game jam entry out of just that one material for the levels once I adjusted it a bit 🙂

[static sparrow]

Anyone out there able to help me with a confounding little problem I am having?

[digital anchor]

Hey @grim ore, i saw you posted about a month ago about Move to not being able to be aborted, have you ever found a solution to that?

[timid carbon]

Somehow i changed World grid material while playing around with assets. and now my other copies of my project don't work. how to i reverted back to original material ?

[digital anchor]

having the same problem, inside a simple parallel with immediate abort, it waits for the MoveTo to finish before getting out of it

[plush yew]

Anyone know how to change the size of a photoshop selection exactly to the dimensions you want it to be.
Ue4 cant properly export 16 bit normal maps for some reason so the next best thing i can do is try and extract it from preview
And then use AI Upscaling to make it fit the desired resolution

[heady saddle]

anyone know what PPO prefixed variables mean?

[lusty rampart]

Can anyone give me a pointer on making paths for AI to follow? I have a basic setup with a basically flat world and a single nav mesh bounds volume .. and that works. But now I want to give them a more restricted set of paths and nav meshes seem a poor fit for more detailed pathing. Am I misunderstanding nav mesh volumes or can someone point me at something better suited for marking out paths that aren't as specific as a single spline, but also shouldn't cover the whole level?

[honest vale]

@heady saddle nothing specific

[lusty rampart]

(can you make a nav mesh that follows a spline? I didn't see how)

[plush yew]

Was looking into cutting my enemies arm and head etc...

Is that some how by detaching the bone ?

[heady saddle]

@honest vale but the editor has prefixed my variables with PPO. do you know why? I can't access the regular variable names

[hearty walrus]

How do I import a *.uasset file?

[latent flume]

Quick question, I currently have a level that some blueprints meant to load a world and it's assets according, and landscape via stream. I also want to play a media file using a widget. Technically it works but because of the extensive level load and landscape stream. The video is not play smoothly.

What could be some options? Off the top of the head, maybe async playing the video?

[plush yew]

@hearty walrus you drag it in the project files using the file explorer

[brisk urchin]

Where do I find the settings for Lightmap Resolution for the entire map?

[hearty walrus]

@plush yew

[plush yew]

Not like that

from the windows file explorer not the in engine import button

[hearty walrus]

I did

[plush yew]

No

[hearty walrus]

I just dragged from the windows file explorer into the outliner

[plush yew]

Not into the outliner

close your project

[hearty walrus]

ohhhh wait ncm

nvm*

[plush yew]

Drag the uasset files into your content folder form the windows file explorer

[hearty walrus]

i'm a dumbass, just remembered! My bad. 😅

[plush yew]

yeah np

[merry gazelle]

why is escobar teaching unreal engine?

[plush yew]

i got bored from selling crack

imma get back to it when i finish my game

[merry gazelle]

yeah typical for a game dev

[normal burrow]

lol

[brisk urchin]

What does detail mode do? It's defaulted at low

Will it make my shadows look better? They look like blobs at times.

[abstract relic]

Seems to be quite an increase of people taking a picture of their monitor lately. Like the early 2000s all over again.

[swift spindle]

tis lazyness... ppl keep discord open on their phones or they think they have to save a screenshot instead of just pasting in the clipboard heh

[plush yew]

https://gyazo.com/22c0fd23509ee8e4c086ef350b209299

anyone know how to fix this?

[normal burrow]

Yeah no kidding

[swift spindle]

use a handheld scanner to make it extra retro

[abstract relic]

there's even a single key on the keyboard dedicated to taking a screenshot 😛

[plush yew]

anyone know how to fix that error?

[hearty walrus]

why are my materials becoming checker patterns

whenever I load this in, it goes into a checker pattern

[swift spindle]

this is how all screenshots should be taken

(I had one of these)

[hearty walrus]

w h a t .

opening them also turns them into checkers, with this error

[brisk urchin]

Careful @hearty walrus they might make fun of your pic if it's not ultra 4k resolution. Even though yours is perfect readable. ☹️

[fierce tulip]

@hearty walrus means something broke in the master material (generally)

[hearty walrus]

cool, 2 pings in the shape of 5 seconds! great co-operation, guys!

(not that it matters, lol.)

[fierce tulip]

and in most cases that happens when you dont migrate/move files around properly, or delete redirectors without cleaning them up first

[hearty walrus]

(just found it funny)

Any way to fix it?

[normal burrow]

you must be new here hawkdesign, 2 pings in 5 seconds is low

[fierce tulip]

manually fix the materials

[hearty walrus]

@normal burrow ?

oh wait sorry

how do I manually fix the materials?

[fierce tulip]

see where the node says "error" and find out why its doing that.

[normal burrow]

looks like you've not got a texture parameter hooked into it

[hearty walrus]

how do I fix that

I'm a complete noob to unreal's shader engine

found the node. now what?

[abstract relic]

select the node, give it a texture

[hearty walrus]

how, and what texture do I use

[pliant stirrup]

And then guys how are you? I have a problem with a master material using function materials. I need to create a blend of 4 MF in this master material, but I don't know what else to do from this stage, does anyone have any ideas? Thanks !!

[worldly axle]

Hello, does any one have a good tutorial on advanced sessions ? i followed this one https://youtu.be/ke3kmK6bvT0
But it does not works

[abstract relic]

@hearty walrus
Old but nothing has changed in material
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZlv_N0_O1gbQjgY0nDwZNYe_N8IcYWS-

[hearty walrus]

?

[abstract relic]

watch and learn

[hearty walrus]

nvm

thanks

[sturdy apex]

Does anyone have any links or information on how to achieve an orthographic view of an individual item, while everything else has normal field of view?

I'm not making much progress so far

[normal burrow]

What are you trying to do?

[sturdy apex]

I would like a 3d menu that is orthographic

Reason being so it can be hit by dynamic lighting of nearby lights if the player pauses the game

[normal burrow]

Why not just use flat triangles?

Modifying projection matrix is gonna give you strange shadow data

[lusty rampart]

you'd want to do a separate projection, right?

have the user pull out an "ipad" and then have the content of that be from a separate ortho rendering pass

I'm a noob, I'm probably wrong

[sturdy apex]

I wanted the shape to be a certain way, and if a button is pressed it will look like its being pressed. A 2d menu just does not seem like it will get the dynamic lighting look that I want. I didnt want it to be projected either, here is where I am at so far. The edges you can see are bein obscured because of FOV. I bought the weaponFOV plugin to see if it would help but even the creator said I will not get perfect ortho:

[brisk urchin]

If I change the lighting quality settings from "Preview " to like "Production", will it improve the accuracy detail of my shadows from looking like blobs?

[lusty rampart]

@brisk urchin try it?

[brisk urchin]

Gotta wait about 30 min if I it try since that's the average time it takes to build and update lighting.

[sturdy apex]

As you can see from that image, I can get close. I am thinking of maybe taking the faces that are on the outside and stretching them out a bit to fake the look of that its orthographic, but I don't think it is going to look right in the end. Is my only option going to be to have a projection of the menu? I really wanted dynamic lighting on these panels and buttons

[lusty rampart]

can you calculate something based on "reverse projecting" the screen space?

to figure out where something would have to be to appear at a certain spot on the screen? (I'm kinda making shit up though at this point)

calculate where something should be at a certain depth, I mean

[sturdy apex]

due to my limited mental capacity I will need to think about this for a bit

[lusty rampart]

there should be math to say "in order for something to show up at pixel X, Y, a 3d object at depth Z would have to be in world coordinates X', Y'"

not sure if that's useful for not.

[grim ore]

look at the project and deproject nodes for world and screen space

[lusty rampart]

I think that's what I was trying to say, but way more confident 🙂

[sturdy apex]

Thank you for the direction, I'm looking into it now

[lucid magnet]

how can i make a select node in a animblueprint?

[grim ore]

I dont think you can for what you want but you can use the layer blend by int node

[hollow pollen]

Help please.... I'm using the conanexiles devkit. But dont open anymore... :(((
I reinstalled the program, and i ran the error log. I have already installed Visual studio 2015, 2017 and 2019. But the error persists... follows the log.

Log file open, 04/27/20 18:11:21
LogInit:Display: Running engine for game: ConanSandbox
LogPlatformFile: Not using cached read wrapper
LogTaskGraph: Started task graph with 6 named threads and 11 total threads with 1 sets of task threads.
LogStats: Stats thread started at 0.698130
Running C:/ConanExilesDevKit/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool.exe ConanSandbox Development Win64 -project="C:/ConanExilesDevKit/Games/ConanSandbox/ConanSandbox.uproject" -editorrecompile -progress -NoHotReloadFromIDE
No Visual C++ installation was found. Please download and install Visual Studio 2015 with C++ components.
Could not read build.version
Creating makefile for ConanSandbox (no existing makefile)
ERROR: System.NullReferenceException: Refer?ncia de objeto n?o definida para uma inst?ncia de um objeto.

[grim ore]

sorry its called the Blend Poses by int Node

[static sparrow]

I am getting correct results OnPress, but OnRelease is giving me Location and Impact Point of zero. Anyone know why?

I am using mouse to simulate touch events

This is a better pic of it

[normal burrow]

prolly cuz under finger is a weird way to say mouse up

I'm guessing there is a Is finger down or whatnot. also i'm betting that bool is false

[static sparrow]

what bool

[normal burrow]

Return Value

[static sparrow]

oh. okay, well when I use the Pressed pin, it gives me where I clicked. I need to do something different (at the location where they took their finger off) than when it gets pressed. How do I get that location data?

[normal burrow]

do you want fingers or cursor?

[static sparrow]

it doesn't really matter for the sake of this question, but I am making a mobile game, so... fingers

you can see I'm using a touch input

[normal burrow]

don't use the mouse input action then

[static sparrow]

and simulating the input with the mouse

[normal burrow]

Yeah, I would think in that case you want to go full finger

where its likely being simulated by the mouse

[static sparrow]

Full finger? I thought that's what I'm doing

[normal burrow]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Input/TouchInput/index.html

[static sparrow]

InputAction Finger1... GetHitResultUnderFinger...

[lament star]

Is it possible to safely turn off ray tracing in a project that had it enabled by default? Or will it break my project?

Asking in case anyone has experience with this :)

[orchid marsh]

will have to recompile all the shaders after restarting

[lament star]

If that's all then I'm good, as long as it works

thanks

[frozen pond]

how i can save my actor after moding it in game ?

so i can use it on other level etc. ?

[whole quarry]

define modding?

[frozen pond]

let say i got wall and i spawned second one on one map, and i want to move it from level1 to level2

[whole quarry]

the only way I could think of is doing it via a savegame

well, could store that information also in a gameinstance but when restarting the game, it would be gone

but if it should be placed there forever, spawning it that way isnt the way

[frozen pond]

its more like change actor in one map, then go back to mother map and see it moded

[whole quarry]

is that your game mechanics?

[frozen pond]

so route would be like that:
go to special map -> edit actor by casting (add static mesh components) -> ??? -> go back to main map -> wow its edited cool

my problem is "???"

idk what to do to save it

[whole quarry]

but why would you go that length? is it part of the game? or a weird way of game development?

[frozen pond]

lets say its part of "game"

[whole quarry]

then just save it in a savegame

[barren flume]

How can I take snapshots through the camera?

I'm not sure how to do that

[limber mesa]

i have a question, whenever my character jumps off a ledge he flies , anyone know why

[frozen pond]

@whole quarry i have 0 idea how to save that, any video you can recommend to me ?

[limber mesa]

fixed it

[whole quarry]

@frozen pond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4usRrTiqak

Subscribe to that channel and watch more videos, they will blow your mind 😉

[frozen pond]

subed already, like 65% of my knowlege is from that guy

ty for link 🙂

[brisk urchin]

I changed the lighting quality settings from "Preview " to "High" and clicked build. 1 hour 15min later and My shadows still come out at blobs. Fudge! 😩

Help from a UE4 Lighting Artist would be appreciated.

[plush yew]

My engine is updating but I can't find patch notes on the subreddit or this server, could someone point me towards them?

[ivory cliff]

I'm playing around with a 2km x 2km landscape. I've set up an ocean where player / AI can move around on. I represent my ocean with a simple plane. I want to generate a nav mesh that includes my plane, but excludes everywhere where there is landscape. I tried disabling navigation on my landscape, but this makes it that Unreal ignores the landscape for nav mesh generation, meaning that it generated a nav mesh over the whole plane.

How do I tell Unreal to exclude a landscape when generating a nav mesh, but not ignore it?

My screenshot shows the plane in red, I want a nav mesh to be generated only where it's red basically.

@plush yew For which version are you trying to find the patchnotes?

[plush yew]

I've definitely heard of people using multiple nav meshes, maybe searching that might help?

@ivory cliff I'm not sure, I'm on 4.24.2 and its updating right now. Isn't there a place where notes are just posted as they come out?

[ivory cliff]

Usually on the forums

[plush yew]

Cool I'll check there

[ivory cliff]

I'm not looking into using multiple nav meshes, I'm fine with one big nav mesh for now, but I don't want a nav mesh to be generated on my landscape...

[plush yew]

yeah if you can do multiple nav mesh channels or whatever then you could designate the red as channel 2 and everything else as channel 1 and then dynamically update what channels the AI have access to

oh

yeah then I've got no idea sorry

Tried to turn down the settings to speed up ue4 a bit

But it froze :(

[eager sparrow]

Hi everyone. I created a new Character blueprint, and added a skeletal mesh. I noticed something that I have never seen before, and something that is not visible in another identical character blueprint just with a different mesh - a yellow sphere:

Any idea what this is?

It is there even in play mode.

[snow reef]

Is there any way to work with other members on UE4, like a team edit?

[lusty rampart]

isn't there a multiplayer UE4 plugin?

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

[whole quarry]

usually via source control

[brisk urchin]

For my Sky Light and Directional Light, should I be using Static, Stationary or Movable? My map is pretty large.

[ruby folio]

@brisk urchin #graphics
It depends on your target platform. But I think its safe to assume with a large map, you want to use moveable.

[brisk urchin]

@ruby folio It's main purpose is for to be a portfolio piece. For Windows PC if I had to choose a platform.

[plush yew]

all of my animated characters cause a string of errors when the game launches, is there a way I can prevent that?

I think its because I'm setting a variable. I guess I could just start out with a boolean

[open hill]

your owner ref isn't being set yet

check if it's valid first?

[plush yew]

yeah, I can just set up a branch

[abstract relic]

Use is valid node instead

[open hill]

are you setting the owner ref in a component?

I've had a lot of issues with that due to the order in which UE initializes everything

[plush yew]

something like this?

this is where I'm setting the variable

[open hill]

there's an Is Valid function node so you don't have to use a branch

it should be right next to the pure function version

[plush yew]

like this?

[open hill]

yeah that's the one

I set my owner ref in the Initialize event

[plush yew]

oh yeah, that'd be what I'd want to do

[open hill]

but I still do a IsValid check just to make sure

[plush yew]

wow, no more errors thanks @open hill I've had this problem in every project I've ever done with animation and I just let it slide

[open hill]

no problem!

Yeah I dont think Begin Play works in the Anim BP event graph or it works differently it seems, I looked at a Paragon asset and saw they were setting their ref on Initialize so I started it too

[brisk urchin]

@ruby folio I forgot to ask. If I move my Skylight and Directional Light to moveable should I also do the same with my point lights and spot lights? 🤔

[lament star]

They're updating the roadmap right now

Ray tracing is now "ready for production"

[storm terrace]

Do any of you know of a way to clear the log entries when I click play in the UE4E?

It's annoying to constantly do it manually

[lament star]

pretty sure there was a command for that but I don't remember what it was

[honest mango]

hey anyone know why i cant measure in viewport ?

i have top view with wireframe

i press middlemouse but dont work

[desert tartan]

how do i create my own game and level inside a marketplace project?

[grim ore]

you would create it just like it was any other project?

[marsh swallow]

Can you play audio for testing purposes while outside of Play

[abstract relic]

yes

in setting

[marsh swallow]

which settings? 😂

BP, Component, Editor, Project,

i keep asking google questions and clearly not phrasing it correctly. lol

[abstract relic]

the big setting button

[grim ore]

playing like just a sound wave file in the editor?

[marsh swallow]

no, like actually in the world

to test attenuation from camera, etc

mixing with other sounds

[grim ore]

oh uh I assume it would play in simulate mode?

[marsh swallow]

OMG THANK YOU

[grim ore]

plus that^

I assumed you had that on lol

[marsh swallow]

I must have turned that off eons ago

[grim ore]

nah It's off by default

[marsh swallow]

i like music and silence while development

[grim ore]

some time ago they disabled that and editor play sounds by default in the engine

[abstract relic]

Honestly, the big icons are worthless (not being sarcastic)

[normal burrow]

Agreed, little icons better

[manic pawn]

the big icons looks better

[brisk urchin]

@ruby folio it worked! Changing it to Movable made a big improvement. 🤗

[honest mango]

https://gyazo.com/49e9007cf3205ee5df2649630e5faccb how i am supposed to use this please ?

[barren flume]

How can I take screenshots with camera?

[grim juniper]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/announcements-and-releases/1641765-how-to-enable-chaos

[normal burrow]

use the high res screenshot feature probably mistermouse

[barren flume]

How

I opened cmd in unreal engine

and typed highresshot

[honest mango]

thanks i will do that

[barren flume]

but it did nothing

how do I select the camera

[normal burrow]

it uses the viewport

[barren flume]

it has background blur on it

for the camera

[normal burrow]

so have the viewport possess the camera

[barren flume]

oh I got it

thank you\

the resolution is weird

[marsh swallow]

btw i do feel the need to admit that i have been playing in editor and running around to figure out sounds for almost 9 months

[grim beacon]

Does anybody know where I can get the VR Mode button?

[normal burrow]

its in editor settings i think mono

press F11 to full screen the viewport @barren flume

[barren flume]

i did that

it's still wonky

but it's fine

i was able to downscale it to the resolution i wanted

[hollow ridge]

@normal burrow yesterday you said to use migrate, but what should I do if I can't open the project?

[normal burrow]

your basically out of luck

[hollow ridge]

oh

do you know how to fix the error Unable to compile project try to compile manually? It is a project I downloaded

from a forum

[normal burrow]

sounds like you need visual studio installed?

[hollow ridge]

I have it installed

2017 and 19

[normal burrow]

right click the project file and generate visual studio project files

then open the sln up, press f5

[grim rover]

hi everyone. does anyone know how to bulk edit the material on a bunch of static meshes. When I bulk edit it does not show the material instance even when I search for it in the search details?

[normal burrow]

if the old material that your replacing exists still, you can delete it with replace if your lucky

[ruby folio]

@brisk urchin Glad I could help!

[hollow ridge]

Thanks @normal burrow I finished a game for a game jam with a team in about 2 days when it was a 9 day jam and we were like why not so now I am learning networking in a week 🙂 (Im using a BP plugin to make it easier)

[pulsar badge]

Why is my landscape doing that?

[marsh swallow]

Is there a way to set a view distance override on a specific object

Our water actor requires that View Distance is set to Epic for the post process to work

[plush yew]

Anyone have trouble with the unreal to substance painter livelink crashing the project?

[scarlet birch]

Does anyone else experience the editor locking up permanently anytime the windows audio device changes with 4.24?

[modern sinew]

Can someone help me make sure some of my plugins are installed correctly? Previously the plugin worked when it was installed in the Engine, but it caused errors on build, so I did some research and found out I'm supposed to put it in my Project folder instead. But now, while I'm not getting any errors, it's just not working either, and I'm thinking it's most likely that I messed something up when moving it

[storm terrace]

just realized that psycho from borderlands 2, has stock UE4 projectiles that come out of his back. That is what those white round balls come from. Now it makes sense after learning this dev.

[slim horizon]

not sure how to word it for a google search but what node can i use in the blueprint editor to "select next in a sequence"? hopefully this diagram kinda makes sense?

currently have it where 1,2,3,4 select cameras but want to simplify that to one key that cycles between them

[modern sinew]

There's probably a simpler way to do that, but the way I would do that is have an int, and then an event bound to the C key that would check if that int is 3, and if it is, set it to 1, and if it isn't, add 1 to it. Then I would have that continue into a switch on int for that int, and have each node bound to a different camera

actually that might be the easiest way, it's pretty simple

[slim horizon]

simple for someone who know's what they're doing i'll look into it cheers

[modern sinew]

I can make it in BluePrints and copy it into a Blueprint Pastebin

And trust me, I'm pretty much a beginner

[slim horizon]

i'm getting there with blueprints slowly but always learn faster looking at how other people do things so if you don't mind

it's so much nicer than doing stuff with C# for unity

[modern sinew]

@slim horizon https://blueprintue.com/blueprint/30k-1wkh/ All you have to do now is create that CamIter int variable and hook up the BP to activate cameras to those nodes.

[slim horizon]

so the cameras to come out of the switch on int like this?

[modern sinew]

That looks right, but the only way to know is to test it

also, make sure you have set up the CamIter variable and set it's default value to 0

[scarlet birch]

Do I need to tell the editor where to find the source code? I get this error when double clicking any node.

I know I've fixed this before , but I'm not finding the solution.

[slim horizon]

yeah camiter setup and default value 0 but not working apparently

[modern sinew]

hmm. I would set up some prints. Have it print out the CamIter variable when you hit C, what happens? (Also if you want we can take this into DMs)

Wait, I think I see it

@slim horizon You don't have the CamIter variable hooked up to your Switch on Int

put in a Get CamIter block and hook it up to that green dot that says "Selection"

[slim horizon]

i must have disconnected the set node going into the switch on int also

[modern sinew]

Make sure everything is connected and then test it again

[barren flume]

Anyone know which this is?

It just looks like a period

nevermind

found it

[modern sinew]

@barren flume That means you're turning one thing into another thing

I believe an Int to a Float

[lucid egret]

ugh why is it so hard to get PS4 controller to work with UE4?

I am using the RawInput plugin. The axis bindings work, but action keys do nothing.

[scarlet birch]

DS4windows

[lucid egret]

ok I'll try that

[scarlet birch]

Use this one, the one google finds is outdated and abandoned. https://github.com/Ryochan7/DS4Windows

[modern sinew]

@slim horizon did you get it working?

[slim horizon]

Sorry my dogs were causing chaos and distracted me, back now to try what you mentioned 😄

[modern sinew]

Just make sure everything's hooked up right

[slim horizon]

no doesn't seem to be

[modern sinew]

that looks like it should work, yea

ok, hook up a Print block to C-Pressed and drag CamIter into it so that we can see if that's changing

[barren flume]

I'm having issues renaming a variable

https://gyazo.com/4e5316588e9b0cc8bc870568808018c7

it won't change the name

[slim horizon]

the camiter into string?

[barren flume]

oh nevermind

another nevermind

still isn't working

[slim horizon]

if i've hooked it up properly, it's just outputting 0

[modern sinew]

hmm

Oh wait

I know what it is

I forgot the bit that increases it. On the False branch of the node, before you get to Switch on Int, Set CamIter to CamIter+1

@slim horizon

[slim horizon]

so duplicate the set node already there and set it to 1?

[modern sinew]

uhh, not exactly?

[barren flume]

fixed it

[modern sinew]

@slim horizon

[slim horizon]

sorry that's what i meant yeah 😄

[pulsar badge]

Is there away I can change the location when i paste a object

so i dont need to drag it

[modern sinew]

Can someone help me fix my plugin installation?

I'm pretty sure I broke something when I moved it from the Engine folder to the Project folder, because that's when it stopped working

[storm terrace]

that seems kinda dumb

#ifdef IMPLEMENT_ASSIGNMENT_OPERATOR_MANUALLY
    /**
    * Copy another FVector into this one
    *
    * @param Other The other vector.
    * @return Reference to vector after copy.
    */
    FORCEINLINE FVector& operator=(const FVector& Other);
#endif

I wonder why Epic decided on that?

so we have
void FVector::Set(float InX, float InY, float InZ)
but no overloaded method that takes another FVector (why?)

https://github.com/UnrealCourse/04_BattleTank/blob/master/BattleTank/Source/BattleTank/Private/TankAimingComponent.cpp

it looks like it may have existed (view line 90)

I guess what I could do is something like
auto vec_cpy = old_vec + FVector();

a lot of un-needed extra overhead. let me know if any of you see a better solution.

stupid that set(const FVector&) and operator= doesn't exist

wow, just realized
auto vec_cpy = old_vec + FVector(); doesn't work, that still requires operator=, this is so bad

so I had to make this

void CopyFVectors(FVector& newVec, const FVector& oldVec)
{
    newVec.X = oldVec.X;
    newVec.Y = oldVec.Y;
    newVec.Z = oldVec.Z;
}

[silver crown]

wtf are you saying

[storm terrace]

Any way I don't need that function above?

[desert tartan]

hey can someone help me in my dm?

[silver crown]

ofc the operator = exists on fvectors

[storm terrace]

did you see my code right before it.

it is removed 😦

#ifdef IMPLEMENT_ASSIGNMENT_OPERATOR_MANUALLY
    /**
    * Copy another FVector into this one
    *
    * @param Other The other vector.
    * @return Reference to vector after copy.
    */
    FORCEINLINE FVector& operator=(const FVector& Other);
#endif

[silver crown]

It's implicitly defined

[storm terrace]

shallow copy, not deep copy

not rule-of-five copy

[silver crown]

And FVector() will return garbage

wtf

This is C++

[storm terrace]

so because operator= is out, is there another way of doing it without making a custom function?

I noticed set(const FVector&) doesn't exist either

[silver crown]

Yes just use = which is implicitly defined

You don't do much C++ do you

[storm terrace]

I need a deep copy, not shallow copy, and I do plenty

[silver crown]

what's the difference here?

[storm terrace]

one gives a reference, the other gives a hard duplicate

C# for example gives a reference with the operator= and in fact you can't even overload it in C#

[desert tartan]

hey can someone help me in my dm about my project?

[silver crown]

no theuzzo

[desert tartan]

ok, sorry

[silver crown]

you need to ask your question here

[storm terrace]

usually in C++ it is the opposite

[silver crown]

if you do a = b in C++, assuming no overload, it will return a reference to a

[storm terrace]

right, but good programming in C++ says to use the rule of 5 which says create a manual operator= method

[silver crown]

No?

[desert tartan]

you need to ask your question here
@silver crown i'm new in unreal... so, i get a marketplace project with some animation and run mechanics, when i create a level how do i import characters,blueprints and etc?

[storm terrace]

if you give a custom constructor, then give a custom operator=, else all = default;

[silver crown]

that's bs

even if it wasn't, the FVector constructor is default here

I'm not arguing the rule of 5 doesn't have its usage

[storm terrace]

I could imagine worse things, still, there should be a way to make a copy of a vector without going out of your way to make something like..

{
    newVec.X = oldVec.X;
    newVec.Y = oldVec.Y;
    newVec.Z = oldVec.Z;
}

[silver crown]

god

are you a troll

what's even the rule of 5

@desert tartan did you try the official docs

[storm terrace]

to make the following for all objects

object();
object(object&);
object(object&&);
operator=(object&);
operator=(object&&);

for easy usage

here we wouldn't need the two r-value references

[silver crown]

that's a whole lot of boiler plate the compiler can generate for you instead

[desert tartan]

@silver crown what do you mean?

[silver crown]

This can have its usage if say you have some custom allocation stuff

But for a FVector? Which is just 3 floats?

@desert tartan https://docs.unrealengine.com/

did you read through that

[storm terrace]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/API/Runtime/Core/Math/FVector/index.html

and I got the code open in VS

[silver crown]

A FVector is just that plus a bunch of functions

why would it need a custom copy

[storm terrace]

so I could make a fvector duplicate

[silver crown]

But you CAN

FVector A = B

this WORKS

[storm terrace]

let me copy compiler error, one moment

[silver crown]

in C++, the operator = is implicitly defined unless deleted

it's deleted if you have a const member, a virtual function, etc

[silver crown]

you're trying to edit a const vector

ofc that won't work

[storm terrace]

oh

damn, now I feel like an ass

first time I have not seen an object that didn't need operator=

[silver crown]

nearly none of them need one

[storm terrace]

Thanks for helping me out, this really caught me by surprise.
for real though, I have been doing c++ for a long time, first time I have seen this style

[silver crown]

as a rule of thumb, always assume the error is in your code 😬

I assume the C++ you did wasn't in a performance critical environment?

[storm terrace]

high-level C++ (Qt / QML style)

[silver crown]

Where your app perf might go down significantly if you add a custom operator=

I see 🙂

In that case always implementing an operator= makes sense

In game dev, perf matter so much you can't afford to call a custom function where an efficient memcpy could be done instead

[storm terrace]

yah, Qt is more about display data, not calling functions every tick

and Qt C++ backend can be kinda bloated, but still runs about 2x as fast as .NET

[silver crown]

yeah, it doesn't have to render a complex world in a few ms 😛

[storm terrace]

not too intensive, usually it is used for displaying front end data with javascript and formatting data on the back-end with c++

or using rest-api on the back-end (which isn't too cpu intense either)

[silver crown]

anyways, gtg, have a good one and never blame the engine without very solid proof 😛

[storm terrace]

yeah, learning that, was dumbfounded today, working my way up

[modern sinew]

Can someone help me get a plugin working? I had to move it from Engine to the Projects folder, and it stopped working, so I feel I must have messed it up

[storm terrace]

Your further ahead than me, wish I could help.

When I compile the track cpp class, it gets disconnected, is there an easy way to re-connect/update it? without removing and re-adding it?

[pearl sinew]

hi guys, where is the main function for a specific level?

I want to instantiate an object onto the level in c++

one can do this just by dragging the class into the viewport, but I want to do this in code

[quiet timber]

Anybody know how to fix this? I reinstalled the engine 2 times and same 😦

[plush yew]

Hello guys I have little problem, I want to make it when I open my inventory to disable the movement and when I click again I for closing the inventory I want to can move, but idk which node it is

I didn't find node for activate the character movement again

[regal mulch]

Anyone ever had the issue that, when dragging a comment box edge to increase the width of the box, you have to move the mouse a couple times further than the actual distance that the comment box gets bigger?

Happened recently after getting latest on a project, so I assume it's some weird setting somewhere...

[plush yew]

I fixed it my problem with this node:

but when I go in the map and open loot body and the movement is disabled but when I click again W or S the container closes but it shouldn't hmmm

[desert tartan]

where i found some animation pack?

[regal mulch]

Marketplace I guess?

[plush yew]

lol

[desert tartan]

Marketplace I guess?
@regal mulch I didn't find

[plush yew]

this is free package as I know

@desert tartan

[desert tartan]

this is free package as I know
@plush yew but there are only weapon animations

[plush yew]

a ok

what animations you looking for?

@desert tartan

[desert tartan]

run, walking, crouch and etc

[plush yew]

hmm no idea

[regal mulch]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/advanced-locomotion-system-v1

Took like 10 sec to find

[desert tartan]

i know but there is "create project"

[glad bear]

Hi guys, I am working on a landscape and every time i try to put import a heat map i get a huge compile of about 59000 shaders, This also happens when i try to add in the first layer as non weighted blend option.

can anyone tell me why this is happening .

[regal mulch]

Yeah, it's a complete project. That doesn't mean you can't migrate the stuff over @desert tartan

[glad bear]

And this is after the update to 4.24

[desert tartan]

Yeah, it's a complete project. That doesn't mean you can't migrate the stuff over @desert tartan
@regal mulch can i dm you for explain what i mean?

[scarlet birch]

Whatever it is you need from one project, right click it and select migrate.

[desert tartan]

but what i supposed to do when i create a new level? i'm new in unreal

[scarlet birch]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/learn

[desert tartan]

i mean what i supposed to do with the blueprints and characters of the migrated project

[plush yew]

anyone can check #blueprint

[regal mulch]

@desert tartan Not sure why you need to DM for that. And what you are supposed to do with it? Use them.
If you don't know how, then this is probably too early to do. learn the basics first (:

[desert tartan]

hm ok

I'm very inspired and dedicated to making a game that I've been planning for weeks

[modern sinew]

Well, no better time to do it than during quarantine, am I right?

[desert tartan]

Well, no better time to do it than during quarantine, am I right?
@modern sinew yeah but i don't know how to do a game

[modern sinew]

@desert tartan Find a tutorial series. There's a lot of good ones for UE4. Find one that seems interesting, finish the tutorial, and then take those skills and make your own

I did the FPS tutorial series, and now I am doing the Multiplayer Game tutorial series

[desert tartan]

i only have problems with animations and characters

[modern sinew]

Animations as like, making them? Or getting them to play?

Making them, idk what to tell you, that's outside of UE4 and is still something that I need to learn

[desert tartan]

getting them to play

[modern sinew]

but getting them to play, the FPS tutorial does that a few episodes in

[desert tartan]

can you send me the link of the episodes?

[modern sinew]

Episodes 6 and 7 of this series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DywBqQtTHMo&list=PLL0cLF8gjBprG6487lxqSq-aEo6ZXLDLg

[desert tartan]

thanks

[scarlet birch]

Does anyone know how to fix the editor not finding the source files on a binary install with editor symbols and source code installed? Double clicking on any node opens VS but gives a message "could not find file at". Engine source shows up in project.

@ me, thanks.

[modern sinew]

Can anyone help me figure out why the Has Online Subsystem node from Advanced Sessions is returning false even though Steam is active? It was working before I moved it from Engine to Project, so maybe it's that?

[scarlet birch]

What are you using for the name?

[modern sinew]

STEAM

it worked before ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[scarlet birch]

Try Steam?

is steam running?

[modern sinew]

yes

ok, Steam didn't work either

[scarlet birch]

What did you move from engine to project?

[modern sinew]

Advanced Sessions and Advanced Steam Sessions because they were causing a crash on package when they were in the Engine

wait, I found a seperate DefaultEngine file

that's not the one in Engine

I might have to copy that across too

[scarlet birch]

idk, I'm trying to think but I've never had any issues with them. I've always installed them at project level though.

Yeah, I'd go through the install doc and double check everything it tells you to do.

[modern sinew]

I remember having to do something with the DefaultEngine file, maybe the fact that this one is unedited is the reason. I didn't know there was a seperate one

[candid flicker]

Hi everyone, when my character dies he goes into RAGDOLL mode.
But the problem is, my character is flying around.
https://i.imgur.com/Fn5kmmZ.mp4

[scarlet birch]

I love it.

[desert knot]

beautiful

[scarlet birch]

You've achieved greatness.

[candid flicker]

Isn't there a setting to fix this problem?

[scarlet birch]

Somethings adding force or movement. Are you turning off the AI when it dies? or stopping movement input?

[candid flicker]

I'm going to try to stop the movement input

my character is still whirling around 😂

[modern sinew]

@scarlet birch I rewatched the tutorial, all the install settings are correct

still not working tho

[rustic imp]

did they break the darks skin on the docs site?

[scarlet birch]

I just switched to a source build, I'll just use it.

[fallen marten]

@candid flicker set it's collision to overlap or something - your physics asset is colliding with everything instead of just settling down

[wet sphinx]

is there a way how to import data from excel file (or xml, csv, or some other formats) into the data asset file ?

[jaunty haven]

Hey guys, can some one tell me any forum or developers group for Unreal Virtual production.

[swift spindle]

@candid flicker it’s not a bug it’s a feature

[candid flicker]

I'm going to try things

[hearty walrus]

How can I fix this/

[teal tulip]

whats that exactly ?

[hearty walrus]

@teal tulip here's how it's meant to look, but orange

[buoyant robin]

@everyone hello, does somebody know how to turn on the clouds in the new sun and sky system in 4.24?

[teal tulip]

@hearty walrus the UV probably its wrong you have to redo it 🤔

[hearty walrus]

It's the cube material preview mesh

[plush yew]

How can I get an element from an array knowing the index in ue4 blueprints?

[hearty walrus]

It does it with every mesh, too

[mossy trail]

Hi having an issue with world comp stalling the game for a second every time it loads in a new tile. I narrowed it down to the amount of foliage. But it’s not an insane amount were talking 200k grass and around 100 trees at 500 verts each. Any ideas as to how I work around this. I should mention the stall is still present in a packaged build but of shorter duration.

[trim dawn]

has somone managed to get UE to import 24 bit wav files? currently it says only 16 bit is supported wich is kindof sad

[robust valley]

if i found an error i need to upload it here?

[midnight gate]

CAN I DELETE THIS FOLDER?

i have an error coming from this folder when packaging

Sandbox cleanup took 0.863 seconds for platforms WindowsNoEditor iterative false

what does this mean?

[plush yew]

idk this is the right channel or not but someone told me that there is software with which you can start it when you start working and the people use it for the paid positions i Mean the people that work and pay them hourly use them but I don't know the name-someone can tell me or explain me more about it?

[twin orchid]

QUESTION: Is it possible to interrupt importing ? Sometimes you realise it will be too long.

[fleet scroll]

https://media.giphy.com/media/QytCryPIvgvYegUy5K/giphy.gif

[desert tangle]

Hi everyone this is kind of a basic question, so sorry in advance. But i'm creating some foliage on a landscape, and scattering it around. And i've noticed how my material is 'clipping' under other foliage. I have two sided lighting on. Its just two planes, doesnt have any depth.

[proper stump]

Hey, I wanna have my character drink a potion, so I have the bottle model, what's the best way to 'fill' it with liquid and have the character consume it? im going for a low poly style, so no need to be realistic here...

maybe a material based approach?

[proper stump]

is it possible to put a mesh B inside mesh A, and have mesh B fit it's shape into mesh A? something physical like that?

[cyan robin]

do you guys know where the movement component is so i can plug that into target?

the rotation worked fine with target of self

why no work (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[dapper hatch]

Morning all. Has anyone ever experienced foliage flickering?

[barren flume]

this is weird

it only happens when i import some stuff

delete something

even though unreal engine is only using about 2gb or less vram

but that's when it's a lot of stuff

[kindred mountain]

anyone where to start looking to add an editor command, specifically want to add an key-combo + click in the viewport command to issue a command while PIE and unpossessed

[barren flume]

at once

[dapper hatch]

Anyone has seen something like these before?

[barren flume]

what quality are you using

i'm not even sure if i'm right

but i always thought that had to do with resolution scaling

and other quality settings

but i don't know

[dapper hatch]

These video is in low res, but actual project is 5120x2160 downrez to 4k and I see same problem there. So cant be resolution.

[honest mango]

hey guys why when i impoort quixel bridge texture to ue4 i dont have the material ? only textures

[cyan robin]

i have a camera pawn, how to convert this to a player controller?

[orchid seal]

is there a replacement for GetTriPositionWS ? It seems it doesn't show up anymore. Might be watching an old tutorial

[ruby folio]

Anyone know the name / location of the material used for painting landscapes? The widget itself. Its a hazey blue colour

[raw rock]

Hello one question

how do I make the material not reflect the sun like that?

I am very new to textures

[ruby folio]

Adjust its roughness

[raw rock]

do i plug it in to roughness?

[abstract relic]

Make a constant

Plug that in

[ruby folio]

You could do that. Or you could use a single constant

If you use a texture map you can control which areas are rough and which are not

[raw rock]

lmao what is a constant

like this=?

[abstract relic]

This series will help you

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZlv_N0_O1gbQjgY0nDwZNYe_N8IcYWS-

[raw rock]

ok ok i got it now i upped the value and that did it thanks

[ruby folio]

Cheers @abstract relic I was looking for some primers on PBR just now

@raw rock Personal preference. But I like to plug in a value of 0.02 or something low into the specular.

[raw rock]

looks better 🙂

[cyan robin]

if the camera is tilted down an x amount like 30 degrees, how would you apply the movement vector to the camera to not be affected by the rotation and just move forward, instead of now where the camera moves into the ground because of the 30 degree angle rotation

[lilac wedge]

ok so the blue line representing the player ( a car) and the red line a hill. I would like the player to fly upwards a little bit before falling after going over a hill instead of falling straight away as seen on top graph thingy

[cyan robin]

do you guys know how to set this up?

expected behavior is to move on a forward vector perpendicular to the ground

current behavior is moving toward a facing vector, which makes the component go through the ground at an angle when the camera is tilted, since the camera is the movement controller

[ancient tangle]

MOTIVA LAYAMA IN UNREAL ENGINE 4: A convenient and easy to use plugin for 360 virtual tour creation https://youtu.be/I8xi2bIme3Y

[plush yew]

i set a value when i press a key, this value is used in my tick chain to do stuff, i need it to be smooth but cannot get finterp to work, what is the recommended way to do this?

hm maybe this is more for the BP channel, let me ask there

hey im quite new to unreal engine and ive been trying to think of a basic game idea to test my new skills on. Does anyone have an idea of a basic project a beginner like me could try to make?

If I try to spawn Actors in game scene from game mode or game state using event begin it won't work,why?

[vital cosmos]

I want to make a character sit on a seat, but the capsule obviously will intersect with the seat, whats the best method to make it sit, turning off collision or using root motion in the sitting animation

[lilac wedge]

@plush yew not 100% sure what u mean but you can use a timeline with a lerp to change values smoothly, i would not recommend using event tick, if u are new event tick is a easy way to get results fast but can really impact the performance of your game

@plush yew I would try create an actor you can control and shoot projectiles from depending on the actors forward position. Bullets should despwan when hitting an object. Try do this from blank project not using an ue4 templates..

@plush yew This should work, make sure all setting are correct, e.g scale of actor, world position.... Make a simple print string on spawned actors begin play and check if it gets spawned. If not then there is something wrong with the code you are using to spawn the actor

[copper flicker]

how is this set fixed bounds on particles.. supposed to be set correctly?

it seems to be set differently depending on simulation results

but I can't pause the sim and chose which frame I want for bounds reference

[plush yew]

@lilac wedge thanks for the idea

[hot walrus]

Can anyone help me figure out why when my character is looking left/right he still uses the strafing animation for that direction?
https://gyazo.com/9720e9fe8b9875f979aa91f793acb5cf

[tender hedge]

Animations look BAD , but find something called count move and add that to the walk

[dim merlin]

why such a weird window when building paths

the progress bar aint work

[snow reef]

restart and check for errors regarding the loading cap, it could be a bug in your ue4 and you might have to reinstall

[hot walrus]

Yeah the animations are a very rough version of what is to come haha

[tender hedge]

What version are you on?

[scarlet birch]

Am I mistaken in thinking that with a binary install that if source code is installed and editor symbols are installed that double clicking a node in BP should go to the code like it does with a source build?

[hot walrus]

The most recent I believe

The animations are being made through Blender if that's a problem?

[misty owl]

For those of us learning UE at home by ourselves, are there any resources that can help us learn "industry standards"? Things that will help us integrate into game dev teams in the future. Things like standard colors for folder organization. materials/maps/meshes, etc.

[tender hedge]

yes

let me find some

[scarlet birch]

Standard coding practices. Allar's Style Guide is great for an introduction to that as it applies to UE. I think he has something on the market too that helps with that.

[kindred viper]

@scarlet birch It should, but I would check and make sure the right Source Editor is selected first

[scarlet birch]

Yeah, I've tried everything I can think of. I went ahead and gave up and went back to using a source build.

and went back to VS 2017.

I couldn't get it to be happy with any of the compilers I tried with 2019.

I'm guessing there's somewhere to tell it what directory to search and it's looking in a default or a directory that exists at Epic. Now that I think of it I could probably search for the of string the file location it's using and find it.

[grim ore]

That is a good question but I would assume no as the only things in the actual binary build are the .h files, no source

[tender hedge]

watch this it fixes that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0qNO6_xPx0

[scarlet birch]

Ah, is that so.

[winter fable]

hello

i need some help

[kindred viper]

me too

[winter fable]

how do i fix this error

[grim ore]

I don't, I need more time in the day for work and play!

[grim ore]

these wow mounts are not going to grind themselves while I work in UE4 darnit

[winter fable]

do i fix this

[tardy hamlet]

Hey guys I got a question, I’m a beginner with no code experience, is unreal engine easy for beginners?

[winter fable]

no

very unforgiving

[grim ore]

yes UE4 is super simple, you can have a full packaged game in like 5 minutes using a template

[kindred viper]

not true. Its very forgiving with blueprints

[scarlet birch]

@grim ore No the cpp files are there if you add source. I had to double check.

[winter fable]

how do i fix the error please

im so mad

ive been trying to fix for 2 days now

[thick herald]

Plenty of tutorial, templates and projects to learn from

[winter fable]

please

Fatal error!

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0xab0c8fe8

0x00007ff8e4222acb UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff8e426eca3 UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff8e4070a57 UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff791970134 UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff79196ffb6 UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff7919750af UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff791975b71 UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff791975bba UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff791983dac UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff791985aaa UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff93bc37974 KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff93cc6a261 ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction []

[kindred viper]

@winter fable I believe it might be a failing initialization as they never sent enough children down the Cobalt mines to make Apple phones since they got caught. #politics Seriously though, check your dependencies

[tardy hamlet]

@grim ore What about without a template, is it still easy?

[winter fable]

what does that mean

[thick herald]

What do you mean by easy though?

[grim ore]

@tardy hamlet well at that point no since you need to do it all yourself without any knowledge of the engine or learning. If you have the learning or knowledge then you would know if its easy or not 🙂

[kindred viper]

it means a plugin depends on something else. If its failing to init. its probably due to that. Might be something else but check dependencies. ie. other plugins. Maybe go look at the code for it to see more info

[winter fable]

im very new

how do i check dependencies

[kindred viper]

if you are new, I would start at the beginning of plugin development

[winter fable]

just please

[tardy hamlet]

@thick herald easy in meaning, user friendly, easy to learn Unreal

[winter fable]

how do i check my dependencies

[kindred viper]

dude

[winter fable]

i just wanna know this one thing

[kindred viper]

go open the code and look see what it needs

[winter fable]

bruh

open the code

i cant open shit

its not letting me in

[kindred viper]

dont bruh me when im telling you what to do

btw

[winter fable]

okkkk

im in need of assistance

[grim ore]

@winter fable is this a new project or just trying to open an old project or just trying to launch the engine?

[winter fable]

its a old project

[grim ore]

does it use any CPP?

[winter fable]

pardon

[grim ore]

I will take that as a no, did you add any plugins or do anything weird? that plugin error is a built in engine plugin so it should not be failing like that

[thick herald]

@tardy hamlet I'd start with something basic, ideally find a tutorial series that you like the sound of. Many different tutorials on youtube, but lots of different people. I like some, and not others so it pays to look around until you find one that fits you 🙂

[winter fable]

i mean i only have one plugin

its virtual reality pawn and componants

[scarlet birch]

@grim ore Yeah this is from my launcher install,

[grim ore]

@scarlet birch yep I dont know what happened but I removed it then added it back and now I have all of the .cpp files as well.. thats odd but interesting

[winter fable]

is there anything tha t plugin would do to the engine

[tardy hamlet]

@thick herald is a BR good to start with? I have a tutorial series with 62 videos, covering everything on how to make on, from start to finish, or should I go with something basic?

[thick herald]

a BR?

[scarlet birch]

Yeah, I'm going to look at it a bit more to see if I can figure it out. I was trying to switch to using a launcher install to simplify things.

[grim ore]

@winter fable it might be, you can remove the plugin from your .uproject and try to get the project to load without it

[tardy hamlet]

Battle Royale

[thick herald]

too much for someone new to game dev, for sure.

[scarlet birch]

@grim ore Would you mind seeing if double clicking a node in BP opens the source file?

[tardy hamlet]

Alright, what do you suggest?

[winter fable]

i get another error if i dont have the plugin installed

[thick herald]

Start small, single player stuff.Learn about materials, animations, blueprints

[tardy hamlet]

Alright, got it thank you 🙏

[grim ore]

@scarlet birch it does not, I get the reading C++ symbols popup and thats it

[winter fable]

@grim ore Fatal error!

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0xaba08fe8

0x00007ff8d0752acb UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff8d079eca3 UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff8d05a0a57 UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff791970134 UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff79196ffb6 UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff7919750af UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff791975b71 UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff791975bba UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff791983dac UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff791985aaa UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff93bc37974 KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff93cc6a261 ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction []
does this tell you anything

[thick herald]

Some people like Virtus on youtube (I personally don't) there is also Ryan Laley, underscore to mention a few. @tardy hamlet

[grim ore]

@scarlet birch I do get "LogSelectionDetails: Warning: NavigateToFunctionSource: Unable to find symbols for 'UKismetStringLibrary::BuildString_Int' [Element not found.]" in the log

[tardy hamlet]

Ok, I’ll look em up, thank you so much for your help @thick herald @grim ore

[grim ore]

@winter fable we have no idea how to read that error without the debugging symbols. Install them from the launcher

[scarlet birch]

Thanks, on my end it opens VS but then I get an error it can't find the source file at "D:" something ++UE same directory every time and not one I've every used.

[thick herald]

you're welcome. Continue to hunt around, also the UE4 Learning hub will help

[winter fable]

thats 18 gigs

[tardy hamlet]

Alright

[winter fable]

jesus

[thick herald]

https://launcher-website-prod07.ol.epicgames.com/ue/learn/

[grim ore]

welp check for your full log then and see what it says

[winter fable]

il do it its fine

[grim ore]

the issue is we have no idea what is in your project, what you have changed in the engine and project, or what is causing it because its not our project

[thick herald]

Wha? You're not side kick Mathew? 😄

[grim ore]

we can suggest disabling the plugin since that dialog says the plugin that is failing, but that error message is generic 😦

[thick herald]

likes deliberate misspellings :D

[tardy hamlet]

Oh and, do you suggest I do blueprints or c++?

[grim ore]

but going back to the previous issue if that dialog is saying a built in plugin is failing that is bad, maybe try repairing your engine

[thick herald]

Blueprints. Much easier to start with.

[winter fable]

this is the only plugins i have

e

[tardy hamlet]

Ok

[grim ore]

that is not the same as removing them from your project

[winter fable]

yeah i know but i cant even get into the project