it's not a UE4 term, it's just a random word the author chose
#ue4-general
wary wave
open wadi
Ok, makes sense, I've been coding in C++ for years but am very new to UE4, I didn't know if that was a static term, a Google search wasn't particularly helpful.
That makes sense @worn granite, thank you.
uneven fractal
I might be a bit obbssessed with structs and data tables
pretty much every QOL thing like sounds vs sound cues use up more resources
however sounds use up so little processing power to begin with making them into cues is pretty much entirely neligible
if you couldn't use cues for some reason you can pretty much do everything a cue can do with bp
little falcon
the shadow is way off, any ideas where i did wrong, i am using directional light and sky light only
this is after bulidng the light
but if i moved a little a bit, it will work, and get weird once baked...
uneven fractal
the sun icon doesn't actually produce light it's just the symbol for the actor
little falcon
Like here, the preview always look right
uneven fractal
ah your talking about the slates
uneven fractal
seems like some sort of light baking optimization is removing those small details?
have you tried messing around with the building quality for your static lighting?
uneven fractal
it will significantly increase build time just fyi
uneven fractal
I'm just saying don't be suprised if it spends 2 hours building if you increase the build quality
it's up to you to decide if it's worth it
little falcon
is this the one you are talking about?
Indirect lighting quality in World setting
Since i didn find it in directional light details panel
😅
little falcon
Oh,,, ok. this one..
But since my scene is pretty simple. i think it may not be the problem. BTW, i bump up the indirect light quality to 5, and the result still nasty
I will try change to high
hazy swan
if I have a question about unreal engine, should I ask here or somewhere else?
little falcon
i guess you could ask here, many people would help
hazy swan
ok
uneven fractal
your more likely to get answers here in #ue4-general |
but you will get higher quality answers in the channel most related to your issue
little falcon
gets a little bit better, but i guess i may mess up something...
Here is my Directional light setting
oh, wrong one..
here is the setting
uneven fractal
yeah I'm not sure how you can improve the resolution of your slates further if you've already set it to production quality
uneven fractal
no problem I'm mainly here to avoid filling out a 256 row lookup table for generating procedural meshes
little falcon
I have no idea what is that, i just started learning UE4😅
uneven fractal
basically I have 8 vertices I am looking at
they can either be on or off
so 2^8 = 256 different variations like 1000000 or 11110000
little falcon
😂
uneven fractal
ok how about
I have 8 lightswitches on a wall
each of them can either be on or off
uneven fractal
dynamic lighting makes it work?
little falcon
yes
even in previewmode
so it should not be the problem of lightmap
dynamic light
uneven fractal
thats not confusing or anything
little falcon
came from blender without any knowldege of Game engine, its painful tostart.
😂
Wait,,, it worked..
i have no idea why, i just baked again,,
uneven fractal
well if you came from blender you should know all about the fun of figuring out what unlabeled settings actually do
compact halo
is there a way to check if a bullet is overlapping geometry?
mighty cipher
Hello there,
So there's been something that's been bugging me a lot over the years: The Epic Games Launcher Vault.
After adding a couple marketplace assets and educational packages (+150 and counting) I start to lose track of the packages, thus making it a nasty thing to look for that one package you know you have but you don't remember what it's called. And I don't think I'm alone here.
Even if that's not the case I do think adding a sort and filter function to the Vault would be a big usability improvement.
I've just opened an issue about this on the forums. Please vote it up and add your own comments on the issue.
Here's the link: https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/feedback-for-epic/1766210-filterview-for-epic-games-launcher-vault
Let's make Unreal Engine and the ecosystem surrounding it even better!
link to the original reddit post on r/unrealengine:
https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/gpvc71/calling_for_your_votes/
torpid surge
Dose anyone know the name for this style building?
hoary goblet
Looks somehow like mexican style
wary wave
it's not unlike something you'd find in Venice (LA)
I don't think it has a name in terms of architectural style
open wadi
I've got a question but it may be too vague - I'm working through the lighting section of this Pluralsight UE4 tutorial I purchased, and in the tutorial, he has us adding directional lights, then point lights, and for whatever reason, the lighting isn't changing in my default "house", even when I rebuild lighting. The point light isn't lighting up at all, for example, even when placed in the house.
hoary goblet
“Mediterranean Revival architecture” maybe
open wadi
Anyone know why this might be? The little "house" that is present for demo purposes just remains normally lit, it's as if it isn't recognizing lighting changes, even when I manually click "build all" or "rebuild lighting"
Example screenshot
I have a "point light" literally in the room and I'm seeing no effect
patent fjord
idk because im new to ue but it looks like there is light everywhere in that level
try raising intensity to see if thats the case
patent fjord
it seems so
open wadi
So raise the intensity of my placed lighting?
patent fjord
Of the directional light
manic pawn
open wadi
I'm confused, I'm guessing this is the "picking on the noobs" part of the sequence.
wary wave
it's a view mode, so you can see the level without lighting
patent fjord
ohhhhhhhhh
wary wave
you can also view just the lighting, the wireframes etc
open wadi
Interesting, ok.
wary wave
just click through it, it will make sense
open wadi
The person in this tutorial is using a subversion back of UE4, perhaps this change was implemented as a default since then.
Ok, thank you @wary wave
wary wave
viewmodes have been a thing since forever, but I think it will default to unlit if you have no lights in your scene (kinda makes sense)
open wadi
Most definitely.
solemn orbit
hello can someone help me
i want to create streets with the spline but
it looks like this
can someone help?
toxic gorge
Anyone know what's going on with TrueSky and the new sky atmosphere system? Are they going to be compatible with eachother?
frank oasis
guys i want to ask something i exported a char with 2 motions walk and run in fbx but when i import the char in unreal and replace the third person manequin example project the char can move but he is in T pose and his feet arent moving
little falcon
@uneven fractal Problems solved,
someone helped me and figure out its actually my lightmap res setting.
frank oasis
do i need to do something else ?
little falcon
i set it wrong
patent fjord
Me is have question
can is you use blueprint for all game and no bad?
pls is answering me
frank oasis
what you mean only 1 blueprint for all the game ?
patent fjord
(can you make a whole game using only blueprints)
frank oasis
yes you can without C++
patent fjord
and nothing bad will happen?
frank oasis
only blueprints but that depent on your game
frank oasis
nope nothing happen just depent on the pc and the performance
patent fjord
Dont*
ashen ermine
Can anyone pls tell me what this does?
patent fjord
don ask how my english got better
frank oasis
thats no problem just hope you understand me
@patent fjord also you can use google translator sometimes to help you
sly coyote
_>
patent fjord
idk why, but when you act like you dont know english, more people answer you xD
frank oasis
...
sly coyote
if you ask questions above peoples skill levels youll never get an answer like whenever i ask for anything lol
you almost have to post something completely incorrect as fact and wait for people to correct you
oblique sorrel
I'm watching the feature highlight on ambisonics, and it got me thinking. Couldn't we capture those not with physical equipment in real locations, but rather in 3D environments? Since they get captured only once and don't need to be recaptured in runtime, even "rendering" them for an hour or so, using raytraced sound waves or some such would be acceptable.
frank oasis
yea like before i asked that i exported one of my chars in fbx with 2 motions walk and run from the character creator 3 made by reallusion but when i import them on unreal and replace it with the manequin of the 3rd person example
the char is perma T pose standing even with the wasd working and he move
@patent fjord also i dont know if you played borderland 3 but they did partly blueprint and partly C++ and the reason was they use big varieties of enemies that do different things
so if your game is simple and doesnt need complex coding then you are ok with blueprint
sly coyote
you can always nativize the blueprints after tho....
patent fjord
Bill, thats how its suppoused to be made
UE said that them selves
its just that C++ is easy, but the way they made it in UE4 confuses me
bill is typing...
midnight root
Maybe this is why "This guide is about learning how to write C++ code in Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). Don't worry, C++ programming in Unreal Engine is fun, and actually not hard to get started with! We like to think of Unreal C++ as "assisted C++", because we have so many features to help make C++ easier for everyone."
frank oasis
@sly coyote thats true @patent fjord i see then you can use the bp i dont know a single line of code for C++ but i do an 3rd person in bp i almost done all the ui and all working with the bp for me its seem very flexible i dont know if later it still will be flexible
midnight root
OFC
patent fjord
ty
frank oasis
i looked the link its seem interesting and alot different than C# in unity since as i said above i dont know even a single line of code except the hello world thing in visual studio i did like 10 years before in highschool maybe i will start learning
dense hatch
I upgraded to 4.25 and now I can't open my widgets in the editor
muted trail
does anybody know how to set up an animation blueprint ?
wet berry
With Epic upping it's game services has there been any indication of expanding publishing new games on EGS?
Or blogs/posts regarding opening up the platform?
wise rain
Guys, while I play my game with my 3thpersoncharacter, My camera gets into rocks, trees etc and shows insides of the meshes.. How can solve this problem ?
muted trail
@wise rain try moving the camera to a different position or put it on a spring arm and reduce the distance between it and the character
wise rain
is there any tutorial about it? I am kind of a beginner 😦
open wadi
What is the UE4 viewport setting so that I don't have to manually build light over and over to preview lighting changes?
muted trail
@wise rain n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0ilHFjykqc
wise rain
@muted trail Thank you alot mate !!
open wadi
aye matey
muted trail
@open wadi i'm not really sure about lighting but i think you can reduce the quality of lighting and of the project using the cog wheel at the top taskbar
soft fiber
If I shine a spot light against my mesh, its all good... When I build lighting, the light goes away?
muted trail
@soft fiber does the lighting go away in the viewport and have you tried running the game as a standalone
soft fiber
No, I'm just running it in the editor.
muted trail
try making sure the spotlight is activated from the details panel or try attaching it to a blueprint and having the spotlight activate on an event construct
uneven fractal
how about I go about filling a datatable with every row being the name of every possible value an array of 8 bools can have ei 00000000-11111111
soft fiber
Ok, I'll give that a try.
uneven fractal
means the template is defective
fallen wing
What does that mean exactly?
uneven fractal
it has code in it that doesn't work therefore the engine can't open it
maiden ruin
Maybe this is not the place for this however i will say it as i could use a teammate or mentor.
Hello and good day my name is Alex new to unreal engine 4. I'm currently looking for someone who would be interested in struggling with me to learn and make a a basic 3d Multiplayer FPS game. (inspired by arma and tarkov) then will be released on steam for free.
currently I'm messing around with learning blueprints. as I'm attempting to make a fully functional helicopter with realistic moment and light and sound ( just like the kids toys) anyways. if your interested in making some friends and maybe want to help me out or teach me or struggle learning give me a pm and add me here on discord.
note that we can also use this to edit one project:https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Editor/MultiUser/index.html
fallen wing
Ah ok
uneven fractal
it's a very generic error message though so the list of possible causes are endless
fallen wing
Ok, thanks
uneven fractal
ah the aoe particle effect?
thin tendon
Anyone know a way I can check if steam is actually running? I'm just using blueprint no plugins other then what comes already with unreal 4.24.
muted trail
@thin tendon are you asking about whether your game is running on steam or ??
thin tendon
I can see that its running. And its using the steam sub system. But there is no way to check if steam itself is running. So it just acts like it thinks it is running.
I think the word is authenticate. I want to authenticate steam and the player.
muted trail
i think you shoulld try running it as a standalone game or packaging it as a debug build to check
thin tendon
I already have
The problem is when trying to get the player's steam name or ID. If steam isn't running it gives you a random value each time. But there is no way I can see to check if it is running
uneven fractal
have any of you worked with procedural meshes before?
muted trail
@thin tendon I'm not sure what to do but try checking in the bottom right,click on the arrow next to your WIFI symbol it should show the steam icon if steam is open
thin tendon
Thats not what I need at all. I need to do it from inside unreal lol
muted trail
then I'm not sure
open wadi
I have a question - I'm interested in, for fun, adding a key combination "easter egg" to the main menu of my UE4 project - how might one go about doing that? Is there a tutorial or some such one could recommend?
thin tendon
@open wadi You could use a button down over ride. Then if certain buttons are pressed. Change variable values. Then if all the variables are = to what you want. Run a custom event
open wadi
Thank you @thin tendon.
open wadi
Did anyone else just see a disappearing face?
I think I'm having a stroke.
Is anyone working on UE5, or have those dev kits not been released to the general public? I assume major developers have access.
marble hazel
Do you guys know why unreal would not launch on a mac? My friend is trying to boot it up and it just says please wait and than never opens?
I was thinking you would need vscode code or some ide in order for it to launch but I'm not sure
muted trail
you only need visual studio if you want to use C++ but is his mac powerful enough to run unreal ?
marble hazel
The graphics are NVIDIA Geforce gt 755M 1 gb
8GB of ram and 3.2GHz intel core i5
I saw someone who had the same exact specs able to run it but it was a few years ago so maybe the reuirements went up?
plush yew
Could I accidentaly turn off Tick event in widgets somehow? It worked before but after I added a few more widgets it stopped working. Same with timers
open wadi
What is the definition of an orthographic camera?
@marble hazel May not be required, but I'd get that ram up to 16 GB stat
that processor is fine of course
marble hazel
Than what would be the problem? The ram is maxed out and it crashes?
open wadi
Well, the problem is, what you've described is incredibly vague. An application simply saying "please wait" and not launching could be one of 10 million potential issues.
There could be issues with the disk, issues with HD space, he could have malware, system resources could be an issue, his cat could have pissed on his motherboard.
In the sysadmin world, the first thing you do is examine logs. One of the experts here could point you towards increasing verbosity, if needed, in UE4 logging, and then accessing said logs for proper diagnosis, if such logs exist.
AIDS
uneven fractal
it's all coming together bit by bit
muted trail
@uneven fractal what are you making
uneven fractal
a voxel mesher
the spheres are there for visualizing the grid array of the terrain
green is air and blue is ground
meshes are generated at the boundary between the two
muted trail
nice
fallen marten
Hey guys - I asked a question in animation chat, was just wondering if anyone in the know might have a look and give me a direction to go in? Just having a mental block on this one 😐
little falcon
Hey guys, i have some problems that my material wont show up when i assign to a mesh
fallen marten
Set material to two sided, or reverse your mesh normals
little falcon
in the mesh setting?
thanks, i wil check it
emm, not working
and the same material i apply to the wall, only show up after building up the light
Still not working
and the material on the wall has no details,
i tried adjsut the tiling, not working
so weird..
fallen marten
Is the material set to lit?
plush yew
is this a crash or just compilation time? I tried launching the default fps game, after 15 min the editor was still frozen. I just forced it to close
little falcon
have not touch the node...
little falcon
yes, for the wall, only work after building the light, for the cube, not even showing up...
@fallen marten No problem, thanks!
Oh!!!
i set it to lighting only... forget to switch it back
😩
how dump i am
plush yew
but why does it need to compile shaders when the map has no materials at all?
alpine laurel
@plush yew did you just make a change to something or import an item?
sweet relic
alpine laurel
when i try to import my fbx model (the model is in 2 parts. One for the outside texture and one for the inside texture), the textures apply to the opposite part (inside is out and outside is in) and they are warped
any ideas?
plush yew
I"m going to force shut down again
still running those shader workers
took almost 30 minutes
open wadi
Anyone here know what trademark / copyright law is for old video game music? For example, say I wanted to include a single song from an old Genesis / Mega Drive game, what's the general rule there? OK to use or subject to a lawsuit?
For example, this game here is nearly 30 years old, release date of 1992.
humble ridge
Anyone seen this before when joining a packaged dedicated server from PIE
open wadi
I'm using a sound cue for a .wav I have of a burning candle, and for some reason when I place the cue on the viewport, I don't get the radius that shows me how far outside of the area the sound will be played, is there a hotkey or some such to enable this, or a setting?
Essentially, the radius isn't showing. I can set it manually by overriding attenuation, but I don't see the radius lines in the viewport.
lapis bronze
@little falcon do you have the lighting only viewport on?
like does it show up as white in game?
Check the top of the viewport make sure it says Lit not LightingOnly or something
fluid dragon
guys since I do not have that much powerful laptop just i3 with 4gb ram and a nvidia gpu and ue4 needs much higher end stuff can I just go with Ue3 ? Can anyone tell me how can I compile the code for Ue3 ? Don't laugh at me for asking for Ue3 because MK11 was also made using ue3. So it's definately good for me. I just want to get into Game Development waters.
using unreal engine
like where can I find the ue3 repository? if i need to compile ue3 I heard unreal engine is open source in fact
grave nebula
unreal engine is not open source
plush yew
i give this error. how to fix it
fluid dragon
but ppl are using it ?
it's for ue4 but I want to go for Ue3
an older version of Unreal engine
frank oasis
guys i want use some fire circle for life
it is possible to make it spining during the gameplay ?
tall gyro
Hi everyone, Is there a release date for 4.25.1? On github it looks already "ready" (version number changed in some header), but is there something official (with a proper changelog)?
fluid dragon
guys I want to download Ue3 how can I do it? @upper heart
I know that they do not ship updates anymore but my laptop can run ue3 smoothly
thin tendon
Enabling Steam Controller plugin gives an error each time about Steam API not loading properly. Is there an extra thing in the set up I have to add thats different from the normal steam plugin set up?
frigid matrix
@fluid dragon https://www.moddb.com/engines/unreal-development-kit/downloads/february-2015-unreal-development-kit-udk
plush yew
@frigid matrix what is this for
frigid matrix
@fluid dragon Said he was looking for UE3/UDK
fluid dragon
thank you so much @frigid matrix I really wanted to get into game dev waters and you helped me
💖
frigid matrix
I don't know anything about the site nor am I affiliated with it. Just did some searching on Google and that's what came up. Use at your own risk.
fluid dragon
ok
frank oasis
guys lets say i use this circle of fire as mana bar that are filling from the bottom to the top
its possible to make it spining during the gameplay ?
honest vale
yes
maiden ruin
Maybe this is not the place for this however i will say it as i could use a teammate or mentor.
Hello and good day my name is Alex new to unreal engine 4. I'm currently looking for someone who would be interested in struggling with me to learn and make a a basic 3d Multiplayer FPS game. (inspired by arma and tarkov) then will be released on steam for free.
currently I'm messing around with learning blueprints. as I'm attempting to make a fully functional helicopter with realistic moment and light and sound ( just like the kids toys) anyways. if your interested in making some friends and maybe want to help me out or teach me or struggle learning give me a pm and add me here on discord.
note that we can also use this to edit one project:https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Editor/MultiUser/index.html
weary basalt
@maiden ruin Please use the #looking-for-talent job board to post listings looking for team members or employees.
maiden ruin
@weary basalt How do i get perms to chat in there ?
weary basalt
If you read the #more-resources channel it will tell you that you need to DM the @plush yew
maiden ruin
ty
outer fossil
has anyone seen this before when viewing the lightmap density?
Doesn't seem to affect my lit view but still..
main widget
Is there a sort fucntion in content browser?
plush yew
How to find island heigh map ?
midnight root
here is one place https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
@main widget yes it can , while on that tab look all the way to the left
@tamtam another https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
ugh wrong paste
thin tendon
Does Unreal by any chance have icon prompts for each of the buttons? So I can swap icons instead of using a buttons key name?
main widget
Could you give me a screenshot? I still didn't find it @midnight root
floral ivy
Can anyone help me this character has dual guns I just want to change that to a rifle is it possible in UE or have to do in 3d software?
fallen marten
Why are the guns at his feet? If it's imported as part of the mesh, then you have to delete them in some 3d software and re-import the character @floral ivy
distant totem
that terrain.party site is pretty cool for playing around with real heightmaps
even ignores the buildings (kind of) when you go over cities
frank oasis
guys my unreal engine is 4.25
and i saw a tutorial on how to make an diablo healthbar
and the guy had some files i need for C++
the 4.3 one and the 4.5 preview
so where this came from are there really newer versions or they are restricted to the creator content ?
plush yew
Does anyone have a ready island heightmap?
frank oasis
just saying i know that the 4.3 and 4.5 is older versions but in case the 2 folders i have doesnt work for the newer version
midnight root
@snow coral you can google one
still moat
Oh lord
dire coral
can i model a character in blender export it and add bones or a skeleton in ue4
whole quarry
no, you'll have to add the skeleton in blender
due to the weights of the bone
you could import to ue4 and then retarget the skeleton tho
restive yarrow
@dire coral Nope, all must be done in blender or 3ds max, etc
dire coral
ok
restive yarrow
@distant totem thats a hella cool site ill check it out
Btw does anyone know how i can make my character stop pushing other physics based objects like a car or truck that has a lot of weight?
still moat
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/696991693219692554/715142768573546527/unknown.png
Oh boi oh boi
still moat
yeah lmao
restive yarrow
whaaat
still moat
This UI is killing me
wary wave
Kismet, the level scripting tool from UE3
wary wave
lol, no
modern sinew
Is there any way to automatically cap a variable that you are incrementing instead of constantly checking if you're at the cap?
wary wave
it was introduced in 2006
restive yarrow
I know but looks outta 1998
modern sinew
:/ It was quiet here a second ago
wary wave
in 1998 there was no level scripting tool
still moat
restive yarrow
@modern sinew haha XD
sudden agate
i hated UDK
wary wave
you put triggers and stuff in the level and manually hooked them up 😄
restive yarrow
@still moat looks like Sketchup
sudden agate
it was so user unfriendly
restive yarrow
UDK looks like you can just make a rolling ball game out of it and nothing else
oh lord...
still moat
Its really cool though to see the differences and similiarities from UE3 and 4
restive yarrow
the folder style is still the same
still moat
The graphics actually still look kinda nice
plush yew
anyone here know a video on how to make a player controller for a shark?
still moat
Didnt UDK use their own scripting language instead of C++?
restive yarrow
@plush yew dont know about a shark, but i have one for a rabbit
plush yew
ah rip
restive yarrow
@still moat yeah Kismet
restive yarrow
you can use the same structure for any animal
plush yew
oh
plush yew
wait so can i just use a normal player controller and edit it?
ooh i got it now lmao
when u make the player swim u move the mouse up and it plays the sharks swimming anims ?
restive yarrow
yeah it can all work the same way, nothing different, you just gotta modify the abilities, anims and behaviour
slate vessel
sorry if this has been asked a lot but
How do we make those "blend spheres" to fade post process volumes from outdoor to indoor dark lighting? I saw a video of a dev showing it and talking about it but he didnt actually say how to do it!
dapper ridge
prop with a constraint animation on my character won't show up when i import into ue. Getting "complex animation baked" in maya on export, really need help, possible issues? I can dm screenshots. Beginner here
iron wadi
what's considered the better workflow
a) creating components at runtime
b) or having all needed components in BP and removing the ones I don't need at runtime?
obviously both have a load cost, but I'm leaning towards second one, so that I can actually see the components in editor
any tips?
fallow jewel
I have a question, me and a friend want to setup multi user editing. is it LAN only?
modern sinew
Ran into a little problem; Currently, for my volume, I'm adding the players in it into an array, and then doing the effects of the volume accordingly. If I use a sequence node, will it do less damage per second if there is more people in the volume, because it takes time to go through the sequence?
Should I multiply the effect of my volume by the amount of players in it?
rigid belfry
why does my terrain look like this? building does nothing and the shaders are all compiled
midnight gate
HE;[
I INSTALED A PLUGIN
but its disabled
and it wont let me package my game
plush yew
do you know how to solve this glitchy behaviour from unreal editor? what is causing it??
plush yew
this is not a skin, this is a bug in the rendering of the nodes, it only happens when a menu is displayed on top of the nodes or using one of the menus on top
indigo crown
Why do all the epic games store games are not OS Supported except for fortnite 🤭
distant totem
those unreal 3 screens are pretty epic, I petition this as a new emoji
rigid belfry
can you have more than 3 textures painted on terrain? i am unable to
wary wave
Why do all the epic games store games are not OS Supported except for fortnite 🤭
I mean, because EoS has only really been available a couple of weeks and is still pretty early?
distant totem
@rigid belfry yes, here is the material used in the epic livestream on landscapes, it should have 5 textures from the starter pack, so make sure you have that added
to at least show how its set up
rigid belfry
why is it a txt file?
distant totem
because you can copy and paste any blueprints, or materials into text
rigid belfry
oh really?
distant totem
a .txt is how they handed this out in the livestream,
yeah its really nice, you can download a copy paste clipboard history program like ditto (free, open source) and just ctrl c things every so often to have some dirty source control
make a new material and copy paste that into it
rigid belfry
thats cool. is the livestream on their yt channel?
serene birch
ah the Unreal dragon icon 😄 was in Unreal 1 already
wary wave
it's because the original engine demo had a dragon in it
serene birch
probably the dragon spawn point at the time then
hollow tusk
Hey guys, Im executing a python script using the execute console command function. However, my game freezes until the script is done running, which is not what I need. Does anyone know of way to execute a python script from unreal engine in the background?
The code basicly send a string over the COM serial port to an arduino
plush yew
I added a light, why does it gently glows?
tame aurora
After level load my pawn takes a second to spawn and poses; during that time to camera is locked at 0,0,0 - how do I gain access to this camera, prior to the first tick, to set it to block?
maiden sundial
What is the possible smallest UE exe you can have ?
There was a gamejam where a category was about having a small game (under 100mb)
plush yew
hello I want to make one thing in the project but I can't do it, so I have phone cabin and note model, in the phone cabin there is note model
I did it when the player overlaps the note it popups this text "Press F for more info", when end overlap it removes-all good and working, but I want to make it when I am on this overlap to can press F and open the info, I did it but I can click F whenever I want wherever I am, which is problem
idk how to do it, noone can help me, I read docs and watched tutorials but I can't find it
thin tendon
@plush yew You want to make it so pressing F only works when you're overlapped?
balmy rose
hey guys, does anyone of you have also problem using depth of field with the cinematic camera inside the engine?
plush yew
@plush yew You want to make it so pressing F only works when you're overlapped?
@thin tendon exactly
unreal sable
Between main menu and ingame, should i use different game modes and/or just change different player controller.
If so how do i even do it? I can't seem to find the node in blueprint.
thin tendon
@plush yew On your player create a variable for example a bool called "CanUseInteract?". Make sure its default value is false. Drag out from your input event and add a branch. Then plug your new bool into the branch. Then from the true drag out to the code you already have. Then on your overlap Set the new bool on the player to True. And on end overlap set it to false. Doing it this way you can use your already existing code but only while overlapped.
thin tendon
@unreal sable There are a bunch of different ways to handle a main menu. It mostly depends on how big your maps are and if you think your menu stuff will interfere. Me personally I have separate maps, game mode and player controller. Effectively keeping my Menu and Main game separate at all times.
loud eagle
Hey there! What are the best Courses/tutorial lists you recommend for UE Environment Art? I want to get started using it focused on environment art. Not the game dev approach
plush yew
do you know how to solve this glitchy behaviour from unreal editor? what is causing it??
@plush yew no one? plz
thin tendon
@plush yew You could try deleting the folders that are needed to rebuild your project. You could also try restarting your computer. And you could also not have enough ram or cpu or GPU. Unreal can become glitchy for many reasons.
unreal sable
Ahh i figured it out now by looking at the Unreal Documentation on Game Mode.
I'm gonna start using the doc before google from now on 😛
loud eagle
Hey there! What are the best Courses/tutorial lists you recommend for UE Environment Art? I want to get started using it focused on environment art. Not the game dev approach
@loud eagle if anybody knows then ping me so I know!
plush yew
@plush yew You could try deleting the folders that are needed to rebuild your project. You could also try restarting your computer. And you could also not have enough ram or cpu or GPU. Unreal can become glitchy for many reasons.
@thin tendon i tried, it is something related to rendering, i dont know what is going on
@plush yew You could try deleting the folders that are needed to rebuild your project. You could also try restarting your computer. And you could also not have enough ram or cpu or GPU. Unreal can become glitchy for many reasons.
@thin tendon only happens with one project, not the others, will need to make a diff in the config
thin tendon
If its only one project are you getting any kinds of warnings or errors? I would check those first
plush yew
no errors or warnings
it is just that like the GPU memory gets corrupted and it displays glitches in the unreal editor interface everywhere
like it cant clear before draw and it is drawing the same thing on top
thin tendon
Have you tried checking all of your different stat windows?
plush yew
what do you mean? , like "stat unit"
thin tendon
Like stat memory, Stat GPU etc
plush yew
what should I search for?
tiny loom
hey guys, does anyone here use ue4 with a 4k display? how does the UI holdup, is it blurry at all? (I'm thinking about getting a 4k display on a laptop, wondering if I should stick with 1080p)
thin tendon
Check them all anything red or yellow is a problem everything green is good.
plush yew
uhm, i dont think the game part should be related to the ue interface, but ok
thin tendon
Its effectively checking your open scene. Another way to check I guess is create an empty map. Open that in the broken project. If it runs fine its something in your scene.
plush yew
yes, the problem persists in an empty scene, that s why
it happens in a blueprint editor too
thin tendon
But a new project is fine?
plush yew
yes
thin tendon
Then the only things I can suggest are check all your project's settings and try rebuilding the project.
plush yew
yea, i was expecting an answer like that, ...anyway i ll make a diff to checkout, thanks for helping
what do you mean on your player to create this variable? you mean in the level blueprint or? @thin tendon
thin tendon
You could even migrate your assets into a new project. In chunks. If the new project breaks after a certain folder your issue is inside it somewhere
@plush yew Your created character that you use to move around your map. It should have a mesh and stuff to make it look like a person.
plush yew
yeah but the thing that I want to do is related with the note model
plush yew
is this hdr? whenever the camera goes through a wall, the light's intensity slowly increases
opaque basin
What's the advantage of using blueprint input movement node instead of just taking the players posiiton and altering it to make your player move?
heady moon
Unreal Engine is crashing as soon as I launch a project
Error log:
Fatal error!
Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000148
0x00007ffe6a661ad6 UE4Editor-ProjectIllDoCuzImPro-9482.dll!UDoStuffComponent::UDoStuffComponent() [C:\Users\abdul\Documents\Unreal Projects\ProjectIllDoCuzImPro\Source\ProjectIllDoCuzImPro\DoStuffComponent.h:33]
0x00007ffe89c5191a UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffe89ee1ddf UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffe89ec119f UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffe89df57b5 UE4Editor-CoreUObject.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffe8a4ac487 UE4Editor-Core.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffe8a4caa1b UE4Editor-Core.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffec33caf37 UE4Editor-Projects.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffec33cb229 UE4Editor-Projects.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff7fff6f671 UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff7fff7204b UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff7fff6c17c UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff7fff6c4ca UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff7fff7ceae UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff7fff7fcbe UE4Editor.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffed92b7bd4 KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffed994ce51 ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction []
grim ore
@heady moon Install the debug sysmbols from the launcher -> Engine version -> options and get it to crash again. Beyond that we cant see what is crashing.
heady moon
ok
warm hinge
Hello there Fellow Unreal-Devs!
I've become desperate with a problem.
I'm referencing C++ plugin types in a TMap in Blueprints and after hot reload I received the subsequent errors but couldn't find a way to track down the variable and delete it, as it is appearently not there.
Does anyone know what to do?
See image for relevant errors:
I can find the entry to "AttachedProducts" in the uasset's binary file, but as it's binary, manual changes will corrupt everything...
pliant echo
Hello... im new to UE... I simply want to take my Cine Camera and make it the complete view/viewport when playing in my project, fullscreen. Is there a way to achieve this?
grim ore
the viewport in the editor when editing or when playing?
frank oar
@grim ore Can I just take a second to thank you, I have learned so much from your videos!
copper flicker
howdy folks.. anyone knows why unreal movement input is not working if applied via TICK, in another object.. that's spawned by a blueprint?
something like this... works fine when I position this guy manually in the scene
is there some default value that stops that movement input... when spawned by bp?
actor rotation works fine
I'm using a projectile movement component btw
onyx trout
Hello, i try to update an old project to unreal 4.25 (from 4.23) and i have an issue with emisisve material. You can see bellow an video.
My question : how i can fix that ?
Thanks for your help.
little falcon
@lapis bronze Yes, exactly what i did, i forget to switch back to lit mode
Thanks!
lapis bronze
haha np
pliant echo
@grim ore Yes, when playing... sorry for not being clear.
grim ore
and right now it's using a different camera is the issue or its not full screen or ?
hoary sphinx
Hello everyone, I am new to everything related to Unreal Engine. I have only one question, what should I start with? BP? or C++?
copper flicker
so.. what kind of difference can be between spawning manually vs from BP?
grim ore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flEtQBPtBTc @hoary sphinx
hoary sphinx
Thank you
copper flicker
don't get why this BP fails.. just cuz it's spawned with spawn actor from class
hoary sphinx
lol
copper flicker
like.. what can be different when you position the actor manually i nthe scene?
hoary sphinx
@grim ore So, both 😄
grim ore
or one, or none you could use the C# plugin
use what works or what you are comfortable with
hoary sphinx
Thank you
copper flicker
SpawnDefaultController... was my problem... A m e n
opaque basin
It's a template not a game just ment as a example to show you, you can alter the editor settings thru Settings-Engine scaleability settings and adjust it how you like but normaly just make the settings page and the menu yourself.
plush yew
the player scale in this fps template, is it the same as UT?
opaque basin
What is UT? (sorry for ym bad english)
rocky radish
unreal tournament
opaque basin
Good question, assuming the player is the same as in ue4 then i would say yes.
grim ore
The mesh height for each one is in the mesh editor for each mesh so you can compare. If I had to guess I would guess they are not the same height as the one in UE4 is meant to be a generic representation of a human while the UT characters are stylized and designed so they are sized to fit their environments
plush yew
I'm building a map using UE4 scale
grim ore
What is UE4 scale?
plush yew
fps template scale
grim ore
that would be for realistic proportions so that should be "ok"
opaque basin
the scale for ue4 in blender would be 0.01000 if you ever intent to create inthere
plush yew
if I want to play the map in UT, do I have to reescale everything?
rocky radish
if I want to play the map in UT, do I have to reescale everything?
@plush yew are you modding for UT?
grim ore
If you want to play it in UT you should be using the UT editor to do all the work and using the built in maps for templating
fresh bay
In every course on unreal engine c++, they write the c++ class and make a blueprint based on it. Can i just write c++ and use it without having to make blueprints?
grim ore
@fresh bay Where do you want to use it?
plush yew
to port the same map to another game, can I just reuse all content?
grim ore
if its C++ to C++, sure no issue but if you plan on using it in the engine somehow you need to expose it which more than likely is going to be in a blueprint format.
fresh bay
I see, thank you @grim ore
loud eagle
yes, my flash has it's face missing too
plush yew
Parts of the model are black
loud eagle
it's a flash error, not from unreal engine
blissful trail
anyone know some sort of speak recognition in 4.25 ???
maybe like a plugin or somethin
plush yew
how do people manage to get it working?
loud eagle
gotta ask flash
plush yew
?
loud eagle
no but really, you probably have flipped normals there
loud eagle
do you have any experience with 3D
plush yew
nope
loud eagle
oh fuck
plush yew
I was just given the model
loud eagle
this isn't really something newcomers understand right off the bat
plush yew
im familiar with unreal and I have c4d but I will need to be treated like im dumb
loud eagle
I advise you to watch a couple tutorials on the basics of cinema 4D or Blender
though Blender is undoubtedly better
plush yew
Do you know a way I can fix it?
loud eagle
Recalculate model normals
you're getting that error likely because of backface culling
grim ore
technically if you have 4.25 you can edit the mesh directly in UE4 and flip the normals
loud eagle
Really? that's nice!
though having the original model with fucked normals isn't best
I'd edit it in a 3D software and re-export it
plush yew
What do I do?
i try light buil but first time give error and i search for youtube and dowload ue4 debugger but now ue4 shuts down without error
loud eagle
Recalculate model normals
@plush yew
plush yew
how?
dreamy thistle
Hollo all! Guys i dont know what topic i need with my problem. Help me please, i need to animate a spline in the sequencer, It will be a cable that bends under the weight of the tree.
willow plank
Guys why im getting this error ? What can i do to avoid it
dreamy thistle
Help me please 🙂
loud eagle
why isn't there a help channel?
lime gull
Im just curious, but how would you be able to get a health bar that has more than 100? Cause I know the way progress bard is from 0 - 1, so what if i want to have 150 health? Would i need to like, divide by 15 ( Im not good at math haha bare with me )
loud eagle
this gets super cluttered
lime gull
Yea I agree
plush yew
i try light buil but first time give error and i search for youtube and dowload ue4 debugger but now ue4 shuts down without error
grim ore
This is a general help channel but if you have a specific topic the other channels might be more helpful for that specific topic
misty creek
@lime gull Use a current health and a max health variable. Divide the current health by the max health and that will give you a number between 0 - 1.
grim ore
@plush yew if you want to share your error we can try and help but other than that, we can't tell you why its shutting down
lime gull
Thank you very much, as I said Im horrible at math so I wouldnt have been able to figure it out
grim ore
@willow plank we dont know why it's not saving, we can't see the entire error and we dont know what you are doing to cause the error. More info might be helpful. Do you have the editor open more than once?
loud eagle
@grim ore Do you recommend any (beginner friendly) UE Environment art focused course? I'm quite interested in realtime level and scene design. I have solid experience in 3D but never laid a finger on UE.
Not super interested in the programming side of things (for now)
grim ore
@loud eagle Nothing specific but I would check out 80.lvl as that is a site focused on art and design and has some blogs about using UE4 for what you want
fossil basin
Anyone know a way to delete and bring back the same widget but change a variable
mental swan
Hi does anyone know any way to get realistic lighting? Or any tutorial? Because all I can do doesn't look too good.
grim ore
@plush yew Check your saved logs folder for a log, you did say it was crashing with an error so what was the error and what did you install to stop the error
willow plank
@grim ore Single Ue4 application is on right now
loud eagle
@loud eagle Nothing specific but I would check out 80.lvl as that is a site focused on art and design and has some blogs about using UE4 for what you want
@grim ore Thank you! Will do
grim ore
@willow plank Still have no idea what you are doing to cause the error, what are you doing and what is the entire error?
grim ore
what does the output log show?
willow plank
i cant save two texturs and these textures causing material saving error too
i cant find output log...
where is it ?
grim ore
go to window, developer, output log
willow plank
plush yew
@grim ore debugging for callstack error
willow plank
plush yew
@grim ore i dowload editor symbols for debugging
grim ore
and now it crashes without the crash?
fossil basin
ive tried this but it dont work
grim ore
@willow plank is this failing on importing or did you do something with them?
grim ore
sorry what I mean was is this the first time you imported them? they are not older ones that stopped suddenly
grim ore
@fossil basin What are you trying to do?
fossil basin
im trying to create a widget that takes values from a csv file
every level is a different line
i have created the widget that takes the first line of the csv file
under the variable current level
which has the default val 1
grim ore
you can talk to the widget after you create it and tell it to run a function to do something. You can expose a variable in the widget and set it when you create it. That is a few options
fossil basin
pls elaborate
grim ore
What are you doing in the widget that needs the new value?
what is the variable you want to change for example
plush yew
@grim ore i give this error debugging for callstack error i dowload editor symbols for debugging
grim ore
@plush yew Do you get an error now? you should have something in your saved logs.
fossil basin
essentially the widget takes 1 line of the csv file
but its only taking the first line
grim ore
so you just need to change the Quetion Number variable when you create it?
grim ore
in your widget, go to the details panel for that variable and tell it to Expose on Spawn. This will allow you to set it when you create it.
saving it is up to you, i dont know what you mean by sessions
fossil basin
as in when you close the game and start it up again
grim ore
@fossil basin then you should look into the Save Game system to save it between closing and reopening the project.
plush yew
hey
so i made a level sequence
of a spotlight turning from 0 to 1000
intensity
and i went to he level blueprint to make it play when i press lctrl
and im trying to put in an
play(sequence player)
but it doesnt appear
grim ore
which part? the entire node or the play part when you use the sequence player reference?
plush yew
in trying to put in a sequence player from
flashonoff
and then connect left ctrl pressed to it
but it doesnt show up
grim ore
did you pull off of the level sequencer variable you have there and look for the play node?
grim ore
might want to take some time to go thru some basic learning for how blueprints work. You would access the blueprint nodes that are specific to the level sequence by dragging off the blue output pin on your level sequence and using the popup to search for the blueprint nodes that are correct for that item
grim ore
show me what it shows for you
plush yew
play
oh nope
found it
sorry
idk why it wasnt showing up
thx for the help tho
hi !
what is polymorphisme
coral spire
Anyone know how much UDN access costs, or whether it is at all accessible by a very small indie dev?
pliant echo
@grim ore I have a plugin that allows me to track a camera via IR cameras for virtual production... OptiTrack Cameras > Motive software > OptiTrack UE plugin. It works by simply attaching a child to an Optitrack actor... and then that child is tracked via the IR cameras will respond to the position and orientation in UE. I've attached a Cine Camera to the optitrack actor... and it responds well. but I just want that field of view of the Cine Camera to output full frame in game play.
lime gull
Would there be a reason that "remove from parent" wouldnt work?
pliant echo
how do i "remove from parent"?
plush yew
thanks mathew
opaque basin
Why does ue4 freeze for 5 sec when i drag meshes into the world?
grim ore
@pliant echo If you mean you dont want it to respect the aspect ratio you can try unchecking this box
solemn orbit
hello
i have a question but i don't know how to explain it, is there a way that you have a sequence that is playing but so that you don't get into the sequence camera but that you can play normally but the sequence is playing, for example, you have an object and you want it to go from left to right and repeat that, that means i can go on this object and i move with the object left and right
sorry for my bad english i am from germany
frozen pond
any idea how to change gravity ?
thick herald
become fatter
frozen pond
not gravity scale, gravity direction
coral dome
Basic noob question here but how do you move vertically up and down when you are editing in 3D?
still moat
Q and E
next drum
Hi,can someone help me with Unreal Engine 4.25 install?
blissful trail
anyone know how to get speech recognition in 4.25 ???
next drum
I have the program files installed, but for some reason, they don't work and get an error. Then my laptop froze up. Help!! 🙂
plush yew
where can i see saved logs
grim ore
@solemn orbit You can use a sequence without a camera yes, just... dont add a camera.
@plush yew They are in the Saved\Logs folder in your project like this
minor grove
Looking to trade favors -- my programming for your VFX.
I am trying to get the explosion particle to show up on my render target screen where white objects have a custom scene depth
vale wraith
hey guys, am I missing something or is the spiralblur shader node broken in UE 4.25?
plush yew
i try light render bu ue4 shutdown without error
sharp crest
grim ore
@plush yew it seems to indicate your map is quite large with stuff and your machine didnt have enough memory to handle it correctly after the lightmap build
Does it crash when you try and open it now?
IF it does go into your project folder, then into your "ThirdPersonBP/Maps/" folder and delete the ThirdPersonExampleMap_BuiltData.uasset and try to load it again
pliant echo
@grim ore oh no no. I'm not referring to aspect ratio.. i think i mean I want the ViewPort of the Cine Camera to be the viewport of the game during play.
spare kernel
why is my cook failing FFS
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): LogInit: Display:
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): LogInit: Display: Success - 0 error(s), 239 warning(s)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): LogInit: Display:```UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): ERROR: Cook failed.
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): (see E:\UnrealEngine4_24_3\Engine\Programs\AutomationTool\Saved\Logs\Log.txt for full exception trace)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): AutomationTool exiting with ExitCode=25 (Error_UnknownCookFailure)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): BUILD FAILED
PackagingResults: Error: Unknown Cook Failure```@pliant echo Is there more than one camera on the blueprint? if so disable the other one (turn off auto activate) and it should use the cine camera
spare kernel
like wtf, why
pliant echo
@grim ore When i hit Play i dont see viewport as my Cine Camera.
forest tree
Hey everyone, I'd love a little bit of guidance with HISMs.
In my understanding, if I create a single HISM variable, I can add 1 specific static mesh to that HISM as many times as I want, correct? (Which would represent the amount of instances).
Is there a way for me to say: "Hey Unreal, here's an HISM, and here's a static mesh. Can you check for me if this is the static mesh that you expect?"
Simple example:
Static meshes: A strawberry and an apple.
HISM variables: StrawberryHISM, AppleHISM.
Take StrawberryHISM, add a strawberry instance to it. Take the StrawberryHISM again, ask it "do you have apples?"
Maybe I should get the first instance within the HISM and compare objects?
pliant echo
@grim ore Oh i see now.. i have a Camera Actor also.
but its not visible when i'm stopped.
grim ore
@pliant echo you might need to delete that then and set your other actor as the default, or put your cine camera in the world or something else
pliant echo
ok
grim ore
I dont know how your level is set up or what is spawning
pliant echo
@grim ore OptitrackRigidBodyActor is the parent to my Cine Camera..
lime girder
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/grhktn/mind_blowing_noneuclidean_game_engine/
Could we do this in UE4?!
grim ore
You need to look into how that plugin is supposed to be set up. I dont want to give you instructions on the wrong way. I would assume it might need to be the default pawn and if that is true then it will use the camera. Are there setup instructions?
The game mode sets up the default pawn, the default pawn is what spawns in/is used for the default player. That is the default camera. This can all be changed if you tell the engine to auto possess something else, your OptitrackRigidBodyActor but I have no idea if that is how that plugin is supposed to work. The camera you see being created when it runs is probably due to the default pawn spawning in
pliant echo
hmm ok. thanks.
im following their guide here: https://v22.wiki.optitrack.com/index.php?title=OptiTrack_Unreal_Engine_4_Plugin
unique kraken
i managed to break my cube and sphere by moving it out, it is broken in all projects now wich is kinda... well bad... anyone knows how to fix that?
pliant echo
however it doesn't describe how i'd apply it to become the default viewport.... or Cine Camera. Im able to get the tracking to affect other actors like Cubes or Spheres. no problem.. but I really just want to affect my Cine Camera really and have it fullscreen as the viewport
astral phoenix
Hello im working on a equipment system and and im trying to do so i can equip a new chest on my character but the only way i know to do it is to use a socket system but i dont want it that way, i want so i just change the chest of the character, so how do i do that? 🙂
coral dome
How do you set a pivot point without a mouse scroll button
errant zephyr
ok so, im pretty new to all of this, however I am using world creator 2 to create a large height map. I want a large open world game, so im testing the limits of UE and im having trouble finding a way to increase the heightmap res. from 4k to 8k. If that is even possible, I dont know and could some pointers on how to create large height maps, or more accurately importing large height maps
grim ore
@astral phoenix IS the chest a seperate mesh you can swap out?
@pliant echo at this point you probably want to look into using the Set View Target with blend so you can change from the default camera to the camera in that actor. I dont know if you can auto possess that actor since it might not be a pawn so the only other way is to just change cameras
astral phoenix
@grim ore yes
pliant echo
where do i find "Set View Target options?
grim ore
@coral dome You can go into the Editor Preferences and the Keyboard Shortcuts and change some of the pivot controls there. There is nothing for directly changing the middle mouse. You can also right click on an item and choose the pivot group and set from there but its not identical to the middle mouse
@pliant echo its not an options, its some code you would have to write. The docs and tutorials out there cover it. You could also ask for suport from the plugin author
grim ore
@astral phoenix then assuming your mesh is a skeletal mesh you can just access that skeletal mesh component and swap out the mesh it is using
pliant echo
thanks for the guidance @grim ore!
coral dome
@grim ore Okay thanks man
astral phoenix
@grim ore yeah its a skeletal mesh but when i pick up a new chest piece in game and have it in my inventory and try to equip it, the chest i have on goes away and the new chest i just picked up is just in T-Pose
grim ore
uh.... your chest is in t pose?
Have you looked at this, https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Animation/WorkingwithModularCharacters/index.html , this is the way the system is designed to use one set of animations and multiple items using those animations
the master pose component being a key to keeping the animations and modular meshes in sync
astral phoenix
@grim ore im guessing i need to set the Anim for the new Chest piece when i equip it but i cant get the new chest piece so its on my ''Player Chest skeletal mesh''
grim ore
look at that link, it should help as the system is designed to do it that way
rigid belfry
why is my material doing this?
grim ore
turn on the wireframe mode, see if its your mesh deforming due to LOD or tesselation
rigid belfry
it is indeed deforming because of that. will the retop tool in the sculpting mode fix it?
astral phoenix
@grim ore okay i will do that ty!
grim ore
well if your material is not using tesselation then it's doing its job. If you want it to change farther away adjust your LOD levels on the landscape
rigid belfry
i was going to use tessellation down the line but i'll leave it as is just for now
i'll just tune the LOD threshhold. thank you very much
grim ore
You can also consider if you are going to have ground covering or not, it might hide the issue 😉
flat forge
Hi. I have something of an odd question.
I'm setting up Little Nightmares for streaming, I have a dual monitor setup, but the game captures the mouse (locked inside viewport) and I can't go to my other screen not even with alt tab.
Is there some setting in the engine config files I can use to disable mouse lock to viewport?
grim ore
have you tried setting it to windowed mode instead of full screen?
flat forge
Yes, but I can't get rid of the title bar, setting it to fullscreen-windowed mode doesn't let me move it to the screen where I need it and if I do it with win-shift-right the window is of the wrong size.
dreamy thistle
Dear friends, help me please how to make the cable stretch under the weight of a tree falling on it? I didn’t find the entire Internet 😦
flat forge
It doesn't seem to respond to maximize shortcut using win-up key, unless there's some other mode to make it maximize or to make it default to the other monitor.
grim ore
well alt-enter is the normal toggle fullscreen command, Dragging it to the 2nd monitor and doing that doesnt make it work? This is a general UE channel so how the dev created his setup is beyond us. There maybe the options in the .ini files for which display adapter it uses if you cant choose it in the options.
flat forge
That works but the locked mouse issue remains. I can't use it outside the games window. If there were an option to disable it in the .ini files that would do it.
grim ore
Chances are there is not
fullscreen windowed shouldnt restrict it to the window, should be able to alt-tab out, but the game might not support that mode
flat forge
Mmmh.. I'm gonna see what I can find. Thank you anyway
rigid belfry
@dreamy thistle you can have it be handled by physics
maybe following some cloth simulation documentation, you'll find something fitting your needs
ashen ermine
I have a theoretical/approach question: I need to start making the "AI" or a kind of "AI" for my turn-based game. It's a jRPG which means movement isn't a concern, units are glued to their slots. The question is: how would you do it? Make a proper AI or just run conditionals/other code in the character's blueprints? They need to choose some buffs/debuffs/heals/player units to attack, that's all. Atm, they just pick attack or any ability randomly and cast it. The whole game is in BP only. Any suggestions?
plush yew
Hey everyone! I'm currently doing a realistic hair pack in unreal engine with shader and such.
But I would need some general advice from the community on how I should proceed in order to make the most people happy and also interested.
So here's a link to a survey that I did. It only takes 3 min and it would be really helpful if you could give me your opinion on it.
https://surveyhero.com/c/a2ca38b6
Thanks and have a nice day!
rugged rapids
@ashen ermine not sure how to do this or if it's possible, but if you could run a behavior tree one time like an event maybe that would work
ashen ermine
@ashen ermine not sure how to do this or if it's possible, but if you could run a behavior tree one time like an event maybe that would work
@rugged rapids 😮 Amazing idea...ur right...The onyl question now is if you can in fact run the tree once and then stop it, and just get the decisions out. I'm assuming it's how you imagined it. right? 🙂
rugged rapids
yeah, I believe there's an execute behavior tree BP node
runic fern
Hello Guys Can i Ask About SpatialOs installation in this Channel or ??
rugged rapids
I just don't know how to stop it
alternatively maybe have a blackboard bool that you flip on and off to control if your tree runs it's full path or not
grim ore
^^
ashen ermine
@rugged rapids well, i'll look into the matter, haven't done any proper AI now, so i'll start over from scratch, only did some location-based simple AI for some roaming peasants once. So, i'll have to dig into AI properly this time 😛
grim ore
put it in a decorator blackboard check on the first sequence or selector and it can just flip on basically and run once
ashen ermine
Wanted to know if it was worth trying to learn AI now or just do BP conditionals and "fake AI" 🙂
rugged rapids
might want to do a state machine style set up, have selectors check for each state in your behavior tree, then have the state behavior under each of those selectors
grim ore
for just a logic state machine tho the blackboard/BT seems a bit overkill
rugged rapids
and the state could be an enum blackboard value
while the state machine itself is controlled in the ai controller
but that might be overkill
ashen ermine
let me show you a snapshot of what/how things will be, i have a short vid on it. https://streamable.com/at7us2
^^The link works, but for some reason, not embedded here
But running behavior tree would in the end be more efficient/robust than running bp conditionals? Since I can do the switches/same logic in bp - or?
rugged rapids
ok yeah, a bool in your blackboard that turns on and off to control behavior tree execution is probably good
if the bool is off, do a sleep for a bit before checking or something
if you've never done behavior trees, think of it as a good opportunity to learn, as opposed to hacking some character BP logic
ashen ermine
Ok, so AI it is then 🙂 yea, must admit I'm a little pressured by time here and wanted to avoid wasting time, but yea, I'll look into AI properly.
Any tuts/good articles/pages/stuff to follow/learn?
quartz raven
why does unreal blueprint just say cast to triggerbox and not cast to trigger box 5 for example
ashen ermine
@rugged rapids Good, thank you, that will do the trick, see where I end up from there 🙂
ashen ermine
thank you both for your help @rugged rapids @grim ore ! 😉
coral folio
how many cables can you imulate in UE before getting weird artifacts ? im making a bunch of skeletal meshes cables in houdini, but they will be quite dense ...
grim ore
@quartz raven Do you have an example of what you are asking? it sounds like you are asking why when it's casting you cast to the class
quartz raven
Im trying to detect if the players character is inside a triggerbox
so they can only jump when theyre in it
rigid belfry
why is my terrain visible in the editor but disappears when i hit play mode?
grim ore
if you have only one actor in the world that matches your characters class you can see if the actor that triggered the overlap is that class and if it passes that would be your character
otherwise you need a way to identify your character uniquely, such as the get player character node and comparing to that
quartz raven
i only have one actor in the world, but i dont know how to detect overlap
and would i put it on the actor's blueprint
grim ore
is overlapping currently or when it starts to overlap and basically enters an overlap area
quartz raven
are you asking me? if so then i want to see if they are every time the player tries to jump
grim ore
thats more complex, you would have to check the player bounds for example and see if they are in the area or when the player enters the area they get flagged as in the area and when they leave they get flaggs as leaving
quartz raven
do you know how you would do either of those blueprints?
grim ore
There are "Box Overlap Actors/Components" nodes you can use to check of something is inside of a box
quartz raven
alright, thanks for your help! ill try and research both of those
would i have to loop that node in order to detect it more than once?
lapis ferry
do you think there's any chance that ue5 will add support for another programming language
a more lightweight one
plush yew
rigid belfry
whats the difference between ontriggeroverlap and ontriggerenter?
grim ore
@lapis ferry There is a chance of course
lapis ferry
i like source control
exotic thicket
Is there some particular setting with particle systems attached to actors that allow them to use the light emitter?
for some reason my cascade particle system does not seem to emit any light unless I just drop the system itself directly into the scene, but triggering it as part of an actor does not work
lapis ferry
blueprint is problematic for that
c++ powerful but slow to compile, old and a bit unwieldy
little falcon
Hi guys, i was wondering whats the best value for setting the margin when making lightmap for unreal
teal tulip
Try and error, really depends of things, I think I used to 5? On Blender
little falcon
i am also using blender, 5? thats seems way too big..
rigid belfry
is there a way to have a material reflect the skylight?
little falcon
The default value is 0.10
spiral island
Is it possible to do same-screen multiplayer with different controllers in Unreal?
I want to have one camera that observes the area, but I want to use player controllers correctly and assign one to each player, etc
ashen ermine
Any idea on how to make a "value step" on an int in bp? (not materials) 1-30 = 1, 30-50=2, and so on. There was a node but I can't remember it 😐
map to [something] or something like that
teal tulip
I mean 0.05 @little falcon
little falcon
Oh, that make sense.
Thanks, i think i should read through the doc to get more info. Thank you!
teal tulip
@ashen ermine to range
@rigid belfry the skylight is a cube map just like the reflection ones individually but global, not sure what you want
ashen ermine
@teal tulip close enough, it's inrange but now I noticed the map one is for floats. ty 🙂
tender obsidian
Not sure if this is the right chat, but Unreal keeps causing this one windows error sound to play and I can't figure out why or how to stop it
pls help its driving me nuts
wanton lotus
Will binding the same event multiple times to an object that is only created once have any performance impact? I can easily set it up to bind once, but was just wondering if it mattered.
fervent nacelle
yes
not much unless there's hundreds of thousands
I'd look the a way to activate them from the same event tick
for a way *
wanton lotus
Just a simple UI flip-flopping between visible buttons
kind dew
Okay try #4! You can see my question here: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/961433/view.html
Mobile preview is giving me an assertion failed on clean projects 4.23 and 4.24. Anyone have any ideas?
fervent nacelle
You could probably link that straight via an action input command
F pressed does x function
grim ore
@spiral island yes you can just have different inputs and different "player controller" classes and they can each listen to different inputs for actions
fervent nacelle
Btw, I feel like I need to preface this, I'm here to chat while waiting for a lighting build, I always end up having to go out of my way to help someone but, I'm not doing that today. Just drinking and chatting
grim ore
@tender obsidian I doubt we can figure it out, which sound is it and is it just happening at random?
wanton lotus
I was extending the functionality of another template. Essentially it is giving buttons multiple functions. I could directly link it, but then I would need to edit more of the template.
Anyways, just knowing it affects performance is enough of an answer for me, thanks @fervent nacelle.
grim ore
@wanton lotus are you talking binding the same object to listen for the same event multiple times?
wanton lotus
Yes
grim ore
so basically running the same code multiple times
you will only incur the cost for running the code, you can only bind once so it just replaces/ignores when you do it again
fervent nacelle
That may be what you have to do. It's not unheard to to refractor, enough so that the term "refractor" exists to begin with. But It depends on in what context it's used in. Everything takes time to calculate but it in relationship to everything else calculated given the time budget available
If you have one or to things in the tick, probably not, but it really is context dependent tbh
wanton lotus
@grim ore that is what I was thinking it would do. So basically no performance cost unless it is thousands as @fervent nacelle suggested. Thank you.
grim ore
If its using normal event dispatcher rules then yes, and the docs back this up "Each event can be bound only once, even if the Bind Event node is executed multiple times."
fervent nacelle
I wouldn't say thousands, as it depends on exactly the amount of computation necessary following the Input received. Like, thousands of float value being assigned won't be much, but thousands of 1k RTs being drawn simultaneously will be brutal if it's even possible for a modern gpu. Hence the repeated sentiment of context
Gaging performance is here say without damn near every piece of info lossible6
possible*
kind dew
Can someone please give me a hand with this: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/961433/view.html
fervent nacelle
Wish I could, but I've never developed for mobile
grim ore
If you start a new blank project, and run it on the mobile preview does it crash as well?
grim ore
sounds like its your video card/drivers then offhand
kind dew
That's what I was thinking. Then I had a friend create a new project on their computer and they got the same error
Oh sorry no it wasn't a new project it was my project
grim ore
thats why I was asking about it being tried in a blank project
your screenshot is definitely not a stock project
kind dew
Yes I tried it in a blank project on my computer
and on my own project
I can take a screen shot of that too if you want
grim ore
I just tried it in a new third person project, mobile preview and no issues here
kind dew
Okay I'll try drivers. Maybe my drivers and my friends drivers are both out of date i guess
tender obsidian
the noise it keeps making is this https://youtu.be/sRTvrtuuGJQ?t=177 I literally can't describe it and everything about the problem is too generic. It seems to just be random. I'm just hoping someone here might know the problem
fervent nacelle
@tender obsidian I don't understand what you mean
kind dew
@grim ore just checking what version of Unreal did you use?
tender obsidian
just randomly while working in the editor it makes that noise
I have no clue what causes it
usually while looking up nodes in blueprint and whatnot
grim ore
@tender obsidian sounds like just a generic windows finished sound. Check your sound settings in windows for your sound theme. That is the Asterisk sound. It should not be doing that normally lol
tender obsidian
i figured not
grim ore
@kind dew .25 is what I tried it on
tender obsidian
didnt work sadly
kind dew
okay so I updated drivers and now the blank project works but not the main project.
dense hatch
I upgraded to 4.25 and since then, I can't open my widgets in the editor, it crashes saying "Pure virtual not implemented (UThumbnailRenderer::Draw)"
midnight root
4.25 has issues ya, my 'sunsky' ctrl-L stops working after a few tries
kind dew
Okay so I created a blank level in my project and even that doesn't work. It's got to be some project setting
dense hatch
:(
dense hatch
i upgraded for the better niagara
dense hatch
it's... an adventure : 'D
midnight root
always
dense hatch
at least parameters work unlike in cascade
midnight root
maybe offtopic but its worthy in this case,,since we're on 'that' topic https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096794/
not seen in ages but its a solid 'adventure'
HM I can see myself using aspects of the spirit of always so it IS relevant ;)(
plush yew
just a general question people, when creating a simple primitive box, are the scale values in meters?
grim ore
the box you drop in as a mesh from the places tab or when you make a geometry brush?
Units in UE4 are in centimeters so a default geometry brush for example is 200 units or 200 centimeters across
the basic "Cube" is a static mesh that is 100 units across
midnight root
so other than restarting is there anyway to 'reset' sunsky sphereical rotation widget when it stops working in 4.25 ?
quartz raven
is there a way to make the ai target higher on the player character. currently they kind of aim at the feet, but i want them to go for the head
open wadi
Do all actor classes contain a camera component?
@grim ore - Wanted to say, I've been coding for years but am relatively new to UE4, and your YouTube videos have been superb for familiarizing myself with the framework, thank you much for that work.
dreamy lake
@open wadi no - has to be added
plush yew
@grim ore when i drop in a box from the geometry tab, its 1,1,1 scale
dreamy lake
XD
open wadi
@dreamy lake @dense hatch Thank you.
dense hatch
np
plush yew
@grim ore so then each 1 is one meter?
dense hatch
@plush yew scale depends on your mesh size
the default cube in ue4 is 100x100x100 so it will occupy 100x100x100 in world space at 1,1,1 scale
at 0.5,0.5,0.5 scale, it will occupy 50x50x50. this all depends on the size of your mesh which you can see when you hover over your mesh asset
grim ore
@plush yew Geometry brushes are special. They have a size property that determines their size in units internally, scroll down to the brush settings
scale is just a multiplier of the size
grim ore
yep so that item is 200x200x200 units/centimeters and the scaling (multiplier) on it is 1x1x1
plush yew
so its probably better to use the 200 centimeter scaling rather than the multiplier
grim ore
@quartz raven location is based on the pivot point on the object, and in your case the characters pivot would be the base of the capsule more than likely. You can adjust the target manually (add Z to the target after you get the players location) or set something else for them to target in the player (a scene component called target for example) and use that for the location
if you are adjusting a geometry brush then yes you should adjust the brush settings units and not the scale if you want to resize it.
quartz raven
thanks!
grim ore
If you are adjusting a mesh you probably have to scale it since you dont have access to the actual geometry data under the hood since it was brought in from another program
lime gull
What would a reason for the Remove from parent node not working?
kind dew
So its not my drivers, its my project. Any settings or anything that could be affecting this? @grim ore
grim ore
@lime gull you arent targeting an item that has a parent? the wibbly wobblies are not lining up?
plush yew
@grim ore thats giving me wierd results, i measured an object irl but recreating it using brush settings doesnt give me the right dimensions
but neither does the scaling
tropic jasper
Hola peeps, just wondering if anyone knows a way to transition smoothly between firstperson and ADS, currently i can only think of the the interpolation node but cant seem to get that to work.
grim ore
@kind dew well the error mentions a problem but I cant seem to find that image anymore lol
@plush yew well the engine units are equal to centimeters so I dont really know what is off in your stuff. How is it weird?
kind dew
grim ore
@tropic jasper what are you needing to transition? a camera or an animation or the FOV or ? a timeline node driving an interpolate node would allow you to smoothly transition stuff
grim ore
well that is specifically calling out the post process in the first one
it sounds like you might be trying to do something in your project that is not supported ,or the shader is failing to compile for that platform due to not being supported
kind dew
so i went into a blank project and exported the rendering project settings. Imported them into this project, didnt work
lime gull
Its weird because I have the same code that works on a different widget
It must be something small i messed up
kind dew
also. I have a completely blank level and it still gives that error.
plush yew
@grim ore That is not 153centimeters (or 5 ft) across
lime gull
Although actually whats happening, is it does remove it so i cant click on it, but the visuals are still there
grim ore
@plush yew but how do you know its not 5 feet across? what is your reference for scale
plush yew
i literally measured a window to be 5 ft across
so i made a box that would represent that space for me
that is too skinny to be 5 ft
grim ore
@kind dew perhaps you changed some of the settings in your project then, you could try deleting some of your .ini files in your config or migrate some of your content over to a new blank project to test
tropic jasper
@grim ore So i have two two cameras currently, my first person view and once i right click i zoom into the ADS camera i want to make that transition slightly delayed as you would see in a video game, you never instantly aim in, i want it to be fast but slowed down to be more realistic. (fyi ill wait till your done with the above guy if needs be haha)
grim ore
@plush yew soo... because it doesnt look like 5 feet to you looking at it on a monitor without any scale of reference it could not possibly be 5 feet across in game?
tropic jasper
The transition is camera to camera 🙂