ue4-general

[viral flame]

i will never make it to the realm of "superior" programming

there are ZERO good or actually real LUA game engines

[gaunt tide]

Autocorrect but whatever antways

[viral flame]

well i guess then ill have to just observe the "supreme" programmers and not learn anything at all since in the end i wont be able to handle or comprehend it

Roblox is "too childish" and makes me look like a 6 year old

[gaunt tide]

So ig I’m going to have to restart with my trees and rocks for my terrain @plush yew :/

[viral flame]

oh then you'd be damned if youve seen like a billion people point their fingers at me and laughing cause i use RBLXLUA

[gaunt tide]

Oh had to do with object references and even using the foliage from inside the Brushify folder it doesn’t simulate the trees on the map. So maybe starting over on that wouldn’t be a bad idea

[viral flame]

gamemaker isnt any childish if youd compare it to what i use

and well besides that

[gaunt tide]

Ahhh

[viral flame]

i dont have any money

[gaunt tide]

Now I know and it shall be taken note of

[viral flame]

to actually invest into an engine

well i dont feel like using unity cause "unity - "good enough for bad games""

but of course

[untold wedge]

@plush yew Scale of object ,you mean the XYZ ? thats set to 1

[viral flame]

theres cities: skylines or whatever which is on unity and is a good game

[heady quartz]

Surely you don't expect yourself to make the next fortnite with the first 3 or 4 years of programming @shadept ?

[viral flame]

but "the chance that youll be making the next cities: skylines with a game engine like that is really doubtful"

i dont

i just want to make an FPS for the sake of learning experience

ive already made an FPS controller with blueprints but it has some shit that bugs me out of it

[heady quartz]

I mean programming is programming no matter what engine you're using

[viral flame]

crouching is impossible

i mean

[heady quartz]

It doesn't matter which one

[viral flame]

no it is possible

but its just snapping you immediately

and does not slow you down

and when i looked for tuts on how to make something like smooth crouching

they had a bit different code

[scarlet birch]

Do I need to do something with scale when moving a rigged fbx from Blender to UE? I'm seeing an issue with a rope I've rigged and modeled that I think has something to do with scale on the bones. I've applied all transforms.

[viral flame]

from what ive made up

[untold wedge]

@plush yew Yes ,its just mess ,the tesselation doesnt work at all ,dont know if the size of object is problem or its something esle

[heady quartz]

For smooth crouching i assume that you can make the character max walk speed and capsule height gradually decrease overtime with a timeline @viral flame

[viral flame]

i just feel like id be shamed if i used blueprints or anything like that for a game

i never knew games even used that stuff

[heady quartz]

Literally everyone in this discord server uses blueprint. Even fortnite

[viral flame]

but im sure they use c++ for the character controller

[untold wedge]

@plush yew I try ,but after many tutorials and trying everything ,nothing ,I think the problem is something else ,but cant figure it out what

[heady quartz]

For the base controller yes they use c++ but otherthings are mostly blueprints

[teal sparrow]

does anyone know how to make a flare vfx like this 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_dUrPjNPwE

[plush yew]

how long should it be taking to build a project on a different engine version?

[untold wedge]

@plush yew Yeah,about that ,that might be the problem

[viral flame]

yea fuck it going back to blueprints

[gaunt tide]

Damn just noticed my trees collision is like 20ft instead of its actual size

[quiet token]

how do i get this to open up on my other screen maximized ?

[dawn kelp]

Welchen suchalgorythmus verwendet die UE array contains?

What searching alogrythm des Array contains use?

[spiral island]

when I try to package my project, the packaging fails, because this field is not set

if I type anything into this field, it gets blanked out as soon as I close the window. How can I set this field?

[dawn kelp]

Thanks

[spiral island]

pressing enter selects the text @plush yew

but that did seem to keep the value, i'll try packaging now

[scarlet birch]

Do I need to do something with scale when moving a rigged fbx from Blender to UE? I'm seeing an issue with a rope I've rigged and modeled that I think has something to do with scale on the bones. I've applied all transforms.
@scarlet birch Answering my own question, part of the problem had nothing to do with scale. The joint I was attaching the character to didn't have a physics body attached. Using a joint that did fixed one issue. I still have a weird issue with attaching anything to the joint with inherited scale that I don't know the cause of.

[heady quartz]

Did you really not try pressing enter before 😂😂

[untold wedge]

@plush yew Nothing :/

@plush yew I tried many textures ,but nothing worked properly , POM - I'll try 🙂

[weary basalt]

Does anyone know if the ShooterGame project has Steam Achievements?

[scarlet birch]

I don't think it has Steam setup

[fallen marten]

Generic shooter does

[viral flame]

okay, i tried to go back to blueprints and now am wondering: why cant i go back from crouching to standing?

heres the blueprint

perhaps i forgot something?

[scarlet birch]

@weary basalt I was wrong. It does have it and the achievements stuff should work.

[weary basalt]

👍

[viral flame]

uhh

did i set up something wrong

[scarlet birch]

What's wrong with the built in crouch/uncrouch?

[viral flame]

it's too snappy

and isnt smooth

[fallen marten]

@viral flame you haven't set a value for it to stand back to

[scarlet birch]

Your mesh is snapping?

[viral flame]

im not using ANY meshes

only a capsule

it just doesnt have any smooth animation for crouching

once you crouch

your camera just snaps down

[scarlet birch]

Is the capsule going to be your final pawn?

[viral flame]

i dont think i plan to make a static mesh for the character

[scarlet birch]

Then the issue is the camera moving, not the capsule change

You might be making it harder than it needs to be to fix

[untold wedge]

@plush yew So the material is not the problem ,its something else

[viral flame]

@plush yew still nothing

[scarlet birch]

Are you using a spring arm?

[viral flame]

using what?

[scarlet birch]

...

[fallen marten]

@viral flame disconnect your capsule from lerp b and set a new variable

[viral flame]

im making AN FPS CONTROLLER

not a third person controller

@fallen marten a completely new one?

or changing the old one?

[fallen marten]

Yes. Once you set it on the first timeline play, it is trying to lerp back to the Hight you've already set it

[scarlet birch]

Get capsule scaled half height feed that into a lerp and use the output to set the half height

[viral flame]

im having a hard time visualizing this to actually understand it

oh

so im not lerping it to the actual height the capsule is by default without crouching

[fallen marten]

Boom

[viral flame]

my brain is exploding

so i guess scrap whatever i was doing with the crouching

[untold wedge]

@plush yew If you look at the object it looks it should work ,but then I apply it to landscape and it doesnt work

[fallen marten]

No just add a variable. One to stand, one to the Crouch hieght. Lerp between them

Easy

[viral flame]

i mean, i already do have those?

crouchheight

standheight

so i disconnect the crouched half height and?

[scarlet birch]

I'd rename those so they explicitly inform you they're target values and not current

[viral flame]

so swap the names?

[scarlet birch]

If you're storing your target halfheigt in a var it will be easier to understand later if it's named something like Target_

maybe that's just me though

[viral flame]

well im confused and gotta go anyway since its like 2:27 am and i have been staying up a lot

[fallen marten]

Just be logical

And Keep it simple

[viral flame]

well im not logical at all and just watched a video since i completely dont understand how to make smooth crouching

[dense hatch]

I'm trying to make and use a post process material and it works... but only in 16:9 aspect ratio. in any other aspect ratio it breaks, like it's aligned to the left side of the screen

[viral flame]

well i know that from LUA i think

lerp is basically a thing that turns the objects, say, position from A to B

in LUA you can lerp CFrame and thats mainly what its used for

[scarlet birch]

Interpolating from one value to another

[viral flame]

yea

interpolation

thats the word

okay Lua then

[scarlet birch]

The L is for linear. It's describing how it gets there.

or what's changing

[untold wedge]

@plush yew I tried to place the texture to some objects and still doesnt work properly

[viral flame]

i just dont get it at all

what i have to do

to actually achieve what i need to

since i have limited time pleasehelpmemyparentsaregoingtofuckingkillmeforstayinguplateyesidohaveparentsdontcallmeoutforthatyesimnot18

okay so i go from standing to crouching

okay

now

B = desired TARGET "standing height"?

like the actual height of the capsule without being crouched?

ah so i have to swap them or something?

[scarlet birch]

You need to be using the current value and moving towards a value. That setup is not good because it's not using the current value.

[viral flame]

so only one

yea this is totally not making me want to die

[scarlet birch]

That depends on the direction of the value coming out of the timeline

It's also not the current value

[viral flame]

i just dont understand what i fucking have to do

make a new variable?

make it the ACTUAL capsule height but a duplicate or some shit?

i dont fucking get it

i mean ISNT THIS THE HEIGHT BEFORE IT GOES CROUCHED?

okay

yeah

but now

i just dont understand anything at all

i do understand that i have a lerp

and i need to go from the height before crouching

to the height where the capsule is crouched

wdym constant forever

[untold wedge]

@plush yew It really look like It should work ,but after applying it to any surface/object ,it just doesnt work

[viral flame]

and for some reason it isnt

the reverse does not make it go from crouched to standing

these are my variables

i DID

and it did nothing

i connected it back since it did nothing

so, i connect it to the reverse from end

and just swap A and B

[untold wedge]

@plush yew I'll do it tomorow ,had enough of this ,4 hours and still nothing 😄 need some sleep for this

[viral flame]

yes it does work but

not going back to standing

and what instead?

this?

okay i made a new variable

now what do i have to set it up from

event beginplay?

what if i dont know the default one?

if i were to make my game realistic i wouldnt do this at all then

yknow i just want something to put on a hand rig and work from there

still wont work

it still doesnt reverse it

oop

it still wont work

goddamn

it fucking is in b

what is this then

well same here

i guess i should be an artist instead of a developer

i have no chances without any logic

[bleak widget]

hi everyone. How to reduce num of used tex. samples ?

just 2 textures with no alpha

[viral flame]

okay i guess im not getting any help

im too stupid

okay

fuck this i give up again

[bleak widget]

yeap i'm too

😄

it will be so much problem for multilayer landscape material

[viral flame]

too bad you are not allowed to hold guns in this country

cause then id probably stop typing mid conversation

[bleak widget]

oh my gun is my mind

[viral flame]

yknow id love to fucking suffocate myself right now

cause this issue has not only drained someone else's energy

but made me want to fucking reconsider my life choices

cause first: im illogical, i make no sense, i do not understand any fucking english and am not able to do anything besides infinitely say that i can do something

[bleak widget]

hey bro, just stop

it enougth

[viral flame]

i cant

i guess i give up yet again cause im inconsistent

[quasi meteor]

Can I release/distribute a game under GNU/GPL license leaving unreal engine entirely seperate for people to obtain through proper channels?

not asking for legal advice disclaimer this is made up scenario

[viral flame]

i guess none will help me cause now everyone knows how stupid i am

[quasi meteor]

Also in this scenario the game is also published and licensed properly. Its just the code that I want to run through unreal engine which i wish to make public

[viral flame]

okay none fucking cares about my shit i see

[sweet relic]

@quasi meteor afaik as long as you don't include any editor code/content you can release your own code under whatever license you choose

IANAL tho

[quasi meteor]

I emailed the software freedom law center waiting to hear back for sure.

[viral flame]

okay none cares i guess its over

[quasi meteor]

because I think the order matters maybe. If I push an update out to my commercial game containing code I didn't officially publish through GNU/GPL first what takes precidence etc lol

but I equate it to writing down C++ code with pen and paper and then later deciding to use that code in other ways, it doesnt become someone elses that makes 0 sense

[viral flame]

so i guess none can help me anymore right

[plush yew]

Hello everyone, I need some help in regards to emissive Materials, I have created a character and applies an emissive mat on it, unfortunately Im getting some artifacts if I move or turn to fast. Any way to fix this issue?

[hexed jasper]

How do I change the directory of the quixel download folder? Whenever I move the main folder to my D drive it puts in back in my C drive when I download a new material

[manic pawn]

@quasi meteor unreal engine is incompatible with GPL

[little falcon]

It seems that i cannot do vertex paint on landscape, when i select the landscape and switch to mesh paint mode, the paint button greyed out

[quiet token]

how to maximize window threw console command?? or any c++ function that can do this ?

[sonic bane]

Probably a dumb question - How can I code in Unreal Engine (like without block code)? This picture is the block code, so how can I make with code?

[runic quiver]

I usually put all my games publicly on github. If I get some paid marketplace assets, I won't be able to do that anymore right? How do you guys deal with that?

@plush yew good idea, thanks

[exotic thicket]

Well this is a bit disappointing... paper sprites apparently do not support getting UV's on hit, even though it's pretty much just a plane

Slap the sprite on a static mesh plane and hey look it works 🤔

[plush yew]

I'm making meshes in blender. Do I have to unwrap cylinders and other shapes?

the default texture is stretched

[scarlet birch]

Yes. Unless you use materials that are aligned some other way

Unwrapping is probably a lot cheaper though

[sharp kindle]

So I have 2 problems with packing for android, first as you can see is the textures don't load in all the way for the ground, (don't worry about the buildings they are not textures atm) and second as you can also see is that some of the grass/tree foliage is really dark almost black.. What could be the problem here?

[barren flume]

I was wondering what the difference between Resonance Audio by Google vs Steam Audio is

or what would be the better choice

[empty oracle]

can you combine different projects into one?

[scarlet birch]

migrate

[gilded plinth]

Has anyone tried to package for win64 on 4.25.1 yet? I'm getting consistent crashes in all projects as soon as the package location window pops up

[fierce lance]

@gilded plinth looks like the compiler is not finding the api stuff for windows might check compiler settings ???

[bold wyvern]

If I am working on a long-term project in Unreal that I intend to publish, should I stick to one version of the engine, or keep upgrading as new versions come out? I have been encountering compatibility issues with the latter approach.

[gilded plinth]

@fierce lance I just tested on a freshly created project and same crash

where would i check compiler settings?

[fierce lance]

what are you working on

[gilded plinth]

In what sense?

[fierce lance]

windows ios ???

[gilded plinth]

i'm on win 10 and packaging for win 64

I was packaging fine no problem this morning

only thing i changed on my comp was 4.25.1

[fierce lance]

by packaging what are you talking about l

finished game type

[gilded plinth]

development

should i try other types?

[fierce lance]

you compiling from sorce

[gilded plinth]

nope

[fierce lance]

ok so just launch editor and then load project any at all crash

[gilded plinth]

My steps are: 1) load project 2)

and then in 1 second it will crash

before i have a chance to select folder

I just tried creating a new project through the launcher/editor also and that new project also crashes the same

[fierce lance]

I am updating it now lol just seen it was there not 5 min ago lol

[gilded plinth]

I have a second computer and I just got my big project onto it through source control. The second computer has 4.25 (without the hotfix) and i can package!

i'm freaking out lol, deadline hehe

[fierce lance]

ok use the editor to migrate your project crap i don't have one to test all mine are 4.25 and compiled so i can play with chaos

[kind dew]

can i migrate assets to a folder inside of the content folder? It gives me that warning saying it needs to be in the content folder so I am worried

[gilded plinth]

Not sure what you are suggesting Seth

@kind dew no i don't believe you can. but migrating respects files structure

so if you migrate a file inside a folder /Content/Folder/Foo.uasset, It will appear in the new project as /Content/Folder/Foo.uasset

[kind dew]

yea okay

I wanted to keep my content folder clean

[gilded plinth]

don't we all : )

[kind dew]

oh well. Seems like a wierd thing to enforce

[gilded plinth]

There's a lot going on behind the scenes in the Content folder with redirectors especially

I'm sure there are reasons : )

[shell bay]

why is movable lighting sooo much darker?? help

[lusty night]

if anyone here knows how to create a UTexture2DArray asset in the editor please tell me. Or even knows how to create a class that extends from UTexture2DArray

[fierce lance]

@gilded plinth do you have visual studio

[gilded plinth]

yes

community 2019 and code

i build in visual studio community sometimes because i do c++ UE4

[fierce lance]

well i am using 17 and i created new 3rd and the started package win 64

so far so good

[gilded plinth]

gotcha. I was just chatting in packaging channel and we decided it could be my installation

so i uninstalled ue4 4.25.1

rebooted and i'm now downloading it again/installing

will be done in 10 min and i'll make a third person and try and package

[gilded plinth]

@fierce lance still crashing : /

[fierce lance]

@gilded plinth do you have the windows sdk installed to vs19

[gilded plinth]

Yes, i'll tell you the version

btw 4.24.3 packages no problem!

There is one new version in individual compoonents

which version are you using?

I also have .net framework 4.8 sdk

@fierce lance are you on the same version?

yours may be older if you're using vs 2017

[fierce lance]

yup i am using a older compiler and i know they are still working in 17

[gilded plinth]

@fierce lance i can build in vs 2019 np

just tested my advanced project

[fierce lance]

@gilded plinth got me

[candid falcon]

am I the only one who kinda wishes there was native .blend support?

[frosty perch]

Hi, I'm new here. Foliage drag and drop doesn't work. any help?

im trying to drop grass

i will drop it and it wont do anything

[gilded plinth]

Could anyone 4.25.1 go to project settings/package and click the three dots on staging directory and let me know if they crash or not? I'm crashing consistently in any project new or old

[frosty perch]

@gilded plinth ok i will

I'm in project settings and I can't find this "staging directory" you're talking about

oh I found it

no I'm not crashing

works like a charm

[gilded plinth]

@frosty perch do you have vs community installed? do you mind telling me what .net framework sdk you have installed?

[frosty perch]

I'm new here... all I did was install epic games launcher and install unreal engine

[gilded plinth]

and what win 10 sdk

ahh ok

[frosty perch]

hey

please dont go

do you think maybe you can help me now ?

I cant drag and drop foliage

im new

[gilded plinth]

you gotta look up the foliage tutorials : ) there are multiple ways to use foliage

[hexed jasper]

dragging in foliage into that section shouldn’t be hard I just did that like 10 minutes ago : P

[frosty perch]

no no no I did that already

I know

[hexed jasper]

I don’t see why it wouldn’t work

[frosty perch]

i drag it there and release it and nothing happens

i just want to use grass

[hexed jasper]

Where did you download the grass

[gilded plinth]

you need to make sure you're trying to put the right type of asset there

[hexed jasper]

^^

[frosty perch]

startercontent/media

startercontent/materials* grass

i didnt download the grass it came with the engine

its a stock grass

[gilded plinth]

what type of asset it is?

hover over it

[frosty perch]

@gilded plinth @hexed jasper

[hexed jasper]

Ah there’s your problem, that is a material, you need to drag in an actual 3D model into the foliage section

If you are trying to get that grass texture onto an object just drag that material onto the object in your viewport

[frosty perch]

so how do i find the 3d model

and im so happy right now that you know whats wrong ty sm

ive been at this for hours

[hexed jasper]

Haha all good man

[frosty perch]

unistalling reinstalling even tried old versions of unreal engine

[hexed jasper]

You gotta find a 3D model that you like, the best bet is to find one on Quixel Megascans

[frosty perch]

what button do I click to use it

well to open up third party 3d models

im assuming thats what quixel is

[hexed jasper]

This is something you gotta do outside of Unreal Engine

[frosty perch]

and thanks this is all i wanted to know i just wanted to use grass I want to make a spooky house in a forest

always wanted to make maps

spooky maps

[hexed jasper]

Yoo im trying to do the same thing

Go onto quixel.com

[gilded plinth]

hehe that's cool, but wvm, take it slow. You have a lot of basics to cover

i suggest finding some tutorials that take you through it step by step

[frosty perch]

i tried but they are so boring no offense

well

[gilded plinth]

you're definitely trying to shortcut too much if you don't know what a material asset is

[frosty perch]

i guess thats why im here though

yeah true

[hexed jasper]

Yeah I made that mistake of just trying to make my idea without tutorials

[frosty perch]

sorry

[gilded plinth]

and i'm not gonna indulge that : )

[frosty perch]

they got like 40 part series just for 3 of the videos to be what i actually wanted to know

[hexed jasper]

Well you wanna learn how to make some sort of horror forest i presume?

[frosty perch]

wooden small dilapidated shack house in a forest at dusk or dawn whichever is almost dark but not exactly

not a ton of trees around the house

it'll be fun to make i think

[hexed jasper]

I would learn the basics of how to put a material onto a cube at first

[frosty perch]

yeah sorry, its just the guy was taking so long to get to the point in the video even at x2 speed I almost fell asleep

and i wont get anything done if im asleep

not his fault its just hard for me to pay attention to things I'm not particularly interested in at the moment

im just like, let me play around in the engine and see where it goes

[hexed jasper]

I was in the same page man I couldn’t make it thru a tutorial without giving up but you say that “it will be fun to make” and I gotta say that it will be even more fun when you learn new things. You may not get your spooky forest on the first attempt but if you keep on learning new ideas and watching tutorials on YouTube you will progress faster 👍

[frosty perch]

thanks

I'll finish the tutorials. Just wanted to scratch the itch of creation for a second and place some grace on terrain for fun I guess. I know I need to finish them.

Thanks for your words and especially your help my dude

[hexed jasper]

Yeah no problem if you need any help just DM me or ask some people around here 👍👍

[gilded plinth]

FML, I thought my crashes had to do specifically with the staging directory for packaging but actually, these three dots are crashing also

Just trying to create a project!

[brittle gulch]

The Launcher needs hell of an update! It's so slow...

[ashen ermine]

Anyone experiencing crashed on compile - sometimes - after modifying structs?

[brave pebble]

Why does my UE4 crash whenever there is anything compiling when I press inside viewport

Is this normal or it's just me

[ember raven]

Is it possible to bring Schematic(minecraft Buildings etc) to unreal engine?

[brave pebble]

i can't find anything online

[timid grotto]

Anyone on win7 upgraded to 4.25.1? Can you launch the project? In the forum someone wrote that they get a crash before the interface error we're now getting.

[exotic cave]

I installed 4.25. No project upgrades yet.

It was a beast to launch it first time.

I have a bonzo i9/2080/ssd rig and it still took forever to launch, but it seems spicy so far 😄

[exotic thicket]

I wonder why do the docs etc. on the cheatmanager class talk about how it's a blueprint but... you can't even do anything with it in BP's :P All of the useful stuff like... cheats with console commands... is just C++

[exotic cave]

I wish the volumetric sky was built into the starter content, it really deserves it

[frank oar]

Is it possible to make a Navmeshbounds volume ignore a mesh ?

I ask because I am using this mesh for another navmeshbounds volume in the air, but it is blocking the one on the floor and
creating an area which I can not get into/move around in (if that makes sense)

[wary wave]

actors should have a flag on them somewhere that says how they should be treated when generating nav meshes

[scarlet birch]

@gilded plinth My guess would be some temp file, cache, or other intermediate file held over from before you updated is causing an issue. If you haven't already I'd delete what you can in Saved, Build, and Intermediate directories. Maybe also the .Vs directory.

[frank oar]

@wary wave the higher mesh Is invisible in play, I need to be able to navigate under as well as on top of it.

[wary wave]

you may want to change your generation settings if you need to be able to navigate over it

[scarlet birch]

Use a nav mesh filter

[wary wave]

it sounds more like the agent is taller than the characters it's generating for

[scarlet birch]

or the collision on the platform is bigger than the visible mesh

[wary wave]

also possible

[merry flower]

How can i copy some objects transform (location, rotation, scale) and copy to another object?

[summer musk]

@merry flower right click on the word transform and select copy, then do the same on the other object and select paste

[merry flower]

right click the one in details?

[frank oar]

@scarlet birch looks like the collision is tightly bound to the actual geometry.

I haven't heard of a nav mesh filter before, Ill look

[merry flower]

https://i.gyazo.com/9469ac7b10136adaec20e274ebd756bf.mp4

[scarlet birch]

Vanilla likely had it right with first comment.

[merry flower]

am i dumb xd

yeah i am

lol

figuured it out thx

https://gyazo.com/325b702ece5a6df99dd85e2bbb969797

[frank oar]

@wary wave I need to be able to navigate below as well as above.

[merry flower]

damn im dumbo

[scarlet birch]

Look at the nav mesh settings there's something about height or area needed.

[frank oar]

would that be in project settings ? thats where I am currently looking.

[scarlet birch]

no idea, more likely it's on the nav mesh volume

I don't recall exactly and don't have an editor open

[frank oar]

thank you anyway, I am going to keep messing with it for a little while.

[exotic thicket]

What's the licensing with Marketplace plugins? I'm noticing that if I add a plugin which my other team members don't have, they get a nag screen about it... I notice I can just send the files for the plugin over, but not sure if that's gonna break some license or something :P

Oh nevermind of course I find the answer to it immediately after asking

Yes, you can share Marketplace products with your team but only for the limited purpose of the project that you are jointly developing.

In case anyone else is curious.

[exotic cave]

That is indeed good to know!

[modern sinew]

My button's "On Click" event isn't triggering, anyone know why?

[astral phoenix]

Hello, Is there any1 that knows how to do so more than 1 person can edit a project via WIFI and not LAN? like a multiplayer session 🙂

[frank oasis]

@astral phoenix you do the wrong questions here

[astral phoenix]

@frank oasis idk where that question need to go sorry :/

[frank oasis]

not its ok to post here

just wrong question

[astral phoenix]

what do u mean?

[frank oasis]

you mean internet not wifi lan is is a network of local computers and internet is the worldwide network of computers

[astral phoenix]

ohh.. but still the same question xD

[frank oasis]

also to do internet you must create your own server no matter if its for fun purposse or to play with friend you need a server and then you can make some programming in unreal

my suggest is go off to create lan option

and use hamachi server to play with your friends and ppls

thats way you still can make a room of alot ppls depend alway on the game if its co op of 4 ppls for ex you can create a server in hamachi and invite your friends

if its mmorp kind off i can give you a link

[astral phoenix]

i dont want to ''play'' with friends i want so i me and my team can work on a project on the same time but we are in diffrent citys

[frank oasis]

oh oh you mean the project in the unreal

thinked you mean game

[astral phoenix]

yeah? did u even read my text? xD

[frank oasis]

If you are in a newer version of UE4, he can just go to File -> Package project -> Zip Up Project, and then upload the project. If you want to simultaneously work on the project, you can do that using source control.

@astral phoenix hope thats helps you

im not sure how its work

but there arent any other option when your are across only by zip it to compress the memory and send it

and as you see there is a source control of how your work together

[astral phoenix]

source control? what do u mean?

[frank oasis]

im not sure its copy paste man but from what i understand its only one way zip upload wait a bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k1c1Io16q0

it explains it

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Basics/SourceControl/InEditor/index.html

here its showing everything about the source controll

[astral phoenix]

this just save files?

[frank oasis]

what you mean

this is the purposse actualy to save your files and send them over to your friend connect somehow i dont know the way but it explains it in source control inside unreal editor and work together everytime he do something and you miss it your project will update from him and vise versa

just watch the video look the source control and do this File -> Package project -> Zip Up Project

[astral phoenix]

so we cant see each other like in this video?

https://youtu.be/MPIpOdNmNGE?t=2

[frank oasis]

let me check and i tell you

[plush yew]

Hi guys

Do you know UEFY script ?? As long as I understand, it's a script for RIGIDIFY (add-on for blender) in order to export characters' skeleton properly in UE4... Does it mean that I can't export blender's characters properly in UE without this script ?? 🤔

[frank oasis]

@astral phoenix this seem legit did you try it ? you just need to create one session on the pc with the project and the other pc which is intent to work together about the assets the same assets you have he will be able to use

im not sure if he can even have control over it

[astral phoenix]

@frank oasis i tried but my team could not join the session, im not sure if its because we are in diffrent citys

[frank oasis]

@astral phoenix OH NOW I REALISE IT

cause its only lan

or some vpn made connection

here one idea from me

go to hamachi site https://www.vpn.net/

install the hamachi thing create a server yourself maybe you need to register but its free

tell your friends name or ip whatever

actualy wait

[astral phoenix]

i will wait then

[frank oasis]

@astral phoenix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tFXNpYZcdc

just do the install of this hamachi thing

and create a server invite your friend with ip

let him join up after this follow the guide you send me with the unreal webinar thing

hamachi connects your friend pc to your server and read them like they are in the same local areal

area *

[astral phoenix]

i see i will try that!

[frank oasis]

also

as you know for ex you download steam cracked games right ? some of them have local games that must be connected to steam server and play via friendlist right ?

[astral phoenix]

no, idk

[frank oasis]

and if your game are cracked it will never work on steam

so hamachi do the job and you can play most local games if the games are cracked

[astral phoenix]

but what have cracked games to do with anything?

[frank oasis]

just logic

well forget it do what i just told you up and all should be fine dont forget to do the ip configuration in the unreal too

[astral phoenix]

ohh okay, i will try to see if Hamachi works ty 🙂

[frank oasis]

now about the assets i think its possible to send files over too for ex if he needs a new model or icon or something in the unreal for ex it would take time cause hamachi connection is is not made for this kind of thing your should communicate and you download any asset is needed for the project and put it in unreal yourself

so he can work with whatever you put there

[sudden forge]

hey guys im trying to edit the third person template to adjust the movement of the character and im having trouble figuring out how to access the code of the included character. any idea how i can get that?

[frank oasis]

@sudden forge the speed or the animation ?

[sudden forge]

just different properties of it, but mostly mechanical changes

[frank oasis]

the speed on the third person is like 300 you can lower the speed or make it higher but the animation remains the same

[sudden forge]

the speed is fine, just i wanna tweak the jumping and midair movement

or do i have to make a custom character to do that?

[frank oasis]

well if you want to change the way hes jumping etc

then yes you need to do custom char cause the animation for the manequin in the 3rd person template have its own animation you cant change anything thats already are made

unless you use manequins fbx to use an animator and change anything you want

but the code is surely changeable just the animation wont change by any way not even if you try to code

[sudden forge]

im not interested in changing the animations really. i think they are fine for now

i just need to edit the code

how can i do that

[frank oasis]

then its possible go into the third person BP

oops wrong

go into the Manequin file

Animations

and choose the ThirdPersonAnimBP

there should be all the code on how the manequin behave

[sudden forge]

would that not be changning how the animations work, not the character itself?

[plush yew]

Is it mandatory to download the unreal engine nvidia wave work version for nvidia wave work or is there something plugin style

[sudden forge]

yeah @frank oasis this is animation controlling

[frank oasis]

@sudden forge did i indicate you the wrong thing ?

i mean you asked to change th mechanics of the character

[sudden forge]

yes

not the animations

its also called ThirdPerson_AnimBP

[frank oasis]

yes ?

[sudden forge]

this is animations, not behavior

i want to edit the behavior

[next badger]

to edit movement you have to use c++ and make custom movement component
or take a look on functions that let you hook to it in BP, if there any

[sudden forge]

im totally fine with using c++

i just need to know how

[next badger]

well, it's all in CMC

if it's not included in original, you have to inherit, override and pass it back to character

afaik it's possible to edit air control w/o c++

[sudden forge]

what do you mean "CMC"? im not familiar

[next badger]

Character Movement Component

[sudden forge]

ah alright

so just make a class that inherits that, then override what i need

then i can replace the current class on my character with my custom one

[next badger]

no just, you also need to pass that component back to character and add few custom functions

[sudden forge]

oh so i can do everything inside the current component?

[next badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of8SGBa3WvU

[sudden forge]

oh cool thanks

[jaunty wadi]

Is it normal with flickering when resetting location of something to 0 0 0?

It does that 10 times per second

I am just starting out from the official UE4 learning courses, and I came across this

Issue disappears if I use 0 0 -1 or 0 0 1

[rocky radish]

it's because the object in 0 0 0 is intersecting with the grid

so it will cause the flickering in 0 0 0

[jaunty wadi]

Yes, what is the workaround?

Should I not use 0 0 0 as he said in the video?

[rocky radish]

it won't happen in game

but you can simply put it at 0 0 1 or 0 0 -1

if it's bothering you

[jaunty wadi]

I see, thank you! 🙂

[rocky radish]

you're welcome 😄

[cold venture]

I am having a wee bit issue with alpha brushes can I dm anyone with the issue?

please @ me I might miss it thank you

[fiery moat]

THANK THE LORD OF CODE AND EPIC, MY UNREAL UPDATED!

[rocky radish]

lol

[fiery moat]

thank you too for sharing my happiness

[rocky radish]

😄

[fiery moat]

now I must make the starting area of my game

a spaceship good thing I got all those packs

uh oh I need help how can i make building parts snap on each other?

[merry flower]

is there any way i can shift select or something? https://gyazo.com/8b9ae7c646d6922c45b8110366accfea

i dont want to go one by one in there XDD

[fiery moat]

I think you should be able to box-select them

I dunno if it works tho

[rocky radish]

uh oh I need help how can i make building parts snap on each other?
@fiery moat snap?

[fiery moat]

stick to the sides or top so that they shape a proper building-ish object

[rocky radish]

i think you can, hold up

[fiery moat]

hold up?

[rocky radish]

no i meant for you to wait

so i check if you can

[merry flower]

cant box-select idk :/

[rocky radish]

i forgot the comma

[fiery moat]

oh ok lol

[rocky radish]

done now it makes sense

wow my pc is slow today

if you press v it snaps to other objects aparently (pressing v while moving an object )

it feels really weird to use tho

[fiery moat]

oh thx

[rocky radish]

its vertex snapping

[fiery moat]

I saw

it is doable

[merry flower]

umm

so basically i want this hand to move up n stuff like this https://gyazo.com/2d82d3f6749b10fe5e3a887a91c54094

[fiery moat]

how can i make the player see from a different camera until the character hits a trigger?

[merry flower]

but it messes it up like this:: https://gyazo.com/f4a7506fd95138b6177a7028f26e8754

[fallen marten]

@fiery moat set view target with blend. It blends between whatever cameras are referenced

[fiery moat]

how can I do that?

[fallen marten]

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/blueprints-visual-scripting/9781789347067/def6cb09-5113-4e7b-80ca-5a971e98a872.xhtml

That page was almost first google search man -vjew blend is a simple thing to setup

[fiery moat]

I just started

also how can I teleport the character?

[merry flower]

can someone help me with the animation?

[fiery moat]

where do I apply those node commands you showed me @fallen marten ? (sorry for pinging)

[runic yoke]

Hi. I need widget to have both text and image and I need to place it on a grid. How can I do so? What container should I use for image and text?

[fiery moat]

I am having massive trouble trying to put together those nodes from the link help

[merry flower]

Idk why it's flying away when i just want it to move smoothly. Any ideas how to fix this? https://gyazo.com/7f1cedc60ce7f5d381dfb531f6308d5c

[ember shadow]

hello, for some reason when i import my mesh from blender the light only appears when put in the mesh and doesnt show when ontop of the mesh. Any fixes please?

[restive vale]

Could it be a flip normals problem?

[ember shadow]

how do i fix that?

[restive vale]

https://www.google.com/search?q=blender+flip+normals&oq=blender+flip+normals&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l7.2227j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[ember shadow]

cheers

[fiery moat]

help I am having big trouble blending cameras, my head is about to explode

[gaunt spoke]

Hello! Does anyone know if you can edit an existing data table in UE4? I want to edit the existing rows, not add a new one. But wasn't sure if you could edit existing ones or if I need to make a new one from scratch in Excel and import. Thanks in advance!

[ember shadow]

@restive vale nope, doesnt fix it 😭

[restive vale]

😦

@gaunt spoke In editor or runtime?

[fleet cosmos]

@gaunt spoke can't edit datatable in runtime

[gaunt spoke]

Sorry for the confusion. Was not trying to edit in run time. Was simply trying to change an existing one.

I exported and realized the data table was pulling info from a struct. So all I had to do was add a variable to the struct to get it to populate in the data table.

[midnight gate]

hey im working on a cutscene for my game and its a bit long so im wondering what are your preferences on cutscenes should i cut it down a bit or keep it long https://www.strawpoll.me/20259184

[fiery moat]

I have created a very basic teleportation node series but it is not working what am i doing wrong? (how can I take a screenshot?)

[fleet cosmos]

press print screen on your keyboard and paste in MSPaint

[fiery moat]

nvm I found out how

ok now I need help. I want to add a node to the player character to start an event once the character touches a trigger

[fleet cosmos]

depending what you want, the best thing is make the trigger make the action

and not add stuff inside your character blueprint that other object can have

[fiery moat]

ok

[fleet cosmos]

make a blueprint, add a collision to it, than add a event "On overlap" and make sure only the character trigger it

[fiery moat]

well I need the teleport node

ok

[fleet cosmos]

you want to teleport the character between triggers?

[fiery moat]

no from the trigger to a location

[fleet cosmos]

you need a reference for this location, position or object

[fiery moat]

I placed a cube to that spot

and got the coordinates

[fleet cosmos]

make a blueprint only for the teleport position

[fiery moat]

on what actor?

[fleet cosmos]

a actor, yes

for the teleport trigger too

[fiery moat]

um could you be more descriptive?

[fleet cosmos]

than add a variable like "teleport name", than when you go teleport you can find this other actor in the world and see if is the name you want

this is a easy and good way

2 actors, 1 to start the teleport and other the position for the teleport

than you add a variable of "name" type inside each of those actors, when you trigger the first actor it find with "get all actors from actor class" the other actor type and see if is the same name

if you want to go back to the position other the other teleport, you make it only 1 actor

than you add 2 of this actor, and they teleport between each other

[fiery moat]

I don't want the player to teleport to its previous spot

[fleet cosmos]

its good to know how to use Interface, than you create a interface of Teleporter type and make tha communication easier

[fiery moat]

what type of variable should teleport name be?

also the teleport variable should be a public node/

[fleet cosmos]

you can use "Name" variable type and dont need to be public because you will set it and don't change in the level

the way to trigger only characters is to set the trigger to only overlap with pawn

[fiery moat]

ok

[fresh rampart]

Hi everyone, I just started using Unreal and started with the First person project, and im trying to do some first person sword skyrim'y stuff
I have my mesh with attack animations, and because the first person project used an Animation Montage to play the fire animation, i kept with it for the slash animation
but now, i want to only allow a second slash animation after the first ends.
I having trouble understanding the docs if there is a "anim montage ended" so i can code it, or if I should go and put the attack animation in the animation blueprint

[rocky radish]

Hi everyone, I just started using Unreal and started with the First person project, and im trying to do some first person sword skyrim'y stuff
I have my mesh with attack animations, and because the first person project used an Animation Montage to play the fire animation, i kept with it for the slash animation
but now, i want to only allow a second slash animation after the first ends.
I having trouble understanding the docs if there is a "anim montage ended" so i can code it, or if I should go and put the attack animation in the animation blueprint
@fresh rampart do you want the second animation to play right after the first ends or do you want to alternate the animations each time you press the attack button?

[fresh rampart]

alternate

[rocky radish]

you can use a flipflop node or a boolean to check if it is the first animation

in the flipflop case in the A you can put the first animation and in the B you can put the second one

[fresh rampart]

im using c++

[rocky radish]

ok, you can make a bool in c++

and a switch

case true it's the first animation case false the second one

and you toggle that bool each time you press the button

[fresh rampart]

but i dont want the player to press attack while the first animation is still running because it will cut it short and play the second animation

[rocky radish]

you can just make a timer for the time between each slash

[fresh rampart]

i have that bool and an if, to alternate already

[fiery moat]

@fleet cosmos I am sorry for pinging but the text is hard to make out (I am not so good at understanding stuff in general) could you show me the blueprint itself?

if you have time to make a makeshift one of course

[fresh rampart]

Danielll, how would i make that timer
currently i have binded to lmb a function that does this

        if (!alternateAttack) {
            AnimInstance->Montage_Play(AttackAnimation, 1.f);
        } else {
            AnimInstance->Montage_Play(AlternateAttackAnimation, 1.f);
        }
        alternateAttack = !alternateAttack;

But this means if you press twice very fast, it will play the AttackAnimation and then halfway it will blend out and play the AlternateAttackAnimation, without letting the first animation finish completely

[fleet cosmos]

Later I will show you something, I am trying to fix a crash here right now

[rocky radish]

let me open visual studio cuz i already have a timer set up to tell you how to do it

[fiery moat]

oh ok

[knotty grail]

hi anyone can help me why my 3persongamemode looks like this what can i do ??

[rocky radish]

wubbalubbadubdub just gonna check how to fit that code in this situation

[fresh rampart]

kk, no rush, thanks for the help 🙂

[merry flower]

Idk why it's flying away when i just want it to move smoothly. Any ideas how to fix this? https://gyazo.com/7f1cedc60ce7f5d381dfb531f6308d5c

[fleet cosmos]

@knotty grail click on "window" at the top and reopen the viewport, toolbar and details

[fiery moat]

um could I have that blueprint pls?

I need to have something done in my project

[rocky radish]

@fresh rampart you can use GetWorldTimerManager().SetTimer but to tell you the exact code you're gonna need i'm gonna need some time

[fresh rampart]

and i guess i would use https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/API/Runtime/Engine/Animation/UAnimMontage/CalculateSequenceLength/index.html

to know the length of the animations

[knotty grail]

@fleet cosmos thnx but do u know how can i put blocks on it im a little noob on unreal srry

[fresh rampart]

before setting the timer?

[fleet cosmos]

to trigget is something like this

[fresh rampart]

its weird there is no "OnAnimationEnd" or something?

[fiery moat]

oh thx

[rocky radish]

to know the length of the animations
@fresh rampart yes, and you can make the timer based on that

i'm not an experienced c++ programmer not gonna lie

[fresh rampart]

its hard to understand what tools are at my disposal with unreal c++ honestly
thanks for the help, ill try doing that, if i find another way ill refactor or something

[rocky radish]

ok

[fiery moat]

um on which actor should I have that blueprint?

[fleet cosmos]

in the trigger actor

[fiery moat]

the trigger box for example?

[fleet cosmos]

the actor will trigger and teleport the character

[fiery moat]

ok got it

[fleet cosmos]

the trigger box is inside the actor

[grim ore]

there is an on animation end you can bind you for animations andd montages

[hexed jasper]

Are there any free alternatives to Brushify.io?

[dawn kelp]

Hey
How would I tackle a problem, where objects should have physics but relative to a parent?
For example, I have an airship. And I want to load gargo onto it. I would like to attach the cargo as a child object to the parent (airship), so once the airship flies up, the cargo gets a relative transform and doesn't use physics to get pushed up.
However, while the airship moves up, I want to move into the cargo and it moves around (physics like).

Does that work? I would like to avoid handling transform stuff on top of physics stuff myself. For example, doing the "parenting" manual, force sleeping the child, just setting the "parent" in child, and every tick check for movement and then apply that to the child, and once I have some sort of physics event, unsleep it and apply physics to it.
Any "design idea" or "unreal way to do this" type of idea for me? please ping me.

Decided to post here as its more of a "whats the unreal way" or "design" question

[fleet cosmos]

you can attach the cargo to the airship, it will follow the air ship. the biggest problema you will have is the physics of the cargo inside the a object that is moving

[dawn kelp]

Doesn't physic simulated objects auto detach from parent? I have something like that in my mind

[jolly jungle]

guys, i made a simple landscape mesh with blender sculpting, imported it into unreal, tried to put a megascans surface on it, but it just shows up as a solid color, help?

[fleet cosmos]

yes, I think it will be attached but the physics overwrite it

[fiery moat]

um what is that get with the squares node? i can't find it

[rocky radish]

guys, i made a simple landscape mesh with blender sculpting, imported it into unreal, tried to put a megascans surface on it, but it just shows up as a solid color, help?
@jolly jungle did you make the UVs properly?

[fleet cosmos]

make a small test, with a block moving and attach a physics object to it

[jolly jungle]

dunno, i didn't know that was a thing i had to do

[rocky radish]

dunno, i didn't know that was a thing i had to do
@jolly jungle it is, otherwise the texture will be wrong

[jolly jungle]

okay, i will look at that

is there a tutorial or something?

[fleet cosmos]

click the collision and in details at the bottom "on overlap", @fiery moat

its a multiplayer game?

[rocky radish]

is there a tutorial or something?
@jolly jungle it has to be done in blender

i'm sure there are tutorials

[jolly jungle]

yes i know

thanks

[fleet cosmos]

physics in multiplier is TERRIBLE

[fiery moat]

I am not plannign on making a multiplayer game

I want to make a side scroller shooter

and the player leaves the starting area by teleporting

physics are almost inexistent btw

just the player gravity when he jumps nothing more related to physics

[dawn kelp]

make a small test, with a block moving and attach a physics object to it
@fleet cosmos Good idea actually lol. THanks for your help

[fiery moat]

oops I confused the messages XD

[fleet cosmos]

@dawn kelp I remember, now it don't follow the objected attached, the physics will need to contain the object inside the airship

[dawn kelp]

, the physics will need to contain the object inside the airship
What do you mean with that?

I remember, now it don't follow the objected attached,
Then it wont make sense to attach them

[fleet cosmos]

@fiery moat

[dawn kelp]

I just hoped that the attachment handles relative physics

[fleet cosmos]

it means that the object will be inside the airship and will move around and stay inside based on the collisions

[fiery moat]

I know but I want to know what that GET node with the squares is called

[plush yew]

so um

Ark was supposed to be free today

[dawn kelp]

it means that the object will be inside the airship and will move around and stay inside based on the collisions
but that would also be able with normal physics

[fleet cosmos]

it get all actor of a class you created, you will put "end of the teleport class" there @fiery moat

[dawn kelp]

Ah I understand

[plush yew]

anyone???????

[rocky radish]

anyone???????
@plush yew leaks were wrong lol or maybe it will be the next game

[plush yew]

RIOT

[rocky radish]

that's not related to ue4 though so you should go to #lounge

[grim ore]

did Epic say Ark was supposed to be free today?

[plush yew]

on r/freegames

it was leaked with accurate leaks

[grim ore]

so Epic posted on there saying it was going to be free today?

[plush yew]

well its Overcooked

which was already free awhile ago

bamboozled

[rocky radish]

did Epic say Ark was supposed to be free today?
@grim ore nope, the leaks that got the other games right did

[plush yew]

https://www.reddit.com/r/freegames/comments/gvxf8i/ark_will_be_for_free_on_epic_games_store_tomorrow/?sort=newhttps://www.reddit.com/r/freegames/comments/gvxf8i/ark_will_be_for_free_on_epic_games_store_tomorrow/?sort=new

[grim ore]

I am posting on Discord saying GTA6 is the next free game on the epic store. QUICK! repost it as fact!

[plush yew]

https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/gjus2q/future_free_games_on_epic_games_store_leaked/

how is that possible then

[grim ore]

so on the RUMOURS website.... it was wrong..... A RUMOUR

[plush yew]

75% true

[grim ore]

ru·mor
/ˈro͞omər/
noun
noun: rumour
a currently circulating story or report of uncertain or doubtful truth.

[plush yew]

not likely

[grim ore]

anywhoo like they said, this is not UE4 related so #lounge if you want to find out why epic didnt release the game for free like they said they would

[rocky radish]

I am posting on Discord saying GTA6 is the next free game on the epic store. QUICK! repost it as fact!
lol you're wrong, half life 3 will be the next free game

[grim ore]

poor HL3, always the target of being picked on lol

[rocky radish]

lol

[fleet cosmos]

I will be at blueprints

[shrewd lantern]

i cant find a help channel, are we free to just ask stuff here?

[rigid belfry]

yes

[shrewd lantern]

awesome, so im looking to make a non-moving 2d game which for the most part is just ui. Would i still go for an orthographic camera and put most clickable objects in my world because the ui can be limiting? Think of a game like cookie clicker or adventure capitalist where you basically play a hud

[grim ore]

as long as the question is not appropriate for another channel, if it is the mods will ban you for not being a good person

[shrewd lantern]

lets hope im a good person then, but i feel like its a very general question

[grim ore]

what is limiting about the UI system in UE4 that would stop the game?

[shrewd lantern]

im thinking of the hud elements that cant have a free shape and are limiting in their material, i think its called umg?

[grim ore]

so having non square clicky parts?

[shrewd lantern]

exactly

[grim ore]

yeah for the most part out of the box it doesnt support that, if you really need that then you might have to go with sprite actors or mesh actors you can click on

[shrewd lantern]

thats what i thought, thanks!

[grim ore]

you could code your own click detection and there are plugins docs out there to do it but it's a pain for the most part 😦

[shrewd lantern]

im up for the pain, have a lot of free time and want to get back into ue, its been some time

[grim ore]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/community/community-content-tools-and-tutorials/96724-free-custom-shaped-buttons-custom-hit-box-for-any-button is some older code that might be usable, uses alpha testing for the hit spots which seems like the easiest way of doing it

[shrewd lantern]

that looks great, thanks!

[dawn plover]

I'm having a big problem. Once every while UE crashes, when it does and I re-open my projectfile, the objects are still listed in the outliner, but the actual assets are gone from both the viewer and the content browser. Anybody knows why this is? If this keeps happening, it kinda is a dealbreaker considering the trust that UE can keep everything together is gone.

[merry flower]

Idk why it's flying away when i just want it to move smoothly. Any ideas how to fix this? https://gyazo.com/7f1cedc60ce7f5d381dfb531f6308d5c
@merry flower

[dawn plover]

😢 unbelievable, a full day of work, gone. UE crashed and all the assets and the settings adjustments, gone!

[cold venture]

Can anyone help me with a query related to Alpha brushes? I ran into an error

[slate basalt]

so i have a custom C++ actor that encapsulate a custom C++ ComponentA which encapsulates a custom C++ ComponentB.

if i modify ComponentA, it seems to get saved with the actor. if i modify componentB... whatever gets modified doesn't seem to get saved

any common issues regarding this?

sorry, componentB is not custom. it's a UWidgetComponent

[cold venture]

It works with other alpha not this one

[kind robin]

Hey, does anyone know if Unreal 4.25 will be the last version before UE5?

[cold venture]

Probably not

[dawn plover]

Can someone from UE please help me out here???? I lost a full day of work due to a crash!!! OMG

[cold venture]

Eh

[kind robin]

There's no much anyone can do about that, unfortunately @dawn plover
Try to save often and use source control

[dawn plover]

Yes I saved many time, yes I saved multiple levels. But with the assets gone, the settings I adjusted for each individual mesh is gone as well

[fiery moat]

I have managed to make the character teleport but now I can't make the camera go back to normal again

[dawn plover]

How on earth is this acceptable?! When a program crashes AFTER saving, everything should still be there when you relaunch

[cold venture]

Thats the exact opposite of crash

[dawn plover]

In my case UE crashes, I relaunch the project, and the actual assets, are gone, only the folders are there???

[grim ore]

maybe give it some time to reload the asets, it might be scanning. Make sure they are actually gone

or search for the assets in one of the content browsers to force a refresh, like go into the character and look at the meshes assigned to it

[cold venture]

@grim ore Yo

[dawn plover]

Oh they are gone alright, every last one of them. Just the folders of where the files used to be are there.

[fiery moat]

um hello?

[grim ore]

is this inside of the content browser in the editor or in the file explorer in your operating system?

[cold venture]

@fiery moat Uh hey

[fiery moat]

I have made a blending mechanism so that the horror of the outside of the starting area is not visible but when the player teleports the blended camera remains there I want to make it so that the original camera get turned back on when the player stops overlaping with the trigger that causes the camera blend

[dawn plover]

@grim ore both, it looks like UE deleted the files in the engine and on my hdd

[grim ore]

thats very unlikely that UE4 did that from a crash

[fiery moat]

what happens now is that the player gets teleported but the standard camera is not activating and the current blended room camera remains active instead

[dawn plover]

well I dont know what I can tell you, Im looking at my hdd folder, and only the folders exist, the actual files are gone as well

[fiery moat]

could someone pls help me?

[grim ore]

might need to submit that as a bug, seems weird that UE4 would start crashing, delete all the files while crashing, then finish crashing.

check your auto saves folder in the saved folder, some might still be in there if it deleted your content items

[fiery moat]

I would like to know if you can choose the standard camera as an actor in the blueprints

[grim ore]

the standard camera? the one in the player character?

[fiery moat]

in the side scroller the one that follows the player yes

[grim ore]

how did you switch to the other camera ?

[fiery moat]

I used a blending mechanism on the unreal documention

I just an adjustment

[grim ore]

have you tried blending it back?

[fiery moat]

hmm...

no

[grim ore]

seems like if you did it one way to get it one way, doing it the other way to get it the other way should work

[fiery moat]

that is what i am trying to do

but the adjustment I made only makes the camera go to the player character's bottom end

[grim ore]

so you did try blending it back to the players camera ?

[fiery moat]

I dunno if there is a node for that hold on

[grim ore]

well you said you blended it from the player to the other camera didnt you?

[dawn plover]

how do I trigger the autosave to reload, maybe that gives me more insight (or better, my entire project)

[fiery moat]

yeah

[grim ore]

the auto saves are files in the auto save folder, you can rename them and put them back in the correct folder(s)

[fiery moat]

um I am still here

[dawn plover]

that's 133 files that I need to rename manually?! 😮

[grim ore]

you dont have to rename them, the assets internally know what they are but you should rename them probably.

@fiery moat I dont know what else to say. You said you changed it from the player camera to another somehow right? how did you do that

[dawn plover]

sorry but I'm not a technical engineer or programmer, just an artist, I have no clue which files need to be renamed, moved, or whatever action is required, I just like to trust my program so I can use it to do my work

[fiery moat]

just check the unreal forums on camera blending

[dawn plover]

not sure why but UE didn't even asked me to load the backup or autosave or whatever it is using for terminology to recover, it just gave me empty folders while showing a log saying that it can't find the files to load, which makes sense as UE deleted the files

[forest holly]

Hello, I'm a 32 year old 3D artist. I want to learn to code games. I can do some basic things in Blueprint but I feel like it's not good enough. I don't know how to organise code, when to use classes, any of these things. How can somebody like me learn this? I feel like Youtube isn't good enough, there's just so much garbage on it it's impossible to navigate.

For example if I wanted to have a character target something and that controls whether or not they can preform actions, or what their range is, I don't know where to put this information, how to pass it between codes.

[ember shadow]

Fully colorable arcade cabinets 🤔

[grim ore]

@forest holly look at stuff like this https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/ for how to organize your thoughts and content when programming. Programming standards can also be looked up regardless of you using UE4 as a general idea. If you want to learn to code games then just do that. Even watching garbage might still teach you something but there are Epic courses available on the online learning portal and in the pinned messages above if you want less garbage

[forest holly]

Thank you

I just find most content feels mind numbingly basic or so over my head I can't comprehend it

[grim ore]

repetition for learning coding. even if it feels basic if you can't do it in your head or know what you are supposed to do before you do it then doing it again will help with that muscle memory.

[hexed jasper]

Anyone have brushify? Is it worth a buy?

[fiery moat]

ok I don't need help for now I think I found out how to fix the camera

[forest holly]

Thanks Matthew

Are there any GOOD courses for this? For 3D there are things like Cgmastersacademy where you learn really professionally from industry professionals, not just a guy making a game based on tutorials he's watched without an understanding of the fundamentals

[grim ore]

just keep at it. Even if you don't know the HOW to do it but you know the what you are supposed to do that's a good sign 🙂

[forest holly]

It looks like I need a BCS to study it at a university level

[fiery moat]

nope i did not

[grim ore]

figure out what you want to do and look for that. There are defintely good courses out there from Epic themselves as well as on Udemy or Pluralsight. Epic has a ton of curated content and more coming out

but you need to break it down to what you want to do and learn that. "making a game" is quite a few separate disciplines and things to do

[forest holly]

Good advice thank you.

very true

I'd like to make a third person warcraft style game with combat and things... but I think this is too deep to jump into because I haven't made any simple games that might teach me how to group code and things

[grim ore]

grouping code tends to come over time after you actually get to the making stuff part. Eventually you either fail over and over because stuff is broke and not organized or you start to learn how things can go together and you come up with your coding style

[fiery moat]

how can I send a screenshot of my camera blueprint?

[forest holly]

Also things like how and when to use enumerators and data structs

[grim ore]

print screen button, alt-print screen button, shift-windowskey-S. any of those work

then just paste the screenshot in here or in something like imgur

[fiery moat]

or paint ok

[hexed jasper]

I use Xbox game bar for screenshots

[grim ore]

@forest holly you learn those by figuring out what an enum and struct is then when you program you go "oh this would be a good spot for that"

[fiery moat]

here

I have a sphere trigger taking up the entire room and once the player leaves he stops overlapping with it I want to change to the normal camera once the character has stopped overlapping

[grim ore]

plug the Get Player Character node into the New View Target when they stop overlapping?

[fiery moat]

u mean duplicate the node on the right?

[grim ore]

well if your goal is to set the new view target like you did before, then yep you probably want that node again

[forest holly]

@grim ore Cheers man. I'm gonna practice then!

[fiery moat]

well it does go to the player but not to the side

[grim ore]

when you move your character now is it still messed up? what do you do with the character or camera when you are using the other camera?

[fiery moat]

I mean everything else works just fine the camera however gets placed between the legs and not the side

[grim ore]

did you change the camera or do anything weird? is the camera colliding with something in the world now?

[fiery moat]

ok let me describe the situation in the starting area there is a trigger that covers the entire area but when the player teleports outside of that part as they are supposed to be, (according to my tries) the camera either remains in the starting area or goes between the character's legs.

[grim ore]

https://i.gyazo.com/4c4c4f5729dbc63498997a964d45a24f.gif

so it sounds like your might have something blocking the camera which is causing it to have to collapse down the spring arm

[fiery moat]

almost exactly the same but the 1st get player controller is connected to the top one only ( that is what I currently have)

[grim ore]

yeah it doesnt matter if you re use that pure node

[fiery moat]

so if I make it like that it will work?

[grim ore]

no, it will not change it. it doesnt matter if you use the get player controller node 1 time or twice

i am just showing that this code, which you say you have, should work so something else is causing the issue. If the camera is in the crotch it sounds like your spring arm is colliding with something else

[fiery moat]

oh wow thx that code works out just fine

no it really does

[grim ore]

then yours was slightly different

[fiery moat]

things are turning out as planned

mine was broken

I had 2 get player controller nodes

[grim ore]

I bet you set the New View Target to Get Player Controller

and not Get Player Character

[fiery moat]

yeah I made an oopsi

anyways thx

now on to make the shooty part

can anyone show me a guide on a tutorial on how to make a side scrolling character use a gun? thx

Note: I already have the animation and weapons packs I am going to need

[grim ore]

assuming you are using the 3d side scrolling template its not different to use animations than any other 3d template like the first or third person so start there

[fiery moat]

ok

I mean my project started from the template

[unreal sable]

I got some problems after respawning the player and most widget binds don't seem to function.
In errors it says it can't find PlayerCharacterRef. (Get Player Pawn > Cast > Set PlayerCharacterRef)
I believe it has something to do with player pawn, but i'm not sure if it gets set automatically when you possess a new pawn?
In that case how do i set the new player pawn?

[grim ore]

how are you respawning the character?

[unreal sable]

Through gamemode, just like the unreal documentation example.

Better if i just show maybe.

[grim ore]

so which part of that is failing on the cast? the on destroyed callback or the respawn/begin play one

you are talking about binds for widgets but there are none here so is this not the part that is failing?

[unreal sable]

I'll make a picture.

[fresh rampart]

Hey everyone, im currently playing a sound when my melee attack hits an object with
OnComponentHit.AddDynamic -----> and then PlaySoundAtLocation
The thing is, the OnComponentHit is triggered multiple times sometimes, so the sound repeats and sounds weird
Im sure there is a quick and easy way to fix but maybe im not seeing it, anyone knows?

[unreal sable]

Sec

https://i.imgur.com/8Q0NUHa.jpg

[grim ore]

yep that makes sense

you destroy your pawn at some point so that reference is now bad

[unreal sable]

So the way i set binds in widgets for reload and other things like jet pack is the same.
But jet pack progress bar uses a bind, where as reload is a function called from the player.

[grim ore]

so you will need to tell your UI to recreate that, or have your UI make sure that is valid before using it and if it's not valid get the valid one. The issue I can see is for 4 seconds you will have no pawn at all

if you are going to keep the same setup you need to use a valid before using that reference as there will be times it is bad (no pawn at all in the world), and if its bad you can try and get it again and you will have to do a valid check again to see if that is bad (no pawn in the world) and fail gracefully for that time period

[unreal sable]

I don't know if this matters but:
-On possession: HUD widgets are created
-On unpossess: HUD widgets are removed from parent
So there should be no issue in between the 4 second respawn time.

Valid check will get rid of my errors for sure.

It won't help with the functionality of the HUD widgets though.

[grim ore]

removed from parent is not the same as destroyed

[unreal sable]

Oh.

[grim ore]

and the valid check would help because if it fails, you just run the code again to get the pawn -> cast -> set the reference

[unreal sable]

Ahhh good idea.

[grim ore]

you can make a function that does it all for you and just run it on construct and run it whenever it's accessed. I dont know if its the smartest but its the easiest with your design

[unreal sable]

If it works, then it's good enough for me. 😄

[grim ore]

yep. Might want to consider reworking it a small bit as well btw if you are creating and removing but still referencing it somewhere. Create makes it -> saving it as a variable refrences it -> adding to viewport lets you see it. Removing from parent removes the ability to see it but if its still referenced its still in memory

and if you then go back and create a new one, the old one still exists (unless the player referenced the old one then it might get removed at some point if the player is removed)

people thing remove from parent causes it to go away but it's still there in the background ticking away so you end up with multiple copies of the same widget if you just keep creating it over and over lol

[unreal sable]

Could be all the youtube tutorials that have created that habit lol.

[wild cobalt]

Question guys, When organizing a my project can I do that in file explorer? When doing it inside the project it doesn't always delete the old folders, However my concern is if I do the reorganization in explorer do I need to fix re directors?

[unreal sable]

If you don't do it inside UE then things can get messy i find.

[gaunt spoke]

I keep getting a compiler error in my Animation Blueprint when I attempt to use a Linked Anim Layer that caches poses. The error state "Failed to find index for a saved pose node while building ordered pose list." Any ideas what causes this issue or how to resolve?

[storm venture]

anyone recognize this cursor? im trying to do pixel streaming but ue4 keeps making its own cursor despite having ShowMouseCursor false.

[fresh rampart]

Hey everyone, im currently playing a sound when my melee attack hits an object with
OnComponentHit.AddDynamic -----> and then PlaySoundAtLocation
The thing is, the OnComponentHit is triggered multiple times sometimes, so the sound repeats and sounds weird
Im sure there is a quick and easy way to fix but maybe im not seeing it, anyone knows?

[dense hatch]

sure

just use a Do Once node and reset it when you don't want to play the sound anymore

[fresh rampart]

im in c++

[dense hatch]

ah

then you would do the c++ equivalent. set a bool canPlaySound or something

then if true play the sound and set it to false

[spiral island]

you can use an Audio component, and then call Activate with reset set to false

then if it gets spammed it won't reset the audio component and you won't get double plays

[fresh rampart]

im still a bit new to the terminology, my sound is a type USoundBase

im assuming if its not something "attached" to an actor, then its not a component?

[spiral island]

stuff that derives from USceneComponent or UActorComponent are components

[fresh rampart]

i see

ill have to think about which approach makes more sense, thanks guys

[wild cobalt]

@unreal sable is that anyother solution because when I do it inside UE4 it gets buggy and half the folders move and then the other half of folders that move move the folders but leave half of the assets in both folders

[unreal sable]

If folders won't get deleted. I usually just leave stuff for when i restart UE and then delete it.

[summer geode]

Hello! If we are in teams already its enough to register individually and then add our names in the final submission?

[grim ore]

are you referring to the spring jam?

[brittle gulch]

Hi guys, I can't open my project again, it's crashing on launch directly. I'm using prefabricator and I think it's because of this plugin. Here's the error summary https://pastebin.com/NCnMN1cN Can someone help me understand what is going on?

[merry flower]

@merry flower
@merry flower

Idk why it's flying away when i just want it to move smoothly. Any ideas how to fix this? https://gyazo.com/7f1cedc60ce7f5d381dfb531f6308d5c

[still moat]

Arm goes swoooshh

[merry flower]

XDD

[plush yew]

Guys i have a question: Can i use Unreal Engine 4 for programming small games (for example 2d flappy bird) which is after build only 20-50 MB big? Because UE4 looks too big but i want to get familiar with lot of things and dont want to use Unity for smaller games, guess you get what i try to ask 😄

[grim ore]

UE4 can build smaller built games but it takes work, by default the projects when built are not small or compact. If size is that important Unity will make smaller builds out of the box.

There are 2 mobile projecs on the learn tab you can download and look at, one is a 2d game

[plush yew]

Can you tell me how much work it will be and the difficulty?

to increase the size like you said

How i can change the Component Size of a landscape in 4.25?

[grim ore]

I cant its based on experience and knowledge. With none of that it will be difficult

[plush yew]

so what i need to change? i thought about some changes in the build settings and deleting not needed assets?

I can make basic things in UE4 if that explains my experience 😄

[grim ore]

pretty much that to start, then removing plugins that are included by default and not needed. removing engine assets that are included and not needed. optimizing assets for the target platform.

[plush yew]

How i can change the Component Size of a landscape in 4.25?

Okay could the game for example be under 100 MB if i do what i/you said except the asset optimizing?

[grim ore]

it could but but I dont know what your game is, etc.. There are documents on the docs portal for how they optimized match 3 and tappy bird. You can also just download the match 3 and see how big it is when built for your target

[plush yew]

Ah great, have you a link of the "docs portal"?

[grim ore]

just the documentation page for unreal engine

[plush yew]

Ah okay, thx

[fading latch]

Would you guys use dot product to detect a big change in direction? Or is there a simpler way? I have the previous velocity and the current velocity.

I'm trying to detect if the player made a large change in direction

[tiny anvil]

I've gotten raytracing working on my gtx 1060 pretty well. 120 fps at 720p in editor pop out preview. So far Epic's implementation has me very impressed with how pain free it is.

[grim ore]

@plush yew It looks like it is bugged in the current .25.0 release https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/architectural-and-design-visualization/1756433-4-25-where-s-the-change-component-size-tool

[ember shadow]

Does it cost to upload stuff to the unreal market place?

[grim ore]

no, you just have to be approved

[sudden forge]

hey guys, im working through a tutorial on movement and i would like to replace the cube static mesh that we are using in the tutorial with the basic character from the base template. i migrated over the assets, but it doesnt seem like simply dragging and dropping the skeletal mesh in works. its a bit too small and hovers off the ground, and is rotated by 90 degrees. anyone have any good docs/tutorials for this or have any idea what to do?

[pallid ivy]

Hey guys, I'm pretty new to UE and I just wanted to ask if there's an essential video series every UE newbie should watch? Especially a crash course for like "first simple character controller" would be nice to get into it.

[ember shadow]

@grim ore approved? can u explain abit more

do u just mean the pack im uploading has to be approved

[still pawn]

@pallid ivy Im assuming you mean for the purposes of gamedev and not like archvis or anything, right?

[pallid ivy]

oh yea, I forgot that UE is widely used.

oh wait, I just discovered the pins. always forget about the pins

[still pawn]

It might be a little advanced, but I'd say understanding the Gameplay Framework of UE4 is a good way of getting familiar with how the engine is laid out or where you can put things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-2fnJZSG6M

[pallid ivy]

ah many thanks! I'll have a look at this first, maybe it's already sufficient for my current needs.

[plush yew]

https://gyazo.com/d264de3d718957159078ce34c0cab276

How i can remove this favorite thing

anyone?

[rustic panther]

anytime I "import new file" sort of dialog unreal 4.25.1 is crashing

am I alone?

:(

Unhandled Exception: 0xe0434352

[heady moon]

Probably yes, I have imported more than 1000 assets yesterday and I haven't seen this exception
I'm using 4.25.1 too