ue4-general

[sand gale]

There are some things that sub-tick. so I'm sure there is a way, might have to be with C++ though. There is also physics sub-stepping but that's just for the physics so not sure if that would do it for you.

[plush yew]

Hello guys I did this system for changing the material of the mesh and it works almost but when I change the color of the material, when I want again to change, unreal engine crashes, idk why

can you help me?

I tried with removing the widget after I choose color but it doesn't work again

[sand gale]

You should only create one dynamic material - do it on begin play

save a reference to that material (like you are) then when you want to change the color of that material you should just set a color parameter to a different color

they kind of give an example here under "Material instance Dynamic" - https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Rendering/Materials/MaterialInstances/index.html

[plush yew]

so I need to do this for my mesh?

[sinful bone]

I am still struggling with migrating my assets to another machine/making it ready for market place. I've tried to migrate it to the content folder and then move it between projects (to the content folder of the other project), but references are still getting lost.

Is there really no solution for this?

[plush yew]

I tried with removing the widget after I choose color but it doesn't work again
if someone can help me tag me or DM me

[plush yew]

whenever the player clicks away from any of the UI elements (on the 3d scene for example) their cursor gets captured, anyway to fix this?

[dusty marlin]

Hello, how to add a texture group to the project? Should I add it in some .ini file? Ty

[vocal herald]

I have a set of animations and my "camera" is the player so after animation ends I control player from the last frame. The problem is I can move the player but cant rotate him via Sequencer. It changes rotational values in Sequencer but in game nothing rotates at all. I need to control player camera rotation in Sequencer please help

[plush yew]

How do I remove default camera in Player controller?

how do i get rid of ActiveGameNameRedirects is there anyway to properly rename my project?

[blissful sorrel]

Hey everyone. I tried everything from packaging to downgrading ue4 builds, but ansel still gives "A supported game is required to use this feature". I'm trying to record 360 captures and the PanoramicCapture plugin doesn't cut it, because the screenshots look nothing like the built level. is there anything else I could possibly use?

[tight prawn]

is it possible to generate/create skeletal mesh directly inside UE ?

[mild belfry]

back when i was wrestling with ai collision 😄

he said his people needed him

[plush yew]

Does anyone know how can I attach a spring arm to my Player controller inherited camera?

[mental swan]

Hey! I have a trigger event in my scene, but it gets triggered when that capsule overlaps. How do I disable the overlap for the trigger volume, so it triggers only with the mesh?

[limpid turret]

I take it no ones got a solution for unreal engine not importing a model because it says it can't triangulate it

[severe lodge]

How to apply tessellation to a Main Material with different layers? Is this working?

[limpid turret]

@solemn sun did you ever fix the 'unable to triangulate mesh' problem you had

ah I think I fixed it, didn't realise there was a random extruded vert

[lusty pumice]

How do I control dimensions here? which node to use? srry for noob question

texture coordinate is not working

[rigid belfry]

@lusty pumice is that a texture or a material you want to scale?

[novel oriole]

Hey peoples, I snapped up a quick protoype scene in blender, and just exported as fbx, but my colliders are retarded, is there any fix for this?

heres a better view of the issue

[lusty pumice]

@rigid belfry that is a texture that I want to scale, because it ends up too large when I plug in the ScreenAlignedUVs

doesn't fit the frame

this is without the ScreenAlignedUVs how it normally looks 👇

so I'm guessing I need to plug something into TextureDimensions (V2)

[midnight gate]

so ugh i clicked low quality settings

and my whole engine has not responded for 10 minutes now

my pc really aint that bad

oh it responded

and crashed

ok im glad it responded

lets hope it saved low settings

[novel oriole]

That happens to me, the lowest preset i ever got to was medium

[midnight gate]

rip

[novel oriole]

anyway, after some digging i found that there are 2 different colliders, a simple one a complex one, how would i get the player to utilise the complex collider

[manic pawn]

for this mesh it would be more sensible to just fix the simple collision

[novel oriole]

how?

[manic pawn]

you can have a box that is oriented properly

name it UBX in your 3d program or something

it's on the documentation

[novel oriole]

alright cool

[mild belfry]

or you can just add a box collision and scale/rotate it

[manic pawn]

ah, there are tools to move it in the editor now?

[mild belfry]

yep

[manic pawn]

that's nice

[mild belfry]

you cant use "F" key to focus to them tho which is annoying

[novel oriole]

is there anyway to lock an object, so its visible, but cannot be selected?

[glacial lantern]

Heyo got a question

For some reason this is mixing both the "aim cache" and "locomotion cache" weirdly

I want it to swap between the two

I think I get what I did wrong

Ah okay the slot didn't work how I thought it would

[stray smelt]

How does lightmap resolution work, like what does "8" (default) constitute? I assume higher value = higher res?

so if it's 8 (pixels?), how does this translate to a landscape? each segment?

my issue is that the baked lightmap file is huge, even though i have an importance volume. trying to find the culprits

[dim merlin]

Hi, i was checking out 'SpringLandscape' (a landscape auto material) and noticed tiny parts of different textures, like:

So how is this possible, im unable to reproduce it using the paint tool (way to small)

is it a color map maybe?

i mean, they are layer for sure...

[rocky radish]

@dim merlin did you try in the landscape paint tools or other paint tool?

[dim merlin]

the landscape paint tools, its just vertex colors i'd say..

so but notice the grass on the image is way way smaller than the vertex density

[warm hinge]

Hey there,

does anyone know, why reflection capture resolution is drastically reduced on OpenGLES 3.1?
Is there a way to control the resolution?

Thank you in advance 🙂

What I mean:
Editor:

Mobile (Android and iOS):

[whole quarry]

Mobile is usually less graphicsl than pc

Also not everything is supported on mobile

[dark rune]

how can i make it so that my character (tpp) can't turn beyond x degrees (like a mounted machine gun)?

[warm hinge]

Yeah, I read the page "https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Rendering/SupportedRenderingFeatures/index.html"

I just thought there maybe is a hack 😛

[whole quarry]

@dark rune clamp

[rocky radish]

view pitch/yaw max/min in player camera manager maybe @dark rune

[dark rune]

ok trying the yaw max min thing rn

[rigid belfry]

i dont even think reflections are uspported on mobile

@lusty pumice you'd usually change the U and V tiling of a texture to either make it larger or smaller

why are you using that material function?

[willow plank]

hello guys.I want to ask

is there any sorting or filtering tool ?

like

what we use and what we dont

[rigid belfry]

what do you wanna filter

[willow plank]

what we use and what we dont
@willow plank .

[rigid belfry]

what is that you're using

[willow plank]

?

[rigid belfry]

😄

[plush yew]

what we use and what we don't .... you mean built in tools of unreal or what ?

[willow plank]

i just wanna sort these objects i used so i can delete what i dont use

[rigid belfry]

actors you placed in your scene?

[willow plank]

ah yea

and textures materials also

like there is two materials

i use one of them

but i dont use another one

and i want to see it that i don't use it

[rigid belfry]

and you wanna delete materials and textures you're not using?

[willow plank]

right

[rigid belfry]

you can right click almost anything in the content browser and there should be a "find references" option

[willow plank]

so im going to do it on every single object ??

[plush yew]

Hello everyone, I just imported an FBX object which I generated in C4D. My plan is to texture it in Unreal. However, when I want to apply textures, it is really hard to align them correctly because something weird is happening to my mesh: https://i.imgur.com/BzVuWxj.jpg Does anyone know how to avoid this? I'm new to this stuff so the answer could be very simple..

[rigid belfry]

well, why did you create stuff you're not gonna use in the first place?

[willow plank]

cuz im downloading some stuff from Epic store.

And they include hell lotta items what i don't even need

Hello everyone, I just imported an FBX object which I generated in C4D. My plan is to texture it in Unreal. However, when I want to apply textures, it is really hard to align them correctly because something weird is happening to my mesh: https://i.imgur.com/BzVuWxj.jpg Does anyone know how to avoid this? I'm new to this stuff so the answer could be very simple..
@plush yew i see there u have an Uv overlap.

[plush yew]

Move them into manually created folders (the stuff that you need is "them")

[rigid belfry]

@plush yew could be you need to unwrap the texture mapping, could be the UV channel in case of bad lighting/the actor turning black

[plush yew]

And delete the folders you originally imported

[willow plank]

And delete the folders you originally imported
@plush yew its going to take so long...

[plush yew]

Well you always manually select what you want

[rigid belfry]

there is no tool that does that automatically

@plush yew there should be an error popping up saying "uv overlap" or something like that

[plush yew]

@willow plank @rigid belfry can this be done in Unreal, or do I have to set that up in C4d?

[rigid belfry]

do you have that error perhaps?

[willow plank]

@plush yew in c4d if there is UV unwrapping possible

if not use Blender

[vocal herald]

im going crazy guys. How can I control player camera rotation with Sequencer???

[rigid belfry]

why do you want to control the player camera?

[willow plank]

he means rotation maybe ?

[rigid belfry]

you need a new cinecamera in the scene, make that the main for the sequence, and then return to player camera

[plush yew]

@rigid belfry one sec, I"ll reimport to check

[vocal herald]

my animations sequences need to move the player

so i can continue playing where the animation ended

[plush yew]

I'm trying to import a mesh, for some reason the content browser can't find it

[rigid belfry]

@plush yew even if you search for it?

[plush yew]

arch_corridor_gaps nowhere to be found after importing it

[next badger]

New camera nad transition to it will be a proper way, but you can control camera that is owned by player controller too
you just need to add that reference to Sequencer

[rigid belfry]

i would almost never animate a camera the player is gonna control

what if for some reason it bugs out?

[vocal herald]

@next badger I tried to keyframe PlayerController rotation and Camera manager

but nothing works

[rigid belfry]

make a new camera and make it main

[plush yew]

Men I actually wanted to ask a question myself. Chaos rising in chat lol.
In Unreal when you merge actors you can change the merged actor's material but not the array of static meshes as they're , well , merged.
What I'm talking about is a merge like in unity where you have one parent objet´ct with further childs and the relationship can be pulled into and out of the CB.

Or if you have any ideas how to move parts of a scene consisting of static meshes without turning them into a single model , I'm open for ideas ._.

[rigid belfry]

then do transitions to swap to normal

[vocal herald]

but i can see the transition

image flickers a little bit when cameras switch

[rigid belfry]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Sequencer/HowTo/GameplayAnimBlending/index.html

[plush yew]

@rigid belfry These are the errors I see upon importing https://i.imgur.com/53vbc0w.png

[rigid belfry]

did you make the mesh in c4d?

[plush yew]

yes

[rigid belfry]

there should be a setting for selecting smoothing groups when exporting

something like edge and face?

or are you exporting with smoothing groups disabled?

[vocal herald]

@rigid belfry i really need to animate player controlled camera. doesnt matter if it bugs out

[next badger]

@vocal herald you need to reference actual camera, it may be persistent or spawned on runtime, if it is spawned on runtime you will have tough time animating it

[rigid belfry]

you really dont, but whatever

[vocal herald]

its persistent

but its controlled by playercontroller

and playercontroller only respects mouse input

[plush yew]

@rigid belfry which one? https://i.imgur.com/hSoDNyY.png

[vocal herald]

i cant change rotation manually for some reason

[next badger]

no it's not...camera controlled by player controller is controlled via camera manager, and you can manually control it

you can feed some parameters to it as well

[vocal herald]

i tried to manually control camera manager

same thing

[next badger]

camera manager != camera

CM only controls the cameras

[vocal herald]

i start my game and there is PlayerCameraManager

whenever i change the rotation values they change back

[next badger]

why would they not?

they are still controlled by CM

but it does not mean you cant modify the way it is controlled by it

[rigid belfry]

try disabling triangulate geometry @plush yew

i think unreal does that by default

[next badger]

add some bias, set the bias from Sequencer, add that bias by CM

[plush yew]

uh. Does unreal engine detect naming conflicts when importing? I just renamed the mesh arch_corridor_gaps to ADFSDGjsgfh and now it did import properly

[next badger]

@plush yew afaik no

it just reimports

weird case may be when it's a redirector

[plush yew]

@rigid belfry it's the same

[rigid belfry]

then i have no idea

sorry

[plush yew]

Ok np, thanks for helping out though

[signal rover]

does anyone know what the best way is to massively reorganize the folder structure of a project? Moving all files, fixing up redirects and continuing takes ages

[thick herald]

There are marketplace assets that claim to help with that kind of thing @signal rover

[soft lodge]

Hi folks, is there anyone here that I can ask a couple of questions about the Hello Neighbor Mod Kit?

[plush yew]

Does anyone here have an idea on how can I move a cahracter like in monument valley?

[signal rover]

There are marketplace assets that claim to help with that kind of thing @signal rover
@thick herald ok, thanks

[soft lodge]

@plush yew set up a new project with the top down example map http://prntscr.com/t6d5k1

[flint trench]

Anybody know when the UE4 Marketplace Summer Sale will be?

[ember star]

I want to define a set of mechanics, would normally go in 'game mode' i supposed, but for the sake of not putting EVERYTHING in game mode... what's the right parent class to use to keep extending out game mode, so that i can still make blueprint callable functions from the game mode context?

[vernal thicket]

@ember star Instance?

[ember star]

i guess i mean... gameinstance, game mode, etc classes seem singular

i want to define multiple systems seperately

like 'database connection/queries'

i want to build out general functions that i can call from game mode/levels

i tried a simple Object c++ class, and upon making a blueprint for it i couldnt find it in the listed classes

'blueprint function library'?

[wanton lotus]

@ember star yes, use that for global static functions.

[ember star]

awesome, thanks

[left citrus]

Having some pretty weird visual bugs, building lighting doesn't fix it, disabling post processing doesn't fix it, not SS reflections causing it, Ray Tracing is disabled, no permutation of post processing fixes it, disabling all the lights doesn't fix it, so I assume it's something in the light bake file, anybody got any ideas?

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[ashen orbit]

why is googling an unreal engine issue so fucking hard

i just want to know if its possible to open two projects at the same time

[thin sluice]

hello i'm having an issue with unreal rn

so essentially all emissive materials that i've made are displayed as solid black in the viewport

i've tried the emissive from the automotive materials pack as well as made my own but both of them display as black

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/424254840458444800/725732614366953553/unknown.png?width=1972&height=1133

on preview mode it looks fine but in the viewport its just a reflective black

[plush yew]

I think I'm skipping a step. I build a mesh, unwrap but I never check the texture in blender. I just import a texture in unreal

[left citrus]

@plush yew forgot to mention, removed all the reflection captures, rebuilt them etc afaik not the offender

seems to only be a problem with all these assets I migrated from 4.24 -> 4.25

[narrow meteor]

hello, so im having an issue that when i spawn a projectile that it supposed to line up with a line trace it doesnt line up at all and goes a little bit to the side?

[plush yew]

Hello, can anyone help me with my ik foot placement?

I made a post process anim blueprint for my character that has ik

And it worksl because i can see it in the viewport

I dont know how to apply it to the main animbp and the mesh in general though

[tawdry storm]

has anyone here worked with the variant manager and has some tips to make working with it less frustrating?

[thin sluice]

many questions no answers

[pliant echo]

Hmmmm unable to open projects in 4.25.1. What does this error mean? "Assertion failed: !IsGarbageCollecting() [File:D:/Build/++UE4+Licensee/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/CoreUObject/Private/UObject/UObjectGlobals.cpp] [Line: 2286] Unable to create new object: MediaPlaylist /Engine/Transient.None. Creating UObjects while Collecting Garbage is not allowed!"

[misty lynx]

Hey guys, can you recommend any good(and obviously up to date) books on programming in Unreal/Unreal in general/Game development? I will be going on a no internet type of holiday soon and want to take a bit of education with me

[maiden sundial]

I sadly think there aren't good books for UE since most of them are quickly out-dated.
The best source would be the internet

[whole quarry]

i just want to know if its possible to open two projects at the same time
@ashen orbit

Why not just try it (and yes you can)

[ember star]

if im doing collision detection via line trace, and i detect the 'same collision' in multiple ticks, whats the easiest way to handle it so i only get 1 result?

do i need to keep track of objects collided, check new collisions against that array, and clear after each?

[ashen orbit]

@whole quarry yeah it was possible when i clicked the files in each project file

[plain terrace]

i dont even need to get 3ds max or whatever I can just get all parts of my car into an actor, give it textures, convert to one static mesh, then convert to a fbx. Theoretical stonks

[hot thistle]

Let's say I want to make something like a Ratchet and Clank game in 2D, but with free shooting (you shoot wherever your mouse is)
How would the animations and such be?
Anyone have any tips for how I could do that without making 100+ unique animations for each angle the player is aiming?

[plain terrace]

da arm just moves

[plush yew]

the way game like terraria do it is basically have the arm be a separate sprite that's parented to the main player, and rotate that based on mouse position. Doesn't quite look as good as 100+ unique sprites maybe, but well, you also don't have to make and load 100+ unique sprites lol

[hot thistle]

Yea I thought about that, but with 2 arms theres gonne be some wierd clipping and such

I'n theory I mean, guess I can try it out to see what it looks like

[rigid belfry]

how do i break a line in widgets? not seeing anything to prevent overflowing

[azure gazelle]

@rigid belfry It should be there.. maybe it's hidden as advanced option (white arrow pointing down)

[rigid belfry]

these settings seem to work, yet i feel like there might be a better way of doing it 🤔

[azure gazelle]

those are all the settings available for automatic line break. You can set the policy to break at the end of a word.

[obtuse pendant]

yeah aligning text is kinda iffy

auto wrap was the best option i found

[dense aurora]

i have small problem

i have this

as emissive

but i want to change the color

[rigid belfry]

you can multiply the result with a vector 3 material

if you press 3 on your keyboard and left click, it automatically creates a const3vector

you make that a parameter, apply the instance material to what you want and fiddle with the settings untill you find what you need

[dense aurora]

though i want to only make it glow on specific areas

that the emission map shows

[azure gazelle]

use the emission map as a mask (a lerp node should do)

[dense aurora]

like this ?

[rigid belfry]

yeah that should work

[dense aurora]

btw

[rigid belfry]

you can try lerping it too instead of multiplying

[dense aurora]

lerping ?

[rigid belfry]

am no material expert though

yeah its a function called linearinterpolation

lerp for short

[dense aurora]

i never used it

[rigid belfry]

theres always a first time 🤷‍♂️

[rigid belfry]

does the back button look out of place?

[dense aurora]

idk how it works

[azure gazelle]

tbh it should already work with multiply because the b channel itself is black & white.. so simply multiplying it with the color and then again multiplying it with a param for the power should work

Lerp could work too, but shouldn't be needed in this usecase

[dense aurora]

hmm

is there something like timer

like

Do something every # seconds

[rigid belfry]

there is something called time

you can make it pulse that way

[azure gazelle]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Rendering/Materials/HowTo/Masking/index.html (regarding masking)

[rigid belfry]

in your material, type time, from the pin drag and type add

[dense aurora]

i wanted to make more advanced thing

but its out of my skill to do that

[rigid belfry]

add a constant vector

(press 1 and left click)

make that a paramater so you can change in in run time

from the add, you can do something called "Sine" which should be a curve or wave if i am not wrong

you plug that in the emissive and thats it

let me do that real quick

something like this

[dense aurora]

1 and left click does nothing

[rigid belfry]

1 and left click creates a constant vector

[dense aurora]

it does not work

[rigid belfry]

or you just right click in the graph and type constant

[whole quarry]

@dense aurora search for param

[dense aurora]

though

i meant

that the glow would change after some time

something like scripted event

[rigid belfry]

1-2-3-4 and left click create respectively a vector 1-2-3-4

[whole quarry]

Not when you are in a remote session

[rigid belfry]

something like you upgrade your weapon and it starts glowing

or maybe you pick a power up and its now a very dangerous weapon?

if the answer is yes, you do that with blueprints

you create the material, on wanted event = set new material

on finish power up = default material

[dense aurora]

i did something i wanted yesterday

emissive moving into the beat of music

yet im wondering about something else i wont solve

[rigid belfry]

btw, do you guys know good widgets for selecting missions/levels?

[dense aurora]

how can one tilt the weapon

if you tilt the camera

i assume its something advanced

[rigid belfry]

what does that mean

[crystal swallow]

Like a first person shooter?

[rigid belfry]

why do you wanna tilt the weapon?

[dense aurora]

yea

like when you move to left

or right

the gun tilts too

[rigid belfry]

you attach the weapon to the character

you then control the character rotation through the camera

so now whenever the character rotates, everything attached( a child) will rotate too

[dense aurora]

ahh

[north sphinx]

Dun dun dun... did my bullshit for today.

I already tried every possible way in my mind to do a sneaky roll back.```
Do someone knows a shady trick that after 6 years on ue4 i still don't know?

Already tried:
- ~~just migrate to a 418 and hope~~
- ~~convert the 424 to a 418 and hope ~~
- ~~copy a bunch of assets at a time to the 418 checking if something is savable~~
- ~~make a human sacrifice to Pelor asking for forgiveness~~

[rigid belfry]

i have heard about converting from old to new versions, never from newer to older

sorry+

[north sphinx]

i have heard about converting from new versions, never older
@rigid belfry
thats a matter of a button 😢... well in most of cases, usually as far as u do not use deprecated functions or stuff that has been removed

[rigid belfry]

but to be honest

i've migrated stuff from 4.25 to 4.22 and i havent had any problems?

are you getting any error?

[ashen orbit]

So I'm having trouble creating a save game, but i don't really get any errors and I've checked all the connections and nothing seems weird, is there some kind of basic thing I've forgotten like project settings?

[north sphinx]

are you getting any error?
@rigid belfry nope, empty content browser, not even sounds or textures

[rigid belfry]

man that sucks

[north sphinx]

man that sucks
@rigid belfry gotta open side by side the two versions and re-do everything, cannot even copy paste blueprints cause in most of cases crashes whole editor

[rigid belfry]

it crashes??

no way my dude

there must be something wrong

[north sphinx]

nope, its kinda normal, the way they structure the blueprints can have variations from version to version

and if even a single one of your nodes catches one of those variations, whole editor crashes

[soft fiber]

When moving forward in the scene with (alt-mouse right) it often stops moving forward as if there was a collision? Does anyone know why this happens?

[plain terrace]

how can i have a mesh with physics not act like aladins carpet when i walk over it

[north sphinx]

guess you already copypasted a blueprint into a text editor

no way my dude
@rigid belfry

how can i have a mesh with physics not act like aladins carpet when i walk over it
@plain terrace
physics channel dude

[plain terrace]

i literally made a plane

oh thanks

[dense aurora]

btw how can one make

invisible model

but only visible shadow

something like Outlast has

character has no head

but it sill appears in a shadow

[rocky radish]

@plain terrace wdym? does it launch itself?

[plain terrace]

i made it so that you can grab it and when u step on it makes u fly

(i dont want it to fly)

it flies really well tho

[rigid belfry]

@dense aurora

[soft fiber]

I'll try this again. When moving forward in the scene with (alt-mouse right) it often stops moving forward as if there was a collision? Does anyone know why this happens?

[north sphinx]

i made it so that you can grab it and when u step on it makes u fly
@plain terrace
cause the block moves toward you while you are in air and cannot reach you so keeps coming to you lifting you up... please > physics channel

[ashen orbit]

is physics considered difficult in unreal engine?

[dense aurora]

oo

so thats how red barrels did it

[north sphinx]

is physics considered difficult in unreal engine?
@ashen orbit just depends on what you want to do

[ashen orbit]

I mean I'm not really interested in making a physic based game, let's say a charm that rests against your gun dynamically like in rainbow six siege

[north sphinx]

I mean I'm not really interested in making a physic based game, let's say a charm that rests against your gun dynamically like in rainbow six siege
@ashen orbit i'd do a fake jiggle with a rigged element using something like apex "cloth simulation"

or you just apply a phys contrain, but that would be OP

[ashen orbit]

does it require you know physics at uni level or can you do well without it

[north sphinx]

if u know what to do, the contrain thing would be a 15 seconds thing

[ashen orbit]

ok

[north sphinx]

rigged body would be better but longer

[dense aurora]

Music bars that are material and move into the beat

That is a nightmare

[rigid belfry]

no

[ashen orbit]

it would take me 2 minutes to do that cliff and ive used unreal engine for 2 weeks

[north sphinx]

That is a nightmare
@dense aurora i wouldnt say so

[dense aurora]

for me yes

[ashen orbit]

jk

[thin sluice]

Does anyone know how to fix my lights problem

[north sphinx]

there is the audio visualization giving u all the infos you need about frequencies in real time

[dense aurora]

you need to setup material first

to even make the bars move

[rigid belfry]

the plugin is well documented and there are guides online

[north sphinx]

you need to setup material first
@dense aurora an exposed scalar parameter which influence just the height of your bar through material

the plugin is well documented and there are guides online
@rigid belfry <-- and he is right

[thin sluice]

well shit

[hot thistle]

Ait, so I tried out what you guys told me in theory, and.. kinda works, kinda don't.
Any inputs?
https://streamable.com/g0o5rg

[thin sluice]

lmao

[rigid belfry]

whats working and what isnt?

i saw it flip when you aimed upwards

is that the problem?

[hot thistle]

Not the flip, I'm aware of that

The joint of the arm

[rigid belfry]

because that looks straight up insane

[north sphinx]

it seem to me that some of them are going sideways also (rays)

[dense aurora]

is there tutorial somewhere about the m bars

[hot thistle]

Rays are for show I guess, I'm trying to make a ''free'' arm independent of the body

I'm trying out a 2d Platformer with free shooting, but I'm not sure on how to handle animations for each angle and such

[rigid belfry]

also, ue4 for 2d? i respect the hustle

[hot thistle]

Its not as hard as people say it is actually, been working quite alot with it

Its janky yea

[rigid belfry]

its not hard

[ashen orbit]

Is machine learning any use for game development?

[rigid belfry]

its just...unnecessary? the engine isnt really helping you in making 2d games

you're better off making it 3d and having the character be in 2.5d

at least, thats what i would do

but you're free to do whatever the flip you want, of course

@ashen orbit i spent 2 weeks trying to get procedural paint and foliage to work togheter

[hot thistle]

Yeah, well I like pixel art and I don't really have the time to learn a new engine, so I guess I'm working with what I have

[rigid belfry]

when i could've painted them by hand in 2 days

you tell me

[hot thistle]

I'm just trying to figure out if I can overcome this hurdle

[rigid belfry]

you're having troubles rotating the arm basically?

[hot thistle]

Having trouble making it look right

[rigid belfry]

how are you rotating it in the first place?

[hot thistle]

Look At Rotation at mouse

[rigid belfry]

is the arm a different sprite

[hot thistle]

• the character is gonna be supporting the weapons with its left arm, how the f would that work with this system

Yea

[rigid belfry]

can you show me the actual character components?

[hot thistle]

Body

arm

[rigid belfry]

and you're rotating by using a look at function right

[hot thistle]

yea

[plush yew]

I kind like the way the flip looks actually, if you limit motion to just above the head

[rigid belfry]

the sprite might be flipping because you're telling the sprite to look at 2 dimensions instead of one

scrap that

thats wrong

[ashen orbit]

@rigid belfry not sure what you meant with what you wrote me mate

[hot thistle]

Well, the flip is not the issue

I'm aware of the flip

Sorry for not being clear about that

[rigid belfry]

@ashen orbit what do you need machine learning for?

whatever it is, its simplier to make it yourself

[hot thistle]

My ''issue'' is how I can make this look and feel natural

[rigid belfry]

what is the joint component doing?

[ashen orbit]

@rigid belfry oh mama

[rigid belfry]

thats the point from where the sprite will rotate, right?

[hot thistle]

Yea

[rigid belfry]

i think it felt natural from what i saw btw

are you sure you're trying to fix something thats not there?

[plush yew]

I'd suggest separating the whole arm instead of doing it at the elbow joint, but other than that it looks pretty good already

[rigid belfry]

once you get an idle animation in, it may look more natural

[plush yew]

it'll never look quite as natural as a fully animated sprite obviously

[rigid belfry]

yeah, rotating the whole arm would look better maybe

[hot thistle]

This better?
https://streamable.com/t91syk

That's the whole arm

Its a bit wierd looking when at the bottom

[rigid belfry]

you could clamp the rotation so it doesnt reach 90, -90

[hot thistle]

True!

[rigid belfry]

also you could lerp(instead of rotating) so that the head slightly follow the rotation too

having it rotate exactly the same looks odd

having the head move a bit might make the sprite feel more alive

btw is that yours? it looks very good

the sprite i mean

[hot thistle]

Thats a good idea!

It'll be alot of body parts tho

No, this is a Pixel Art sprite of Ratchet, I'm just using it as a placeholder and test to see if this idea of mine actually works

[rigid belfry]

oh yeah

i see him now

[hot thistle]

Its made by a guy called Boris Vigec

I clamped it now, and it looks alot better, thanks for the help!

[rigid belfry]

np, does it work when flipping the sprite left and right?

[hot thistle]

I haven't made that yet, but I'm probably gonna run into some problems there aswell

Of shit

You're right

Thats gonna be a issue...

[plush yew]

maybe to make the arm look a bit more natural you could also switch between, say 3 sprites for the arm depending on the angle, so it doesn't look quite as awkwardly angled at the bottom

[rigid belfry]

that shouldnt take too long

[plush yew]

but that's pure visual polish

[steel osprey]

Is there an option to allow to apply all materials without going 1 by 1?

[hot thistle]

He's holding it in his right arm, when turning it'll be in the right arm, wouldn't that be wierd?

[plush yew]

could you just offset the sprite behind the main character sprite as soon as the asset flips?

and then draw another sprite on top for the other arm

[hot thistle]

Yea but then I have to do 2 of each animation for the body, as the left arm will then be visible

I guess yea

[plush yew]

if you just also isolate that offhand arm out in your initial animation you should be able to reuse it

[hot thistle]

Then again, is it really noticeable

Yea

[dense aurora]

hmmmm

🤔

[narrow meteor]

can anyone who is good with unreal dm me i need help with some linetracing and projectiles

[hot thistle]

Hahahahahhahaahaha
https://streamable.com/10wq06

[plush yew]

I mean, with a proper animation running backwards while still looking and shooting forward would look pretty cool

[hot thistle]

Yea, I mean it kinda works, oddly enough

[rigid belfry]

how is this looking?

[ashen orbit]

bruh

looks like something i would make

Can you use external software to create menus in unreal engine?

[prisma plank]

hi guys.. I have some old concept/idea why look of games have fov not human eye... In all engines we have 1 camera at 90 fov, or like 18mm lense. can some one build 2 camera with like 70mm and unite them in one. it's real?

[exotic thicket]

There's technically no limitation in rendering FOV, you could render at 180 or whatever if you wanted

But it'll look strange on a monitor

[prisma plank]

you not understand idea.. why 70 mm or higher? Because will be more datails views- like camera in remember me game. Sure there style is better, cause camera at high mm, but you have tiny space to view...

[rigid belfry]

@ashen orbit just using widgets

[exotic thicket]

Yeah I don't really know what the difference is between a 70mm and 18mm lens as I'm not a photographer :)

[thin sluice]

oof

[thin sluice]

i still havent figured this issue out

[prisma plank]

sec will show...

[thin sluice]

none of the emissive materials i've made so far are visible in viewport as emissibe

they all show as a glossy black

its so weird

its still like that even after i built the lighting

[prisma plank]

@exotic thicket

[exotic thicket]

ah I see

[prisma plank]

@exotic thicket ok. This is from real rendering. The inscriptions where better to see?

[exotic thicket]

yeah that should be possible to do, tweaking FOV or the view frustum settings for the camera should allow some effects like this

[prisma plank]

the problem at low fov 100-110 you unable to see small details, but this is nedeed. ..

[rigid belfry]

day 2 of working on the multiplayer project

[exotic thicket]

Yeah a lot of games have a zoom function to inspect things at a closer distance because of problems like that

[prisma plank]

and so, can put 2 cameras- for wide range, but with close view

[shell wigeon]

Anyone else getting login issues right now? Need to get work done wondering if it's something my end?

[rigid belfry]

i thought they added offline mode for the epic games launcher

[prisma plank]

zoom- it's not about that)

@exotic thicket it's like panorama and simply 18mm landscape...

difference

[shell wigeon]

They did but I'm trying to log into Mixer with account

Same issue and trying to log into launcher, telling my I'm to frequently loging in only tried once, had a browse and seem to be a common issue

[plush yew]

blender to unreal is causing me headcaches. XY is always swapped, making textures rotated 90 degrees or the mesh itself is rotated

[brazen crow]

ok so

i have a problem

i think it can be solved with one option

but i dont know what option

im a beginner

trying to import a hollow mesh to walk into

but it's importing as just a cube

and not something which is hollow

[lusty night]

I'm using a post process volume to use screen space ambient occlusion. My problem is that ambient occlusion that is on geometry that is above my character seems to be inversed; it is darker around the exposed edges and lighter in the occluded edges of the geometry. Ambient occlusion below my character however looks correct. Anyone have any insight on why this might be happening?

[obtuse pendant]

@plush yew couldnt that be because of import settings

[rigid belfry]

@brazen crow the mesh needs to have a proper collisions

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Physics/SimpleVsComplex/index.html

[obtuse pendant]

i know blender has like settings where you set how imported stuff gets positioned like Z forward and stuff, check if they match up

[vast pine]

@grim ore Hey I had someone comment on a youtube video of mine where i showed use of the BP override for Spawnign Default Class - Made me think I don't recall seeing you ever going over some of these usefull BP Override functions. like get spawn location etc. some people might find your type of tutorial very helpful on these items.

[brazen crow]

thank u @rigid belfry

wait uh

@rigid belfry do u know how to do that in blender

[prisma plank]

@exotic thicket something like this, if you caught the idea.. FOV 50 -2 screenshots

[brazen crow]

i am importing from blender

[prisma plank]

Cause when you have high FOV- there loss in details...

[rigid belfry]

you dont need to do that in blendere

did you read the documentation?

[brazen crow]

yes but from what i understand its like while creating the object in unreal? bcs i dont see that option when importing

oh

im stupid

nevermind

lol

[prisma plank]

FOV 70

@exotic thicket sure you can make wider angle, but there absolute loss in details. FOV 111

The idea is simple- humans have 2 eyes, so there is more detailed image, than 1 eye..

[sage ingot]

@rigid belfry It's locked in place

[sand gale]

You should check this out - https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RobertPepperell/20200527/363615/FOVO_A_new_3D_rendering_technique_based_on_human_vision.php

[vernal thicket]

I wonder if FatDino ever uses this discord. Dude seems a ue4 genius

@heavy lagoon for your first issue you need to set an end overlap or it won't reset properly

[open wadi]

Format / Reinstalll

Just kidding.

[vernal thicket]

@heavy lagoon you shouldn't use event tick there are better ways to do it

[open wadi]

@light lintel Can you manually delete them via the OS?

No, I do it all the time with content.

I mean at least to my knowledge it's not a problem.

[vernal thicket]

@heavy lagoon after the first check for damage, do a branch and delay to see if the player has left the trigger, if not loop back, you can set the variable inside the end overlap to check if its left. Event tick uses too much performance you want to limit where you use it

[grim ore]

@vast pine yeah I have not covered a ton of the base actual classes where the overrides would come into play, game mode being a big one of those. I want and plan on doing it but its on a list a mile long at this point lol 😦

[open wadi]

@light lintel I'd just be curious to see if the OS allows you to delete the folder, if it doesn't then perhaps the issue isn't related to Unreal.

[thin sluice]

i've been at this problem for 6 hours now and i still havent worked it out 😭

i cant get my emissives to not look black in the viewport

this annyoing

[vernal thicket]

Mat I've got a question if you've got time?

[thin sluice]

anyone know how to fix this

[vernal thicket]

@thin sluice do you have a colour assigned?

[thin sluice]

wdym

oh let me check

oof it doesnt have a base color assigned

[vernal thicket]

Yeah

[thin sluice]

its from the automotive materials pacl

this is how it came stoc

adding a base color doesn't change anything

[vernal thicket]

I suppose so you can set your own colour? Seems strange

[thin sluice]

ye its the master shader

its got a couple instances in the pack for different light colors

none of them are visible in viewport though

[vernal thicket]

O.o

[thin sluice]

building the lighting hasnt changed anything either

i'm at my wits end

[vernal thicket]

Are you able to use the instances of this material?

[thin sluice]

wdym

like apply them to objects?

[vernal thicket]

Yeah

[thin sluice]

ye i am

i have them set in different mat slots for my car

[vernal thicket]

So you've got the result you want just not the colour?

[thin sluice]

ye

no glow no nothing

[vernal thicket]

You could duplicate one of them

[thin sluice]

its for a night scene so i need the lights on

[vernal thicket]

Change the colour?

[thin sluice]

i tried making my own emissive as well

same issue

so it isnt anything with the pack i assume

[vernal thicket]

What are you using for the base colour?

[thin sluice]

let me check

[vernal thicket]

Oh quick question

[thin sluice]

oh wait tf

[grim ore]

it looks like you have no alpha assigned to that base color

[thin sluice]

i just spam applied the material and it worked

im so confused now

[vernal thicket]

Lmao

[thin sluice]

the new material i mean not the automat

lol

lemme test it on teh car

[vernal thicket]

BTW you can set the intensity of the emissivity inside the edge intensity and facing intensity nodes

[thin sluice]

aite so

it shows as white now

but there's no indication of glow

[vernal thicket]

^

[thin sluice]

so it just looks like this now

[vernal thicket]

Check the nodes edge intensity and facing intensity inside the details panel there should be a number to change

[thin sluice]

alright

[grim ore]

well whats the actual value? to make it "glow" you need quite a large amount of emissive to work

[vernal thicket]

Yeah

Try 50 or 100

[grim ore]

plus keep in mind it's just a look, it doesnt actually emit light

[vernal thicket]

Spot lights would be good for that car :o

[thin sluice]

lol

let me try it on the hdri and volume i wanted to render in

i bumped up the power to 250

[vernal thicket]

Matt, can I ask a question on one of ur videos?

250?

On the emissivity?

[thin sluice]

yeah just so theres a noticeable difference

i'll tweak it later

[vernal thicket]

Fair enough lmfao

Could I use game instance to store like equipped inventory items or ammunition level in a multiplayer game?

[thin sluice]

@vernal thicket out of curoisity what r u worrking on?

[vernal thicket]

Atm a single player horror game but planning to start a MMO after

Well, attempt haha

Again...

For the 5th time

[plush yew]

can I make textures in multiples of 10 instead of powers of 2?

[thin sluice]

@light lintel idk i had the same issue

i did ctrl z spam and redo a couple times and it randomly work

i feel like a lot of my work in unreal engine is deadass just bruteforcing at this point 😆

[vernal thicket]

Tried restarting editor obviously?

Ah raman, I spent probably 9 hours trying to figure out why I couldn't cast to something, it was because it didn't compile properly lol

[thin sluice]

lmao

i love unreal but its a pain in the ass sometimes

[vernal thicket]

Tidii have you checked your computer directory to check if the file is still there?

[thin sluice]

ill tell u what tho

[azure gazelle]

@light lintel did you fix redirectors? Maybe it’s a broken redirector.

[thin sluice]

the main reason i switched to unreal from cycles

is because i have no patience for render times

it does that part well at least lmao

[vernal thicket]

But some of the things you can get away with in render you'd have no chance here :o

[thin sluice]

lol

hence why post processing exists

[vernal thicket]

What are you up to anyway?

[thin sluice]

especially when most of the work i do is stills

[vernal thicket]

Architect?

[thin sluice]

oh nothing much just designing car builds

lol

i've been in blender for 6 months and unreal for 2 weeks

photoshop for a year and a bit before that

just so i can make widebody kits and crap lol

[reef lintel]

what are some of the best youtubers to learn Unreal engine for short movies/cinematics ?

[vernal thicket]

Haha thats nice man

@reef lintel I found Ryan Layley a while a go hes really good, goes more in depth explaining why he did certain things etc

Damn I didnt read ur question properly

[thin sluice]

^^

wait shit

f

i feel u bro

[vernal thicket]

maybe ur a shady bloke

[thin sluice]

would be funny if it wasn't so irritating
@light lintel literally my whole life

[azure gazelle]

@light lintel well.. You could try to force ue4 to rebuild all the intermediate stuff...

1 way: enforce rebuild in the project settings (packaging I guess)
2 way (backup whole project first): delete the intermediate and build folders from the projects folder

[thin sluice]

@vernal thicket thx for your help btw

i think i shouldnt be having any more issues for tiem being

[vernal thicket]

Thats what you think

🛫

[azure gazelle]

@heavy lagoon get owning actor? Not sure what you are trying to do

[thin sluice]

yo im so confused rn

if i move near my car the hdri dims

if i zoom out it brightens again

tf

[storm venture]

sorry for the dumb question, but why are DFSs disabled on my RT directional light?

[thin sluice]

not sure

enable them

[storm venture]

i cannot. that is the problem.

[thin sluice]

oof

[regal drum]

Can someone walk me through setting up UE4 source code later

There is a project I desperately wanna work on and need help setting up source

[thin sluice]

@regal drum #engine-source

i cant help you but you may find help there

[agile glen]

dose anybody know where i can find a .fbx or .obj for the unreal engine white character model? need to scale some items

[still hemlock]

Does anyone know how to add splatter dirt vfx on the landscape when shooting a gun at the ground

[teal tulip]

@storm venture is the light movable?

[storm venture]

@teal tulip yup, i also just tried all 3 mobility settings and none let me edit the DFSs

bingo, that was disabled!

[teal tulip]

Do you have distance fields enabled in project?

[storm venture]

thanks 🙂

[south urchin]

Do distance field shadows not do self shadowing? I have a wall mesh that has some its windows inseted and when I move the camera away and CSM transition to Distance fields the shadowing on the windows disappear. I've searched the web but I can't really find this problem 🤔

[narrow meteor]

can anyone with unreal expereince dm me to help me with a problem ive been having all day

[spare kernel]

@narrow meteor ask your question, if its blueprint related #blueprint, c++ in #cpp if its general or you don't know what channel, then ask here.

[still hemlock]

Hey can someone help me

[spare kernel]

Don't ask for help, just ask your question and someone will reply 🙂

[still hemlock]

I'm trying to add a component tag to the landscape material but I can't find it in the landscape mat

Ok

[spare kernel]

i am not sure you can add tags to materials

components, yes, actors, sure, but not a material

[still hemlock]

I'm trying to add dirt splatter from gunshots on the landscape

Do you have any suggestions

[spare kernel]

that is normally done using decals

[still hemlock]

How would I use a decal?

I have the vfx but I need to figure out how to add it

[steep garnet]

Hi, I'm nativizing my blueprints. Sometimes it finds some other blueprint dependencies sometimes enumeration. Enumerations can't be converted to C++ will it lead in future when packaging the project to errors?

[spare kernel]

@steep garnet if some blueprints don't like being nativized in the future, you can simply mark them as not nativized. So unless you have problems it should be ok. Tho nativizing doesn't make the cleanest code and writing it in c++ itself is a lot better. As for long term nativizing issues, that i am not sure off.

@still hemlock https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Resources/ContentExamples/Decals/index.html i am not a VFX guy, but decals are pretty simple concept

[still hemlock]

Thankyou

[steep garnet]

@spare kernel I'm aware that it's better to manually code in C++, I'm just helping someone with converting to BP. Thanks for the help.

[spare kernel]

@still hemlock there is also mesh decals https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Rendering/Materials/HowTo/MeshDecals/index.html

[still hemlock]

Thats cool

Thankyou

[dense aurora]

Someone knows don't starve?

Wonder how'd it look on unreal

[spare kernel]

Recreate it? 😄

[dense aurora]

Yea

Don't starve runs on some engine called

ANGLE

[spare kernel]

it was there own custom engine

[dense aurora]

I apologize

I meant rendering engine

Or rendering API or how you call it

[spare kernel]

Google Angle?

[soft fiber]

Anyone done anything with spines, I have a question?

[dense aurora]

Yes Google's angle

[spare kernel]

interesting

[dense aurora]

If you try playing the game with MSI afterburner

The stats won't show

It uses older version though

Of OpenGL

2.0

[soft fiber]

Anyone know why these spine segments don't seem to have proper lighting?

[dense aurora]

Looks like the spine

Is broken

[soft fiber]

I've tried everything short of deleting it and redoing it... any ideas?

[calm sable]

I need help

Please someone q.q

I've been having an issue and I'm stuck. So if anyone can help me I'd appreciate it a lot...Dm?

[storm venture]

@calm sable youll probably have better luck if you just say what problem youre having right off the bat

[calm sable]

Well my character keeps glitching and blinking when I move. If I move forward it will do the right animation, but it will move backwards

Same with left and right

It's a blinking glitching mess

[dark rune]

@calm sable actually i have the same problem too but im trying a solution which is in AnimBP if direction = -180 set it to 180 because i think maybe the direction keeps changing from -180 and 180 then blend space doesnt know which one is correct so it keeps flicking

[calm sable]

hmm

I tried having my character have a sword, but it's only when I make him start off with the sword it messed up

when hes in his normal set animation, everything is fine

[soft fiber]

Sounds like the effect you get when your in a wall.

z-fighting

[calm sable]

hm. idk I can't use it. so is there a different way of my character equipping a weapon without it glitching all over the place

[soft fiber]

Your using a mounting point?

[calm sable]

? no. it just appears in my hand when I start the game. so it will automatically start me off with it. but doing it like this

and when I delete it, everything runs fine

[soft fiber]

Change it so the sword has an offset that doesn't touch the character and see if that works.

Move it far away for a test.

[calm sable]

well it looks like it;s holding the sword just fine

[soft fiber]

Also, try anouther object for the sword to make sure its not the mesh.

[dark rune]

@calm sable if your still having the walking backwards only jitter here

[calm sable]

i'm trying to move foward. but it keeps going backwards and blinking, etc

@calm sable if your still having the walking backwards only jitter here
@dark rune how do I do this for the plugin. I'm still very new to unreal

hmm

that could be it? because I'm doing it with a static mesh

[dark rune]

@calm sable idk im quite new too but this is assuming you're using a 2d blend space and tps

[dense gate]

Is that multiplayer?

@calm sable

If it is, you have to set the speed on the movement component for all clients

Otherwise you'll get weird stutters

[calm sable]

no, but I do want it o have multiplayer

[dense gate]

Is it running on a dedicated server?

And you have the editor connected as client?

[calm sable]

no, I don't have multplayer atm

ah

[dense gate]

Whenever you set the movement speed, call this event instead

Otherwise things will jitter

[calm sable]

oke

eating atm

so where do I change the movement speed?

[soft fiber]

I changed the spline segment mesh to one of the unreal meshes and I'm not getting the screwed up lighting? Assuming its the mesh, I have no idea what wrong with it... Anyone have any ideas?

[dense gate]

That event is in the pawn @calm sable

I hope you're familiar with RPCs

Whenever you change the movespeed of your character, call the event

Whether it's on begin play or an ability, etc

Alternatively, if you have a variable that controls the speed, set it to RepNotify and from the generated function change the walk speed of the Character Movement

Try disabling motion blur from the global post process

Or just type in console: r.MotionBlurQuality 0

[ionic gyro]

is it not possible to switch cameras to other blueprints?

like when youre controlling one blueprint and you want another to hold the camera?

[exotic thicket]

iirc you may need to create a custom camera manager

there's a setting that allows you to choose whether possessed pawns should automatically become view targets

or it might be on the player controller, either way that should allow you to manually choose the view target (eg. the actor which holds the camera)

[ionic gyro]

yeah when i used the view target node in my possessed pawn it wasnt working. thats probably why

thanks i didnt know about custom camera managers lol

[sudden oriole]

can someone help me out? I am having issues with the Modes tab, it doesn't exist. I am trying to learn Unreal Engine 4 via courses and it requires it.

and yes I have tried this

just 2 greyed out options

ah I see, thanks. Man that annoyed me

and yeah I am, I really wanna use Unreal Engine, I love it!

[thorny schooner]

So when you download and compile the source.. and right click your project and retarget to use the compiled source... ( I used 4.25 branch ) do I then just also build the editor and launch the editor that I built?? shit's interesting in the fact I am a programmer, but I normally dont build my tools and then use my tools to ... build tools, lol.

[calm sable]

@dense gate do you think that would fix itm

[thorny schooner]

Tried to use the 4.25.1 editor I had installed already, but says its a different version -- which btw.. which branch is the 4.25.1 branch?? I saw one named 4.250plus ? da fuq..

[dense gate]

It fixed it for me, however I don't specifically know your use case

What you described is basically exactly what I had, adding that node fixes it

Walk speeds aren't replicated, so whenever you change them in the server, you also have to change them for everyone

[calm sable]

I wish I can send the video

Cuz the movement is all messed up

[fierce forge]

this is before playing

and this is when i'm playing

how i can resolve it ?

[sudden oriole]

lighting?

[fierce forge]

skybox

[sudden oriole]

ah

[calm sable]

@plush yew though I dont think it's a multilayer issue

[floral mesa]

has anyone else had issues setting up random patrol for ai? the blackboard key i have says invalid. its set to a vector like the documentation says to. so when my ai reaches the patrol random area task it fails. i cant figure out what i missed. if anyone had this problem please contact me with the way you fixed it. thankyou so much

yes

and i set up the logic for the nav object

in the ai controller and the task itself

the weird thing to me is it says my vector variable in the blackboard is invalid

yes

aside from the area under the pig

but i was told its because you cant navigate to where u already are

[forest ingot]

what is this crash? why does it keep giving me this crash? what does this log mean? it has been doing this for 3 weeks now, I have reinstalled unreal engine, I have reinstalled windows, I've gone through every troubleshooting tip I could find. What. Is. This. Crash. It doesn't matter what I'm doing, I could open a blank project and leave it alone and it will eventually crash with this exact error message every time. No one has been able to help me

no one else working on the project via perforce has had this crash happen even once

[floral mesa]

ive never experienced that particular crash

[thorny schooner]

run a memory test on that computer woofer

[floral mesa]

if anyone has a solid tutorial reference on creating tasks (patrolling, likewise) im interested. the ue4 doc here has had me stuck on something seemingly simple for days. https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/ArtificialIntelligence/BehaviorTrees/BehaviorTreeQuickStart/index.html

just inbox me, dont wanna blow up the channel thanx

[jolly sage]

what is the name of the box with 0,0,0

thank you

[smoky imp]

Hello, im using 4.25 and i would like to learn to use the cmd, but it looks like i can only access when i hit the play botton...also i had to change the key, because tilde did not work for me..any idea?

[soft fiber]

You can switch back to the old UI if that would help.

@jolly sage Or something like VectorParam.

[jolly sage]

how come I dont have an animation tab next to event graph?

[forest ingot]

@thorny schooner memory test returned nothing

[glacial lantern]

Hey I'm new to animations, I was wondering.

Is this a bad way of doing this?

I have it set up for the rifle animations for aiming then not aiming

and I'm gonna have each weapon type with different groups set up this way

I was gonna make the aiming a montage but it was a bit jank

[plush yew]

how do i stop the screen from capturing my cursor?

[prisma plank]

this is before playing
@fierce forge maybe skybox check hidden or visible in game mode? check it

[eternal urchin]

how do i change visibility of a level in world composition with nodes?

[mystic holly]

Does anyone want to make a game together?

[floral mesa]

@jolly sage look under my blueprint to the left and click your animation graph to reopen it

[vast anvil]

Hey guys - Looking into adding mod support for my game, so players can make maps/bps with the editor. 3 options I'm aware of are:

1. Build custom engine, submit to epic to distrib via epic launcher (downside, need epic to aprove of sharing modkit)
2. provide instructions for users to build custom engine (downside, big barrier to modders getting going)
3. Share full game project, so users can use launcher engine (downside, requires sharing full project, and using stock engine)

anyone else have some good info in this area? Not sure how hard option 1 is - probably best if aproval process is not too hard. 2 and 3 both seem dooable though

[modern sinew]

can someone help with whatever is breaking my Inventory?

more information, it's only when it is connected to the output pin for the event. Putting in a static input like so doesn't break it, although obviously that won't work

This one stupid error is causing a lot of problems, because a lot of other features sorta rely on the inventory working

so if anyone could help that would be great

[bold compass]

hello

where can i ask for some help ive been stuck on this problem for ages now im rather new to using unreal engine

so im using world creator to make a world composition with a terrain width of 8129x8129 and want to export it in 16 tiles to make a full map

what would i have to put the tile width an height to make that work

or would it be recommended to have it at 1009 per tile

[noble tapir]

Hi there, according to this link both AndroidMedia Player and WmfMedia Player support rtsp streams, yet I dont seem to be able to get it working for either android or windows, does anyone have any experience with this?

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/MediaFramework/TechReference/index.html

[cloud briar]

Im impressed...full RT in the archviz with my improved settings...

[tough lantern]

Hello everyone.
I am new to Unreal.
As you can see in the linked video below. I have 3 problems on my project related to dynamic lighting.
1.The white buildings don't cast shadows on the floor. They are all 1 object, I suppose UE has hard times generating Mesh distance field for such a large object
2.The round roofed buildind is dark as if it is in shadow)
3.When I get far or very close, the shadow disappear as if it is clipped.I suppose it is linked to cascade shadow settings. But i play with it and noting happen
For info, i am using the nes Sun and sky in UE4 4.24.

I am finalising my project, i am stuck because of this. If someone could help me it would be awesome.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lskq8k217iy84sz/Desktop 2020.06.26 - 10.50.08.01_1.mp4?dl=0

[dark rune]

I attached a widget blueprint to in front of my camera
whenever i move the camera it gets blurry
how do i fix this

nvm im fine now i just set User Interface- Space - Screen

[glacial lantern]

Hey is there any way to choose what child socket the object will link to?

[stark briar]

Hello!
Currently i'm working on open world AI system and i got a question.
What if i want to spawn an AI, that moves around few levels?
I have world composition, that contains 9 levels. Where and how should i spawn enemies?

[rigid belfry]

is there a way to make a widget's alpha be gradient? that way i can fade from opaque to transparent going from one side to the other

[stark briar]

You can create material

And paint a widget

[rigid belfry]

ok, i'll search more about that, thanks

btw, do you know if its possible to have something like a vignette but inside widgets?

like a post process effect

[vocal herald]

I still didnt find a way on how to rotate players camera in sequencer

I tried putting PlayerCameraManager in sequencer and keyframed different transform values. Doesnt do anything

same with PlayerManager

tried with different pawns and FirstPersonCharacter, unchecked Use Pawn Control Rotation on camera. nothing worked

It works fine in edit mode but never works in play mode

[rigid belfry]

managed to apply a material to the widget by using a retainer box, now to make it look slightly brighter...

[exotic plover]

Hey everyone, can someone help me please? I'd truly appreciate it. I am integrating particle effects from UE4.24 to 4.25 and am having to manually set all the particle effects via assigning textures to materials and materials to the particle effects. Even though i have been assigning materials and textures correctly i see some of these textures as sandy block material shown in picture.

how do i fix this? please help

[rigid belfry]

which one is better? this one with a vignette around the edges

or a simple one

[vernal thicket]

@rigid belfry the one without

vignette makes it look liek you're looking through something lol

maybe good for vr?

[exotic plover]

@rigid belfry The one with vignette looks more defined, reminds me of fortnite a little bit. the one without looks softer and appears more calming

[rigid belfry]

i think the one without looks like you're already in the game

almost as if you're 1 button away from being able to walk or something

[vernal thicket]

Make the menu UI more invasive

The easiest way around that is lower the viewpoint

Atm it's at head height

or higher i guess lol

[exotic plover]

If it's an ingame menu then it looks good that way i think

If it's a main menu which it looks to be. I think it would be best in centre. You want the player to get into your game with as much ease as possible. That's why most main menu's are in the middle with the campaign at the top in big letters 🙂

these days people can't even watch videos unless within 6seconds it entertains them. Those are my thoughts on Main menu UI.

[vernal thicket]

I've got mine on the side, but my main menu is a level looping a camera

[rigid belfry]

i dont want a 3d menu because i think its just a waste of resources, i'd like to have a 2d render

i am thinking about animating a camera, recording it and then converting the gif to a flipbook in unreal

i think i am 1/3 done with setting up the basis for a multiplayer game, i should really continue but having a non functioning menu really slows everything down

plus while i am at it, i can finish it once and for all

[sudden oriole]

need a little help here. I am trying to use the sequencer but I can't get any key frames

I even have the auto key frame thing on

this is my scene

[fresh python]

Hello, can I watch the unreal day videos after July 14th or is it only for the day

[gloomy ginkgo]

John Connor from terminator?

[maiden sundial]

When will the casual user get chaos without building from source ?

[soft panther]

How Do i Create Event which when i can hold long press on the left mouse button

? ????

[rapid ridge]

Hey guys, I have an actor that consists of blueprint and 1 static mesh that simulates physics. How can I set it up, that the actor always has the same position as the static mesh? thanks in advance

[noble tapir]

The static mesh is part of the actor. So when you move the actor, the static mesh moves

[little otter]

can someone hope into genreal and help me with someting

genreal vc

nvm

[rapid ridge]

@soft panther You have the Mouse event with press and release. Then you have a branch at your event tick, with a boolean (MouseIsPressed). Now if "press" is triggered, set the boolean to true, if "release " is triggered set the boolean to false. from the true branch, you get a float variable and increase it by delta time (from tick event). On event release you check if the float variable exceeded a certain value and if true, it triggers your "long press action", if false it triggers your short press action... make sure to reset all variables.

@noble tapir Yeah, but I mean the other way around...

[noble tapir]

What do you mean by the other way around? I guess, how are you moving the static mesh?

@rapid ridge

[rapid ridge]

Physics

[noble tapir]

ahh

[rapid ridge]

The problem is, I use AI Perception, but it only "sees" the actor. I want it to see the Static mesh and move towards it

[noble tapir]

hmm

There might be a better way but you could possibly GetLocation of the mesh and use that location to SetLocation of the actor?

[rigid belfry]

dont use ticks

ever

[noble tapir]

I guess if you are using blueprints that might be true

but thats definitely not a rule you should follow 100% of the time

Also wouldnt setting the staticmesh as the rootcomponent do what you want?

@rapid ridge

Also, question for anyone. I need to have a static UMaterialInterface for a type of Actor. What would the best way to initialize this be?

[plush yew]

hello guys , when i import animation from maya to ue4 its give me a error message like this in picture so any help pls

[digital anchor]

is the animation actually called that?

[restive eagle]

i think he blurred his directory

[digital anchor]

give the output log error

[midnight gate]

ok

so ugh

im trying to use a blueprint interface

but it does not play the event

am i using it right?

[fresh python]

No ur not

[midnight gate]

then how do i use it right

@fresh python

[calm sable]

@plush yew @dark rune @dense gate Thank you for all the help, you guys are truly awesome

[dense gate]

[calm sable]

q=q

now it's beautiful

Q-Q runs so smooth

[rain knot]

Hey guys.
For some reason, when I use Unreal and add a plugin, I get some weird permission errors.
Recently I was trying out vivox, I added their SDK to my plugins directory (as directed by their documentation), I regenerated the .sln file from the .uproject, but when I try building my project I get this error:

Error    MSB3075    The command "chcp 65001 >NUL && "C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.24\Engine\Build\BatchFiles\Build.bat" ParkourEditor Win64 Development -Project="C:\Users\user\Documents\Unreal Projects\Parkour\Parkour.uproject" -WaitMutex -FromMsBuild" exited with code 5. Please verify that you have sufficient rights to run this command.    Parkour    C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.MakeFile.Targets    46```   

This seems to be happening for all of my projects. Am I doing something wrong?

Is something incorrect with respect to permissions on my PC?
Edit: Neither Build.bat or Parkour.uproject are read-only.

[cyan robin]

i have a blueprints asset which has a series of cameras, and i also have my own custom camera set up that i wrote in c++, how would i combine my camera class with the blueprints asset class? i know this is a very basic question, i have a few years of programming experience, but not much unreal experience, so sometimes i get to these basic challenges i don't seem to be able to solve (they are both pawn controllers)

[plush yew]

Any1 have problem exporting morph?

I've exported morph just fine but this one model doesn't export morph for some reason

@cyan robin Maybe you can do add component

see if your camera is there

inside your blueprint asset

[rain knot]

Anyone with permission issues?

[cyan robin]

THANKS

[midnight gate]

how can i make one of them run depending on the index

[bold compass]

So I accidentally deleted my playable character and now when I click play I’m not in a 3rd person character instead I’m flying around how do I add the character back Sorry for such a silly question to ask I’m rather new and am struggling to get it to work

[plush yew]

@cyan robin actually, they are both pawn controller? i have no idea man might not be how it should be

hopefully someone is around to help you

[cyan robin]

well, i see "add c++ component" so maybe i can rewrite the code there?

[plush yew]

I only use blueprint, but hopefully you can work it out

just give it a go 😄

i dont see it any different than adding a blueprint component

[jolly kernel]

@bold compass go to third person bp folder, blueprints, drag third person character into scene

[bold compass]

Ty @jolly kernel

[gloomy ginkgo]

This is not working in multiplayer (client) for some reason...

any idea?

[rigid belfry]

is the server receiving the event

[gloomy ginkgo]

yes

[rigid belfry]

so what isnt working?

[gloomy ginkgo]

the server can shoot but the client cant

also it gives error saying that it can't read Gun Ref Variable

[rigid belfry]

i cant really help you beside linking you this incredible documentation about networks in unreal. it is about 100 pages long, but its really well written and with many examples http://cedric-neukirchen.net/Downloads/Compendium/UE4_Network_Compendium_by_Cedric_eXi_Neukirchen.pdf

[gloomy ginkgo]

thanks

[ashen orbit]

I've tried to fix this the past hour can't seem to outsmart it, any help would be appreciated

[rigid belfry]

right click the main menu variable and do get "convert to validated get" its the last option

try doing this

what does it print