ue4-general

[fleet wraith]

Like if I want a swirling lava globe, I have that material. Why is it so hard to just render it in my Ui 😩😩

[grim ore]

they arent, they are stylized 2d textures

[fleet wraith]

Lol

[grim ore]

you would make your textures look the way you want, baking in the lighting and such, and then use that as the texture

UI that exists in the world is diegetic

but thats not what they want

if its "in" the world, its diegetic but it sounds like they want prettier normal UI

[fleet wraith]

Sure but then they still look like pictures and have no material instance variables, meaning I have to make and bake a new UI for every material I want

So if I change the UI element I have to now re bake it for every material

[grim ore]

well if you have an example of what you are wanting to do we might be able to help you do it, or #graphics

I mean there is nothing stopping you from making a full 3d "ui" and attaching it to the camera, or putting it somewhere else and rendering it out to a texture and plastering that onto your UI

[fleet wraith]

Yeah that’s true

I’ll do some experimenting I guess and come back later

[grim ore]

the 2nd one has the issue where if it's somewhere else the lighting wont match, the first one being ui is generally intended to convey info and well... not being able to see the info because of environment would suck

[fleet wraith]

Yeah I doubt I’ll do it that way

[grim ore]

and a swirling lava globe as an example doesnt seem hard to do on a normal ui

you like make the lava texture and tell it to swirl and use that on your ui

[fleet wraith]

That’s where I’m stuck. My material is what makes it swirl and glow at varying rates

But when o convert to UI it loses all of those properties

Because UI materials only have color and opacity

[grim ore]

well the swirl part should still work, but yes the glow if you are using emissive would be gone

but that can be simulated with good art

[fleet wraith]

Yeah just a shame UI materials are so basic that you lose all of the cool stuff in t he material editors anyways.

Well thanks for the info I’ll get back to the drawing board for now

[rugged raven]

I'll ask again. But does anyone know how to make per poly collision work for a player character?

[grim ore]

i mean like this is all UI https://youtu.be/ka2jpbU8J0c

[fleet wraith]

Yeah that's the kind of video iw as looking for

my UI is inspired by the diablo 3 one,

but it would be cool to change all of that stone to like a brushed metal

or glowing lava

[grim ore]

yep and that d3 ui is 100% 2d

[fleet wraith]

yeah but if i want to change the materials i have to re bake it instead of just using the materials for metal and glass and steel etc

[grim ore]

textures with noise and movement to simulate the globes for energy and health

what do you mean by change?

[fleet wraith]

like you see how the gargoyles are made of stone

if i wanted it to be wood, or metal, or glass

it's not just a simple parameter change anymore, it sounds like it's a whole new image bak

bake*

[grim ore]

no it could be a material change, thats like saying if you wanted it to be red or green you would have to rebake the material

[fleet wraith]

hmm i guess i just dont have a good understanding yet, i got some learning to do

PS i love all of your videos, they've been so insanely helpful. Fantastic work

[grim ore]

the gargoyles made out of stone could be made out of nothing, just the "depth" as a greyscale mask

then the "stone" is just a "stone" noise texture placed ontop of it, blended in to the appropriate channel

[fleet wraith]

yeah that's true

[grim ore]

but thats a proper and skilled artwork

[fleet wraith]

yea

[grim ore]

but even if not, what you suggested about changing the materials is not out of the question either. I wouldnt doubt that most games like that just have different ui sets as needed

its why the AAA games are AAA and cost money lol

[fleet wraith]

lol yeah

[surreal viper]

is it possible to store/reference a widget class without loading all the resources it references into memory? 🤦‍♂️

because if I simply store an UClass variable RIP, everything is loaded

is there something like a soft object ptr to a uclass or idk? 🤔

nvm I can use enum/fname and build a map runtime if needed

[plush yew]

kalarian

can't you change pfp for this discord

and save the dildo for nsfw spaces?

[surreal viper]

but I need to store the class

and not the object

(because it is not spawned yet)

[zenith flower]

Is there a way to get this camera view out of my way when I click on my boat?

This has to be one of the most annoying default features that I cannot for the life of me find a way to get rid of

This is retarded

Another way is to switch between Default and Cinematic

[zenith flower]

At the very least there should be a big X on the top right to close it out

[grim ore]

I've never thought to close it, I like it lol

but mine isnt 3/4 the viewport so I dont notice it most of the time

[zenith flower]

I have multiple monitors, some with different scaling, unreal does not handle it very well.

[grim ore]

that is what I have heard 😦

[plush yew]

Anyone else wonder what new built in features will be included in ue5?

[grim ore]

nope

[half plank]

is it possible to rename a project

[carmine garnet]

i want my blueprint to be able to recieve an event from a niagara emitter

[brisk spire]

So I'm not really sure where to ask this and I can't find anything about it online... Does anyone know the copyright situation of Mahjong, or Shogi, or chess, or similar popular board games? As far as I can tell, the pieces and art are copyrighted, but the specific movements and rules are not

Basically asking if it's possible to add a mahjong mini game to my game

[lucid socket]

IANAL, but as far as I know chess, mahjong and shogi are all public domain as they are hundreds of years old.

[brisk spire]

Yeah, I'm just worried it's like a grim fairytale situation, where Disney picked up a bunch and now almost everything about it is copyrighted because of their "adaptations"

I found info on chess saying that the pieces, box art, and rulebook are copyrighted, but the game itself is not, so I have to assume it is the same

[lucid socket]

You can still make an adaptation of those grim fairy tales, for example American McGee's Alice is an adaptation. Disney can't sue for that.

However, Disney can still take you to court and tie you up in legal litigation.

[brisk spire]

Right, but tencent probably wouldn't take me to court for making a mahjong adaptation as long as I don't do anything to upset them

[lucid socket]

Mahjong existed long before Tencent existed.

[brisk spire]

Yeah but they've got a lot of really popular mahjong adaptations

So similar to Disney

They could be like "hey this game piece is similar to our game piece go to hell" even if they have no legal grounds

Not that they ever would, but still

[lucid socket]

Depends, I mean the pieces and their design have been around for a long time as well.

[brisk spire]

Right but even with like.. Poker adaptations, the cards have to be changed from the typical design even though the design was created in like the 1800s

Because the art is copyrightable

Same with chess pieces, apparently

But all you have to do is draw the symbols yourself instead of copy pasting and you're fine in that department

I wish there was a cut and dry answer, lol

Maybe I should go to the legal section of stack exchange

[lucid socket]

There never is with legal stuff unfortunately.

There is always a "it depends" answer.

[brisk spire]

😭

Ah well, thanks for giving me some fuel for thought @lucid socket

I've asked the question on stack exchange, I'll come back later if I get an answer in case anyone would find it interesting

[unreal comet]

Is it possible to select a few of my painted foliage actors and save them into a blueprint or group them? I made a nice vegetable market scene by painting vegetables and carefully editing them. Now I want to save the scene so I can duplicate it around my city.

[turbid bobcat]

Hi, one small silly question

Is there any way to set the max ammount of decimals to 3 or something like that?

[floral knoll]

hey I have a big level and a light mass I am getting this error when building and my save times are 30 mins+

could someone please help

[modern sinew]

@grim ore Do you know how to fix this? The circular progress bar can be rather inaccurate (followed your tutorial on them a while back to make this one)

[floral knoll]

can anyone hope in to a call and help us the error is above you don't need to understand it but if you think you might be able to help by looking then that would be great thanks

[hot pine]

Compile

[hot pine]

Now I look dumb because he deleted his messages :/

[uneven fractal]

Not enough bugs in your project?

Try using the console command slomo 5 or slomo .5 to see what breaks

[stuck linden]

Is it possible to when i press a button and it brings me a non-possesed pawn i press another one (fire) and it posseses the pawn

[restive yarrow]

Reducing actor counts in my level will make it load faster yes?

[stuck linden]

is there anyway i can connect that input to the actual blueprint?

[light coyote]

@stuck linden what do you mean by conect to bp ?

[stuck linden]

connect to branch i meant* @light coyote

[light coyote]

What is it you want to do?

If its pressed, after then attach component if you want

[stuck linden]

I want to press E to equip a drone then when i press my fire button i want to possess it

[light coyote]

Whatever has to happen will go after the press action

[stuck linden]

Thats the point its already after another input press action (R)

[light coyote]

@stuck linden you have to explain more, or show your bp

You can check Was input key just pressed

That will guive you a boolean

[idle knoll]

Hey! I'm new here and I'm really impressed by the size of Unreal community on this channel! Awesome place to gather some knowledge and get inspired. I've been working in Unreal for a few weeks now and I stumble upon a recurring problem that really bugs me and I can't find a solution anywhere on the internet or in the manuals. Almost each time I reopen a level that I've previously worked on, after rebuilding lighting it looks different. Meaning - lights are either way significantly brighter or darker and I have to delete all lights and rebuild everything from scratch to get the look that I had previously. Seriously, what am I doing wrong. Any ideas? I'd be really thankful for any tips or ideas where can I find an answer to this question.

[light coyote]

@idle knoll maybe is just the eye adaptation

[idle knoll]

@idle knoll maybe is just the eye adaptation
@light coyote Thanks, but I've already checked that, Min and Max Brightness are already set to 1

[light coyote]

Depending on how bright or dark it is where you are it will adapt

@idle knoll go to, 1 min

[idle knoll]

Ticked it off earlier :/

After/Before light rebuild

[light coyote]

@idle knoll sorry im in the bar ordering a coffee

[stuck linden]

i sent you a pm

[light coyote]

There are 2 places to turn it off

[stuck linden]

@light coyote

[light coyote]

Go to the small arrow in the viewer

Arround there somewhere there is an option called eye adaptation, you have to disable it

[light coyote]

Yes

[restive yarrow]

Is this normal?

[light coyote]

@idle knoll did it work?

[idle knoll]

@idle knoll did it work?
@light coyote I'm pretty sure that I've done it before but I'll run a few test and let you know. Thanks for your time!

[upper karma]

When exporting a model with anims in Blender, do I export in DAE or FBX?

[silk sleet]

is there like an easy way to get a procedural foliage spawner to spawn on procedural meshes?

i think im missing something here

[restive yarrow]

@upper karma fbx always

[upper karma]

Thanks!

[restive yarrow]

Np :)

[upper karma]

Is there anything I need to do to make sure the anims export too? Cause last time I did they didn't export in too

wait nvm

[stuck linden]

Can anyone help me with something real quick (boolean and blueprint related)

pm me pls

[runic fern]

Hello Guys im getting this error when trying to build my project

  ERROR: TeamProject modifies the value of GlobalDefinitions. This is not allowed, as TeamProject has build products in common with UE4Game.

what does it mean

[restive yarrow]

5 min 26 seconds to load up the editor

And 16 mins to load my level that im working on

Is this normal? Thats 21 mins gone to waste

I need a fix

[stuck linden]

Does anyone know why is not working?

just created the blueprint btw

do i have to do anything before?

[restive yarrow]

@stuck linden where have you placed this? In your current player blueprint or something else like the level bp?

[stuck linden]

On a Gun blueprint i just created

@restive yarrow

[plush yew]

I see black in my viewport. How to fix?

[restive yarrow]

@stuck linden you need you player character to call that event, because your gun is not possessed

[stuck linden]

Do i make the blueprint a pawn then instead of an actor? @restive yarrow

[plush yew]

does someone have an answer on my question?

[restive yarrow]

@stuck linden not really, just make a variable called weapon owner that references to your character and inside your character bp make Z call the event to the gun actor

@plush yew try loading another level

[plush yew]

okay

[restive yarrow]

Nightmare

[plush yew]

still not loading.

[restive yarrow]

@plush yew that screen doesnt look pitch black

[plush yew]

its not working

[restive yarrow]

Its like the slider of a window has hidden the viewport

Go on world settings

Or something

Details pannel

And click on viewport

If its there

[plush yew]

yea thanks got it

[restive yarrow]

👍

[plush yew]

help guys my ue4.25.1 crashes

when i press light building

or when i make class

pls help someone

[plush yew]

Hi, I have an animation blueprint nested inside a character blueprint, I have a bool that determines the state the anim blueprint state machine is in. I have set it to repnotify - is there a way now to access it from the character blueprint so that I can execute logic when the notify occurs?

[sand spruce]

@plush yew ask in the blueprint channel?

[idle compass]

hi everyone, so I have a kitbash3d set for c4d octane, how do I import it to unreal engine without plugging in all the textures one by one ?because there are lots of part and it would take a long time to finish

[plush yew]

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000020 pls help

[frank oar]

How important is RAM for unreal ?
what kind of speed do I need for good performance and how much do I need overall ?
I noticed my pc struggles after a few hours in unreal and begins to lag...

[alpine laurel]

why does 25.1 keep crashing on me?

[plush yew]

me too

pls help

[idle compass]

also why is the vertex painting currently has this red thingy ?it is really hard to draw, sometimes the cursor is just gone

[autumn cove]

Hey guys, this might be a noob question. Somehow my scenes are all off. Every camera shot is filmed a little bit more to the left than I actually intented it to be. Now I noticed that the pivot angle of the camera is also a little bit off. I have no idea how I did that, but I'd love to undo it. Someone got an idea how to fix this back to normal?

[regal path]

Hello fellow UE4 user ! Does someone has some experience on creating an sdk for users to create mods ?

Pavlov VR has an template http://wiki.pavlov-vr.com/index.php?title=Getting_Started

How do you create those kind of sdk without exposing all of your code

[austere scroll]

im having this problem in my latest models that i make in blender , that the model isnt straight when i inittialy import it , i checked the import settings they are fine

even the rotation is 0 so it should be straight

my problem with this is that , when i try to rotate it , it doesnt rotate where the X or Y or Z is, it rotates and also tilts to the right

as you can see here i only moved the X rotation but it tilited to the right

anyone ?

[restive yarrow]

@austere scroll change pivot from global to local? Or local to global

@frank oar RAM is the biggest deal for UE4

[chilly roost]

Z

were is UE4 target in VS17?

[prisma plank]

On this channel any contests with UE4?

[fluid bronze]

Does anyone know how to reply to someone on answerhub with a bunch of code but not exceed the character limit?

[shy sundial]

newbie here . is there a way that i can view the scene components in the viewport ?

[wooden heath]

hi freind! is there a way for delete all unused assests (3d objects , textures,materials...) from a project if you have a lot and can't delete one by one ?

[runic iron]

Apparently there are some python scripts for that on that repo https://github.com/mamoniem/UnrealEditorPythonScripts

Seems like there's some marketplace plugin for that too https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/assets-cleaner-project-cleaning-tool/reviews

[umbral ferry]

can someone explain to me what mean number of sample in AA ?

[soft panther]

If someone want to create a game with me and a couple of ppl so dm me for more details

@everyone

[wooden heath]

@runic iron Thank you

[solemn orbit]

hello

is there a way to replace the u4 mannequin with a custom model

[fiery mortar]

guys why is it my animation's place completely moves when ı turn into a montage?

[silk sleet]

Anyone know how to get a Procedural Foliage Spawner to work on Procedural Meshes?

[plush yew]

Hello

Pls help

I need to know how to make camera like in tekken 7

Anyone knows how?

[ember star]

i broke something. i have no idea how i did this or how to fix it

[next badger]

what it says here?

[ember star]

ooo i had lightmap density

how did that happen

[next badger]

@plush yew https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/c-gameplay-programming/75769-camera-behaviour-like-in-tekken-or-mortal-kombat-4

[ember star]

alt 0 apparently

thanks!

[next badger]

@ember star yep, alt+4 is lit view

@silk sleet not in a simple way...it's better to write own one

[plush yew]

@next badger isnt there way how to do it in blueprint?

[next badger]

well, you can recreate that code in bp...i see nothing c++ specific out there

[plush yew]

Ohh sorry

Im new in ue4

Any idea how Can i recreate it?

?

[next badger]

read the code, understand it, make same logic in BP...
i have not seen any other 3d fighting games examples for ue4, so this one is your best shot imo

[fleet wraith]

Does Re Save All compile everything as well?

[plush yew]

Hey ! Does anyone use iClone here ? I'd like to animate a character from blender into iClone. I can import it no problem but I can't access to the animation options (Face Puppet, Face Key, Motion Puppet, Direct Puppet, Device Mocap, etc...)

Should I go through 3DXChange to have the animation options ??

[limber mesa]

anyone know how to enable dialogue plugin

its not showing up in plugins

[inner cloak]

Someone know why Q to straighten does not work

[soft idol]

hey peeps! need some ideas&Concept related FPS multiplayer game!!

what elements should be consider while making FPS multiplayer game?

[thick herald]

Servers.

[soft idol]

ahan!

and other than servers what other elements can be consider?

oh i was not aware of that-_-'

[thick herald]

What I meant was that the quality of dedicated server vs locally hosting a multiplayer game plays a big factor in creating content.

So which are we dealing with? How many people per instance? etc.etc.

[soft idol]

it could be like 5 vs 5

[thick herald]

so it's a pvp fps game?

no pve?

[soft idol]

yup

its PVP

not pve!

so i have collected two elements 1

1. PVP mode ( 5 vs 5 )
2. Servers

please share your other thoughts related FPS multiplayer

[storm venture]

which online services you'll be using (steam, epic, aws, your own, etc)
crossplatform vs one platform vs multiplatform
you'll have to design every mechanic with networking in mind, going back to change it is a pain, so regular multiplayer testing is a must
where are servers hosted? can players host servers? etc

[grim ore]

@plush yew that video looks like a normal overhead, the artwork is just designed to get that look

yes that is exactly what they did, the sprites are rotated the playfield is top down

you could do the same I guess, just rotate the meshes themselves if your blueprints to give the same look

[ember star]

my player controller BP doesn't seem to be firing begin play or capturing key events, what did i do

[grim ore]

are you using that player controller?

[unreal comet]

Does anyone know theoretically how to make a horse and buggy? Not for players to control but just for looks, either an AI, or a pre scripted actor that rides through a town. Would the buggy use physics? Or would that be too buggy? IK? I'm just lookin to be pointed in the right direction.

https://i.gyazo.com/3e2985eb732641ed05ec6eb9cc1328fb.png

[ember star]

its set as defaulty conroller in map settings

[frosty maple]

You had one job garbage collector, one job!

Infinite amounts of bombs are being spawned lmao

Swear the fps went from 60fps to 10fps

[grim ore]

@ember star so in the world settings you have override the default game mode and set it as the controller? or did you do this in maps and modes in the project settings?

[ember star]

i did, and it was working for a while

then i created a camera and maybe messed up somethign else, now the controller seems dead

i edited level BP

[supple totem]

@unreal comet just taking a guess here. I wouldnt do physics probably, I'd probably do some vector and rotation math based on what the cows are doing. It depends on the fidelity you want really

I'm sure Rockstar has mind blowing systems for RDR2 buggys

[unreal comet]

Yea this is just for looks. Just want to bring my town to life a little bit. I'll see if I can play with the rotation. If all else fails, I'll only place them in flat areas lol

[plush yew]

is it common that highspeed meshes go thru other meshes in unreal?

[ember star]

the begin play on my player controller isnt even firing, how did i break this so bad

[fast hinge]

What's the best workflow if you want to have assets/materials in multiple packages? For instance, if I bring Megascans assets into Maya, perform my entire layout and basic shaders there, then export everything into unreal. Can I keep basic shader assignments with textures?

I see there is python scripting in unreal now so I would assume someone has written a script

[icy fjord]

I am doing a course on Udemy and it says to use 4.10 even though it’s not even near the newest one especially since unreal 5 is coming out. What do I do and how does that work out? Plz @ me

[echo zealot]

Hey yall! Am i the only game dev who smokes weed?

[steady rivet]

Hi guys.I'm new to unreal engine. I have a small doubt. I downloaded the latest version 4.25 today.Most of my asset pack are compatibility with version 4.24.I downloaded around 12gb and installed it.
Do i need to download 12gb again to get previous version or it takes the files from the version 4.25 i downloaded?

[grim ore]

@icy fjord you can always download .10 if you want 100% compatibility, otherwise there is no way of knowing what has and has not changed on that course without doing it. Chances are if you user a newer version someone will mention the fixes in the notes for the course.

@steady rivet it depends on the assets. If they are mainly meshes and stuff, non code, more than likely you can add them as is into your .25 project. If they contain code they might not work in you force import them up a version

[icy fjord]

K I’ll check the notes

[grim ore]

@plush yew it is common for that in any engine due to the way physcis work. Look into using continuous collision and physics substepping if you need that

[frail mist]

Does anyone else have issues with rendering movies from the sequencer? I found many threads in the forum about it but nothing really helped. I just want to make a gameplay trailer by recording footage with the sequence recorder.

[steady rivet]

@grim ore ok.i just installed now and what I meant to ask was do ver 4.24 take 12gb to download again in epic store?Or it just verify 4.25 file and add the 4.24 version launcher without downloading again

my main problem is downloading 4.2 for 12gb again when I have version 4.25

[grim ore]

@steady rivet do you mean marketplace assets in the vault or the launcher?

[steady rivet]

launcher

i downloaded it today and installed

[grim ore]

if you are talking about multiple version of the engine, they are different. if you have .25 and .24 installed of the engine it's 2 separate sets of files

[frail mist]

With issues I mean very bad resolution when I have the cinematic scalability checked and bleeding between frames even when unchecked (hence rendering with PIE scalability).

[grim ore]

marketplace assts can be separate or not depending on how they are created, it might take up space for .25 and .24 for the same asset in your vault

[steady rivet]

so I need to download version 4.24 of the engine again for 12gb right?

[grim ore]

if you want multiple engines you will download whatever you need for it yes, I cant say the size I dont know what you are downloading

there are options to make the engine bigger or smaller

[steady rivet]

i can dm you tomorrow morning with the screenshot of the installation page detail

if that's ok with you

[grim ore]

wont change what I said

if yours says 12gb for what you want to install then yes you will have to download that again

[steady rivet]

ok thank you for the help mathew

[spare sun]

how is vegetation done nowadays? Transparent planes or actual 3d meshes?

And I mean grass and such

[grim ore]

you can probably put your .24 assets into the .25 engine if they are just meshes and stuff, no need to download .24 engine

both are used , depends on the project and target platforms

[spare sun]

could you elaborate please

[grim ore]

https://80.lv/articles/preparing-realistic-grass-in-ue4/

there are 2 articles that go into depth

[spare sun]

yea ive read it but on demo he's still using planes whilst talking meshes with volume

[frail mist]

Does anyone else have issues with rendering movies from the sequencer? I found many threads in the forum about it but nothing really helped. I just want to make a gameplay trailer by recording footage with the sequence recorder. With issues I mean very bad resolution when I have the cinematic scalability checked and bleeding between frames even when unchecked (hence rendering with PIE scalability).

[grim ore]

@spare sun well I can say that the stuff he is talking about are definitely meshes and not planes

[spare sun]

ok thanks, just wanted to confirm

[grim ore]

you can download his stuff from the marketplace and look at it if you want an example.

[icy fjord]

@grim ore I checked and no one mentioned the changes for the newer versions, the course is 3 years old so I’m not sure how good it will be but if u have any other recommendations on how to make something I’m all ears

[grim ore]

large parts of the engine have not changed over the years so it could be perfectly valid, it just depends on the content

[icy fjord]

ok ill try it out then im download .10 rn but i can send the course links if u need

[plush yew]

Why tf my camera is in my Chars head

Only when i hit play

But when im modifying the scéne there IS no camera in his head

Wtf?

Pls help

[grim ore]

is there no camera at all in your default character?

if not the player camera manager is going to add one by default since you need something to look out of for your viewport

[zinc basin]

alright, real question about Replication in Multiplayer:
IF something is replicated; say something as simple as a light turning off an on at random times (like in a spooky horror flick) - that blueprint would exist on every client. Now if The Game is Dedicated server, or Host->client, would the host settings be replicated to the clients.... with the clients' personal instances being disabled so they only take cues from the host?

Is that what happens?
is that a default behaviour, or does it have to be set specifically?
and presuming that's true; if the game was true P2P and had no host (not even sure if that's a valid structure anymore) does that mean that each client's light flicker be independant again/>

I still have a way to go before I get there, but I'm trying to understand all these damned buttons in the blueprints section

[plush yew]

Hi

[zinc basin]

ohoh there are plenty of hour long tutorials on YT explaining it; yay!

hi

[plush yew]

I want to make a game

[zinc basin]

don't we all? 🙂

[plush yew]

But i want to make a better game

[zinc basin]

heh. dont we all?

[smoky snow]

How can I add someone to the channel please

[zinc basin]

how might we be able to help you today, young padawin

[plush yew]

I want to make the best game

[zinc basin]

@smoky snow right click the chat #ue4-general under the General heading on the Left Hand Side; the find the Invite option?

[plush yew]

My dad is rich

He knows everything about games

My dad said this is good discord

Hes very very rich

[zinc basin]

well, @plush yew this is just my opinion; but a great game begins with excellent design.
ONCE you have that, then learning to code or program it, THEN learning to do art for the game to match the intended 'feel'
That's probably a good start, and close to your priority list.

Ofc, no matter how good a game is, if you want people to play it, Marketing your game is a science all on it's own.

[plush yew]

Can you make the best game for me for free?

[zinc basin]

@plush yew when you say he knows everything about games, do you mean from a consumers' perspective, or a designers?

[plush yew]

Designer

He made HTML games

Hes the best

[zinc basin]

then why are you asking me? I'm a pleb?
If you have access to the best in the business, go and use that contact; Ask him!!!

[plush yew]

My dad want to keep it secret

Cuz he is best

[zinc basin]

I'm just going to say this then leave it;
Someone can show you every skill and every technique they know, without any fear of someone being bettr than them; because knowing how to make assets and make them move around a level is a VERY different thing to designing a good game.

Besides, if he can teach you the fundamentals of design and a core gameplay loop without giving away any secrets.
something doesn't sound right to me.

[plush yew]

I’m best designer in world

I can draw 3D and more

[zinc basin]

OK, Jackson.

[plush yew]

You mean micheal jackson?

[zinc basin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHmEca6qBFc

nope.

[plush yew]

Thats not my channel

He stole my fucking name

Motherfucker

[final fiber]

that means you're worthy. pogchamp

[zinc basin]

lol
oh so are you the restuarant gamer?

[plush yew]

I’m THE robloxmaster

[final fiber]

prove it, ur pfp is not roblox

[plush yew]

Other robloxmasters are fake

prove it, ur pfp is not roblox
@final fiber it is

[plush yew]

Its from a roblox game called fortnite

[final fiber]

- well shit.

[plush yew]

Its the best game ever

[maiden swift]

This is off-topic discussion. Please take it to #lounge.

[zinc basin]

@maiden swift on that subject, my question got buried;
can I repost it without 'being a spammer;?

[plush yew]

This is off-topic discussion. Please take it to #lounge.
@maiden swift sorry i dont trust links in messages

[final fiber]

Thats... not a link though

[zinc basin]

he's obviously trolling now.

i mean it's a good troll, but troll is still trolling.

[plush yew]

You mean a hacker?

[maiden swift]

@plush yew It's a link to the channel you should be using.

[plush yew]

Sorry @maiden swift but i trust you but my phone is really expensive and i dont want it broken

[zinc basin]

@plush yew oh well, that's neat; way over my head, but neat;
You don't have some kind of instersecting mesh, do you? like even a lighting actor or something that 'borders' the level?

[maiden swift]

@plush yew That's fine. Please take it to #lounge so folks can use this channel for help with Unreal, as it's intended to be.

[fluid lance]

@plush yew OrthoWidth maybe?

[plush yew]

Okay

[maiden swift]

@zinc basin Yes, feel free to repost your question. 👍

[zinc basin]

thanks! I'll let equinox have his limelight tho

[grim ore]

your questions should go in #multiplayer btw @zinc basin , it wasnt buried it was really not meant for general

[zinc basin]

thanks matt, I didnt see that channel!
I'll head over there soon

[spare sun]

if your camera is in perspective, it would be out of camera bounds right

[fluid lance]

@plush yew maybe I'm getting what you are trying to do wrong, but why do you have an angle to your ortho cam? you need it that way? it's what's causing the culling really

[zinc basin]

what happens if you 'zoom out'

just for testing

[plush yew]

I can help you

[fluid lance]

@plush yew but then it obviously culls anything which falls out of the 45% angle...

[zinc basin]

^ignore it, I'm guessing

[fluid lance]

so move it forward so that you get the whole thing within the angle and see if it's still culling

[plush yew]

What game are you using to make games?

[zinc basin]

yeah so you'd have to move the whole camera 'down'

[plush yew]

Sorry thats for old people

I cant have that

[zinc basin]

@plush yew really? I was using the DOOM64 engine

i'm off to MP channel, thanks guys!

nice to meet you, middle-of-summer guy!

[plush yew]

But is there a children version?

[zinc basin]

@plush yew I think Duke has you sorted my man.

[plush yew]

What game do i need to make games?

Plese help me

[fluid lance]

@plush yew np

[zinc basin]

@fluid lance skillz bro

[plush yew]

What game do i need to make games? @fluid lance

Plese helep

@grim ore no there isnt any camera

[zinc basin]

@grim ore thanks man, the pinned tutorials in that section look like they are exactly what I need as a starting point; let the learning begin (continue?)

[plush yew]

Plese help me

@grim ore Can u pls help me?

😭dm me if you want to help me. Tank yu so much

[grim ore]

@plush yew if there is no camera the engine will create one, you need a camera to see thru when playing.

[plush yew]

Can yu see this massage

Nobody replies

[maiden swift]

Anyone else excited for Unreal Fest Online this Tuesday? Only two days away. 👀

[grim ore]

no because it's not GDC and I am sad it's not GDC

[plush yew]

Yu can helep me?

[maiden swift]

@grim ore But new UE5 goodies!

[zinc basin]

@maiden swift I know tha tI should be, but I'm still new and got so much learngin to get done that the idea of that thing is a bit daunting ATM
Besides, I'm pretty sure it's just a disguised advert for 5

[grim ore]

UE5 is still a year away, until I can play with goodies are just teasing

[maiden swift]

😄

Fair enough.

I'm actually attempting to get up at 5:00AM to watch it. lol

[plush yew]

Nobudy want help me

[maiden swift]

@zinc basin It's true there will be new UE5 info there, but the majority of the content will apply to UE4 as far as I can tell.

[plush yew]

Plese help me!!

Plese!

HELP!!!

ME!!!

PLESE!!

Sorey its almost 7PM and i’m still on phone. I really need to go bye!

[grim ore]

I think I am just going to sit in the networking lounge and harass people that day @maiden swift lol

[plush yew]

Plese say bye to me!

I hate this discourd

[final fiber]

Does this C++ tutorial still work as of today? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXeoh2hT7xk I'm stuck at the "#include ''InteractionInterface.h''" line where it's not compiling my code correctly in-engine (using 4.24.3)

the playlist of these has worked up to this point

[narrow mauve]

99% of every unreal engine 4 tutorial . "How to make gun shoot, shoot stuff, enemy shoot you, make actor go away after shoot, what is an actor, what is a gun, what is a bullet, shoot the bullet, shoot the enemy and make effects when he got shot" ....me: "learns nothing important"

[zinc basin]

@narrow mauve the other 1% is "how to tel other players they killed you"

🙂

[final fiber]

that's why I do the programming with the tutorial, instead of watching and trying to program from memory off the tutorial.

[narrow mauve]

The problem I am finding as a beginner trying to learn is there seems to be a huge lack of fundamentals. It's all specific things that mean nothing to me like "shoot the bad guy derpa"

[final fiber]

It takes me a bit to understand what the code actually does and I miss 99% of stuff, but in the end it works.

[zinc basin]

@final fiber I take it that 0.75 and 0.25 are good buddies of yours?

[final fiber]

in percentages of what I understand in literally any lesson I've been in (real life and online). yes.

[zinc basin]

ahahalol
I mean replay speed; but i feel like you knew that

[final fiber]

yea, lol

[zinc basin]

it's amazing how much stuff 'basic' tutorials can skip over
"create a static mech actor then do"
Boom uses some keyboard shortcut

How TF that that fully rigged and animated Actor get there? @narrow mauve

The tutorial on realistic procedurally generated grass was pretty damned cool tho

[storm venture]

considering unreal engine's poster child growing up was a first person shooter, i think its fitting for first person shooters to be the example projects used in tutorials

[final fiber]

but anyway. the InteractInterface.h thing seems to kill my compile for me.

[zinc basin]

@storm venture absolutely; in fact it's the reason i switched.
well that and Unity's MP is literally non existant;

They literally say on the store "MP is not supported any longer and will be removed"
MP will be re added at a later date
Oh and BTW MP i a paid subscription.

[final fiber]

what's the alternative in 4.24.3? I can't find a damn word about it anywhere

[narrow mauve]

the only way to really learn is to just do everything yourself

[storm venture]

@zinc basin unity said MP is not supported?? woah that seems bad

[zinc basin]

they said that they are discontinuing their current iterationa nd will not support it, yeah thats how i remember it

[final fiber]

the only way to really learn is to just do everything yourself
@narrow mauve
Me trying to learn by myself: uuuuUUUUHHHH....

seriously, what the fuck does all this mean?

[zinc basin]

honestly Unreals documentation is good, their tutorials SUCK

[storm venture]

@zinc basin hopefully theyre replacing it with something better because to just cut out mp seems pretty odd lol

[narrow mauve]

Everything is so cryptic

well not really

[zinc basin]

and thy just go do this then this thisen thsi then this without explaining anything and just drilling so deep down menus' i've never seen before

[final fiber]

when you understand it it isn't.

[narrow mauve]

As a beginner.....seeing most things in unreal engine and code to me basically is like FJKODSGNUIREG*(%MJGH*()MJG#($UJGM()G*)(MJG)#(GJM#()$GJ$#(GJ$#*()G<J#G

What I mean is..it's total jibberish

[zinc basin]

lol @narrow mauve
Perfect

[narrow mauve]

I've only been learning for a month though..I'm a baby XD

[zinc basin]

did you copy and paste that code from somewhere?

[storm venture]

i personally love looking up the documentation for some "Node X" and seeing a single sentence on the docs describing it as "Node X: Does X"

like, yup, thanks epic, i got that much

[zinc basin]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UNet.html

[thick herald]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses

[zinc basin]

@storm venture
literally the entry reads
Multiplayer and Networking
Note: UNet is deprecated, and will be removed from Unity in the future. A new system is under development. For more information and next steps see this blog post and the FAQ.

[storm venture]

oh unity.. lol

[narrow mauve]

lmao ...unreals sign in has me flipping animals upright as the captcha

[zinc basin]

that's literally 2/3 of the game market

oh i had that

coz an AI can't learn what legs look like in about 3 seconds

[narrow mauve]

My thing is I am not bad at materials ..and landscaping and level design comes naturally to me. ..I caught on fast with source engine a decade ago..made a bunch of maps for a mod called zombie panic source..and did some work on contagion

but I havent touched game development in a decade

[zinc basin]

ohoh
i played that

[narrow mauve]

It's like learning allover again..and source engine is baby stuff compared to unreal

its the coding..the logic...the blueprints

I have these nice effects..now..how tf do I get it to do what I want

[zinc basin]

yeah that's the stuff i like,,,, but im learning it from scratch RN

[narrow mauve]

Especially when it's as complicated as what I am trying to do

[zinc basin]

I struggle with building the pretty world in the first place

[narrow mauve]

see that stuff is easyyyyyyyyyyyy

[zinc basin]

I'm too logical

[final fiber]

same.

[narrow mauve]

I am wanting to make a storm chasing game

[final fiber]

that's why I let my brother do level design, then I do the programming behind it. or I try at least.

So far, I've used a tutorial and copied the code of their characters to the letter and it's worked

[zinc basin]

I feel like BP were made to supplement C++ and were written by c++ rogrammers; not made to make it easier for non programmers

i mean to use a node you already need to know what it's for

[final fiber]

If you're good at C++ anyway, then it's not too much of a deal to start learning how to get the engine to do what you want it to. It's just more functions to learn, right?

[vagrant cliff]

I had came across this riggin in Unreal, had anyone set it up before on a character? https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/tech-blog/learn-how-to-create-a-character-animation-rig-with-unreal-engine-s-new-control-rig-mannequin-sample?sessionInvalidated=true

[zinc basin]

no

[narrow mauve]

hah

[final fiber]

._.

[vagrant cliff]

or is there a sub chart that is good to discuss rigging and such

[final fiber]

I can't even do that

like

[zinc basin]

@final fiber i think that all the functions in BP already basically exsist in C++ anyway; basically

[final fiber]

you have a TREE.

[zinc basin]

or a coder could build the one they wanted in 3 lines of code they already know in 42 seconds anyway

[narrow mauve]

tornado effects was workn on turned out well but its meaningless because I can't do anything with it

[final fiber]

I gtg now. but can someone dm me a good tutorial series for making stuff with C++ in unreal?

[zinc basin]

@narrow mauve that's so cool and so far beyone me.

[narrow mauve]

I can make it look good...I can't do anything with it..and that is what is torturing me..because I feel there is no way to bring my vision to life

[zinc basin]

@narrow mauve oh man you got some skills man

[final fiber]

and please, one that works with 4.24.3, because my one so far is running into issues by "InteractInterface.h" being required

and that does not exist apparently

[zinc basin]

well I say man; woman, it's all the same when it comes to talent to me

[final fiber]

anyway, cya everyone!

[zinc basin]

@final fiber I googled and got this: https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/c-gameplay-programming/81603-c-interface-to-blueprints

@final fiber besides your qustion belongs in #cpp
cya

@narrow mauve that is genuinely cool.
I can see conseptually at this point how to make that interact wtih the world, but I'm still learning this exact thing right at this moment;
but that's honestly sexy

like except for the low poly grass in the forground (and the FPS camera movement) that could easily be an IRL video

[narrow mauve]

Tried messing around with volumetrics for the clouds but it's far too power hungry and I am not sure how to code in such a way to tell it to 'stop rendering' when the player can't see inside of it

Then tried just making meshes....and animating noise over it...which..looks fine..except well it's a mesh..how do the clouds 'grow' and shrink etc.

And this is where I'm at now..messing around making clouds out of particles...and today I got really bummed out because I think..all of this is meaningless because I can't apply it anywhere

[hot cosmos]

hey how can i get from this to the epic sotre for games

[fluid lance]

@narrow mauve imho, it's pointless to play around with volumetric shaders & particles if you're making a game. The cost is ridiculous. Enabling volumetric fog only will cost ~2ms on your above-average card (mine is RTX 2600 and it costs ~2ms). When you throw in a niagara particle (spawning 0 or 1 ofc) and use a volumetric mat, the costs are still way too high. As for your second vid (the one with meshes). It doesn't look great, but if you want to move, get the meshes inside a bp and play with their transform through a looping timeline or an interp/lerp function, or even a sine or whatever...

[ripe plaza]

I've been reading documentation and UE4 is really starting to appeal to me, me being familiar with the Quake family of engines (Source, mostly), so I'll probably soon make a few experiments with it

Once I'd read some of the documentstion things like blueprints, actors and the gameplay framework just started to click (so THAT'S what that's for)

[digital badger]

@hot cosmos Go into settings and enable it.

You/IT must have disabled the games section when installing the launcher

Should be one of the first options

If you don't find it, post screenshots of the settings menu and I'll point it out( I'm away from my PC)

[plush yew]

What exactly does custom time dialation do? Could I use it a sense where I have location 1 and location 2, time moves when player is at a location (current frame time) so when player isnt at the other location, time doesnt move. But when they move back to the other location, set custom time dilation to 10 until location frame time catches back up to current frame time? (Once player leaves location, last frame time is stored and used as reference)

[digital badger]

@narrow mauve About the particles "not rendering" - do particle effects not get culled automatically like static meshes do? But I agree with @fluid lance, you shouldn't use them for games - though perhaps making it an option in the visual settings menu for playing with top of the line GPU's

@plush yew I believe custom time dilation affects the global time manager, which makes it ineffective for the case you described

Though such logic sounds possible to program, even in blueprints

[plush yew]

Cant you change the actors time dilation

[fluid lance]

@plush yew Global time dilation dilates time for the whole world, custom time dilation is only active in the actor, which means you can independently affect how time is flowing for each individual actor. Not sure about applying both at the same time, but custom should read from current global

[digital badger]

Ah, didn't know there was a per actor time dilation. Never really messed around with it.

[fluid lance]

It's basically at the core of that shooter game (idk what it's called) but it was a pretty big hit two-three years back

[digital badger]

SuperHot? Time moves when you move sort of thing

[fluid lance]

yea

so basically, input=set custom time dilation for all to "normal speed/wahtever" and no input = set custom time dilation for everyone at 0 roughly

but based on speed (vector length/something)

[ripe plaza]

just remember to set a minimum if you're going to make a super hot clone, if it hits zero you can no longer move and thus can't speed back up

[plush yew]

How would it affect an actor ticking? If I have it at 10 does it tick 10x faster or simulate between?

[digital badger]

That's for SuperHot, Resonant described it based on the players location rather than velocity in his original comment

[plush yew]

Like substepping

[fluid lance]

try it out xD

printscreen on tick and do some math, look at time 😉

printstring* sry

it's 0-1 so 10 should be 10x

[digital badger]

For location based, you could have trigger volumes dictating your locations. Then once the player enters a trigger box you set the time to 1.0 or whatever, and on leave you set it 0.1

Though I've had issues with Loading save games when the player is in a trigger, since OnEnter never gets called when the player spawns inside

[fluid lance]

never 0 though, like @ripe plaza said

[plush yew]

Itd be like a 1 time thing

Though I've had issues with Loading save games when the player is in a trigger, since OnEnter never gets called when the player spawns inside

[fluid lance]

@digital badger yea, had to remake some code because of that. Initial overlap has been removed in 4.19 or something xD

[digital badger]

A dirty solution is checking if the player is inside at BeginPlay, then running the OnEnter function if true

But I would love something better

[plush yew]

Was planning on having specific actors just catch back up to the in game time of the player as they wont be active outside of overlap zone

[fluid lance]

nah, it's ok i'd say, fixed mine the same way 😄

[plush yew]

So when theyre out theyre inactive and not ticking etc but when theyre back in they go active and have dilation set to catch back up

ok so im trying to achieve a modular vehicle building simulation similar to the way it works in crossout

[fluid lance]

@plush yew if you're making multiplayer, better read on the thing, not sure how/where time dilation is executed and if it's not on server, you'll be in for a nasty surprise

[digital badger]

Guess I'm just a slave to clean code. Kinda burned out recently because I was just going over code meticulously refactoring it

Just have to stop myself lol

[fluid lance]

@digital badger that smells like little progress in my experience, but I know what you mean 😐

[narrow mauve]

does refactoring have performance benefits or is it just preference

[fluid lance]

depends

[digital badger]

Performance for code smells( i.e long long long if statements)

[fluid lance]

it can have MAJOR benefits if you wrote ur code like 6 months back and evolve quickly

[digital badger]

But mostly nitpicks like oh this variable is used only for one little thing so let's compress it into the function call

Saving 2 bytes of memory

[plush yew]

I just fixed up organization kinda and well redid code in the best way I could as of my new learned stuff

[ripe plaza]

basically don't be YandereDev, seriously use JetBrains DotPeek on Yandere Simulator and have a sick bag nearby

[digital badger]

Or this bool doesn't have a little b in front of it.

@ripe plaza I think that's where it started from lol, some guy posted a 2 hour code analysis on it

[plush yew]

I havent dont that in bps

What difference would little b make

[fluid lance]

consistency

[ripe plaza]

Hungarian notation is not good for variables, change my mind (class names are ok, like unreal does it)

[narrow mauve]

whos hungry

[plush yew]

Whats Hungarian notation

[ripe plaza]

prefixes based on type

[narrow mauve]

bIsDead

[digital badger]

F, S, U, B, E, A

[ripe plaza]

like bActive or iLives

[narrow mauve]

aw

too bad no D

[digital badger]

Think that's all of them in the epic code style

Of course assets naming does have something similar( ue4.style ) e.g SM_

[ripe plaza]

However I will happily call my class AThingy and UComponent

[digital badger]

quickly changes comment to add A

[ripe plaza]

also have there been many problems with Blender 2.8s FBX exporter? That's the one thing that's been worrying me before getting started in Unreal

[storm venture]

this is a solid mesh, any idea why displacement maps are splitting it? the splits are based on the camera's position, the only appear at the closest edge of the camera:

[plush yew]

I found about the modularity of components and redid lots of my code for that because well only regular actors were getting annoying

Need more knowledge

[digital badger]

@ripe plaza Not really, but I think the scale might be different by default so you need to change blender units

Though I may be wrong.

[ripe plaza]

but the thing about Unreal that makes it attractive to me is how intuitive it is to my little Source Engine caveman brain

[digital badger]

I think I am, and the issue is that the blender default cube is 2x2x2m rather than 1x1x1m

Which really puts me off

[ripe plaza]

I tried using Unity but would often end up reinventing the wheel with event systems and stuff, I do know how to use it but I don't like it that much

[digital badger]

@storm venture Could be a culling issue? Seems very weird. How large is the mesh, looks like a terrain

[ripe plaza]

Also Dark Theme is Plus only without dubiously legal hex edits, which is painful

[storm venture]

@digital badger it's 1000units x 1000units

subdivided 100 times

[digital badger]

Oh then not too big to cause those types of issues. I'm clueless sorry

[storm venture]

yeah its a really weird issue, i cant find anything online

[digital badger]

@ripe plaza I honestly think that Unity is a bit mismanaged, though that's not a topic for now. UE4 is really comparable to source imo, I've used Hammer a handful of times and it's similar

But I am by no means an expert

[ripe plaza]

Also tried the UE4 editor, messing around with BSP stuff, my god it's heaven compared to hammer

[digital badger]

If you ever try to solve a problem in UE4 and think your solution is too complex post it on here and even pin me if it's a ghost town. I've never had to do anything that's needlessly complex( apart from custom save archives really)

[ripe plaza]

But I've read a lot of the docs of UE4 and it all just fits nicely, Unity is more open ended but what I want is intuitive systems that work well together, and Unreal seems to give that, so time to make a simple game

[limber mesa]

can anyone help me. i didnt make any changes and this error happened

[digital badger]

Yep. Not disagreeing with you

[brazen crow]

hola

its me lehawk

back with another question

[digital badger]

@limber mesa Please do not use the error log. Please read through the output log generated by UBT, and find errors in there

[brazen crow]

it is about ai controller

[limber mesa]

UBT?

[brazen crow]

i made a little spawner thing

and it creates these enemy characters

but i need to posses them with a new aicontroller

and i dont know how

i tried setting the default controller to my aicontroller but it doesnt seem to possess the character on spawn

event onpossess isnt getting called

[digital badger]

@limber mesa UBT stands for Unreal Build Tool, which builds and compiles your code. You can view the output in the output tab in Visual Studio, by default should at the bottom near the error list

@brazen crow Are they set to be possessed at spawn? Open the AICharacter and would you kindly share a screenshot of the class defaults?

[brazen crow]

oh i think i see

is it the

auto possess ai

option

[digital badger]

Yes.

[brazen crow]

LOL IT WORKED

big brainnnn

[digital badger]

You're welcome :)

[brazen crow]

thanks

[limber mesa]

i did absolutely nothing except comment and i get this

[digital badger]

Are you using the Unreal Editor from the launcher or GitHub?

[limber mesa]

well was having issues with another project but this one is just my personal one, so ue4

i was tinkering with source control today with another project

[digital badger]

Yes but did you install it from the launcher or GitHub?

[limber mesa]

launcher

[digital badger]

Okay, please would you go into the launcher and select the UE4 version you're trying to build on and verify your files. I believe that either UBT or your editor somehow got corrupted causing that error

You can verify your files by clicking on the arrow next to your UE4 version and selecting verify. It should only take a couple of minutes

If that doesn't work, then I hope someone else can help you as it's getting late here and I'm about to go to sleep

[limber mesa]

i honestly think it was off of another project

im trying to get git up and running for source control

and before the it was fine

this project is just a strict ue4 project, while the other is being set up for source control

@digital badger , how would it get corrupted?

[digital badger]

Random processes, hardware, other software, the OS. Really corruption is never expected, and well, random at times.

[limber mesa]

@fringe crest was having me put in these commands into git, and idk if it did it

[digital badger]

Back when I had this really cheap used hard drive, I woke up one day and it stopped spinning. But I digress

[ripe plaza]

well if you check your commit tree and it isn't spaghetti it should be fine

[limber mesa]

well

i just got git yesterday

and um

[digital badger]

It's good practice to verify your UE4 files, so I suggest you do it even if you don't believe that your engine files were corrupted

[ripe plaza]

Also how well does UE4 work with Git? Unity needs external tools and things and setting Merge tools and stuff

[digital badger]

@ripe plaza built in plugins for it

Though obviously Subversion and Perforce work better

Since you're dealing with large binary files.

[limber mesa]

is subversion free to use

[upper karma]

Hey is there a good tutorial for making it so that certain music plays when you get in a certain velocity of an object?

[ripe plaza]

Does it support git-lfs?

[digital badger]

Yes it does.

[ripe plaza]

Excellent

[limber mesa]

@digital badger what source control do u use

[digital badger]

@limber mesa Yes, but you need a server.

[limber mesa]

oh

[digital badger]

I use Perforce

[upper karma]

omfg not velocity, vicinity

[digital badger]

Lol

[limber mesa]

@upper karma cant you do a box collision and if overlapping then play music

[ripe plaza]

accelerate past the record player to spin the record to play music, there's a game idea

[limber mesa]

idk

[digital badger]

Exactly what Billiams suggested

[limber mesa]

i actually got something right lol

[digital badger]

I think if you use 3D Audio you can set the radius and do it that way

[upper karma]

cant you do a box collision and if overlapping then play music
I think that could work but I'm not sure how to do that. Ik how to add a box collision but not how to make it play music

[digital badger]

@upper karma Blueprint or C++

[limber mesa]

go to the actor and add box collision

[upper karma]

Blueprint

[digital badger]

"Play Sound At Location"

[limber mesa]

oh

[digital badger]

Hook that up to the OnEnter event

[limber mesa]

Maestro its about half way done

[digital badger]

There's some settings on the node, make sure the location is of the actors location so you can actually hear the music

And not at 0,0,0

[upper karma]

What if the actor moves around?

[digital badger]

@limber mesa Hopefully that solves it, if not I'm not sure sorry.

[limber mesa]

thats a more efficent way

im keeping my fingers crossed

[digital badger]

@upper karma I'm really not sure actually lol

[upper karma]

Like I want the music to play when the player gets near an enemy and stuff

Lmao it's fine!

[digital badger]

Maybe ask in #audio?

You could play a Sound 2D

Which is the same because it doesn't change volume based on your location

So for like music that's perfect but not for SFX

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/747473/sound-moving-with-mesh.html

2nd answer seems legit. Though I haven't tried it personally

[limber mesa]

@upper karma just add a box collision

[digital badger]

That doesn't solve the moving issue.

[upper karma]

Right, right! That's exactly what I want cause Im basing the mechanic off KH, where music plays when you fight heartless, then plays other music when they're dead.

[limber mesa]

add delay if you want a delay

after overlap

[digital badger]

Box Collision will only trigger the sound to play

But not update it if the character moves

The answerhub answer I posted seems more elegant. However I would personally create the Audio component dynamically

[limber mesa]

well if he ends overlap then shut off music

yea

Maestro's is better

[digital badger]

Imagine this, you play the new enemy theme, but then due to an AI error the enemy runs to the other side of the level.

Since the sound stayed at that location it would seem odd

Since hey the enemy is 12 miles east but I can hear them as if they were in front of me.

[upper karma]

Right, yeah.

Thanks for the help!

Gonna get to work on that after I fix this camera bug.

for some reason my end result is different from the tutorials

As a matter of fact, yeah I might need help on this too.

Im following this tutorial [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMcmqsMzcFg], and he sets up this node setup for the camera where t resets to behind the mesh when a button is pressed

I do the same thing but for some reasing it resets to being under my characters legs??

imsorrylol Is there something I did wrong here?

[ripe plaza]

make your character an anime girl and add this as an intentional mechanic

[upper karma]

omg what a genius idea

gonna make bank brb

Fr what'd I do wrong here

[storm venture]

he did something different

oh i see what you mean though

his other version was like yours but still worked

[upper karma]

actuallythankyouforthatcauseitsavesonmehavingtowatch Yeah

You think I should try the full setup?

[storm venture]

well if you already have a bug then i would be worried something was skipped early on, might affect other stuff down the road

maybe check out the initial rotations of some of your components, see if it matches his, etc

make sure everything is parented the same

[limber mesa]

@digital badger it didnt work

can anyone help me with this error message

the problem only blocks visual studio

wont let me build

[upper karma]

figured the camera shit out. Its cause UE flipped stuff around and I got confused and put them in the wrong points

[limber mesa]

anyone know how i can fix this

nvm it works

[tiny sonnet]

is there any problems with deleting files directly from file explorer so i dont have to wait 5 hours to force delete?

[grim ore]

only if you are sure it is safe for you to do that

as in, if you are deleting a texture and somthing uses that texture you are going to obviously break that link. If you delete a blueprint and stuff uses the blueprint or you have children of it, stuff is going to break. etc.. If you are deleting something that nothing uses then you should be fine

[tiny sonnet]

megascan assets im not using

those things are way too big

[grim ore]

should be fine then if nothing knows about them

[surreal gyro]

🤔 So where should I start for making a 3D beat-em up?

[fleet wraith]

Does anyone know how to use seamless travel for multiplayer? I open a listen level. Clients join. I have seamless travel enabled. I use Open Level. It kicks all clients from the server and only moves the host. What am I missing? Because every tutorial and doc i can find just says use open level with seamless travel ticked but it doesn't seem to be working

[plush yew]

Maybe something to tell the clients to move

[analog copper]

Hey, guys

I'd like to start learning about UE4, more specifically about physics and collision between body and objects like clothes, guns, etc

What should I look for to get started?

[upper karma]

Was editing some lights and now I can't play. How do I play and stop getting this

nvm just had to save

[winged crypt]

anyone here have experience with launching to non-Windows devices directly from the editor?

[frail mist]

Does anyone else have issues with rendering movies from the sequencer? I found many threads in the forum about it but nothing really helped. I just want to make a gameplay trailer by recording footage with the sequence recorder. With issues I mean very bad resolution when I have the cinematic scalability checked and bleeding between frames even when unchecked (hence rendering with PIE scalability).

[plush yew]

What should I look for to get started?
@analog copper the collision settings in actors

[rain venture]

Would it be better to make an fps player which has 2 skeletons?(one for arms and one for legs) or have only one skeleton and make the animation from arms blend with the ones that use guns while the legs keep using the usual animations?

[plush yew]

1 skeleton

2 sets of animations

1 for first person 1 for third person

You can make a seperate mesh with no head for first person camera still using the first person anims while showing the third person anims to other players if thats what youre trying to do

[rain venture]

This game that I am working on does not include third person view or multiplayer, its all story
In this game you can see your feet in third person
And the way the character is setup is that it has two skeletons for a set of animations

One skeleton for legs which play the idle, walk, run, crouch etc

And one for holding guns and shooting

[plush yew]

Well 1 would still be fine for that just only make first person anims

Animate it fully instead and cut the head off

Or whatever you want cut off

[rain venture]

The arms also use the cyclic walking and running tho

So I am guessing that using the node that blends animations from a bone to the last child bone would be much better?

Forgot whats the node called

But its used in anim blueprint

[plush yew]

I dont know #animation but could probably still use 1 skeleton to do all of thay

That

[rain venture]

Alright then, thanks :)

[fringe crest]

@limber mesa Build > Clean in VS, then Build > Build Project

[uneven tundra]

I have a supersimple mesh but im getting some weird issues. https://i.imgur.com/jHGtAiM.png

Theres not really a texture, rather just a color.

https://i.imgur.com/QyJyfYi.png

That is the light map

[peak hare]

blueprint made a lot of the stuff much easier and is even easier to do it than unity imo

but what about performance issue? Is is bad?

[lucid jetty]

I am having no issues and my project is full bp.

[plush yew]

but what about performance issue? Is is bad?
@peak hare probably fine depending how much you do but you can nativize and get close to c++ performance

[lucid socket]

@uneven tundra Too many seams.

[ripe plaza]

Learning Unreal Engine, Atmospheric Fog doesn't seem to do anything

not particularly fun when most of the basic level design tutorials make you place this thing that magically works for them but does nothing for me 😅, I've been googling and apparently need something called a "Sky Sphere" which is not mentioned in any of the tutorials nor is it ever added, nor can I find documentation of it

and I don't think it's the "Unlit" either, it doesn't work in lit mode either

[stuck linden]

Does anyone know something about animation

really need some help

[ripe plaza]

So it started working upon restart of the editor, now I can't find "Atmosphere Sun Light" in the directional light's options

Ah, nevermind, turns out that's hidden under advanced settings

[azure gazelle]

I have a supersimple mesh but im getting some weird issues.
@uneven tundra What you see is probably due to the lack of space in-between the uv shells. It's not a great object to UV map, but this looks like simply every face has it's own shell. While this should work in UE4 it's not great performance wise. Even if it is just the lightmap UV. Short fix: reduce the size of each UV shell so there is space between them to prevent leaks from other shells. (Is it a custom Lightmap UV?)

[alpine laurel]

my project has another project in it called "MyProject"

can i delete that

[stuck linden]

does anyone know what can i do to connect the action fire to is playing?

i want to check if it is playing before playing the animation

[ripe plaza]

I don't believe you need to connect the action, just use the return value of IsPlaying

[civic cobalt]

cant i scale all actors in the level together and not separately?

[worn cape]

anybody in here, who could help me on an import problem i have ???

[civic cobalt]

state ur prblm

[azure gazelle]

@civic cobalt I guess you could group them and then scale and ungroup.

[civic cobalt]

doesnt work michael

[worn cape]

I have a Mesh Collection, i want to import, but whatever i try to put in - because it needs to split the meshes - everything is out of center, when imported, or not sized and rotated by 90° to the side.
I don't find the import settings, i would need to import it so that i can use them as objects for themselves easily ...

i can't use the things well, if i have to know their positions in the fbx file though ....

[civic cobalt]

you have to export fbx meshes in neutral orientation, 0 0 0 position

and move them out as you like inside the engine

[azure gazelle]

@civic cobalt weird... You could always go the Hierarchy route.. Create an empty actor at 0,0,0 (or the wanted center) parent everything else under it (may need to set the empty object to static instead of mobile), scale it and then move everything out of the parents and remove the empty actor

[worn cape]

@azure gazelle unwished ! 😉

it's a pain though ...

i see - i am looking over for some handy artist

[civic cobalt]

that seems too much work for a simple operation, i endedup merging all actors into static mesh, but now i cant edit

[worn cape]

i did too

second sideeffect is having multiple materials

material slots i mean

[stuck linden]

does anyone know whats wrong with this code? it works until play animation

[forest patrol]

Guys i have a problem... when i move my character he is stuck in idle pose and he is not walking or running can you check whats wrong in the script i will send screenshot

[stuck linden]

well you can see whats wrong @forest patrol the orange line glows when its working, its only working until cast so thats where its wrong

[forest patrol]

how do i fix that

[azure gazelle]

@civic cobalt If you merge them into a static mesh they become a single mesh.. so you can't change it afterwards.. That's why the Hierarchy workaround is more work, but keeps everything else intact

[worn cape]

o - no

did it the meier way

[azure gazelle]

@forest patrol Casts wil always fail in Animation Preview because the preview is not of the same type you cast to. It should work in Play Mode if the cast is correct

[worn cape]

but different than before 😉

[forest patrol]

Nope

its not working

it stays in idle mode

i tried everything

[ripe plaza]

so it took considerably less effort to create an FPS character in Unreal than it would have taken in Unity, Unreal is going pretty well thus far apart from one editor bug and one visual studio bug

[azure gazelle]

@worn cape For your import problem: UE4 takes the dcc's 0,0,0 point as pivot.. That's why your objects are of center.. Place them in your dcc (blender, maya, etc.) where you want them relative to the scene origin. Rotation can be fixed during export and/or import if the pivot is correct

[stuck linden]

can i ask you a question in PM? @azure gazelle

[forest patrol]

soo do u guys have any idea on how to fix this

[stuck linden]

@forest patrol Are u doing it off a youtube video

[forest patrol]

yes

[stuck linden]

well did you do the same things as him?

[worn cape]

it looks like they are. but maybe they are not. in max everything looks good. but if i set option to not take absolut, everything is scaled down to -100, flipped by 90° and cannot be changed any inside the meshs import settings, regarding transform, scale or sth.

but i am happy now, having my trap finally ... after some month ... ^^

[forest patrol]

i did

[worn cape]

thank you all for participation 😉

[azure gazelle]

@forest patrol What is the type of the Character that uses this animation BP? (Is it really ThirdPersonCharacter or a child thereof)?

[forest patrol]

its thirdperson character

[azure gazelle]

Then the cast should not fail.. Try complie and then use the Debug Feature to see where it actually fails

[forest patrol]

whats debuf feature

[azure gazelle]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Blueprints/UserGuide/Debugging/index.html

You can actually just run the game, pause it, set the Debug Filter in the animation BP to your Character and then you can see where and what it executes

[forest patrol]

wait

i dont get it

where is debug filter

it it the red thing

i found it

doesnt show anything

[azure gazelle]

If there is no entry. it means there is no instance of the anim BP at runtime which means you forgot to set the Animation BP on your Character Blueprint

[forest patrol]

there is some yellow arrow

that says result

and then alot of other arrows in grey

animation BP on character bp huh?

overall it says no debuging info

and how do i set animation bp on character bp

[forest patrol]

oh

lemme try that

when i go there

it looks like this

there is no anim class

[azure gazelle]

Thats the anim preview in the animatino editor.. You need to open the ThirdPersonCharacter Blueprint you created where you specified the Mesh it should use. and implemented Input logic

[forest patrol]

i cant change it

oh i can

its correct

swat anim bp

[spice spire]

Hello, Are they some changes in how Motion Blur and Time dilation are calculated in 4.25 . Basically I had object motion blur working fine with Time dilation in 4.24. 4.25 is doing something really strange where motion vectors are shifting all over the place when in time dilation

https://i.imgur.com/kbFFh9Q.gif

[brittle gulch]

Hi there, is there a plugin, or something, that would allow to see what's inside a function in the same way we can see inside collapsed nodes? Like on this picture :

[spice spire]

So the issue has been there since 2017, and supposedly fixed in 4.25 but either its not part of 4.25.1 or it still affecting custom time dilation

Temporary fix is r.MotionBlur.TargetFPS 0

[ripe plaza]

Unreal Engine freezes whenever I click the "Launch On" button, it never launches the game standalone and completely freezes the editor

[ripe plaza]

I may have misunderstood what that was even for

[abstract anvil]

Launch Game is typically used in times when you have a device attached to your computer and you want to play the game there. Ex. You have you phone hooked up and you want to test your game

[terse cradle]

this tessellation issue is really pissing me off getting edges that freak out lol looks like unreal doesn't like zbrush displacement

[dusty epoch]

halooo

[bold compass]

hiya guys I'm fairly new to ue4 have been using it for about a month now and I'm currently trying to make a loot box that when opens drops random weapons like fortnite for example

I've managed to make a chest that opens on f key with progress bar ui
and i cant find much online on how to do the loot

i don't know whether im searching the wrong thing or i just cant find the right stuff

[abstract anvil]

I haven't played Fortnite, but I'm assuming you're talking about having issues generating random loot? @bold compass

[bold compass]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZUx4ZP-e_4

something like this

[abstract anvil]

So which part of that are you having issues with?

[bold compass]

i have made a crate that opens on f key like this in the vid and am wanting to add weapons/items that eject out of the box randomly but im not sure where to start

sorry im kinda new to it so unsure what to search ive been looking for few days now trying to figure this out but I'm proper baffled lmao

[abstract anvil]

What I'd do is have a weapon pickup BP which randomly generates a weapon. When the player opens the chest, spawn a number of those BPs inside the chest. Because they'll be clipping with the chest, you'll have to turn off collision for the chest before you spawn them then turn it back on once the weapons are outside of the chest (there's a few ways to do this). As far as getting the weapons to fly out like that, I would have "simulate physics" ticked and just use something like "add impulse"

[terse cradle]

got it working the displacement sort off love the edges

[bold compass]

@abstract anvil Thankyou man ❤️

ill try some of that out

[restive yarrow]

Takes more than 16 mins to load

[frank oar]

Is it dengerous to change the name of your file here ?

[abstract anvil]

It might mess with stuff, but do you need to change the name?

[frank oar]

I don't need to @abstract anvil it is just for convenience as I have several copies of the same project so I often open the wrong one

[restive yarrow]

@frank oar dont

@frank oar it will spoil things

[abstract anvil]

Are you actively using the copies of the project, or are they backups?

[frank oar]

ok, I have no intention of messing it up XD

[plush yew]

Pls tell me how Can i make two characters + how to make them face each other

[frank oar]

they are backups but I have slight variations in them while I experiment with my methods..

[plush yew]

Pls

3D Chars i mean

[abstract anvil]

@frank oar Move the backups outside of your projects folder so the launcher isn't looking for them.

@plush yew Are you asking how to make characters look a direction / at a character?

[plush yew]

Yes

Also how to make 2 chars

One that u play With and one cpu

Pls help

Someone pls help me

[candid grail]

Is it possible to export rigs to .fpx somehow?

[gilded needle]

Are you wanting to export a skeletal mesh with the bones attached?

[hasty wharf]

is there a way to drag my mouse and just select? multiple items

[final fiber]

I'm really struggling to understand interactions with this. I've tried following a second tutorial that doesn't work because of different versions. I also can't seem to find any alternatives to what the tutorials are showing so I am extremely lost here...

I'm also seeing people talking about 4.25 or 4.26, but I'm still in 4.24.3. Is that why I'm running into so many open include issues?

[queen bough]

Hi guys, how do you make objects disappear and appear like in this video: Winx Club transformation https://youtu.be/gms5Krs4Qpg as you see the dress appear slowly..is there technique or steps for this? I needed to make this animation dress appearing. if theres tutorial it would be a great help!

[rigid belfry]

something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gz2YPnaDV4

[gilded needle]

@final fiber are you trying to work with interfaces and linetrace to interact with actors or something else? I am not understanding the context of your question. I will admit I may have missed an earlier exchange of questions.

[final fiber]

My issue that I'm running into is that the tutorials I'm following are out of date and do not work with the version of the engine I am running with, but even epic's own website for teaching C++ is broken so I can't learn anything with this.

I've followed two tutorials that showed everything the same way that I was seeing it, red lines under certain parts of code, but then they compile it in-engine and theirs compiles successfully, whereas my one compiles with at least 5 errors.

[gilded needle]

Oh yeah, I can see that. Most of the tutorials I have been following I have to figure out what changed to make them work as well. I am just getting started on the C++ side of things. The shame is there are so few of the C++ tutorials as it is. I started digging into the Shootergame to see if I can figure things out because of the lack of good C++ tutorials out there.

[steel osprey]

where have the alpha brushes in the sculpt menu gone in 4.25?

[void barn]

is there a way to not let the hair go thru the body ?

[queen bough]

@rigid belfry thanks! I’m also looking for appearing effects if there are any tutorials of it.. like in the transformation where objects appearing slowly magically?

[elder viper]

Hi! Is there a way to fix these low quality motion blur edges?

[last socket]

Hellooo - Can you drive Niagara with colors from a video? // create custom video effects

[azure gazelle]

@paper scaffold Engine integration isn't official availble yet (it seems). But you can go to: https://simplygon.com/Downloads/#free-release and use it as standalone (Simplgon UI). But it's not the new Simplygon 9 as far as I know.

[sullen agate]

Hey Anyone, if I Want to make a "Button/Attack" do Damage to a "Target" do I Make the "Button" a BP class or an Integer?

[grave radish]

I would use a class with a Float for a parameter

[sullen agate]

@grave radish what kind of class would the Button be?

[cosmic matrix]

hello,
what s the better way to make aiming systhem in a fps game where the character can customize his weapon:
make an animation for each object OR attach a camera offset for that object and attach the camera to it?

[dawn gull]

Hey, sorry if I am interrupting, but how can i make it so the first time you press the T button it does something, and the second time you press it it does something different?

[cosmic matrix]

flip flop node

@dawn gull

[dawn gull]

Ah, i forgot about that

Thank you!

[covert ivy]

Hello guys, is it possible to adjust a character animation within UE4 and use different adjusted animations depending on some conditions, for example the size of an enemy ? To be even more concrete : My character can punch an enemy in the face. But the enemies have different sizes. Can I just make different versions of a same animation, changing only the raising of the arm (I think about the curves especially but not sure at all as I haven't use it yet) and tell to UE4 to use this or that animation version depending on the size of the enemy ?

[rigid forum]

@covert ivy I think the best way would be with an IK animation that has the punch aim for a specific point on the character which is a variable of the character height.

[grim ore]

@covert ivy and to follow up on that look at the Content Examples in the learn tab on the launcher and look at the Animation map. It has examples of this

[plush yew]

I cant find a capsule in static mesh

please help

[sick bloom]

We, we don't have to worry 'bout nothin'
'Cause we got the fire, and we're burning one hell of a something
They, they gonna see us from outer space
Light it up, like we're the stars of the human race
When the lights turned down, they don't know what they heard
Strike the match, play it loud, giving love to the world
We'll be raising our hands, shining up to the sky
'Cause we got the fire, fire, fire, yeah we got the fire, fire, fire
And we're gonna let it burn, burn, burn, burn
We're gonna let it burn, burn, burn
We're gonna let it burn
Oh, we're gonna let it burn
We don't wanna leave, no, we just wanna be right now
And what we see, is everybody's on the floor
Acting crazy, getting loco to the lights out
Music's on, I'm waking up, we start the fire, and we burn it out
And it's over now, oh we got the love, there's no secret now
When the lights turned down, they don't know what they heard
Strike the match, play it loud, giving love to the world
We'll be raising our hands, shining up to the sky
'Cause we got the fire, fire, fire, yeah we got the fire, fire, fire
And we're gonna let it burn, burn, burn, burn
We're gonna let it burn, burn, burn, burn
We're gonna let it burn
Oh, we're gonna let it burn
When the lights turned down, they don't know what they heard
Strike the match, play it loud, giving love to the world
We'll be raising, raising our hands, shining up to the sky
'Cause we got the fire, fire, fire, yeah we got the fire
And we're gonna let it burn
Oh, we're gonna let it burn, ooh

[grim ore]

@plush yew what are you looking for?

[plush yew]

I cant find a capsule in static mesh

[grim ore]

the engine doesnt come with one is why

[plush yew]

how to get one

[grim ore]

you can create one in a separate program or make one using the built in geometry editing tools

[plush yew]

how to import the capsule in ue4?

as static mesh

[grim ore]

you create one and import it like any other mesh

[plush yew]

okay

[dawn gull]

When I add, for example, "Key W pressed" it wont allow me to move pressing W, how can I make it walk and do what it says for the event

[grim ore]

click on the event for the key w and uncheck consume input

[dawn gull]

Thank you!

[pliant echo]

anyone working with the OSC plugin and Companion, please shoot me a dm.. Having issues debugging any input into UE from companion at all. thx!

v.4.25.1

[icy mulch]

Does anyone know how to fix this error

[digital badger]

@icy mulch Reading the error message it seems like a driver issue with your GPU

Using the RTX 2060 as well and have not experienced such problems - try to update your drivers from GeForce Experience

[honest vale]

why should I register for unreal fest? Aren't the streams going to be free to watch?

[digital badger]

@honest vale The streams will be available through a special service rather than Twitch

The service allows you to register for which streams you want to watch

[azure gazelle]

@icy mulch
Yah.. pretty sure driver issue or if you run on a Notebook check whether it really uses the dedicated gpu. Some notebooks tend to switch gpus based on battery level.

[honest vale]

I want all

😄