#ue4-general | Unreal Source | Page 799

odd yarrow Jul 20, 2020, 10:29 AM

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upwards

smoky sonnet Jul 20, 2020, 10:29 AM

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press r

odd yarrow Jul 20, 2020, 10:29 AM

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no

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I want the plane to stay liek this

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i tried land scape coords

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but it changes scale in general

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I want to change scale on Z axis

azure reef Jul 20, 2020, 10:30 AM

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How can I output logs from a mobile device? Using Android Studio I only get this on crash

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Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 0x0 in tid 23830 (Thread-4), pid 23751 (MainThread-UE4)

whole quarry Jul 20, 2020, 10:30 AM

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Use Texture Coordinate in the material @odd yarrow

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Then break it to 2 floats and multiplay the V one

odd yarrow Jul 20, 2020, 10:30 AM

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ok

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I'll try now

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cheers

whole quarry Jul 20, 2020, 10:31 AM

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@odd yarrow also search for UE4 texture scaling

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 10:42 AM

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Who uses character maker ?

sage blade Jul 20, 2020, 10:47 AM

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@tender pecan no i want 'png squeence ' have alpha channel

lunar dirge Jul 20, 2020, 10:48 AM

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dont know what channel to write this in, but when i build my light, it turns off all the lights

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anybody know why?

tender pecan Jul 20, 2020, 10:52 AM

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@sage blade ok, only other way i know to render in unreal is by using a render target and 2D scene capture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9iho861SlY i am not sure about alpha|png as viewports tend to be fully opaque.

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 10:58 AM

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HEY GUYS

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CAB ANYONE HELP

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I need to pause the game when I press Shit+Z

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but it wont work

smoky sonnet Jul 20, 2020, 11:06 AM

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hey does the save game file of the user gets deleted if i upload an update and the user installs it?

marsh swallow Jul 20, 2020, 11:27 AM

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@plush yew why are u putting controls in GameMode?

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and not Controller/Character

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 11:27 AM

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where should I be putting in?

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@marsh swallow where should I put this in?

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@marsh swallow THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!! IT WORKED

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I was watching a tutorial but it didnt explain that

unreal swallow Jul 20, 2020, 11:32 AM

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@plush yew I would set up a new Action Map in Project Settings>Input, call it Pause Game (or similar) and then set up the key combo you want; that will make it easier to change later on.

Then in your Character blueprint, you can call the event Pause Game and do you pause game logic

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 11:32 AM

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yup doing the same

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just one more thing please

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when I start the game and click on the game

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the curser disappears

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but when I press 'P' I want the curser to reappear

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how do I make the curser to reappear

unreal swallow Jul 20, 2020, 11:36 AM

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I know there is a SET Show Mouse Cursor node you can add; it may need to be used with 'Set Input Mode' either the Game Only or Game and UI

smoky sonnet Jul 20, 2020, 11:36 AM

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is there a free plugin to write and read data from firebase database

marsh swallow Jul 20, 2020, 11:43 AM

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@plush yew yeah as Cybin saidz first off use Input Mappings but also you would need to "Enable Input" in anything but the Controller/PlayerChar If i do recall.

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 11:44 AM

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ohhhhh thanks alot guys, its been a great help 😄

queen bough Jul 20, 2020, 11:50 AM

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@granite spire @light lintel sorry for the late reply, i was looking for a way to make the dress integrate as she transform.. tiara, earrings and dress appearing from the shot slowly, i don't want it to appear abruptly... like in the video: https://youtu.be/gms5Krs4Qpg

YouTube

Roxy M

Winx Club - Enchantix Transformation HD

▶ Play video

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the dress is already visible in ue so i needed to make it vanish and then appear till the end.

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 11:55 AM

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Why not use an opacity on the material? you could also crank up the emissive map to make it super bright

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then have a parameter for control for brightness

feral sierra Jul 20, 2020, 11:57 AM

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Anyone?

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 11:58 AM

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@queen bough https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Resources/ContentExamples/MaterialNodes/1_5/index.html

1.5 - Emissive

An overview of the Material Nodes example level, example 1.5: Emissive.

queen bough Jul 20, 2020, 11:58 AM

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thanks for the idea. im thinking of using this method also, https://youtu.be/6aflOXRrGTI

YouTube

Tom Looman

Material Transition & Cuttoff Effects Test [UE4]

Playing around with the transition effects for Switch. Added a fire like effect for fun. All of this is work in progress and is likely going to change dramatically before being used in-game.

Grey Games - Mitch Manders & Tom Looman

More info & dev updates: http://tomlooman.co...

▶ Play video

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 11:59 AM

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that would allow you to shrink the brightness and bring in the item 👍🏼

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@feral sierra after import? you can always shrink the map I think

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let me check quickly

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The scale is right here less = higher res.

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plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 12:17 PM

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Guys, anyone know how to reduce the size of nons treaming mips?

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is 3282 a concern?

smoky sonnet Jul 20, 2020, 12:34 PM

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hey how can i get the goggle play account id of my user so i can save their data online for example coins etc.

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 12:36 PM

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https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/rendering/71530-needing-help-with-2-3gb-non-streaming-textures @plush yew it's 2gb of memory

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For discussions about Materials, Textures, Lighting, Particle Systems, and Post Process Effects.

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@smoky sonnet you might need to do a google play tutorial, that sounds like something that a tutorial would show you

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 12:54 PM

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I clicked on the option "Camera is in car" but when I build the game I still get the standard 3th person view. What should I do? Ping me with your response please

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I know you can hide it, if that helps you

feral sierra Jul 20, 2020, 12:58 PM

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@granite spire I don’t have access to this menu anymore but I can still do it in transform info right?
What about foliage on the landscape?

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 12:58 PM

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why don't you have access to it?

feral sierra Jul 20, 2020, 1:08 PM

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Because the landscape has already been generated from the height map I put and when I come back to this, the menu isn’t there anymore

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 1:14 PM

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before you hit import you can set it, if you want to set it after click the landscape then set the scale

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 1:15 PM

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I read that article already but nothing mention about how to reduce the size of the non streaming mip map

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 1:15 PM

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feral sierra Jul 20, 2020, 1:16 PM

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Ok yes you’re talking about the transform and not the landscape menu, all good !

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 1:17 PM

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they work virtually the same anyway

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@plush yew I think there's a setting from memory to only load textures you see, I don't think it should be a problem though because UE4 thinks you have spare memory free so it's going to use it

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 1:19 PM

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@granite spire I see, thx. But my fps is being butchered right now XD

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 1:20 PM

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it won't be from that then, what's your scene look like?

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 1:22 PM

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quiet a big map but I think the culling should work

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60 fps on gtx 2070

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pepe_cri

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no dynamic light or stationary

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all static

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i reduce all the texture to 256, 512 and 1 k

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 1:26 PM

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hmmm

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i thought it would auto cull

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there's a lot of lights in that scene

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why don't you use the power of emissive maps for your lights?

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it's cheap and can often be all you need, since that hallway is very bright already

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unless you want a ton of destructible objects

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This is the closest thing I've got showing it off, but you can make it light up around

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weak cypress Jul 20, 2020, 1:43 PM

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so i tried to convert from 4.24 to 4.25

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it failed

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and now i tried to load with 4.24 and it doesnt load

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what to do?

unreal swallow Jul 20, 2020, 1:46 PM

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@plush yew If that is the vehicle template I think somewhere in the blueprint it sets the 3rd person camera as primary. I used that template for an internal work VR project, and if I remember correctly, somewhere in the blueprints or input map there is a keypress you can use to toggle between the cameras

untold swallow Jul 20, 2020, 1:49 PM

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hello, im making an endless runner, how can i make that when player tilts the phone to left, the character moves left
anyone pls?

weak cypress Jul 20, 2020, 1:51 PM

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anyone?

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 1:52 PM

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@weak cypress check the crash log

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@untold swallow https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/383323/tilt-control-in-mobile.html

weak cypress Jul 20, 2020, 1:53 PM

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it just says this

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granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 1:53 PM

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maybe do a new 4.25 file then migrate the folder in to your project

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you should be able to copy your content directory

weak cypress Jul 20, 2020, 1:54 PM

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if i open from 4.25

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tender pecan Jul 20, 2020, 1:54 PM

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@granite spire is on 🔥 ..

weak cypress Jul 20, 2020, 1:56 PM

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do i need to copy the source folder and the content folder? @granite spire

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 1:56 PM

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content

weak cypress Jul 20, 2020, 1:56 PM

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and it will be exactly as before?

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 1:56 PM

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you will have to do some setup i think

weak cypress Jul 20, 2020, 1:56 PM

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yolo

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 1:56 PM

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unless you're using C++ but, no harm in trying

weak cypress Jul 20, 2020, 1:56 PM

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i am using c++

untold swallow Jul 20, 2020, 1:57 PM

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@granite spire bro i didnt get, can u pls find me a tutorial for tilt in endless runner?

weak cypress Jul 20, 2020, 1:57 PM

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can i switch to 4.24?

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 1:58 PM

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@untold swallow https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ue4+mobile+game+tilt+control+tutorial

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pick one

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the event coverage might have something

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHHAjRVBc9Y there's also this

YouTube

Unreal Engine

BP 3rd Person Game: Character Gamepad & Touch Controls | 15 | v4.8 ...

(00:05) - Intro and Project Settings
(02:04) - Main Inputs
(03:24) - Character Blueprint final controls
(06:30) - Add Controller Pitch & Yaw
(08:46) - Testing
(10:00) - Providing touch commands
(12:29) - Mobile Preview

▶ Play video

weak cypress Jul 20, 2020, 1:59 PM

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i tried to convert to 4.25

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and it failed

untold swallow Jul 20, 2020, 1:59 PM

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thanks bro

weak cypress Jul 20, 2020, 1:59 PM

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i am using c++

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so do i need to just copy both folders to a new project?

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i tried

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i got one

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it cant access Role

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from Actor.h

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ohhhh

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:01 PM

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yeah sorry I didn't realize you were using C++

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C++ is finicky

weak cypress Jul 20, 2020, 2:01 PM

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y its this right now

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bye bye afternoon changing all of these 😂

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this one too

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do i move this to #cpp ?

rocky radish Jul 20, 2020, 2:05 PM

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Or you can also use GetLocalRole()

weak cypress Jul 20, 2020, 2:05 PM

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ok

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 2:09 PM

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@granite spire but static light doesn't affect fps on run time right?

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:09 PM

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well you bake them in but I thought it still needs to do some lighting calculations

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 2:10 PM

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just trying to figure what i can do to stay on 100 fps

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:10 PM

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I ditched all static lights and went with dynamic, because I work with out door scene

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 2:10 PM

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I tried dynamic light on my previous project

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but fps was soo horirble

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tried stationary too and that's still messsed up if they overlap

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:11 PM

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yeah point lights destroy dynamic

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from my memory I think there is still calculations for point light

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if you remove the pointlights, what happens?

weak cypress Jul 20, 2020, 2:12 PM

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can you help in cpp? @granite spire

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:13 PM

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i'm fairly useless in C++

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 2:13 PM

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Hmm, not sure but my scene will go dark for sure. Is pointlight bad?

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:13 PM

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it's one thing I haven't bothered to dive in to, as art has been a needed thing for my game

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@plush yew try stat.fps I think it is, to see if it's CPU or GPU bottle necks

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there's also a draw call command

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 2:14 PM

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I just input that, but that doesnt do anything

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:14 PM

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so you can see the ms

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 2:15 PM

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13 ms rite now

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hmm i think it's ctrl + shift + ,

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:15 PM

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is the CPU or GPU high?

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 2:15 PM

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I can see GPU visualizer

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not sure how to check CPU

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stat.fps does nothing atm

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:16 PM

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stat gpu

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 2:16 PM

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which part should I look at?

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:16 PM

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you'll get this

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plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 2:16 PM

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granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:17 PM

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is this in game

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 2:17 PM

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nah editor

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:17 PM

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run your game then show me

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 2:17 PM

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hmm 26, is that bad?

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package version? or in editor?

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thanks for trying to help btw

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appriciate it

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:17 PM

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it's alright

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standalone window

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 2:18 PM

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There is always fps improvement on launch

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but still lagggy in some part

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:18 PM

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yeah

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what is visibility commands i wonder

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 2:19 PM

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I have heaps of obejct in my map

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maybe it's the culling?

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:20 PM

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https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/rendering/1693964-gpu-stat-profiling-what-is-visibilitycommands

Unreal Engine Forums

I have been trying to figure out what is causing my game to lag on FPS and the culprit has been finally profiled. However...I do not know what it is. See image attached. The Session Frontend profiler indicates that the issues is with the Visibility Commands. There is nothing o...

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well apparently it's an issue

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 2:20 PM

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Yeah im reading that atm

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I dont have landscape tho 🤷‍♂️

kind robin Jul 20, 2020, 2:20 PM

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Hey, does anyone have ideas on how you would filter out blocking objects for spawn zones?
I have a area where i'm getting a random point within the range of that small area but there are a few objects in there as well, sometimes the random location is inside those objects preventing the player from spawning
My only idea is if the spawn fails to try again but with the way I have it set up currently I would have to rework a lot of things, so i'm wondering if there is a easier solution

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 2:20 PM

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it's sad that Unreal staff are not available to answer question in forum

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:21 PM

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I came across this issue, and I solved it by fixing a problem mesh. I had a mesh that was interacting very strangely with baked lighting. I found that the mesh used 12 different materials each with multiple textures (outsourced and not checked properly). I was randomly experimenting and tried changing all lights to moveable.. and it solved it, so I knew to look at the mesh. I added a single static light and built lighting, boom VisibilityCommands was back. Different mesh -> no more problems.

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hmmm

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 2:23 PM

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thats like finding needle in a hay stack 😄

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well there is a strange problem with one of my bsp

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will try deleting that

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:24 PM

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I would try and slowly remove an asset that's giving you issues

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you should be able to move around and pinpoint where it's slowing down then slowly start to remove items

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then if you FPS increases you know what it was, that's about as best as you'll get for now I think

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@kind robin do you have spawn points? I think what you will need to do is setup and spawn point BP with a collision box and use that as your spawn area so you have more control on where you spawn, another idea is to precheck collision and if you collide pick another spawn point, which isn't elegant but easiest method

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 2:29 PM

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ta mate

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:30 PM

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yeah sorry there wasn't more of a solution, I know you can do more performance thing, but I think this may be better to track it down

glad loom Jul 20, 2020, 2:31 PM

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Hello, anyone know a good site from where to get free sound effects for games? Thanks in advance

frank isle Jul 20, 2020, 2:35 PM

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hey guys, im pretty new to all of this and i have a question: when i load the bp for the 2d sidescroller, the entire picture is black, like there are components but everything is black and the lightsources barely create any lights, could someone help me out?

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nvm i just found out that the defaultspritematerial was on base color instead of emissive color for some reason

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:42 PM

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@glad loom Last year I think it was they had that website, I don't have the link for but it has thousands of free samples for indie devs

tender pecan Jul 20, 2020, 2:44 PM

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@glad loom http://www.zapsplat.com has some free sounds , http://freesound.org is also pretty good

weak cypress Jul 20, 2020, 2:46 PM

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anyway

tender pecan Jul 20, 2020, 2:46 PM

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@glad loom http://www.freesfx.co.uk/ and http://indiegamemusic.com/ ...

weak cypress Jul 20, 2020, 2:46 PM

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now my project loads

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@granite spire thanks for the advice

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:pog:

glad loom Jul 20, 2020, 2:47 PM

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Thank you very much!

frank isle Jul 20, 2020, 2:55 PM

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im stuck again, i changed the sprite of the basic 2d sidescroll character into another sprite, the new sprite is way smaller and is now levitating, how can i change that so he is on the ground?

vocal herald Jul 20, 2020, 2:56 PM

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I have a super long sequence and it stops playing after 60 seconds. I googled this problem and people said that garbage collectors kills something and that stops the sequence. How do I fix that?

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 2:57 PM

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@frank isle In the actual blueprint you have to manually edit this, that asset you're using is imported differently

plain tinsel Jul 20, 2020, 2:59 PM

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I need help about something weird, literally every code in the blueprint editor gives out an infinite loop error

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,

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How do i fix this lmao what

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 3:03 PM

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try turning off the infinite loop detection https://forums.unrealengine.com/community/general-discussion/36632-way-to-turn-off-infinite-loop-detection

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and then see what happens

plain tinsel Jul 20, 2020, 3:03 PM

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Ok I'll try

azure reef Jul 20, 2020, 3:05 PM

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Is there any way to downgrande a project from 4.25 to 4.24? The backups from last two months not working anymore ( crashing on mobile devices ) and I want to try to package on 4.24

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 3:05 PM

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@vocal herald I'm not sure what to tell you, if it's exactly 60seconds that looks like some sort of sound issue, did you find a bug report for it?

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@azure reef Not unless you migrate it back to 4.24 I do believe

azure reef Jul 20, 2020, 3:06 PM

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Using migrate action to a 4.24 project? Because if I change engine version it fails to load the maps

plain tinsel Jul 20, 2020, 3:06 PM

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Ah...

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 3:06 PM

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open up 4.25 > migrate your maps to 4.24

plain tinsel Jul 20, 2020, 3:06 PM

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I think I have created a black hole

azure reef Jul 20, 2020, 3:06 PM

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OK. Thank you! I'll try now

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 3:07 PM

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Hey guyuus it's 200 tick heavy?

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 3:07 PM

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@azure reef If you're using C++ the migration is different

azure reef Jul 20, 2020, 3:07 PM

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It's BP only project

hollow fog Jul 20, 2020, 3:07 PM

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anyone know why particle sprites keep playing out when realtime is off, it should pause them mid play, works as it should in a blank project, no idea what i did to break that?

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 3:07 PM

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@plain tinsel well, you got something at least, I've been on a bit of a roll tonight making issues more apparent 😂

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@azure reef you should be fine then

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'should'

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@plush yew 200 ticks?

azure reef Jul 20, 2020, 3:08 PM

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Hope it will work. For 2 weeks trying to debug the crash and still no success 🙂

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 3:09 PM

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im checking with dumpticks atm

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So it's the ammount of ticks currently in the game

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511 total, 189 enable rest is disabled

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 3:10 PM

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@plush yew I didn't know about that command, where does the result show up?

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 3:10 PM

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the result shows all the actor that uses tick

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 3:11 PM

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@hollow fog did you set it to infinite loop?

hollow fog Jul 20, 2020, 3:12 PM

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no i mean "crtl+r" pauses any animations in editor by default

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but i broke it

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should freeze sprites mid air and any movement by the viewport camera will just update the material

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 3:13 PM

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oh

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@hollow fog does it actually deactivate?

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hollow fog Jul 20, 2020, 3:17 PM

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yes

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its off

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fun times trying to debug the editor and see who broke what instead of working on assets xD

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 3:18 PM

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you could try and migrate the new projects settings into that project

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and see if that makes a difference

hollow fog Jul 20, 2020, 3:18 PM

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tried, no luck

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 3:18 PM

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also reload the editor

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hmmm

hollow fog Jul 20, 2020, 3:18 PM

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gonna assign blame to the main programmers

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 3:18 PM

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is C++ involved?

hollow fog Jul 20, 2020, 3:18 PM

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probably

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i sense camera related stuff

granite spire Jul 20, 2020, 3:20 PM

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yeah if they edited anything with C++ then you'll have to ask them, lol

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if i worked more with C++ then i'd be able to get you to check some stuff, but that's a year away for me to become any good with the engine and this

hollow fog Jul 20, 2020, 3:31 PM

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np, ill just keep digging, thanks

tribal citrus Jul 20, 2020, 4:06 PM

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hi there, does anyone know how to add anamorphic lens blur in unreal?

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 4:17 PM

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Odd question: as suggested by @grim ore, I'm using level streaming so that I can keep a particle effect (rising smoke) going behind the main menu widgets. My first level I've named PersistentParticles, and it is entirely black - no lighting, nothing except this particle effect.

This is working, but I have an issue - I'm having a very difficult time centering the particle so that it appears in the proper space behind the Main Menu navigation widgets. When I edit the level that contains the particle, the level itself is, of course, completely black (except for the particle) - I've tried switching viewport views to the graph-like left, top, bottom, etc, and I still can't figure out how to rotate / move the particle effect so it's in the right spot.

I'm being forced to guess-move the particle, compile / save, play the game to see where the particle ends up, then stop the game, and keep guessing over and over.

Any thoughts on how to handle this? What are best-practices for determining where would be center when placing this particle effect, so that it properly appears behind the main menu widgets?

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 4:20 PM

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well the main menu widget shows up where the main camera is, do you have a camera in the scene to use or is it just making one at random?

smoky sonnet Jul 20, 2020, 4:22 PM

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my app crashes on startup anyone know why? if i download it via google playstore it crashes but if i drag the packaged apk on my phone and installs it, it run perfectly fine

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 4:22 PM

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check into adb log and see what the log says when you run it on device

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 4:23 PM

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@grim ore I believe it's just making one at random, that's a good point. I need to just fix the camera, then move the particle to the center point of that.

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 4:24 PM

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yep set up an actor, add the camera, set it up to be auto possesed by player 1 and there ya go

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 4:24 PM

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Interesting, ok.

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 4:25 PM

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open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 4:26 PM

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Perfect @grim ore, thank you.

plain tinsel Jul 20, 2020, 4:30 PM

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Im getting an infinite loop detected error on an event that isnt even hooked up to anything

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I have no idea what the hell is wrong

smoky sonnet Jul 20, 2020, 4:36 PM

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@grim ore Abort message: 'java_vm_ext.cc:542] JNI DETECTED ERROR IN APPLICATION: mid == null' thats the error i think :/

narrow mauve Jul 20, 2020, 4:37 PM

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Is there a comparison of Cascade and Niagara somewhere...I mean what is really the difference

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 4:48 PM

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Niagara is a programmable VFX pipeline and cascade is much more static is the biggest difference.

smoky sonnet Jul 20, 2020, 4:58 PM

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anyone know why my app crashes?

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grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 5:02 PM

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@smoky sonnet you might need to not filter by debug, the UE4 process might have more info for example on the crash that is not debug

smoky sonnet Jul 20, 2020, 5:04 PM

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so i should filter for -s Crash or -s crash

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okay thats new

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grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 5:10 PM

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well I wouldnt filter at all, I would get the full log lol

smoky sonnet Jul 20, 2020, 5:10 PM

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yeah but thats so much i dont get the small log at all and a big one

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puhh

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thats the full log

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😅

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my app crashes if i install it of the playstore

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but not if i drag the apk right on my phone and install it

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 5:24 PM

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all I can see suggested is to try to build it in development mode, not shipping and see if it still happens. it might be a code signing issue or a missing permission from the manifest

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with proguard being mentioned specifically

smoky sonnet Jul 20, 2020, 5:25 PM

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i am currently packaging it just for ETC1 then i will upload it as an internal test

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if it works

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it may be because i followed up a russian tutorial to do a android app bundle because there isnt a built in mechanic for that in ue4 (i think so)

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 5:27 PM

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If I want to lock the camera so that users cannot move it while I'm displaying a main menu, what is the best method to do this?

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 5:29 PM

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you would probably just disable input on the player controller so no input is passed to stuff that moves stuff

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or set input mode to ui only

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 5:30 PM

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It's interesting, because my level is entirely blank, even after adding a camera actor, the camera is pointing in an off direction to where the particle is at a 90 degree angle when I run it.

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I'm finding it quite difficult to place the camera correctly considering there are exactly zero objects present, no lighting, just an entirely black environment with one particle effect and one camera.

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Flying blind, so to speak.

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 5:31 PM

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place particle effect, make sure its running so you can see it. turn on viewport mode to unlit. click on camera, right click on camera and go down to pilot. fly it around till you can see what you want, click eject on the top left. profit?

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 5:32 PM

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Ahh, very good, will give that a shot, thank you @grim ore

maiden sundial Jul 20, 2020, 5:39 PM

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Would you guys say it's worth to use #paper-2d over any engine which has a default 2D support ? Like Unity e.g.

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 5:40 PM

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Maybe. Depends on your skills, previous experience and goals.

maiden sundial Jul 20, 2020, 5:40 PM

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I wonder if you can get really good results compared to Unity's 2D

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 5:40 PM

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Yes.

final swallow Jul 20, 2020, 5:41 PM

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Hi there!
Is it possible to increase details in far distance for render sequencer? Already put LOD 0 for Landscape.

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This is when i put camera in near distance

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maiden sundial Jul 20, 2020, 5:41 PM

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I mean, i got now like 2 years of UE experience and maybe 1,5 years of UE C++ experience.
So i'm not sure if i should just make a 2D game in UE or learn C#/Unity

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 5:43 PM

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For me it would depend on what I was wanting to make. There are some tools Unity has that might make it easier, but most of them can be recreated in UE. If you got that much time in UE why not just build a prototype and find out.

maiden sundial Jul 20, 2020, 5:44 PM

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Sounds reasonable 👍

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 5:44 PM

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@maiden sundial What kind of game are you thinking of?

maiden sundial Jul 20, 2020, 5:45 PM

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Just simple things for now, like a legit doodle jumps e.g.
I tried already to do that in 2,5D

north badger Jul 20, 2020, 5:45 PM

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Anyone knows about a good character blender to unreal tutorial ?

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loosing my head here

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 5:46 PM

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Sounds easy enough. Yeah, I like what you can do with 2.5D in UE, but you can also just use 3D mechanics and 2D art.

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@north badger What's the issue?

unique ocean Jul 20, 2020, 5:48 PM

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Anyone else have a problem with UE4 crashing when trying to add a variable to a struct?

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like I can add the boolean but can't change it to anything

north badger Jul 20, 2020, 5:50 PM

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@scarlet birch

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:v

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scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 5:50 PM

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End bones aren't weighted so won't be in the bind pose

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There's an option in export I think to remove them, it might be called leaf bones

north badger Jul 20, 2020, 5:51 PM

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They are, i checked

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 5:51 PM

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They are weighted?

north badger Jul 20, 2020, 5:51 PM

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Yep :c

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 5:51 PM

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Normally, they shouldn't be

north badger Jul 20, 2020, 5:52 PM

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Huh

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🤔

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 5:52 PM

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Did you make the skel yourself or use a script?

north badger Jul 20, 2020, 5:52 PM

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Made it myself

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 5:53 PM

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Unless it's deforming wrong I wouldn't worry about the bones error.

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I'm trying to recall, but I think the smoothing groups thing can be fixed in export options by selecting faces.

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If you're going to be doing a lot of characters in Blender AutoRigPro is worth the money too. It'll give you an fk/ik rig and export a UE Mannequin skel.

north badger Jul 20, 2020, 5:56 PM

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The thing is they´re not all humanoids, also thanks a lot

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 5:56 PM

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Check it out, it works for non humanoids and custom limbs

north badger Jul 20, 2020, 5:56 PM

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o.O

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I´ll give it a try

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Also, im new to animation, any tips ?

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I´ve modeled a lot, but getting in to character rigging its not as easy as i expected

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 6:00 PM

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Buy a copy of "Animators Survival Kit" and keep at it.

smoky sonnet Jul 20, 2020, 6:00 PM

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anyone know why my app crashes because it was uploaded as a android app bundle

tender flume Jul 20, 2020, 6:25 PM

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Is it good to have "Movable" on several trees for the shadows?

lusty rampart Jul 20, 2020, 6:26 PM

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anyone else get terrible performance with UE editor tooltips under windows? turning them off fixes performance, but anyone know how to fix it without turning them off? I have lots of ram available

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 6:27 PM

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@tender flume what you set it to will depend on what type of shadows you want

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@lusty rampart do you have any 3d overlay software running, msi afterburner or nvida shadowplay? etc.

lusty rampart Jul 20, 2020, 6:28 PM

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not intentionally, but let me look

north badger Jul 20, 2020, 6:29 PM

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@scarlet birch sorry to disturb you again xd, fixed some stuff or at least i tought so, getting this error now

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ornate ice Jul 20, 2020, 6:31 PM

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Wow what a beautiful way to build code

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr4ZjieAQKY

YouTube

Unreal Engine

Using BP Components for Game Behaviour | Live Training | Unreal Engine

This intermediate level video introduces a way to break the functionality of your games up into a series of modular Blueprintable Components. With this technique, you can quickly construct in-game assets with complex behaviors right inside your game world, just by dragging and...

▶ Play video

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 6:34 PM

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@north badger https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/109814/multiple-roots-are-found-in-the-bone-hierarchy-we.html

north badger Jul 20, 2020, 6:35 PM

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@plush yew thanks mate

neat forge Jul 20, 2020, 6:37 PM

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Can the UE mannequin be used in blender? When I try to open the FBX the skeleton is screwed up

ornate ice Jul 20, 2020, 6:39 PM

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look for Mr. Mannequin

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thats an amazing tool

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it loads up the UE4 Mannequin with an amazing rig

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in case you want to animate it

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and the animations build with it just work

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so in case you have a character already setup in ur project and you have already retarget animations from the mannequin

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you can just animate it and boom

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just do the retarget and now you got a new animation

neat forge Jul 20, 2020, 6:41 PM

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Sweet I will look into it, thanks

ornate ice Jul 20, 2020, 6:42 PM

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https://gumroad.com/l/MrMannequinsTools

Gumroad

Mr Mannequins Tools

Mr Mannequins Tools (v 1.3) - Third major update of the add-on for Blender 2.8+ that gives the ability to export animations and weighted meshes that are directly compatible with the third person mannequin without re-targeting anything in Unreal Engine! Even more bugs and issue...

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the owner has an amazing youtube channel and an amazing discord server

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and he is there all the time

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an very responsive

dire cosmos Jul 20, 2020, 6:45 PM

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What is the proper way to rename / restructure the content folder in a big game?

Moving folders to another seems to not work correctly. The folder where I moved all it's files, can't be deleted and contains nothing. But when using the windows file explorer I see that files still exists there.

Somebody have experience with that?

glad loom Jul 20, 2020, 6:49 PM

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Hello, I have a variable at one of my actors of "vector" type that I can move left and right in the level itself to see where it is.

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However if I set it's x to 100 so it's 100 units to the right, if I try to put another object at the location of my actor + 100, it's in a different location than my "vector" variable

exotic thicket Jul 20, 2020, 6:52 PM

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You need to adjust for rotation

glad loom Jul 20, 2020, 6:52 PM

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keen moss Jul 20, 2020, 6:52 PM

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using the new 4.25 render manger, how can i set a frame delay like i can with the basic sequencer?

glad loom Jul 20, 2020, 6:53 PM

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Point B is 100 units away from Actor 1

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However actor 2 is "actually" 100 units away, having set it's x manually to be "actor 1 + 100"

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@exotic thicket Game is in 2d, so there's no rotation involved

exotic thicket Jul 20, 2020, 6:54 PM

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Ah. Could be scale then?

glad loom Jul 20, 2020, 6:55 PM

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It could be, actor scale is 0.7

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Let me check

exotic thicket Jul 20, 2020, 6:55 PM

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yeah that might do it

glad loom Jul 20, 2020, 6:55 PM

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Yeah that was it, thank you!

signal jetty Jul 20, 2020, 6:58 PM

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Hey guys Do I Need a VR headset To open VR in UE4

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 7:10 PM

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@grim ore My setup is a single Persistent level, VPrimaryPersistent, that contains just the camera actor and the particle effect. When I load it, the camera actor now points towards the particle effect just fine.

However, when I load the sublevel that contains the widgets for the Main Menu navigation, it doesn't retain the camera focus. If I right click and look down, I see the particle effect, but in essence, the camera's position isn't maintaining when I load the sublevel.

How might that be corrected? Hard to find examples on Google of resolving such an issue.

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I'm referring to the fact that, upon streaming the sublevel, it's clearly moving the camera and not using the one from the parent persistent level, because the particle effect is not in the center of the screen as it is in the parent level.

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As an aside, is there anything @grim ore DOESN'T know about UE4? You should consider becoming a professor at a major university. Not a single question I've encountered you didn't instantly know the answer to.

smoky sonnet Jul 20, 2020, 7:22 PM

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is it possible that ads and also show external login UI (basically connection to google play services) wont work if it is a internal test?

modern summit Jul 20, 2020, 7:26 PM

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I've never used it, but my hunch is a test ad would be loaded, I wouldn't expect a real ad to load in

keen moss Jul 20, 2020, 7:26 PM

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using the new 4.25 render manger, how can i set a frame delay like i can with the basic sequencer?

vale silo Jul 20, 2020, 7:35 PM

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since 4.26 popped up on the roadmap on Trello, does it mean 4.25.2 is upon us ?

smoky sonnet Jul 20, 2020, 7:39 PM

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everything i search for in ue4 forums is 5 years old wtfffff

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 7:39 PM

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Not everything. 🙂

smoky sonnet Jul 20, 2020, 7:40 PM

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yeah everything was to hard i mean specific for this what i try to find

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 7:40 PM

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Anyone know how to maintain camera position when streaming a sublevel that loads widgets?

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Would this be classified as a static camera?

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 7:40 PM

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@open wadi does your sub level contain anything else that could take over the camera basically?

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 7:41 PM

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@grim ore Not to my knowledge, it is free of actors, it's sole purpose is to load the navigation widgets

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Confirming...

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Yes, I see no actors present.

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The level blueprint loads the widgets.

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That is all.

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 7:42 PM

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how are you loading in the 2nd level?

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 7:42 PM

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I have it set as a sublevel and I stream it via "Load Stream Level"

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The project's default level is the "VPrimaryPersistent", which just contains the recommended camera and particle effect, and the blueprint for it simply contains "Load Stream Level" off Event Begin Play.

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Hmm, now I don't see the particle effect at all.

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Even when moving the camera around. What on Earth.

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 7:48 PM

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so if you want the level auto loaded, you can right click it in the levels panel and change streaming method to always loaded

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 7:48 PM

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Why on earth would that be. Previously it worked, it was just not lined up behind the navigation widgets. Now it has vanished entirely upon play.

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If I do that, will that persistent level be always loaded? I figured I wouldn't want it always loaded.

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Because once the user leaves the main navigation, I don't want that particle effect present.

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 7:50 PM

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I mean in terms of your main level being loaded, instead of doing the load stream level on the begin play you can just tell it to load automatically

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 7:50 PM

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Ok.

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 7:50 PM

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but yeah I tested and my camera never moves or changes if I only have the 1 camera in persistent and never add another. Its possible your default pawn is spawning in in your game mode tho so that is something to be aware of

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 7:51 PM

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That's right, the default pawn.

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Yes, for the VMainNav I want no 3D objects per-se, just the widgets.

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Should I add code to destroy the default pawn on the initial PersentLevel?

oak sequoia Jul 20, 2020, 7:56 PM

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can someone help me with enemy health bar? Im following chris murphy udemy course and I get this error as soon as i press play

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patent wren Jul 20, 2020, 7:59 PM

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is there a way to just quickly capture video of gameplay within unreal? I now F9 is for screen shot images.. is there a button for video too?

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 7:59 PM

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@open wadi you can go into your game mode, create one if needed, and set the default pawn to none

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basically a GameMode_Menus or whatever

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 8:00 PM

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I see.

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Gotcha.

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 8:02 PM

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persistent map with the other 2 maps loaded in as "blueprint loaded" as the stream type. You can see in the top right the camera and particles are in the persistent main map and the cube and sphere are each in their own child maps

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game running with the map_ui (first map) loaded in with stream level and on begin play on that map the ui is created and displayed

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and with the first map unloaded and the 2nd map loaded with it's unique item (sphere) and its unique ui

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and the entire time the particle is happy in the background

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 8:03 PM

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If that is the vehicle template I think somewhere in the blueprint it sets the 3rd person camera as primary. I used that template for an internal work VR project, and if I remember correctly, somewhere in the blueprints or input map there is a keypress you can use to toggle between the cameras
@unreal swallow I could not find it :(

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 8:04 PM

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and the code is super silly for testing in the persistent level just to load and unload levels

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barren flume Jul 20, 2020, 8:06 PM

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I'm so confused on why the level sequence isn't playing

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plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 8:09 PM

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hi everyone ! my gf needs a new laptop we are no rich people, any suggestions please?

barren flume Jul 20, 2020, 8:10 PM

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wait it seems to play the sequence but it doesn't change to the camera

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 8:11 PM

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That didn't work for me. What's odd is, if in the UE4 editor I have the VPersistent level open at the time, and I play the project, it shows the particle fine. However, if I have another level opened in the viewport, then launch the project, the particle disappears entirely now.

barren flume Jul 20, 2020, 8:11 PM

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Oh nvm I forgot to add a camera cut

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 8:12 PM

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I have added a custom gamemode tied to the VMainMenu sublevel and set the default pawn to none.

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 8:13 PM

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well if you open the other level, then the particle is not loaded anymore right? its also using the other levels camera setup which is not the same as your persistent (not fixed, not possessed)

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 8:16 PM

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Viewport view of persistent level.

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Persistent Level Blueprint

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barren flume Jul 20, 2020, 8:16 PM

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Having another issue with hiding a level

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 8:16 PM

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Sublevel L_VMainMenu blueprint, which only loads the main menu widgets.

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barren flume Jul 20, 2020, 8:16 PM

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open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 8:17 PM

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@grim ore Do you notice something missing there?

zealous quest Jul 20, 2020, 8:19 PM

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Guys, could You point me out any decent landscape creating tutorial series? I'm venturing trough the web, and found some but still I think I need some more knowledge about blending stuff, and proximity shaders, and slopes, and foliage and everything that helps make the landscape look nice and connected 😄 Thanks 😄

restive zinc Jul 20, 2020, 8:19 PM

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Is Settings Collision enabled and Setting Movement Mode The Best Way To End A Animation Anybody?

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open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 8:19 PM

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That makes sense regarding not using the other level's camera setup. Which bears the question, how might one ensure the sublevel leverages the exact camera of the parent persisten level?

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I'm researching this but documentation regarding this specific use case is sparse.

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Streaming levels appear to be primarily used to dynamically load level segments so that the entire map does not remain memory resident, not this type of use case, which simply means documentation is sparse.

ember cypress Jul 20, 2020, 8:21 PM

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https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses/landscape-essential-concepts @zealous quest

Unreal Engine

Landscape Essential Concepts

In this course, you’ll learn how to use Unreal Engine’s Terrain tools to create outdoor environments.

dense knoll Jul 20, 2020, 8:23 PM

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what compression method reduces the file size the most?

zealous quest Jul 20, 2020, 8:25 PM

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@ember cypress Thank you tough, but I think I need something a little bit more advanced now 🙂

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 8:27 PM

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@open wadi there is always 1 active camera is the key to keep in mind. If you have no other cameras in your other levels, and no pawns spawning in being possessed so it changes camera then you will always have your 1 camera that you set up

dense knoll Jul 20, 2020, 8:28 PM

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how do i reduce the file size of a pak

hollow yarrow Jul 20, 2020, 8:28 PM

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Hi everyone, currently still making my rpg and have been trying to figure out how i can target the projectile fireball so that it hits the crosshair

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 8:30 PM

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@barren flume I dont see the first level loaded in there so there is no way for the engine to hide it if the persistent level cannot control it

open wadi Jul 20, 2020, 8:34 PM

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@grim ore I'll work on this, much appreciated.

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 8:39 PM

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im following the unrealdoc for setting up a main menu however I don't have a "Branch" node in my First Person Character BP like it's saying I should?

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I don't have the comment box either in the picture

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 8:40 PM

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it could be an older template that was being used

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you can create them if you want

barren flume Jul 20, 2020, 8:40 PM

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i'm still confused

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it loads the level main level but can't hide persistent level (the cine level)?

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 8:41 PM

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The doc says its from 4.23 and im using 4.23.1, so I should download the 4.23 First Person BP?

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 8:41 PM

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this is supposed to be part of the first person blueprint?

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 8:41 PM

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yeah

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https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/UMG/HowTo/CreateMainMenu/index.html

Creating a Main Menu

How to create and script a main menu for your game.

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im on step 20

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 8:43 PM

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I see it in mine

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tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 8:43 PM

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which Unreal version is that your using?

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 8:43 PM

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4.25.1

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the templates haven't changed in quite a while

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 8:44 PM

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hmm im on 4.23

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 8:44 PM

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are you looking at the correct part of the blueprint?

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on the top, event begin play

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 8:44 PM

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Ya, ive searched for branch aswell

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there are none with that comment section

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 8:44 PM

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well what does the top of your graph look like? above the stick input

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 8:45 PM

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I don't have that section it seems

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The nodes above stick input are the ones I'm following the guide to make, so they werent part of the bp by default

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 8:47 PM

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ah its because you added the feature pack, you didnt create a template from scratch did you?

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 8:48 PM

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It was made from scratch

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Could I make a blank project with the first person blueprint and import that one into my scene instead?

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 8:48 PM

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well it wouldnt be blank, it would be the first person project template

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and you could migrate it yes

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 8:48 PM

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cool, I'll try that

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 8:49 PM

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but i will say that code on the bottom is identical to the code used in the feature pack and not the template

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 8:50 PM

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brilliant, got it

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got it, thanks

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 8:58 PM

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If I was doing something like a modular conveyor belt that could be placed by the player would using a material to animate it on a HISM be a reasonable approach? Similar to Factorio, Infinifactory, Satisfactory etc...

halcyon marsh Jul 20, 2020, 9:27 PM

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Can anyone help me once??

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When I did packaging of ue4 file it was showing cook failure

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 9:28 PM

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Maybe show the error from the log?

halcyon marsh Jul 20, 2020, 9:28 PM

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Yes

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Can anyone help me how can I fix it

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 9:31 PM

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But it likely gave a reason in one of the logs.

halcyon marsh Jul 20, 2020, 9:32 PM

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Nope I couldn't see it just I saw cook failed

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 9:32 PM

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https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Deployment/Cooking/index.html

Content Cooking

Generating platform-specific content for assets used in the game.

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 9:38 PM

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if all it showed was cook failed then we can't help 😦 If for some reason your output log was not showing any errors then crud

halcyon marsh Jul 20, 2020, 9:40 PM

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small pewter Jul 20, 2020, 9:40 PM

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Is it normal that I had a Widget blueprint that was called "test", I deleted it and tried to create a new one with the same name "test", it tells me I can't because there's already existing one called "test" even if I deleted it ...

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I mean I didn't delete it I changed it's name

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sorry

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 9:42 PM

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@halcyon marsh I have to think you don't actually want help. If you can't be bothered with a screenshot or even a decent photograph of your screen or pastebin of a log why should anyone else be bothered to help.

halcyon marsh Jul 20, 2020, 9:44 PM

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@halcyon marsh I have to think you don't actually want help. If you can't be bothered with a screenshot or even a decent photograph of your screen or pastebin of a log why should anyone else be bothered to help.
@scarlet birch I uploaded a photo please see the photo

restive zinc Jul 20, 2020, 9:44 PM

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@grim ore How do you check if a character is in air

halcyon marsh Jul 20, 2020, 9:45 PM

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📎 IMG_20200721_030714.jpg

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@scarlet birch

restive zinc Jul 20, 2020, 9:45 PM

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do a screenshot

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 9:46 PM

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Dont' tag me. I'm not spending a second of eye strain trying to read that.

restive zinc Jul 20, 2020, 9:46 PM

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@scarlet birch @grim ore How do you check if a character is in air

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the simple way

scarlet birch Jul 20, 2020, 9:46 PM

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isFalling

restive zinc Jul 20, 2020, 9:48 PM

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@scarlet birch this

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frigid kindle Jul 20, 2020, 10:05 PM

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hi, im trying to update an old material my friend made. The texture here is Albedo on RBG and AO in Alpha on the same TIF file. I plugged the alpha output into the AO input on the master material, is this correct, or do I need to do something else? I havent used UE that much, if someone could point me in the right direction id very much appreciate it.

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plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 10:16 PM

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Unreal online services

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Wuts that

marble shoal Jul 20, 2020, 10:21 PM

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problem is that its 1>1 movement and its only taking a tiny bit of movement to pull the pin, I want to have to pull my hand more than the 4cm. I tried map range without luck

plush yew Jul 20, 2020, 10:24 PM

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How to make a loadout system?

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 10:35 PM

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@halcyon marsh any usable information would be above the cook failed, it would be the actual error itself. You can copy the log and paste it to somewhere like pastebin but from what I can see you are missing debugging symbols so you might need to install those as well.

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 10:36 PM

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so I've followed the official doc for making a menu. Only problem is the controls are in reverse order so when the menu is up, moving the mouse moves the first person camera instead of navigating the menu

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 10:37 PM

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so when you move the mouse, the first person camera moves like normal and the cursor moves on the screen?

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or no cursor and just mouse move

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 10:37 PM

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yeah to the first one^, and when i Press play im just unable to move

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so the cursor and the player character move in the menu

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but when i press play i cant move at all

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 10:37 PM

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it sounds like you did not set up the input modes properly

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 10:38 PM

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Do you know which BPs could affect this? I've triple checked all the blueprints i've modified

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I assumed it was the player bp but im 100% sure thats correct

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as its the one with the simplest node setup

quartz grotto Jul 20, 2020, 10:39 PM

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Hey everyone! I have a problem in the blueprint. Character anim BP Object reference is not compatible with self object reference

📎 6f8a04bda7911f1b.PNG

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Help me pls

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 10:39 PM

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@tired verge did you change the default character in the game mode like it said in step 22?

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 10:41 PM

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ya

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ah okay so

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when i Press play i can move but i cant move the camera unless i hold right click

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 10:41 PM

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did you use the proper node for input mode in step 19?

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 10:42 PM

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everything works fine except i have to hold right click to move camera i can still shoot and jump

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leme check

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 10:42 PM

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i mean you said you triple checked but....

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 10:42 PM

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yeah that node setup matches mine

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yeah ive checked so many times lol i dont know where i went wrong

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 10:43 PM

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and those nodes are in the first person character bp? that is the code that sets the input back to game and makes it so you dont need to hold down the mouse to look

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 10:43 PM

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FirstPersonCharacter in Event Graph

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i made sure to make a new scene and use that bp

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new project*

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 10:44 PM

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you arent supposed to be using a new scene, its supposed to be loading up the default first person map in the template

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 10:44 PM

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yeah sorry i mistyped. So I made a new project

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with the first person bp

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 10:45 PM

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click on the Set Input Mode Game Only, press F9 on the keyboard, and then hit play and try again. see what happens

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 10:46 PM

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that just opens up the event graph with a red circle on Set Input Mode Game Only

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 10:46 PM

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while you are playing?

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 10:46 PM

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Game screen is black

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grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 10:47 PM

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yep that looks fine, are you sure nothing else is changing the input mode then

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 10:47 PM

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yeah im sure everything is right, I'll go over the steps one more time from the beginning

red gorge Jul 20, 2020, 10:48 PM

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Hello

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 10:48 PM

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usually if you need to hold down the mouse its set to input mode game and ui, so look for that node

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did you override the game mode in the world settings for the first person map? you shouldnt if you did

quartz grotto Jul 20, 2020, 10:55 PM

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kappa

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 10:58 PM

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@quartz grotto have you watched/read any of the tutorials on blueprint communication? what are you trying to do there I doubt the animation blueprint would have that event

quartz grotto Jul 20, 2020, 10:59 PM

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Sure

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On Russian

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weHMTxdtrHk&t=

YouTube

Институт марксизма-ленинизма

Создание игр / Уроки по Unreal Engine 4 / #10 - создание смерти и р...

В этом видео показано как создать систему жизненных показателей персонажа, а именно систему получения урона, уменьшения HP, смерти и потом респа персонажа в игровом движке Unreal Engine 4 на блупринтах. Мы научимся добавлять основную логику смерти в компонент HealthStats, а та...

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)))

tired verge Jul 20, 2020, 11:02 PM

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ah got it

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 11:02 PM

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this is not the same as what you are trying, you are asking for the death event in your Health Stats component and not the Death on Anim BP event in your Anim BP

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you probably dragged off of the set node and typed death which is the one in the blueprint you are in (it says self), and did not drag off the Cast to New_Anim_BP to get the one inside the anim bp

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https://youtu.be/weHMTxdtrHk?t=2242 from there is where you need to follow, my guess is this is correct you just didnt drag off the anim bp

quartz grotto Jul 20, 2020, 11:05 PM

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I need time

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 11:05 PM

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that link goes right to the timestamp (37:22)

red gorge Jul 20, 2020, 11:06 PM

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Hello!

quartz grotto Jul 20, 2020, 11:06 PM

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Hi

red gorge Jul 20, 2020, 11:07 PM

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How are you

quartz grotto Jul 20, 2020, 11:08 PM

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red gorge Jul 20, 2020, 11:15 PM

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#lounge

quartz grotto Jul 20, 2020, 11:20 PM

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@grim ore Thank you very much!

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alex

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you are the best

rigid aurora Jul 20, 2020, 11:23 PM

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why always take a material instance as a texture when i put it on a geometry object ?

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and is not happening anything its just take it like a texture

grim ore Jul 20, 2020, 11:29 PM

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brushes are special is why

digital osprey Jul 20, 2020, 11:42 PM

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Yo

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is there a way to let widgets communicate with each other

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I have an animation that plays when i first click on the button but i dont want it to play when i am going back to the menu from a sub menu

fierce forge Jul 20, 2020, 11:48 PM

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hello , do somebody knows how i can make a random terrain generator like on minecraft ?

restive zinc Jul 20, 2020, 11:51 PM

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my ai is having trouble getting into the nav link anyone know why

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like they know its there its just hard for them

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 12:06 AM

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@digital osprey anything should be able to talk to anything yes, you just need a way to reference what you want to talk to or a conduit in between like having a ui controller hold what is going on.

somber quail Jul 21, 2020, 12:16 AM

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why always take a material instance as a texture when i put it on a geometry object ?
@rigid aurora Because that is a decal, created by dragging a decal material into your viewport.

autumn elbow Jul 21, 2020, 12:19 AM

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is there a way to export my shader setup from 3dsmax, and have unreal read it? (and build that network)

limpid oracle Jul 21, 2020, 12:20 AM

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Is the marketplace down for you guys?

autumn elbow Jul 21, 2020, 12:20 AM

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website loads for me

limpid oracle Jul 21, 2020, 12:20 AM

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Does the contents?

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The page loads, but the marketplace items do not load 😦

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And now it suddenly does haha

autumn elbow Jul 21, 2020, 12:21 AM

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loads

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oh ok lol

limpid oracle Jul 21, 2020, 12:21 AM

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It wasn't loading for me throughout the day hahaha

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no idea why XD

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Thanks!

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 12:26 AM

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@autumn elbow you can try using datasmith to export out of 3dsmax and import it into ue4, it can do stuff like that

autumn elbow Jul 21, 2020, 12:29 AM

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sweet, I'll try. Thanks!

frank grove Jul 21, 2020, 12:30 AM

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noob question

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but how do I download a pack I bought on the market?

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 12:32 AM

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on your launcher

frank grove Jul 21, 2020, 12:33 AM

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ok thanks

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 12:34 AM

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You have to add it to a project to 'download' it

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sage blade Jul 21, 2020, 12:35 AM

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how can rendering png from unreal. (WITH ALPHA CHANNEL)
(## I HAVE NIAGARA PARTICLE ##)

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 12:35 AM

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so clicking Unreal engine to the left then library is where all your stuff is stored, you do have to scroll down

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@sage blade It has to be a 32bit PNG

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 12:36 AM

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or try TGA which handles it better

sage blade Jul 21, 2020, 12:36 AM

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no i try that. but particle alpha channel wrong

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i upload screenshot

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wait a minute

frank grove Jul 21, 2020, 12:37 AM

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@granite spire thanks man

sage blade Jul 21, 2020, 12:38 AM

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📎 Honeycam_2020-07-21_09-38-11.gif

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someone know about this?

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 12:43 AM

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well it's going to come up red because that's the alpha I think

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I'm also not sure what you're trying to show

sage blade Jul 21, 2020, 12:45 AM

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The alpha of the particles must be the same as the Actor's alpha.
Only the background should have zero alpha. So that I can compositing
;0

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 12:46 AM

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i'm not sure what you're talking about, I can see the alpha is working as intended

lusty rampart Jul 21, 2020, 12:46 AM

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I thought I would add some multiplayer code into a component, but it seems things like "has authority" isn't avaialble in blueprints in a component. Is that true?

restive zinc Jul 21, 2020, 12:46 AM

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this

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 12:48 AM

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@restive zinc Your casting to the third person character which will always fail because you're in a different blue print, you're basically saying "Blueprint_Freaker, if you're a blueprint_thirdperson then do this"

restive zinc Jul 21, 2020, 12:48 AM

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oh ok

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how do you do it

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 12:49 AM

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which it's not, unless it's a child of that other blueprint, you can just set the move to

restive zinc Jul 21, 2020, 12:50 AM

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i want the ai to move to the third person character

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 12:50 AM

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you don't need to check itself, also, event tick is generally a no-no because it's going to spaz out trying to move to every 0.01s

restive zinc Jul 21, 2020, 12:50 AM

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its because pawn sensing when they lose sight they stop moving

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i dont like it

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 12:50 AM

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wait, why aren't you using behaviour trees?

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then you can setup a statemachine for the AI

restive zinc Jul 21, 2020, 12:51 AM

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i dont know how to use them is there a way to make the ai move to the character when out of sight

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 12:51 AM

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you can get all instances of character

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then move to that

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 12:52 AM

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don't use sensing..... thats kinda the point of it lol

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 12:52 AM

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but not using behaviour trees is bad

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but they're also a pain

restive zinc Jul 21, 2020, 12:53 AM

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pawn sensing only works when in sight but i dont like it when they stop moving because they lose sight

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 12:53 AM

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so dont use pawn sensing

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if you dont care about sensing the pawn dont use it

restive zinc Jul 21, 2020, 12:54 AM

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thats what im asking how do i do that

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 12:54 AM

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which if you had behaviour tree you could then set them back to 'search mode'

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i think mathew has a tutorial on this

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 12:54 AM

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well get player character, then move to location/actor seems like the easiest way to do it

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 12:55 AM

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@restive zinc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy7LcHPxVfU&list=PLSlkDq2rO1t47gMJ0GdO5aSTfOKy_TTln

YouTube

Mathew Wadstein

WTF Is? Simple Move in Unreal Engine 4 ( UE4 )

What are the Simple Move Nodes in Unreal Engine 4

Source Files: https://github.com/MWadstein/wtf-hdi-files

▶ Play video

restive zinc Jul 21, 2020, 12:55 AM

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do i do that in the ai blueprint then

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ok

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 12:55 AM

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go through all of that

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it's a few hours, but it's better than just trying to grind through this

restive zinc Jul 21, 2020, 12:56 AM

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ok

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 12:56 AM

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there is also an AI course on the online learning site that covers how to use behaviour tree, pawn sensing, and how to have something follow if seen then go back to searching then follow when seen then.. etc etc. you know... real ai

restive zinc Jul 21, 2020, 12:56 AM

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i learn that

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then behavior trees

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 12:56 AM

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i prefer mathews tutorials, haha

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the amount of useful stuff on his channel is great, it's almost a single handed carry on helping indie devs

sage blade Jul 21, 2020, 1:03 AM

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@granite spire ??? Do you think that image is correct?

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 1:06 AM

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when you export it to UE4 does it not work?

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 1:12 AM

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which image? the video clip that's mysteriously gone?

sage blade Jul 21, 2020, 1:14 AM

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this

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📎 Honeycam_2020-07-21_09-38-11.gif

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 1:16 AM

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yeah i don't really see the issue, the particles have the alpha channel behind them, i'm not sure what you're trying to do?

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except that black spot up the top left

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i'm not sure what that is

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 1:17 AM

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so yeah again... that is in photoshop, not in UE4 so....

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does it not work in UE4?

signal widget Jul 21, 2020, 1:24 AM

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does anyone no how make ue4 run in 64x64 i doing for a game jam

sage blade Jul 21, 2020, 1:29 AM

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@granite spire Simple. I want to remove the background from that image.
If you try to remove the background through the alpha channel, the particles are also removed.
Alpha channel must contain particles

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 1:32 AM

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oh

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untick the RGB colours and leave alpha selected

signal widget Jul 21, 2020, 1:34 AM

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anyone know the answer to my question

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 1:35 AM

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64x64? why not just increase the pixels?

sage blade Jul 21, 2020, 1:36 AM

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I know what you're saying.
See. Particles are gone

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 1:36 AM

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yep so you want to highlight that and delete it

sage blade Jul 21, 2020, 1:37 AM

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Do you not understand?
My particles are gone!

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 1:37 AM

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well they should be, you are hiding the color for them

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 1:38 AM

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you unselect the RGB layers, they're going to go, but with alpha now selected you delete the layer

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then you can reenable the RGB colours

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 1:38 AM

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I think there is a logic error here on one side

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and i dont think its on this side

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 1:39 AM

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@signal widget you can edit the view ports dimensions here

📎 2aa071e8ab.png

sage blade Jul 21, 2020, 1:39 AM

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No you don't understand at all
This is not that i can't work in photoshop
It says that the alpha channel of the image is wrong.
I have to redo render

The image I want is like this

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granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 1:40 AM

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right

sage blade Jul 21, 2020, 1:40 AM

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I need to get an alpha channel containing particles!

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But my alpha channel has no particles!

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 1:40 AM

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why don't you paste that into your alpha channel

sage blade Jul 21, 2020, 1:41 AM

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The last image I made was created using the level function.
This is ambiguous and misleading.
Values are wrong

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 1:41 AM

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right

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and in UE4 you want this?

sage blade Jul 21, 2020, 1:41 AM

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yes

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 1:42 AM

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right

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well it depends on your particles

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you might need to set up your textures properly

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there should be a colour value you can use to alpha fade what you want

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 1:43 AM

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can you create an alpha channel from the RGB channels based on a color? for example selecting 0,0,0 with RGB enabled then making an alpha from it? I dont photoshop so lol

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 1:43 AM

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nah i know what he's talking about now

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in his particles, they're not rendering the alpha channel very much

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he wants more on the alpha channel in UE4's particles

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which he should just edit the particles opacity

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more opacity = more alpha channel on the particle

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but you did paste the image into photoshop so there's going to be some issues with compression @sage blade

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if that doesn't work, then you have to setup your textures correctly

signal widget Jul 21, 2020, 1:46 AM

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@granite spire THANKS

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 1:46 AM

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no worries, i'll be here all day, ue4's become my life now

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i recently changed my life up so i can fit 4 days of straight dev work in

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my ambitious MMO isn't going to make itself 😂

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 1:47 AM

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as long as you take breaks, nice!

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 1:47 AM

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yeah

signal widget Jul 21, 2020, 1:47 AM

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Good Luck

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 1:48 AM

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I am loving the amount of questions here though

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 1:50 AM

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it's fun for a bit, then.... they start repeating... then they start repeating... then they start repeating... then

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 1:59 AM

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haha i frequent facebook helping

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if it gets to that point i'll be just linking videos

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 2:04 AM

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yep or pointing to the pinned messages

plain tinsel Jul 21, 2020, 2:16 AM

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is there any way to combine meshes into one object in runtime?
I'm currently doing it by parenting all meshes to one object to combine them but that doesn't seem to be helping

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 2:19 AM

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there's not a lot in that way aside from attach-to object that I know of

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for what purpose are you doing it? performance?

plain tinsel Jul 21, 2020, 2:21 AM

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im working on a spaceship building game and each part is parented to the ship. Only the ship itself simulates physics that way. But the fact that each part of the ship is still rendered seperately it creates a huge performance drop

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I need to combine that parts into one somehow

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 2:22 AM

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ahh

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well

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from my experience on my current project, we're doing fully custom mechs, with the standard UE4 system we were only able to have 25 mechs with 4 parts each on screen, which is about 100 objects

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now

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good news we're miles ahead and can render more objects now, through instancing

plain tinsel Jul 21, 2020, 2:24 AM

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would it be possible for me to use instanced meshes instead of static meshes for each part then?

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would that work

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 2:25 AM

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yeah instance meshes are static meshes

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you can also use your material to drive the models too

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let me find a tutorial for you

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMIbV2rQO4k

YouTube

Tech Art Aid

UE4 Optimization: Instancing

How to render millions of polygons with Hierarchical Instanced Static Mesh in Unreal Engine 4.
Get project files: https://techartaid.com/products/

Optimize draw calls, reduce CPU overhead, avoid common mistakes in Construction Blueprint and have fun creating a massive asteroi...

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that explains it well

plain tinsel Jul 21, 2020, 2:27 AM

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Oh yes I know that one but I'm not sure if I can integrate that into my system

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I'll try tho

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thanks

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 2:27 AM

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unfortunately there's no real other option but to set this up for your spaceships

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but, if you learn it, you'll always use it pretty much

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there's also one with the material, but that's going more complex

idle hearth Jul 21, 2020, 2:29 AM

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How to move all materials into Material folder only with programing

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Please help me

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 2:30 AM

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I would have no clue, sorry

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i'm not sure what you mean

idle hearth Jul 21, 2020, 2:31 AM

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How to move assets into folder with programing

plain tinsel Jul 21, 2020, 2:31 AM

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I don't think that's possible with blueprints

idle hearth Jul 21, 2020, 2:32 AM

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Can you give any idea

plain tinsel Jul 21, 2020, 2:32 AM

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Can you explain what you're trying to make

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 2:37 AM

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if you look into editor utility widgets/blueprints you can do it

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you can do it with python as well, or get dirty and make a C++ editor script

plush yew Jul 21, 2020, 2:38 AM

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Sorry to intrude but I have a quick question

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What is the development editor?

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I have been looking at the new modding example epic released on github and it says to build the development editor with a engine plugin. Does that mean I would just build the development editor with the plugin and distribute it?

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 2:41 AM

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which example?

plush yew Jul 21, 2020, 2:42 AM

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https://github.com/EpicGames/UGCExample

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I am surprised a lot of people haven’t seen it yet

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I feel like it would be a big thing for game makers

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I have been looking for guides and videos on it but the only place I can find on it is the documentation provided

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You need to be logged in to see it

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 2:45 AM

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to answer the question yes the development editor is one of the types of the editor you can build out when using C++, others are like debug and shipping

plush yew Jul 21, 2020, 2:47 AM

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What would be the use of the shipping editor

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 2:49 AM

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it might strip out code to make it run faster and such

plush yew Jul 21, 2020, 2:50 AM

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One last question. Is the editor that we download from the epic games launcher the shipping editor?

grim ore Jul 21, 2020, 2:51 AM

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it says development in the tooltip so I would assume development editor

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plush yew Jul 21, 2020, 2:51 AM

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Alright thank you so much

mighty copper Jul 21, 2020, 3:19 AM

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I would love to see this in UE4... Please tell me UE4 can do this and Do It Better.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deNL_DqR0uU

YouTube

Bluedrake42

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granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 3:29 AM

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you can

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you can cut static meshes then apply particles to it and generate some liquid

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

YouTube

UnrealCG

Mesh Slicing In Unreal Engine

Project Files : https://www.patreon.com/posts/30934762

Hello Everyone in this tutorial I will show you how to do procedural mesh slicing in Unreal engine 4. Using the first person blueprint. You can also rotate which way the mesh gets cut using the scroll wheel of your mouse
...

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tiny sonnet Jul 21, 2020, 3:54 AM

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Is there a quick way to convert a material instance into a material while keeping the settings?

restive zinc Jul 21, 2020, 3:54 AM

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when you remove a widget using remove from parent is there a node to add it back

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the viewport being the parent if you remove the widget using remove from parent and the widget having a reference to it is there a node to connect back to the parent

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 3:57 AM

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Ok, I believe I've determined what's happening with my project. I have 2 levels - a Persistent level with a single particle effect and a camera pointed at that particle effect, and a Main Menu sublevel that contains a navigation widget. I want the particle effect to remain centered upon loading the Main Menu sublevel.

When I load the sublevel, I see there are two cameras present - the one from the Persistent level that I want, and another one presumably being created by default when the Main Menu sublevel loads.

How do I configure the Main Menu sublevel so it does not create a second camera actor?

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Or for that matter, a simpler question - how would anyone configure a sublevel so it does not generate a camera actor?

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 3:58 AM

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@tiny sonnet I don't believe so, but I'm not sure why you would want this, a material instance purely duplicates and holds parameters, there's no real material code in it.

tiny sonnet Jul 21, 2020, 3:59 AM

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I > @tiny sonnet I don't believe so, but I'm not sure why you would want this, a material instance purely duplicates and holds parameters, there's no real material code in it.
@granite spire I just want to copy the code to convert it to a material function

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 3:59 AM

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@restive zinc if you remove a widget, it's sent to the garbage collection, it stays around in the garbage collection till the object is removed, which can cause issue, the best solution I came up with is show and hide UI elements through set visibility.

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@tiny sonnet you have to copy the original material, not the instance

tiny sonnet Jul 21, 2020, 4:00 AM

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Kk

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:00 AM

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but the original material won't have the instance properties so you manually have to edit them in

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:00 AM

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Does anyone here have experience with the "set view target with blend" node?

tiny sonnet Jul 21, 2020, 4:01 AM

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Too many to change its why I asked

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:01 AM

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I can't think of why you would want to do this though, instances are for minor changes

restive zinc Jul 21, 2020, 4:01 AM

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@granite spire ive tried that but i have a seperate widget that is a pause menu but i cant set the visibility cause i cant access the variable from my character blueprint is there a way to access it

tiny sonnet Jul 21, 2020, 4:02 AM

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I have a lot of parameters and I'm lazy lol

restive zinc Jul 21, 2020, 4:02 AM

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@granite spire i can set the visibility in my character blueprint because i im using event begin play to create the widget and add to the viewport

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:02 AM

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@open wadi destroy the camera actor, but you'll come into issues with it, is it just a visual thing?

restive zinc Jul 21, 2020, 4:02 AM

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@granite spire and created a variable with it also

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:03 AM

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@open wadi I don't but explain your question

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:03 AM

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That's correct, so the purpose of the Persistent level, as recommended by @grim ore, is that I would like this particle effect running in the background while the main menu navigation loads.

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So I have a simple setup - a Persistent level which simply contains the particle effect and a camera pointing at it, and a sublevel that loads the MainMenu navigation widgets. What happens now is, when the MainMenu sublevel is loaded (via load stream), the widgets appear, but the particle effect appears offscreen, I have to rotate the camera to see it.

wide prawn Jul 21, 2020, 4:04 AM

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@granite spire I finally got around to doing more testing. So i pulled up a nearly blank project on 4.24 and ran two standalones. same issue!! each focused screen was getting about 300fps, and the nonfocused around 15fps. No idea what's going on. I even unplugged my second monitor just to see, but that didn't change anything. Again, when both screens are unselected, I'm getting about 200fps from both at the same time.

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:04 AM

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And this appears to be because on the MainMenu sublevel, a secondary camera is created. When running the game, I can see in the MainMenu sublevel that there are two cameras - 1 of which is the one I created on the Persistent level.

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And this is behaving properly.

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I would like this camera to remain the camera in use, I have no need fo rthe secondary camera generated on MainMenu sublevel load

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which is pointing in the wrong direction, away from the particle effect.

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Therefore, either A) how do I configure this so that the new camera isn't generated on MainMenu sublevel load, or B) how do I configure it so that the camera from the parent persistent level is the one in use?

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I'm researching and it appears I may be able to manually specify which camera is used via the Set View Target with Blend node. However, really, I have no use at all for this new camera generated on MainMenu sublevel load, so ideally I'd simply prevent that new camera actor from being generated.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:10 AM

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@tiny sonnet Bad luck, haha, I don't know if you can export and reimport, but you can duplicate the material instance and then alter them further, but it won't copy back to the material itself.

@restive zinc You have to have a UI reference on your player controller I would think it is, then access that through your player controller, if you set it in your player character then you have to reference that player char then get the UI from that player char, but you need references for that UI in order to set visibility, I recommend doing that and don't fiddle with remove UI, as that caused me personally all kinds of headaches.

@wide prawn We will have to do a massive list of things you've tried, this is sounding more like a bug with newer cards, have you tried it with your old GPU? I'm interested if it does the same thing with the older hardware, that would narrow things down to it being the card, then we can check more options, it could be some type of RT bug, I'm kind of thinking it might be, it feels like it's "on" but you have it switched off if you know what I mean?

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Sorry tons of responses

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lol

tiny sonnet Jul 21, 2020, 4:10 AM

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Yeah lol

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:11 AM

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@open wadi Ahh I see what you mean

restive zinc Jul 21, 2020, 4:11 AM

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@granite spire like this right? have i done it right

📎 unknown.png

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that is my hud construct with a variable

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:12 AM

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Here is evidence of the running game, on the MainMenu sublevel load, with two camera actors, one of which is the correct camera from the parent Persistent level, the only one I'd like to use.

📎 camera.png

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:12 AM

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@open wadi what's your persistent level look like? double check if that level has no camera or start position, start positions might generate a camera, they shouldn't but I wouldn't put it past UE4

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:13 AM

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The persistent level is the level with the particle effect and camera I would like to use. The MainMenu sublevel, once loaded, appears to be generating a new camera, which is pointing in the wrong direction.

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@granite spire Thank you for the help. Ideally, I'd like have the MainMenu sublevel just use the correct, lone camera from the Persistent parent level and not generate one of its own.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:14 AM

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@restive zinc That's setting a character reference to the HUD, you want to set a reference to your HUD on the character, kind of the other way around

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:14 AM

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Oh I see what you mean, perhaps that "wrong camera" is being generated by the parent Persistent level itself.

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Let me have a look.

restive zinc Jul 21, 2020, 4:14 AM

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@granite spire oh ok

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:15 AM

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@open wadi It could be something to do with a spawn action generating default things, check the game mode of the map too, that could be trying to generate one, I wonder if those cameras are duplicates? Name the camera to "MainCamera" not "CameraActor" and see if it's a duplicate

restive zinc Jul 21, 2020, 4:16 AM

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so like this then in the character blueprint @granite spire

📎 unknown.png

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:16 AM

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Yep

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then you can create your pause menu too

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unless you have bombarded the HUD with everything

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:17 AM

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@granite spire Giving that a try now. I also went ahead and did a GameMode override for both the PrimaryPersistent level and the MainMenu sublevel, and set the default pawn class to none.

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That did not help.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:17 AM

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then all you gotta do is set visibility of that hud reference

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:17 AM

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Renaming cameras now.

wide prawn Jul 21, 2020, 4:17 AM

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@granite spire unfortunately, I sold my other card! so i'm stuck with this one at the moment. I tried to run a triple game like Doom eternal on max settings and unfocus it in windowed mode. FPS never dropped. At this point,i don't even know what to select anymore. I'm gonna keep messing with my Nvidia settings as well. There has to be something.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:19 AM

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@wide prawn Well you have me damn well stumped, that doesn't happen often at all with this stuff, I'm interested to see what annoying thing was stopping it.

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:19 AM

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@granite spire I did what you requested and renamed the camera actor I want to use, the one I generated in the PersistentLevel pointing at the desired particle effect, and as you can see here, it is not duplicating. Somehow, a new CameraActor is being generated.

📎 camera2.png

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The desired camera has been renamed "Camera_Primary" as you can see in that screenshot.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:20 AM

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yeah

wide prawn Jul 21, 2020, 4:20 AM

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@granite spire as soon as i ever figure it out, i'll let you know! Gonna dig into the rtx stuff

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:20 AM

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i see that @open wadi

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:20 AM

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I wonder where / how that secondary CameraActor is being generated.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:21 AM

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@wide prawn I need it for my personal knowledge base, haha, I really am thinking it's RT stuff.

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@open wadi That's a good question, just out of curiosity, create a new level and delete everything in it and then use that

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:22 AM

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Looks like I'm not alone: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/588156/camera-actor-spawning-at-the-start-of-the-game.html

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Someone else having a similar issue, with a secondary CameraActor being spawned on game start.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:22 AM

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"ue4 instance levels creating new cameras" doesn't even return what you're after

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this is some niche bug

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now I must know why it's doing that

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:23 AM

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I hear you.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:24 AM

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a dirty way you could solve this is

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:24 AM

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I'm down with dirty.

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Whatever it takes.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:25 AM

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make a reference to the camera actor, then as the level spawns get all camera actors, loop through and destroy all but your reference, then possess your reference

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that should fix it without any issues

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:26 AM

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How does one generate a reference to the CameraActor? Certain documentation indicated you could right-click the Camera and go to "make reference", but I did not see that option.

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I'm using 4.25.1, if that is useful.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:26 AM

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you would have to when the game starts get camera actor because only 1 has spawned

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:26 AM

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Another person with a magical spawning CameraActor: https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/blueprint-visual-scripting/84661-where-is-this-cameraactor-coming-from

Unreal Engine Forums

Build powerful visual scripts without code.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:26 AM

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what is this magic camera thing, lol

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can you delete all your camera actors, then spawn one manually?

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:28 AM

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The issue is that in these forum posts, I never see a clear answer, such as "Yes this extra CameraActor is generated by the PawnClass" or what have you, it's always a long thread of people rambling about various solutions designed to override what appears to be default UE4 behavior.

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Let me try @granite spire

balmy tide Jul 21, 2020, 4:28 AM

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@balmy tide Can someone tell why this happened?

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My Animation blueprint keeps crashing when trying to open or right-click

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:30 AM

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@granite spire If I attempt to delete the CameraActor while the game is playing, I get the following message:

"Actor CameraActor is referenced by other Actors/Objects. Do you really want to close it?

Reference List:

PlayerCameraManager
GameplayDebuggerCategoryReplicator"

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:30 AM

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oh

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wait, is there a network replication on your camera?

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:30 AM

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@balmy tide "EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION" is a very blanket, generic exception thrown by UE4 and doesn't help much for isolating a given issue, in my experience.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:30 AM

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cause that would explain everything

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:30 AM

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A network replication? Not familiar.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:31 AM

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is this a multiplayer game?

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:31 AM

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You'll have to excuse me a bit, I've been coding for decades but am still somewhat new to the UE4 framework.

balmy tide Jul 21, 2020, 4:31 AM

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is that a bug, or did I do something wrong?

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:31 AM

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@balmy tide you need to check the crash log to find out what's going on

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:32 AM

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@granite spire Well, this isn't a game per-se, it's simple a little app I'm building in UE4 that's going to let users select and play some video and audio files, but yes it's going to need to support networking, as I'm going to have users authenticate to get access.

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And users will be able to message each other, etc.

balmy tide Jul 21, 2020, 4:32 AM

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I created another anim bp from a backup I had, I did the same thing I had done in this one before the crash, but it is working fine

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so I think it must be some bug

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:33 AM

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@balmy tide @granite spire is 100% right, as a Network Admin, the first place to go to diagnose such behavior is the application logs.

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Always check the logs.

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A universal rule.

balmy tide Jul 21, 2020, 4:33 AM

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I checked the log folder, but it has not saved any log files

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:33 AM

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Have you Googled to see if that's the only location UE4 places log files?

balmy tide Jul 21, 2020, 4:34 AM

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yes, I went to the location I found on internet

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:34 AM

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https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/26701/view.html

balmy tide Jul 21, 2020, 4:35 AM

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in went to "UE_4.25\Engine\Programs\CrashReportClient", but there is no Saved folder in there

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:35 AM

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Hmm, odd. You're on Windows I take it?

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Based on the backslashes.

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Let me see if I can track this down.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:36 AM

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@open wadi Right, well network replication is a value you can set on objects, so the server could be creating a camera and replicating it across everywhere.

Maybe delete your cameras and may a BP_Camera and see if that works, don't forget to set that in game mode

📎 f3f500342b.png

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:37 AM

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Interesting @granite spire, thank you. To be clear, I don't recall ever seeing network replication on objects, and I'm not working with a server as of yet, I"m developing this on a local machine and plan to add authentication via UE4 JSON support to leverage remote API calls to a node.js server.

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At least that's the current game plan, I haven't started on it yet.

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Is that something that might be generated by default? Network replication?

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:38 AM

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I wonder if something has been enabled somewhere through like the app settings or something? I don't think there's such a setting but, you never know

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:38 AM

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Right.

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Some global setting.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:38 AM

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@balmy tide In your project file there's a file called saved then another called crashes

📎 3f2a14c609.png

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yes I know, I crash UE4 often

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:39 AM

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haha

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:39 AM

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i'm cursed with that ability to break things

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:39 AM

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A fine art.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:40 AM

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"This was working a moment ago, why isn't it working now?" Spends an hour on it and finally reboots "Oh it's just a reboot bug, ok."

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:40 AM

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lol

balmy tide Jul 21, 2020, 4:40 AM

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this is the .log file

📎 MyProject.log

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which was inside the latest folder

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:41 AM

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well the last thing on the list is [2020.07.20-01.00.59:711][ 5]LogSlate: Took 0.017925 seconds to synchronously load lazily loaded font '../../../Engine/Content/Slate/Fonts/Roboto-Light.ttf' (167K)

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why does it look like you're compiling the entire map

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:44 AM

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I have to say, this generated CameraActor issue, it's quite the mystery, I see a few people on the web having the same issue but no clear resolution, and there aren't a ton of posts on this.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:44 AM

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I'm not seeing anything that crashes

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did you make a blueprint and wack a camera in that?

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then remove all cameras?

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:44 AM

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No, I haven't done that procedure yet, in all candor I'm not quite sure how to go about that, exactly.

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What's the methodology?

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:45 AM

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Create a blank blueprint, add a camera actor, put that blueprint in game and remove all camera actors, in your game mode set your main actor to that BP_camera

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:46 AM

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Ok, let me give that a shot real fast.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:46 AM

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because it's a blueprint, it's not a camera

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but it's a camera

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it's just disguised, and might trick everything

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:47 AM

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A blank Blueprint.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:47 AM

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@balmy tide In that crash folder, delete them all, then try to crash UE4 again to generate a new log

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yep a blank one

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:48 AM

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How does one generate a blank blueprint? UE4 seems to want me to specify a parent class for the BP - Actor, Pawn, Character, PC, GM, etc.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:48 AM

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actor

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after that then that's a blank one

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then add a camera in it

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:50 AM

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Done.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:50 AM

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now drag that into your level, this is your new camera

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remove the old one

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:50 AM

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Ok.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:50 AM

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I always do this

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i have issues with just the camera

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Pretty much in Steel Resurrection my cameras are blueprints

📎 2cd88cbf0b.png

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:51 AM

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Ok, this is done.

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I have replaced the old camera with this one.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:52 AM

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yeah

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so there should be no cameras or start locations in your map files

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:52 AM

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How do I verify start locations?

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:52 AM

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"player start"

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📎 36d297cd2c.png

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Those thingys

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:53 AM

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oh, I see yes, my two levels are quite empty, the PrimaryPersistent parent level simply has this new camera and the particle effect (that is meant to remain persistent as a background), and then the sublevel, MainMenu, is completely empty of actors, as its sole purpose is to call up the widgets that provide the user with the main navigation.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:54 AM

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yep

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set it in game mode

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:54 AM

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So in terms of the Actor list in the "World Outliner", if that's where I would locate a PlayerStart actor / object, the parent Persistent level has two actors - the new camera and the particle effect, and the sublevel MainMenu has zero actors under World Outliner. So this would mean there is no Player Start defined, correct?

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:55 AM

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This is how my main menu level is set

📎 88223de853.png

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:55 AM

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Ok, I have custom GameModes created for both the Persistent level and the MainMenu level, I have set the default PawnClass to "None" for both of them, as recommended by @grim ore earlier when attempting to troubleshoot this briefly.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:55 AM

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yep

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:56 AM

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Which didn't work, obviously. Should I restore this to the default Pawn class?

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:56 AM

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nah

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:56 AM

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Since that didn't work?

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Ok.

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So in the GameMode, which class am I editing?

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:57 AM

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so on your player class

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well

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I guess you could just set that pawn on your game mode

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:58 AM

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Could you elaborate?

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:58 AM

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so with pawn on the gamemode, set it to the camera actor

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:58 AM

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Set the default pawn class to the new camera BP I created?

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:58 AM

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oh wait

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in your player controller

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on the event begin play

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📎 d4824c943c.png

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you will want to do that

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 4:59 AM

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Hmm.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 4:59 AM

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maybe not have the random there, just get 0

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that will possess it when the level loads

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 5:00 AM

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So right now I have the default Player Controller set in the primary persistent level, and for the MainMenu sublevel, I have the following event graph:

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 5:00 AM

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then no cameras should be getting created, but you have that BP_Camera, that's a disguised camera

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 5:00 AM

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📎 mainmenu_PC.png

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 5:01 AM

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yep

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and on your player controller that you set in game mode, on event begin you will want to set that possess

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 5:01 AM

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That was code I ripped from another project that allowed me to set the PC so it would be set up for the UI.

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Ok.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 5:02 AM

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much like what I did there

📎 88223de853.png

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 5:02 AM

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I'm copying your code now.

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Note that this is only for the MainMenu sublevel, should I replicate this code for the parent Persistent level that actually contains the new camera in question?

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 5:03 AM

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you can, it'll be fine, you only have 1 actor so it'll be 1, if you add more it'll randomly pick one of them anyway

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do it for the persistent level

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 5:03 AM

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Doing so now.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 5:03 AM

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the camera needs to be on the persistent one, so when mainmenu is unloaded a camera doesn't get generated

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if that is a thing, I've never seen UE4 generate cameras except for if ones not set

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hmmm

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come to think of it

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mines generating one

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 5:05 AM

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Where in the level settings do I set the PlayerController class override?

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 5:05 AM

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📎 e111574973.png

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 5:05 AM

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I just created a new PC for the Persistent level.

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To add your code.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 5:06 AM

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it's all in the game mode

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 5:06 AM

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I know it's in class defaults, I can't locate it in the UE4UI.

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Oh, it's in the GameMode, ok.

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Got it.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 5:06 AM

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game mode holds all your player controller, player state .etc

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 5:06 AM

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Done.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 5:06 AM

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it's the "mode" of the game

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 5:07 AM

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Ok, adding your code to the new Persistent level PC now.

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The node to the right of length, what is that?

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 5:09 AM

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so what that does, is get the maximum amount of BP_Cameras then randomly picks one, so if I have different menu locations they will pick a random one

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it's for variety

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 5:09 AM

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I mean, what is the name of the node in the event graph so I can add it?

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 5:09 AM

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it'll probably be never used, but all I have to do is add a camera in the level and it's done

open wadi Jul 21, 2020, 5:09 AM

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I'm not sure what the actual node is called for me to add it to the event graph.

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The one between Length and Random Integer in Range

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It has no label so I'm not sure what to search for.

granite spire Jul 21, 2020, 5:10 AM

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int - int