ue4-general

[brisk urchin]

@glad orchid would switching my LightSource(Directional Light), Skylight and Atmos Fog to static help get rid of this issue?

[glad orchid]

@karmic nymph your missing a function

need to see what "stop sprint" does

[karmic nymph]

start sprint will increase the characters speed from 500 to 70

i brb

stop sprint resets it

[glad orchid]

yes

but i need to see it

you have a few different things going on there that can be an issue

first of which is your branch

for input "at all"

so without seeing your normal movement input "not just the moveright"

and the stop sprinting function I can't totally see the issue

honestly why not just feed your max movement speed on the movement component with the sprint input

and then back it back out on release?

[karmic nymph]

ill be right back

gimme like 25 minutes

[hearty walrus]

Using the third person template, how do I lock vertical camera movement to a certain area of degrees?

[glad orchid]

vertical as in z axis or looking down?

[hearty walrus]

so Y rotation can only be within 2 numbers, so the player can't go too high or too low

[glad orchid]

on the mouse input function to rotate the camera get the axis you want to limit and place a branch to kill loc/rot adjustment

you can also clamp the output value of the axis

which would likely be best

[frank grove]

unreal engine course is a good way to know the basics of this engine?

[hearty walrus]

also, is there a way to only move the camera if a mousebutton is held, otherwise allowing the player to move the mouse freely?

[glad orchid]

clamp float in range <-

[frank grove]

kinda asked a question in the middle of the conversation sorry

[glad orchid]

yes @hearty walrus

[plush yew]

Hi guys, don't mean to crash your convo. I was wondering if there are any official certs or schools where one could learn Unreal to a comprehensive degree?

[glad orchid]

setup another input for that button if there isn't one alredy

feed in a bool on press setting to true

branch on true for the mouse rot/ function

clear the bool on release

@plush yew UE academy

it was up and they took it down for maintenance

but its in the UE4 launcher

"learn unreal"

[plush yew]

I mean more like for credentials.

[glad orchid]

it give you credentials

and even allows you to share on your linkedin

[plush yew]

I've been working with the engine for a while and have 10+ yrs C++ dev experience.

But no creds for Unreal.

Hmm, interesting.

[glad orchid]

same here bud

but i do have a degree in CIS

and a few projects on steam

but yes ... completing the courses will build your portfolio

[frank grove]

I think there is one unreal engine academy in london

[plush yew]

That's cool. I'll check it out.

Thanks.

[glad orchid]

no worries 😉

[plush yew]

I'm in London btw as well.

[frank grove]

thats great

so its easier for you

[glad orchid]

you should be watching the live event right now

there is tons of useful stuff coming out of the ue next gen streams

subscribe to ue4 info from the launcher if you haven't already

[frank grove]

I want to learn unreal,so Im gonna start by the unreal online learning

see if I can get something from it

[plush yew]

Honestly my first experience with online learning resources for Unreal wasn't great. Kind of turned me away. This is where I checked - https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses. But I couldn't sign up for any of the courses.

[frank grove]

I see

[plush yew]

Must have had some technical issue since I can now.

[glad orchid]

@plush yew they were undergoing a redesign

for about a month

[plush yew]

Ah, makes sense then.

[glad orchid]

but its a great resource

[plush yew]

Where the certificates at though?

[radiant jasper]

youtube is great as well

[glad orchid]

once you complete the courses

they honor you with badges

[plush yew]

Does it give you something like a signed pdf you can show off?

[glad orchid]

that count as linkedin certificates

[frank grove]

oh

now thats interesting

[radiant jasper]

https://www.youtube.com/c/VirtusEdu/videos

he has some good tutorials

[frank grove]

@radiant jasper thanks,gonna check out

[frank grove]

I have to learn unity too

[plush yew]

I'm very good at the engine and I rush through a months worth of sprints in my company within days. But because my company isn't delivering as fast as I'd like, I have nothing to show for. I do game systems and advanced shading.

[radiant jasper]

and if u have any questions or issues, answerhub is great too

[plush yew]

So I'm all about them certs. 👀

@glad orchid would you have any pdf to attach to your stuff on LinkedIn or similar?

Any proof I mean.

[glad orchid]

I have a total of 12

yup

1 sec

[plush yew]

I mean this

[plush yew]

Hahaha @frank grove

[frank grove]

gonna delete this before I get banned

[true sun]

🔨 🔨

[plush yew]

@glad orchid You might have just unlocked a treasure throve of resources for me. I thought the online learning system was abandoned and didn't double-check.

[brisk urchin]

@glad orchid I replaced the ceiling completely with a thicker static mesh and rebuilt the scene and it still gave the same light bleed issues. 😦

[glad orchid]

rebuilt the scene?

you baking lighting?

[radiant jasper]

also @frank grove make sure u download the source version

[glad orchid]

you using lightmaps?

[plush yew]

@glad orchid But just to be 100% here, there's nothing like signed or a cert number that Epic could confirm?

[brisk urchin]

@glad orchid Yea, the build button that builds the whole scene including lighting

[karmic nymph]

@glad orchid

[frank grove]

alright

[karmic nymph]

here is the start sprint function

[radiant jasper]

i made the mistake of downloading the epic launcher version first lol

[karmic nymph]

and the stop sprint

[plush yew]

Yikes, uno be getting those tags 👀

[true sun]

@plush yew Look for a 'Unreal Engine Kickstart for Developers'. It's a series of courses that goes through world building, animation, rendering, programming etc.

[glad orchid]

@brisk urchin i need to see your skylight and your sun

sounds like your baking lighting

which is going to be lightmass settings

dynamic lights don't "build"

[plush yew]

@true sun thanks, will look over. Love high-level stuff.

But not like I love certs, lol.

Uno, either way, thanks. Your directions are highly appreciated.

[glad orchid]

@plush yew the epic learning portal is assigned credentials that you can't ever get taken away

its no different than the unreal academy stuff

the portal holds your "proof"

[true sun]

Hahaha, I am just trying to find the best courses and stuff on how to understand the engine. I think especially on the programming part there's a lack of in-depth tutorials, but it might be just me

[glad orchid]

directly from Unreal is about as legit as it gets

nobody will every question this

[plush yew]

Is this publicly visible?

[glad orchid]

vs your "certs" is only as accredited as far as the "issuer"

[brisk urchin]

@glad orchid here's both

[glad orchid]

anyone can slap a piece of crap credential key out

it doesn't mean anything

but I've had more freelance work and job offers due to offical unreal badges than anything

[plush yew]

You can confirm the keys on Udemy. LinkedIn, not so much. I've taken some university courses that confirm their keys, too. :p

[glad orchid]

confirmation isn't the problem

[plush yew]

But yeah, if this is public on Unreal's domain, then that's confirmation enough.

[true sun]

are those badges really taken that serious?

[glad orchid]

its how "respected" those orginizations are

[plush yew]

That's a considerable part of validity.

Agreed.

[glad orchid]

unreal > any other accredited source for unreal material

same as ford > any other mechanic shop

etc

[true sun]

Yeah, but anyone can click through the videos and they even present the right answers to the quizes. I can have al lbadges within an hour, doesn't prove anything to me

[glad orchid]

@true sun what?

they don't give the right answers

[tender pecan]

anyone from cgmasteracademy or animschool?

[glad orchid]

they say your wrong and give you 70%, 80% etc

[true sun]

I had that when watching comprehending projects and file structure. I got shown that some answer was incorrect before going to the next question.

[glad orchid]

you have to retake it at that point or go back and redo the material (which you can skip) if you know the right one

but its no different than the texas class I took which literally held my hand through a project gave me the example and handed me a cert on the way out the door

cheating "yourself" means nothing and most companies know when they get someone like that

its your responsibly to value yourself at that point.

[plush yew]

Yeah that aspect of online courses is really bringing the whole online competency thing down.

Everyone basically says "you can just click through and get the cert".

[glad orchid]

Thats why paper doesn't matter anymore

[plush yew]

Crap for those who really took the time to learn everything and more from a course.

[glad orchid]

I've been working at my company for 12 years

I can spot a guy like that within the first week

[true sun]

What do you suggest on learning to program games within Unreal? I followed the C++ Battery Collector series and it was quite nice. I was wondering if there's some more great series to learn more about programming within Unreal.

[glad orchid]

no matter how much "paper" he brings to the table

[plush yew]

The real Q

how can you spot him in the interview

[glad orchid]

easily

[plush yew]

could really use that knowledge for my own comp, since I'm on the board

[glad orchid]

you don't ask non technical questions 😉

and usually you have them bring you through a very simple "workflow" example

that only skill shows through

[plush yew]

Our HR focuses on cultural match a lot and only have 10-30% Qs re: workflow.

[glad orchid]

most interviews are supposed to be 50% personality hr related and then 50% technically related with an experienced vetting collegue

[plush yew]

Corp culture. It does good things, but we get fake applicants all the time and they are the most eager to "work".

[glad orchid]

but i agree

red/yellow tape is getting in the way of finding qualified applicants now days

and usually for a little less pay they will go for the least qualified and "train/increased long term value" with slow raises

sad but true

[plush yew]

Interesting. There are multiple approaches here.

[brisk urchin]

@glad orchid you see my screenshots? 🙂

[plush yew]

If you get someone with a growth mindset, they're gonna be worth more than many technically better applicants in a year.

Imo. But it has to be real.

[glad orchid]

@brisk urchin yeah your 100% dynamic

no need to build to see lighting changes

should just happen

grab a square mesh

[plush yew]

Online certs would seem to be a good measure of how interested someone is in some material. The click-through argument is valid, sadly.

[glad orchid]

drag it over your house

see if it blocks the light bleed

just as a test

should just see it block it

without building

[brisk urchin]

@glad orchid thats what I did, I grabbed a box and added the material then it looked the same

[glad orchid]

honestly @plush yew anyone worth their salt will hire someone with a project released

gamejams etc

something they can see run

if your relying on certs alone

[plush yew]

@true sun, for starting with C++ in Unreal, I would personally recommend looking at JetBrains Rider for Unreal. It will teach you write good engine-compliant code. It's now in beta I think, and you can get 10 months free license. It's a 1 month trial but people at my comp got 9 more months after that for free.

[glad orchid]

even physical locations can't get beyond the ???? that stick in hiring managers heads

and paper like i said is not valuable

[brisk urchin]

no indoor lighting here at all

[glad orchid]

we've contracted 3 people in the last year with zero certs

[brisk urchin]

seems to be coming from the outside still

[glad orchid]

but they had projects and real world applications and skill

[plush yew]

Yeah it goes both ways. I wouldn't want to join a team without a project released either.

Kinda hard to show off C++ skill though, isn't it?

[glad orchid]

hahah

@brisk urchin ok lol

thats not light bleed

[plush yew]

I mean there's jams, sure. But how do you show off real skill in Unreal? What's the high bar? Selling plugins?

[glad orchid]

what your still seeing there is a result of no AO on dynamic lights

[true sun]

@plush yew I have Resharper for vs2019 installed already, but i'll check it. Thanks for recommendation

[glad orchid]

so the only way your going to fix that is by using DFAO

or swaping to stationary and baking

on your skylight and sun

[plush yew]

@true sun you'll love Rider.

[glad orchid]

so @brisk urchin go find distance field meshes

[plush yew]

But it's not going to be a leap like from vanilla VS.

[glad orchid]

in project settings

and enable it

let go fully dynamic first

[brisk urchin]

@glad orchid and also set light source and skylight to static?

[glad orchid]

as its much easer than baking

no

leave them movable

we will go the modern way first

lightmasses are a pain

and if you can avoid it then i'd say avoid it

[plush yew]

I'm going to leave you to debug lighting. Thanks for the useful info. Still interested in hearing from uno what's a good way to show off C++ skills in UE aside from jams.

But yeah, thanks for the resources.

[brisk urchin]

I have Ambient Occlusion off, will that affect Generate Mesh Distance Fields?

[glad orchid]

@plush yew c++ and UE c++ are two different things

so it depends on your goal

as an application dev my c++ skills did almost nothing for my UE4 skills

[plush yew]

How so? UE takes hold of the language but I can't see how you're unable to do anything you'd do with C++ with... well.. C++.

[glad orchid]

blueprints, modeling, animation, class understanding, c#, build.cs, plugin management

c++ is like nothing

especially with the nativize bool

its the least sought after role in my opinion

valuable when needed but usually contracted in a jam

@plush yew because even if your on a c++ project

say you make your classes from scratch

at some point you need to make headers, expose them

and talk to the ue4 library

[plush yew]

Sure.

[glad orchid]

animinstances, behavior trees, widgets etc

nothing in ue4 can work without exposing it at some point

but everything can be blueprints and nativized

and the c++ guy is literally contracted to say "expand this class and expose to blueprint" thank you have a nice day! 😄

[plush yew]

I wouldn't say it's not a very sought after role though. Lots of recruiters are reaching out with decent pay positions in tooling for UE and such. But just not positions I'm looking for, hence the interest in certs.

Or "portfolio".

Hmm, we do most of our gameplay programming in C++. We only expose stuff to BP for audio and UI peeps basically.

[glad orchid]

I'd argue that if you want to work in a game engine that solely relies on a "language" then unity might be your direction

[plush yew]

We even control materials and shaders through C++.

[glad orchid]

and c#

[plush yew]

Nah, I'm just using C++ as shorthand for syntactical language vs visual programming.

It is, in the context of UE, after all.

[glad orchid]

shaders in UE4 is c++ but you can build shaders without c++

and logic is c++

[plush yew]

Sure. Just really not as flexible with nodes.

[glad orchid]

but i doubt you animate your character in c++

i doubt you forgo behavior tress and code your ai completely in c++

[plush yew]

Our AI is actually completely in C++, haha.

[glad orchid]

i doubt you write your blendspace

[plush yew]

We're doing a lot of calculations since we're building a tycoon. So we have our own ticking mechanism and everything. Doing some AI async and similar.

Eh, it doesn't matter what we do though. Different projects, different approaches.

[glad orchid]

so you just say tough luck and keep everything c++ and only expose audio ... man that workflow 😉

[plush yew]

But I'd say the role is quite sought-after in the industry, esp tooling.

[glad orchid]

i bet your artist love you

🤣

[plush yew]

Alright, thanks for your help bro.

[glad orchid]

i mean that in a joking way.... it sounds rough but believe me

I didn't mean it that way

I have a couple of buddies that share the same workflow

They are hard core c++ guys

I just enjoy not needing to dive off into a base c++ class or inherit without worrying with headers later for artist etc when something like turning on a light in blueprint is lighting fast

[plush yew]

Does someone now how to make this:

I need a object, and if you hit that object you will respawn ad you're starter location. I'm a bit new to unreal engine, and i can't find a video of it

?

[glad orchid]

ticks.... sure

[plush yew]

I'll check out the academy + online resources now that they're up. Maybe it will change my mind :p. No promises though, we're quite agile on our feet, and some AI decisions in a behaviour tree... IDK... I guess it could be done.

[glad orchid]

timers, threaded calls

of course

async

etc

behavior tree is just a lovely tool to call c++ classes man

make a c++ decorator for the behavior

done

[plush yew]

To my mind rn that is overhead.

But live and learn, perhaps.

Thanks for the resources.

[glad orchid]

my first AI was query

slow as dog mess

now its all event driven decorator blackboard and c++ decorators

100+ on screen at .6ms

@brisk urchin

hows it going bud?

you get the distance field meshes enabled yet?

[true sun]

Uhm, where was that button to swap default IDE? I can't find it rn >.<

[glad orchid]

IDE?

[true sun]

found it, was in project settings instead of general

[glad orchid]

like you wanted vs light or something?

[true sun]

I thought I could select Rider there, I want to test that IDE, but it doesn't appear to be there

[glad orchid]

i find vs 2017 opens a little quicker

[true sun]

I am using 2019 atm

[glad orchid]

how is it?

you use intelli?

that thing bogs me down

[true sun]

I like it, but i instaleld Resharper tho

no, that works so crappy

[glad orchid]

🤣

ikr

[true sun]

Poseidon suggested Rider earlier tonight, so i was kinda curious how that is

By the way @glad orchid, does vs 2017 intelli work better than in 2019?

[glad orchid]

haha

no

I mean it functions

but its still slow crap

[brisk urchin]

@glad orchid Hey, i'm still at it. I believe my World Settings were messed up.

[glad orchid]

world settings?

thats only for lightmass

if you have stationary lights

and bake out

@brisk urchin

[brisk urchin]

Let me post an update pic

[glad orchid]

thats why i was saying if your 100% dynamic we need to go to distance fields

These are for stationary or "lightmass" settings

baking

but they don't do anything with movable directional lights for your sun or movable skylights

they only affect stationary lights and static

[glad orchid]

yeah you changed the light type

[brisk urchin]

@glad orchid

[glad orchid]

thats not movable

unless you turned on distance fields

[brisk urchin]

When I move the camera it the lighting changes

[glad orchid]

with DFAO

[brisk urchin]

the first pic looks good then when i move the camera slightly down its bleeds a bit

[glad orchid]

more than likely you just swapped to stationary sky lighting

[karmic nymph]

@glad orchid u said a function was missing from my bp; what do I need to add?

[glad orchid]

ok first off

your branch on input sprint

[plush yew]

Rider is good for learning C++ for unreal, because it will point out things like garbage collection issues, show what blueprints inherit from your C++ class in your project, and similar.

[glad orchid]

you have a condition

that is saying the character must be moving from what I'm gathering

[karmic nymph]

yeah

[glad orchid]

yeah

you can literally get actor velocity for that

[karmic nymph]

basically it makes it so the character can only start sprinting forward

[glad orchid]

but i understand

[karmic nymph]

isnt getting the actor velocity what im doing?

[glad orchid]

Where is your input action moveforward

[fluid lance]

I've made a spline procedural tool to speed up level design but the problem now is preshadows...Any idea on how to get around this?! 😐

[karmic nymph]

it is located in my player controle

[glad orchid]

no there is a literal get actor velocity

[karmic nymph]

does not exist

[plush yew]

maybe a plugin?

[karmic nymph]

could be

[glad orchid]

faster wont rely on capsule component tick

should give the same result

I need to see your normal forward input logic

the problem is your saying once you sprint it kills normal input?

[karmic nymph]

once i start sprinting

the additional speed will be retained as long as i hold shift

therfore if i start sprinting and change directions (say, moving left or right), the character will still be moving at a sprint speed

[glad orchid]

yes ... thats right

[karmic nymph]

im trying to make it so that upon pressing a new movement input the sprint will stop

[glad orchid]

the input was fired already

its not checking the input "pressed" as a hold event

like a tick

you need to setup a timerhandle

and check against your forward vector

and branch out of sprint based on it

[karmic nymph]

also ty for the get velocity trick

[glad orchid]

so basically

on sprint pressed -> set timer handle promote to var ->

run function on handle looped for say every .5 secs

check the forward vector to see if they strafe

if so call custom even to end sprint clear sprint bool

[karmic nymph]

so i set up the timer event like this?

[glad orchid]

promote the timer handle to a var

change to timer by function

not event

create a new event called "checksprint"

and type that name in the function name for the timer by function

Of course you need to call your functions to set the movement speed

and check the forward vector movement to determine if to clear the timer handle

and stop sprint

but when you press sprint its only fires once

its not constantly calling to do the vector calc

[dapper bridge]

@glad orchid dumb question, but how'd you get your connections to do sharp turns like that?

[karmic nymph]

im more confused now lmao

ahh why is ue4 so hard

[glad orchid]

ok lets start from square 1

if i press shift "bound to sprint input"

and i print off it

you get 1 hello

thats it

so you can't set a condition that only gets checked once

you need to setup a timer

to constantly check the condition

so on press start a timer

that calls the event "function" to check the condition

[karmic nymph]

ok so the timer will just constantly loop while the action binding is being pressed

[glad orchid]

correct

and clear the timer on release

[karmic nymph]

to check whether the conditions are still being met

[glad orchid]

correct

be sure to clear the timer handle

either via the way i showed or by simply calling clear timer function by name

you don't want that timer eating your cpu and checking the condition infinitely

[karmic nymph]

ok

[glad orchid]

@karmic nymph if you need I can remote connect with you if you can't get it

[karmic nymph]

that would actually be really nice ty

[glad orchid]

do you have teamviewer or something?

[karmic nymph]

couldnt i just screenshare via discord?

[glad orchid]

that would work

[karmic nymph]

ty for going through the trouble to help me tho

[glad orchid]

i'd just have to talk you through vs do it real fast 😉

[karmic nymph]

i appreciate it

[ember star]

I want to test Alt+Key combinations in game, but they're getting intercepted by the editor

Can i do anything about that?

[rocky field]

@silver crown This was the post I was talking about. https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/hwhlut/4252_hotfix_released_unreal_engine_forums/

[slate oasis]

Hey guys, does anyone know what is used in the beginning of the unreal Livestream, where they block out their example levels with...I would like to use it for my own, but I don't know what it is

Looks like this

[exotic thicket]

I didn't watch it but that looks like the BSP brushes

[slate oasis]

BSP Brushes...I will take a look. Thank you very much for you time.

[sweet relic]

Ya those are geometry brushes with a custom material from what it looked like

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Actors/Brushes/index.html

[slate oasis]

Thanks again. Much appreciated

[restive zinc]

how do you reduce that velocity of the ragdoll

[lofty fractal]

Unreal learner here: Is it possible to import a .uasset file into c++? I'm attempting to import the StartContent/Props/SM_Rock.uasset into my Character.cpp code and dynamically create it with something like GetWorld()->SpawnActor<AActor>(dropLocation, FRotator::ZeroRotator);

[grim ore]

well the SM_Rock is not a class right?

you would want to spawn in the static mesh actor and assign the static mesh to it (this rock), have to seen the spawn actor docs? https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Programming/UnrealArchitecture/Actors/Spawning/index.html

[lofty fractal]

@grim ore yes SM_Rock is not a class. While I'm an experienced c++ dev, unreal is new to me and I'm trying to understand how to connect the 2.
I previously read the spawn actor doc but I didn't see the answer to my question there.

you would want to spawn in the static mesh actor
So that's GetWorld()->SpawnActor<AStaticMeshActor>(dropLocation, FRotator::ZeroRotator);
and assign the static mesh to it (this rock)
This I'm not sure how to do

[radiant jasper]

anyone have tips on ways to compile quicker?

[plush yew]

is there any easy way to revert a project back to an older version that has HTML5 support

[radiant jasper]

shit takes hrs

@plush yew I dont believe so bc it would most likely fuck up stuff in the project that utilizes code that didn't exist in prior versions

[plush yew]

yeah, im expecting it to fuck up stuff, but im just curious if its even possible so i could just slowly rebuild anything that needs to be

[radiant jasper]

u could def take the levels probably, or whatever maps ur using

[plush yew]

i tried making a copy of project, and right clicking on my uproject file and changing the version but when i try to open i just get this

Not sure what "rebuild from source manually" means

[radiant jasper]

u r using source right?

like not the launcher version

when u open the older version of unreal, it should give u the option to convert it

[plush yew]

oh, maybe it means rebuilding from the actual visual studio solution

[radiant jasper]

yeah thats why i was asking if u have source or launcher

[plush yew]

ah ok

yeah i open from VS

yup so im just gonna build it and see how many errors i get LOL

probably a shit ton

[radiant jasper]

yeah do that

[grim ore]

@lofty fractal you would use the Spawn Actor to spawn in a static mesh actor. This would be an actor that would them in the world and you would then set the static mesh component on it to the static mesh that you want it to be using. You could always create the code in blueprints then look at the C++ that the blueprint is node out of.

[plush yew]

Weird, it builds, but it opens in the same newer version.

[grim ore]

and as for the code to do it, its a function on the staticmeshactor after you have spawn it, call it like any other function or method. The docs have all of them listed or use intellisense

[radiant jasper]

well u have to build the older version that u want

obv its gonna open whatever version ur trying to build

altho tbh, I think you'd be better off finding a plug in

not sure why u really wanna use an older version so badly

"As of Unreal Engine 4.24, support for the HTML5 platform has been migrated out of the engine to a public Platform Extension that can be maintained and improved by community members. Documentation for the HTML5 Platform Extension is hosted alongside the GitHub repository ."

just install that extension @plush yew

https://github.com/UnrealEngineHTML5/UnrealEngine/tree/4.24/Engine/Platforms/HTML5

heres the link, keep in mind u must be signed in to access

BRUH i just found out 4.25.2 fixes the issue where xcode 12 wasn't working with unreal

AND I FUCKING FACTORY RESET MY IPAD SO I COULD GET IT BACK TO IOS 13.6

[dapper bridge]

Can anyone help me change a material parameter in game? Ive tried creating dynamic material instance, but its not changing the material color.

[radiant jasper]

ur graphics card is too shit for unreal to work

upgrade ur pc

or use source, it prob wont block u, but it will most likely freeze if u do anything slightly gpu intensive

[icy mulch]

My graphics card is rtx 2060 which works for unreal engine

I was able to run everything fine when I first got it now it crashes with display driver failed etc

[supple totem]

reboot pc?

[radiant jasper]

hmm yeah check for new drivers

[icy mulch]

I factory reseted twice it worked once before

[radiant jasper]

check for new drivers

[sterile stream]

anyone care to help with landscape painting and layers

[icy mulch]

And my pc is i7 processor

[radiant jasper]

again, check for new drivers

[icy mulch]

Okay

[radiant jasper]

with geforce experience

[icy mulch]

Oh okay I was using device manger

[radiant jasper]

I believe the newest version should be 451.67

[icy mulch]

Yeah i updated but it still crashes when ever I added a object

[grim ore]

there should be a log when it crashes that can help

[icy mulch]

How do I get the logs

[unique lodge]

Im being screwed by this engine and my friends told me abt this server

so here i am

Unable to patch action graph - unexpected executable in compile action (C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.19041.0\x64\rc.exe) i cant compile whats this mean

[grim ore]

ith error DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED is th issue @icy mulch you have some other serious issue. Driver, hardware, power, some other failing. Something is wrong with your pc/software at this point and is crashing UE

[icy mulch]

Yeah I I think so

I normally get 3d3 device is missing

[unique lodge]

Ignored like that huh'

[grim ore]

did you google the error? it looks like a VS error

[unique lodge]

yea i did, no result, also its when i compile in unreal not vs code

it's an sdk file btw

[grim ore]

well the compile is using the C++ compiler

[unique lodge]

hmm

[grim ore]

and this is in VS Code not VS proper?

[unique lodge]

Vs code yea

whats the difference?\

whichs better

[grim ore]

need extra work to make Code work with the UE4 codebase, Visual Studio 2019 is the normal version used

[unique lodge]

So its better to use vs proper

[grim ore]

it is yes

VS 2019 Community is the easiest to start with

[unique lodge]

Alright I'll try

[icy mulch]

Yeah I can play in the editor but when I move my mouse to the resize area it crashes my hole pc and I have to restart

[plush yew]

@unique lodge don't forget to check Unreal Engine 4 Documentation > Programming Guide > Development Setup > Setting Up Visual Studio for Unreal Engine vs 2017 is recommended if you compile from source or anything. i use a dedicated server and find 2017 is a bit better because it has official epic support. when i tried vs 2019 to compile the engine and then compile my game, the dedicated server threw an error because of compatibility issues. once i reverted to 2017 it worked.

[sly fox]

Anyone else having trouble with trying to do VR stuff? When I try to run the VR BP, it I get head rotation and stuff, but my controllers don't show up. When testing, it seems the controllers are being detected because it correctly recognizes them as oculus controllers, but I don't get a visual representation of the controllers in game, nor does it seem like the motion of the controllers is in any way being tracked. I was trying to reduce the amount of blueprint to debug exactly what is wrong, but when I'm doing that, I don't know if it's not working cause I'm dumb or if it's actually my original problem.

[unique lodge]

ok thanks!

[plush yew]

no problemo

[grim ore]

@sly fox are you testing using the VR template or something else?

[sly fox]

The VR template.

[grim ore]

if you open up the MotionControllerPawn in there does it show it set up to use the 2 motion controllers?

[sly fox]

On a side note, why does that particular template take so long to load

Ya, it is

[grim ore]

its probably compiling shaders for the lower quality due to it using mobile settings

ok on the mobile controller is a setting in the details panel for the mesh it can use. It should be on default but if you click on that does it show your VR platform that you are using?

[sly fox]

Ya

[grim ore]

for example showing SteamVR if using vives or Oculus if using rifts

[sly fox]

It says SteamVR actually cause I'm using Virtual Desktop

[grim ore]

that could be causing an issue

but force it to steamVR for both controllers and see if they show up in the viewport there in the blueprint

and if they do try again and see if they show up. Which map are you testing in also? I usually test in the one with the blocks on the table

[storm terrace]

how do I deal with that

It should be DGameInstance not PuzzlePlatformsGameInstance I changed the name

It's a C++ class

[green sky]

Hello all you wonderful people 🙂

[grim ore]

#cpp might have the correct way to fix that @storm terrace

[storm terrace]

supposed you are right

[exotic plover]

Hey can anyone here help me with something?? i am looking to understand more about how materials can interact with actors, like a boat moving on top of water and that water happens to be a material. Can anyone help?

[storm terrace]

thought this was more of an engine issue though

[grim ore]

but off the top of my head if you did a change like that make sure you deleted your intermediate folder, regenerated the solution, and opened it back up again to compile

[storm terrace]

tried that

still not working

[green sky]

Can anyone here recommend a way to get nice tire skid marks in ue4?

[plush yew]

@green sky there's some free stuff on the marketplace

[green sky]

??

[plush yew]

use decals

[green sky]

i tried but they dont seem consistent when turning 90 degrees

[plush yew]

you're using the wrong decal then. get one with the right image of a skid mark you want.

[grim ore]

@exotic plover generally the material is on a mesh so you would be more having the mesh interact with the other actors. Now what do you mean by interacting with the water is the question. showing waves or something? You can use a render target with where the boat is in the world and apply that to the water material and have it change to show waves for example.

[green sky]

No i actually have the decal it just doesnt look right if the car skids side ways the decals rotation isnt consistent

and using ribbon has many side effects to it

[plush yew]

you don't want to use decals to spraypaint skid marks onto a floor.. i thought you meant you're making a map that has skid marks on it, which is why someone would use decals . unreal tournament editor uses that in the UT levels.

[exotic plover]

@grim ore i was looking at this file here https://github.com/razorbackdb/BuoyancySystem

[green sky]

i made the logic for spawn the decals for skid marks but like i said it looks weird

[plush yew]

are the decals stretched along the movement axis?

restrict stretching of the decal along movement axis, spawn it multiple times. you could also consider spawning a tire tread after the tire is fully on the ground. and just spawn it along the length of the tread, make sure it isn't stretched .do it separately for each wheel maybe. do not attach wheels.

[exotic plover]

@grim ore It's a system for boats and it's all neatly in C++ i'd like to utilise it and learn from it but the issue i am having is setting it up. The readme file doesn't work for me, i can't seem to set the shperes up on this.

[plush yew]

that way it is broken up along the movement axis. then spawn some dust or something to cover up the jagged edges where it's attached to each other. similar to how splines have tangent points at junctions.

so anyone get the latest 4.25.2 update? good stuff

[grim ore]

@exotic plover that slooks based on the description that it adjusts the material to simulate waves (possbibly using tesselation) and then adjusts the height of the boat that is on it in the world to make it go up and down. Pretty complex stuff

[green sky]

@grim ore Actually this is very good https://github.com/UE4-OceanProject/Environment-Project Check it out

[exotic plover]

@green sky I have that project but it's not in C++ entirely

[green sky]

It shoudlnt be hard to port over to c++ even though it is partially c++ already

Well the heavy stuff atleast

[exotic plover]

Lets say i wanted to make a car/vehicle that drove on top of a material what would i have to understand about the interact going on there?

[grim ore]

look at the content examples for render textures

[green sky]

Why use a vehicle when you should be using forces instead

[exotic plover]

I think sea of thieves and this buoyancy system both use a vehicle bases class system

Using classes derived from the vehicle classes in the engine

I will look at ocean project more thanks anyways @green sky @grim ore

[green sky]

Good luck, 🙂

[grim ore]

@green sky have you checked out the vehicle game example project on the learn tab? it has tire tracks when driving

[void kraken]

Is there s issue with world offset particles in UE4.25?

[pallid swallow]

Hey I'm new and I come from dreams ps4 so I have 2 questions

1. Can someone I know make custom blueprints to better suit my game
2. Can I make a full single player game with levels not open world using only blueprints or do I need to learn coding

[grim ore]

yes and yes?

[plush yew]

@pallid swallow yes check out the ue docs, the youtube channel and the ue academy for more info on getting started

[pallid swallow]

Thank you both

[marble hazel]

Whenever I import an asset it always shows up as completely black once I build the lighting does anyone know why?

[glad orchid]

@marble hazel lightmap

[opaque crystal]

Visual Studio 2017 crashes whenever I open ANY ue4 project

well instead of crashing it'll hang on initializing project

[glad orchid]

Do you absolutely need static lighting?

@marble hazel

[opaque crystal]

i literally could not find anything online, every link is purple. not sure how to debug visual studio hanging when i load an ue4 project, im so pissed

$15 bounty on this lmao

[glad orchid]

If you change to dynamic “movable” lights you won’t have those issues

@opaque crystal

Force check for updates in vs

[opaque crystal]

i have. ive actually deleted and reinstalled vs about 4 times now

[glad orchid]

2017 has to update for ue4.25

[opaque crystal]

ah how do i do that, through the vs installer?

[glad orchid]

Or go grab 2019

[marble hazel]

I'm not sure I'm pretty new to this stuff. I imporrted some pre made assets and they always show up as very dark whenever I build lighting

How do I change the lightmap

[opaque crystal]

i had other issues with 2019... it wouldn't load the project type. im "sticking" to 2017 if this works, otherwise ill try 2019 yet again

[glad orchid]

In the asset editor

[marble hazel]

I looked up a video on a fix with people with the same problem with changing the resolution but that did not do anything

[glad orchid]

You can also change the lightmass build settings

But

Most games don’t build lighting anymore

[marble hazel]

So I make the game without building lighting once?

[glad orchid]

Unless your aiming mobile or VR

You use movable lights

[opaque crystal]

15.9.25 is my current vs 2017 version

[glad orchid]

Not static

[opaque crystal]

i can load non ue4 projects fine but even the fps c++ template will cause visual studio to hang after opening it. Ue4 editor side is completely fine though

im actually so mad rn ive spent 2 days trying to figure this out

[glad orchid]

Yeah because vs has to update

It’s not ue4

[opaque crystal]

i can't find any indication of vs having to update

you mean vs2017 should be updated, or do you mean switch from vs 2017 -> vs 2019

[glad orchid]

Ue4.24 will run in 2017 no issues

[opaque crystal]

ue 4.25 won't at all?

i had other issues with 2019 but i'll delete 2017 and try 2019, and come back if i have any

[glad orchid]

Not without making sure you update the prerequisites

C++, .net etc

Add remove features in vs

[opaque crystal]

sounds like visual studio 2019 should make that a bit easier?

[glad orchid]

No

It’s the same

Still have to make sure you install prerequisites

But yeah

I think 2019 comes with most under the unreal engine check box

[opaque crystal]

yeah ive had that enabled when ive been installing vs

[glad orchid]

Yeah but there are other needed things

C++ prerequisites

.net framework

[opaque crystal]

is there a list of them? I have the workloads set up in the visual studio installer

[glad orchid]

C# tools

[opaque crystal]

apparently the unreal engine should run the pre-req installer

[glad orchid]

No

[opaque crystal]

"When you install Unreal Engine from the Epic Launcher, or if you clone it from GitHub, the Unreal Engine pre-requisite installer runs automatically."

[glad orchid]

Because unreal engine blueprints binary version doesn’t require the same prerequisites

[opaque crystal]

is there anywhere i can read about this

like ive followed everything i could online

[glad orchid]

GitHub

Source install guide

[opaque crystal]

ight i installed it through epic but ill see if it's relevant

[glad orchid]

But if your running from launcher then you’ll need to just follow the prerequisites vs section

Ignore the clone repository and building part

Also

If your running launcher binary then you really don’t need vs unless your just wanting to use that ide

[opaque crystal]

id like to use vs but at this point im alright with using anything that will work

[glad orchid]

As long as you have c++ redistribution and a c++ ide your good

But yeah

Try 2019

Uninstall 2017

@marble hazel if you use dynamic lighting it won’t ever ask you to build lighting

[opaque crystal]

im convinced something is deeply fucked up due to uninstalling vs not actually uninstalling whatever packages it auto installs

[glad orchid]

Fortnight is 100 % dynamic lighting

[opaque crystal]

because microsoft is dumb

[glad orchid]

Days gone

Assassins creed etc

Lightmass is an awesome tool and can achieve some amazing results

But DFAO and dynamic lighting has come along way

SSAO, SSR etc

[unique lodge]

Ahaha i hate my life :)

[glad orchid]

Your UVs will have to be perfect

Lightmass tweaking for each scene

Then baking for production can take swarm half a day

[unique lodge]

I transferred my text editor from vs code to vs 2017 and in return I get the same damn error, Unable to patch action graph - unexpected executable in compile action (C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.19041.0\x64\rc.exe)

[opaque crystal]

random thought, how do you guys test how well something runs on a shit pc if you don't have access to one? is there a way to "throttle"? i know i can set my max processor speed on windows at least

[glad orchid]

@opaque crystal

I asked the same question

[unique lodge]

yea @opaque crystal a virtual machine

[glad orchid]

Currently I card swap 1050 to 2080

And no @unique lodge

[opaque crystal]

hahaha i only have a 1050

[glad orchid]

You can’t virtual machine

[unique lodge]

why not?

[opaque crystal]

might as well remote access my pc

[glad orchid]

Because GPUs aren’t virtual

[unique lodge]

Dont pass in ur gpu

[glad orchid]

You can’t profile

[marble hazel]

Is there a tutorial for dynamic lighting I can follow this is really just a simple asset that isnt working right

[glad orchid]

And that’s the point of a graphics engine

[unique lodge]

or instead of card swapping just put both cards in and pass in the 1050

[marble hazel]

It is interesting though I am going to check it out

[glad orchid]

To profile cpu and gpu

[opaque crystal]

if vs 2019 doesnt work im literally reformatting my ssd

scorched earth

[unique lodge]

Ok but what do i do? when i try to delete rc.exe it just says the whole file is bad

and when i remove the whole file it says that it needs it

so what do i do?

[glad orchid]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/install/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14372706/visual-studio-cant-build-due-to-rc-exe/14373113#14373113

@unique lodge

[unique lodge]

YOOOOOO

THANK U SO MUCH

[opaque crystal]

uno the hero. about to try vs2019

ok her'

ok here's a question. I had to change the source code target from 2017 to 2019, but to do that i had to open an unreal project first. Is there a way I can change those global editor preferences without opening an actual ue4 project?

Here's what I get when trying to open a ue4 project in vs2019

(no crash this time though)

and then

[plush yew]

@opaque crystal i believe vs2017 is the latest version supported by tghe latest version of the engine 4.25.2 from Unreal Engine 4 Documentation > Programming Guide > Development Setup > Setting Up Visual Studio for Unreal Engine

[opaque crystal]

this is on visual studio 2019

(i switched within the hour)

[plush yew]

yes, which is not officialy supported.

2017 is the latest supported version.

[opaque crystal]

lol well 2017 literally hangs loading any ue4 solution

[balmy tide]

Why am I needing to click in order to enable hovering detection after I enable Show Mouse Cursor?

This is my BP for enabling mouse cursor

[opaque crystal]

also that's wrong

As of version 4.22, Unreal Engine does not support VS 2015. Unreal Engine still uses VS 2017 by default, but also supports VS 2019.

[balmy tide]

the hovering over event is not detected until I click again on the screen

[plush yew]

you're incorrect https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Programming/Development/VisualStudioSetup/index.html says otherwise

read the documentation

[opaque crystal]

read the line below that table

either way that doesnt solve the issues with my vs2017

[plush yew]

safer bet sticking with 2017 until 2019 is official IMO. but yeah i guess like just try to do a flush. hold on a sec i'll get some info on it

[opaque crystal]

yeah its all good

this is from the 4.22 patch notes

i would switch to any version that i could get to work

[balmy tide]

any thing about my problem anyone? why do I need to click onto screen before hovering over is detected?

[dapper bridge]

Use a Set game mode to Game and UI Mode @balmy tide

This should eliminate the need to click to activate hover

[balmy tide]

ok let me try

thanks a lot, it works

[dapper bridge]

Awesome! Anytime dude

[plush yew]

So, I'm going to switch from Unity to Unreal Engine, any tip can u give me?

🙏

[opaque crystal]

I had so many issues installing ue4 that I just wiped my OS/main drive clean. Would you recommend vs 2017 or vs 2019 now that I'm starting from scratch?

[sly lily]

i have a general question about saving, anyone on that can maybe help?

see, i have enemies that are spawned into the game, i have a save and load system for the player but have not set one up for enemies. what i would like to do is, save save locations of enemies that have spawned in to respawn when the game laods instead of starting over again

ide just like to know where to start

[exotic thicket]

You'd probably have to save a list of all the alive enemies and then spawn them when loading

[glad loom]

Hello, is there a way to check who spawned an actor? I want a spawned actor by someone else to cast back to it's spawner actor

[autumn elbow]

@glad loom add a variable to the spawned

[valid adder]

Good Morining Guys, i just need u're help! Why does it say that i dont got enough Gpu volume if i try to render a sequenz in 1920 ... what can i do ? i wanna render a video in the new canyon , is it maybe possible to combine multiple geometrys in unreal?

[pseudo pulsar]

Have you guys ever imported a mesh, and it's SUPER bright compared to your other stuff? (It isn't an issue out-side of Unreal.)

[jade wadi]

Help! I try to render and it keeps Saying me this... Using an rtx 2080 super

[plush yew]

@pseudo pulsar change ur material

Make specular 0

or just go unlit

@jade wadi something wrong with your scene setup maybe

[valid adder]

@plush yew what could it be?

[plush yew]

@valid adder sorry i dont understand your question and I dont use those software

[pseudo pulsar]

@plush yew No that's not the issue it's an instance of the same material everything else is using. It's extra strange cuz the texture looks correct, but even when changing the material to something unlit I get the same issue.

[plush yew]

ok double click the texture file

let me see ur conversion

[plush yew]

can you send me the texture and model file

through PM

[pseudo pulsar]

Okiedokie. Thanks for helping!

[valid adder]

is it possible to combine multiple Geometrys ?

[plush yew]

@valid adder yes?

[valid adder]

can this help to make my scene easier to render?

[plush yew]

im not sure about rendering but its possible to combine geometry

your problem is you dont have enough memory

[valid adder]

yeah

[plush yew]

on the GPU side, maybe it has something to do with how your scene are setup

[valid adder]

but how can i improve

[plush yew]

Whats ur graphic card

[runic fern]

hello Guys ..
what is the settings or what is type of animation they using in games like this ?

i've tried to make my character moving like this but the result was too bad

[plush yew]

@jade wadi Hey, I see that you are having problems with your memory. Are you by any chance using 4.25? There have been some weird memory issues there where even deleting small portions of landscapes can cause issues. A reinstall of the engine has fixed it for some but not all. However -this is only assuming that you meet the requirements of the engine (and scene) you are making. 😄

@pseudo pulsar Try setting specular to 0, default in Unreal Engine is 0.5. Specular can give a white/bright sheen.

[autumn elbow]

@runic fern link to the vid?

[runic fern]

its a game in Epic Store @autumn elbow

like human fall flat and stick fight the Animation of character

[autumn elbow]

It's physics based

Look up physics based animation

https://youtu.be/_Xnx9L6DgfE @runic fern

[runic fern]

i did all this settings but still not like this games

maybe something with bones idk

[autumn elbow]

Check out the vid.. maybe you'll get some ideas

[restive yarrow]

While loading ue4...

[idle garden]

I'm having frequently crashes in ue4 so I went to see what is happening in logs

<ErrorMessage>Assertion failed: GD3D11RHI-&gt;GetQueryData(Query-&gt;Resource, &amp;Query-&gt;Result, sizeof(Query-&gt;Result), Query-&gt;QueryType, true, false) [File:/Build/++UE4+Licensee/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/Windows/D3D11RHI/Private/D3D11Query.cpp] [Line: 45]</ErrorMessage>

<Thread>
<CallStack>ntdll 0x0000000005410000 + 9ae14 KERNELBASE 0x0000000002fa0000 + 226ee UE4Editor-Core 0x00000000c2050000 + 56ea9d UE4Editor-RenderCore 0x00000000e9b30000 + 143d92 VCRUNTIME140 0x00000000ecde0000 + e360 ntdll 0x0000000005410000 + a00ef ntdll 0x0000000005410000 + 4b474 ntdll 0x0000000005410000 + 4b1c5 KERNELBASE 0x0000000002fa0000 + 23e49 UE4Editor-Core 0x00000000c2050000 + 56e9e6 UE4Editor-Core 0x00000000c2050000 + 571dc8 UE4Editor-Core 0x00000000c2050000 + 2fe53d UE4Editor-Core 0x00000000c2050000 + 2897b5 UE4Editor-Core 0x00000000c2050000 + 28baf0 UE4Editor-D3D11RHI 0x00000000b7fd0000 + 4027e UE4Editor-D3D11RHI 0x00000000b7fd0000 + 4f7ef UE4Editor-RHI 0x00000000e3ac0000 + 5088e UE4Editor-RenderCore 0x00000000e9b30000 + 4673d UE4Editor-RenderCore 0x00000000e9b30000 + 63946 UE4Editor-RenderCore 0x00000000e9b30000 + 6f842 UE4Editor-Core 0x00000000c2050000 + a87d8 UE4Editor-Core 0x00000000c2050000 + a8aa3 UE4Editor-RenderCore 0x00000000e9b30000 + 8f892 UE4Editor-RenderCore 0x00000000e9b30000 + 953d4 UE4Editor-Core 0x00000000c2050000 + 59025b UE4Editor-Core 0x00000000c2050000 + 587c30 KERNEL32 0x0000000003b20000 + 16fd4 ntdll 0x0000000005410000 + 4cec1</CallStack>
<IsCrashed>true</IsCrashed>
<Registers />
<ThreadID>7908</ThreadID>
<ThreadName>RenderThread 1</ThreadName>
</Thread>```

Anyone can give me a little help?

[restive yarrow]

@idle garden version?

[idle garden]

4.25

[restive yarrow]

same here, ive been experiencing crashes too

when i merge many actors

when does your crash take place?

[idle garden]

When i adding a simple "print string" node, or when I drag and drop assets to the level, etc ..

This is getting really boring.. I already tried to create a new project and the crashes dont stop

[restive yarrow]

this happens in every project or a specific one?

[idle garden]

This is getting really boring.. I already tried to create a new project and the crashes dont stop
every project I think

I have my drivers updated too

[restive yarrow]

did you try re installing the engine?

[idle garden]

I did the "Verify"

[restive yarrow]

what does that do

[idle garden]

To check if there is any missing or corrupted file

[old steeple]

Hi

[plush yew]

@idle garden 4.25 problem

[old steeple]

where can i seek some help?

im stuck on a likely minor thing

[idle garden]

I will try to re-install the engine

[plush yew]

While loading ue4...
@restive yarrow This is normal. Shader compiler in background most likely.

[restive yarrow]

@plush yew Yeah when the editor loaded it was compiling shaders

[plush yew]

😄 https://i.imgur.com/uZ94tkx.png?1 Here, I've got a threadripper, it still eats all 48 logical cores :P I am glad it does though!

[restive yarrow]

you got a threadripper?

[old steeple]

im trying to add footsteps to my character; but im kinda stuck

[plush yew]

@restive yarrow Aye, the 3960X. Great CPU.

[restive yarrow]

how do you have 48 cores?

[plush yew]

24 physical, 48 logical.

[restive yarrow]

what ram you got?

and gpu and its vram?

[plush yew]

Currently I am stuck with 32gb. It's far from ideal but one of my sticks broke. I usually have 64gb. Ideally 128gb.

---

2080 TI / 11GB Vram.

[restive yarrow]

Thats a strong build

[plush yew]

I often work with very heavy textures and assets. We use Unreal Engine for "non entertainment" games - serious games/applied games.

[idle garden]

Amazing

[restive yarrow]

for example like?

[plush yew]

One of our upcoming projects we are trying to get funding for atm is a rehabilitation platform using VR. We are partnered with a rather acknowledged research hospital - they do the medical side and we do the game theory/design and development.

We also do quick prototypes for various things (1-2months dev cycle things). "Work for hire".

[lucid socket]

Threadrippers are very nice CPUs

[plush yew]

I don't know how much time it saves me @lucid socket , but it is hours per month for sure. That is a lot of money.

[kindred orbit]

Wazzup

[lucid socket]

@plush yew We have distributed thread ripper servers

[plush yew]

Nice

[lucid socket]

Yeah, UE4 compile times are ~4 mins and shaders compile fast and then distributed DDC takes care of the rest

[plush yew]

Main issue with this rig now, until I get my new ram sticks - is using 32GB of ram, it's a nightmare.

[lucid socket]

Yeah, we had to upgrade most of our machines to 64gb min and for cook servers they go up to 128gb

We've been considering to upgrade all developers to 128gb

[kindred orbit]

Damn

Me over here with 8gb

[idle garden]

@kindred orbit same

Thinking about improve to 16~32GB

[kindred orbit]

And I'm using ddr3 😂

[plush yew]

In all fairness, most 2K textures and even 4K probably does OK on 32gb for the average indie dev. Larger projects though and you'll suffer.

[kindred orbit]

@plush yew what bout 8gb

[plush yew]

Without having much experience at 8GB, I would imagine it being painful to touch anything more than low poly? I wouldn't use UE4 on less than 16gb personally.

[small pewter]

Anyone had trouble with the 4.25 when trying to import animations from mixamo ?

[kindred orbit]

@plush yew So would you recommend going to 32 or is 16 just right? I'm on a tight budget

[plush yew]

Hi. Can somebody tell how fix a bug with preview window position (pie mode)? Window always shifts down at every new PIE instance :
I've 2 monitors: 1st UHD, 2nd FHD..

This bugged engine thinking that center of windows is 0,0 and not calculate window width*height params :\

fk ue, die!

with you next updates

view port resolution not actual yet

omg wtf

4.25 - update of bugs? ..

The frequency of crushes increased in 2, 3 times

[carmine nimbus]

Guys I can't find the answer to a question, what's the difference between scaling X,Y,Z and using the brush settings X,Y,Z

Can't find it on the internet :C

[small pewter]

@carmine nimbus The brush settings appear only with brushes, the xyz for the brush gives you the exact size of the brush, anf the transform gives you a ratio (like 2x bigger than it's original size)

[carmine nimbus]

Hmmm, so that means that if I can, better to use the brushes right?

[small pewter]

yeah

[carmine nimbus]

Thanks!!

[plush yew]

hi guys i have quick question, does cast shadow on static object consume memory when i have moveable directional light?

[hollow yarrow]

yeah it will do

[frank oar]

Hi, in your collective experience...
for best performance, should I have an ingame mesh (sign) rotating using a tick event, using a timeline or create it as an animation and have it playing as a loop infintely ?

[hollow yarrow]

I also have a question, when i spawn my ai using the blueprints it spawns but doesnt move. If i drag the ai straight into the level it does... Does anyone know why this is?

[exotic thicket]

they don't get spawned and possessed with ai controllers by default

you can set auto possess by AI to spawned, or use the spawn ai node which will possess it as well

[plush yew]

thank you

[hollow yarrow]

cool, ive sorted it. I was spawning actor from class instead of ai from class lmao. Thanks @exotic thicket

no problem @plush yew

[plush yew]

i hate working with decals in ue4

cause you got those gray circles everyhwere which represent decals

and it just fills up the screen

any alternative?

[sleek solar]

gray circles?

[plush yew]

the gray circles which represent decals in ue4

[sleek solar]

the actor's icon?

you can hide those

[plush yew]

just the icon?

but then i cant select the decal

i want the decals to be build in into the texture i wanna change

[hollow yarrow]

add it into a material maybe?

[plush yew]

i dont know how to add so many things onto one uv tile

[hollow yarrow]

Another quick question... Im wanting to spawn the ai at a few random locations around my level. How would i go about doing this?

im not really sure either sorry, im quite new to ue4 @plush yew

[hearty walrus]

Using the third person template, how do I limit how high/low the camera can go?

sorry for asking the question again, I had a lot of connection issues and couldn't get anything to work

[sleek solar]

Zee you could get navmesh data from inside the gamemode class, find random points on navmesh and spawn AI there, or you could make actor which would spawn AI around it and place those actors where you like

Hawkdesign you want to limit the rotation pitch?

[hearty walrus]

what's pitch, again?

it's vertical, right

[hollow yarrow]

I want to have 3 set locations where they could randomly spawn at... would your second point work? @sleek solar

if so how would i go about it?

[sleek solar]

create loop for amount of NPCs you need to spawn, get location on navmesh near the actor, if location is valid, spawn AI there

[hollow yarrow]

cool, thanks xD

[sleek solar]

Hawkdesign you can limit control rotation from camera manager class which you can set in player controller, so limiting pitch would limit the Z of camera if it's on a spring

or you could setup dynamic spring arm distance using some curves maybe or just with math

[hearty walrus]

@sleek solar how do I do this with the third person template?

also, I've got a boolean set up that only allows camera movement if a button is held down - how do I rotate the camera when the boolean is true, and stop the camera and unlock the mouse when it's false?

[open compass]

would someone be able to tell me if i should use a projectile based shooting system or hitscan, i wanted to add some bullet effects for like smoke trails.

can i use either and get same results, or does one have more flexibility

[small pewter]

Anyone please know why When I try to import animations fro Mixamo it doesn't work anymore ?

[hollow yarrow]

@open compass I personally use a projectile based shooting system, never tried hitscan

@small pewter It works for me, been importing mixamo anims all morning

[small pewter]

@hollow yarrow You're in the 4.25 ?

[hollow yarrow]

yeah @small pewter

[small pewter]

Could you help me fix the problem tho ?

[hollow yarrow]

i dont know what the problem could be tbh

what do you mean by it not working...?

[exotic thicket]

@open compass both projectile and hitscan can be used. It's more about what style of gameplay you want. With projectiles you can easily spawn effects with the projectile itself, with hitscan you'd spawn a separate emitter

[small pewter]

I imported the animations (drag & drop) I uncheck the mesh and the skeletal because I already have one in the Engine, then it imports the file, but it doesn't apply it to the mesh @hollow yarrow

[hearty walrus]

I've clamped the Z rotation, but it results in REALLY fast flickering, seemingly from the minimum to the maximum in a single frame

[small pewter]

@hollow yarrow I did

[hollow yarrow]

you have to select the skeletal mesh that you want to use the animations on @small pewter

[small pewter]

I did

[hollow yarrow]

im honestly not sure then

[small pewter]

Can you go vocal so I can stream my screen so you can see by yourself ?

[hollow yarrow]

@exotic thicket do you know why my bullet projectile isnt firing straight? Like its goes of towards the right and not straight out of the weapon

take a screen video @small pewter

[exotic thicket]

Without knowing how you've set up the firing hard to say

Most likely you have an offset in your calculation somewhere

[small pewter]

@hollow yarrow Nope because Discord can't take a more than 8mb files

so you could come vocal (but you don't have to talk) just watch my screen

[hollow yarrow]

ive uploaded videos many times before, it should work

i dont think ill be able to fix the issue though im not sure what could be wrong @small pewter

@exotic thicket i dont have any offset at all, its strange

all i have done is spawn the projectile from the endofgun @exotic thicket

[exotic thicket]

If it spawns in the right place then it's possible that your crosshair is offset, or it's being launched into the incorrect direction for some reason

[hollow yarrow]

no crosshairs in the game yet, literally just spawning the projectile

i have no clie

[small pewter]

check that

[exotic thicket]

@hollow yarrow it would be helpful if you can show what your projectile logic looks like

[hollow yarrow]

1 second

[hearty walrus]

okay I've changed focus, and looking at mouse control

how do I allow the player to use the mouse if a boolean is true?

[hollow yarrow]

try not unticking anything, just download the animations without skin and that should work @small pewter

[small pewter]

@hollow yarrow I did download without skin

How do you make appear the skeleton slection tho ?

[hollow yarrow]

just choose the skeleton you want and try that, dont untick anything

@exotic thicket

[small pewter]

When I try without unticking anything it gives me that

then this

[exotic thicket]

@hollow yarrow and the projectile just moves forwards when spawned?

[hollow yarrow]

it moves at an angle @exotic thicket

like goes off towards the right

i have no clue then sorry @small pewter maybe try redownloading the anims

[exotic thicket]

unless your "end of gun" object is exactly in the middle and pointing forwards, then the projectile would move at an offset or angle

you would need to calculate the target direction for it and rotate it accordingly based on your camera position

[hollow yarrow]

cool, ill check that. Thanks @exotic thicket

[static sparrow]

UE's documentation is really starting to piss me off

[small pewter]

@hollow yarrow I redownloaded the animations, same problem

[static sparrow]

Their C++ API docs are practically useless

[hollow yarrow]

@small pewter i really couldnt tell you then sorry. Let me try downloading some

[small pewter]

Thanks

[open compass]

@hollow yarrow alrighty cheers, do u have any good tutorials u could direct me to for the projectile based system?

[frank oar]

Hi, in your collective experience...
for best performance, should I have an in-game mesh (sign) rotating using a tick event, using a timeline or create it as an animation and have it playing as a loop infintely ?

[hearty walrus]

How do I see the Delta Rotations?

I only see this

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/854211/limit-cameraobject-rotation.html

and following this

[fossil basin]

what do i put as an object wildcard

[vernal thicket]

Anyone able to help me with a bit of research for my game?

Just need some typical replies

[thick herald]

Yes. No. Maybe. Sometimes. Not really.

[mortal compass]

@small pewter i don't know if your problem has been solved yet, but i was having the same problem myself. when you open the animation, you have to tick "force root lock" in order for your guy to appear.

at least that's what i did, and it worked

[small pewter]

@mortal compass When you already imported the animation or on the import optionel panel you have to tick it ?

[mortal compass]

after you import the animation

[fossil basin]

im getting this error but i dont understand it can someone explain

[thick herald]

The wild card is looking for a reference to the "Main Menu 1". Create a variable, name it. In the type search for "Main Menu 1"

[idle compass]

hi guys, can unreal engine imported an fbx file from c4d that I animated with deformer and then baked it using the bake function ? because the animation doesn't seem to play in ue4

[small pewter]

@mortal compass I can't import animations I keep getting errors

[mortal compass]

hmm... try importing the mesh again? then when you import the animation, be sure to select the mesh's skeleton

[small pewter]

Damn

[mortal compass]

oh my!

[small pewter]

I regened the skeleton

and it fucks thing even more

@mortal compass Could you vocal so I can stream ?

[mortal compass]

hmm. i honestly don't know what to say from here, I'm very new to unreal engine myself. force root lock is right here if you get your mesh back to normal. this is in my run animation.

[mellow turret]

I can't interact with the scene outside PIE, also Idk what are those lines that form a rectangle in the middle of my view

[devout whale]

Hey, im new to ue4, anyone know how to make a kill cam? Or can find me a tutorial on it. Couldn't find anything on YouTube about it

[plush yew]

@plush yew So would you recommend going to 32 or is 16 just right? I'm on a tight budget
@kindred orbit Sorry for delayed response. It really depends on what you are doing. But 32gb will certainly offer you a larger degree of freedom. Budget considerations though are always hard to balance. My priority list if (GPU)->CPU->Memory/NVME Drives.

I say (GPU) since you don't need a massive 2080 TI, as long as you maintain decent viewport framerates, there isn't anything to gain after that - while as a CPU will help with bake, compile times etc.

@devout whale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFvGj_zTYBk I cannot vouch for the tutorial itself, but I found this as first Google result ^^

[devout whale]

Ok thanks. Hopefully it helps 🙏

[plush yew]

Best of luck 😄

[hollow yarrow]

@small pewter its doing the exact same thing for me now, all the things im downloading are transparent and look like 1 opacity but its not

[small pewter]

@hollow yarrow Welcome to the cursed people group 😄

[hollow yarrow]

lmao

[small pewter]

https://gyazo.com/3e67fe76cf612abd2c65103bda5210f4

Worst and worst

[hollow yarrow]

i cant even see anything on mine

[mint raptor]

What's the best tool to edit/work with splines in Unreal? The default spline editing system is a bit painful.

I'm thinking it would be nice to go into 2D and just start clicking to add points, highlight multiple points to drag them, etc... just a nice spline editing system.

[analog vessel]

Hi guys! Does anyone know how many renderers have support for unreal engine? I know Vray and Octane have support, but are there more?

[slender sierra]

hi guys how do i import an ik rig from blender to ue4, i always get an error when i do so

[soft fiber]

@slender sierra Did you apply your rotation, trans, and scale?

[slender sierra]

i dont think so

[soft fiber]

CNTR A

[slender sierra]

whats that?

lol

control + a

?

[soft fiber]

Your model needs to be at 0,0,0 with a rotation of 0,0,0 and a scale of 1

Yes, control a in Blender, then chose all transforms

[slender sierra]

alright

this what i have

rn

[soft fiber]

The select all your vertices and go to model, clean, remove closest

Yes, that looks right.