ue4-general

[dim merlin]

usually it should say 'update' instead of 'launch'...

[plush yew]

EGS do be like that

it's business as usual

with its "crazy high end technology" which doesn't even perform 0.000001% close to their another software called Unreal Engine

[stone stump]

hey i cant add my fog why is that

it doesnt affect the scene

[safe rose]

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/i2h3sv/what_are_your_top_3_pet_peeves_about_ue4_as_it_is/ I invite everyone to chime in, I'm very curious to hear your pet peeves!

[barren flume]

I really need help getting the source code build

I'm having trouble doing some things

[grim ore]

What things.?

[late verge]

how can i make my default player pawn immovable?

i want my mouse input to stop controlling it

[safe rose]

Try "Disable Input" @late verge

[covert pond]

does unreal engine work well as in at it's full potential in linux? changing os soon

[midnight root]

Prob. your best read https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Platforms/Linux/BeginnerLinuxDeveloper/SettingUpAnUnrealWorkflow/index.html

[harsh tiger]

quick question

[hollow storm]

hello

i need a help

[harsh tiger]

how much of a bad idea is it to use 2k mega scan textures for a VR project? i won't be needing a lot, it will just be materials like carpets and wall textures etc

[hollow storm]

how to set animation to play when 2 buttons are pressed?/

??

[covert pond]

thanks @midnight root

[midnight root]

yw 😉

[limpid berry]

Hello!
I'm trying to create a Skybox texture for use in UE4. I followed the steps here ( https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Content/Types/Textures/Cubemaps/CreatingCubemaps/index.html ) to create a texture and I downloaded the standalone Nvidia texture tools.
However, it says to export in 32bits/Channel, 8.8.8.8 ARGB 32 bpp, unsigned. I'm not seeing that as an option. I don't have photoshop so I can't use the photoshop tool. Am I doing something wrong? Or is there another tool?

Scrolling down only shows me more RGBA, but no ARGB.

Right after I said something... I just tried RGBA 8.8.8.8 32bpp unsigned... and it worked 🤷

[plush yew]

isn't ARGB for Adobe RGB

[limpid berry]

Nah, it is Alpha Red Green Blue instead of Red Green Blue Alpha in the byte order.

but I didn't think Unreal would allow for it in front and in back of the color.

This gives a bit more about the ARGB vs RGBA orders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGBA_color_model#:~:text=In some software originating on,bits rather than the top.&text=The bytes are stored in,ABGR (byte-order).

[plush yew]

hi, absolute newbie to Unreal here (have a little experience with Unity though) - I'm trying to create an input key that toggles between two keybind layers during the game. how can I make this work?

to clarify, I'm making a simple Newtonian space game. I want a button to toggle between rotation (pitch, yaw, roll) and translation (horizontal, vertical and longitudinal) movement.

currently I have WASD and Q/E set up for both aforementioned "layers", but I want to toggle between them without defining new key inputs. hopefully that makes sense

[grim ore]

key 1 = do this unless you have the toggle on then do that? or seperate keys or ?

it sounds like the first one. Boolean you toggle to determine what should happen. each input event would then check the boolean and based on the value execute the path

so input -> branch -> do something or something else

[plush yew]

yeah, exactly! that's it. how can I implement that, though? so far I've gotten a flip/flop toggle set up which works great for now, but I'm currently struggling with actually enabling/disabling the appropriate keybinds depending on whether translate or rotate mode is active

[grim ore]

a little confusion here. are they different keybinds?

it sounds like it's not, you just want one keybind to do different things

[quick shell]

do animations port over from blender?

[grim ore]

you can make animation for UE4 for blender yes

[hearty walrus]

how do I save user settings?

[plush yew]

@grim ore sorry, it's hard to explain what I'm trying to do. I made a really rough sketch of what I'm trying to set up

[grim ore]

yep

in the end you are only binding to each key once tho

its not Q for roll left in rotate and J for Thrust alt in translate

so you have an input event in UE4 called QButton for example

in your event graph for your character or actor or whatever you have your input event for the QButton event

right after that you have a branch that checks for the Mode (a boolean variable you created)

and based on if its true or false (true could be rotate mode, false could be translate mode) you do your stuff

[plush yew]

thanks, that makes a lot of sense

[grim ore]

and somewhere I assume there is an input keybind for changing the mode where you toggle that boolean

[plush yew]

this is what I have so far (I know it's not set up right but bear with me, I'll get rid of the redundant keybinds)

I have the toggle key set up as Space at the top

so, you're saying that it's best if I get rid of the redundant input keys and just have a node that checks for whether the toggle is enabled or not?

as in, a node for each of the 6 different buttons that will be used for flight

[grim ore]

you can keep the 3 nodes you have now, one for each axis

sorry, you can keep the 6 nodes you have now technically

or drop it down to just 3

in the end you still need the boolean to check, whatever makes it cleaner for you basically

keep 6, check the bool after it fires off, and only hook up the true on each one

[plush yew]

that's the bit I'm confused about. How would I check for the boolean?

I really appreciate your advice, by the way ^^

[grim ore]

sec

[plush yew]

thank you so much

[grim ore]

both of these ways should work

the difference is you have one input node for each event, like you showed, and just hook up the true or false instead of 1 input mode for both events and hook up true and false

the issue with the 2nd is you have to click on the input axis event and uncheck consume input

since by default it only allows 1 input event per key press to fire off

[plush yew]

i think I like your original idea (the first method) better, because it's cleaner and seems better optimised than what I had in mind

I will give that a try :)

[grim ore]

and of course there is nothing wrong with just after the true or false in the first going off to it's own custom event somewhere else so its cleaner as well

especially since you can make multiple event graphs you could make a graph just for Rotate Mode events and one for translate events

[wheat saddle]

Any good course for C++ in UE4 which worth money?

[last pivot]

Tfw I am doing things with blueprint and it magically does what I want

For reference: I have no clue what I am doing.

[safe rose]

Why di Epic kill off HTML5? https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Platforms/HTML5/GettingStarted/index.html

Any theories?

[willow river]

@wheat saddle http://index-of.co.uk/Programming/Learning C++ by Creating Games with UE4 by William Sherif - 2015.pdf

you don't need more and it is free

[hearty walrus]

how do I make a player-controlled camera that orbits around the game area?

[plush yew]

@safe rose too much micromanagement / small updates? they passed it off to the third party github team from that doc it seems so it's probably because of epic being more of a macro organization perhaps

@hearty walrus you can use a spring arm for this Unreal Engine 4 Documentation > Gameplay Guide > Using Cameras > Using Spring Arm Components if you get world rotation of the spring arm component, you can rotate it with spring arm -> set world roation

[hearty walrus]

?

[grim ore]

@hearty walrus you can also look at the default third person template, the camera by default rotates around the player.

[hearty walrus]

I'm using it

what I want to do is to have the camera not orbit around the player, but orbit around the map

is there a way to possibly extract the camera from the character, and use it for the level?

[grim ore]

the camera orbits around its player object it's attached to. Copy it's settings into a new blank actor and use that

blank actor, spring arm, camera. set it up to match the one in the third person character. set it to be the default camera.

[hearty walrus]

SHIT.

[plush yew]

did you back up? x_x

[hearty walrus]

nope

[willow river]

damn 😂

[hearty walrus]

@grim ore so I've copy-pasted the thirdpersoncharacter, how do I delete all the character stuff, and leave the camera, springarm and blank actor?

[grim ore]

you cant, thats why i said make a blank actor with a spring arm and camera and set it up to match the settings in the character. you dont want a character you want an actor

[hearty walrus]

@grim ore I've got a camera, actor and spring arm set up - what now?

[grim ore]

copy the settings in the actor for the spring arm and camera so it rotates around the root it is attached to. you probably need the input settings as well that deal with camera rotation.

[hearty walrus]

what

[barren flume]

@grim ore the UE4.sln part

[hearty walrus]

nvm turns out I can just drag and drop the outliner over

[hearty walrus]

now I just need to make it mvoe

move*

[grim ore]

what was step 4?

[hidden aurora]

10 - 40 mins to compile, I wish it was that short

[grim ore]

and did you do step 4?

[barren flume]

yes

[grim ore]

then it failed, what did it say

[barren flume]

oh wait i remember now

the .net thing

I'm doing it again

[hearty walrus]

@grim ore how do I switch to the new camera?

[grim ore]

yup so now you have to follow the error and install it

all of the SDK's are inside of the visual studio installer

@hearty walrus you can use a set view target with blend, or change your base class on the new camera blueprint to pawn then set it to auto possess when its in the level

[barren flume]

oh I only had 4.8 sdk installed

installing 4.62 now

okay done

[hearty walrus]

I can't seem to reference any of the 2 cameras

the thirdpersontemplate and the custom one

[barren flume]

still getting the error

[grim ore]

did you install the targetting pack or the sdk or both?

[barren flume]

sdk

installing targeting pack now

[plush yew]

@barren flume I had this error before. enable MSBUILD in visual studio config

[barren flume]

How?

[plush yew]

open visual studio installer and look for msbuild?

[barren flume]

it's checkmarked already

[grim ore]

yep just install the correct .net stuff and it should be fine

[plush yew]

worked for me after i installed MSBuild...

your install is corrupted or somethings wrong with your HDD / SDD

uninstall and reinstall vs 2019

[barren flume]

I tried it on multiple drives

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling visual studio

but still no fix

Okay I installed the targeting pack and there is no errors so far

[grim ore]

yep

[barren flume]

yay

oh it just closed out

wow that was fast

now I see the ue4.sln file

[plush yew]

it's advisable to follow https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Programming/Development/VisualStudioSetup/index.html if you haven't already done that

[plush yew]

install these from visual studio installer -> visual studio community 2019 -> modify -> individual components

include the targeting packs as matt said

[barren flume]

all of those are already installed

[grim ore]

4.5 can't be, the sln is telling you it is not

[plush yew]

paste a picture here or in #cpp

from individual components

[barren flume]

I know but they are already checkmarked

okay

[plush yew]

did you already install confirm on bottom right?

[manic pawn]

you need to check the sdk for 4.6.2 too

[barren flume]

that's not there

hold on let me send a screenshot

[plush yew]

@plush yew try reloading your corrupted assets one by one manually (do not do this for every asset in your project, just the ones with errors). if this does not work, you may need to delete the uasset, re-import. you can also try to right click on suspect folders, and clicking Fix Up ASset Redirectors in folder

[grim ore]

easiest thing to try then if all of them are installed is to delete the .sln, restart the pc. after restart run generate project files again now that you have all the updated targetting installed and try again

[unreal comet]

Can I delete my Derived Data Cache? I'm cleaning my PC hard drive and noticed it's 40GB. I'm working solo so will it break anything if I delete it?

[hearty walrus]

@hearty walrus you can use a set view target with blend, or change your base class on the new camera blueprint to pawn then set it to auto possess when its in the level
@grim ore I can't do this, it throws an error when I try

[plush yew]

@unreal comet if you are not connected to a team, it will not break anything. you can safely delete DDCs, saved, binaries, or intermediate folders. backup just in case to be sure.

[unreal comet]

@plush yew Thanks. 🙂

[grim ore]

you have to target an actor is why and it will use a camera that is part of the actor

[hearty walrus]

?

[plush yew]

@unreal comet after you delete DDC, editor may throw warnings saying DDC not utilized and performance impacted. to resolve this,

Set/Script/UnrealEd.EditorPerformanceSettings bEnableSharedDDCPerformanceNotifications: to False in UnrealEngine-%ENGINEVERSION%-release\Engine\Saved\Config\Windows\EditorSettings.ini

[unreal comet]

Ok thanks

[next badger]

any "experts" on soft references/memory management?

[plush yew]

@plush yew try navigating to the folder in question in windows explorer, copying the corrupted .uasset file, making a duplicate of it, and opening unreal again.

you'll need to re-reference in that case. maybe just try it out?

referencing is better than losing the entire asset

do not delete the original corrupted asset please

just duplicate the file in windows explorer and open unreal again.

save the old version for the next couple versions of unreal. try it that way.

guys pls see this video and tell me what is my problem and need help on it https://mega.nz/file/KZVR2KbC#t5LLjFtkkoYkkYnZAgG2fYmeAR7H_cC21Qdyz7YeH50

[barren flume]

how do I know when it's finished building?

@grim ore

[plush yew]

guys pls see this video and tell me what is my problem and need help on it https://mega.nz/file/KZVR2KbC#t5LLjFtkkoYkkYnZAgG2fYmeAR7H_cC21Qdyz7YeH50

@barren flume bat [4026/4028] UE4Editor-NiagaraEditor.dll Creating library F:\unreal\src\UnrealEngine-4.25.3-release\Engine\Plugins\FX\Niagara\Intermediate\Build\Win64\UE4Editor\Development\NiagaraEditor\UE4Editor-NiagaraEditor.suppressed.lib and object F:\unreal\src\UnrealEngine-4.25.3-release\Engine\Plugins\FX\Niagara\Intermediate\Build\Win64\UE4Editor\Development\NiagaraEditor\UE4Editor-NiagaraEditor.suppressed.exp [4027/4028] UE4Editor-UnrealEd.dll Creating library F:\unreal\src\UnrealEngine-4.25.3-release\Engine\Intermediate\Build\Win64\UE4Editor\Development\UnrealEd\UE4Editor-UnrealEd.suppressed.lib and object F:\unreal\src\UnrealEngine-4.25.3-release\Engine\Intermediate\Build\Win64\UE4Editor\Development\UnrealEd\UE4Editor-UnrealEd.suppressed.exp [4028/4028] UE4Editor.target Total time in Parallel executor: 2164.15 seconds Total execution time: 2395.86 seconds last few lines should be similar to this in the build log; the only other alternative is if there is any error or fatal error or warning.

[grim ore]

@barren flume it will say finished and the left # will be the same as the right # in terms of [xxx/xxx]

[plush yew]

@grim ore guys pls see this video and tell me what is my problem and need help on it https://mega.nz/file/KZVR2KbC#t5LLjFtkkoYkkYnZAgG2fYmeAR7H_cC21Qdyz7YeH50

[grim ore]

so without words what is the issue?

since you just left a video and spammed the channel without explaining the problem

[barren flume]

ah okay thank you

[plush yew]

@grim ore now when I see my menu by press play editor button in ue4 and the menu it's show the button and all things when I go to launch my game from ue4 prject folder as you see in video it's show the menu without buttons and its show for 1 sec and go to game what's problem

[grim ore]

in your project settings do you have the correct maps set up? in the editor you are testing it in multiplayer not single player so that might be an issue as well

[little falcon]

hey guys, i am having problem with foliage painting add almost 700 draw calls
any way i can reduce it?
i heard ue4 will automatically batch all the foliage
but seems not working in my case?
with foliage

without foliage

[cold osprey]

Hi guys ! I'm confused : Does "UE to Rigify" (the new blender addon recently offered by Epic Games with the addon "Send to Unreal") is the same that UEFY ?
@plush yew You can use the two together to go back and forth from the engine and blender. They compliment each other.

[hollow ridge]

can someone help me my AI move to keeps on aborting

[plush yew]

set up a somewhat complicated blueprint to deal with flight mechanics, but it's... not working. like at all

when I run the game, nothing happens at all no matter what key is pressed, and none of the values change. as far as I can tell, it's not reading any keypresses whatsoever

is there something that I forgot to initialise first?

[hollow ridge]

do the inputs trigger

[plush yew]

what does that mean?

[hollow ridge]

put a print string when u press a button

does it work

[plush yew]

hold on a moment

[hidden adder]

after building

before building

can someone tell me why this happens to lighting after building(coming from unity)

[plush yew]

@hollow ridge no, it does not. nothing is printed even with the Print String action hooked up

[hollow ridge]

what type of blueprint is that

[plush yew]

huh?

[hollow ridge]

when u created it what type of blueprint did u make it

[plush yew]

I'm not sure

[hollow ridge]

k 1 min

oh wait

did u put it in the scene

[plush yew]

I'm not sure

what does that mean?

[hidden adder]

seriously can someone help me? feel like this would be something basic someone could tell me

[hollow ridge]

I have no clue

I dont do much with lighting I just make sure u can see stuff

[hidden adder]

ahk

[hollow ridge]

@plush yew drag the blueprint into the viewport

of the level

[plush yew]

@hidden adder this is a wild guess, but it may have something to do with the lighting being recalculated when you hit build

would you like the lighting to do something differently?

[hidden adder]

basically the before building photo how i was trying to get it to look

even after increasing intensity ,etc

seems to always build like that

been driving me nuts since its such a simple thing

[plush yew]

it looks like the light is coming from the bottom right end of the screen

maybe there's a light source there that isn't visible during the preview? that's another wild guess but I'm also not sure

@hollow ridge I just did that, and it still doesn't work. It looks like the keypresses just aren't being registered at all

[hollow ridge]

wait

I just crashed but I need to see something

[hollow ridge]

@plush yew wait.... are you just trying to make a cube that can be pushed around

[gusty dune]

Does anyone know how I'd generate a random location within a set area?

[hidden adder]

thats after a build but shows light but if i was to change any properties on spot light goes back to before build photo

[hollow ridge]

@gusty dune Idk but u could just do mutliple random floats in range and make a vector out of that

[plush yew]

@hidden adder you can try toggling the preview lighting quality, it's set to the lowest quality by default. try setting it to a higher value, maybe it will be easier to troubleshoot the light issue that way

it could be that the spotlight you have selected works using raytracing or something that isn't visible during preview

[gusty dune]

Oh solid, thanks @hollow ridge

[hollow ridge]

silv what are u trying to do with that bp

[hidden adder]

@plush yew ill try to find the setting for that, only got unreal yesterday so converting some unity projects atm to get used to it

[plush yew]

@hollow ridge I'm trying to make a stupid simple flight sim where you pilot a "spaceship" using newtonian flight mechanics. yes, I'm trying to get the cube to fly around using 12 different controls, using 2 layers of 6 keybinds

[hollow ridge]

hm I think there might be a better way

so u r prob just using a type of bp that cant recive input

try use a character

or a pawn

[plush yew]

@hidden adder

yeetukus, how can I copy a blueprint from one object to another?

[hollow ridge]

ctrl c ctrl v

[plush yew]

its that simple?? lmao

[hollow ridge]

I think so

[hidden adder]

@plush yew still rather dark but that helped alot thanks

@plush yew i disabled chadows but i think model was using had overlapping uv's so maybe it was generating extra shadows because of that

[hollow ridge]

could someone help me? my ai move to keeps on getting aborted

[grim ore]

@plush yew you can also change the blueprint parent class inside the blueprint to a pawn or something else that takes input by default

@hollow ridge did you have code to show so people can guess what is happening? or why does it abort what message do you get

[hollow ridge]

k one min

@grim ore this is my code it doesnt give any other info

about it being aborted

[grim ore]

you need to connect it to success or fail then check the result

[hollow ridge]

? for ai move to isnt that just if it reached its target or not

[grim ore]

and is it a valid first person character that it is seeing and trying to move to?

[hollow ridge]

it is valid I have checked

[grim ore]

and your nav mesh is valid between the 2 of them?

[hollow ridge]

how do I check if my nav mesh is valid?

[grim ore]

did you put a nav mesh in the world? P is the key to toggle visibility on it

[hollow ridge]

yeah it is

[grim ore]

welp aborted has a few reasons why and that was most of them

pretty much if it can't get there for some reason when it starts. replace the target actor with a valid location somewhere away from the AI or something else to test if the move is the issue or the target

[hollow ridge]

wait @grim ore when I press p my level doesnt turn green like it should for some reason it is green rlly far below the level

[grim ore]

then you don't have a valid mesh for it to move one would be my guess

is your nav mesh bounds around the area you want to navigate?

[hollow ridge]

yeah

for some reason it is showing there

[grim ore]

did you mess with the scale, or something else in your level that transform widget looks huge

or is this a really tiny level

[hollow ridge]

it is a decent sized level the issue is it is at z1000 and the green is at z0

so I had to be far away so u could see the green and the level

[grim ore]

shouldnt really matter but yes that is weird. IF your level is at 1000 is your nav mesh at 1000 as well?

[hollow ridge]

yeah wait

[grim ore]

just to make sure its not working in the level hit play and type in Show Navigiation in the console and it should turn it on while playing

[hollow ridge]

I think it might be fixed just have to wait for it to build 200k things for navigation

[grim ore]

that seems like a very large number

[hollow ridge]

yes

ah there

its about 20k now

@grim ore yep fixed it

thx

[grim ore]

yay

[hollow ridge]

now all I have to do is fix my dash that I accidently made spawn like 200k particles

[autumn elbow]

@grim ore do you have any vids on the UMG Override functions? I saw OnDrag Drop related stuff, but nothing on the others.

[hollow ridge]

how many particles do u think a 1060 can handle

I dont want to rlly test I keep on crashing

o wait nvm

[plush yew]

@hollow ridge you can attempt to play or simulate your unreal scene file with the particle in it, or open the particle effect in cascade or niagara.

then press tilde key to open console and type stat game or stat fps to see the tick time / fps of your scene.

if the tick time / FPS is high, your scene needs optimization. you can optimize your scene using optimization viewmodes Unreal Engine 4 Documentation > Unreal Editor Manual > Level Editor > Editor Viewports > View Modes

[barren flume]

almost there

can't wait to try out the chaos destruction

[rough knoll]

before building lighting

after building lighting

what happened?

[grim ore]

you built lighting?

you need proper settings and proper meshes to use static lighting

and static lighting will not look the same as dynamic

plus you probably built in preview quality which makes it look worse as well

[rough knoll]

rebuilding in high quality still looks the same

[grim ore]

welp the first 2 items are still the most important. static is not the same as dynamic, and proper settings and meshes are important

are these properly set up meshes for static lighting?

[rough knoll]

not sure but its a static mesh if that helps at all.

[grim ore]

it doesnt, you need to check the lightmap uv on it

[rough knoll]

this?

@grim ore is there somewhere else i would be able to see that

[grim ore]

double click the mesh

click on the UV's, look at UV 0 and 1.

[rough knoll]

these?

[grim ore]

yes. uv1 is normally the lightmap and thats super dense its going to be really hard to get good shadows with that

so chances are this mesh is intended for dynamic lighting

[rough knoll]

so is ther eno way

[barren flume]

finally finished

[rough knoll]

i can make it look like this

after building*

[barren flume]

thank you for the help @grim ore and @plush yew

[grim ore]

99% sure you cannot just due to dynamic not looking the same as static.

and based on those UV maps those trees are not designed for static lighting

[barren flume]

oh one more thing

how do I do that?

settings the startup project to UE4

[grim ore]

on the right in the solution explorer, right click it

[rough knoll]

mm ok. how do i make the editor display dynamic lighting so i can get it to look how i want if thats possible

or on the other hand what i did before was rotate the directional light to get what i wanted

how can i change how the dynamic lighting on the trees looks

[grim ore]

adjust the lighting properties on the lights that cast on it, and on the mesh themselves

[rough knoll]

why does this happen when i look down

[quasi lynx]

Anyone know why I'm getting this error?

This popped up seemingly out of the blue after a recent git push/pull. Neither of those gamemodes are used in my game, not sure how to correct so that this error stops showing

[thorn scarab]

@rough knoll never ever do uvs like that

[rough knoll]

i made it look ok after changing directionallight to movable

im just concerned about the black when i look down

[thorn scarab]

@rough knoll nah i'm saying, your uv looks like ripped on parts per-poly

[rough knoll]

am i supposed to change it somehow?

i didnt make the trees idk

are you even talkin about the trees

[barren flume]

How long does it usually take for source version of ue4 to start up

it's just been sitting at 45% for awhile now

[rough knoll]

im just tryna get rid of this

idk what it is

[rough knoll]

it only happens when im looking down towards my shadow

any other direction its normal

although when i turn off my shadow its still there

[regal hawk]

How can I update nav path, If I dont rebuild path, teleport would not work when beginplay

[barren flume]

So I can't use my projects without making a copy of it?

even though it's both 4.25

[plush yew]

I think learning unreal by following example projects would really help me, and I see a bunch on the unreal site, which ones should I work on as a super beginner?

[regal hawk]

So I can't use my projects without making a copy of it?
@barren flume what you should do is just wait for shader compiling finished.

[barren flume]

No that's not what I mean

I can't open my projects without making another copy of it

that's what it says when I try to open it

[regal hawk]

C++ project or BP project?

[barren flume]

bp

like the projects are greyed out

even though it's the same engine version

[regal hawk]

what's the error infos? or the project just crashed when you opened it?

[barren flume]

no

that's not what i'm saying the project opens up fine after I copy it

I'm running 4.25.3 and I made the project in 4.25

[plush yew]

@rough knoll u know what u should do, put directional light and set it moveable

and add a skylight too

[rough knoll]

i did set it to movable

[plush yew]

directional and skylight?

[rough knoll]

i just wanna know whats up with the black stuff when i look down

no i dont have a skylight

[plush yew]

well i was talking about your trees by the way

if u have a skylight u will have global lights, and it wont look so dark

if u want static light to be good u need proper lightmap, and 64 is way to low with all those trees

[rough knoll]

how can i split this into two? i wanna be able to have more than one object be hittable

[icy egret]

Hi some one please help me
every time I retarget animations, it bit float, so how to fix them?
left is original and right is retargeted

[radiant jasper]

Im trying to import an fbx model with textures, but all of the created materials are white

any idea why?

[barren flume]

Where would I put this in the target.cs for chaos?

bCompileChaos = true;
bUseChaos = true;

[open gorge]

@rough knoll what do you mean more than one object be hittable?

[rough knoll]

so there is a rat that can be shot and killed

but there also is a test box i want to be hittable so i can get xp for testing reasons

the exec goes into cast to rat and i cant put it into both cast to xp_test_object and cast to rat

can i split that exec into two based on whats being hit

[left citrus]

Why does the engine need to re-compile a material when it's duplicated from an already compiled material? Is there a way to avoid this?

Even after I've deleted the material, it's still trying to compile it

[open gorge]

why are you casting it to rat?

what are you trying to do with that hit?

[radiant jasper]

Im trying to import an fbx model with textures, but all of the created materials are white

does anyone know why?

[rough knoll]

@open gorge when it hits the rat it plays a sound and destroys it

its casting to rat in order to set the health value to 0

[quasi lynx]

Does anyone know why I'm getting this error?

I've never used these game modes, don't know how to resolve this issue so that this doesn't pop up when I start the editor?

Thanks in advance to all!

[autumn elbow]

@rough knoll for the moment, don't cast to rat. What does hit component return?

[rough knoll]

nothing. cast to rat is hooked up to hit actor

[autumn elbow]

Does it return ur test box?

[rough knoll]

it wouldnt return to anything i dont think

oh wait hold on

[autumn elbow]

Try it.. disconnect hit actor, check what hit component returns

[open gorge]

@rough knoll you should use a health component that's global but in each class you want to deal damage. Then you can just get a reference to that and apply damage.

[rough knoll]

this will return whatever the line trace hits

component returns this when i shoot the box

[autumn elbow]

Ok

[rough knoll]

returns this when rat is shot

[autumn elbow]

what you can do is cast to rat, then in the next pin cast to xp_test

Which you actually don't need to cast, cus you already have it

[rough knoll]

wdym?

already have what

[autumn elbow]

The hit actor is giving you rat

You don't need to cast to it again

[rough knoll]

i need to cast to rat in order to get the health value

but also how would that work with the test box

[autumn elbow]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/225448446956404738/739693299413286993/unknown.png

[autumn elbow]

After ur cast to rat node... add a cast to xp box

[open gorge]

that's why I said use a global health component

[rough knoll]

no matter whats hit its gonna play both the rat and the xp box things

[open gorge]

you can just get that off the hit actor

check if it's valid

then apply damage

[rough knoll]

why cant i have a check to see whats hit and based on that play a different string of nodes

because i dont wanna apply damage to the box

the box is just simply give xp when hit

[open gorge]

you can

[rough knoll]

the rat is take damage and die

[open gorge]

you just need to subprocess your actors a bit

you use an IsValid check

if it doesn't have a health component

then you move on

[rough knoll]

but later down the line there will be more things that do have health i.e. bosses

with different health values than other rats

[open gorge]

I don't think you're understanding the health component concept

each actor would have their own health component

you just get that off your hit actor

[autumn elbow]

You see where you have target health node? Plug that into hit actor

[rough knoll]

hold on let me go back here

so by "global health component"

[open gorge]

i mean a globally useable subcomponent

that you attach to your actor

like for example

you have a character movement component

you can make a health version of that

[rough knoll]

what target health node @autumn elbow

[autumn elbow]

He is getting confused with the pin flow.

[rough knoll]

i am lol

[autumn elbow]

Ok.. do this... make a sequence node

[rough knoll]

mhm

[autumn elbow]

In the in pin plug in ur trace

[rough knoll]

ok

[autumn elbow]

In the first pin plug ur rat cast

[rough knoll]

and in the second the xp object cast?

[autumn elbow]

In the second plug ur xp box

Then show me a screen shot

[rough knoll]

i assume i plug hit actor into both objects?

[autumn elbow]

Hit actor to rat

Hit component to xp box

[rough knoll]

ok and for future reference

when i get another entity that is an actor

can i add another pin to the sequence, cast to that other entity, and plug hit actor into that entity as well?

or can i only have hit actor going into one

[autumn elbow]

You can add as much as you want

[rough knoll]

alright

tysm

[autumn elbow]

Now hold on...

Let me explain 2 things

[rough knoll]

ok

[autumn elbow]

The set up you have now... is the same as if you would plug cast to xp at the end of the set health in ur rat

The sequence takes the last node from pin1 and then does pin2

[rough knoll]

the end looks like this

[autumn elbow]

The sequence node is just a visual change

[radiant jasper]

just love getting scammed on fiverr

I need an affordable realistic 3d modeler now lol

[autumn elbow]

How much did you pay ?

[radiant jasper]

$42

[hollow ridge]

oof

I can make u a nice f3d model for free

[radiant jasper]

opened a fraud case with fiverr, so hopefully they give me a refund

shit no way for free??

[hollow ridge]

mixamo.com

[kindred orbit]

Bruh why is it taking my PC so long to import a rock I made in Blender

[hollow ridge]

I have no friken clue how to 3d model lol

[kindred orbit]

@hollow ridge same

[radiant jasper]

no yeah ik i can animate it but i kinda need the texture lol

[hollow ridge]

just take some stuff and recolor it

[radiant jasper]

its suppose to be realistic to ben shapiro lol

[autumn elbow]

My company just bought a few licenses of Character Creator 3 @radiant jasper all the cool kids are using it

[hollow ridge]

ah I can also do beans

[kindred orbit]

Sitting here for 15 mins waiting for my rock to import lmao

[rough knoll]

so he just gave you the model and no textures?

[radiant jasper]

yea

[rough knoll]

f

[kindred orbit]

F

[rough knoll]

i never to got an answer to why this happens when i look down

if anyone knows

[hollow ridge]

how do u change controls ingame?

[autumn elbow]

i never to got an answer to why this happens when i look down
@rough knoll What?

[rough knoll]

project settings > input

[kindred orbit]

@rough knoll what's that

[rough knoll]

@autumn elbow when i look down the bottom of the screen goes black

ok hold on ill open obs and send a video clip

[hollow ridge]

@rough knoll no ingame so the player can make their own controls

[autumn elbow]

lol... when you look down.. shit gets serious! Dramatic mode

[gleaming sage]

Hello I am New to UE 4 and i how do i fix actor perspective spin

[kindred orbit]

A shadow from yourself?

Lmao

[rough knoll]

no half of the screen turning black

when i look down sometimes it does that sometimes it wont

[kindred orbit]

Can you show code?

Though idk where it'd be

[rough knoll]

for?

[kindred orbit]

The character ig

The main bp

[autumn elbow]

@hollow ridge https://youtu.be/d1-pg_11Im8

[hollow ridge]

ah thx

[autumn elbow]

Remapping keys

[kindred orbit]

Wtf rock damn

[rough knoll]

idk why anything with shadows would be in the main character bp

[autumn elbow]

@rough knoll try rebuild lighting

[kindred orbit]

@rough knoll I dunno

[rough knoll]

kk

[radiant jasper]

ok so im trying to make a post process effect only show once every 5 seconds

rn it just repeatedly plays

how do i set that

[untold swallow]

hey can nvidia codeworks be used to package for android in 4.25.1 cuz android studio isnt working for me

[plush yew]

@plush yew https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Content/Browser/AssetConsolidationTool/index.html it's more for duplicates with same references. you shouldn't use that in your case. you will need to manually retarget references in the blueprints unfortunately. hope that helps.

[radiant jasper]

how do I make that fnaf style camera post process

[thorn scarab]

for those who understands what is this 😉

[plush yew]

@plush yew if it's a default epic native asset like ThirdPersonCharacter from the default startup code you can consider copying a fresh default into your project. (I was assuming it was non-native data.) Have to step out for a moment, be back later.

@plush yew what was wrong with the original again? it was corrupted? what choice do you have other than duplicating and re-referencing? If you make backups of your data , either with github, perforce (check #source-control ), or manual file backups with withdows explorer / batch scripts you would not be facing corruption issues.

@plush yew check https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/blueprint-visual-scripting/1960-the-asset-failed-to-save are you launching the editor twice? please check unreal asset failed to save in your search engine for more information please. i had assumed data corruption was a probable cause.

a lot of people in unreal forums are saying it's from a ghost unreal process. check task manager please and look for an extra unreal process

[radiant jasper]

how do I make that fnaf style camera post process

[plush yew]

@plush yew no worries. task manager is opened via windows key -> R -> type taskmgr look for an extra unreal process there please.

@plush yew you likely tried opening unreal twice and didn't realize you did, failed to properly exit unreal before, or have some extra unreal subprocess lying around. that's what it is from. if you would like more information about task manager please look up windows task manager in search. would you mind not using the @ so frequently? I get pings very often because of this. I will check back in the chat periodically if you don't mind?

[drowsy compass]

Question: What’s some weird stuff things I could make in unreal engine that would be funny and wacky as hell. Nothings too weird

[plush yew]

@drowsy compass try remaking the game carrion in 3d? 🙂 other than that you can do a nice new take on a new action RPG using the gameplay abilities plugin perhaps? lots of options. what genre were you thinking? unreal has templates you can use or marketplace assets you can build from / templates. things like that.

[drowsy compass]

Love the first idea. Doesn’t particularly have to be game or genre. For example like Michael reeves except with a game engine

That could be fun

[plush yew]

Now I want to do the remake. 😛

I believe Unreal would certainly have the tools to accomplish it, especially with the new toolset coming in UE5

[rough knoll]

can i disable input except for one input?

like disable everything but one button

for an options menu

[sterile stream]

anyone use goodsky?

[plush yew]

Sorry for the delay lapiz, you simply have to kill the process : right click process in task manager end task *** be careful to not kill an important process.*** only kill stray versions of UE4Editor.exe

[rough knoll]

d'ya know anything about my question gothic

[radiant jasper]

how do i set visibility to a percentage

like 0.3 for example

[plush yew]

@rough knoll would assume you would just need to write logic so when you enter you custom menu, you would disable input action events for any other buttons. that's probably the only way if you only want ONE button to be available.

other than that, you can use input mode nodes https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Input/SetInputModeGameAndUI/index.html

[radiant jasper]

it only lets me either make it visible or not visible

bruh does no one know how to do that

[rough knoll]

do you know how i would write that logic

idk if theres a way to just reject any other input

[radiant jasper]

@rough knoll i think there's like a pause game node

u can use that

[distant totem]

check out this rabbit hole for pausing https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/205732/pause-the-game-but-let-the-player-camera-move.html

[radiant jasper]

but does anyone know how to set visibility to a percentage

i want it to be at 30% when a specific button is pressed but idk how to do that

[distant totem]

for umg?

[radiant jasper]

yeah

[distant totem]

for umg button you can set the opacity as a variable and change it where u need

[radiant jasper]

how would I set the opacity as a variable

opacity of a specific image

oh wait theres a set opacity node

ok

[distant totem]

in umg tick the is variable

then in graph mode you can get get that umg element, and from it set opacity

[radiant jasper]

ok i think i did it

[opal totem]

I'm using snap to grid to place objects but I need to snap to either the lower value or the higher value only. So in a grid of 5 a float of 9.9 would snap back to 5 and not 10. How do I go about this

[radiant jasper]

so i have a video looping

but it stops briefly at the end of the video and then starts playing

I need it to not stop, is there a way to avoid this?

ive tried researching it, and ppl just say"oh its cuz ur on 4.1x but im on 4.25

there has to be a way right?

[opal totem]

is there a way to get the length of the video and then set a delay to play the video again right at the end

[radiant jasper]

but how would it loop again after that

[rough knoll]

how to enable mouse cursor

[opal totem]

assuming you can do get length of video you just create a function that plays the video sets the delay then calls the function/event again and maybe add a branch to check if isVideoStillPlaying?

@rough knoll cast to your player controller if you arnt in that bp and do set mouse cursor

set show mouse cursor

[rough knoll]

alr thanks

[radiant jasper]

@opal totem i dont think what u r describing is possible

thats not how delays work

and ik the length of the clip

theres a node called "bind event to on end reached"

but then id have to use an event

ok so i did that and i still have the same gap issue

does anyone know how to fix this?

[opal totem]

yea i've never used a video in ue4 so I was just going with what I would try first

[radiant jasper]

anyone else know

still havent found a solution

[rough knoll]

is there a node that moves the camera other than shake?

i cant get shake to work because i dont want it to go back to the original position

i can use controller pitch input but its too snappy

nvm i got it with timelines

[plush yew]

Hello all. My name is Heikki and I am Unrealoholic.

While saying hello I will dive directly to a broad question that I am trying figure out.
TLDR: what is the best resource for learning architecture (how to structure your game)

Longer version:
I am a beginner dev working full time on an indie game (VR flight game). I am amazed how far I have gotten with online learning resources and have solved most issues that I have faced.

Learning material I have gone through - most online resources are great for solving a detail issue or having a heavily simplified path from zero to a product. Both are great but I am having bit hard time finding more "meta" learning material (I don't mind paying btw) that would cover more abstract topics. I specially would liek to understan broad strategies of where to store what values, which element is responsible for which functions, smart ways to construct enemies/NPCs etc.

For example now I have PlayerPawn, which contains the VR hands but mostly just relays (via interface) inputs to other systems. A separate Player-Aircraft the acts based on the inputs. No idea if that is smart or not. When checking for enemies in range should my ship seek for the enemies and activate them or should the enemies look for my ship? things of that nature.
Is it bad to split my Aircraftcraft to several Blueprints/entities (targeting computer, physics system, PA/radio/dialogue etc.) or have all of the functions in one?

I know all this is very context/need/case dependent but I am looking for info to teach me to do those choices well.

[hearty walrus]

and now, the result of me being angry while coding

I can't call that one variable

I can get it, but not set it

What's causing this bug?

[normal plover]

‫this message ‫I

[somber quail]

What's causing this bug?
@hearty walrus That's not a bug you're just not using the right variable

[pseudo pulsar]

Anyone get this happening to them with super tiny textures before?

I turned it onto nearest filtering, and tried changing some of the level of detail things, but nothing seems to prevent it from happening.

Oh I got it! I don't think I fixed it 'correctly' lol, but in the compression settings I changed it to "UserInterface2D", and that seems to make it appear correctly. 🙂

[rare axle]

Hey everybody, odd request but do you think it's possible to get Unreal to automatically import textures that are added to the content folder, as well as automatically add them to a material instance at runtime, or is this impossible?

[young stone]

hey, I'm pretty desperate for help rn, been trying to get unreal engine 4.23 (source build) to work for the past few days but I keep getting this error and 4 hours of compiling unreal engine source goes to waste every time. Tried everything: downgraded VS19 to 1.6.5.0, changed the path name to have no characters and other stuff I found on the internet for this single error but nothing helps. HOW DO I GET RID OF THIS ERROR

btw it used to work just fine

[exotic thicket]

How do y'all usually handle things like turning features on/off during development?

in Unity it was super simple to just turn off certain objects without having to delete them from the level - I haven't really found anything equally handy in UE 🤔

For example in my current project I have a manager object that spawns NPC's over time, but sometimes the NPC's get in the way of testing something else so I have to keep turning this feature off

[whole quarry]

@rare axle Stuff added in the content folder should show up in the editor, but automatically adding them to a mat instance, without defining what to add to them, is like impossible out of the box

[rare axle]

Thought as much.. Wonder if there's a hacky way of making it work.

[whole quarry]

If you mean with "hacky" way to make a plugin to do such thing, yes

[mortal cedar]

unreal engine 5 when

[whole quarry]

when what?

[mortal cedar]

can't wait to get look on the next engine iteration

[fair herald]

Do I need to place my game to play store in order display ads in my game

(Android game)

[mortal cedar]

no

you integrate ads provider's plugin into your game.

and it fetches ads from the provider's servers

although maybe most of them rely on store infrastructure / API

[final fiber]

I was messing around with the engine and tried packaging my project for distribution and it seems to work fine for my laptop (doesn't have the engine), my computer (has the engine), my brother's computer (has engine), my sister's laptop (doesn't have engine), and it works completely fine. But when I try to run it on my dad's computer it can load to the main menu, but pressing "Play game", "Host game", or "Join game", causes it to crash with "Fatal error!" The options button changes the menu properly and the quit button closes the game without any problems but anything that loads into my level causes an issue.

[hearty walrus]

how do I switch cameras with the third person template?

[final fiber]

A workaround to getting the "Play game" button to work is to go into the WindowsNoEditor/Project/Binaries/Win64/ and run Project-Win64-Shipping.exe

but the join and host buttons were still broken

[hearty walrus]

I've got another camera set up, but every time I run it defaults to this strange camera that's in the middle of the third person character

[fair herald]

Any reference of > you integrate ads provider's plugin into your game.
@mortal cedar
Any reference

[whole quarry]

@final fiber "Fatal Error" doesn't tell much other than there was a fatal error, so as long you don't know the actual error, its impossible to troubleshoot

[mortal cedar]

I've got another camera set up, but every time I run it defaults to this strange camera that's in the middle of the third person character
@hearty walrus sounds like you have both of your cameras deactivated and character switches to default camera in character class or wherever it resides

[final fiber]

Is there any way to make it output the error? It only says "Fatal Error!" and nothing else.

[hearty walrus]

@mortal cedar how do I fix?

[final fiber]

the title of the window that pops up is "UE4 has crashed!" and a few other things that goes off the window

[whole quarry]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/471990/how-to-make-sure-packaged-game-is-producing-logs.html

google is your friend

[final fiber]

If I set the configuration for development, doesn't it require the engine to be installed to run?

[fair herald]

Any reference of > you integrate ads provider's plugin into your game.
@mortal cedar
Any reference
@fair herald

[hot pine]

Was that a poor attempt at being funny?

[low brook]

is there a rather simple way of getting a bunch of assets from one project to another without essentially rebuilding the scene?

thought of turning it into a blueprint first but then i cant resize very well right? cuz every mesh is gonne think of its own way of scaling

[odd lava]

When I launch my game in standalone mode, it it seems completely broken vs. In-Editor mode. the thumbstick input events seem to fire about 1/sec at best. resulting in very slow jerky movement. I dont have this problem in editor mode. can anyone help me figure out what i've done wrong here?

[hearty walrus]

How do I fix this bug?

nvm, it wasn't needed

how do I quickly posses another pawn?

I've got both the camera and player being pawns, how do I switch between them

[normal plover]

im trying to import a gif for my title screen background, but it says unkown extension ''.gif''

[burnt ether]

Why is it so hard to move marketplace assets into different folders...

[shadow jewel]

Are you able to make a way for when a button is clicked, and if there is text in a Editible Text Box, to the text in the editable text box to be outputted to a Scroll box?

[whole quarry]

Sure

[tropic surge]

Is there a proper location for submitting feedback and suggestions relating to the engine?

[next badger]

Forums. But it's mostly useless.

[next badger]

is that half - separate geometry?

then what will happen if you hide half, there will be a hole?

you can use masked material + vertex paint
paint verts that you want to hide with red
then in material get vertex color, mask red, and feed it to opacity mask (some math, like + 0.5 and one minus may be needed)

if you have multiple elements (materials) you can just set opacity of that material to 0 (make sure to change that material to masked)

if you want to use BP you need to read about Dynamic Material Instances

[dusk portal]

Does anyone have a guess about which method of GI is used in UE5?

Most probably it's screenspace, but which paper is it based on?

[maiden swift]

@dusk portal They've talked a little bit about this:

To achieve fully dynamic real-time GI, Lumen has a specific hierarchy. "Lumen uses a combination of different techniques to efficiently trace rays," continues Wright. "Screen-space traces handle tiny details, mesh signed distance field traces handle medium-scale light transfer and voxel traces handle large scale light transfer."
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-unreal-engine-5-playstation-5-tech-demo-analysis

[dusk portal]

Thank you so much 👍🏻👌🏻

[hexed maple]

I have a strange problem in here. For the body material the textures are not working even though uvs are perfect. What's the issue? Help me someone

[grim ore]

are the correct materials assigned

[hexed maple]

Yes the materials are correct.

Textures are also correct.

[grim ore]

so when you compare UV0 on the mesh and the texture side by side in the engine they "look" mapped correct?

if so what does your material look like

[hexed maple]

Let me show the material. The head uvs are in the 0-1 space and the body uvs are in the 2nd tile 1-2 peace.

[grim ore]

ah that wont work

[hexed maple]

But it was working like this before with some other game character.

[plush yew]

Hello guys I have little problem with my landscape, the road is above the other part of the landscape, I didn't do anything and now the player can't reach the road, how i can fix it?

[grim ore]

shrug as far as I know its 0-1 space for UV's in UE4, #graphics might have more info on how to get around that

[plush yew]

anyone can help? It is important to fix it

[grim ore]

what is the road made out of? is it a mesh if so move it up or down. maybe you moved the entire landscape down on accident so move it back up

[hexed maple]

Thank you I'll go there and check.

[plush yew]

I can't click on the road

it is part of the landscape

[grim ore]

super weird. Is it a landscape spline or a blueprint or how was it created?

if you did nothing it shouldnt just move

[plush yew]

I tried to delete parts of the landscape, these that are away from the central to see will the fps be higher but then the road is above the other part and I can't fix it, I tried to delete this part and add again but nothing 😦

the level designer told me that it is terrain spline

[sweet trout]

im having this problem that when i am making a room, i add a subtractive box brush to make a quick opening but when i rezize it other parts of the room disappear, but they are still visible in wireframe mode. Here is a link --> http://www.mediafire.com/file/8nrs55pyhxkyrvm/help_ue4.mp4/file to a vid i shot of it so you can see whats happening.

[grim ore]

@plush yew then you should be able to move the spline up and down in that spot and it will blend into the terrain. or move the terrain up

[sweet trout]

plz help

[plush yew]

I can't do it

when I go into landscape mode and then click on the move tool

I can't move it

or tell me how I can move it?

@grim ore

[grim ore]

you need to click on the landscape spline

@sweet trout you technically are not resizing the box brush, you are editing it and moving one of the faces which might be causing the issue. Is there any reason you can't leave it the normal size? have you tried resizing the brush itself in the settings for it not in the tools.

[plush yew]

I can't click on it

it selects the landscape

[grim ore]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Landscape/Editing/Splines/index.html

[plush yew]

okay I checked it

[sweet trout]

@grim ore First, how can editing (sorry
for saying resizing) a box brush cause that issue. Second, i have to change it because I am going to be putting more stuff on the outside. Third, I have not tried doing it with the settings but will it really make a difference?

[plush yew]

oo actually I see that I moved up the road somehow above 😄

that's why I have this problem with the road

[grim ore]

@sweet trout there is no way of knowing if it will help or not until you try. And you can still make it larger brushes are done in order so if you have a subtract brush then put an add ontop of it the brush will not subtract from it so you can still have that subtract taking out part of the room without causing issues with brushes added after it. Also brushes are meant for just mocking up a level not final level production so you may run into weird issues 😦

[plush yew]

now I selected part of the spine but it doesn't show the arrows for moving 😦

[grim ore]

the white squares are the handles on a spline

and the mountain icons are the key points

[plush yew]

okay

how I can select the road and move it down to the ground?

[grim ore]

click the mountain icon and move it

[sweet trout]

@grim ore I will try using the settings and not the tools, and will the box subtract from meshes?

[plush yew]

okay, will try

[grim ore]

no, geometry brushes only work with themselves

[sweet trout]

@grim ore thats nice to know

[plush yew]

yeah, I found it but when I move down the road some of it is under ground other is above

[grim ore]

yes you need to adjust both points of the spline and possibly the control points, its the way splines work

[plush yew]

a okay

will try now

again 😄

the both points of the spline are the 2 white points-right?

[stone stump]

hey guys i added post processing lighting is there a way to make the grass more realistic?

[sweet trout]

@grim ore how do i edit the box brush with its settings, whenever i select the face and the start changing the brush settings or even the transform it just changes size

@grim ore ooh i think i found another way to do it! Thank you so much for your help!

[grim ore]

@piepiepie#0681 you would click the box brush in the world outliner to select the brush itself and not it's parts

[true isle]

when you have a lot of unsaved work and you're about to hit the save button but the autosave triggers first and the engine crashes while it was autosaving

https://tenor.com/view/angry-anime-neko-funny-funny-anime-gif-16420737

[grim ore]

they seriously came in for help, got it, then left the discord... wtf

[true isle]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[hollow ridge]

@grim ore by chance do u still have the source files for this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1-pg_11Im8
The link doesnt work

[stone stump]

how to disable stats when i play it

it is on the screen

[grim ore]

all the source files are in the links

[hollow ridge]

it says 404 this is not the web page you are looking for

[stone stump]

why is the scene looks blury when i play it

quality goes

[hollow ridge]

@grim ore this is the link in the description https://github.com/MWadstein/UnrealEngineProjects/tree/WTF-Examples you dont even have a repo called UnrealEngineProjects or anything like it

[grim ore]

.... "Source Files: https://github.com/MWadstein/UnrealEn...
Note: You will need to be logged into your Epic approved GitHub account to access these examples files. https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup"

[hollow ridge]

ohhh

I thought my account was linked but

[grim ore]

@stone stump it depends on the stats you are showing, and it might look blurry based on your settings or available memory on your video card

[stone stump]

guys any help?

iam using a predator helios

so not my pc

[grim ore]

okdoke

[stone stump]

stats i change in the scene doesnt affect it seems

why is that

[hollow ridge]

wait yeah my account is connected and I still cant see them

[grim ore]

are you logged in?

[hollow ridge]

yep

[grim ore]

weird, I can see them fine

[stone stump]

is there a way to enable the stats in the scene to the play mode?

[grim ore]

what stats? there are hundreds of them

[stone stump]

when i change anti alising and stuff it doesnt show on play mode

[grim ore]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Performance/StatCommands/index.html

[stone stump]

thats what iam asking

[grim ore]

how are you changing the anti aliasing?

[stone stump]

stats

arrow thing

[grim ore]

yep no idea what that is 😦 and anti aliasing is changed in the project settings. Do you mean toggling it on and off?

[stone stump]

hmm

wait

[limber swallow]

Hey... I'm trying to enable and disable niagara systems in c++, but I can't find a way to include the component and use it in code. Any one has an idea of what I should be looking into?

[grim ore]

#cpp might get you a quicker answer

[plain terrace]

for a static mesh, can I allow it to use its complex collision instead of a simple one when simulating physics?

[exotic thicket]

I kinda wish there was a way to have a "bind event once" node on event listeners... I seem to do a lot of stuff where I need to wait for something to initialize at the beginning of the game, so that's waiting for an event and then unbinding :P

[plain terrace]

nvm I found meh answer

[normal plover]

i exported my model from blender as a .fbx file but the texture is gone

[exotic thicket]

Sometimes it kinda feels like there's some better way of doing that type of initialization logic where you need to sync up things between multiple actors but I can't really think of any 🤔

[plain terrace]

Ey profuse, I'm quite sure that the materials work differently in blender and ue4 but I'm not sure so hopefully someone else with more knowledge can say something

[ornate forge]

Unreal Fest videos are finally getting uploaded to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3tTbVNkuwA

[normal plover]

once i exported smth and the texture came too

[pallid talon]

Epic advertises 4.25 as having new high-detail rendering options useful for architectural images. Where is documantion or information on how this is done?

I can't find any.

[prisma plank]

@true isle

[plush yew]

Is the naming convention of object instances in the editor fixed? I really don't like the method of having like Floor1, Floor2, Floor3, etc. it messes up the way I like to name assets. I would like to change it so instead it does something like Floor<1>

[true isle]

Yes?

[plush yew]

Yes as in its fixed?

[gaunt hedge]

Hi Unreal Engine community ....I am newbie to this awesome community and to UE...I want ur advice ....I have a scene with a number of movable spotlights...they tend to work randomly when I turn their visibility on and off....in viewport and in game...every time I turn on or off only some random lights get affected...I want them all to work at the same time...what u guys recommend ?? thanks in advance

[plush yew]

It basically prevents you from ending your asset name with a number if you don't want to be really confused

[prisma plank]

@gaunt hedge for this lights- change to movable i think

[pallid talon]

@gaunt hedge Sounds like you're using stationary lights on all of them. Stationary lights have a limit of about 5 for overlapping. You'll either need to turn other lights to Dynamic or Static.

[gaunt hedge]

@prisma plank they are all movable

@pallid talon they are all movable, as they are 1 blueprint distributed all over the scene

they are supposed to have a code to turn them all on and off in the game with 1 button pressed

[pallid talon]

But only some turn and some do not?

[hearty walrus]

How do I stop the thirdpersontemplate camera from moving around with the character

[gaunt hedge]

@pallid talon exactly, either in game or veiwport

is there kinda limit or optimisation in UE thats banning them from working at the time ?

[pallid talon]

Nope, you could have thouands and it should work.

Probably something wrong with the way you're executing the on/off fuction.

[gaunt hedge]

what u think it would be ? will attach a pic from my simple blueprint

[pallid talon]

Yes, a picture will help.

[gaunt hedge]

just a simple spot light with a static mesh

all what I do is tick the visibility on and off

[radiant jasper]

Does anyone know how to loop a media player w/o it pausing for half a second?

[pallid talon]

What does your blueprint look like?

[radiant jasper]

I cant find any solutions online, cuz apparently there are like 12 ppl on the planet that have ever used media player

[gaunt hedge]

@pallid talon as the attached pic

only simple single spotlight with static mesh

still no coding included

[pallid talon]

@gaunt hedge So you have a spotlight with a mesh inside a blueprint and when you place multiple instances of this blueprint in your scene, only a selected few turn on?

[gaunt hedge]

@pallid talon yeah exactly

its weird I know

[pallid talon]

And you have nothing under the "Event Graph" or "Construction Script"?

[plush yew]

anyone ever made a simple blueprint for arraying a static mesh and exposed the number to array?

is that a thing?

i found some info on the forums but i think its out of date

[pallid talon]

@plush yew Use a "For Each Loop"

Or if you're trying to get how many objects on in the array, put the array into your blueprint and pull a "Lenght" node out.

[gaunt hedge]

@pallid talon yeah all clear no coding at all anywhere

is it kinda related to UE settings ?

[plush yew]

i'll check that out, thanks!

[pallid talon]

I haven't had that problem before. @gaunt hedge

And I've had Blueprints with lots of lights that ran fine. Like a parking lot with of lights.

Did you create this scene from scratch?

[hearty walrus]

How do I remove the gradient on a UMG button?

[gaunt hedge]

@pallid talon yeah from scratch by myself

[radiant jasper]

can someone help me please?

[gaunt hedge]

will try record a quick vid to show how things act and show my main problem

[radiant jasper]

Does anyone know how to loop a media player w/o it pausing for half a second?

[hearty walrus]

https://www.nohello.com

[gaunt hedge]

@pallid talon I turned their visibilty all on
and they were on in the viewport
eveything is fine just for now

when I hit play only left on and all the others were off

[pallid talon]

Ok

[outer cosmos]

I cant launch to desktop in unreal engine 4.25, cpu usage shows 100% but nothing happens, unreal freezes the moment i click launch, its not even heavy scene, just 3rd person template. Please help dont know what to do

[fast berry]

I need some help. In unreal engine, I normally have the model bar on the left, with the sphere, cude, landscape ect. Its not there anymore. How can I get it

[gaunt hedge]

@pallid talon any ideas how to fix this ?

[rocky radish]

I need some help. In unreal engine, I normally have the model bar on the left, with the sphere, cude, landscape ect. Its not there anymore. How can I get it
@fast berry window->load layout->default layout

[fast berry]

thanks @rocky radish

[rocky radish]

np

[gaunt hedge]

@fast berry think it will be in window menu-editor modes-modes panel

[fast berry]

@gaunt hedge Im in 25.5.3 so its not there. how do i do it the other way @rocky radish

[pallid talon]

@gaunt hedge You'll have to tell me more info on this scene. Do you have any code in your level blueprint?

Did you create this from scratch?

[alpine laurel]

i made a new project and tried exporting a build, but when i launch it nothing happens. I have restarted my computer and still nothing. I also put all the maps in the list of maps to be included

ideas?

[pallid talon]

How many lights are moveable?

[plush yew]

@alpine laurel idk how you did it, but if you just inported you're game in a file ( like a map )

be sure that the name of the folder is not with a spacebar or !,/;

ect.

[alpine laurel]

wdym?

and nothing has spaces. only underlines

[plush yew]

try without, i had the same problem with ;

[radiant haven]

I just look over the First Person BP for what isnt this for VR?

[plush yew]

nope, first person

[alpine laurel]

try without what

[plush yew]

the __

[alpine laurel]

oh

thats only in some widget files

the maps and game are like this "TestMap"

using caps to separate words

[plush yew]

you opened a new project, and did the old project in the new one? or did you just paste the other game? it won't show up, because it ism't opened before. click on browse, amd you're game should pop-up if that is what you ment

the maps and game are like this "TestMap"
@alpine laurel

I think it ks the "

[alpine laurel]

the " were just to show you the example

there are no actual " in the names

[plush yew]

oh.

Did you click on browse when you wanted to add you're game to the other device? make sure you have the right folder open, or else it won't pop-up. When you opended it, it won't come up instantly.. you need to click browse, and the game will be there

[alpine laurel]

i mean i literally copied the content folder from my old project to the new one cause i am testing some stuff

so there is no reason for it not to work

[pallid talon]

@gaunt hedge Are you setting this up for Moble?

Or desktop?

[plush yew]

you already had a project, and you want to use old things into you're new game? i should not add everything in 1 big file, try to use some items. @alpine laurel

[alpine laurel]

its not a new game

i am testing some stuff and i just dont want to risk screwing up the project when i am testing

[dreamy sleet]

can someone help me i cant launch the game to test it

[pallid talon]

@dreamy sleet Press the "Play" or "Launch" button.

[dreamy sleet]

it does not work

@pallid talon

[pallid talon]

Nothing happens at all?

[alpine laurel]

also can someone please tell me why the hell the widgets suddenly decided to stop scaling with the window size?

[dreamy sleet]

this is what happens when i play it

@pallid talon

[alpine laurel]

i mean is there a reason the widgets just stoped scaling

[lofty fractal]

Anyone familiar with GetOverlappingActors()? Can't make it return anything:
selectedActor->GetStaticMeshComponent()->SetCollisionEnabled(ECollisionEnabled::QueryAndPhysics);
selectedActor->GetStaticMeshComponent()->BodyInstance.SetResponseToAllChannels(ECollisionResponse::ECR_Overlap);
TArray<AActor*> overlappingActors; // never gets filled
selectedActor->GetOverlappingActors(overlappingActors);

[hearty walrus]

A: Using the SkySphereBP, Why am I getting a player appearing in the middle?
B: How do I have the camera orbit around the level?
C: Why do my shadows have "Preview" written on them>?
D: The BP_SkySphere gets really bright when playing. How do I fix?

[open gorge]

in regards to C, the engine shows you a preview of what your lighting will be, you need to build lighting to make that go away.

[unreal comet]

I have 90 animation files that all have a beginning naming of "RPG_2_Hand" followed by the anim name. Is there a way to bulk edit and remove the "RPG_2_Hand" part from all of the animation names?

[tropic delta]

a) You might have the player OR its just the in editor icon
B) you can use a bp with a curve and a timeline or use math
C) you have to build lighting
D) try looking in the options, and also tweak the auto exposure. Make sure you have a directional light linked to the sun.

[brittle sail]

Hey, guys, in which category can I put my programming problem that is linked to UE4?

Cus I got one, aye

[open gorge]

@unreal comet you can write a python script to do that.

[brittle sail]

Oh nvm, found it

[open gorge]

@brittle sail post it here, we'll redirect you if needed

[brittle sail]

Oh, okay

[hearty walrus]

@tropic delta
A: It's a blank level with nothing but the BP_SkySphere
B: I'm talking about having the player camera control being like the thirdpersontemplate, but the pawn is the level
C: Yeah I'll try that
D: I haven't changed the settings/auto exposure, and I don't have a directional light linked

[open gorge]

but in the future, under the programming category text channels

w/e one fits best

[unreal comet]

@open gorge Thanks. It's not a huge deal. I was just curious if Unreal had a way to do it.

[open gorge]

not really

but you can execute a python script inside of ue4

but would probably be easier to do it on the files themselves

in explorer

[brittle sail]

Well I have a problem, because I'm not sure why, but without including Kismet/GameplayStatics.h , UGameplayStatics is showing as red (so not included)

But when I DO include it, then Generated Body in the same file shows as red

is Kismet/GameplayStatics.h linked to GENERATED BODY, in any way? I thought, that this function is for generating an object only

[tropic delta]

@tropic delta
A: It's a blank level with nothing but the BP_SkySphere
B: I'm talking about having the player camera control being like the thirdpersontemplate, but the pawn is the level
C: Yeah I'll try that
D: I haven't changed the settings/auto exposure, and I don't have a directional light linked
@hearty walrus
for A thats weird, but if you are using a template level, it might spawn one using the gamemode.
for B, if you have an example for that, I dont quite understand what you need
and D is just there is nothing to stop the light, and UE being PBR will bloom AF without tweaking

[brittle sail]

Here's a screenshot for a reference

Sorry if my question is rather silly, I've started programming 1 month ago in general, but it's my first day in unreal engine.

[radiant haven]

Can I somehow get LOCAL Velocity?

[brittle sail]

Um, so can I get redirected to some category where my request should be?

[open gorge]

sorry I was tabbed

@brittle sail does it still compile?

that's probably just intellisense being weird

[haughty moth]

How can I learn to code c++ in unreal engine

[hearty walrus]

tf happened here

[haughty moth]

do you know any tutorial ?

[open gorge]

if you're using any of the static functions from UGameplayStatics you'll need to include the header

@haughty moth there are several, i recommend you learn the basics of C++ and OOP principals before trying to learn UE4 C++ though

it'll better prepare you

[haughty moth]

i know c++ and OOP

now i want to learn UE4 C++

and i don't know where

[brittle sail]

Yeah I included the header, BUT

For some reason it interacts with GENERATED BODY, making it uncompilable

WHEN it's not included generated body works just fine, but when I DO include it, than it doesn't

[hearty walrus]

@tropic delta

[open gorge]

oh

[hearty walrus]

here's the gamemode

[open gorge]

@brittle sail your gnereated.h needs to be the last include

that's why

compiler should tell you that too

[tropic delta]

@tropic delta
@hearty walrus thats really weird

[brittle sail]

o

[hearty walrus]

hold on

[open gorge]

@haughty moth in that case, what in particular do you want to know? It's a good idea to make a goal and learn how to solve that goal.

[hearty walrus]

It's using a blank template

[open gorge]

another thing to understand is that almost everything in UE4 derives from UObject

[haughty moth]

I want to move an actor

[open gorge]

and there are tons of child classes based on that.

[haughty moth]

is my first goal

[open gorge]

move actor how?

[hearty walrus]

here's the only code in the level

[open gorge]

you can do that simply

[hearty walrus]

level blueprint

[haughty moth]

i want to move one actor inthis case a block and i want that when the proyect strarts the block moves to other position

[open gorge]

then use Move Actor To

you'll be doing a lot of googling when it comes to UE4

so better get used to that now

[haughty moth]

yes but i don't know the basics of the framework of UE4 and i don´t know where i can learn

[brittle sail]

Okay... So if I understood you correctly, generated.h should be included last, and I did include it in the last line of includes, it makes the same error tho

[haughty moth]

and this is what i am asking

[open gorge]

check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSUJuIkTtKI

and go from there.

@brittle sail don't do definitions in .h

[haughty moth]

thanks

[open gorge]

especially with UFUNCTIONS

define your functions in the cpp

I believe you need to use FORCEINLINE to define non static functions in .h, and it can be a bit buggy

but it's a better practice to separate implementation and definition

[brittle sail]

Okay then, thanks! (I'll get right into that when I'll wake up)

[open gorge]

🙂

feel free to DM me if you have further questions

but the correct channel for that stuff in the future would be #cpp

[brittle sail]

Thanks man

[haughty moth]

@open gorge You are a very nice guy

[brittle sail]

Sorry, I'm kinda new to this engine ^^

[open gorge]

it's all good

we all started out new

[haughty moth]

ey did you think that is a good idea to start in unreal engine in 2020 ?

or is better that start in other engine

[open gorge]

Up to you

UE4 is constantly being updated

It has really good networking code out of the box too

The only other comparable engine is Unity and I'm not sure of the ease of networking with it.

[haughty moth]

Unity is easyer but the result is worst

[open gorge]

I think that depends on the developers

[haughty moth]

i think that graficaly is better unreal engine 4

[open gorge]

Hearthstone is made with Unity

Thats 100% on the artist

Not the engine