ue4-general

[open wadi]

Right, first create the videos => name, url, description struct

so if I wanted to create that first, is there any example of best-practices to do so?

[exotic thicket]

it's not that complicated, you create a new blueprint struct and add the variables you need into it

[open wadi]

Ok, so I can have 3 keys per value in a BP struct

Perhaps I looked at that wrong.

Yup, got it.

Brilliant, thank you zomg.

One last thing > Module should be an int, Video should be an int, and then the video keys Name, URL, description should all be strings.

[tardy depot]

how would i go about putting foilage and textures on this sphere? becuase whn i use the foliage and vertex painting methods they dont work

[marble sparrow]

HI, does anybody know of any ue4 plugins that add addtional functionaly to array's within blueprints?

I'm looking for multidimensional arrays and what not....there is even a new array type out that I read briefly about that has 2 pointers

anybody have any input on plugins that support addtional array methods what not?

[grim juniper]

You can make a struct that only contains the array you want, then make an array of that struct. Just remember you need to use set members of struct instead of set array element for it to work

[marble sparrow]

ok noted

in very small pieces with alot of blending

[tardy depot]

ok

voxel is really easy but its 300 :/

[dense gate]

@open wadi have you considered trying datatables?

They're basically maps but in asset form instead of variable

And the index is a name

@marble sparrow check out Rama's Victory BP

[marble sparrow]

nope i haven't tried that sounds like an object

[dense gate]

It had some neat nodes in general

[marble sparrow]

@shut junipertone You are the second one to recommend Rama's Victory BP

[dense gate]

[marble sparrow]

@shut junipertone I'm going to get it now

[dense gate]

Wrong ping

[open wadi]

I'm the second one who recommended Rama's Victory BP?

I do not use that, I've seen it around, last I checked those plugins haven't been updated in a while on the UE4 marketplace.

Perhaps I'm wrong, maybe some are maintained.

[marble sparrow]

I got the mysql plugin it seems a little bit limited but hopefully it gives connection to database

the plugin doesn't support delete for some odd reason

I may have to modify itr

[dense gate]

Tbh I wouldn't really trust database stuff from inside of UE4

I'd rather send HTTP to a database specific server

[noble magnet]

Im not seeing my Anim Slot manager in my AnimBP details window. If I accidentally closed it, where do I go to open it again?

[open wadi]

Question: What is the naming convention for key => value pairs in UE4? For example, for keys, is it camelCase, snake_case, lowercase, etc?

[exotic thicket]

I use CamelCase since that's the naming convention for C++ vars

[knotty vessel]

does anyone have a series of video tutorials that are easy to follow for getting started in ue4?

[open wadi]

zomg: Do you capitalize the first letter, akin to PascalCase?

Or is it camelCase proper?

[exotic thicket]

Uppercase first letter

[open wadi]

Got it.

[exotic thicket]

I have no idea why the naming convention for variables is like that

it seems to go opposite to most variable naming conventions

but that's what it is in UE so that's what I'm using lol

[open wadi]

Right.

[serene heron]

How can I rotate the feet and arms

To not be so close or clip

I know I should've screen shot but I dont know how to do it yet in ue4

[faint maple]

idk if anyone can help with this, i have portals set up and they work fine and all, but i have paintballs too that splatter when they hit the ground, that works, but when they go through the portal they dont travel out, they instantly splatter upon teleporting, not sure how to go about that

[radiant jasper]

I got a whole ass i7 7700hq (laptop) and its aboutta combust from packaging

[torpid notch]

Anyone else ever have issues with landscape mode constantly moving your Unreal Engine Viewport?? Any advice on how to fix this???

[radiant jasper]

i get this after downloading my game from gamejolt

the same exact file before uploading to gamejolt works fine

does gamejolt compress it in some way? or

[storm iris]

Hi, I'm new here and I hope I'm on the right Chanel. I have a question about UE 4.25 How can I program it via blueprints that magic only works with special weapons e.g. a fireball spell only with a fire sword or fire stick etc.? I've been looking for a solution for a long time but unfortunately haven't found anything yet. It would be really great if someone could help me.

[fallen marten]

@storm iris make a spell effect class, then use an anim notify in your weapon attack animation to spawn the spell effect

Pretty straight forward stuff

[torpid notch]

Anyone know why my Unreal UI is doing that?

[radiant jasper]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/225448446956404738/764282088978907144/unknown.png

i get this after downloading my game from gamejolt
the same exact file before uploading to gamejolt works fine
does gamejolt compress it in some way? or

[cold thunder]

If you have all your controls in your player controller and want to poscess different character pawns (switching characters) while at runtime. How can I do that? When I try to change characters by posessing the new character, it cannot move.

I tried to unpossess too as well.

Pretty much just wanting to change default pawn class while in game.

But all my controls are in the player controller which is messing things up.

[radiant jasper]

can someone help me pls

[cosmic cove]

um you can try google or youtube

[radiant jasper]

ive tried that

[cosmic cove]

what seems to be the problem bud

[radiant jasper]

my packaged exe file doesnt run outside of my computer

i packaged for shipping, should i be packaging it as something else?

like it runs on my pc but no one elses

[cosmic cove]

your game doing anything special ?

[radiant jasper]

nope

single player, no servers or anything

fully bp

[cosmic cove]

maybe you tweaked a bunch of settings ?

[radiant jasper]

what settings would affect it

i dont think i changed anything really

[cosmic cove]

i package server and client to windows 64 bit

and never changed settings for shipping

[radiant jasper]

what version r u on

im on 4.25.1

[cosmic cove]

i also you source code not the binary version of ue4

[radiant jasper]

i use source

my menu is slightly different than urs

[cosmic cove]

what happens when another machine launches game ?

[radiant jasper]

it gives the error showed above

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/225448446956404738/764282088978907144/unknown.png

[cosmic cove]

seems the source build could be messed up

i would start over. deleting the entire source build and make sure you build it correctly

[marsh sparrow]

have you tried google..

Backup and remove files from folder: "YourGame\Config" (It will remove all project settings)

Remove files from folders: "YourGame\Intermediate", "YourGame\Saved", "YourGame\Binaries", "YourGame\Build"

Restart and rebuild project

Setup project settings from scratch

first link

[radiant jasper]

yeah i tried that

[marsh sparrow]

is it an apk?

[radiant jasper]

no

windows

wait so i gotta completely reinstall source

[cosmic cove]

i can tell ya the error suggest and source build mess up

[radiant jasper]

ok whats the correct way to build source

cuz i just downloaded the zip file before

[cosmic cove]

thats why

auto fail

[radiant jasper]

it worked for a different game i packaged

[cosmic cove]

yea and it very well could

[radiant jasper]

whats the newest version of ue4

[cosmic cove]

but clearly you current game does not

[radiant jasper]

is it .4 yet or

[cosmic cove]

not sure 26 was in preview not sure if its released

[radiant jasper]

ok ill go look it up

[cosmic cove]

my source folder

[dense gate]

4.26 may be unstable at the moment

I'm noticing lower fps in editors, whether BPs or meshes

[torpid notch]

Anyone know how I can fix my issue? I put the video up above.

[radiant jasper]

looks like the newest one is still 4.25.3

woah thats a lot of gigs

[cosmic cove]

welcome to real source code

[radiant jasper]

mines like 60 i think

[cosmic cove]

hints the error message

[radiant jasper]

set ENGINEVERSION=4.25.3
set DRIVE=E

git clone https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine.git --branch %ENGINEVERSION%-release %DRIVE%:\unreal\src\UnrealEngine-%ENGINEVERSION%-release --quiet --progress

call "%DRIVE%:\unreal\src\UnrealEngine-%ENGINEVERSION%-release\setup.bat"

call "%DRIVE%:\unreal\src\UnrealEngine-%ENGINEVERSION%-release\GenerateProjectFiles.bat"

::BUILD UNREAL SOURCE

call "%DRIVE%:\unreal\src\UnrealEngine-%ENGINEVERSION%-release\Engine\Build\BatchFiles\Build.bat" -Target="ShaderCompileWorker Win64 Development" -Target="UE4Editor Win64 Development" -Target="UnrealLightmass Win64 Development" -WaitMutex -FromMsBuild would this work ive never used it before

like as a bat file

[cosmic cove]

git clone latest version step one

[radiant jasper]

it does that yeah

[cosmic cove]

building a correct source version can be failed over and over if not carefully gone through the process.

[radiant jasper]

ok so how do id o it

the release is just a zip file

[cosmic cove]

are you only building for client or client and server ?

[radiant jasper]

client but i dont want launcher version

it doesnt work with some stuff i do

[cosmic cove]

i use github desktop.

[radiant jasper]

so just clone it?

[cosmic cove]

yes. you will need to have an active github account and logged in

[radiant jasper]

ok

[cosmic cove]

you will also need vs 2017 or higher. i recommend 2019

[radiant jasper]

i have all that

[cosmic cove]

your vs needs to have c++ unreal package installed prior to source build

[radiant jasper]

yup like i said have all that

[cosmic cove]

after cloning , step 2 is setup.bat

[radiant jasper]

mhm

and then i gotta have vs take 5 hrs to build it

[cosmic cove]

yup

[radiant jasper]

is there a reason they cant put the source version in the launcher

[cosmic cove]

because they like new people to waste all there time with quick do nothing project under the binary version

[plush yew]

guys can you tell me why my unreal engine, every thing I delete, crashes? I can't do anything just close it and reopen it, even deleting a texture! version 4.25!😩

[cosmic cove]

after we run the source setup. you could zip it. and say hey i got fully working source no edits needed

but its large file space is most likely why epic doesnt deal with it .

[radiant jasper]

i edited my source code before cuz 4.25.1 was kinda buggy and i needed to fix it

but i edited like a couple lines lol

[cosmic cove]

just a heads up , your problem is most likely with your current project

but i cant help you fix that , if your internal source is jacke dup

[radiant jasper]

mhm

[cosmic cove]

@plush yew your computers specs are likely low or your installation is damaged

[plush yew]

hello @cosmic cove i9 9900k ,ram 32 GB ,gpu 2080

[radiant jasper]

holy guacamole

bet u regret that now lol

3080 like 600$

[cosmic cove]

well. your project and something you've done can cause that. and damaged installation really could be problem.

before you rip your project up i would re-install

[plush yew]

do re-install version 4.25?

[cosmic cove]

yea

[plush yew]

😅 ok I try to see how it will go ty

and i am using 2gb of ram and 15% of cpu😆

and it will stop the engine, let's hope so

[cosmic cove]

lets hope, because project side crashing is much more techy.

[atomic viper]

would anyone know how to trigger off an event after an event has happened? like after I killed the enemies, make something spawn

[cosmic cove]

you want fundamentals ?

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

[radiant jasper]

just set a variable to the health of the enemies

like when greater than 0, branch, false, spawn something

thats how id do it

[atomic viper]

im not totally sure if that video helped with what im trying to do...

[cosmic cove]

if i had a quarter for every time i led a horse to water and he refused to drink i would be a rich man.

[atomic viper]

so like after the Print string? after all the bad guys have been defeated?

lol, i dont deny that man

I would not be surprised

what would event replication do? sorry im still learning

[cosmic cove]

i posted that video to nip a couple things in the but. Replication and events.

[atomic viper]

hmmm, wouldn't this be more for multiplayer stuff?

[radiant jasper]

like i said just use a variable

[cosmic cove]

50% yes. the other half is how quickly he sets up the events to work

[radiant jasper]

and u can use an event tick

for it to constantly check

[cosmic cove]

which the event you need to make . he explains a bit on how to whip up a event. and multiplay at the same time.

[radiant jasper]

i think atleast

[cosmic cove]

@radiant jasper if you have done good so far with new installation. after setup.bat.

[radiant jasper]

yeah im doin that rn its at 70%

[cosmic cove]

this will make your source build complete

its very important to get to that point knowing your source is setup right

after that dont touch it

[atomic viper]

so like I have everything already set up, I have the events working right now, Like i have the event for being able to pick up the key and take it to the appropriate door and after beating the enemies, you just get the "win" screen and continue on with the level

[radiant jasper]

so u want the keys to spawn when all enemies are dead?

[atomic viper]

so that branch you were talking about, set the false one to set that up?

1 Key, yes

[radiant jasper]

yeah and drag the red part to ur health variable

or if its a seperate bp just cast it

[atomic viper]

Can I take a screenshot and show you guys? just to make sure im doing this right

[radiant jasper]

sure

[radiant jasper]

looks fine but idk

[atomic viper]

hmmm

[radiant jasper]

u need an event tick if u want it to constantly check

and the variable needs to be the bad guys health

[atomic viper]

ohhh

[radiant jasper]

@cosmic cove im doing the generateprojectfiles.bat and its stuck at 0%

[cosmic cove]

just give it a minute , this could be another redo

because of your vs

[radiant jasper]

i have vs 2019 with all of the add ons

so it wouldnt be that i dont think

[cosmic cove]

well there is 1 added component that is hard to find. and sometimes is missing.

i actually been looking for it. and cant find it

[radiant jasper]

i gotta update vs

[cosmic cove]

im still looking give me a minute

ok cant find it, but im pretty sure its one of these. just make sure yours looks similar

[radiant jasper]

yeah im still updating vs

[cosmic cove]

i think its one of the targeting packs

also VS runs on windows components . thus needing windows to be fully updated

[radiant jasper]

oh yeah i needa update that aswell

its an update to .NET framework

[cosmic cove]

the .net framework is the most important

[radiant jasper]

Yup

Restarting my laptop

i am now building ue4

-LogCmds="loginit warning, logexit warning, logdatabase error" -Unattended -WarningsAsErrors -abslog="E:\unrealengine\UnrealEngine\Engine\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\Log_UHT.txt"
1>Reflection code generated for UE4Editor in 49.3898821 seconds

@cosmic cove its stuck at this

oh nvm it just started working again

its gotta build 3923 things lmao

[cosmic cove]

alright im tired and worked my ass off all day. Your build should work. warnings are to be ignored. as well as anything that doesn't say fail. Error build fail = start over. If you build without error fail then just leave it alone. your source is likely working. Unfortunately that was the easy part. The main concern is project builds and errors. I will be on tomorrow to help if your still having issues with your project.

@radiant jasper

[icy mulch]

Messing around with the skybox

[barren flume]

Having a problem all of a sudden, for some reason time is slower in game now and the sim time is also slower and not sure how I would fix this, I tried setting time dilation to 1 but didn't work

[plush yew]

No

@maiden swift This guy is breaking rule number 1

Doxxed me as well

Said my full name

Definitely didn't give you permission to upload that

[maiden swift]

@plush yew Hey, chill. Respect other members of the community and don't bring your personal problems here.

[plush yew]

No I didn't

[maiden swift]

Dude. One more chance. No public shaming, witch hunting, or bringing your drama here.

This isn't the place.

Good. Thanks.

[late verge]

hello! i'm a bit confused about how oscillation blend ins and outs work for camera shake BPs.

say my oscillation duration is 100 seconds, my blend in time is 20 seconds, and my blend out time is 80 seconds.

does this mean that the blend in will stop at the 20 second mark, and my blend out will start at the 80 second mark?

or does this mean that the blend in will last 20 seconds and the blend out will last 80 seconds?

the cause of my confusion is that the word time is used for blend ins and outs, but the description says duration.

[plush yew]

they will last that long

Think of a number going from 0 to 1 in the span of 20 or 80 seconds

or vice versa

[late verge]

hmm got it. excuse the brain fart, but using my example of 100, how would i be able to make it so the oscillation is at 1 from the 50 to 60 second mark (lasting a total of 10 seconds at 1)

[plush yew]

You time the blend ins and blend outs

So if you had a 100 second timer, you make the blend in 50 seconds and the blend out 40 seconds

I think that's what you asked?

[late verge]

yes, that's exactly what i asked

thank you so much friend, appreciate it

[plush yew]

No problem, hope that helps

@maiden swift It's continuing

[maiden swift]

@plush yew @plush yew Guys, what is your deal?

[plush yew]

Chaotic has an alt in here as well @split umbra

[maiden swift]

Stop spamming the channel please. This is for general discussion about Unreal.

[open wadi]

Question: I have a struct that consists of 3 string => string maps. There are 3 maps: for example, "Key A", "Key B", and "Key C", and each of these keys has various values. So for example, "Key A" has the values "Value 1", "Value 2", and "Value 3", so forth.

How the heck do I access the values within a blueprint?

[cosmic cove]

hmm. i left and weird stuff started happening.

[open wadi]

I cast to the GI that contains the struct variable, then I expanded the struct pin into the 3 maps.

I don't need to do any searches on the maps, I just need to access the keys and use their values

So I can pull the result of "Key A" => "Value 1"

I'm finding it difficult to find an example online.

The official documentation doesn't go into this.

[brittle adder]

theoretically it should work

maybe your custom game instance is not set at the project settings?

[radiant jasper]

what is the location of ue4.exe

[plush yew]

C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_4.26\Engine\Binaries\Win64 @radiant jasper

[radiant jasper]

source

not launcher

[plush yew]

Yes

It's in there

[brittle adder]

you have to run Setup.bat first

it will download all binaries and then, compile it

[radiant jasper]

yeah i did that

is it ue4editor?

[plush yew]

That would be it

[brittle adder]

yes

[radiant jasper]

oh ok

[cosmic cove]

ok

so an instruction thats misleading is the launch of your source editor

which is the u.project file of your project that launches source mode.

if you launch the binary version of ue4 your source project will be missing

double click the u.project file of your project which will lauch in source mode

[radiant jasper]

i already launched the ue4eidtor and its initializing

i dont want source mode tho

[cosmic cove]

then i wouldnt understand anything do with your source issues

[radiant jasper]

dw abt it

it takes a while to initialize tho

[brittle adder]

yeah, it will probably stuck below 50% compiling 10000000 shaders

[radiant jasper]

yeah its been at 39% for a little while

what even are shaders i never fully understood them and why theyre so important

isnt it just lighting stuff?

[brittle adder]

as scooby said, you can right click any .uproject and click Switch Engine Version to open with the source engine that you built

but if you don't have any project, you already did the right thing

[cosmic cove]

we havnt gotten to that phase of the situation which prolongs his issue

[radiant jasper]

yeah ik im just tryna start up the thing first

[brittle adder]

just wait, and create a project or whatever

[radiant jasper]

i have a completed project that when launched on other computers doesnt work

so i rebuilt unreal from source

[brittle adder]

hm

[cosmic cove]

you rebuilt source code to ensure source works correctly. but the project needs to be built in the same order

[radiant jasper]

I have to rebuild the project as well?

[cosmic cove]

....

[radiant jasper]

Usually if I upgrade to another version it’ll just convert it

[plush yew]

If you are opening the project in a new version it will be recompiled

[radiant jasper]

Thas gonna take another 5 hrs lmao

[plush yew]

Unless if you have 200GB of C++, it won't

[brittle adder]

nah

[plush yew]

There's no way it would take that long

Maybe 3 minutes max

[radiant jasper]

Oh ok

Idk compiling shaders seems to take a very long time

My CPU is at 100% rn

[brittle adder]

just the first time you open it

[radiant jasper]

Yeah ik

But when building games itll take a couple hrs atleast

Especially for mobile

[cosmic cove]

when your source is setup. and your project is setup. game builds takes roughly 5 minutes.

[brittle adder]

tell that to my AMD FX 😦

[cosmic cove]

and thats server and client

[radiant jasper]

Bruh I was packaging a very small game for iOS and it took like 2.5 hrs

[cosmic cove]

i run amd fx 6 core

[radiant jasper]

I have a laptop

[plush yew]

That's normal

Took me 30ish hours to compile a project I used to work on

[brittle adder]

whoaaaa

[cosmic cove]

lol yea if it takes more then 1 hour to do anything. gotta go shopping for new hardware

[plush yew]

It was a big project...

[brittle adder]

I would just go the beach and come back the next day

[radiant jasper]

I have an i7 7700hq but it’s so garbage lmao

[brittle adder]

how much RAM?

[cosmic cove]

its kinda funny actually, people claim i7 runs similar specs as i9. but its just not accurate .

[radiant jasper]

24gb

[plush yew]

ram doesnt help much for that

I have 64

[radiant jasper]

I upgraded it from 16 a little while ago

Cuz 16 isn’t enough for anything

[brittle adder]

for playing I think its ok

[plush yew]

Yeah 32 is about as high as you need to go for that

[radiant jasper]

For like editing it ain’t

[brittle adder]

but when you have a memory leak developing..

[cosmic cove]

yea spend 50 bucks on your memory and 1k on your gpu. is kinda the guidelines.

[plush yew]

I dropped the same amount of money I did on my GPU as I did my ram

[radiant jasper]

R there suppose to be 2

My laptop was 1k plus like $60 for extra ram

[brittle adder]

one is probably the UE4Editor that you ran before? and the other is the .uproject?

[radiant jasper]

I only have one ue4 open

This seems like an issue

[cosmic cove]

lol

[radiant jasper]

I may have accidentally clicked it 4 times

[brittle adder]

😱

[radiant jasper]

Should I close them

[plush yew]

Yes

[cosmic cove]

im completely not confident source is built correctly at this point.

[radiant jasper]

Lol

[brittle adder]

btw try holding the Windows Key + Shift + S

select the area that you want to screencap

[radiant jasper]

Don’t wanna go on discord on my laptop rn

It finna exploode

[brittle adder]

ctrl+v here

lmao sorry

[plush yew]

Lmao

[brittle adder]

you are right

[plush yew]

Discord is fine on PC :))

[radiant jasper]

Nah but my CPU at 100

[brittle adder]

taste the feeling of nostalgia

[plush yew]

UE4 will always use 100% of your CPU when compiling something

[brittle adder]

when everything was slow and painful

[radiant jasper]

There’s also the fact that it’s on an external ssd

Cuz i didn’t feel like putting 130gb on my internal

So that might be slowing it down a bit

[open wadi]

Disregard previous question; resolved.

[radiant jasper]

It’s still at 39%

[sterile tulip]

is there any way of going beyond the brush size maximum?

in sculpt mode

[plush yew]

input a number directly

[sterile tulip]

the maximum is 65k

when I input. I wanna go beyond that

[plush yew]

No way I think

65K is huge

There's no reason to go beyond that

[loud knoll]

Anyone know why when you take a screen shot that BP actor made up of Models will not show up in the screen shots? Like 50% shows up, and I have been trying to fix this for a while. I tried highres screenshot plugin and just regular is there something else you need to turn on to make it work 100% of the time?

[radiant jasper]

I have 6000 shaders to compile

Yay

[cosmic cove]

if its anything related to what were doing. its a good thing

[loud knoll]

well I figured it out, if you know someone having this trouble, never use the Highres Screenshot tools even if you disable the plugin, just use F9 and it will capture everything fine.

[radiant jasper]

i need to "compile unreal lightmass"

@cosmic cove

[brittle adder]

open the engine project files

[radiant jasper]

Yeah I’m doin it

I looked it up

[brittle adder]

it wont take more than 10mins

compiling just the lightmass

[radiant jasper]

Yeah it’s only 80 things vs 4000

[brittle adder]

🥳

[autumn yew]

So I have spent a fair amount of time using unreal blueprints over the past few days. Followed a couple of tutorials and made a couple of multiplayer FPS games that were extremely minimal.

I have a vision for an FPS Multiplayer Project that isn't to ambitious but I would like to start with a base project and go from there. I have found a couple that seem like a good place to start from, but I figured I would ask the peanut gallery if you guys have any suggestions.

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

[cosmic cove]

you been drinking bro ?

[radiant jasper]

multiplayer fps aint minimal

[autumn yew]

That is one of the cheaper ones I have found.

[radiant jasper]

and r pretty complex

u also have to animate a lot

[autumn yew]

I have lots of coding background, and lots of 3d animation background as well. I have just never gotten into game design.

Whatever the case, I'm just seeing if anyone has any suggestions for a base to start with.

[radiant jasper]

ok

[autumn yew]

I have no ideas of grandeur here. Just having fun 🙂

I am a sound engineer who tinkers with games and computers after work ;]

[radiant jasper]

nice

[cosmic cove]

https://tenor.com/view/barney-the-dinosaur-barney-snow-day-winter-snowing-gif-16275348

[autumn yew]

Dude....

You stalking me to get that video?

[cosmic cove]

bruh im having fun

[autumn yew]

https://tenor.com/view/смех-дедсмеёться-угар-хахахах-дедмем-gif-15106228

[worn salmon]

hey i just updated to 4.25.3 and now when i play/test the game in the editor, it doesnt feel as smooth as the older version

[autumn yew]

@cosmic cove I know, jokes jokes. And to answer your question, I did just open a really clean german pilsner.

[cosmic cove]

whelp , im jelous .....

[autumn yew]

I started in unity a few months ago

and man did I wish I started with unreal.

[cosmic cove]

i started in unity 8 years ago

you can crown me

[autumn yew]

Nice, I just like how many tools unreal has built in.

[radiant jasper]

bruh i remember opening unity a couple yrs ago, looking at it for 2 min, and fucking deleted that shit

it made no sense whatsoever to me lmao

[autumn yew]

Im definitely better at C# than CPP

but honestly the blueprints is what has sold me more than anything.

Is that lame?

[radiant jasper]

nah i only use bp

[autumn yew]

Ah, thats good to hear.

[radiant jasper]

shits too easy to pass up altho it has downsides to it ofc

[loud knoll]

why are you guys posting that shit in this channel?

[radiant jasper]

cuz this is the unreal engine channel

[autumn yew]

The channel in which we talk about the unreal engine

[brittle adder]

thats more like #lounge talk

[autumn yew]

Just because it involves humor?

[misty siren]

Can anyone tell me why the project won't register right mouse button?

I tried both RMB and the Action input i set up

Clicking does nothing.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[radiant jasper]

what is the do once for

what is it doing

[misty siren]

Sets up a camera shift

[distant totem]

@misty siren do you have any other blueprints that use RMB? one might have consume input1 checked

[misty siren]

Lemme check slim

I shouldn't tho, this is the 3rd person default and I haven't touched it till I did this

@distant totem Its not used anywhere else.

[radiant jasper]

a sequence might be easier to use for that idk

[misty siren]

Its used so when the RMB (Aim button) is used, it switches the camera from behind the player to over the shoulder

[radiant jasper]

ohh ok

[misty siren]

I tried a couple different ways and they had some overlapping issues otherwise. I appreciate the input, however 🙂

[radiant jasper]

yeah idk ive never done something like that

[misty siren]

IDK why its not registering.

never had this issue b4

[radiant jasper]

something wrong with the timeline i think

make sure ur referencing the cameras correctly and shit

[misty siren]

The thing is when I right click, the event doesn't fire.

Even in simulation view nothing happens

[brittle adder]

instead of using InputAction

create a Right Mouse Button node

print a string

[radiant jasper]

yeah i was thinking that

input actions r kinda useless when u can literally just do it in the bp

[misty siren]

Slim was right

[radiant jasper]

oh ok

[misty siren]

I had consume in a BP i completely forgot existed.

Thanks @distant totem

[cosmic cove]

@loud knoll just let us know what we can talk about in this channel.

[radiant jasper]

50 more cpp's to go

[delicate atlas]

how do i add a coin?

[radiant jasper]

Huh

[distant totem]

no problem man glad that worked for you 🍻 , have had that happen to me countless times

[radiant jasper]

Like the default ? Coin thing in the 3rd person template?

[delicate atlas]

nah i want to add 1 coin

[radiant jasper]

Idk what ur talking abt lmao

[delicate atlas]

yeah ive been stuck on this problem for like a month

[gilded dove]

how do i make a redeem code system as in on my site peopletype a redeem code and get an item in game
ik its possible but how
and how to make dlcs or paid tems
ik there are plugins for accepting payment methods but how u make it once they buy it they get the item

[cosmic cove]

lol

trollin

[brittle adder]

try xSolla

its a plugin, has some of the stuff that you want

[surreal laurel]

what node should I be looking for to get the cheapest realtime blur for a texture in my material?

[cosmic cove]

still trolling

[delicate atlas]

scooby

are u a unity dev?

[cosmic cove]

your off topic , and yes im a professional unity game developer.

[delicate atlas]

my bad bro

[gilded dove]

its a plugin, has some of the stuff that you want
@brittle adder ikbut how doo i make it so they get the dlc and how to make it so if they buy it they get their items on potentional other plattforms etc

eos services maybe but i wanna make my own account and cloud save system except idk how lollz

its obv possible but idk how

as far as i can see theres no tutorials on it

[cosmic cove]

@gilded dove the best advice i can give you, is to create a TCP system for sending and receiving commands which can activate web based services as well as client/game based events.

[misty siren]

I'm very new here, but I would assume you implement a system where the game checks a list uniquely attached to the player for whether they've purchased the DLC. Then when it is bought, have it set to "enabled" on the list.

And then when its enabled the game can check for files or whatever idk...

[radiant jasper]

Imagine if someone made a cloud based compile service where you could pay to compile your unreal engine (and other engines) on a server specifically designed for it and have it done significantly faster

Someone needs to create that

[misty siren]

That exists for Adobe projects and IDK why its not mainstream.

[gilded dove]

@gilded dove the best advice i can give you, is to create a TCP system for sending and receiving commands which can activate web based services as well as client/game based events.
@cosmic cove english pls lol, im newish to this stuff and not that advanced

and how would i do that

[misty siren]

I couldn't tell you, but I'm sure you could find a somewhat related tutorial and apply the info to fit your needs.

[cosmic cove]

i spoke clear English, maybe you should refer to google search or youtube.

[misty siren]

Imagine if someone made a cloud based compile service where you could pay to compile your unreal engine (and other engines) on a server specifically designed for it and have it done significantly faster
@radiant jasper How much time does your game take to compile, and how big is it?

[gilded dove]

whats a tcp system tho

and there is not tutorials on this

Might sound scummy but code yoink the code from other games redeem code pages and modify it so it works with my game

[honest vale]

tcp is a protocol

[radiant jasper]

I mean I’ve been compiling this thing for an hr and a half now

[misty siren]

Holy fuck

PC specs?

[radiant jasper]

i7 7700hq

Gtx 1060 24gb ram

[misty siren]

Send it my way I gotchu

I got threadripper 2950X and rtx 2080

[gilded dove]

bitch wut would take longer for me im on a asus gtx 550 ti

[radiant jasper]

Lmao it’s fine I think it’s close to being done anyways

[cosmic cove]

hehe, i heard crazy stuff on that thread ripper

[misty siren]

Its awesome, but it didn't live to the expectations I had.

[cosmic cove]

hmm

[misty siren]

it multitasks like no other, tho. Photoshop + Ableton + UE4 + 10 Firefox YouTube tutorials + Doom Eternal

[gilded dove]

on the epic games one they have a link to this script to make it work @cosmic cove

[radiant jasper]

Bruh my game is less than 2 gb total I swear to god it should not take this long

[misty siren]

@gilded dove you're not going to get game code using inspect element buddy

[cosmic cove]

lol

[gilded dove]

@gilded dove you're not going to get game code using inspect element buddy
@misty siren obv im talking the redeem pages script

[radiant jasper]

Ok nvm it’s not close at all I got another 4000 shaders lmao

[gilded dove]

but on further inspection this script is long asf and i dont understand it

[cosmic cove]

@radiant jasper again if your still on about our first mission. your exactly where your suppose to be o.0

[gilded dove]

thats mf for trackiing the users country actually nvm

me dumb

[radiant jasper]

I’m packaging it rn

[misty siren]

Godspeed, Sped. go on a run or something while your PC cooks itself lmao

[radiant jasper]

It’s 2 in da mornin

[misty siren]

Perfect jogging weather.

For anyone in the Pacific southwest that it.

[radiant jasper]

Unfortunately I’m not there lol

[misty siren]

Something is wrong with me, my hands by muscle memory type variations of words that I am not thinking.

Its happened for the last 3 messages.

I think I am having a stroke or some undiagnosed mental disorder is creeping up.

[radiant jasper]

2am type beat

[gilded dove]

@gilded dove the best advice i can give you, is to create a TCP system for sending and receiving commands which can activate web based services as well as client/game based events.
@cosmic cove How do i make a TCP System

then

[cosmic cove]

let me find something you can build off of

[misty siren]

Does anyone know of an editor plugin that allows you to do batch options in the "details panel"

[open wadi]

AIDS

[cosmic cove]

indeed.

[misty siren]

Victor, how dare you?

[plush yew]

hELLO GUYS

Ops, sorry caps

Ive made a big forest, but ive figured out that everyobject has lost the colision

can someone help?

[misty siren]

Sounds like you've got your work cut out for you

(Tree pun)

[plush yew]

hello

i have a fatal error i use hd 6700m and intel hd 3000 and windows 10 64 bit

[gilded dove]

this is just a design concept i made in photoshop but how do i make ui like this lol

[plush yew]

THIS DESIGN VERY GOOD

[gilded dove]

THANKS

[plush yew]

lol

please shadow border

[gilded dove]

NOT COPIED OR INSPIRED BY FORTNITE IN ANY WAY, I SWEAR

[plush yew]

[open wadi]

@misty siren Sometimes one has to scream out AIDS when one has been coding for hours.

[misty siren]

Agreed in entirety.

[open wadi]

Let it be known, let it be heard.

[plush yew]

help me guys lol

i have a fatal error i use hd 6700m and intel hd 3000 and windows 10 64 bit
@plush yew

[gilded dove]

this is just a design concept i made in photoshop but how do i make ui like this lol
@gilded dove would ui like this be easy to do and in the middle there will be the players standing

[open wadi]

@plush yew Have you checked the logs Mr. Hyper?

[plush yew]

yes

[gilded dove]

i would like to clarify not inspired by fortnite i 100% swear

[open wadi]

And pretel, what did they say?

[plush yew]

d3d11.dll

[open wadi]

d3d11.dll is what the logs said?

That's some concise logging.

[cosmic cove]

@gilded dove alright brotha , you need to create a tcp server in any code language you prefer. Ue4 will connect to your server. I code c# so i found an example in that.

[surreal laurel]

I'm trying to force a texture to use a low Mip level to create a fake blur effect (it's a post process material, so the whole thing has to be blurry, not based on distance to player like how mip usually works).How would I go about doing that? Not sure what i'm looking for with the MipValueMode, Level, MipBias, etc... 🤷‍♂️

[cosmic cove]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.sockets.tcplistener?view=netcore-3.1

[plush yew]

bro first sorry for my bad english 🙂

[gilded dove]

also what yall think of my concept design of the ui above

[plush yew]

second. windows 8.1 not problem working and windows 10 not working unreal based games (excluding minecraft dungeons)

@open wadi

[gilded dove]

this is just a design concept i made in photoshop but how do i make ui like this lol
@gilded dove also how do i take this design concept and fr do it in unreal

[open wadi]

I mean, there are way too many variables there. I'd re-check the Unreal project logs in ProjectName\Saved\Logs\NameOfProject.log (or NameOfProject_2.log if testing the game in standalone simulation), and I'd also generate the failure, and if it is a hardware-related issue, check the Windows Event log (application and system), filtering for errors and warnings, and look at the relevant timestamp. Otherwise you're flying blind.

You can monitor the logs in real-time via PowerShell - navigate to logs directory and use Get-Content NameOfProject.log -wait

Which is akin to Unix's tail -f

[plush yew]

who is say?

[open wadi]

And Windows 8.1 should die in a fire, so I wouldn't even begin to care what the results there were.

[plush yew]

droptone you say who?

hm ok

[open wadi]

I say who?

I say what, when, where and why.

[plush yew]

ok lol 😄

[cosmic cove]

i run window 8.1 developers edition since release.

zero problems

[plush yew]

By the way, I won't return to windows 8.1 again

@open wadi

[cosmic cove]

better re-download from pirate bay

a better copy

[plush yew]

the rest is on you droptone :d

[misty siren]

Lord I've run into a headache of a problem.

I use camera direction to dictate where the player heads when walking straight, and just implemented a relative camera position shift when aiming that moves the camera from behind the character to over the shoulder. Problem is when I walk around, the camera does this:

I don't even know where to start with this.

I know it has something to do with this, (These are my movement controls) but I don't have a thorough enough understanding RN to figure out what to change.

Anyone have an idea?

[cosmic cove]

negative

[misty siren]

Suicide time.

:/

[cosmic cove]

you see that power plug over there ?

(yoink)

[misty siren]

The one without a fork in it?

[surreal laurel]

I'm trying to force a texture to use a low Mip level to create a fake blur effect (it's a post process material, so the whole thing has to be blurry, not based on distance to player like how mip usually works).How would I go about doing that? Not sure what i'm looking for with the MipValueMode, Level, MipBias, etc... 🤷‍♂️
@surreal laurel Bumping this

[cosmic cove]

there no bumping formula here, and even so , you cant bump your self

[surreal laurel]

? It's just re asking the question, looking for input

[misty siren]

Wish i could help you chrits. I just don't know enough. sorry.

[surreal laurel]

All good! I've discovered that Mip generation only works for textures that are a power of two, so I think i'm on to something

[open wadi]

@misty siren What application do you use to record your desktop so you can post that video file here?

[misty siren]

Geforce Experience

[open wadi]

I was attempting to use SvgToGif to create animated gifs and no matter how I altered the settings it kept creating files over 10MB which prevented them from being uploaded here.

[misty siren]

30fps 1080P on a 10 sec clip shouldnt be that bad

[surreal laurel]

OBS baby

[open wadi]

Huh, I"m on a new Alienware with a 2080Ti, so there's some app that comes with the video card that you record with?

[surreal laurel]

that's what I use

[misty siren]

Yeah

Download Geforce Experience if your machine doesnt have it

[open wadi]

Nice, and the filesize is under 10Mb or do you pay for Discord to allow for larger uploads?

[misty siren]

It takes care of drivers and everything

It was under 10

[open wadi]

Naah, looks like I have the app installed.

Nice.

Thank you, helpful.

[misty siren]

Also it wasnt 1080p, it was 720p

NP

Okay i have an idea. Is there such thing as a branch function that changes the vector based on a condition being true or false? (As opposed switching the events)

[cosmic cove]

thats a great idea

[misty siren]

ty

[night basalt]

any know how to input TArray to varbinary

[cosmic cove]

o.0

[misty siren]

OMG I figured it out

[plush yew]

help me

lol

[misty siren]

To anyone who cares, UE has a node called "Select" that lets you change inputs based on whatever condition you want.

[woven bronze]

can't you just use branches?

[woven bronze]

oh

xD

[night basalt]

TArray to : Data in DB

[misty siren]

can't you just use branches?
@woven bronze Branches only work with events, not vectors.

[woven bronze]

i see

good tip

[cosmic cove]

i mean , if your working on pointers its impressive.

[surreal laurel]

My channel packed textures suddenly got corrupted or something and now there are greyish blocks in the alpha channel. Reimporting causes the same thing, what the heck could of happened?

On the left is what it should look like, but some of the textures suddenly turned into the right version

[misty siren]

So I am implementing a crosshair system, and wondering what the benefits are of setting it up in the level blueprint vs. the player blueprint. Can anyone shed some insight?

[daring prairie]

Very quick question!

I was clicking around and pressing alt/crtl/shift etc while navigating the viewport

And now my controls are messed up. I can't quite explain what's going up, but for a brief second a menu popped up and I think I confirmed a different set of navigation controls. Now the camera acts very oddly when I am using WASD to navigate. How can I fix this?

[misty siren]

Holy shit I just simplified like 15 nodes into 8 using common sense. Legit the best feeling ever.

[plush yew]

hi guys

how to define which player state class an AI uses

[storm iris]

@storm iris make a spell effect class, then use an anim notify in your weapon attack animation to spawn the spell effect
@fallen marten
ok thanks where do i do that?

[indigo cloak]

Ragdoll punching controlled by mouse

I want to control the players arms with the mouse. EG, the right arm/hand is moved when RMB is held down and moves in the direction of the mouse, Same when LMB is held down the left arm/hand follows the mouse. Please help

[ruby wadi]

im trying to import a .WAV sound file to my game but i get this error help

[plush yew]

when I use foliage, the trees lost colision, is it normal???
But they have colision when i put them alone, 1 by 1

[remote crow]

hey guys does anyone know how to stop message log from appearing?

[bright wharf]

does anyone know any good procedural animation tutorials?

[zealous estuary]

I have a character that can do 'space walks'. While floating in space, I want him to be able to roll.
The rolling works, using this:

PlayerInputComponent->BindAxis("Roll", this, &AMyPlayerCharacter::AddControllerRollInput);

The problem is, the rolling seems to be limited to 90 degrees in either direction. Then it just hard stops.
Does anyone have an idea why maybe?

Rolling is bound to q and e keys. So if I press the e key, the character correctly rolls, but after exactly 90 degrees, the rolling stops,
even if I keep pressing the key.

[storm iris]

What would interest me even more, who could show me (preferably with a practical example (picture)) how I can do it when I cast a spell with e.g. as a buff and my character should transform itself through the buff how do I have to do that? I know that the loading of the second character goes with spawn but I can't do it for the time e.g. 3 min. destroy the main character and the other character e.g. a wolf is moving or visible? and how it is then reversed after the time has elapsed. and above all that both characters move? I have buffs that regenerate mana or health over time, but unfortunately none as described above

[wind yacht]

@cosmic cove .... bruh . chill out, i didn offer anything cause i can't send u messages, it sais it failes when i try to reply to your dm's... i was just joking, don't take it so personal. next time make sure your discord isn't bugged or something...

[plush yew]

can i ask for help in this channel?

i did sth and is not working dont know why

[zenith flower]

You've got to be kidding me, why on earth would you FATAL on this?

If I select the 30th of a month that doesn't have 30 days, you shouldn't crash. Just zero it out or something.

[plush yew]

pls help im trying to set up a running and walking animation and in the blueprint i can see the animation well but once i put it to the character it doesnt animate nothing

pls help

[wind yacht]

@plush yew look at some youtube videos,. unreal has a few getting started with anim blueprints that are very good

[plush yew]

i know

but i preview it

im following a tutorial

i preview the blueprint and moves

perfect

i added to the character and is stop

[wind yacht]

i have no idea

[plush yew]

if i change the speed, in the preview it moves to the sides and all

[wind yacht]

hmm

[plush yew]

and still dont move

in wich place you guys get characters for free?

[wind yacht]

still can't tell from that what the problem is

go to the voice chat

someone there will help

[plush yew]

like if the blueprints work...

[wind yacht]

im not at pc at the moment unfortunately

[plush yew]

gotta try to locate the mistake, the blueprint is working, so it has to do with other thing

and i setted up the blueprint to the character

[wind yacht]

i would try to follow the tutorial again maybe you didn't plug something in or missed something

[potent bridge]

Anyone know any good free for commercial use fonts?

Modernistic looking if possible.

[plush yew]

theres just one thing that is not the same

couse the tutorial was old

but i searched sth to do the same

[wind yacht]

find a newer tutorial

there has to be some

[plush yew]

look at this

seems ok?

[humble yacht]

(C++) Is it possible to assign parents to components ? So components can inherit their parent's transform

[frank pagoda]

I'm heavily invested in pixel streaming from AWS at my day job. I'm a bit worried about the beta status. When will this feature move to released status and is linux support on the roadmap? It would make the system so much faster/easier to scale.

[plush yew]

i'm trying to fire a projectile from a location but i need to tweak the Z direction (rotation?) between start point and actor target point, any idea how i can start on it?

[chilly olive]

So the next gen is coming and idk if I can afford a rtx wut is an alternative for that

Is still the rtx 20 series worth it cuz I'm buying a laptop for gaming editing ue4 blender etc

Ping me pls

[bleak hound]

i cant connect Level sequence to play. plz help.

cant connect level sequencer animation to play. I'm making box triggered door open, plz help me

target is self

[sterile tulip]

How can I lower the ram usage of my project?

[tender parcel]

heyy

somebody know good multiplayer

[mental apex]

is it possible to add a body to FPS mode without redoing all my animations?

[plush yew]

lmao

[tender parcel]

just

[lucid grove]

You need to use splines

[tender parcel]

if its a terrain

u can sculpt it

[plush yew]

splines are not 100% accurate

[tender parcel]

i think u need to do it manually

[plush yew]

u can sculpt it
@tender parcel it requires a lot of time

[lucid grove]

Use splines + smooth tool

[tender parcel]

or just extend the road by the bottom

[plush yew]

Use splines + smooth tool
@lucid grove still not 100% accurate

i've already tried

[lucid grove]

Maybe try to look some external software

[plush yew]

i mean

the road is quite long

[tender parcel]

fortnite

[plush yew]

no lmao

[trim trail]

hey, seems Epic's login system has a quite short memory, how long does it keep automatic login on my own PC? Feels like it's only few days

[lucid grove]

Anyone has experience with save\load system? Or maybe general knowledge?

Save and load variables is easy, but when it comes to a dead characters: they remain dead (deleted from the world) or playing dead animation.

[thick herald]

Either use spines and have the engine modify the terrain and tweak it or do it yourself, that's your two options @plush yew

[plush yew]

TwT

[lucid grove]

I have a feeling that each time i load the game i need to spawn characters and check their status dead\not dead

[thick herald]

Correct

[lucid grove]

So thats why in real games loading time so long

They doing same?

Cause atm loading is just mileseconds away

Even with big world

[tender parcel]

@everyone HELP

[thick herald]

@tender parcel you realise you are in a server that has over 10,000 people and you just tried to tag them all?

[tender parcel]

yeah

[dense gate]

With a pfp like that I'm not amazed

[tender parcel]

k

[thick herald]

Well don't, that's not what you do.

[tender parcel]

i madei t on BLENDER

im a 3D DESIGNER

[thick herald]

#old-rules #more-resources

[tender parcel]

#ue4-general

[dense gate]

You could've at least posted what you need help with

[thick herald]

Please make sure you post in the correct channel though

@lucid grove yeah, pretty much.

[lucid grove]

Got it. Well new day new discoverys

thank you

[dense gate]

Quick note that if you have a hard reference, it's always loaded

You can always check how much of the content is loaded by doing right click on the respective asset, usually level, then size map

If you have a large selection of different characters you'll spawn, consider soft references

[mental apex]

Is it possible to add a body to fpsarms without redoing all the animations?

[dense gate]

You can always attach a child component to a specific bone

[thick herald]

Probably. Master Pose Component may be the thing you're looking for, you'll get better answers in #animation probably

[sterile tulip]

Does games use more RAM in the UE4 editor or as a standalone game when its done?

[thick herald]

Yes

Sorry, the editor will use more RAM

[mental apex]

thanks MOA I will check the MPC out

[sterile tulip]

If the game uses 10gb ram in editor, how much would it use as standalone approximately? @thick herald

[thick herald]

No idea, sorry

[dense gate]

Also depends on shipping vs debuggame build

Shipping is as stripped as possible

Checking out on my gamejam submission, single level, the game takes about as much RAM as the whole build

[sterile tulip]

I pressed on build (build lightning and geometry all) and now it uses less ram

If I press on build, does it use less ram?

[bleak hound]

Can someone recommend a box triggered open door plz?

Or how to do it

[merry canopy]

Hi. I have a question about the quixel materials.
The material I download will be an instance material. When I try to go its parent, I come to a different material (instead of forest floor its some metal material).
But how can I add a "Landscape Grass Type" on a quixel material?
I tried to modify the parent - but of course it doesnt work.
Can you give me some hints/tutorials how to do that?
Thank you. 🙂

[bleak hound]

I'm stuck at box triggered door opening where i can't connect nodes to play blueprints in level blueprints. Plz help

[bright wharf]

anyone know how to download the Ikinema plugin for ue?

[plush yew]

how can i set the top of the foliage a bit brighter?

[dim arch]

change the material

[plush yew]

I have an AI controller. when the bot dies, i destroy the pawn that is controlled by it. when i re-possess a new pawn, it doesn't move. any idea what I'm missing?

change the material
@dim arch wow man thanks for your advice you saved my day!!!

[lucid grove]

Heya, i have this Access None problem when spawn NPC.

When i place my NPC with AI controller directly in the world all works
great, but when i spawn it - Access None.

This is problematic part:

It cant find MyPawn reference

this is reference inside wolf ai

[covert hedge]

i guess it's a problem with how you're spawning it

[lucid grove]

nothing extraordinary

character is doing great - attacks, moving and etc

but fail to get ref on ai controller

[midnight root]

new 'game' project via 4.25.3 , thirdpersoncharacter in place, tho when I right click , play from here it , on play it defaults to location of that thirdpersoncharacter , is that expected if so is there a tick to take right click instead ?

alright well I figured but verified on forum, h ave to delete that char. for play from h ere to work.

[radiant jasper]

im still getting that error @cosmic cove

[sterile tulip]

I need more Ram

[radiant jasper]

lmao 8gb isnt gonna get u anywhere

[sterile tulip]

I think I need 32gb

I am not even done halfway

my ram is gg

and my hdd

[radiant jasper]

ok i have finally released game

took me like 3 months lmao

https://gamejolt.com/games/fnas/544414

[sterile tulip]

why does my interior cam have a higher LOD quality than my exterior cam?

[spare sun]

because ur exterior cam is further away from that hill

[sterile tulip]

I actually checked now

And its because the FOV´s are different

But why does the FOV of the camera change the LOD distance?

I guess so its the same performance on all cameras

[fathom glade]

Hello, I read online somewhere that all errors that show up in the message log will cause a crash in the shipped game... Anyone know if that's true?

For example I get this error where an interface is trying to access an actor that is pending kill

if I spam the mouse button to throw an object (after it explodes), but it only when I use my auto clicker (or click extremely fast)

I'm scared it might crash the game for users 😨

[exotic thicket]

Make a packaged build of the game and run it on your PC to find out

I don't think they would cause it to crash if it doesn't crash the game in editor... but they are likely to cause bugs, so you should try to fix them

[fathom glade]

so obvious i should have just tested it! Thank you

[plush yew]

Anyone know how to fix this?

[marble sparrow]

I'm trying to expose a array that is populated in a C++ class and expose it to a blueprint here is what I've tried but it doesn't show in the blueprint

I've tried to make it blueprintcallable too

[exotic thicket]

BlueprintReadWrite should work, but note that you've marked this protected

that means it's only accessible if you have a BP that inherits from this class

[marble sparrow]

the array doesn't get populated until the tick ticks ...does that make a diffrence?

how do I make a bp inherit?

[exotic thicket]

you choose this as the parent class

but it sounds like you should probably just make this property public instead

[marble sparrow]

it should show up in bp when i right click?

I just made it public going to try it again

I still can't find the array anywhere

[supple totem]

did you reset editor?

@marble sparrow

[marble sparrow]

I closed it and opened it again

yes

I still can't access the array

[upper heart]

I have a bunch of different weapon idle pose animations. The character can switch between them and their weapon switches. Not blending during this transition looks too sudden. But blending causes the weapon to do look strange while blending between the two poses. My current solution is to hide the weapon and reshow after finishing the blend, but that doesn't look great either. Anyone have any other ideas?

[dense gate]

Maybe goof around with setting the scale of the weapon?

Particularly if your animations include putting the "old" weapon somewhere and taking out the "new" one

[upper heart]

The don't. I guess that is the main problem

[dense gate]

Would be helpful if you showed an exam tho

Example*

[upper heart]

yeah, one sec

[dense gate]

Also this may be more suited for #animation

[upper heart]

True, yeah I'll take it there

[marble sparrow]

Are all the methods that are available in C++ available in blue print also?

[upper heart]

no

[marble sparrow]

That's what I was afraid of

I've gotta get that array available in bluepring

[rough knoll]

why can't i paint? i've also tried exiting and restarting and its not a problem with having something selected.

[subtle gust]

hi all, have a problem, I'm reading from the spline Find Rotation Closest to World Location and feeding it to the SetActorRotation, but the thing is it is rotating my character to the default direction of the spline, how to alter the direction of the spline by character's? I tried get direction of the actor, multiply it on Yaw (Z) of the spline's, but it's not working... thanks for any help

[azure reef]

Hello guys. I want to build 4.26 from source (first time doing this) and I'm using github for windows. I cloned this link https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine.git but I think this is the latest release.

I need to add something to the link to build a specific version?

[brittle adder]

Just download the zip 😛

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/archive/4.26.zip

[azure reef]

This will be updates all the time?

Or I have to download again when a new preview will be launched?

[brittle adder]

u will have to download again

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/tree/4.26

[plush yew]

@rough knoll What is the density set to?

[brittle adder]

Fork this and use your github desktop

[azure reef]

You've already forked UnrealEngine

In github I've cloned Unreal Engine

But now how can I use 4.26?

[brittle adder]

you need to select the 4.26 branch

[azure reef]

Thank you

[lucid grove]

hey

I have a little problem - when i set simulate physics to mesh and remove collision on Capsule it seems like Capusle Component lost attachment to my actor

[modest hollow]

anyone know how to make the camera disappear?

[lean gazelle]

Hey I've just installed unreal engine and I'm trying to learn it, I thought my gpu wasnt powerful enough for it's graphics but afterl ooking at task manager it seems visual studio is lagging it to 100%?

I've got a 1060 so it might still not be powerful enough but it was getting ridiculously laggy

[rough knoll]

@plush yew 1?

[hasty owl]

anyone know of any tutorials that may help me with making a mystery dungeon type game?

[sacred scaffold]

Hello everyone! I'm trying to spawn my ThirdPersonCharacter into a level but I can't see it's model. I set up the PlayerCpntroller with the proper inputs. When I spawn in the map I am able to move but not see the model properly. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 🙂

[rough knoll]

@Agent Ecks (Jeremy)#3709 do you have the skeletal mesh set to visible in the viewport of the TPC blueprint?

[sacred scaffold]

I think so. Where is that option? The TPC spawn in my other maps, which is weird.

[plush yew]

hello

Can I ask a question on this channel?

[runic fern]

hi guys what can i use for snapping a door or window to a wall ?? I heard something called Morph Target but its just for characters i think ?

[open wadi]

I have a question - I have a function where two parameters are passed (param 1 and param 2). Within this function, I have a struct that consists of multiple keys - "Start Here", "Module 1", so forth. These keys are maps. I want to search to determine which key matches param1, and, once found, which value matches matches param 2.

Is the only way to do this a series of for each with break loops, or is there a more efficient node to use?

[storm iris]

What would interest me even more, who could show me (preferably with a practical example (picture)) how I can do it when I cast a spell with e.g. as a buff and my character should transform itself through the buff how do I have to do that? I know that the loading of the second character goes with spawn but I can't do it for the time e.g. 3 min. destroy the main character and the other character e.g. a wolf is moving or visible? and how it is then reversed after the time has elapsed. and above all that both characters move? I have buffs that regenerate mana or health over time, but unfortunately none as described above

[hasty owl]

do instanced static meshes have automatic collision now? o:

[dense gate]

@storm iris you can set a new skeletal mesh dynamically and then set the new anim BP

[sterile tulip]

How do developers find out the minimum and recommended system specs for their games? I dont have many different setups to check what can and what cant run my project

[dense gate]

Estimations mostly

Depending on your PC and how much your game uses up, find equivalent parts

For example if you have an R5 3600, GTX 1660Ti and you get about 130 fps with that setup, open up task manager and look up GPU and CPU usage, make sure per-core graphs are enabled for CPU

If you see that only 2 cores are being used, you can confidently say the game will run on an i3 or even an Athlon (the new ones)

If you see 100% GPU usage with that, something like a 1050 Ti will get 60 FPS, assuming the rest of the specs are met

[sterile tulip]

If it uses 18gb ram, can 16gb pc´s run it by cranking it down to 16gb or would the minimum ram be 32gb for everything beyond 15-16gb?

[dense gate]

Always use measures from your packaged build

Not the editor

The editor loads a ton more

[marble sparrow]

UPROPERTY(BlueprintCallable, EditAnywhere, Category = Actor)
FString xString0 = " this";

[dense gate]

18 GB RAM isn't normal

[marble sparrow]

that is throwing an error

[sterile tulip]

I have to upgrade my ram

To continue on my project

[marble sparrow]

tells me callable is only allowed on a property when it is multi cast callable

its just an FString

[sterile tulip]

and get a ssd prob

[marble sparrow]

why can't i pass it to blueprint?

[sterile tulip]

because my disk is also bottlenecking at 100%

[dense gate]

It is highly recommended to have the editor and your project on an SSD

Might end up expensive, depending on your size

I was able to snag a 1 TB SSD for 100$ last black friday

Also if you have SSD as your primary drive, you can increase the page file

Though that's only if you can't get more RAM

[marble sparrow]

never mind about my question i just googled the answer

[sterile tulip]

what you mean by page file

[dense gate]

It's a file in your boot drive that stores some stuff if your RAM is full

Also used to compress some things in there that haven't been used recently

[sterile tulip]

How large can UE4 projects get? Im thinking of getting a 500gb ssd

[dense gate]

Depends on your scale

If you plan on getting high-grade megascans from the marketplace, 1 TB

Also it's good to keep at least some free space, don't think just how much it'll end up

[sterile tulip]

so it depends on the assets

[thick herald]

Depends also on how you store your backups.

[sterile tulip]

I do use megascan assets yes

If I look at big games, they can get 50-100gb

[dense gate]

The project always ends up humongous

Also COD MW has passed 250 GB

[sterile tulip]

How

Did they use alot of assets?

[dense gate]

No idea

But I digress

My personal project has ended up at almost 200 GB

Though it's a build from source, so that also includes editor stuff

[sterile tulip]

😵

I should prob delete all unused assets then to save space

[dense gate]

Technically speaking, I could fit both UE4 and my project on a 500 GB SSD, but if I did that, I would've had a hard time moving engine versions or doing backups

[sterile tulip]

If I install UE4 on my SSD, will all projects also be installed on the SSD?

[dense gate]

You must set them to be there first

[lyric lintel]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/571055055604547586/760679879531823104/IMG_20200929_224540.jpg

I'm having this problem

[dense gate]

How much VRAM do you have and do you have raytracing enabled

[lyric lintel]

With a Geforce 1080 8gb of ram

[dense gate]

Unless you're using humongous assets, have raytracing on, or are cryptomining, this shouldn't happen

[lyric lintel]

With msi afterburner im seeing that every time I open the editor the memory rises

[dense gate]

Normal

[runic fern]

Guys i have the object rotation locked on 90 i cant rotate more than 90degree anyone know the solution ????

[sterile tulip]

How can I create backups? @dense gate

[runic fern]

Y Axis

[lyric lintel]

But raises and then keeps there and raises again nextntime. I open

[dense gate]

Depends on your source control @sterile tulip

[sterile tulip]

source control?

[lyric lintel]

Thanks mehte

Im not using lots of assets is like in a testing area

[sterile tulip]

I should prob get an external drive for backups, so if something happens to my pc, I dont loose anything. I dont think I can backup such huge files online

[dense gate]

Absolutely

@lyric lintel engine version?

And again, do you have raytracing enabled?

It might be attractive with it being enabled on 10-series, but during development, I wouldn't recommend

[runic fern]

I cant Rotate it however i want 😦 its locked on 90Degree i've tried to AddRelativeRotation , AddLocalRotation, SetWorldRotation, SetRelativeRotation Nothing working

[exotic thicket]

fwiw raytracing runs like ass on a 10 series card :P

so I doubt anyone really has it enabled on that hardware

[dense gate]

Hey, 30 fps and 50% screen resolution is managable

[exotic thicket]

I was running like 13 fps with it enabled on a 1080 Ti so I dunno :D

and my game isn't really high quality in terms of assets

[dense gate]

Guess it depends on project scale then

I'm on a 1070Ti and got more than that on my detailed map

Huh

[exotic thicket]

Odd 🤔

[dense gate]

Also did you have resolution scale

Because I sure had that bad boy set to 50% most of the time

[exotic thicket]

I don't recall, it was even lagging the editor to the point of it becoming intolerably slow

[dense gate]

Damn

I was able to nicely edit with RT on, even in 4.23

[exotic thicket]

hmm, I wonder if it was some editor bug or something then

[dense gate]

For example, this gif https://gfycat.com/pastelwhisperedamericancrocodile

[exotic thicket]

I was just experimenting to see if it would work, maybe I need to give it another try sometime later

[dense gate]

This is taken from the movie recorder, so FPS not exact

But at 50% scale I was getting about 20 fps

Still horrid, but it allows for RTX development nonetheless

[devout frost]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/989150/view.html