ue4-general

[civic otter]

Dang, that did it. Lmao

thanks

[light thunder]

Why is unreal making multiple static mesh copies of an FBX when I just want them on a single one? 15 billion$ game engine and it can't recognize LOD's?

[wispy moon]

https://youtu.be/tJ2KNdnKh4Y

[rotund scroll]

@light thunder have you checked the FBX pipeline to ensure that your lods are correctly named?

[light thunder]

doesn't say anything about that in the importer - let's hope it's me

read something about the blender naming conventions but I need to know what to name the meshes then

[rotund scroll]

it's all on the documentation page

[light thunder]

just has suffix _LOD1, _LOD2

tried to find it on a wiki which was deleted

[rotund scroll]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/WorkingWithContent/Importing/FBX/StaticMeshes/index.html literally first result

[light thunder]

it's not very clear

[rotund scroll]

on a sidenote I gotta say this server is so much more helpful than any of the blender servers, so uh, props

[light thunder]

heh

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/WorkingWithContent/Importing/FBX/ImportOptions/index.html ```StaticMesh

If Override FullName is:

Enabled

If single mesh in file - Named as %1

If multiple meshes in file and Combine Meshes is:

Enabled - Named as %1

Disabled - Named as %1_%2

Disabled

If single mesh in file - Named as %1_%2

If multiple meshes in file and Combine Meshes is:

Enabled - Named as %1

Disabled - Named as %1_%2```

They couldn't even include an example

whoever wrote these docs should be beaten

[rotund scroll]

there is an example

on the page I linked

for real dude

[light thunder]

there's a NAMING convention example for static mesh FBX import containing multiple meshes as LOD's?

please screenshot that so I can apologize to you

also make sure that Import LODs is enabled. Note: When importing LODs, the name of the imported mesh will follow the default Naming Rules . See the FBX Import Dialog section for complete details of all of the settings. that's there

90% of the time, it's my dumbass/ignorant fault - but 10% of the time, the docs just suck or are incomplete, or unclear at best

[light thunder]

@rotund scroll you mentioned blender, what am I doing wrong that it only gives me LOD2 here?

[rotund scroll]

no idea I'm trying to get help with blender myself

most of the time anyway

[light thunder]

lol with what, let's derail this channel

[rotund scroll]

something as simple as vertex snapping between two objects

[light thunder]

try any modifiers?

other thing that threw me off is there are multiple addons for things like that, that are turned off by default

[rotund scroll]

fair I might have to look through the addon list

the blender discord is being massively unhelpful, as is customary

[light thunder]

You have to learn to troll them every once in awhile, can't use it all the time, doesn't always work

but I say something like, "man, I know it's free and everything, but you think at this point, blender would be able to do vertex snapping easily without having to spend hours to tweak it"

then someone shows you how wrong you are

[rotund scroll]

literally had a guy telling me to "get creative" to find a solution

we're in 2020 and blender doesn't do vertex to vertex snapping

[mossy geode]

Anyone else have any issues with the mouse cursor freezing in 4.26 (Epic Launcher build) while moving around in the viewport? If the mouse cursor is over the viewport while I am moving in any direction (for example, holding the left arrow key), the mouse cursor freezes for 1 second and then jumps to whereever it should have been after moving the mouse and then freezes again. This behavior repeats indefinitely while moving around. It does not occur in previous versions of UE4. This is happening on a brand new blank project. Running a Ryzen 3950X and Nvidia 3090 on a relatively fresh install of Windows 10 2004. Tried latest Geforce Game Ready drivers and Studio drivers. I looked thru the UE issues list and didnt spot anything related.

[hearty dagger]

How do you edit the nodes of an instanced material

[scarlet birch]

You don't. You can edit parameters for the instance.

[hearty dagger]

Can you find where it was instanced from?

[light thunder]

find parent

[tiny granite]

i need help restarting a game after a red cube hits actor. Does anyone have experience with Unreal Engine that may provide guidance? if yes dm me or call me

pls i need this project to be done by tomorrow and in my country it's 4 AM already

[rotund scroll]

there's a restart level functionality you could call on the gamemode

[tiny granite]

i know but it does't work

[light thunder]

make a "print string" event and make sure that fires when your event is supposed to happen

make sure you are triggering it actually

[light thunder]

make a trigger volume, if you are in a hurry, just do that and use the level blueprint

[tiny granite]

i am still new to unreal do you mind if i call you

@wind yacht can you help me with some thing , it's stupid but i can't do it

[light thunder]

Not sure why this sends the object flying wayyy past 50 units

[wet berry]

anyone have a livestream or youtube where someone is using houdini for UE4 asset creation?

I'm curious to see what it can do

[dark stag]

is there a better way to see event payload when youre mucking around in the level sequencer?

right clicking things suck.

[proven shuttle]

what the hell is wrong with the editor it flickers and i can't do anything

[dark stag]

our house.... in the middle of the tab, our house...

[floral knoll]

Navigation will not build
even when I move the nav mesh
just stays static
does anyone have any idea on how to fix this

[dim arch]

hi, does anyone know the recommended specs fo a linux dedicated? to host 16 clients optimally

[celest spire]

general question. I'm new to Unreal, but I'm very familiar with CG tools (houdini especially, but that's beside the point) I'm most interested in creating a VR game as my first game. Do you think it's important to go through a normal tutorial session before I try jumping into the a VR workflow? or should I dive right into vr?

[proven shuttle]

I can't do shit the ui is flickering so much...

:(

• Dont enable window animations, fixes the problem

[elder robin]

is it possible to set the visibility (or other properties) of parts of an actor?

like lets say an actor is made up of a cube and a sphere, would it be possible to change the properties of that sphere?

[median hound]

yes?

[rapid tree]

Does anyone know why: when I import an animation the mesh I have already imported doesn't link with it?

[late verge]

can anyone help explain to me why my oscillation blend outs on my camera shake blueprints are just completely broken?
i have my camera shake duration set up correctly, and even if i set it to .1 for the blend out, the camera shake stops abruptly like halfway through

[still tangle]

Why is it so that when I run the game, the same landscape is fully blurred?

[silver crown]

Your render resolution is low

[dark stag]

what would be the equivalent of a construction script for a level when it loads?

level bp?

having some silly race condition problems, and i wasnt sure whats loading first / when

[autumn flame]

iirc Level Blueprints don't have Construction Scripts, just Event Graphs

[dark stag]

yeah, i think what i mean to ask is... where would an ideal place to initialize vars and things when a level is loaded before actors are spawned?

[still tangle]

Can you share a article or share a step to make it run fine?

And thanks for the help 😉

[silver crown]

Try sg.ResolutionQuality 100 in the console

[dark stag]

i was thinking about just making a few custom events in the game instance or something

[autumn flame]

Depends really mau, you can simply expose variables and have some code decide the values

When you spawn the actor

[dark stag]

right, its a camera selector thats meant to work across multiple levels, so im guessing the game instance is always "there"

and the level when loaded can call that function

just trying to work it out in my head before i go changing too much

[autumn flame]

If you want to keep stuff between levels use Game Instance, yeh

[dark stag]

yeah ive been using the player controller to store stuff... turns out that was a mistake

hey thats how you learn

lol

[silver crown]

I assume this is blueprints?

[dark stag]

yerp. my C is no good.

[wispy steeple]

does ram speed significantly matter for unreal engine performance ?

frequency , i mean

[autumn flame]

A tip i can give that i found myself sometimes in is that Begin Play can be tricky without a Delay if you do multiple things, to simulate loading you can just put at the start a 0 Delay

[median hound]

not as much as other hardware

[dim arch]

depends if the application is gpu-bound or cpu-bound @wispy steeple

[dark stag]

yeah, i find if youre adding delays and such, youre probably doing something wrong and being too lazy to fix.

[dim arch]

usually gpu will be the bottleneck

[wispy steeple]

with ram ?

or cpu?

[still tangle]

Same problem. 😦

[dark stag]

a needed delay to something wqould likely be edge case

[median hound]

check ur graphic settings demise

[dim arch]

ram and cpu need to run gamethread to schedule sending drawcommands to gpu, but drawing usually takes the longest

[autumn flame]

I find myself in need to use it to simulate server loading

[silver crown]

This might work

But I've never used it - so it might not

You need the event to run before all the actors BeginPlay?

Or just before all the actors tick

[wispy steeple]

well , I am planning to use gtx 1070ti with 8gb ram and intel i3 10100f - 2666mhz setup. im having this giant card to my system because it is cheap

[silver crown]

You're going to have a hard time with a i3 10100f

[wispy steeple]

in games it gives me %5 percent bottleneck in 1080p

it's cheap!

[silver crown]

Developing with unreal requires a strong CPU

[warped tangle]

Wait until you have 20k shaders to compile

lol

[silver crown]

I would go with a Ryzen

At least 8 cores

[autumn flame]

8gb can be a shortage too depending on what you do

of RAM

[silver crown]

8GB is on the very low side too indeed

[warped tangle]

16 minimum if you have chrome running in the background

[silver crown]

But ram can always be bought after the main pc

Just make sure you have free slots

[autumn flame]

Just don't work on big environments meanwhile

I feel my RAM suffering just thinking at that

[wispy steeple]

yeh

ram is to be continued

i need to focus on my setup

it's upgradability

[dim arch]

if anything, you will be cpu-bound, 2666mhz is pretty fast, you wont be I/O bound and probably for what you're doing it will be gpu-bound for framerate

[autumn flame]

Compiling shaders fun times

[wispy steeple]

so for gpu bound works am I bottlenecked

[dim arch]

yeah shaders will take forever

[wispy steeple]

why ?

[autumn flame]

The more cores, the faster it goes, to keep it simple

[silver crown]

Shaders time = shader count / number of cores

[autumn flame]

UE4 uses all your CPU resources to compile

[wispy steeple]

well gtx 1070ti have nice shader units i guess

[dim arch]

shaders arent compiled on gpu

theyre compiled on cpu

[wispy steeple]

oh

now makes sense

in my previous engine shaders were gpu based

[dim arch]

its possible to compile them using CUDA (I think) not sure if it has all the instructions, but it isnt supported

[silver crown]

I really doubt that

[dim arch]

shaders run on the GPU, but theyre compiled on the CPU

[silver crown]

Shader compiling is not something you'd do on a GPU

Even with CUDA

[wispy steeple]

so compiling is another th,ng

[dim arch]

because you need to compile them for different rendering systems

[wispy steeple]

yeh yeh makes sense now

[autumn flame]

Perhaps while you wait an upgrade keep your main light atleast on movable so you avoid compiling lighting everytime while you do stuff

[wispy steeple]

thx guys , very much

[silver crown]

Or go full dynamic lighting

[autumn flame]

Yeah

[wispy steeple]

dynamic lighting it is lol

i do not trust my cpu

btw, why ssd does matter that much

[autumn flame]

Moving, loading, saving, opening... everything, takes way less time

Cause it Reads and Writes data way faster

Personally I wouldn't bother having UE on a HDD, would lose more time than anything else, but it can be done, it's just a no for me

[plush yew]

What item should I use to spawn enemy actors

I tried arrow but the actor won't move

I'm doing paper2d

[autumn flame]

Spaw Actor from Class?

[plush yew]

I did that

But the actor won't move

Stays in air like that

Is arrow component the one I need to use for spawning actor objects with dedicated animation flow

I'm using arrow for spawning projectiles

But what about actor

Like enemy

[autumn flame]

It really depends on your game i guess

Just need something to handle them spawning, when, how and where

You could use anything that holds a transform and spawn the actor there, have a spawn manager that does it for you?
It's really vague

You could have a triggerbox spawning them in specific places as you overlap or just a manager that spawns them randomly considering all spawn points

[plush yew]

I checked triggerbox it's for 3d games right

Based on documentation

I want for paper2d 2d game

[wispy steeple]

so is ryzen 5 2600 update over intel i3 10100f worth it?

say i3 is 700 dollar

ryzen 5 2600 is 1248 dollar

in my country

[still tangle]

It's Epic

Then too... Same prob

[autumn flame]

There should still be overlap settings for sprites, never done it personally tho

[plush yew]

Been looking for a solution for days

No luck yet

[autumn flame]

You could have a sprite with collision set on overlap and when your character overlaps it something happens?

[silver crown]

@wispy steeple How much is a 3700 in your country

actually how much are all of these

[wispy steeple]

@silver crown cheapest ryzen 7 is ryzen 7 2700x

1864

[silver crown]

Yes, but what about 3rd gen

[queen wasp]

what a mess, all my ships have -x as forward vector, while in the actor editor when you select front view you see the back of the ships, all my movement code and cam code has been made to workaround this wrong direction thing, all ships in fact are facing backwards and driving backwards as forwards

It looks fine hehe

[wispy steeple]

@silver crown how about 3500x?

its 1379

[silver crown]

3600x would be better if you can afford it

[wispy steeple]

its 2000

621 unit difference

however there is i5 10400f

for 1374

[silver crown]

That one might do

[heavy yew]

(simple) Physics question.
I have a vehicle actor blueprint and I want to add a collision capsules to edit the collision behavior. What is the right way to set these so they don't impact the mass balance of the vehicle?
I will uncheck gravity but will that still keep the mass there impacting inertia? Do I need to set the mass to smallest possible also?

[wispy steeple]

why do i need muscled - cpu s anyways ? how much shader can i use

is it for reducing time spent ?

[silver crown]

Very much yes

[wispy steeple]

well anyways then i have many parts to replace

i have just put a hdd

no ssd

[silver crown]

@heavy yew Maybe try #legacy-physics

[heavy yew]

thanks

[silver crown]

Yes, SSD is a must as well

[heavy yew]

missd it

[wispy steeple]

F

dumb question here , say i am making something similar to rebirth demo . How many times will i encounter lack of cpu and storage speed ?

@silver crown

[silver crown]

every time you save an asset, edit a material, package the project, open the project

[wispy steeple]

editing the material...

when will my gpu show off it's muscles

[silver crown]

GPU scales very well really

So if it's too slow, you can always drop the quality settings

I'd say for game dev having a good GPU is not needed, unless you're doing photorealistic stuff

[wispy steeple]

so i can scale my prject to photorealism anytime ?

btw thank you very very much for your understanding and undertaking

no one helped me this much about hardware choices on my prefered applications

what is multirendering btw

[dire coral]

question. i have 100% blueprint project how do i add c++ in the new 4.26. in 4.25 you just right click in the content and there is a option to add it but in the new version its not there??

[wary wave]

Just add a new C++ class and it will generate the project if it doesn't exist

[dire coral]

from where

oh found it under files right above pakaging

[glacial oar]

wanting to try make a chain whichis better make it in blender ith bones and animate there or make in unreal using thephysics

[lusty carbon]

ue4 r.raytracing.shadows 0 makes my game crash

[fluid ginkgo]

hey guys, i finally stole so time to try out som virtual camera with my iphone 7 in a scene i did for the learn unreal online contest. and sharing it here. https://twitter.com/aine_jacob/status/1337859735886950403?s=20

Jacob's Cross (@aine_jacob)

https://t.co/tH77rJb0zQ
I just earned the "Converting Blueprint to C++" badge on Unreal Online Learning. @UnrealEngine #LearnUnreal

Twitter · Dec 12, 2020, 8:39 PM

the videos are in the comment section, hope yall like it. will be improving my work with time.

[proud narwhal]

is there any way to filter "Not Used In Current Level"? there is "Not Used In Any Level" but thats no use for me

[shy prairie]

Any way to get my actor current Y axis and add value to it with blueprints?

so for example i wanna get the current Y and push it another 5m up

[echo zealot]

Is there any way in the UE4 to spawn actors in a way they don't just exist during runtime, but remain in the level you've spawned them in? Meant like a tool to help the developer building the level with ingame mechanics. I'd REALLY appreciate any help!

[covert hedge]

@echo zealot editor only checkbox in the blueprint might be what you're looking for

[echo zealot]

Imagine like a "Spawn Actor Permanent (Editor Only)" node or something...

[thick herald]

Don't think so, certainly not in BP

You can create a Editor Widget which can do all kinds of wonderful stuff, and is designed for making editor things easy- you'll have to create all the functionality yourself of course. Hopefully that at least may point you in the right direction.

[echo zealot]

Yeah i thought about that.. but does it

work while runtime?

[thick herald]

Yeah, Get Actor Location, add vector.

No editor widgets are in editor only

[echo zealot]

yeah i mean can i use the editor widget while the game is runnung?

[thick herald]

no

[echo zealot]

😦

[stuck scarab]

Workflow / "best" practice question:
The last days I started to build an advanced jump "skill", so I didnt quite knew how fancy or crazy it will get.
It's not done yet but is quite some code with around 15 new variables already, so a lot of new stuff thats now within the character blueprint.

How do you approach such things?
-Keep it there, organize and filter it, who cares right?
-definitely make a own blueprint for stuff like that

[covert hedge]

i mean i don't get what you are trying to achieve

you can create a component dedicated to that if you wish so, that's how they did it in custom movement

[flat trail]

How could you calculate the bentness of a screen?

Curvature*

[thick herald]

You mean like a physical curved monitor?

[barren lintel]

helo guys is there a way to change the speed of manny in unreal engine?

when i go into his blueprint code there deosnt seem to be a place to change his speed

[wary wave]

it's in the movement component

[stuck scarab]

called max walking speed I believe

[dawn gull]

So with tri-planar mapping you can only have it non stretched on 2 sides, how can I blend two texturs together so the stretched sides dont show?

[thick herald]

Check out the two videos here https://youtu.be/yxigaCW4Knc

[dawn gull]

Ohhhh I did the first one, I didn't know there was a second. Thank you!

[flat trail]

Yes, i would need to calculate the degrees an screens curvature

[thick herald]

Unless you can access the monitor's details in windows, there probably isn't a way.

[flat trail]

Well, i mean physicall, not from ue4

[sly surge]

questing about UE on my enemay iv adding a drop item to it useing spawn actor for class and it all works but when the item drops its the wrong size how can i fix lol
its Way to big

[elder robin]

how would i get the child of an actor in ue4?

[winter gale]

https://twitter.com/RyanJon2040/status/1338366862006968321

Satheesh PV (@RyanJon2040)

Quick #UE4 Tip number 68.

Having empty folders in Content Browser but don't want them displayed? You can disable Show Empty Folders from Content Browser View Options.

#unreal #unrealtips #unrealdev #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #UnrealEngine

Twitter · Dec 14, 2020, 6:15 AM

[lusty carbon]

I can't figure out a way to remove all foliage from mesh in one click!

like there's Fill, but the opposite

anyone?

[stark marsh]

how do i, when i attack i send out a raycast, and what it hits, damaged is applied to it, only if they're NOT in an actors to ignore list

so check to see if they're in the list before choosing to apply damage

then once damaged is applied once, put them in the ignore list

[echo zealot]

Is there any experienced ue4 dev here that could help me with my problem? I'm stuck for way too long now... (We could hang out in voice!)

[stark marsh]

then once my attack has finished clear the array?

[grim ore]

@stark marsh it sounds like you know exactly how to do it, you do it as described. where is the problem?

[stark marsh]

i don't know how to actually do it

but i know what needs to be done, i just don't know exactly how

[grim ore]

well then you want someone to give you the exact code or what do you need?

because it sounds like you know what you need so you can find the help for each part in the docs or in tutorials and such

[plush yew]

hello , i am having troubles starting Unreal Engine for the first time . it always try to launch it in VR Mode or something ... anybody know how do i remove or uninstall VR or this libOVR fully ? https://gyazo.com/25e829609556b26e9634f514ea828a6a

[clever solstice]

Anyone else experiencing instant crash when using vertex blend paint tool ?

in ue 4.26

[stark marsh]

how exactly would i make whatever actors have been damaged, to be ignored so they don't get damaged again?

[grim ore]

@plush yew go into the plugins oculus oculus VR folder, similar to this "E:\Epic Games\UE_4.26\Engine\Plugins\Runtime\Oculus\OculusVR", open the .uplugin file, and disable the "enabled by default" line

[stark marsh]

and then i need the actors to ignore to reset after the attack has finished

[plush yew]

thank you i gonna try it out

[grim ore]

@stark marsh whatever deals the damage, whatever decides something should take damage (i assume the player), can make an array that is full of actors that you add after you say "deal damage to this" and before you choose to "deal damage to this" you check to see if that actor is already in the array and if so you dont "deal damage to this"

[stark marsh]

i think i'm getting their

but now i need to be able check if they're in the array or not

and then i need to be able to clear the array too

which i don't know how to do

[grim ore]

make an array and start looking at the nodes you can use

[stark marsh]

i tried this but still doesnt work, it doesn't even do damage now

[grim ore]

the first time or at all? what is inside of the ignore these variables. Start using debugging and breakpoints to walk thru the code (such as the branch)

[stark marsh]

i've set what has been damaged once to go into an array, which then goes into the actors to ignore array

then to damage again i check the ignore array

[grim ore]

yep so time to start debugging to see what is actually happening then

[tight prawn]

why is this static mesh passing through collision ?

i've enabled collision and everything on it, but it still passes through

the cone is large on purpose, however I don't want it passing through objects

do I need to line trace and resize it based on the results ?

[rotund scroll]

it's a mesh

you're not going to make what you want work with a mesh

your resize solution is the only thing that's available, and it's not a great solution

[tight prawn]

what do you suggest I use for a cosmetics only cone of vision ?

the purpose of this is just to make the player aware of where the enemy is looking and heading to

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Resources/Showcases/BlueprintExamples/SecurityDoor/index.html

got it ^^

[viral gorge]

Some one plz help me can I use my projects from another folder if they were saved in another I lost all my work and it is showing no projects plz help as soon as possible

Just ping me

[grim ore]

you can open your project directly by opening the .uproject

[viral gorge]

Wait really

[final swallow]

hey there!
is it any solutions to destruct a landscape? i want to emit earthquake.
i know that landscape is static mesh, but is it any solution for that?
wanna to something like in pic

or to make landscape to disappear to particles or something like that

[digital pasture]

Hello, I'm wondering if anyone knows if there is something like "Find in blueprints" but for materials? I'd like to find all usages of a certain SceneTexture across all materials if possible.

[calm sphinx]

Does 4.26 have any breaking bugs atm?

From what I see from forums & issues dashboard, it doesn't have any.

[terse pawn]

Hey all; having trouble getting my Mac to multithread when building C++. I've updated the contents of the BuildConfiguration.xml file with the requisite tags for MaxProcessorCount and ProcessorCountMultiplier but it will not perform more than 5 parallel tasks despite being a 6-core hyperthreaded machine. Is there something I'm missing? My previous mac, a quad-core, always built with 8 parallel tasks and I never touched the BuildConfiguration file so I'm not entirely certain what I'm doing wrong. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

For the record, I know the BuildConfiguration.xml file is being taken into account because I am able to limit the number of processors (and thus parallel tasks) to anything less than 5 with no problem, it just will not build with more than 5.

[thorny coral]

so i finally got my project to load after 45 minutes of waiting

at least i think it was 45 minutes

[clever solstice]

Where are we supposed to report about ue4 bugs ?

[dark stag]

does a level BP fire before any actor BP's in the level on load?

alternatively, is there a BP class that will?

[vocal loom]

I'm getting the following error when I try to cook my assets

 MainFrameActions: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): RunUAT.bat ERROR: Visual studio and/or AutomationTool.csproj was not found, nor was Engine\Binaries\DotNET\AutomationTool.exe. Can't run the automation tool.```

AutomationTool.exe doesn't exist in that location

I can't verify files since I'm using UE4 that's built from source code

[abstract solar]

guys is possible to put the Landscape tools in a tab? in the 4.26 version? because is now in a menu in the top ??

[cedar wave]

I'm quite interested in this as well to be honest, though, I'd imagine it would because other actors don't really exist unless inside of a level. Could always test it to be sure. And I think GameMode gets initialized before levels.

[wary wave]

no guarantee regarding ordering at all

[mossy nymph]

you can hook into StartPlay, or InitGameState and few other functions in GameMode to execute code before BeginPlay

c++ required

[forest tree]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/Framework/GameFlow/index.html

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/ProgrammingWithCPP/UnrealArchitecture/Actors/ActorLifecycle/index.html

These two help put it into pretty pictures

[dawn gull]

How do I make the client invisible to themself but visible to everybody else?

[forest tree]

Could just execute the logic that makes the person invisible on only the client

[dawn gull]

I'm using this and it doesnt work, everybody (including yourself) is visible on one side, and nobody (including self) is visible on the other.

[forest tree]

This is in your character blueprint?

[dawn gull]

yes

[forest tree]

By using this code, you've basically said:

• All characters of this class will hide themselves locally
• All characters of this class will show themselves on the server

[dawn gull]

ohhhhh im stupid

[forest tree]

Nah, everyone makes mistakes 😄

[dawn gull]

Well how do I make it so only yourself is invisible and not everybody?

[forest tree]

Try this maybe

IsLocallyControlled is only true on the client

[dawn gull]

It works perfectly! Thanks so much!

[stark marsh]

how do i get root motion working

would i need to do anything with the ue4 mannequin in blender?

i make the custom animations for the mannequin in blender

but i want a roll animation where he actually rolls with the animation

how do i do root motion

[true swift]

hey has anyone used the new water stuff in 4.26?

specifically the underwater post processing

the surface shaders for the new stuff looks great but I have yet to see any footage of anything underwater and was wondering how that looked

[warm timber]

how do I make trees react to directional wind?

[plush yew]

What does this mean ?

enable multiplayer world origin what is the difference between not checked and checked?

[rotund scroll]

sounds like something that would be easily googleable

[stark marsh]

help i need help with rootmotion

i want to add a roll animation in

is there anything i need to do to the manneqwuins mesh

oh an why does turning root motion off make him move away from the centre, whereas turning root motion on he stays in place, like it's the opposite

[light thunder]

I have a persistent map it's basically empty, a lighting level, and about 20 sublevels. I build lights on one level but unreal flags all the levels as being edited. ( and because it's saving the fact that I've made them not visible while I build lights for one of the sublevels, because I save everything after doing that.)

It makes me nervous to not save maps or other files unless I'm sure I haven't changed them. A lot of the time I save them but just don't submit the changes in my source control, but I'd like to know more about what's happening so I can make more informed decisions. Why does the editor flag those levels changed when AFAIK, they haven't been changed.

[rotund scroll]

it just does

an engine quirk

most of the time it's probably a failsafe as the level can't know if e.g. a BP inside of it has changed

and when you build lights you build lights for all levels

[light thunder]

what about streaming level volumes, I thought you could build one at a time, by simply toggling the visibility of the level, so it's lights aren't build @rotund scroll

[stark marsh]

how do i get to this screen

i cant get root motion working it's just not making the character move with the animation

[rotund scroll]

can't imagine that being the case no

[light thunder]

@rotund scroll So what is happening to my lighting in the other levels? When I make them visible, it doesn't say, "Lighting objects X need to be rebuilt"

and when I move objects, you can still see the baked shadows where they were

[rotund scroll]

is it WC?

[light thunder]

WC?

[rotund scroll]

generally the visibility is just for editor use and has no effect on lighting afaik

world composition

[light thunder]

world comp

[covert hedge]

@stark marsh afaik root motion is only to get the capsule component to move along the animation, or not, depending on which you want. It doesn't have anything to do with moving the character, that would be your moovement component

[light thunder]

no, at least I didn't mess with the system

[stark marsh]

so what would be the best way to do a darksouls type roll

[rotund scroll]

there is no best way

there are animation driven or gameplay driven approaches

both have pros and cons

[plush yew]

I have got a bit off topic question. I am working on developing a visual programming tool and I saw that UE Blueprints uses a similar nodes based visual script editor. Does anyone have any pointers to any UX/UI research/user studies Blueprint devs carried out when deciding to use a node based editor for this purpose?
in other words I simply want to know the reasons, if any, why they went for a node based setup with connecting lines and not something else (like puzzle piece like blocks, the kind of which you find in Scratch Programming tool for example)

[rotund scroll]

stuff like that is probably confidential epic material

[plush yew]

yeah I was wondering if they happened to make any publication of some sort on that by any chance

[rotund scroll]

unlikely but google is your best friend

this is an unofficial discord

[plush yew]

I see. yeah google didnt really help on this. Do you know of any events that speakers might have talked about this? just so that I can try to dig up the video

[rotund scroll]

like I said I don't think there is anything

[light thunder]

@rotund scroll does this make sense ? if I move that light post, the shadow remains, so lighting build worked, even though aftewards I built another sublevel.

[rotund scroll]

if google turned up zilch then that's really your best option off the table

[light thunder]

@plush yew Do research into the concept of mindmaps and algorithms, there is a design philosophy regarding them

They wanted something visual akin to algorithms, the nodes simply developed because programming without parameters is basically not programming

[rotund scroll]

I mean the "design philosophy" is probably more a natural evolution of a programming language in a visual setting but then that's just my best guess

[light thunder]

In terms of your tool, I think one thing missing in visual programming is the relationship (hierarchical and cyclical) that one piece of code/blueprint has, in relationship to the others one - making a clear way to visually express that would be valuable for sure

[rotund scroll]

who knows. you'd get better answers if you dove into the engine code for light building and saw for yourself

[plush yew]

serious questions people

and dont really need an explanation just a yes ish or no

scenario 1: if i want to have character customization in my game do i need to create every possible setup as seperate models

scenario 2: or can i make 1 or a few specific preset models

and they can just somehow stretch and wiggle each part to how they like it o-o;

[rotund scroll]

you want a yes or no answer but you don't ask a yes or no question

[plush yew]

is it scenario 1 or 2 in a simplifed sense

i know i fluffed it up and fixed it xD

[stark marsh]

in a lot of games the healthbar doesn't just go down

like when you're damaged the amount of health that's been taken from you when you were hit changed to another color, like red to yellow, then slides to the left until it has disapeared, how do i do this

[grim ore]

@plush yew you can do eeither one depending on what "character customization" is

[plush yew]

o.o

um like black desert online character customization

or like final fantasy xiv

or phantasy star online 2 and or universe

[grim ore]

@stark marsh the googles has examples, fighting game hit bars is a common term to look at. I personally know I made a video covering exactly this idea as well

[plush yew]

wait you make tutorials? o-o

can i see them

[grim ore]

yep too many options there as the term character customization can mean alot and in those cases can probably cover both scenarios as well

[rotund scroll]

literally his channel is in his bio lmao

[grim ore]

for example black desert would use morph targets on the character so you can adjust things such as weight and plumpness

[plush yew]

ah

[grim ore]

PSO would swap out body parts due to things being swappable such as mech arms on humanoid bodies

[plush yew]

so black desert customzation and pso2 would swamp

can i mix the two >~>

[rotund scroll]

out of curiosity, what do you call the concept?

[grim ore]

you can if you know what you are doing

[stark marsh]

@grim ore do you know which video it is please

[plush yew]

Thanks for the tips!

so it's hard

but i can do it if i muscle it out

okie okie

[grim ore]

its lots of prep work and art, yes

[plush yew]

so i just need like 1 or a few models that will be take care of height and such presets

than do the work to make them plumpy as umpf~ and with swampable bits

thanksies!

oh mathew! i learnt how to do landscapes and ive been messing around with it for a while

its really really funn

[stark marsh]

wait it's fine

ive found a video on it

the term is "recent damaged amount"

[grim ore]

heres one for ue4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqANF-G0hDY

[rotund scroll]

I was more looking for an industry term but I realized it's perhaps not standardized enough

I've called it ghost health myself

[grim ore]

and heres the one I did https://youtu.be/GQP8wv8m4Kc

and I traditionally think of it as a fighter health bar yeah, but recent damage seems appropriate

[plush yew]

subs fast as fickle salads!

@grim ore wait i have 1 more question and its probably a silly one

i notice most people use other tutorials other than the ones from unreal engine

should i stick to other peoples tutorials or should i sit through unreal's as well o-o

the official ones i mean

[hallow wyvern]

Anyone know off hand how to specify different icon sizes for a windows package?

All I see is one size option and it seems to auto resize for all sizes.

[still moat]

@plush yew Any tutorial is better than no tutorial. In my experience it doesn't/didn't matter from where it came.

[plush yew]

okie x3

thanksies

[shut glen]

when i press the magnifying loop i doesnt do anything. Any idea on how could i attach the gun to the hand socket?

[still moat]

@shut glen Its doing nothing because there aren't any bones, are there any bones to what the component is attached to ?

[shut glen]

i wanna attach it to the player

[still moat]

You gotta attach whatever component you have under the skeletal mesh

then you'll be able to pick a bone to attach it to

[shut glen]

Thanks :)
@still moat

[still moat]

Np 😉

[rough osprey]

Hello! I am having an issue where I am trying to import a car from Blender (I have all the units setup correctly in Blender) and my individual bones show up in the Skeletal area but not in the Physics tab and no bones are seen there

[leaden tide]

Trying to use a custom collision mesh - but when I save as an FBX and import to UE4 the desired collision mesh doesn't appear?

[rotund scroll]

use the send to unreal plugin

[warm sluice]

Anyone knows where is Backup System in 4.26? It seems there is no more Saved/Backup directory. UE4 crashes, great, now there is no way to bring files back if not committed before! Amazing!

[plush yew]

wait unreal 26 is out atm?

[still moat]

Yes

[blissful rock]

Is there a room for just starting out?

[warm sluice]

Yes it's out, what else is removed what worked perfectly fine? 😄

[blissful rock]

The reason I ask is it seems like it's a bothersome to go to some of these chats ask me questions that y'all probably answer a million times every time somebody new comes in

[light thunder]

@blissful rock General is probably the best place for it, even if there was a "newbie" you'd have the same issue - the discord search function is decent but not necessarily as clear as google - basically, it is what it is,

[blissful rock]

Oh ok thank yoi@light thunder

I mean I've messed with this before years ago but it was with no clear directive and only motivated on pure curiosity and now with the engine and their developers leaping to new bounds is kind of opened up my curiosity that is back to support of a local Arthur in my town

[light thunder]

my advice, as someone who has been here for years but is still a noob in many respects, is to first google and find out as much as you can, and try to develop* "effective question asking" habits

[blissful rock]

That's a good way to put it@light thunder I'm in my last week of class for my bachelor's degree so I have been putting most of my research efforts into that along with building several databases on personal work and schooling so I'll be getting to the new database for this game engine soon

[light thunder]

the more vauge a question is, the harder it is to answer and you probably won't get a good answer

"how do I make a character shoot a gun" is like, very very vague - instead, demonstrate your respect for people's free time by first getting as far as you can on your own or asking for a good resource on youtube - even better, you can try something like, "I want to get started with animating - is THIS LINK a good one, or can anyone recommend something better" ?

[blissful rock]

I really haven't been able to jump into the engine just yet because I'm still waiting for the approval for the student side of the game engine to be approved by the 22nd

[light thunder]

approval?

[blissful rock]

Oh wait, that for Unity, due to my Oculs Rift side of things. Sorry I've been bouncing between two different engines

I've had a few people tell me to start go to Unity and some people just say stay here, go to the lessons and courses and stay with the community and I can learn

[sterile tulip]

Is 32gb ram enough for large open worlds?

[rough osprey]

anyone have an idea as to why my wheel colliders in game are 90 degrees off? the car drives sideways because of this

[light thunder]

@rough osprey Did you try deleting the collision and having Unreal generate it's own?

[sterile tulip]

Did you set the pivot point? Did you set the metric scale? Did you apply the transforms? @rough osprey

[rough osprey]

oh I forgot to apply transforms

hold on

and Ill try having unreal generate its own

neither worked 😦

[light thunder]

show me the pivot point in the source model @rough osprey

[light thunder]

Try turning it sideways, the wrong way, and see what that change does to your model in Unreal

if it doesn't change it, then you know it's not that

[rough osprey]

but the mesh doesnt rotate wrong

only the colliders

[sterile tulip]

Did you rotate the car right?

[rough osprey]

hold on im going to try to apply all transforms on each individual wheel

see if that works

yeah its right

[sterile tulip]

Is this blender? @rough osprey

[rough osprey]

yeah

I think i found the issue

Ill update you

[thorny coral]

My computer has stayed frozen like this for 1 or 2 hours, how long does it take usually to package a small project?

[median hound]

i think its gotta compilew shaders first

is the shaders going down?

[thorny coral]

It was until a couple hours ago when it just stopped completely at that number in the picture

And my monitor just went to sleep lol

[rough osprey]

@sterile tulip yeah it works now I didnt apply transforms right on everything

[steel shell]

i have a very detailed 3d model of a landscape. because unreal engine cannot handle so much detail, i created a heightmap and put a texture on it. The problem is now that at some points the landscape is very steep and the texture is stretched:

someone knows what would be an option in these areas?

[prisma plank]

GPU lightmass will work with DX11?

[sterile tulip]

Nice @rough osprey

Do you think Rtx 3060 is going to have 6gb or 8gb of Vram?

[light thunder]

@steel shell I think you can export the landmass as a mesh and try to fix the UV's? that or check youtube because I'm sure this is a common issue

[steel shell]

@light thunder i have not found a way yet.. i would like to know how other people deal with this problem actually 🙂

[light thunder]

I don't deal with landscapes much but they probably have more blended areas in their height-map so drops aren't that obvious, I'm not sure what the term is, maybe "heightmap stretching" but if you soften your angles it would make it less noticeable

that or use world composition, which I know next to nothing on

check #level-design too, if you haven't already

[stark marsh]

ive managed to prevent spamming but now the comabt just feels unresponsive

how can i make it feel unresponsize whilst also preventing spamming

to stop spamming i made it so i have to wait a short amount of time to attack again, but i lierally have to wait half a second to attack again

without this though i could pres really fast and the animations will bug

[ionic haven]

Best way to creat hair for unreal engine without the use of expensive softqare?

[light thunder]

@stark marsh there are plenty of very affordable courses on how to make a game with unreal engine on talking things that might only cost $10 but have 40 hours of walk-through videos and support forums - even discord channels - you are asking questions to problems that have already been solved and I think you'll find a lot of value from one of those courses

[rotund scroll]

welcome to game design

[cloud patrol]

hey everyone, i think this question might be quite stupid but how do i disable the low poly look of a mesh that is far from the camera?

[grim ore]

that is probably the level of details so adjust them

[light thunder]

That's the LOD

[cloud patrol]

Ohh

[light thunder]

you can either just delete the levels you don't want,

or redo them

@grim ore you know anything about unreal not importing LOD's in an FBX properly? I exported out to blender and couldn't figure out the right method for importing them and having them come back as a single static mesh with 3 LOD's - it was either 1 static mesh with no LOD's or 3 separate static mesh actors -

[cloud patrol]

alright, thank you man 😄

[grim ore]

@light thunder nope I don't art 😦 I assume you followed the documentation page on them?

[light thunder]

yes it was ....rather opaque

it mentioned naming convetions and proceeded to give the clear example of %1, which i took to having Staticmesh1 (LOD1, Staticmesh2(LOD2) and so on

it said "import LOD's which I did but provided no troubleshooting methods, it is what it is I guess

[grim ore]

oh I didnt see that I just saw they needed to be grouped properly in the dcc program but I havent used blender

yeah googling it looks like there are multple ways to get blender to do it and all are wonky lol

some using scripts, etc.

[light thunder]

There's a pipeline tool - frustrating thing was, It exported once right somehow but I couldn't figure out what I did to make it work lol - it's a minor issue, not really worried about having a single LOD for the few rare times I need to adjust static meshes to have extra functionality but it's kinda the principle of the thing....it should work

[rotund scroll]

did wind actors ever become a thing in UE4?

[light thunder]

that's a good question Cranz - you mean like the witcher 3?

god that game did wind amazing - so many games I played but that's first time I was like' holy shit, there's wind"

[rotund scroll]

I don't know that it had a modkit

but there's a wind node in materials that asks for a wind actor

[light thunder]

right now the best I could think of is instanced foliage that somehow had it's material set to a dynamic parameter to the animation speed

[rotund scroll]

so I'm curious

[light thunder]

damnit you are going to distract me, now I'm googling "make wind like in the witcher 3"

[rotund scroll]

I apologize

[light thunder]

https://youtu.be/wpZqYjAA6Cg "meh" it's something

trees are missing it

[rotund scroll]

yeah tbh I just wanted to use it for water and this looks like a gerstner wave interpretation

I was honestly just wondering about the wind actor

because if that's real

then that potentially opens up for changing wind direction

[light thunder]

http://saschahenrichs.blogspot.de/p/marketplace.html

[rotund scroll]

okay so there is a wind actor somehow somewhere

since that guy references it

ah it's called a Wind Directional Source

now

the question is how that relates to the wind node in the material

[light thunder]

I see your frustration lol - not exactly helpful

couldn't even spell the goddamn tooltip right

[rotund scroll]

yeah

seems like the wind directional source is only compatible with speedtree assets too

@grim ore I don't suppose you have a video on this?

[light thunder]

Wtf is Wind Actor

no seriously, where TF is it lol

[grim ore]

pretty much what you guys have said is what I know of it. Speedtree uses it to basicaly know the wind stuff for it's use. Beyond that I dont think anything uses it. Can use a general material parameter collection to move meshes as far as I know

[rotund scroll]

I see

thanks

[grim ore]

its a really good question tho im gonna look at it more

[finite chasm]

How would I make a camera that looks straight down and can only move on the x and y coords?

Also zoom in and out but I will get to that eventually

[rotund scroll]

much appreciate 🙏

[light thunder]

You can lock something's to a particularly axis by Making a Tick Event that Gets It's movement (whatever is making it move) and then AddWorldOffset to whatever it is, but not connect the node that you want to leave out ... so you'd hook up x an y, but not z

@finite chasm

[finite chasm]

Thank you

I’m pretty new to UE4 so forgive me if I have more questions.

I know there is a ton of YouTube tutorials

[light thunder]

so, NEVER do this in VR because you will nausea your player (in my case, that is the brief but actual goal) - but this is running on event tick,

[finite chasm]

Trying to make a game like Europa Universalis

[light thunder]

that's using rotation but you could do whatever you want in terms of rotation or location

Civilization or Risk?

[finite chasm]

Civ is also a good representation of my project

[light thunder]

the "last known z" position is set the moment this function turns on, so it doesn't "jump"

[finite chasm]

Pretty much a game where you build up a country

[light thunder]

I recommend you do one of the online courses on Unreal for sure, and be patient about learning

Honestly the best advice, I wish i had follow, was to following a "learn stage" where you just watch videos and try experiments, and a build stage, but you alternate - you can try to piecemeal it like me and learn as you go, but it's a masochist's game

@grim ore Well, this is hilariously wrong -

tried timeline updating to add local offset, and lerping between set location with vector plus 50 to z

[grim ore]

oy

[light thunder]

I always have trouble with these

and I don't do them just long enough to forget what I did wrong the last time I figured it out

[grim ore]

yep I only remember due to repetition

[light thunder]

weird

maybe I got my time wrong - I put this on and it never fired

should be 2 seconds

so why does 1.2 never fire?

only made it to one

[grim ore]

well your value never goes above 1 does it?

[light thunder]

I thought the float track was time

well shit that must be it

[grim ore]

nope you would get the timeline variable and get the time from it

[visual flame]

I am having trouble with deleting an actor (even for testing purposes) My test setup looks like this: (This function destroys target actor)

I trigger it here:

[light thunder]

So it's adding 50 every tick it seems

[grim ore]

well what the actual problem?

[visual flame]

but it keeps getting an error: Blueprint Runtime Error: "Accessed None trying to read property BuildingRef". Blueprint: RTS_campawncontroller Function: Execute Ubergraph RTS Campawncontroller Graph: EventGraph Node: KIll Building

[light thunder]

Does it ever fire before?

Because that error means your reference to it is invalid - either you didn't update the reference or that actor doesnt' exist - did you check the world outliner for that

[visual flame]

I am placing the actor in in game

[grim ore]

so you are calling kill building and which part is failing, the calling it or the destroy actor part

[light thunder]

@grim ore Why does it add 50 each update of the timeline, instead of lerping between the two poitns, I want the original vector, and the original vector + 50 to z, and lerp between those points

[visual flame]

I am not sure

The building is not getting destroyed, and the call is not occuring

[grim ore]

@light thunder if its like the screenshots your starting location (the A in the lerp) changes every time its called rather than your A and B being fixed and the timeline output driving it from A to B

@visual flame welp you need to figure out what is not working. Use debugging and breakpoints to figure out what is not being called. What is your Building Ref variable

[visual flame]

a reference to my building parent

[grim ore]

did you verify it?

[visual flame]

How do you do so?

[grim ore]

well use breakpoints or prints to see what it is or just walk thru and see what it says it is

according to the error the Building ref is bad

[visual flame]

thank you

[autumn flame]

You could intiliaze the starting location before the timeline if it's a problem, then have the end location with starting location + 50 still before and plug them in A and B

If it keeps adding 50 everytime

[light thunder]

So basically, get the window location BEFORE the timeline? or will that still get updating, even if it is a node before the timeline event - I've promoted it to a variable and even make an end position variable but I'm curious if I could do it without doing that, just by getting it before the timeline is executed (would it go that far back)?

[autumn flame]

Basically starting and end location aleady decided before the ticks

[grim ore]

@light thunder yep get the variable before and the end before and then lerp between the 2

er... get your start and end locations before and use them, or determine them in the loop (the end is just start + value)

an alternative to the lerp is an interpto and you could use the current location every frame and just the end as fixed but I like simplicity of a lerp

[light thunder]

cool thanks glad my instincts were somewhat on the right track

[late verge]

can anyone help me understand why the blend outs on my camera shake blueprints are just completely broken?

i have my camera shake duration set up correctly, and even if i set it to .1 for the blend out, the camera shake stops abruptly like halfway through

i've done everything i can with the duration and even added a blend in to see if that was the issue, but the blend out still doesn't work as it should

[light thunder]

KEEP GOING DON'T STOP UNREAL YOU CAN DO IT EAT THAT MEMORY BABY!

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[late verge]

if anyone here knows a solution feel free to @ me, i've been at this for days

[light thunder]

also weird - Why is this static mesh not visible I'm ticking the visibility and the location and they are all what they are supposed to be

asset in question

[visual flame]

I have a code that is failing to call another blueprints function to destroy an actor that is placed in-game (the calling code)

the destroy code:

[grim ore]

yep again what is building ref

when do you set it, what value is inside of it, what value is inside of it when you are trying to use it during that code

[visual flame]

I set it upon starting the game, and it is just a reference when I try to use it

[autumn flame]

Is it a empty reference tho?

It can hold only 1 building inside, or you expose it and set it manually from the world or if you wanna destroy them all just get all actors with a for each loop

It will iterate through them all this way

[visual flame]

it is a parent class, so I want to destroy its children

the cast looks like this:

[autumn flame]

You are casting the ref to itself and setting it again?

[visual flame]

oops

[autumn flame]

You could just use Self then

Or destroy actor self if you want it to just delete itself

[visual flame]

this is in my camera controller

[autumn flame]

Thing is makes no sense casting a variable to it's same object, you won't get anything out of it

It's like saying i have a house with all the house variables, but i still cast to the house object and set my house again

[visual flame]

Maybe I need to redesign my whole system

[autumn flame]

What do you want to achieve at the end?

[visual flame]

I want to have an object of my choice to be deleted by me

[autumn flame]

How do you get the said object?

How does the engine know which one to delete i mean

[visual flame]

I guess that is my main problem

I am creating the objects in game, so I would need to constantly be updating the list, correct?

[light thunder]

You add them to an array

[visual flame]

would I use tick, or would that be laggy?

[light thunder]

and the index of the array they are added to, that's the "key" or the "Location" of where they are

no, hardly ever need to use tick

[autumn flame]

Simplest way to test this type of system would be a Line Trace, it will return what it hits, from Hit Actor cast to your Building and you have the reference there or do something with it

That's if you want your player to decide which one

[visual flame]

how would I trigger the array update?

[light thunder]

adding to what he is saying, you can make an "IsValid Node" to do the thing that you want and if it doesnt' hit something that you care about, it just does ntothing

you need to watch the blueprint comm video I think

[autumn flame]

IsValid Node is my bane, I always forget it exists :'D

[visual flame]

would I route this system through gamestate of the building Parent class?

*or

[light thunder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM_HYqQdToE&t=2s&ab_channel=UnrealEngine @visual flame if you haven't seen this yet, you will level up like 5 levels by watching this

[visual flame]

thank you

[jaunty cedar]

Heyo

Any way to generate a solution for a plugin?

[full stump]

Ugh I can't download 4.26 because I'm out of storage :/

Now I need to upgrade my storage before I can use it ;-;

I've basically deleted all I could that's not important as well :/

[ivory ridge]

@light thunder I see your 23GB and go all in

[light thunder]

ah you bastard!

one day...

[ivory ridge]

haha XD

[oblique stream]

could uninstall unity lol

[light thunder]

try deleting your vault cache in installation - i found like 100 gb there once

[dark stag]

dumb but is there a way to get the actors class after getting the actors object?

returning it as actor object, but i need it to return the slass

*class

[oblique stream]

i have seen a "create class from object" node

[dark stag]

shrug ?

no that cant be it

actually scratch that, im doing this wrong

making a map:

but i need that "get attach parent actor" to be a camera rail object

which it is.

but its returning actor object

[weary basalt]

@dark stag GetClass?

Do you want to cast it to something?

Cast it to a CameraRail perhaps?

[soft fiber]

Deactivate player and play an animation, but when I activate again there is a large shutter because the during the animation the player has moved. Is there anyway to fix this issue?

[uneven fractal]

any idea why this level streaming volume is disabled?

[soft fiber]

I'm thinking the shutter is being caused by the camera jump, but I don't know how to get around it?

[summer harness]

Does anyone run unreal 4.26 DMX plugin with Grand MA console? I got problem in 4.26 with artnet. Everything was fine in version 4.25 and i recived artnet, but 4.26 i got nothing.

[hearty dagger]

im trying to chance the sun position but nothing happens when i chance the values

[cunning quest]

#ue4-general How to detect physical material with niagara

[late verge]

can anyone help me understand why the blend outs on my camera shake blueprints are just completely broken?

i have my camera shake duration set up correctly, and even if i set it to .1 for the blend out, the camera shake stops abruptly like halfway through. i've done everything i can with the duration and even added a blend in to see if that was the issue, but the blend out still doesn't work as it should.

i've been at this issue for days ☹️ if anyone knows a solution please don't hesitate to @ me

[restive yarrow]

My player character tends to die when i hit play beyond a certain range across my landscape ( you can see the blue line ), but i have set my killZ to almost infinite , why does this happen?

[open wadi]

So I'm sure no one will have the answer, but just in case hell froze over and it wasn't on the news, I'm having this exact issue: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/766713/text-box-commits-when-clicking-outside-of-it.html

I have a text box, and when a user clicks outside of it it commits the text. I only want the text committed on enter, not clicking outside of the box. I have it configured this way. Anyone have any clue how to prevent clicking outside of a text box from committing the change?

[restive yarrow]

is this a big thing to worry about?

I have disabled world bounds though

[open wadi]

For example - though it's hard to see due to the comment color, I clearly have the commit type set to "On Enter", yet clicking anywhere outside of the text box acts as an "on enter' commit.

Any idea how to configure the commit so clicking outside of the text box does not, for whatever reason, register as an "on enter"?

[lusty carbon]

Is DLSS and RTXGI production ready in the latest UE4 version?

[dim arch]

https://news.developer.nvidia.com/tencent-xr-streaming-cloud/ pretty cool

[honest vale]

@lusty carbon UE 4 as far as I know does not use any vendor specific stuff

(like DLSS)

[neon magnet]

Is there a way to disable raytracing when playing but keep it on to bake the gpu lightmass? How is the setup supposed to be? I tried gpu lightmass once according to the instructions - it baked it fine but it's always calculating. Now within the editor, fine, but when I press play, it uses raytracing instead of the baked lightmass, so what have I missed in the options?

[plush yew]

ugh

someone can help me with some voices on ue4 please ? @here

[lusty carbon]

What does that mean?

UE4 is supposed to use DLss afaik

[honest vale]

vendor specific as in nvidia/amd specific tech

for example UE 4 does not use RTX per se, instead everything is programmed to use DXR

[lusty carbon]

So gotta use the special Nvidia branch to use it?

[honest vale]

no

if your GPU supports DXR then raytracing will work

RTX implements the DXR api

[lusty carbon]

Im talking about DLSS

[honest vale]

I don't know about that, I haven't seen anything about DLSS in engine 🤔

[lusty carbon]

ok thanks

[honest vale]

https://news.developer.nvidia.com/getting-started-with-real-time-ray-tracing-and-dlss-in-unreal-engine-4/

I guess you need the special nvidia branch

[lusty carbon]

Yeah I figured that out

I'll pass..

[rough osprey]

sorry for the stupid question im new to this whole thing

but why does unreal show my tires inside out like?

[regal mulch]

Recalculate the Normals in your 3D program

And re-export

[rough osprey]

ok great thank you

i believe I have done it right

[regal mulch]

If that's blender then there should be a button that says "Recalculate Normals" somewhere

But I'm not sure where that is in 2.8+

[rough osprey]

there are my beautiful wheels

[frank wren]

@regal mulch Alt+N

I guess

just out of my mind if not I will check it after my lol game

[neon magnet]

beep

[regal mulch]

Tell them, not me :P

[frank wren]

oh sorry

[regal mulch]

#graphics maybe?

[neon magnet]

I can try but I'm not making graphics more of an editor/engine question

[regal mulch]

Yeah but RayTracing and GPU Lightmass stuff is probably #graphics

So the peeps that might be able to help are probably there

[forest tree]

@rough osprey

Could also try to flip 'em

[harsh tiger]

https://youtu.be/62EFiBrUhEI?t=3 when treyarch recorded this. for the piece at 3 seconds where the camera follows the gun. is this just as simple as attaching the camera to the weapon itself during recording? or are they doing something more complex?

[dim merlin]

Hi, anyone knows whats the best export and import format for a heightmap (runtime mesh) ?

[frank wren]

Hey is there anyone who tested the new water plugin?
I am making this scene (image) and have the problem that the landscape isn't a landscape but a mesh I made in Blender in some minutes.

My problem is, that when I use the same Height Map in Unreal to create a landscape with it, it looks bad or it needs to be that highpoly that it crashes. So I need to sculpt a map that is already finished in an extra step?
Or should I use this mesh without creating a landscape?
I want some nice waves heading towards the shore with foam and so on and I read the new water plugin needs to be used together with a landscape for that?

Short: I prefer my mesh which isn't a landscape. Do I need to model a landscape for the things I want to do?

[rough osprey]

sorry for another dumb question but

for some reason the viewport when editing my bp disappeared

oh shit oh shit

ngm

ngm

[regal mulch]

Click on the blue link at the top

[rough osprey]

nvm

yeah yeah

thank you

[regal mulch]

UE4 turns BPs into DataOnly BPs if you have 0 code in them

[rough osprey]

ohhhh ok good to know

i was a little confused

[regal mulch]

Well "turn" is maybe the wrong word, but it hides the unneeded rest as it thinks you only changed variables on it.

[open wadi]

Question: Has anyone ever seen an issue on Mac where Unreal randomly will not maintain a websocket connection, indicating "OnClose" is happening over and over (where your code is designed to reconnect OnClose)?

Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. Right now it's happening over and over, every simulation.

Same code never does it on Windows. And sometimes doesn't do it on Mac.

The logs simply say the websocket connection onClose message is "Message: Peer did not specify a reason for initiating the closing"

[stuck scarab]

@rough osprey For the future, the easiest way (for me) to check my normals is this option (while you are in edit mode)
It will color everything in two colors, blue and red. Every face you need to see should be blue, so if you see any red on the outside you can easily identify it that way. Then change those sides with alt+n and whatever option you like, like flip

[open wadi]

Lol, as an aside, I just did a wireshark dump and saw that epic games launcher is performing a non-stop UDP stream between my windows and mac boxes, what on earth.

[rough osprey]

@stuck scarab thank you for the tips!

one more question i promise

is there a way i could make collisions more accurate?

the wheel currently goes through the cylinder which isn't ideal imo

[stuck scarab]

yeah there are some options for you

for quick testing you could turn on a more detailed collision inside unreal, I say quick testing because it's probably not an optimized way 🙂 If you just want to play around that should be fine tho.

2:you could try to add a better suiting collision inside unreal

[rough osprey]

is sphere not the best?

is single convex hull better for this use?

[stuck scarab]

3: you make a custom collision in blender and export it together with the car/tiles

[rough osprey]

hmmmm I think I might go with 2

thank you!

[stuck scarab]

for testing I'd choose 1

sec

[open wadi]

Does anyone know why exactly UE4Editor.exe is blasting a UDP stream from my Windows box to my Mac?

[stuck scarab]

for that you need to change this setting to "use complex collision as simple" @rough osprey
In the upper top menu, Collision, enable simple collision if not already. Then this should give you perfectly collision, with the cost of performance. Nothing to worry about at early stages tho

#work-in-progress
Fun character I think 🙂

[hot beacon]

oh work in progress ok

i moved it into work in progress

[rough osprey]

@stuck scarab so all I need to do is make my mesh static then change the collision settings and it'll work?

[stuck scarab]

oh sorry mate, so your car is a skeleton and not a mesh? Havent worked with vehicles yet 🙂

[rough osprey]

oh im so stupid lmaoooooooooooooooo

well thank you anyway!

[stuck scarab]

mh.. might actually be my bad. Depending on how you run this car it could be the skeleton physics where you handle collision

Anyone here using the Unreal -> Blender Rigify/Uefy -> Unreal workflow?

[shut glen]

does anyone know why my prohectile only goes one way

?

[stuck scarab]

not without seeing your code

[shut glen]

oh yes

[stuck scarab]

try it without the rotation of your sphere

[light thunder]

@shut glen The first person shooter template has a projectile on it, you can see what they did exactly on there

[craggy sierra]

is it normal that scaling only one axis of skeletal mesh, breaks collision? 4.25

skeletal mesh has no collision after scaling it for example on Z axis only

if I scale SM as a whole, on all axis then its good

[fringe pivot]

So how much storage do you think it would take to version-control a game with probably 20GB of assets?
I feel it would become unmanageable pretty quick.

[midnight gate]

help i cant log into epic games launcher is loading of ages and killing my internet

i need to access my assets ffs

[light thunder]

@fringe pivot You won't need to push all of those assets

[forest tree]

Perforce

Totally doable

[light thunder]

@fringe pivot Check #source-control but generally just the assets you can change - if you need the space, just push your blueprints and other logic code, things like textures you don't need to push - you can always push it if you are thinking about making a change to a texture or something else - you can push it before you make a change as a revision and then you'll have a backup you can revert to

@midnight gate just open your uproject file

Unless you need to download one of your marketplace assets

[midnight gate]

open what file

i need to open the damn launcher to get an asset

i dont need to acces ue4 that part works fine

[light thunder]

is it from a project you are working on?

[midnight gate]

no its just i bought smth

and i cant get it cause of that

[light thunder]

might be able to try logging in through the web if the launcher is being quirky

[obsidian nimbus]

it does seem like loggin in launcher takes longer, you can scroll trough project w/o lag now tho 😛

[echo zealot]

Is there any way to get/set a "sound time" type variable? I would like to see at what playtime a sound component is and adjust the time.

[worn shadow]

hello i imported some fbx files from mixamo but its says "Mesh contains Root bone as root but animation doesn't contain the root track " how can i fix it ?

[stuck scarab]

Export your UE Skeleton as fbx. Upload it to mixamo.
Use this skeleton with the animation
At the download step choose "with skin"

had the same issue yesterday, still very clueless about animations but that solved the error at least @worn shadow

[worn shadow]

ooh thank you

❤️

[stuck scarab]

np, dont know why its so hard to find useful information on that topic

[winged crypt]

I can't see decals unless lit by movable/stationary lights, but I have dbuffer decals enabled and this decal uses that mode 🤔

[frank wren]

hey :)
Is there a way to create a multiple paintable master material?

[slender island]

You trying to defib that zombie?

haha

[winged crypt]

😂

I can see the decal a little bit, but barely

[novel charm]

Hi

[haughty hound]

Hi, when i pause the game im able to rotate the camera but not to move it, how could i move it? thanks guys

[cloud forum]

Structure variable bugs will be the end of me

works fine when I set the variable to editable

[wary wave]

is... that printing correctly?

those numbers are enormous

[dense knoll]

Any way to do automatic replication without re writing a ton of things?

[wary wave]

probably not

when you make something multiplayer, you make it multiplayer from the start

[dense knoll]

Wish UE4 had it built in

[wary wave]

it is built in?

[dense knoll]

I keep forgeting my game is MP mostly

nope

you have to do Replication manually

[wary wave]

if you think that's manual, I have bad news for you 😄

[dense knoll]

Wait wat

[wary wave]

UE4 does a LOT for you

but you still obviously have to tell it what data to replicate and when

that part could never be automatic

[dense knoll]

Thats the part im talking about

There should be a setting in the actor to automatically replicate everything in it

[obsidian nimbus]

that would flood connection real fast

[wary wave]

yeah

it literally wouldn't work

[obsidian nimbus]

characters are allready setup for replication

[dense knoll]

I created a custom Pawn

[sterile thistle]

We are all custom pawns

[cedar vector]

mood:

[zealous cloak]

i have a question about the editor layout. i moved the my BLueprint section to the right of my window and then back again. No every new opened has it on the right side. How can i save this setting?

[dense knoll]

Summary of 2020

[grim shale]

Hello, am new to programming and am looking to get into UE4,
C++ Programming specifically
I have some experience with programming (very small experience).
And I was wondering if one of you guys knows a good place to start with this engine
Because I have no idea where to start.
Thanks in advance.

[fierce tulip]

@grim shale while you wait for smore answers, check out the pinned message in this channel for a getting started care-pack

[grim shale]

@fierce tulip sounds good, I'll check it out.
One question though,
doesn't Epic Games have like a course for teaching the basics of their engine?

[fierce tulip]

they have getting started tutorials available on the wiki/youtube and learning tab on the launcher

[grim shale]

Ah, I didn't see that in the launcher the first time I started it.
I just came here straight away...

[plush yew]

sorry to interrupt but i was wondering if anyone could help me find something for a simple weapon sway? i mean for like any object i want a flashlight to sway when the camera moves.

[grim shale]

@fierce tulip thanks for the help,
I appreciate it.

[fierce tulip]

np, i also remember Tom Looman publishing a c++ for ue4 tutorial thingy. i think googling "tom looman ue4 cpp tutorial" might get you the right results.

its a bit old, so might need to use an older ue4 version to get it working as things change under the hood.

[fierce tulip]

in case some missed it:
https://80.lv/articles/packs-from-unreal-for-all-creators-film-available-for-free/

[south flax]

guys i am a 13 years old kid. does particel system kills fps???

[wary wave]

those things are neat, but probably not useful for almost anyone 😄

[south flax]

i wanna make some smoke in my project

[cloud patrol]

hey, im following a course for creating large scale terrain but mine has these dark marks and idk how to fix them (mats downloaded from quixel)

i used World Machine

[wary wave]

build lighting.

[cloud patrol]

akready did

didnt work

oh nvm, it did lol

thank you, actual stupid problem haha

[cedar vector]

careful when spawning lots of translucent particles (like smoke-planes)! When translucency overlaps a lot, it can kill the FPS fast

[south flax]

is it kills fps like the explosions of games????????

[cedar vector]

Not sure I understand that question haha, but try keep the particle count as low as you can when working with Translucent-materials

[south flax]

i mean if we burst any cars in many games like gta v it kills a lot of fps. is it like that?

[cedar vector]

Uh, yes probably!

[south flax]

but the problem is i have a very low end laptop that has i3 8130u 8gb ram and no gpu. even i get a lot of problems in making maps that takes a lot of time to compile shaders

[midnight gate]

im working on a quiz and i want to have the questions randomized cause number 1 will always be correct while the rest is wrong

how should i go about randomizing these 4 data struk variables into the ui?

[covert hedge]

put them into an array, use a random int node and then use the result to get the element of that array

@midnight gate

nevermind that

there's a shuffle method

you can call

[midnight gate]

may you screenshot me the setup? i have a hard time understanding

[covert hedge]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/Utilities/Array/Shuffle/index.html

use a "make array" node

plug the 1 2 3 4 pins into it

it outputs array

[midnight gate]

oh wow a shuffle node

[covert hedge]

than shuffle the array, and the lements are in random order 🙂

[midnight gate]

wow

this is so amazing im offended

[covert hedge]

[soft fiber]

After the animation, when I move the origin the actual location of the player, it causes a camera jump. What is a good way to handle this?

[midnight gate]

i would not recomend this method

[covert hedge]

mb something to do with root motion and stuff? idk

[soft fiber]

@midnight gate Why? What do you recomend?

Does any have any recommendations for my question above?

[worn shadow]

guys how can i fix this 😦

[midnight gate]

Move the character instead of root

@soft fiber

Mive the whole actor

Your anins should always be around the 0,0,0 pivot

[light thunder]

What's the animation concept for having a animation that targets a particular part of the skeleton but not all of it (like a reload animation that you place ontop of a walking animation) it's not blendspace or montage ...think it's slot but my google is failing me

[midnight gate]

@worn shadow cant read text to tiny

@light thunder smth like overlays look it up i dont know much

Anim overlays

Anim mixing etc

[celest spire]

@worn shadow , what cg app are you exporting from?

[light thunder]

Is it not montage?

[midnight gate]

@worn shadow u imported smth with 0 data

[worn shadow]

im trying to import some animation from mixamo but 😦

[winter gale]

https://twitter.com/RyanJon2040/status/1338729249927294977

Satheesh PV (@RyanJon2040)

Quick #UE4 Tip number 69.

Can't remember viewport controls? You can click show Viewport Controls in bottomleft corner of Viewport.

#unreal #unrealtips #unrealdev #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #UnrealEngine

Twitter · Dec 15, 2020, 6:15 AM

[midnight gate]

@worn shadow idk its weird its not working did u select skeleton?

[worn shadow]

yes

[midnight gate]

Can u import the fbx into blender or smth?

[worn shadow]

if you are avabile i can share my screen and i can show you what i made so you can tell me whats wrong ? 🙂

[worn shadow]

gonna try

[midnight gate]

Im busy w ue4 myself cant talk

[worn shadow]

i got it 🙂

[dense ravine]

hey, has someone an idea why i can't chose other languages in the right click, "Asset localization/Create Asset Localization/language" menu except for english? I added the other languages in the localization dashboard but it's not showing up on the asset localization

[unique kraken]

anyone can tell me if you can creat a pose asset useing morph targets?

[midnight gate]

how can i read what is written on the button and if the text = that execute?

you kno i shufled my questions and now idk how to know wich button is question 1 wich button question 2

[soft fiber]

This approach actual works, don't waste your time with other methods:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnuCfyuIhpM

[grim ore]

@midnight gate when do you read it?

there is an event each time you push the button that you would use, so the button shouldn't be changing unless your changing the text at runtime. IF you are doing that you still know which button is pressed so you can get the text block widget that is assigned to that button and read its text

[glacial oar]

im very new to unreal how the hell do i switch to my new camera in the scene from the third person character i would like to follow a new actor around

all i get when i googleis switching to another controlled camera

[midnight gate]

@grim ore dw i figured out i checked the text that the button is attached when the button is clicked it works perfectly

i am changing the text at runtime that is why i need to check this stuff

its a simple quiz thingy im making