ue4-general

[prisma plank]

Yes it was.. 20 min pre launching, and after compiled shaders.. 5k

Ok, maybe 1 moment, i reinstalled from win 7 to win 10... maybe it can be failure for me?

and UE4 like on old part of drive

[grim ore]

it sounds like it should be working but again, do you have a scene that shows it

[prisma plank]

I launched third person project template..

simply to test..

[inner vine]

But did you enable any of the ray tracing features in that scene?

[grim ore]

"I want to test ray tracing but I have nothing reflective in my scene. why is it not working"

sigh

[inner vine]

Even for global illumination and such you need to actually enable it in the post-process settings

[rough osprey]

my scene takes a shit ton of time to build lighting now because of all my tree foliage objects

any tips?

[grim ore]

the easiest way to see if it works (dxr) is to enable the ray traced shadows and you will immediately see the difference

[rough osprey]

I know disabling cast shadows would work but I obviously want shadows and can't think of anything else

[dawn gull]

So I'm trying to compile my game, but it errors out and I don't see what went wrong, it says unknown error.

[prisma plank]

Ok. So raytracing translucency - same not affecting..

same with GI -brute force. 0 effect.

[inner vine]

Judging by your fps it seems to be doing ray tracing

[prisma plank]

no.. it's raster standard..

[grim ore]

do the shadows test

also the noise in the reflection certainly looks like dxr to me on a gtx

[prisma plank]

what about translucency?

[slender bronze]

nani??

[prisma plank]

not. it simply not working..

[inner vine]

I just tried creating a project from the template and the difference in shadows isn't that clear (at least visually).

Try creating a material with the base colour set to white, fully metalic and zero roughness

[prisma plank]

yes there chrome material like..

[open wadi]

Where on earth is the option to disable source control?

I don't see it in the context menu, only "sync", I don't see it in editor preferences

[inner vine]

Not that one, create one yourself like this:

[prisma plank]

ok will see now..

[digital anchor]

@open wadi iirc click connect to source control, then run without source control

[open wadi]

There is no connect to source control.

Once youv'e connected, that option is replaced with "Source Control > Check Out, Mark for Add, Check In, and Sync"

There is absolutely no option anywhere I can find in the editor to simply disable source control, I'm attempting to switch providers from the "most unintuitive application ever created by man" Perforce and migrate to Github

But in Unreal, I see zero options for disabling source control, since it was previously connected.

[prisma plank]

@inner vine reflections now is "raytracing"

[inner vine]

okay, that does indeed look like it's not ray tracing

[prisma plank]

yes..

[open wadi]

Surely there is an option buried somewhere that allows one to disable source control, I've even uninstalled the Perforce apps themselves.

[grim ore]

did you try the shadow test?

[prisma plank]

same not see performance changing and any shadows..

soft*

I think maybe something in config files..

[grim ore]

go to your light source, make its on movable, and adjust the shadow source angle to 0.0

that is normal, this is RT on

if adjusting the shadow source angle does nothing, then your raytracing is not working

[inner vine]

I think the reflection test already proved it, those were obviously screen-space.

You're using a 1660, right? Not a 1650 or lower?

[prisma plank]

Heh , i havent that tab..

same as path tracing

[grim ore]

@open wadi click the source control button the toolbar and use run without source control and none for the provider?

you have to have that tab its part of the light @prisma plank

[open wadi]

Lol, MathewW, thank you.

I appreciate it.

[grim ore]

if adjusting the shadow bias does nothing, make sure you hit the requirements in this list https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/RayTracing/index.html @prisma plank

[prisma plank]

@inner vine sorry i have 1650 super

[grim ore]

that would be why, 1650 does not have DXR support

[inner vine]

That's not a supported card

[open wadi]

So I'm disenchanted with Perforce, it's constantly misbehaving for users > What else would you guys use for source control? What's the best other option?

[prisma plank]

hm..

[grim ore]

perforce and get used to it's stupid quirks 😦

[inner vine]

1060 and up, 1660 and up and the RTX series

Or the 6000 series on AMD's side

Any other cards don't have the feature.

[prisma plank]

it's like only ue4 not supports.. but at nvidia say it's supporting rtx..

[grim ore]

where does it say that? because it doesnt

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/tSZQxI1PddETgBplnHKuVci2Fsg=/0x0:3532x1451/920x0/filters:focal(0x0:3532x1451):format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/15970946/geforce_rtx_gtx_dxr_supported_gpus_march_2019.png

[open wadi]

I'm a network administrator who has dealt with god knows how many servers, VMWare clusters, EMC SANs, Active Directory deployments, OpenDirectory deployments for *nix, and god knows what else, and I just spent 2 straight days simply trying to get 2 workstations to properly share a "client" workspace with Perforce and it just refused to work properly.

It's literally the least-intuitive application I have ever used or administrated in my entire career.

So there's absolutely nothing else? the drop-down offers subversion, plastic SCM, and says git is in beta

[grim ore]

I personally just use git but my projects are small enough where the binary limits and git-lfs are not an issue

I also dont run version control in engine itself

[open wadi]

Oh really, ok. Interesting.

So yes, this here is simply a two-man project - would it be logical for both of us to just push to a github repo and just stay in communication about which files we're editing at any given time?

Have you worked in that type of situation mathew?

[grim ore]

doing it now with a jam and yep

[open wadi]

How would you handle that?

Right, nice.

[grim ore]

we made a google doc and assigned roles and stuff to work on and just respect eachother

[open wadi]

I presume you're working on Windows, what's your github setup?

In terms of, you just periodically push your code to the repo?

[grim ore]

pretty much when its smart

and always make sure to pull before pushing

[open wadi]

Great

I appreciate the hell out of it.

[grim ore]

its hard but thats normal for work lol

[prisma plank]

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/technologies/dx12/

hm really, it's say only about dx12...

[grim ore]

welp theres other stuff you can test like fortnite but its pretty simple if you have the 4 requirements met and enable it

but a 1650 should give you literally unusable performance

[inner vine]

I wonder if the RTX support is disabled because of VRAM, since the 1650S seems about evenly matched in performance compared to a 1060 6GB, but all of the supported cards have 6GB of VRAM or more.

[grim ore]

oooh... how did I miss this https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/announcements-and-releases/1843949-unreal-engine-4-26-chaos-preview-now-available-on-the-epic-games-launcher

[inner vine]

But yeah performance is indeed not really useful. On my 1060 the framerate can already dip below 30fps at 1080p while running just the third-person shooter template even if just one of the RTX effects is enabled.

[prisma plank]

For me was intrested simply to test raytracing but not like realtime playing.. 1650s and 1660ti like same performance, and 1660 havent "rt cores"

will see...

will instal driver of rtx 2080 ))

[inner vine]

The 1660S seems to be 20-30% more powerful, and has an extra 2GB of memory

[hallow compass]

is my CPU only using 1 core?

[inner vine]

Don't mess with the drivers @prisma plank, it's not going to work and you risk making your system unbootable which is a pain to repair.

[prisma plank]

Card will not work higher that it can..

[signal bone]

hello

[prisma plank]

Ok thanks for answers

[fluid lance]

any idea on why on stair meshes my raytrace doesn't return a hit? The collision seems fine on mesh, and it's usually all stairs. Does it have to do with slope? The setup is from character location - 100 on Z axis. I use the trace for footstep sounds. It works fine on everything except stair meshes for some reason. It always returns the physical mat of the landscape/other meshes below. I'm clueless

it's ignoring self, SKMs have no sockets on feet

[robust acorn]

i just witnessed the logo change

[fluid lance]

so even if it's set to ignore self it might still prevent it from returning a hit? And why only on stair meshes? Does it have to do with slope?

Then I don't follow, sry.

I could try to move the trace (start I'm guessing) up, but i'd like to understand what is happening 😐

@scarlet birch worked like a charm - moved start +50 and compensated on end. Is it because the SKM's origin was falling slightly under the stair mesh as the SKM kept on gaining altitude?

oh, so that's what you meant ...ok now i understood what you were previously saying. Nope, the start was actor location

yes, that sounds like a clean(er) solution than mine. I just went with it like that because it's top down, so didn't need that much precision/accuracy. Thanks though, it really helped, especially since it makes sense now. 😄

[grim ore]

@hallow compass

[hallow compass]

@grim ore legend

[lofty moat]

Hey guys

How are you all.

[dense knoll]

Any idea how to fix this with Macs running bootcamp and older GPUs

[late verge]

does anyone know of a way to fade out a camera shake?

[dense knoll]

Any idea how to make multiplayer matches joinable, when i try to join a session it just doesent work

[late verge]

@scarlet birch dear god i've been stuck on blend in/out issues for days. for whatever bloody reason, blend ins/outs don't work as they should for me

for instance, say i want the blend out to last .5 seconds. if i set it to .5, the camera shake bugs out. it plays, then stops halfway through, then starts playing again near the end.

at least, that's what was happening with the values i was using

i set the duration up correctly and everything

hm, what's the difference between the anim blend ins/outs and the oscillation blend ins/outs?

that... could be the cause of my issue

because right now, at the end of my cinematic, i want the shake to fade out

but, of course, the oscillation blend out doesn't do that

would you happen to know of any ways i could achieve the fade out effect i'm trying to get?

i'm at a complete loss of ideas

feel like i've tried everything

so when you set the blend out to say, 1 second, it fades out for 1 second?

yeah, i've got no idea what's causing them to work improperly for me

has to be a bug at this point

perhaps it would work if i set up an actual blueprint. i've only been using this page.

who knows

[plush yew]

can you add morph targets to meshes and models

or do they need to be build with them from the ground up

[warped tangle]

yes, you can

[plush yew]

;D

thanks

[wide girder]

how does game engines generally work for dealing Win32 APIs?
for example, I've hooked WindowProc function, but no WM_SIZE messages received inside of WindowProc whenever I do resize the game window,
does this mean the game engine also had hooked WindowProc function before me?

[hallow compass]

How can I improve this scene I just made? 😄

[next narwhal]

By fixing the funky bricks on the corner 🙂

[hallow compass]

@next narwhal It's from megascans hahahah

I have moved the sun and it already looks better in my opinion. But it still doesn't look photo realistic

[open wadi]

I want to run specific functionality when a new level is loaded > what node should be used for this purpose?

Event BeginPlay I believe is when the game itself is started and not tied to a specific level, correct?

Or, is Event BeginPlay called on level create, so that if I switch levels, I can trust that EventBeginPlay will be called for each level each time on level create?

Basically, I'm trying to create "logout" functionality, but nothing seems to be working correctly. My app right now is simple > a single level almost entirely in UMG, the user can log in, it establishes some websocket connections to my API and displays some data in the widges.

I create a logout button, the API successfully logs the user out, but I just want the user to return to the login widget that loads initially - So I've tried removing all widgets then re-creating the login widget, that fails, I've tried creating a blank level and having logout load the blank level, then load the standard level, that appears to work for a couple seconds then crashes UE

[sleek spear]

ok so i make new empty level, add a 4k landscape and play, i get 10 fps when moving and my cpu and gpu usage is very low, anyone knows what could it be?

[devout swift]

how can I calculate where my player will be if they run for x seconds forwards?
Is there like a position formula that takes in max speed, acceleration, initial location, etc?

[still tangle]

Has anyone used Brushify?

[open wadi]

Anyone work with VaRest much? I notice that upon getting a response from my API, and getting the Set-Cookie header, all subsequent VaRest requests pass that cookie, which is great, except when building logout functionality.

Because I log out from my API, kill the session on the API side, log back in, and VaRest is still permanently passing the old cookie

There's a "set header" node, but it's standalone building a specific request, anyone dealt with this?

Here's my cookie code. This works the first time a user authenticates - I threw in that print string code just for shits and grins, works fine.

However, if I destroy this widget, then the user logs out, then I recreate this widget, the second time it says that no Set-Cookie header field exists, the cookie is blank. Any ideas why that might occur?

[novel charm]

@sleek swift hi I also find you here

👍

[plush yew]

Hey guys I'm working on my AI and I am looking for any suggestions on things my AI should be able to do. It's a Realistic FPS shooter so no abilities.
I have a list here of what I have already added below. Red means it's in progress/Not Finished. Green means it's already implemented. Thanks in advance!
https://gyazo.com/c8070894c7d52355e59d070c4fdc4239

[winter gale]

https://twitter.com/RyanJon2040/status/1339454025671041024?s=19

Satheesh PV (@RyanJon2040)

Quick #UE4 Tip number 71.

Prefer the old editor mode UI? You can enable it from Editor Preferences -> Appearance section.

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

Twitter · Dec 17, 2020, 6:15 AM

[grim beacon]

How to implement COD MW mount/lean mechanic?

Does anybody have an idea how I would find the edges of world objects?

[regal mulch]

Traces

[grim beacon]

So trace forward and then downwards?

[tough pagoda]

I'm beginner and I have a question. What examples of cases when need to use cpp instead bp?

I mean mechanics, gameplay features that can impact to performance.

I think, that can be AI. Many NPC can impact? Yes, but what else can do this.

[grim beacon]

You would do cpp as much as possible

[plush yew]

hello i got a problem please help (Failed to load map! .umap appears to be an asset file.)

[grim beacon]

And you can use bp to get everything together

[plush yew]

i can't open my map

[regal mulch]

How are you trying to open that map?

[tough pagoda]

So, it's not good if I use bp everywhere?

[regal mulch]

Uff, the BP vs CPP question is answered so much and so often.

[plush yew]

my ue4 project was freezing then i restart my PC and when i open my project my map was deleted

[regal mulch]

Please check the forums for example for lengthy discussions

@plush yew Well, do you use Source Control to Backup your project?

If not, there is your "mortal" reminder

[tough pagoda]

I did. I found only "where is hard logic you need cpp". But I need real examples.

[regal mulch]

You can check if the automatic backup folder in your project has the map

There won't be any "real" examples.

You can do a lot of stuff in BPs

[plush yew]

what is source control ? i usualy backup with copy paste or clone in epic games launcher

[regal mulch]

#source-control

Ask there, let peeps there teach you

It#s a way of versioning your files

So you submit constant updates and have hte ability to revert back to older versions if needed

Everyone here should use source control for their projects

If not, one is just asking for trouble if something breaks

Here is my take on BP vs CPP:

[tough pagoda]

I know, but I want to know what classical features in games can do bad performance. And where BP is bad choice.

[plush yew]

well i found my backup map but i dont know how to take it back 😄

[regal mulch]

• BP can be used to create complete games, depending on the game, some games require features that aren't available in BPs.
• BPs suck if it comes to multiplayer, as they have barely any required functions and variables exposed. So you are more or less forced to use CPP.
• BPs can be a bottleneck in terms of performance, but well coded ones will probably survive a lot longer before you are forced to move to CPP. There is no rule of thumb here. You'll find out when your FPS go to shit because of the Game Thread and you start profiling.

[tough pagoda]

Thanks!

[regal mulch]

Now, what should one do?

• Use both, at all times. Do lots of stuff in CPP and expose stuff to BPs that is easier to setup/use there.
• Empower your designers by exposing variables to adjust behavior of classes, so they don't need to write code.

We usually have most of the logic in CPP and only do coding in BPs if Designers need to have a way of adjusting it.
Like the Condition for a Loot Drop. The class exists in CPP, but the function to actually say "This can drop.", is exposed so Designers can override it and implement their logic.

And in the end we have one or more child classes in BPs, to override some visuals, like meshes, VFX, SFX, etc.

It's what I find the most working, as you can always expose variables from CPP to BPs if needed, so even if I code in BPs, I have a CPP parent.

Now that's my take on it, others might do it different. I found this working quite well.

[plush yew]

i guess i need to make whole new 😄

[regal mulch]

We do a lot prototyping in BP, cause it's faster. In case that matters.

[plush yew]

i mean map

[regal mulch]

Copy it from the backup folder to where it was originally.

[plush yew]

does not work

[tough pagoda]

@regal mulch
Thank you very much. I have last question. Where I can get good material for learning Unreal Engine 4 API? I know CPP, but API of UE4 is hard for me.

And my brain.

[plush yew]

but it was not very hard to make thx @regal mulch

[tough pagoda]

I understand that exist YT, internet, but what resources can help me. For I can do cpp stuff in UE4.

[polar hawk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flEtQBPtBTc&feature=emb_title

[regal mulch]

@plush yew Pleeease look into #source-control and set that up

There are, iirc, free versions, or just put it onto your own PC if no other way

But don't work without

We usually, at least, use as $5 per month Digital Ocean Droplet + Perforce. Everyone should have like $5 dollars for this.
It can save you hours, days, weeks and even months of work in case something breaks.

[broken heath]

Is it easy for us to develop for ps5? Can i get a ps5 and package a game on it?

[frank escarp]

@broken heath need to become a registered sony dev and buy a devkit from them

[broken heath]

Oh

[regal mulch]

Buy...?

[broken heath]

Then id be able to do testings on ps5?

[frank escarp]

@regal mulch yes, buy

[regal mulch]

Yeah, if you are fully registered with them and have the DevKit, then yeah.

[frank escarp]

also, atm demand for devkits is big enough that i cant get one XD

and i have a released game on PS4

[regal mulch]

I only had the pleasure to work with Xbox, where you only have to buy additional ones.

[frank escarp]

so unless you are AAA forget about it for now

@regal mulch im in talks with them too

[broken heath]

Why forget about it

[frank escarp]

but my games are vr, so the excuse of "i want to port them to flat" is not a very strong one

[polar hawk]

Sony gates free devkits incredibly arbitrarily

[regal mulch]

Uff

[frank escarp]

free devkits from sony in europe are nonexistant

[regal mulch]

We got free devkits from Xbox without even having a game lol

[frank escarp]

they are only given to special teams

[polar hawk]

xbox is much much better about devkit acquisition

[frank escarp]

like part of PS Partners and things like that

[regal mulch]

Yeah they are

[broken heath]

I remember sony once said theyd support indies

[polar hawk]

sony dev kits are nicer imo tho lol

[frank escarp]

from what ive tinkered with them, ps devkits are indeed awesome

the debugging and profiling tools are god tier

way better than anything you can get on PC

[broken heath]

How much would it cost to buy these

[polar hawk]

thats nda

but a lot

[tough pagoda]

What is Tick and why people recommand implement Tick with cpp.

[polar hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/popcorn-watching-weekend-vibe-gif-5457118

[wary wave]

Tick is the function that happens every gameplay 'frame'

I recommend not using it at all, if you can avoid it.

[regal mulch]

Ah man, if I would have the energy I would now make a meme of that discussion crusher

[untold swallow]

Hey how to sign the Ue4 game by generating Keystore????

[broken heath]

Wouldn’t u guys higher your game settings as much as u can then put ur game on ps5

[wary wave]

no

[tough pagoda]

Thanks for answer.

[regal mulch]

Don't worry. Energy is low. Vacation inc.

[untold swallow]

Anyone Please?

[polar hawk]

is that for #mobile

or #macos

[untold swallow]

Mobile

Android

[honest dagger]

Anybody familiar with pixel streaming in AWS?

[polar hawk]

#mobile is literally your only hope for help here

[untold swallow]

Ohh Alright Thank you :)

[honest dagger]

I need some help for the matchmaker server and preparing the autoscaling in aws

[polar hawk]

I'd be incredibly surprised if you'd find someone willing to help you with that

[honest dagger]

@polar hawk yeah I thought so too actually

[polar hawk]

Thats like a... pay a contract to get that answer question lol

no i mean your question

[untold swallow]

So do you know?

[honest dagger]

Sorry I wrong quote

[polar hawk]

I've signed android apps before

but that doesn't mean I know

lol

[untold swallow]

Ohhh mannn

[polar hawk]

I literally forgot everything about it

[untold swallow]

Just gimme a breif idea?

[polar hawk]

everything

[untold swallow]

I'm almost about to Launch the game

[honest dagger]

@untold swallow

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/Mobile/Android/DistributionSigning/index.html

Is this what you mean?

[untold swallow]

Lemee just cheeck

[honest dagger]

Just follow the docs, it works like charmed, you can just rename the parameter of myKey or whatsoever

[untold swallow]

Ohhhh yeahhh I think this would work

Thank you so muchhh

[honest dagger]

And then write it in the packaging section

[untold swallow]

Btw My Game will be out Soon as Endless hope , must try XD

[honest dagger]

Don't forget to set as for distribution on the build

[untold swallow]

Yeah yeah got you bro thanks

[honest dagger]

Or else you will failed when uploading it to playstore

[untold swallow]

Ohh alright and what else do we need to do while uploading on playstore?

I've uploaded games from unity, but never from unreal

[honest dagger]

And you must build the arm x64 and and arm7

[untold swallow]

Alright

[honest dagger]

I was previously only build for arm7, and google asked for armx64

[untold swallow]

Ohh okay thank Youu Brotherrr

[honest dagger]

You welcome, I also previously got headache searching info about that, glad could help

[still tangle]

Any way to replace all the trees of a map with another one using just a click or so?? (I mean Replace all )

[open wadi]

I have a question. I execute a VaRest request to my API and on response, I grab the Set-Cookie header and set it to a string - this works fine on first login. Here is the code.

However, after logging out, then logging back in, this Set-Cookie: string ends up blank. Any idea why that might be?

It looks to me like the VaRest subsystem automatically DOES update the cookie on second login, because subsequent requests do work and I can see on my API that the expiry date of the cookie has updated (meaning it's likely the new cookie), but it's like VaRest prevents me from grabbing the Set-Cookie field when a cookie is already set.

[untold swallow]

you really saved my day😄

[open wadi]

Ok, put it this way - anyone know how to pull the currently-set cookie header currently stored with VaRest (and not from the response header)? Because clearly it stores the cookie.

[wary wave]

you should probably ask somewhere VaRest related, I'm not sure many people in here will ever have used it

[honest dagger]

@untold swallow I know exactly how you feel bro

@open wadi What are you trying to achieve?

What's the cookie use for? Storing information login?

I once uses Varest for my last project, we have trouble authenticate user with localStorage, then we use sessionStorage and it works.. but I never use cookies

Android webkit does not support localStorage, but supports sessionStorage. Never use cookies, if it sounds help, try using sessionStorage, use inject javascript node

[untold swallow]

😄

[open wadi]

Um, yes, it's for storing local user authentication information.

I've reported this to VaRest on their "questions" page, hopefully they have an answer, it appears to be a bug. There have been bugs in he past regarding when APIs pass back more than one session cookie, so I'm guessing it's related to how the subsystem automatically stores the session information.

It's a real PITA, let me tell you.

[plush yew]

Hello guys I have question

my project is so big as a size

it is 56gb

I dfound that the saved folder is 21gb

do I need this folder-if I delete the content there will it runin something?

[digital anchor]

its a temporary folder with backups, preferences, screenshots etc, you can delete it

[zenith mountain]

not sure where to ask this question but Ihave a weird scaling bug

text size is fine but interface scaling is all over the place

tried making it smaller but that also reduced the correct text size

[humble yacht]

Why doesnt WITH_EDITOR work with classes ? Is there another macro that i should use ?

[digital anchor]

@humble yacht doesnt work how

[humble yacht]

Im getting packaging errors

Complaining from the gen.cpp

[digital anchor]

hmm, sorry, haven't tried it but i would guess it would work

[humble yacht]

Should i be using WITH_EDITORONLY_DATA

[random summit]

how do i disable this thing?

[plush yew]

okay

[fringe pivot]

Is it possible to place assets you import from the marketplace vault to a specific folder rather than "Content"?

[plush yew]

what other folder I can remve or reduce for space? The project is 34gb now, all these are 17gb

[random summit]

what does he do here https://youtu.be/Y2ro27Xw-lw?t=449

to hide all the bs

[fringe pivot]

@plush yew quit spamming

[digital anchor]

@plush yew derived data cache can also be removed, however it will be created again when you next start your project for shaders etc

[modest trench]

He pressed G to go into "game mode"

[coral wasp]

Merry Christmas!

[random summit]

thanks that solved the main problem but it also hides the wireframe

[plush yew]

@regal mulch done i rebuilt the whole map xD

[fringe pivot]

Don't quote @regal mulch he gets mad

[modest trench]

the wireframe you are referring to may be a showflag? I don't know which wireframe you are talking about

[honest dagger]

@plush yew try Migrate your project to blank project, copy the config folder

[random summit]

oh ye it is thanks 🙂

[plush yew]

Merry christmas dev bois

[plush yew]

so, I am going in the content folder and chppse every gfolder and I migrate them in new third person project and then in the new project I copy the config folder?

[honest dagger]

@plush yew do you have your maps folder in one folder? Try migrating the maps folder, it will migrate the maps and its dependencies

Exit the editor, And then, in windows explorer, copy and replace the config folder

[plush yew]

okay

I have 2 maps- one for menu and other one- the game level

[honest dagger]

In one folder? Try to migrate the maps folder which consist of the 2 maps

Exit the editor, And then, in windows explorer, copy and replace the config folder. This is espescially important when you have edited the input, i usually just copy the whole config folder, unless you know which config you need to replace

[plush yew]

okay

the maps are not in one folder

is this a problem?

[floral mesa]

@fringe pivot you can move vault assets to any folder you want, they just have to be placed in the content folders of projects that you want to access them. if you wanted to create a repo on an hd you can. but some assets will be updated so i dont waste my time with that. just keep things in the cloud unless i need them

[cloud patrol]

hey y'all, is there any tutorial for tesselation using material functions?

[fringe pivot]

@floral mesa that's what I'm trying to avoid, to get them installed under /content.
I would like to have all them under a subfolder, let's say /content/assets/, so I can keep /content clean

[still moat]

I traveled through the Unreal Engine Documentation and somehow ended up on the UDK Documentation.

[gilded root]

hi is it possible package in html5 unreal 4.25 or 4.26?

[digital anchor]

only through a community plugin

i think thats the one https://github.com/UnrealEngineHTML5/Documentation

[wary wave]

I've always been wary of UE4 for HTML5 anyway

it's just not lightweight enough for browsers, not really

[forest tree]

On that note, I wonder what current progress on webassembly is like 🤔

That'd be promising for these kinds of usecases

[proven shuttle]

To me is sounds like a horrible idea

[marble pebble]

Hey guys is this the channel where I can ask for help?

[wary wave]

depends on what you want help with

there are a lot of more specific channels

[marble pebble]

Oh, well I just have a question about the engine and cameras

For a project I'm working on

[proven shuttle]

If u need web assembly use godot or something, not like the heaviest 3d engine you can think of lmao

[marble pebble]

So basically, I've been working on this first person game for a couple days now, and I just noticed that I haven't actually placed a camera in my character blueprint, but it seems to work just fine without that. Can someone explain this to me?

[wary wave]

native parent class creates a camera if it doesn't find one in the component hierarchy

[marble pebble]

Ah okay

I know I should be placing a camera but I was just curious as to why it behaved like this

Thanks

[silver shuttle]

Hey, I am new to the Unreal Engine. I was looking for a support channel for UE4 but cannot see one or either I am blind.. However, I have an issue with the UE4 engine where I go into 'Landscape mode' and then the 'Manage, Sculpt, Paint' tab on the right keeps going in and out. Shaking my screen around. Really annoying.. Can't even use modes due to this.
This is a still image. I know. But, is there anyway to make this stop?

[calm widget]

You can load default editor layout, not sure what you mean shaking your screen around, just reorganizing it automatically?

[silver shuttle]

The screen on the right keeps popping in and out, automatically.
I'll try the default editor layout.

That worked! Thank you.

[calm widget]

I remember a dev video where they had the same issue, glad that worked tho.

[silver shuttle]

Was giving me a headache for a day or so.
Really appreciate it.

[calm widget]

World Settings

[plush yew]

Hi, I have some troubles with the timeline when switching multiples times the visibility between Visible and Hidden.

Here, I have set the first keyframe on "Hidden". The second keyframe is on "Visible". Then I continue to switch between "Hidden" and "Visible". So after the sixth and last keyframe, which is on "Visible", the picture with the dog must appear and keep like this until the end (the picture must appears 3 times in total) :

But it is not what it happens. It's just like if the last keyframe doesn't exist. Look : https://gyazo.com/93f83b3a0ed0a729e7548c554bd0dda9

[dire ingot]

help me guys

Im using on hit event. it work fine it does dmg my robot.
but when my cone hit the robot it will block it. that mean the cone will block the robot path.
but if i use the on begin overlap event, it will not block the robot path and dmg it, but it dmg it only once.
help me guys

[plush yew]

I believe this happens only when I try to put multiples alternations between Visible and Hidden. A few days ago, I tried to do some subtitles and I put multiples keyframes with an alternation between Visible and Hidden and it was so annoying that I finally did the thing in another way :/

Does someone know what it happens ? Did I do something wrong ?

why does bright memory with RT runs at 60 fps while i run at 60 fps with a empty ue4 scene

[dire ingot]

what is RT

[plush yew]

RayTracing

its not ray tracing xylophone for sure

@dire ingot

[dire ingot]

ok

[cinder lance]

I was wondering if anyone else is having issues using the Landmass brush blueprints, for river, or ocean, or whatever being extremely laggy when in world comp. They are completely unusable for me in a world comp setting (UE 4.26)

[dire ingot]

i thougt it is raytracing

[plush yew]

ray tracing xylophon™ RTX

[spiral flint]

do i ask here for help

[calm widget]

Better just ask and ask forgiveness later if you get any complaint hah

[spiral flint]

huh

[plush yew]

@spiral flint game devs are rude

in short

[spiral flint]

@plush yew nice elodie

how do i bring the textures

[calm widget]

@plush yew Not sure what you mean, the game mode override is level specific. You want to change game mode at runtime?

I don't think you can change the player controller at runtime

[uncut parcel]

How is the MacBook Pro m1 16gb for unreal engine??

[calm widget]

@plush yew I don't see the problem

@spiral flint You can just import the textures into unreal? If you don't have them locally you can export them from blender

[spiral flint]

they're eall the bar at the bottem

how do i put them onto it

[calm widget]

Select the mesh for the arms, open up the material, drag in the textures and plug in the nodes @spiral flint

[spiral flint]

also

is there a reason the normals on the arm are reveersed in unreal but not bleender

[calm widget]

Think it has to do with OpenGL vs DirectX @spiral flint

Just send it to me directly if you want, compressed i guess

[spiral flint]

send you the project?

[last hinge]

can u create animation using unreal engine?

[wary wave]

depends on what you mean by "animation"

[plush yew]

Guys, I've got very very very long compile times, even with small projects. Around 5 minutes of compiling each time I edit something. Is there something wrong or is it normal?

Hey guys do you know why my projects have a very ridiculs size ?, like a very simple project with 3 lines of codes, is bigger than a project with many animations... how is that possible ?

[grim beacon]

@plush yew That's normal.

I've experienced very slow compile times on my HDD compared toy SSD

Also the ue4 built version is a lot slower than the source version

[plush yew]

Ahh... Unreal is on my HDD.

Do you think upgrading to a SSD can improve compile time?

[grim beacon]

For me, it did

[plush yew]

i have to say that i have hdd, i just add 8 more gb of ram, and it improved a lot, maybe with ssd will go so great

[fierce tulip]

it def will, especially if your projects are also on an ssd

[plush yew]

anyway ssd is a good think, buy it if you can

[thorny perch]

a good multicore cpu is also good 🙂

[plush yew]

I've got 8gb of ram + HDD. I should add up 8 more Go and a SSD, then !

I've got a Ryzen 5 2600

[plush yew]

i suggest you to add 8gb more, i had your same pc

with 16gb it's like a flash

trust me

Damn, I'll buy some ram tomorrow then lol

[grim beacon]

My 8gb PC started filling up easily :(

[thorny perch]

I do alot of rendering aswell, so this could be overkill for UE4, but ive seen 32GB getting crammed 😄

[plush yew]

if you can overclock it's better

[plush yew]

64gb of ram, ahah

oh shit 64gb ahahah

[thorny perch]

had 32 gig, 4x8gig one stick gave up

cheaper to buy 64 than to find a single 8 gig stick 🙂

ive maxed out those 32gigs though so it was needed 😄

[plush yew]

i got 16gb 3200, but i cant overclock because i have a stock pc, so my rams run at 2133:(

[thorny perch]

plus BF-offer, super cheap 😄

[plush yew]

I have 64. Definitely needed it ngl

Some of the games I worked on used 50+

[plush yew]

Woahh, they needed that much for compilation?

Sometimes

Big games yo

I'm guessing AAA studios must have beefy computers

Correct

hey guys i got a big problem, i dont know why my projects are oversized ? a project with some cubes can reach 700mb ? how is that possible ? ps: no material no textures https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/55874/view.html here my same problem

[thorny perch]

project size doesnt really matter

afaik

[plush yew]

well one of my project got 24gb, and i am scared that if i go on it can be crazy

like 100gb

[plush yew]

Interesting ! I have installed UE on my SDD but I have my UE projects on my HDD. So it would be really better to have UE + the projects files on my SSD ?

[thorny perch]

one of mine are 36gigs

[undone bough]

ah nevermind... that was float specific

[thorny perch]

1.2 gigs when packed for the quest2 🙂

[plush yew]

like i downloaded a locomotion project from the marketplace and it has so many animation, and it's 80mb, my project with 3 lines of codes and a 2 cubes is 117mbs... how is that possible....

i am young about this, so i cant understand very well ahahah

[grim ore]

why not look at the sizes of things and determine why?

[grim juniper]

Starter content maybe?

[viral fractal]

heightmap maybe ?

terrain tesselation data gotta be stored somewhere

[gentle bramble]

Does dumb question can earn me a ban here? I am student and designing furnitures is one of my main path in life. Currently I am looking for some program which could allow me visualise my projects in photorealistic enviroments without spending a penny. I find couple programs like blender or free game engines like unity / unreal engine. I quickly find out, that there is no easy path in learning interior modeling.

So there is my question what program give me the biggest possibilites in interior design with the lowest cost? (I got only gtx 1060 + 8gb ram + old i7) What should be my first step in the way to achive my goal?

[plush yew]

without stater content

[plush yew]

no heightmap

[plush yew]

i made a test and i realized that

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/55874/view.html here they talk about build and rebuild, but i dont know what are thry talking about actually

[plush yew]

well you if you need to make an interactive project, just go with ue4, it's easy to use, otherwise the bake a image in blender and you are done

[viral fractal]

Unreal def. Can be used for that, altough its Not completely free (5% royalties once past 1mill Rev.)

Blender can do it too ofc., But i personally prefer working in a Realtime WYSIWYG Editor than a offline renderer

8gb ram is critical tho, and a 1060 will struggle

[marble pebble]

I've been using AddControllerPitchInput for my vertical mouse look rotation, but once I added an actual camera it stopped working. How can I make it work again?

[gentle bramble]

I thought about blender at the beginning but UI is just not intuitive for me but it's wouldnt be a problem if performence would be better than in UE

[gentle bramble]

it's not a problem. I would be glad if I even make 10% of that rev per 10 years right now 🤔

[viral fractal]

you cant really compare performance, since you will likely use an offline pathtracer in blender

which means rendering a single image can take several minutes

in UE you can view and edit your scene in real time, search for your angle, do a high res EXR export for best quality

[gentle bramble]

thats exacly what I need

maybe not what I need but it will help a lot

[viral fractal]

i would recommend at least 16-32gb of ram for working intensely with UE4 tho

and 8+ CPU cores

[gentle bramble]

anyway I am gonna upgrade to 16gb, currently I got 8gb single slot. As CPU I got i7 8750h (laptop one) 6 cores 12 threads. everything is hot after 15-30 minutes of playing 😏

[viral fractal]

heh, i have a laptop with the same CPU but 32gb ram and a 1070 that can handle it .. somewhat... comfortable, but not great

i finally reached "comfort" with my desktop with a ryzen 5950x and 128gb of ram xD

[gentle bramble]

more ram than my system ssd

[marble pebble]

I'm gonna bump this since I am stumped

[grim ore]

does your pawn have it set up to use the controller pitch for rotation?

[marble pebble]

I'm not sure

And it's technically not a pawn it's a Character

[grim ore]

yep, what does the node say for the Add Controller Pitch Input for the target?

a Character is a Pawn

[marble pebble]

I'm using C++

[grim ore]

welp then what does it say in the API for the target lol

[marble pebble]

I don't quite understand what you mean by target here

[grim ore]

the class this code is ran on is a Pawn

[marble pebble]

Okay, side-note, apparently you need to restart the entire editor if you make changes in a class constructor

[grim ore]

your adding input to the pawn, so your pawn/character/alien baby needs to be using that input to determine the rotation

[marble pebble]

I'm gonna try to set bUsePawnControlRotation to true and see what happens

Right true

I getcha now

[grim ore]

if your using a spring arm then yep that option would work

[marble pebble]

Ah okay so I got it working now by setting bUsePawnControlRotation

I am not using a spring arm

🤔

[grim ore]

oh gotcha duh, forgot you added a camera

spring arm/camera both use that option. the raw use controller rotation X settings are on the pawn if not overriding it with a camera

[plush yew]

Ok, I answer to my own problem : I fixed it by adding a keyframe in the very ending of the timeline, set on "hidden", just like the keyframe in the very beginning. Apparently, it needs that the first keyframe and the last are set the same. Though, I've just delete this last keyframe and it still works, lol... So, really, I don't know. Maybe it's just a weird bug of UE but I think I have find the remedy... I believe... (maybe it's just a coincidence so fingers crossed ! 🤞 )

[grim ore]

I tend to just use the raw Use XXX ones so I can restrict it from not using roll

[marble pebble]

Thanks anyway mate!

[grim beacon]

Is there any way I can use this on a timer?

I don't want it to run on tick

I don't really get the math behind it, I just want it to interpolate between the current and target with wider steps

[marble pebble]

I don't know what to search for with this, but how can I make some simple hand-keyframed animations inside unreal? I'm just looking to move a gun up and down when I'm jumping in first person

[plain pagoda]

https://youtu.be/kBpX1YYp6rw

[marble pebble]

Ah thanks, I'll see if that's the thing I'm looking for

[junior solstice]

how to get ref this bp

[plain pagoda]

oh, sorry didn't notice you asked a question. I was just sharing a video for a query I had yesterday.

[marble pebble]

Oh lol

It seemed relevant to what I was asking

[plain pagoda]

as for the gun animations

I know how to do it

did the same myself

if you want, I can create a tutorial

You can read this too @marble pebble

[marble pebble]

Ah thanks man

[marble pebble]

Could you? That would be really helpful

[plain pagoda]

Sure. I'll make one right away. Will let you know when I upload it.
It'll be on this channel... https://youtube.com/channel/UCe18FkxLBnsQ4i-oyzuTT8g

[marble pebble]

Thanks mate

[plain pagoda]

Use a timeline with Lerp node

[hidden tendon]

Does anyone know how to use SSGI with AO?

[fluid wadi]

hey guys

I need help

Im new with unreal

[timid frost]

what happened

[fluid wadi]

I can't find event begin play lol

It's just not there for me

[timid frost]

np i was new also and still new

[fluid wadi]

Im trying to make a menu

And the event begin play is just not there

it's not grayed

either

[proper quiver]

anyone know how to use the tutorial system? as in building tutorials for my players? There is a built-in feature that does this, but I can't google it because anything "ue4 tutorial" etc comes up with ue4 tutorials.

[timid frost]

you have to make widget for it first

[fluid wadi]

yea I made buttons and stuff

And it's in a blueprint

for user interfac

[timid frost]

left click and then write event play or being play

hope it will help you

[fluid wadi]

The only thing that comes up is event construct

[timid frost]

hmm

wait

let me see

[fluid wadi]

ok

[proud helm]

I had a weird situation were Unreal kind of refreshed itself every 2 seconds, like it stopped ticking for a frame and came back. I restarted my computer and this went away. Does anyone know why that happened?

[marble pebble]

How come the details window is blank on this static mesh component

[cedar vector]

how to I prevent my metallic-materials from turning black when the camera is in certain angles?

I am having a hard time troubleshooting this

[jade ginkgo]

Event Construct is basically BeginPlay for widgets.

[spiral flint]

how come the materials i made isnt showing up on the model

[obsidian nimbus]

@cedar vector thats screenspace reflection only reflects whats on screen

[spiral flint]

works fine on the cube

[obsidian nimbus]

mayB try place a reflection captute there

[calm widget]

@spiral flint Maybe need to check the UVs

[spiral flint]

how do i do that in unreal

i unwrapped them all in blender

[cedar hare]

So I have a particle that I am having trouble working underwater. I understand its a water post processing effect(If i turn it off it renders fine) Is there a way to omit it from my post processing water?

[calm widget]

Open the mesh, click UVs

[rich stone]

how can I remove the water inside a ship in 4.26 water's plugin? I tried with the water exclusion volume but it only removes the post-processing, it does not cut the water mesh

[spiral flint]

@calm widget i dont have that option

[calm widget]

@spiral flint That's a skeletal mesh sorry

[polar prism]

Hey Unreal Guys!! Hope you are doing well.
My question to the professionals only.
I have my on going project, in a scene I wanna fade the character or agents crowd while walking or playing...how I can fade or hide previous characters when I move forward and see again when I move backward?
Can anyone suggest a best and easy way to do this in ue4?
Bundle of thanks!!

[spiral flint]

Cringe

[eternal flame]

Ummm I don't think that I can say Thank You enough to Unreal Engine 4 and Epic Games. They have now allowed me the opportunity to learn C++ in conjunction with gamedev.tv Incredible Thank You for the opportunity Thank You. THANK YOU. Time to feed my Brain 🧠 😌 🤪

[polar prism]

who is going to help me out?

[spiral flint]

lol

[plush yew]

type on youtube ue4 optimization, i watched a video a few days ago about that

[polar prism]

Thanks! but which particular video?

basically I just want the scene when you play the game and move forward and look back and characters disappear and when you come back characters show again. I just want this scene. I saw allot of fading videos but doesn't making any sense.

[shut glen]

can someone tell me why this crushes unreal when i soot the bullet?

[royal magnet]

Hi everyone, I am having an issue with capturing video, I am using FXAA and it is giving a flickering video as a result, it is fine when I change it to the Temporal AA but as you know that gives a horrific blurry result. How can I make a video with FXAA or something like that, Yesterday and the day before I couldnt get any suggestions
I would really appreciate any help on this thank you.

[gaunt tide]

If this isn’t in the correct channel or there is a better channel for this question lemme know. So I’m currently working on a project where I am modeling parts of a ships hull. Rn I’m only going to be making the transverse frame, the keel, and longitudinal frames so far. Is it possible in UE4 to have the outer plating mesh generated based on the placement of the other 3 components? The player in the game will be able to place a keel down, extend it how ever long they want than place transverse frames and longitudinal frames than choose the type of material they want their hull the be than hopefully if it’s possible have the hull shaped in the way the frames are. The player will also be able to place decks based on where they placed Longitudinal frames on the side of the hull. I know there is PMC, SMC, and SDMC if I’m not labeling those correctly than lemme know but I wasn’t sure exactly how to use most of those for this purpose or if there is a better alternative or if it would even be possible in UE.

[plain pagoda]

https://youtu.be/h3p0d_CwuRc

@marble pebble the tutorial you requested 😄

[marble pebble]

Oh damn, that was quick

Thanks!

Currently, I'm trying to spawn a weapon model on a spring arm with an offset, but I can't manage to do it. Can anyone help?

[polar prism]

ustaaaddd ggg

[rare dagger]

im quite excited about the aspect of a scripting language coming to unreal

[frozen pond]

i want to do some EQ system, but not sure should i make my character froms parts like head+body+legs or is there a way to hide part of full model

[grim ore]

you can't really hide parts, you should make it modular if possible as you can swap out the parts and they can still use the base skeleton for animations

there is amodular heros asset that was free from epic at some point that does this, also https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/AnimatingObjects/SkeletalMeshAnimation/WorkingwithModularCharacters/index.html

[frozen pond]

yeah so version 1: make (almost) naked character from parts and and then glue it together in character BP

any idea where i could grab epic skeleton male/female simple character?

[dense knoll]

how do i make contrail that just doesent randomly stop?

[royal magnet]

Hi Mr.Wadstein can you help me with my problem

[royal magnet]

this

[uneven fractal]

Any idea why the stream levels array is greyed out here?

[digital anchor]

@royal magnet

have you tried increasing AA sample counts in the movie render queue

[fluid wadi]

hey all, i got a question about a scorteboard idea

i want to make it like a timer, the lower the score the better

does anyone know how to or have a tutorial on it??

[royal magnet]

Thank you for your reply, I will try that now.

[gray kindle]

is it possible to fix that thing inside unreal? i mean the arms of course

[frozen pond]

looks like wrong skeleton

you could change animations, but it should not look like this

[gray kindle]

yeah, when viewing skeleton it looks completly normal tho

[frozen pond]

i just finished importing custom character so it should look like this :

[gray kindle]

thats how it looks in skeleton preview 😦

did u make the character yourself?

i rigged mine with mixamo

maybe thats the problem

[frozen pond]

thats why i dont use mixamo lol

[gray kindle]

oh well i guess i will have to make it from scratch then

proably spent more time trying to fix it than it would take me

[frozen pond]

try reallusion character creator

[gray kindle]

it rigs to epic?

[frozen pond]

there is autosetup plugin (for 4.25) and there is easy transfer to ue4 skeleton

demo version let you export 10 characters

[gray kindle]

i only need 2 😄

thanks

[plush yew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE3km7Mc7xU&t=1006s this is a great video

[frozen pond]

@gray kindle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ezPyfha1Q&t=0s use that tutorial from 0 second to 3 minutes

everything else would be normal retargeting

[plush yew]

I have been taking a look at that system, but i noticed that it use the event tick to update.... that's good, but i realized that the event tick it's better to avoid if you can

[frozen pond]

@plush yew i'm not using it, just reference for CC3 to UE4

system itself looks good but i like to made my own solutions

[plush yew]

yeah you are right, it's a very good looking project

[frozen pond]

i have few good project from epic but i barely use them due it's not mine

[plush yew]

yeah i always take a look around, i dont want to steal stuff or be unfair

[zinc shore]

how would i add grass to a surface that's spawned in randoms spots in runtime

[dense knoll]

Any way to import real world data with textures into ue4?

[ornate forge]

Does Visual Studio integration work fine in Unreal if I install both VS2017 and VS2019? I remember having some issues with multiple Visual Studio versions installed a few years ago

[royal magnet]

Unfortunately this isnt working, I needed to add the plugin movie render que in order to use which i did then did the setup and increased the aa sample counts but it gives png as an output and it didnt even applied the all camera movement, but the worst part is it took hours to finish it up. Normally sequencer records the video withing minutes.

[royal magnet]

Can anyone give any suggestion on this please

[azure shore]

not watching rn, but is that for use with like actual ai enemies, that would have proper ragdolls, materials models etc?

[plush yew]

i use blender

can i make a LOD effect on my textures ? Like when i am far away the texture have to be in very low resolution, when i am close must be high resolution... any bright idea ?

how do i get a circle shadow for my character?

something like this

[gloomy gull]

@plush yew Try putting a spotlight over the character

[plush yew]

i dont know

@gloomy gull sounds good thanks!

[gloomy gull]

np 🙂

[plush yew]

I have a very basic setup of a camera + a spring arm

My character is a rolling egg

Pb is that the camera follows "too much" the egg. I don't know how to explain better but this video speaks itself : https://gyazo.com/afb93d21bdcdc7b3f109b93f6692e611

How to fix this ?

I'm moving the Spring Arm and the camera a bit everywhere but I can't fix it...

[plush yew]

How to I make an in-game purchase?

[kind dew]

How do I change materials based on lighting? Basically, I want a decal to be invisible unless you shone a light on it

[digital anchor]

@scarlet birch yeah

obviously the particles have to be masked/opaque

[boreal epoch]

how would i, typically, go about removing the ability to damage an NPC if it is spawned from my custom Character?

ie I drag my Character into the map so it acts as an NPC; i just need it to not be able to be damaged

[acoustic wraith]

Not sure if this is the right channel, but I guess that Epic is making a new scripting language for UE5.

Unreal Verse.

[kind dew]

How do I change materials based on lighting? Basically, I want a decal to be invisible unless you shone a light on it

[cloud patrol]

is it normal that all quixel megascans parent mats are this?

[dark stag]

my god

darker nodes

where has this been my whole life

its like the UI ive always wanted, but was afraid to ask

[dusky crest]

yes, basically just base material and you can tweak the base material parameter in material instances and not recompile every changes

[cloud patrol]

oh okay good to know, thank you 😄

[dusky crest]

here more explanation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=310&v=edZo8PC5SYc
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/RenderingAndGraphics/Materials/HowTo/Instancing/index.html

[rancid lynx]

Whats Cheaper on the CPU, a line trace or a capsule collision box ?

a line trace every frame, because the collision is every frame also.

i should stop thinking and just go X_x

line trace it is.

[burnt tangle]

Hello I created post at unreal forum, I can share this link here?

[plush yew]

Hi, I'm thinking about using Unreal Engine 4. Does UE4 have a tool similar to Unity's Probuilder, or what do i need to do? I'm proficient in Probuilder so I would love it if UE4 had something like that

[south flax]

Yeah very similar

[plush yew]

What tool?

[south flax]

I dont know the name. i have used the probilder in one of my friends pc ands its so similar.

[gloomy gull]

Woah, how’d u do that? 😝

[fluid wadi]

can I bind a button to another widget blueprint?

[ancient lotus]

@gloomy gull i think hes using a different one but these do exist https://github.com/Sythenz/UE4Minimal

[gloomy gull]

Ahh, I see 😄

[fluid wadi]

Guys

I want to make an instructions tab

In my menu

Do i create a user interface?

[tawdry wren]

https://pastebin.com/KyJk8YXx

Anyone else ever get this crash report on 4.26.0?

[boreal epoch]

how would i, typically, go about removing the ability to damage an NPC if it is spawned from my custom Character?
[8:24 PM]
ie I drag my Character into the map so it acts as an NPC; i just need it to not be able to be damaged

Reposted since it got buried

[exotic thicket]

If you're using the builtin damage support, you could turn the can be damaged value off... if a custom system, then you could implement a similar boolean which can be used to turn it off

[burnt tangle]

is possible to switch between two game modes during playing game? I have setup ''Live Main menu'' and widget class. So if I hit play it actually switch to the first game map but it can't switch game mode.

(If you wonder why I want 2 game modes and switch them while loading level from widget class, I can say from Live main menu map I can't use the same game mode from this begin play because it use Animation Blueprint Class so it allow to move Axis W,S,D,A keys at Main Menu screen so it's bad idea. In this case I created new Game Mode for live main menu and I copy blueprint class to delete movement of character but when I want start game from start button in won't switch to Main gameMode that is used actually for gameplay).

[full vessel]

does different versions of ue4 have different system requirements

[digital rover]

why this error comes in 4.26 ?

[full vessel]

??

[vernal scarab]

Hello all, don't know where to post this question, can someone tell me why I am having this issue?

[vestal goblet]

i accidentally made something the scene root of a blueprint i didn't mean to, is there any way i can undo that without redoing the entire blueprint?

er sorry, the root component

[gray kindle]

thanks 🙂

[plush yew]

can someone tell me why there big white circle in my map ? 😄

[floral mesa]

can anyone recommend a cost effective cloud storage solution for a two person international project?

@plush yew looks like a point light to me from this angle

i mean spotlight

[plush yew]

there not light

[floral mesa]

have you built lighting lately?

[plush yew]

no i use moveble in light source

[floral mesa]

if its not a light, idk what it is

[digital anchor]

its the reflection capture sphere

reflecting the sky

[forest tree]

Backblaze?

[floral mesa]

@forest tree thankyou

[orchid seal]

For some reason a project gets stuck at initializing 45% when I hopen it, I left it like that for 5 minutes and it's still the same. any ideea"?

[floral mesa]

@orchid seal happens to me, but opens before 5 minutes time.

[orchid seal]

They weird thing is it's a blank third person template

So there's really not much to initialize

[floral mesa]

are you using the source version

[orchid seal]

what you mean?

[floral mesa]

you probably arent, youre using the one you download from the launcher huh

the source engine is the one you build from the source code found on github

[orchid seal]

Oh no, the launcher one. NVM, had raytracing on by mistake.

[hearty cosmos]

With Fortnite coming to Unreal Engine Editor*, will we be able to do things like create our own "events" (with custom animations) that people can see in the fortnite game?

[viral fractal]

so.. why is the epic launcher such a painfully slow misery and consumes 5% CPU load while not doing anything

[merry canopy]

Hey everyone.
I have some strange artefacts till crash going on in UE4.
I stress tested my GPU, no problems.
Also playing games that need hardcore GPU, no problems.
But in UE4, at one point it starts and when I dont minimize the editor quick enough, it will freeze and than crash UE4.
Anyone has an idea, what that could be?
Newest drivers are installed and the PC is in general very clean. It actually starts very calm to have some artefacts and suddenly all the viewport is full of them.
Like I said, no problems in other GPU eating applications...

[deft parcel]

Kunai becomes invisible during flying through air (background)

however, this doesn't continues all the way

[steel shell]

someone knows an automated way to generate landscape lods?

i have around 1000 tiles and i want to create 3 lods of each tile. right now i load them in chunks, generate the lods, close them, load the next chunk

which is really a boring and slow process. someone knows how to automate this? do i really need to load the landscape tiles to generate the lods?

[boreal epoch]

I tried turning Can be Damaged off but that didnt work; i tried adding a damage toggle as well but it asks for a hit type, and i dont think i understand what it's asking

I should add right now that this is for a game that I did not make, but rather am modding for.

[sharp horizon]

Anyone have any experience with this issue?

[grizzled kayak]

Hi, if I buy Blueprints of Animations / Movements made for Third Person Characters, can I use them for First Person Characters ?

[delicate lichen]

is there anywhere I can get some help recovering installed engine versions in the EGS launcher? had to reinstall windows

for the project I reinstalled VS2017 Community, reinstalled the launcher to 'D:\Program Files (x86)\Epic Games' which was the previous location, but the UE_4.20 install right next to it isn't discovered by the launcher and it claims I have no engines installed

[brittle gulch]

Hi guys, I got a new laptop, I wonder if I absolutely need to install the epic launcher and then re-download UE4 to install it, or can I just copy my install directory from my old computer to the new one?

[ebon marlin]

Do I need to add my own action mappings for misc inputs such Esc to go back to main menu, etc?

[gaunt tide]

you can just have the escape key bound in your player character or however you made your player controls

[ebon marlin]

Thanks, is there any recommended best practice though? I assume that if I add action mappings, I can later add key binding customization?

[delicate lichen]

indeed. binding the action to keypress Esc makes it rather unmodifiable

[light thunder]

If you have a data table built from a structure and you modify that structure, will the data table update ever? I've seen a few posts during my search that talked about just saving the assets and shutting down the editor and restarting it but I wanted to check here

[delicate lichen]

I just manually opened my 4.20 project using the only installed engine version I have, at D:\Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\UE_4.20\Engine\Binaries\Win64\Ue4Editor.exe and it told me it was created using a different engine version

[sharp horizon]

I'd install fresh to avoid any hiccups with windows

[delicate lichen]

UE making a copy of the project to open takes 2 hours, reinstalling takes 30 mins for me... goodbye old install

[hexed dagger]

wait for UE 5

[delicate lichen]

oh boy, recompiling 150k shaders

[lusty carbon]

Hey! I created LODs to meshes which I then added to a sub-level for streaming. but the LODs simply don't work now when they're a separate level. What's going on?

Ok restarting the engine just fixed it.

[dawn gull]

Google Team Drives

up to 7 exabytes of storage too

[sand spear]

Hello guys, I would like to ask, is there any benchmark for engine & shader compiling for these two CPUs: Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i9-9900K

[sick knot]

What is the licence for this guy?

[grim ore]

@sand spear https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-3900x/7.html

[sand spear]

@grim ore Thanks

[gaunt tide]

Looks like ima be hopping on the Ryzen 9 train if they are ever in stock lol

[grim ore]

I have a 3950x and I love it. it chews thru pure CPU tasks

[gaunt tide]

Uggghhh dang yeah I’m due for an upgrade in a year or two now I only have a I7-6700k lol

[thick herald]

007 license to kill

[plush yew]

Why are the black parts of my decal transparent in the editor but not the material preview?

[fierce tulip]

good luck :)

[hexed dagger]

h

[plush yew]

h

[hexed dagger]

is having a icon appear when you are on a key like to pick it up like in unity? like having to update it every frame?

or it isn't like that on UE

[plush yew]

line tracing on event tick you mean?

[hexed dagger]

idk what it is called in UE

basically an icon that shows u can pick up an item

in unity you have to run the code every update of a frame

in UE you need to do that too?

[plush yew]

i think so

[hexed dagger]

like it showing a icon on the screen

when you can pickup an item

when you hover over it

[coral folio]

My niagara system works in my project but when push with perforce Other people in my team are not able to get it to work ?!

[hexed dagger]

at a certain distance

[coral folio]

Maybe there’s some files which aren’t passed across ?

[plush yew]

you can do it so as soon as you look at the item it will add a widget to your viewport

[hexed dagger]

is it performance taking?

[plush yew]

if you do it only for picking up items it shouldnt be bad

[hexed dagger]

aha

I see

[plush yew]

@plush yew for testing around ig

[hexed dagger]

so it is performance taking if there are multiple icons for different stuff

[plush yew]

oh no you can just choose the icon depending on what item it is

[hexed dagger]

I mean like one for powering up the tv

one for unscrewing stuff

for example

[plush yew]

look into linetracing that should help you out

[hexed dagger]

hmm ok

[plush yew]

if the line hits the TV it will do something and if the line hits a screw it will do something else

[loud meadow]

Hi guys

Can you help me in something

[hexed dagger]

basically something like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os7uf-wiU8o

would it be performance taking

[plush yew]

i think this guy is only using collisions

[hexed dagger]

hmm

that would mean if he looked in the ground

it'd still be showing

right?

[plush yew]

if you want the person to look at single screws you shouldnt go with that but its sufficient for doors

[plush yew]

yes if hes using collisions

[hexed dagger]

mhm

[grim ore]

you wouldnt be updating it every frame, you might be checking every frame but those are simple ray casts or collision checks which are not an issue

[hexed dagger]

yeah raycasts

for unity

[grim ore]

cast ray/check collision, someting changes so you do something (show ui or hide ui). repeat next frame. the simple check is light

[hexed dagger]

well I had that in unity and my performance went woop

garbage

to stutters

n stuff

[grim ore]

then it sounds like you might have done it poorly. raycasting/line tracing/collision checks are not intensive unless you do waaaay too many

1 check a frame is way less than a normal game uses

[hexed dagger]

would a hello neighbor type of game be hard to make for a beginner with blueprints?

not the full version

[grim ore]

ue4 also has a ton of profiling tools so one can just check the performance hit of stuff

[hexed dagger]

but like the alpha versions

[unreal widget]

What Matthew said. Raytracing and collision checks are done god knows how many times a frame, there's serious issues with the way you're doing them if they're causing performance drops.

[grim ore]

what would a "hello neighbor" type of game have in like an alpha version

[hexed dagger]

if you know the alpha versions

or played them

[unreal widget]

As for making a clone of a game and if its "hard", best I can advise is to look at its mechanics and see if you can think of how they might have done it. If you can nail most of the mechanics, then its not hard.

[grim ore]

yep define the mechanics not the game

[loud meadow]

CAN SOMEONE HELP ME PLS

[unreal widget]

Not if you just ask "can you help", we can't.

[hexed dagger]

the old alpha versions are simpler

[grim ore]

thats like saying I want a warframe type game but I only want to shoo and none of the multiplayer and no story but I want the customization but none of the random levels but...

[hexed dagger]

than the current full release

less stuff

[unreal widget]

Isn't... that normally how alphas go? XD

[plush yew]

lmao

[grim ore]

and the answer is generally "yes you can make it"

can YOU make it tho? that's the actual question

[hexed dagger]

probably

[grim ore]

then why ask lol

[hexed dagger]

with the dedication and stuff

but I asked if it would be possible for a beginner to make it with blueprints

someone who used UE only one time

lol

[grim ore]

we dont know what a beginner is in your example

someone who has used UE4 once? nope

[unreal widget]

We can't say. Some people are naturally gifted, others are ejits who can't grasp a concept after being told 50 times.

[grim ore]

it would take atleast a couple times of using UE4 unless you like do it all in one long session I guess

[hexed dagger]

I guess you could call it a long session

but not all of the tools

not ALL of them

[unreal widget]

Again, all I can suggest is looking at the mechanics of the game and seeing if you can come up with an idea of how it might be done.

Open the engine, and try those ideas.

You'll get your answer, one way or another.

[hexed dagger]

hmm okay

[grim ore]

here you go, just copy someone elses work and you can do it https://www.google.com/search?q=hello+neighbor+ue4

[hexed dagger]

hell nah

[plush yew]

why is the black part of this decal transparent

[hexed dagger]

I don't want an exact copy of hello neighbor

[plush yew]

lol

[hexed dagger]

to do something like hello neighbor

same ideas

but different stuff

i'll see into it anyway

[fierce tulip]

apply what you learned from copying and make it your own

[unreal widget]

That's probably the best way to learn, I'd say. Take something as a base, because you can overwhelm yourself if you try doing everything from scratch.

[plush yew]

Hi !

Well, I have this setup to control a ball character or more exaclty, an egg :

I have a camera + a spring arm on it.

It's a pawn. It was an actor first but I reparent it then... I don't know if the pb is here but... In any case, this is my pb :

The camera follows "too much" the egg. I don't know how to explain better but this video speaks itself : https://gyazo.com/afb93d21bdcdc7b3f109b93f6692e611

[steady bronze]

How do I make my grass get light from the landscape lightmap, or vol. lightmap instead of baking it?

cause i am getting blackness in grass

[grim ore]

@plush yew look at the rolling ball template and how they have it set up

[velvet vapor]

Hey, my unreal engine saves lots of data in updata/locallow and it drives me creazy. It can fill up all my 30GB that is free on my system drive, any way i can change it to another drive?

[steady bronze]

pls anyone?

[floral mesa]

@steady bronze are you using a diffuse texture map

[steady bronze]

it has diffuse and opacity mask map

[floral mesa]

use base color

[steady bronze]

my texture

this is my 1st time attemtping foliage in ue4

[crimson lake]

Hey guys, I was going through some ue4 documentation and I went through something called PSO caching

[floral mesa]

do you have a version of the texture image that is base color, not diffuse@steady bronze

[crimson lake]

I understand it preloads shaders in the game, is that something that is very cost efficient and is worth doing

or

[steady bronze]

umm what does base color mean again?

[crimson lake]

albedo

[floral mesa]

@steady bronze we can do this in pm

[velvet vapor]

Please anyone?

[steady bronze]

sure if u dont mind @floral mesa

[floral mesa]

the only thing that came to mind was "damn, you need more space"

[crimson lake]

it sticks in the c drive like a mofo regardless of what I do so I'm fallen like you

[velvet vapor]

That's why I bought 500GB ssd for unreal....

space is no the problem, not being able to change the dir for these files is the problem

[plush yew]

@grim ore Yes, that's what I did. It worked great with their setup and a simple ball. But I changed the torque control system with a more classic movement system then I added an egg for my game, and now I have this issue with the camera (the camera is like rolling over with my egg) : https://gyazo.com/afb93d21bdcdc7b3f109b93f6692e611

My controls : #ue4-general message

[crimson lake]

if you find the solution dm it to me pls ❤️

[velvet vapor]

No idea how to fix that, but i will dm u if i do.

[crimson lake]

I tend to delete my ue cache every now and then to avoid this

zbrush does this crap too

this is highkey just spawning objects in a sphere and animating their scale from 0 to 1

[glacial oar]

help i ducked up i can no longer get my send to unreal sending to unreal something about no connection im gonna migrate to a new project how do i migrate my landscape and water as there not in the contents

[crimson lake]

literally

[velvet vapor]

That's not gonna work, each time i delete it, the engine just rebuilds lighhting and compile shaders and its there again

[crimson lake]

if you got 30gbs of shaders in there you're either working on a masssssive project with an incredible amount of people

or you just got a v inefficient pipeline

I take situations like this to force myself to learn better pipelines and more tech related stuff

[velvet vapor]

Well my map is pretty massive, but i think my lighting settings are quite optimized?

Or should I change anything ?

There isn't even much on the map, so idk why does it weight so much

[harsh tiger]

are epics servers dead atm? publisher portal is taking forever to load and saving changes, doesn't actually save them?

[velvet vapor]

New free game just came out so it is expected to get laggy*

[harsh tiger]

ahh. okay, thanks for the info!

[crimson lake]

mmm

i'd make a new map

and try the landscape alone

and see what I get

debug

[light thunder]

Is there a way to add components to the "ActorsToIgnore when linetracing? I'd prefer not to make a boolean for the hit component after the fact...didn't know if there was some better way to do this

[crimson lake]

you can make actors category

if it hits the category (branch) do nothing

if it hits sm else

continue

[velvet vapor]

Screw this, im making a new project. Im gonna make a smaller map but better one.

[light thunder]

Take a class @plush yew

udemy or skillshare or epic

but you want someone to walk you through it, those classes are like 15 bucks for like 40 hours of step by step video

email the instructor

[floral mesa]

@velvet vapor you can make a huge map but go with UE4's reccomended settings

[light thunder]

explain that, I bet they will give you a voucher coupon

[glacial oar]

youtube and google there is info you just have to search

[light thunder]

go to one of those classes, explain your situation and why you want to learn

[floral mesa]

@velvet vapor i used a custom size once and it was problematic

[light thunder]

'shop' around but you want the ones that have you do the entire game process

you don't necessarily need the CPP one, if there is a blueprint one, I'd suggest that

[floral mesa]

@plush yew there are free trainings on ue4 learn tab in the launcher

it says learn

next to marketplace

[crimson lake]

i love this vibe

[light thunder]

Sir Gabriel isn't wrong either - you might find the class walkthrough style of the udeumy/skillshare classes easier to follow with

[plush yew]

Can decals not be black i dont get it

i just want a simple N64 blob shadow

[grizzled kayak]

I've deleted FirstPersonCharacter once from my map, and put it back, but now when in play mode it doesn't spawn inside that FirstPersonCharacter.

how could I fix this ?

[dire ingot]

help
https://streamable.com/74prqi

why does it hit only one at time?
i used the array and it should hit all of them
but it does hit one at time only, pls help me

[glacial oar]

ive learned 1 thing so far i need a better cpu

[velvet vapor]

:D

[dire ingot]

@light thunder any ideas on how to fix this issue?

[light thunder]

so you mean that flame should spit out to ALL of them\

[light thunder]

In that video did you want your boolean check right after your cast to not be connected?

[dire ingot]

wdym

i just want my cone/flames to dmg all thing that overlap it

[light thunder]

the cone just looks narrow then

[dire ingot]

i exandpend it

[light thunder]

like, it looks like it is doing what it is supposed to actually

[dire ingot]

same thing

[velvet vapor]

GUYS

@crimson lake @floral mesa I found the solution

[crimson lake]

WHAT

[velvet vapor]

you actually CAN change the dir and its pretty easy

https://www.programmersought.com/article/74243722676/

you just switch this line in engine config to the game's directory

[crimson lake]

oh ye switch it to read only afterwards

[velvet vapor]

and from now on all this data will be saved there, not in appdata

[crimson lake]

but it still switched for me afterwards

for some reason

[velvet vapor]

Works fine for me so far, im so happy

[crimson lake]

but like, actually keep it in there, It'll make you more wary about how you manage data

[velvet vapor]

Tho now i feel like a dumb ass cause i already deleted my old map haha

But its okay, i'll make a new one, better one.

[crimson lake]

if your scene is 30gbs from now, the compilation is gonna be 80gbs small game

[hidden tendon]

Does anyone know why the Console Variables html doesn't get generated from the help menu anymore?

I've asked this a million times here and on the forums but no one seems to know much about it.