ue4-general

[pastel yarrow]

I am working on my diploma work, so I tried to make it rather simple

[drifting snow]

does adding an element to an array in the details panel does anything at all ?

when a print the length it stays 0 even if I added stuff in it

[unique knot]

Just realized there's a "Retriggerable Delay" node. My life has changed forever

[median marten]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/993724/same-cloth-simulation-for-two-sections.html
Does anyone know?

[narrow plaza]

That's cool, but its a shame it doesn't work in a function (anyone know of a simple delay like command we can use in functions?)

[autumn flame]

Delays are not supposed to be in Functions

Alternative is a Macro

[narrow plaza]

Yes, I suppose I should be using callback events - I haven't got to that stage yet, but I started playing with animations and I often think - if only I could delay for exactly 2.32 seconds while that animation runs the code would be so much easier 🙂

[storm blade]

So where would I go if I have any questions or need help with Robo Recall mods?

[narrow plaza]

probably Marketplace?

[weary lion]

Trying to get the inheritance from ThirdPersonBP from complete rpg system onto Advanced locomotion character BP, set TP-BP to be the parent. but i'm unsure how to resolve the speed float error so i can compile, i would super appreciate some help on this

[plush yew]

Copy pasting the error log would be more useful than the Screenshot

[weary lion]

okay perfect

where do i find error logs?

[grim ore]

in the saved folder

[digital steeple]

Hey guys I have a question. If I were to ask how to do something in UE. Would you prefer it as 1. Text 2. Pics & Text or 3. A short vid? I know it depends but what seems most likely to understand/replyable?

[grim ore]

whatever is correct

crash log, text. why is this shadow blotchy, picture. when I move my camera it kinda vibrates, video. etc.

[weary lion]

i assume this is the error log you were referring too?

[digital steeple]

I mean that’s what “levels” bps are for. I’ve made small maps but only with the geometry defaults.

[weary lion]

would it be better if i copy and paste the error messages from the log directly to the chat rather then adding a file?

Dons, questions is making me rethink sending over a file lol

[digital steeple]

For your character? I believe what you are looking for is in the player character bp under the details panel after you click on the capsule or character on the top left

[digital steeple]

Lol it was unrelated to u,

[weary lion]

i know, just some discord rooms dont want ppl sending files

[digital steeple]

Gotcha

[weary lion]

im unsure if i should copy and paste the error messages from my computer or if sending the direct log is okay

[golden bane]

yea i want to set the actor rotation yaw based on player input so if A key is pressed the character rotates to the left

[weary lion]

[2021.01.12-04.37.42:042][573]LogBlueprint: Error: [AssetLog] C:\Users\Gameg\Documents\Unreal Projects\ALS\Content\AdvancedLocomotionV4\Blueprints\CharacterLogic\ALS_Base_CharacterBP.uasset: [Compiler] The property associated with Speed 0 could not be found in '/Game/AdvancedLocomotionV4/Blueprints/CharacterLogic/ALS_Base_CharacterBP.ALS_Base_CharacterBP_C'

🙂

[digital steeple]

Idk exactly what you mean but use “set actor rotation” and give it a rotator in the direction you want

[golden bane]

I have this and it works well but only if the camera is in a certain pos

[golden bane]

the values get inverted if the camera is looking the other way, do you know how to fix this?

[icy egret]

hi I need help
In the editor, my animation work correctly
but In PIE, animation won't play, still stop.
why??

[median hound]

i think u gotta press spacebar

[icy egret]

in the editor, it's ok
So, if I press space bar, it will play

but in PIE, it won't

https://i.gyazo.com/bfdfeca6b8a607b91dfdc48fd807fa49.mp4

https://i.gyazo.com/fd7f9d285057810e45897b4b8202712b.mp4

This is what I want to say

Only in the editor, animation works

I think setting is all ok, but it won't play

[plush yew]

Looks like you might not be triggering the animation in Pie?

[median hound]

cant u drag the animation into the world for it to play? or if something is needed to happen before it plays the anim, anim blueprint

[icy egret]

I just D&D into the world and it won't play
other animation like character movement works correctly, but only this animation not

[topaz pebble]

Where do I download a version of UE that is not listed in the launcher?

[kindred viper]

@topaz pebble github

[icy egret]

does someone knows good free asset sites like desireFX?

[rose cloud]

Anyone know how I can make a function wait to exit until an animation is finished? I can't seem to use events within a function

[winter gale]

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanjon2040/unreal-tip-97

[rose cloud]

My master UI widget has a switch function which switches between other widgets which each have their own in and out function

I'd like to get it working so the switch mechanism can call the out function for one widget, then wait till it's animation is done to call the in function for the next widget

I've tried using bind to animation finished etc, but I can't create events from the event / delegate nodes, seemingly because I'm inside a function

[solar swift]

what am i doing wrong here? i cant switch between the shoulder swing arm & camera AND the follow swing arm & camera

[plush yew]

Sorry I don’t use .cpp I use Blueprints and .cs

[rose cloud]

on that note is it possible to set a variable in C++ to expect a type of a blueprint class?

[jovial needle]

hey if anyone can tell me why my html5 packaging is going on forever and this log is identical everytime i will do something great for you 😉 (ps Im actually a girl),

[rose cloud]

IE I have BP_ButtonOne parented by BP_RootButton, and I want to set a variable to expect a type of BP_RootButton

[scenic hornet]

When I add an asset collection from marketplace to a project.. does the assetts remain available to other projects?

Brand new here

[tough pagoda]

No more Christmas logo? 😢

[kindred viper]

anyone know a good doxygen style project scanner for blueprint documentation? Im writing out a wiki and it's getting stupid now.

[copper flicker]

@jovial needle are html 5 builds worth worrying about these days?.. from what I know html5 is not well supported by UE

ok so in this example, my question is.. will the function be called 3 times?

and therefore if there are random numbers generated in the function.. they will be different for each time we run it?

[regal mulch]

Pure function would. Non-pure not.

[copper flicker]

so that means the chosen player and its spcial state and its iundex.. will not be related?

[regal mulch]

Unless you only return one single value without any overhead, you don't want to use pure anyway in UE4

[copper flicker]

oh WOW!!

I didn't know that

[clear tapir]

is there a tool to convert blueprints to c++ do you guys think

[copper flicker]

so in my case I should be fine

[proud narwhal]

Does anyone know of a good free tutorial of how I can make a virtual flythough of my map? I want to set a route and have the camera follow it, stop at points, look around, etc

[regal mulch]

No, you can only use https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/Blueprints/TechnicalGuide/NativizingBlueprints/index.html
Which does it for you, but not the same readable C++ you would write yourself. That's only for performance reasons.

[copper flicker]

@clear tapir just copy nodes and paste into a txt editor

[clear tapir]

k

Thanks guys

[clear tapir]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cinematics+unreal

[regal mulch]

Use Sequencer

There should be enough tutorials for it by now

@proud narwhal

[proud narwhal]

ok thanks I will look

[clear tapir]

Yes

Is it ok to have a mix of blueprints and c++ in a game?

[topaz pebble]

No, it was banned in the "No Mixing of Blueprints and C++ Conference" of 1927

[plush yew]

It is optimal to have a mix of BP and c++ @clear tapir

[clear tapir]

lol

Thanks

I just prefer c++ over blueprints but most tutorials on doing things are bp

[regal mulch]

You want to mix them, yes

You can do lots of stuff in C++

[clear tapir]

Nice

[regal mulch]

But it's good to have some sort of "end point" in BPs to easier set up your classes

Visually that is

[clear tapir]

Oh ok

[plush yew]

C++ for core gameplay and performance intensive things, BP for prototyping ideas.

[regal mulch]

Yeeeah, but also no. You can have BPs in production. You can make full games in BP if you feel like it and you don't need any C++ support or you don't reach performance issues.

It's always a matter of when you start finding problems you can't resolve in BPs alone.

[cursive coral]

Does anyone know how to remove the terrain default insert when using the water plugin so I can just have the water only and use my premade terrain. Thanks either that or how to fix this

[dim arch]

pretty sure they are dependant on eachother

[cursive coral]

Ok thanks, do you know how I can place it onto my terrain and lift the water depth up terrain rather than having only about 10cm of water😂

[dim arch]

nope sorry havent used the new water system

[cursive coral]

Ok thanks for trying anyway, do you know anyone here who I can tag who may know anything?

[lucid grove]

heya, is there a way to hide bones inside actor in not main skeletal mesh?

[copper flicker]

does anyone else get a black box instead of various right click actions in UE interface these days?... like this box:

is black

[lucid grove]

Perhaps I should explain what I'm doing. I know this is a very clumsy way, but still.

I have modular characters and to them I added another module from another set that I am only interested in the head, but the mesh goes as a whole character. I added this skeleton mesh of the character-made it use animations of the main mesh (which is hidden) and everything is fine, however I need to remove unnecessary parts of the skeleton. Simply put, leave only the head.

Hide bone by name apparently works only on the main mesh.

[copper flicker]

I use 4.24.3

Jake, not sure what you're doing, but can't you simply hide parts of the mesh?

I could be wrong tho, I haven't worked with multi-parts skeletal meshes in UE

I presume you want to hide the mesh, not the skeleton..

[lucid grove]

yeah, by bones i mean part of skelteal mesh

its the same

[unique kraken]

for christ sake

pls someone tell me ue5 gets a ui rework

or im loosing it

[copper flicker]

@unique kraken I agree

[fierce tulip]

prolly wont

[copper flicker]

the UI is childish and a bit insane

huge silly buttons

[unique kraken]

im absoluty on edge

[copper flicker]

every single window or tab was designed by a different person

[unique kraken]

im so close to just uninstall ue4 and go back to be a baker

HOLY

[copper flicker]

who was not communicating to all the other people

bakery doesn't sound bad tho

[unique kraken]

whoever created the ui and the editor interface shouldnt jsut be fired but sued

[copper flicker]

haha

[unique kraken]

im actually srs

[copper flicker]

I'm sure a lot of people worked on that UI

[unique kraken]

im not even kidding, i love ue4, this distroys the whole user experience

[copper flicker]

I'm sure the company loves it, it's been around for ages

[unique kraken]

who had this brain far idea to hide, "hiding unhiding" stuff in sub SUB windows, then it doesnt change it in the outline and you also have to go into a sub SUB window

[copper flicker]

UIs are like religions. some people are very dedicated.. others hate it

[unique kraken]

then its not ordered so you try to select those 1px lines in the editor missclick, so restart, accidently move something, ctrl z breaks the editor, close window restart

holy

omfg

no

i used so many programms all adobe, blender c4d maya max substance

this is the pinical of the iceberg

omfg

[copper flicker]

xx, take a break, calm down, bake some cake, come back and... look at UE4 again with new eyes 😛

you mean pinnacle

😛

[unique kraken]

yea im taking a break, but taht will not change, this is ridiculous

yea maybe idk, english isnt my native language plus havent slept in 30h

[copper flicker]

a lot of people use UE4 despite the silly UI

and yeah, lack of sleep can drive people off the edge

been there

I understand

😄

I have all sorts of problems with UIs in most software I use

[unique kraken]

well in most of them ur somwhat able to select efficently what u want

[copper flicker]

only the simplest, most standardized software UIs.. are let's say.. not problematic

[unique kraken]

i dont get why they dont just copy blenders, i know most ppl dont like it at the start, but its srsly the most efficent there is

[copper flicker]

but there seems to be a severe lack of standardization in this world of UIs

well, see, I don't like Blender at all

and the UI and UX is my main reason

I'm a Maya guy. Maya is a mess too... but I'm used to it.

and back in the day, Maya was a lot more homogeneous

[unique kraken]

thats totally okey, but fact is you wont be able to get a more intuitive ui, workflow then u have in blender once u got used it.

sure u can have ur own taste but facts talk for themself

[copper flicker]

nowadays... Autodesk added all sorts of addons that have nothing to do with Maya

[unique kraken]

for example, gizmos, should be deleted for ever

erase them

noone actually needs that

[copper flicker]

Blender, for me at least, has ONE major problem. it relies on remembering a TON of hotkeys

and doesn't give you any other option

[unique kraken]

thats the thing, yes. but they are highly intuitive

[copper flicker]

Maya has like... at least 5 options for reaching commands

no, they are not intuitive, and I have no MEMORY

so I can't use software that require remembering 100 hotkeys

I can remember a few.... only

LD

😄

[unique kraken]

yea they are.
g,r,s are for movement, then x,y,z to work on a axis,
type in some numbers if u want.

h is for hide, alt is always to undo stuff,
so alt h is unhide

so if g is movement and alt is undo

alt g is reset position

[copper flicker]

how do you open up menus to create skeletons for example?

[unique kraken]

shift a is creating

anything, all is in there

[copper flicker]

I've never used Shift A in any software

[unique kraken]

i mean, you can also just press add on top

[copper flicker]

GRS?.... for movement??....

[unique kraken]

g=grab
r=rot
s=scale

[copper flicker]

mean these are in no way standards of any ot her software

[unique kraken]

can be combine with a axis, so press x if u want

you want to scale it times 2

press 2

[copper flicker]

in fact, a lot of apps use Maya standards these days

[unique kraken]

so s,x,2

thats like 1/4 of a sec

[copper flicker]

Grab is not a concept I'm familiar with at all

haha

[unique kraken]

its just move

[copper flicker]

and I used tons of 3D apps, for like.. 2 decades

well, see, GRAB is nonsense. Move or Translate make sense

so.. lack of standards

or more like.. disrespect to existing standards

[unique kraken]

well, i mean its not to far of, grab/move

its just on the g key

[copper flicker]

no, grab is simply not a word I'd ever use for moving

and I've never seen it used

also, movement keys are usually WER

their position on the keyboard is more important than what the letters represent

[grim flame]

you mean transform keys

[copper flicker]

yes

tr, rot, scale

[grim flame]

I do like WER

but I'm used to blender also

and I also use Lightwave, so my brain is fried

and Unity..

[copper flicker]

I see all sorts of apps that try to connect letters with command names... like... Sort is S, and Sort All would be Ctrl S. that breaks an important STANDARD that says Ctrl S should always be SAVE

[grim flame]

I leave stuff at their default keybinds, otherwise you can't follow any tutorial and you lose funcionality in some cases

[copper flicker]

Lightwave.. omg... that app....

-__-

I was forced to learn it, in 2 weeks, for animation reasons, for a job

it was ODD

it has no UNDO... for most actions

the community finds that perfectly normal

[grim flame]

the most tweaked for me is lightwave, I've been using it for like 25 years so my keybinds and plugin set is highly customized. I am way faster in LW than anything else.. but I'm trying to move to blender (6 months now)

[copper flicker]

it's like a software from another world

[grim flame]

it is weird

I must admit

I use it for modeling only

[copper flicker]

I tried blender a few times too. not for it ready yet.

not ready for it yet. I mean..

😛

[grim flame]

the most alien software I've ever leaned was Zbrush

[copper flicker]

yeah, Z is another monster

[grim flame]

that was so strange

[copper flicker]

once again, artists.... disrespecting standards.... and being original

originality in UIs is catastrophic

[grim flame]

the first versions would place you in a weird 2d mode by default.. if you loaded a 3d object you would paint with it instead of on it.

[copper flicker]

when I tell someone... Oh Wow, and ORIGINAL UI!!.. at first they think I'm pleasantly surprised

😄

[grim flame]

same when somebody lets me drive their car.. Where in the heck are the winshield wipers on this thing?

[copper flicker]

yeah, Zbrush is.... not a 3D app

and a lot fo Z users don't even know that

Z is a deep canvas, where you rotate a 3d object

not a 3D space, where you move and rotate a camera around

that alone was a huge put off fort me, for a really long time

but then... Z has amazing tools

[grim flame]

Now by default zbrush lands you in object edit mode so it's not as shocking at first

[fierce tulip]

this would piss me off so much when i just got started with zbrush hehe

[grim flame]

it was the first software in my life that I could not figure out without looking up a tutorial, a huge hit on my ego.

[unique kraken]

i legit got muted bcs i complained about that topic. just getting more and more ridiculous today

[copper flicker]

what, where, here?

I think it does matter how you complain..

I don't think I've ever been muten, anywhere.. I could be wrong tho. ^ ^

I've been muted in Warframe!! cuz I said something naughty

[fierce tulip]

ranting that people should get fired and sued over poor ui gets you a strike yes

[unique kraken]

that wasnt a rant that was a honest oppinion and i gave a reason to it

i do actually believe it destoyes the user experience

[fierce tulip]

the great things about opinions is that you dont need to shout all of em from rooftops

[copper flicker]

well, you were angry about things

it's not a good way to start a complaint or argument

[unique kraken]

yea and getting muted for beeing somewhat emotional in a otherwhise silent chat, thats unreasonable

[fierce tulip]

9. No discussing moderation.

you are warned.

[copper flicker]

hehe... I guess there are rules

people make rules man

😄

we live in a world of rules

[unique kraken]

<,< i dont.i just stated that i got muted for a rediculous reason. you picked this up again.
i know for a while already how unreasonable this discord is

[fierce tulip]

well, go then.

[copper flicker]

myeah, it's a chatroom, it's very useful actually.. if you wanna learn UE stuff

but at the cost of having to obey the rules

[unique kraken]

i dont disobey them. isnt this here supposed to be the open chat?

[wary wave]

this is a channel for talking about the Unreal Engine

[unique kraken]

also i disagree with this discord beeing very helpfull.
it really seems like the ppl with helpfull knowledge keep for themself

[grim flame]

probably #lounge

[unique kraken]

welp

i guess i started in the wrong channel to begin with then

[copper flicker]

u just accused the rules... let's say.... of being unreasonable.

mods can take that personally, and ban u, for accusing them, or the system in place

[grim flame]

but UI and 3d modeling apps is Unreal related in my book

[copper flicker]

myeah, that is true tho, this is a general Unreal chat, not a general.. 3D chat

haven't thought of that

but I also didn't get banned. yet

^ ^

[fierce tulip]

unless chat is super active, some deviation from ue4 into other aspects of gamedev is fine. same for short bursts of offtopic chat. if it gets out of hand we ask to move it to lounge.

[copper flicker]

fair enough. and thanks!

[fierce tulip]

as for xerb's rant, i know the feeling and frustration, ive had my share of outbursts.
its just... dont say it here man, its not the place.

[unique kraken]

where else?

can i write them directly?

i stand to what i say

and would tell them that directly into there face, even in a non angry state

[late verge]

hello!

bit of a weird question, but does anyone know where i can find some nice dirt mask textures that are ready to be imported straight into UE4? specifically for my cinematic cameras.

[grim flame]

I could spam the chat with texture repositories

or you could look in the engine content

[fierce tulip]

try your diary for instance.
imagine being at a workplace and people either say that about you, or your boss hears you saying that about a colleague.
if you honestly think thats fine, please refrain from giving your opinion.

[grim flame]

ther are some noise textures that might work

[unique kraken]

i mean you can easily export ur own from blender or just make one in ue4

or ps or something

[clever axle]

I have these RVO settings but my characters still bump into each other when I use MoveToLocation, anyone know what else I need to do? https://i.imgur.com/yAmHzSK.png

[north arrow]

Hey all, I have a couple of mixamo animations (jump and grab ledge and hanging from ledge) but the hanging animation is offset from the end position of the grab animation so the character glitches backwards when swapping between them.

Is this something I need to learn Blender to fix or is there something I can do in UE4 to make them align properly?

Thanks.

[plush yew]

I'm working with an open world map and it sometimes crashes when I click Play or Save and it's a bit annoying as I lose everything I had done before. Is there a way to solve this problem?

so im not sure which channel this does in, but heres my question: Is it possible to edit game files such as engine.ini to point to an LUT file, or add values for an LUT file outside of the game creation. For context, I want to apply an LUT to a game created in Unreal that I did not create.

[cursive coral]

Sounds silly but do you meet the specs of unreal engine/ram availability

[plush yew]

ye i have 16gb of ram, an i7-7700k and a gtx 1080 and i also use an ssd nvme

also ram usage is less than 4gb

[cursive coral]

Huh, thats unusal then, I was just checking as if you didnt have that good specs then it would be thay

That

But now youve said it I am not sure

How did you create the open world map?

One massive landscape or smaller segments?

Joined together

[plush yew]

I don't think I understand but I believe massive landscape?

i mean

i just have one landscape

[cursive coral]

Ok, do you have a screenshot at all?

[plush yew]

I'm stuck in saving right now

has been at 33% for more than 15 minutes

also it says process not responding from task manager

can i send you the log file?

[cursive coral]

I can try, I am relativley new to ue4 but I can have a look

[cursive coral]

Having a look now, how many assets are in your world

[plush yew]

2266 actors

i don't know what to do right now, the only thing i can do is closing the process from the task manger

but i don't wanna lose everything again :c

[proud narwhal]

is there any way to do simple UV stuff in UE? I just want to apply a sticker on a model that currently just has a single material applied

[cursive coral]

Is it multiple levels or just one?

[plush yew]

just one

[fierce tulip]

@proud narwhal why not use decals?

[cursive coral]

I mean 2000 actors is a lot. But it shouldn't take that long to save

Have you got any other background processes running

Like what is task manager saying for your system running information;cpu, gpu etc

[plush yew]

i think its' probably crashed since usually it gets 5/10 seconds to save

[proud narwhal]

going to be in VR and I was told decals can cause performance decrease, there will also be about 50 of these models duplicated and moved around so thought a texture would be best

[fierce tulip]

you can try to use the texture crop material function, there should be one available.

[cursive coral]

Its not even jammed then

Like nothing is on 100%

[plush yew]

:\

[cursive coral]

How much would you lose if you end task?

[plush yew]

not that much luckily

[cursive coral]

I think thats your only option

[plush yew]

also I don't think there are any problems in the log file

[plush yew]

yep i'm doing it right now......

[cursive coral]

Then when you load back in send another screenshot of like the whole world just so I can visualise what is trying to be saved

[cursive coral]

I couldnt see anything unusual like a failure

Ive just had another look

Something is going on with some failures here and there

[plush yew]

lmao clouds makes everything red

[cursive coral]

Nice level design.

Go into window

And click levels

[plush yew]

mh, i'm not even using that blueprint

[cursive coral]

So there is only 2 levels.

Do you usually leave lighting build till the end?

[plush yew]

never did it tbh

it would takes years

[cursive coral]

Have you updated to ue 4.26?

[plush yew]

yep

[cursive coral]

Thats why I do it as I go along😂

Lighting build is the only thing sticking out like a sore thumb to me

[plush yew]

i'll try to do that :c

[cursive coral]

Everything else looks relativley normal

I was about to say save first......

But thats not an option😂

Side note do you know anything about the new water plugin?

[plush yew]

just saved the whole project and it takes less than 5 seconds

[plush yew]

i heard about that but i never tried it

[cursive coral]

Thats one way to do it

[plush yew]

yeah it's like 70% gonna save everything and 30% it will crash

[cursive coral]

Its because I am having issues with the terrain when using it😂

[cursive coral]

I reccomend highly building lighting since 10000 is a lot😂

[plush yew]

oh i don't really know sorry :
i'm still using a plane with a water material

[plush yew]

yepp gonna do it right now hope it won't make too much

[plush yew]

ty so much for your time!

[cursive coral]

This is whats happening with me

[cursive coral]

I have noticed a faster build time

Set some lighting such as your atmospheric directional to movable as well if you haven't allready

[thick herald]

@cursive coral do you have a landscape in your scene?

[cursive coral]

Yep

[cursive coral]

No worries, happy to attempt to help. Good luck!

[cursive coral]

Is that the issue?

[thick herald]

Is the landscape at 0,0,0?

No, the water system needs a landscape to work. It also needs it to be at 0,0,0 or close enough to it, ***I think *** if I'm remembering the live stream correctly

[cursive coral]

I shall check later, if not I shall dm you if it doesnt work

This also happens

[thick herald]

Other than that I'm not sure tbh

[cursive coral]

^more scrernshots

Screenshots

[thick herald]

could also be bugged, as it's still experiemental

[cursive coral]

I think it is going to be most likley bugged, since its new. But its annoying. Since I dont know any other way to get my ocean in the game

[tender cloud]

can someone help please, Im outputing UE via blackmagic (new editor) but I get error:

LogMediaIOCore: Error: Can not start the capture. The Render Target size doesn't match with the requested size. SceneViewport: 0,0  MediaOutput: 1920,1080

I've checked everywhere and the resolutions are 1920x1080. I know 0 is for auto detect but I cannot find anywhere where its 0

[vital wedge]

Does anyone know how to disable this window from appearing when the game crashes?

[tropic plinth]

About BaseScalability.ini: Is it possible to move BaseScalability.ini to project folder and use the project defined BaseScalability.ini instead the engine folder file? I want to use settings for BaseScalability.ini project wise and also save within project folders.

I searched forums, reddit, etc. I often find the questions, but never answered.

[loud meadow]

help

[inland aurora]

dont fucking tell me i was battling for a day because I was using the wrong array

[narrow plaza]

Probably not - that message means something went seriously wrong and the game doesn't know what to do.

[fierce tulip]

less swearing would be nice

[narrow plaza]

have you tried Save All > Close UE4 > rebuild everything?

[inland aurora]

and for gosh sake watch your language!

[obtuse path]

Hey all - one of my coworkers is having a crash when attempting to open the engine. They're running a super beefed up machine (some mega ryzen card and an RTX 3080 with all drivers up to date).
Hitting this crash on 4.25:
Fatal error: [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/RenderCore/Private/RenderingThread.cpp] [Line: 855]

[forest zinc]

Hey everyone, I'm trying to figure out if a weapon prop is owned by the client or not, this code works for all of the clients but doesnt work for the listen server... could anyone point me in the right direction?

[devout bone]

Wtf

F as in fricc

[clear tapir]

If I want to have my project with both blueprints and c++ should I create the project as a blueprint project?

[devout bone]

I can't use the launcher

[plush yew]

Is it normal that after one hour the lighting building is still at 0%?

[narrow plaza]

Sometimes - if you have a large level with lots of stuff. Or, if you are like me and drag in 100's of trees and props on a potato computer you can enjoy 4 hours of build lighting

[plush yew]

yep i have 2261 actors but my pc is pretty good

if after an hour is still at 0% then it would really take years to complete

[narrow plaza]

are they complex meshes like trees or simple structures. Have a look in Build Menu > Lighting Info > Lighting Static Meshinfo to see how big your level is

[narrow plaza]

Try rebooting, then maybe reinstall. That happens sometimes

[tender cloud]

LogMediaIOCore: Error: Can not start the capture. The Render Target size doesn't match with the requested size. SceneViewport: 0,0 MediaOutput: 1920,1080
Can someone help about this, not sure where is the problem, googled everything. Where do you change SceneViewport resolution?

[wary wave]

presumably you can't find it because you don't have an instanced static mesh component in your actor.

no problem

[devout bone]

Still

After a reinstall

Wait

[vital wedge]

Thanks for the info :) although I think there should be the way to disable that from appearing

[dawn gull]

Is there a way that after a certain distance I just unload a mesh and when I get closer it loads it back in? I can’t really just delete it then add it back because it’s a procedural mesh component and it takes forever to load.

[devout bone]

It works ya

[clear tapir]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/374814/unloading-assets-to-free-ram.html

[dawn gull]

Ok I’ll take a look

[plush yew]

its best to make a C++ project and add blueprints in there, but it can go both ways if you make a blueprints project you can still make a C++ class

[proud narwhal]

I download and set up blender to try and do some UV texturing stuff, I have added the UE plugin for it https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/download-our-new-blender-addons I can export from blender to UE fine, but cannot get it to import from UE to blender

[clear tapir]

Oh ok. Any particular reason for this?

[plush yew]

well if you make a C++ project first you wont have any errors and less issues when making blueprints as well, but in a blueprints project you will need to make the C++ folder in order to do that you need to make a C++ class but theres going to be some errors such as header and module problems, it is a little confusing to be honest

[obtuse path]

For anyone who gets this issue - changing Nvidia from Game Ready drivers to Studio drivers apparently fixed the issue

[unique kraken]

@proud narwhal bcs thats not what that add on does

[proud narwhal]

so it for exporting from blender to UE only? not the other way around?

[unique kraken]

exactly, beside characters but for that you need ue4... tools or so...? wich comes with blender to ue4

but u still need to manually set up retargeting nodes

[midnight bolt]

is there an easy way to add global uv world aligned tiling to bridge master material for megascans?

[plush yew]

?

i also tried deleting saved folder but it still stuck at 0%

[oblique tangle]

Bit random, but how would one go about replicating this? Player is contrained to the pole spinning in a direction with the velocity/momentum taken into consideration with the speed of the spinning and being launched off. Any response would be greatly appreciated

https://i.gyazo.com/46ef32a9315bbf4225e91bbc211869f3.mp4

[narrow plaza]

is this your first project or first build? It can take a surprising amount of time. You have your project on a local SSD drive and not on a network share?

[plush yew]

nah it's not my first project but could like the 3rd time i do light building in years
also my project is on an SSD nvme

can deleting the llightmass volume help?

[narrow plaza]

I am no expert on lighting, and have stuffed up my map many times playing around with settings while learning - so not sure about the lightmass [though if you delete it I am pretty sure lighting will rebuild].

I find now it is best to build early and build often (at least once a day)

[rough knoll]

I have a cliff lining a river which is made of ~100-200 individual cliff meshes. Would combining all of these meshes into one mesh save performance?

[spare latch]

hi 0/ im new to unreal and wondering if i should learn Cascade or Niagara first ? Ive heard that Niagara is the better of the two but more complex

[fierce tulip]

@spare latch cascade will be phased out at some point, i'd suggest niagara

(doing the same atm, after 7 or so years of cascade)

[spare latch]

Cool thanks 😃

[remote bloom]

can anyone help me out, im trying to run UE and it basically instantly crashes as soon as I load it up and start making a folder

is the error i get

[wary wave]

if you don't install debugging symbols, your crashes are meaningless

but at a guess, you have Dx12 and raytracing enabled, and your machine doesn't support one, or both of them

[remote bloom]

im running a 2080

I thought dx12 and raytracing is supported for rtx

[remote bloom]

This was sort of my initial suspicion

[wary wave]

it was the best guess I could give from the stack - you should really install the debugging symbols

[remote bloom]

to switch from dx12 to another version is that within the project settings?

or is it just the inherant dx my windows has

honestly its totally baffling as I also have a machine with a 3090 and I get the exact same crashes

[next badger]

@remote bloom it's a driver issue crash

[remote bloom]

Ah gpu driver, interesting. Is there anywhere that lists what drivrs are compatible with unreal or is it a guessing game?

[next badger]

@remote bloom it's not ue4 related issue

[remote bloom]

hmmm UE4 is the only thing that instacrashes on my machine which runs programs like maya and substance fine.

even mari, which is almost purely gpu based

[next badger]

but all of those are not game engines...

they barely scrape the usage of GPU

nvwgf2umx driver is a common issue, GIYF

[remote bloom]

Yeah Mari runs almost purely on the gpu, its a film/tv 3d painting application and I have no issues with it. It runs 100's of 2k to 32k textures but still i have no issue. I can try rolling drivers back for UE4 but its just baffling im getting the instacrashes on 2 seperate machines with 2 different gpu's

[fierce tulip]

some people seem to have better luck with the nvidia studio ready drivers

[next badger]

@fierce tulip i only use studio ones

[fierce tulip]

i cant, because then i cant use all 4 of my monitors for some reason

[remote bloom]

hmm interesting

I will try studio drivers, thanks for the help folks. Does Unreal have a list somewhere of supported drivers for cards versions?

cos all i can find is people posting questions on like loads of different forums

[next badger]

any DX11-12 compatible gpu

[fierce tulip]

^, though nvidia drivers can be a bit fiddly with some dx12/raytracing stuff from what ive been reading

[next badger]

ifaik raytracing still marked as beta in ue4

[remote bloom]

Yeah it really took the wind out of my sails when I got 3090, loaded up unreal and it instantly crashed T_T

[next badger]

all 3000 series are well supported

[remote bloom]

Yeah id have thought so, i tried uninstalling UE 3 times but still kept getting the crashes

[next badger]

the issue caused by drivers, corrupted. improperly installed, faulty etc

[remote bloom]

Thanks, I will keep trying different driver combos until i find 1 that works

[rough knoll]

still looking for an answer on this question.

[clear tapir]

Do you guys think I should go through the blood and sweat of learning c++ for unreal

or should I just use blueprints

[clear tapir]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/747728/merge-actor-vs-instanced-static-performance.html google it

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/TestingAndOptimization/PerformanceAndProfiling/Guidelines/index.html

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/964620/large-v-small-meshes-performance-1.html?sort=oldest

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/cjfx3p/1_big_mesh_or_many_smaller_meshes/

https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/rendering/82019-multiple-meshes-vs-single-mesh-performance

Very large amount of resources

[plush yew]

C++ is basically blueprints just a little different, it is a little harder but get WAY easier after about a week of learning it, it is again basically blueprints but, theres no wrong choice you can always learn C++ later

[clear tapir]

Ok good

Thanks

Just a lot of game dev jobs require c++ experience

[plush yew]

yeah, most of them use a whole different engine to

[runic fern]

Hello guys
If anyone working with Playfab how can i get the server BuildId and The SessionId im using custom servers

[midnight gate]

hey ugh im trying to play some niagra particles its a simple explosion and i guess spawning it or activating it does not work/

this doesnt fire cause i have controls disabled

[vernal tinsel]

I am working on a bridge using the spline component, but my mesh is getting stretched in, at the start of the mesh, and it stretches out in the middle

[plush yew]

2 hours and still building lighting: 0%

[midnight gate]

how do i set niagra material in runtime?

[past stag]

Is there anything i can do to fix that?

[clear tapir]

Somethings wrong

:)

[remote bloom]

@next badger @fierce tulip For anyone having same issue, I had to roll back all the way to 452.06 driver version to have it working!

thank you for the help

[quiet raft]

hi i want "preview" text on objects gone, i understand its from unbaked lightmap, i dont plan to use lightmaps

[next badger]

@quiet raft open the world settings tab find the lightmap there and disable it

[quiet raft]

disabled, trying to rebuild lighting as instructed and nothing happens

[plush yew]

how can i find out what's wrong

[next badger]

@quiet raft you have no static lights?

[clear tapir]

Google

[quiet raft]

i have no idea its the default scene

[clear tapir]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/rendering/34304-lighting-not-building

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/143967/build-light-only-not-working.html

[next badger]

@quiet raft yep it has

[quiet raft]

so lightmaps are gone, but the preview is still showing up

whatever ill deal with this later

i remember it was an issue years ago it still is apparently

[fierce tulip]

@remote bloom phew, glad you got it working

[next badger]

@quiet raft that is not an answer if you're going to use fully dynamic lighting

[quiet raft]

what do you mean?

[plush yew]

which are faster between movable and static lights?

why that would be me? 😆 im busy coding my mmorpg

[plush yew]

i mean in order to reduce building lights time

[quiet raft]

i assume movable wont be baked

[plush yew]

so if i set every light to movable then the light building should be shorter?

[quiet raft]

found this

[next badger]

@quiet raft it's like "Low Gas" lamp, you just turned one off.
Static lighting is way more performant. Dynamic shadows will kill most of the GPUs at some point.

[quiet raft]

@next badger i know, thanks

[next badger]

@quiet raft yep, that is whole project setting, World tab is per level

[quiet raft]

that i know as well, as i said i disabled it there already

and lightmaps are cleared

[next badger]

this checkbox also reduces shader compilation time

when unticked

[quiet raft]

however despite both flags disabled

[plush yew]

it also reduces light building time?

[next badger]

@plush yew of course...if it's disabled there is no lighting

@quiet raft you need to rebuild one to reset the lightmaps

[quiet raft]

as i said before already cleared the lightmaps

[chilly sun]

hey bois n girls..
export quickie- do I place all these in center of scene before exporting; do I put their origins at world center before exporting; do I keep as it is and Im fine?
(clock and 2 hands separate geometries so I can make a working watch)

ayyy noo make it smaller LUL sry kinda big pic

Im not sure if changing origins / positions before export will affect how easy they are to work with once imported

[quiet raft]

typically you want every 3d object's pivot to be in zero on export

also aligned consistently

i.e. your arrows should point in the same direction

but it also depends on your software/exporter/format

yes

first thing i did

so that one, the in project settings, finally r.AllowStaticLighting 0 in console

and now the project refuses to load

shaders right

[worldly stump]

can unreal handle massive bots?

like 999 bots

[next badger]

ue4? sure...cpu...I wonder

depends on your code

[plush yew]

it's stucked on caching irradiance photons, any solution?

[worldly stump]

massive bot like mount and blade

where u have like 999 bots on the map fighting each other

[quiet raft]

can this button be clicked in such a way that does "one click open bp editor"

i tried all variations, lmb,rmb,mmb, with all mod keys

[next badger]

@quiet raft CTRL+E

[plush yew]

Guys do I need to use delta time for inputevents?

[quiet raft]

@next badger thank you

[grim ore]

@plush yew you shouldn't need to unless there is a reason why you need your input to be consistent across time

[clever vault]

hey guys hear me out

what if i take all this rocks and make them low poly using an ai

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/megascans-iceland-vol2

[plush yew]

OMFG its Mathew! I meant input axis event, does ue4 read every deltatime or it is raw input?

[clever vault]

will it be worth or garbage?

[median hound]

worth

[meager frigate]

when i first started messing around with unreal I was able to make the lines that represent the collisions thicker, but now I cant figure out how to do it for the life of me. I could have swore it was an option in its details, anyone know what I'm talking about?

could have swore it was near where you change its color

[grim ore]

@plush yew also if you test by adjusting the tick of the actor that is taking input you will find that it just runs every frame as long as frames are running

so yes its every delta time if you mean every frame tick

[spare osprey]

Story based games have multiple switching of environments like some gameplay in a certain environment and then according to story flow, we might be moving to another environment. Do they create those environments in different levels or there's another work around for that?

[quiet raft]

are there TAA settings anywhere?

[grim ore]

@spare osprey define environment? same world but snow, sun, fog, etc? you can adjust the colors and materials to do that. Different world such as large mountains then sweeping plains? different levels or one large landmass

[rotund jacinth]

Has anyone here seen a bug on release builds where occasionally a level will not load indirect lighting+ Reflections? Rebooting the game always fixes it. We have had this reported intermittently through multiple unreal engine builds. I have seen it on my machine in builds (but never in the editor or PIE) and its probably something like a 1/1000 chance to occur.

[spare osprey]

Have you played life is strange?

[grim ore]

nope

[spare osprey]

Hmm then let me explain

Like lets say, we are making a story based game. Game starts with player in the kind of house exterior environment, you have some gameplay and cinematics there. and then when you are done with it, your scene switches to police station environment. And so on this kind of flow according to story. Are they all in separate levels? Or it could even be a night environment with completely different lighting from previous environment we were playing in. Hope you understand

[grim ore]

you could do either, chances are they would be separate levels

there are also lighting scenarios you can swap in and out if you want the same "location" to have different lighting

so house is one level with day and night lighting, then park is another level with day lighting, then school is another level with night lighting, etc.

[spare osprey]

So if I need 20 different kind of environments in story, I will be making 20 different levels?

[grim ore]

putting each environment or "location" for your project in it's own map/level lets you adjust the mood uniquely without worry about affecting something else

for something like that yep, just like a movie you might have multiple sets for each scene

[spare osprey]

Alright if you think that's the best way

[fierce tulip]

@clever vault you can already download lower poly (lower lods) from those quixel meshes.

[quiet raft]

crashed unreal, nice. im seeking alternatives to unity hdrp, and unreal crashes on me with exactly the same oom due to some internal rendering error

the irony

[grim ore]

not saying its the best way, every project might have a different work flow, but for what you are asking that seems to be normal

[spare osprey]

One more question, let's say I have menu of of my game, I wanna show a live background like render a complete scene behind it, then when player moves to episodes menu, it shows a live preview of environment on hover events of each episode's button, what should I do about it? Create their videos ? Or render actual scenes ? If actual scenes then how in that case

[grim ore]

either one works depending on your goal. you can easily load and unload maps in real time so you could just make small scenes that you load in the background of your menu if you want

[spare osprey]

Won't it be transfering me to a new scene of that environment?

[quiet raft]

you take a camera, you render its output into a rendertexture, you slap that texture on ui element

[grim ore]

you can stream in and out levels anytime you want. Your main menu would be in one level with nothing in the background, then you can stream in your park or house or whatever in the background for visuals

it doesnt need to be a full complete working level just the models and such to visually represent what you want

[spare osprey]

Right gotcha. So for that I might be needing realtime lighting or it can be done with baked too?

[fallen flower]

Just tried out quixel for the first time, and my Bronze looks more like pale pink plastic.

[grim ore]

@spare osprey either one works, baked puts it into the level/map so it would load in that lighting with it

[spare osprey]

But might be performance costly as compared to pre rendered videos on ui. Thanks for help. I will see what fits my requirements

[plush yew]

please please i'm crying my lighting is still stuck at 0% can someone help me

[spare osprey]

Don't panic. Keep calm :v

[past stag]

Any cpp text tutorial (for unreal engine) for beginner? i know c++ so no need for that.

[spare osprey]

if your scene has lot of stuff to build lighting for then wait, in my case it stays on 0 for some time

[plush yew]

I've been waiting for 5135 seconds

[wary wave]

do you have a lightmass importance volume encompassing your scene?

[plush yew]

and it is still stuck here

[plush yew]

yes

i have 11 lightmass importance volume

[spare osprey]

Just realized I was watching your video on level streaming XDD

[wary wave]

usually you only need one really

[grim ore]

is your task manager showing stuff is going on? if so wait longer

[wary wave]

in any case if it's taking a huge amount of time, it could be a lot of things, scene complexity, number of light sources etc

you may have set the number of bounces really high

[grim ore]

theres only 4 things going on there so your machine might not be very strong or your dev settings are not updated for your cpu to use all cores/threads

[plush yew]

yes but it will take years if it continues at this speed

[plush yew]

and how can i see what is causing this delay in building light?

[grim ore]

what is your CPU on that machine?

[plush yew]

i have an i7-7700k

it's on 91% usage

also my project & ue4 are on an ssd nvme

here a screenshot from my task manager

[wary wave]

try running a build in preview / low settings and see how long it takes

max quality build will take a very long time

[grim ore]

enabled dev settings

[wary wave]

we use a server farm for those and it's still an overnight process

[plush yew]

that's what i'm actually doing

[plush yew]

okay

[grim ore]

and make sure your processor count is set to 7 or 8

you have an 8 thread machine, it should show 7 or 8 lines

[wary wave]

I mean it's already using 6 threads, so processor count is probably good

you don't want it to use all threads because it'll lock the machine 😄

[grim ore]

oh blah I thought that was 4 lol

[plush yew]

it was at 6

[grim ore]

too much orange lol but yeah 6 threads is gonna take a while

[wary wave]

honestly, I suspect the problem is the scene then

[grim ore]

but like ambershee mentioned this is just a raw power versus settings thing

[wary wave]

how big is it? what's in it? how many lights, etc

[grim ore]

you dont have enough power for what you want to do ^^

[wary wave]

how many bounces in the lighting settings? how high res are the lightmaps on everything?

[lucid grove]

heya

[plush yew]

there are 2 directional lights, 1 skylight and 34 pointlight

[lucid grove]

can somebody remind me how can i retarget\reroute facial morphs?

I remember i did it sometime ago, but can rememeber how

[plush yew]

the scene it's kinda big

[plush yew]

any recommended cpu for this type of thing?

[grim ore]

fast as you can afford basically or a ton of fast ones lol

[wary wave]

if the scene is big, this is likely the problem unfortunately

[grim ore]

or uh... start making the scene more optimized for your hardware

[wary wave]

to put things in perspective, our maps are probably about 1.5km x 1.5km with very high detail lightmaps, but generally only one directional light and one skylight

[plush yew]

this is the lighting static mesh info..... idk if this could be useful

[wary wave]

we use two 16-core threadrippers to build lighting overnight

[plush yew]

wow.....

i should definitely change my cpu

[wary wave]

1.4GB of lightmaps is gonna take some time to generate haha

[plush yew]

there's a way to decrease it? even a bad looking light would be okay

i mean

i don't care about the lighting

[wary wave]

decrease the resolution on your meshes

[solid oracle]

hey guys im kinda new to unreal engine and have a doubt about level sharing

[wary wave]

our scene has these stats for perspective;

[solid oracle]

how do i and my friends work on same level at the same time

[wary wave]

you don't

there is a feature in the engine that kinda allows multiplayer editing

but it is not a generally accepted workflow

instead you probably want to be using multiple streaming levels

[plush yew]

and how can i do that?

[wary wave]

not my field, try #graphics or #level-design for that kind of info

[latent lance]

Hello guys I have a huge problem lately, i uninstalled and reinstalled 4.26 and I still have this weird bug were i can't create any c++ project
The linked file is my unreal editor error at the project creation

[solid oracle]

u talking about this https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Basics/Levels/LevelsWindow/index.html

[wary wave]

that would be it yeah

[solid oracle]

we are trying this already

using gitlab

but im not sure that itll work properly

[stiff sail]

is there a way for me to easily do mathematical functions without stringing tons of builtin math functions together?

[wary wave]

math expression nodes

[solid oracle]

so was looking for an alternative

[wary wave]

should be feasible, though from what I'm aware gitlab isn't great for binaries. A lot of studios use perforce

[solid oracle]

suggest anyother then

and if u can then could you also send me a tutorial for that

[cursive coral]

Your still having issues then :(

[wary wave]

I suspect you shouldn't have too much difficulty finding a UE4 tutorial for Perforce

[fathom rapids]

Hello everyone, I would like to import a mesh as a skeletal mesh but my problem is that since it's in 2 part, it make me 2 skeletal meshs on import, any fix?

[worn mirage]

I'm attempting to save the transform and class type in a game save slot. It seems to work in that it iterates through the array without error on game load but nothing is spawned. 😦

[potent bridge]

I think I'm missing something with heightmaps, it wont let me put ANY of these in

[plush yew]

yep i tried for the whole day to build the lighting but it has been stuck at 0%

but maybe i've just fixed

[worn mirage]

@fathom rapids Why not combine them before importing them?

[potent bridge]

Always getting this checkered texture for some reason

no matter what I put in the box

[fathom rapids]

I'm using a special effect on one, and if I merge it's gonna be a mess :(

[worn mirage]

There are several options for "combining" meshes but you could use a Physics Constraint Actor to connect them.

Other option would be merging the actors.

[solid oracle]

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

[wary wave]

yeah, that's the multiplayer editor thingo, but that's really uncommon

[fathom rapids]

Ok thanks, I'm gonna see what I can do

[wary wave]

I've never heard of a serious project actually using it

[solid oracle]

i tried using it but it made my internet slow

and because it helps me in doing realtime changes with my teammate watching it

[stiff sail]

thats nice. but i cant use negative numbers. y=-x^2+180

[solid oracle]

it could make ones work easier

[cursive coral]

Has it fixed it?

[plush yew]

yay

my lightmap value was 1024 instead of 4 for each static mesh

[cursive coral]

has that improved the build time now?

[plush yew]

yep i built the light in a few minutes 🙂

lightmap decrease from 1.4gb to 2mb

[cursive coral]

thats brilliant news

have you attempted saving

now

[vale silo]

4.26.1 - when?!

[plush yew]

yep it's working perfectly

[cursive coral]

we got there in the end, it just took a lot of guesses

that the only thing with game developments

theres always another problem

like I may have sorted my water issue out by starting the whole thing over, but there will be something else eventually show up

pleased you sorted it

[vale silo]

no

Blueprints is life!

[inland aurora]

it works, but I feel like the center moves?

is this the person we do not speak of its name

. . . . ?

[fierce tulip]

anything can be unsafe to work with if you dont know what you are doing, this also includes blueprints as much as it includes cpp

also, there is no unrealscript for ue4, at least not that i know of. and its cpp portion is kinda different than regular cpp.
but if you are just getting started and have some general coding knowledge, try blueprints, and take it from there.

[digital anchor]

lol

[fierce tulip]

his problem tbh, and its far from unsafe

[digital anchor]

i think hes telling you he dont wanna work for you

[grim ore]

it sounds like you need a better programmer

and by that I mean one willing to work for and with you

if its his job to do the programming in UE4 for you, and he refuses to do it then it's him

Blueprints are part of Unreal Engine, you will be unable to avoid them even if programming the majority of the game in C++. if he refuses to use them then you will have problems using UE

[inland aurora]

so why are you forcing him to change engines?

[grim ore]

Blueprints are blueprints. they re visual coding using graphs and other types of tools

even if he avoids stuff like making systems in blueprints you still have systems such as the UI and animation that use blueprints

anyone can use blueprints

anyone can use anything it just takes time to learn. If he has experience in other language blueprints will be easy to pick up as it's standard OOP just with a visual flair

as for the idea C++ is unsafe... well.... that's a weird way to put it

[obsidian nimbus]

also they are c++ 😛

[ornate forge]

I don't think safety matters for games that much... unless it's a multiplayer game maybe

[obsidian nimbus]

im not sure what part he means is unsafe

[grim ore]

he might just be used to the way C# works with unity and does not want to adapt to a new engine

[digital anchor]

hes not wrong but its the way it is ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[grim ore]

so its definitely not him... not at all

[stiff sail]

sounds like a bitch

[ornate forge]

Is there an approximate release date for Unreal 5 yet?

[grim ore]

preview early this year, release later this year

both subject to the world exploding changing these times

he can come here and ask the dumb questions

[ornate forge]

I wonder if Unreal 5 will be friendlier to custom scripting languages, like UnrealCLR and SkookumScript

[grim ore]

welp theres not much you can do to make him use it, but like anything there are good and bad parts and good and bad ways to use it. Any programming language can be bad

[chrome swallow]

May I ask a dumb question a sec?

[grim ore]

UE5 has nothing planned for any new or custom scripting languages but who knows. Verse is planned for the fortnite stuff but its reaaaaaaally high level scripting

@chrome swallow you can always ask

[chrome swallow]

When I add a Directional Light to my project, my FPS will drop by half if not more? Say from 30 fps down to 10 fps. Will go back up to 30 when I remove it. Any idea how to fix it?

[ornate forge]

So Verse isn't intended for making games from scratch?

[grim ore]

@chrome swallow disable shadows on the directional light,or turn the light into static lighting and build lighting. My guess would be the dynamic shadows are causing your issue

@ornate forge no one really knows for sure, just what they showed us, but all they showed us was a preview for the fortnite editor and it being used at a super high level to "script" some game modes

[chrome swallow]

That brings another question. When I do that and try to rebuild, the swarm will quite with no error in log

after exporting lighting

[grim ore]

does it give a failed message or just finish quickly?

[chrome swallow]

Nothing noted after the shut down

[ornate forge]

So many questions, can't wait to tinker with Unreal 5

[grim ore]

you might not have any static lighting to build then

[chrome swallow]

finishes quick as in never begins the lighting process

Hmm, interesting. Thanks for your time

[grim ore]

check to see if your lights are set to movable or stationary/static and go from there

[chrome swallow]

They are all set to movable

well, skylight and such are.

[ornate forge]

Are there any rumors about ECS in Unreal 5?

[grim ore]

yep movable is dynamic lighting, so nothing will build for that its all realtime

[chrome swallow]

ANy how, thanks for some tips on what to look for. Most appreciated.

[obsidian nimbus]

there is some ECS stuff in sequencer right now

[chrome swallow]

I do have some braziers and torches that are set for static but this is where the issue is. My landscape works fine, just not the building map

Err, building as in my castle that is on a different map than the landscape

[vale silo]

the way things have been going, I don't really care for UE5 at this point. I just want to get 4.26.1+ and 4.27.x in 2021 with those VR issues fixed!

[lucid grove]

Can somebody help me with face morph remap? I have face animation i made with facelink sometimes ago, but i changed my head model to another one with almost some face morphs, but different names.

So now instead of this

I got this

Im almost sure there is some remap option inside animation bleprint

But cant remember where

[hot vessel]

hi - is it safe to assume that the fiollowing line near the end of a crash log, is telling me that i dont have enough RAM to bake my lighting?
[2021.01.12-17.32.20:782][812]LogMemory: Warning: Freeing 33554432 bytes from backup pool to handle out of memory.

and then it shows an overview of the different pools, before ending the log

[clear delta]

how do i make a Widget Component be visible through objects?

right now it is clipping through

[inland aurora]

Ah boys, I cleaned it up, its so beautiful

[distant jewel]

For persistent variables do you have to create them in the level blueprint or ?

[potent bridge]

So this comes up when I try to build lighting, would anyone have any idea as to why this happens?

nevermind, a project reload fixed it

[grim ore]

@clear delta you would have to adjust the material so it draws over everything if it's clipping, or switch to screen space which draws over everything

@distant jewel what do you mean by persistent variables? what do they persist thru

[distant jewel]

Just so they are available to access on every blueprint

I want to set up a variable that indicates what is going on with the game. Like is it pre-event, during-event, post-event

[grim ore]

well that wont work since nothing can get access to the level blueprint

chances are the game mode is what you want to use

[distant jewel]

Game mode! Ok looking into that now!

[clear delta]

So basically I would need to set the texture through Dynamic Material Texture?

and use the brush?

[hot vessel]

I could be wrong, but i read it as your UV lightmap not containing the same mesh as the mesh it is connected to, if that makes sense

[potent bridge]

@hot vessel It's fixed anyway, but that may be it

[past stag]

Is there a way to reset enabled plugins to default?

[fierce tulip]

remove them from the uproject is one way

[past stag]

okay. Thanks 🙂

Is there some text based Unreal c++ tutorial?

Because i would need to learn unreal engine c++, i already know basic c++.

[delicate mica]

Hello! I have a burning dilemma.

I am trying to export a simple UE4 game to HTML5, then render it somehow in a front end js framework like angular or react. Has anyone ever done anything like this?

I tried all day today to insert the html into a react component. Since the game relies on outside scripts I wasn’t able to get the scripts running in conjunction with the inserted html in the react component.

Any perspective I’d appreciate.

[grim ore]

@past stag there are various C++ tutorials on the offical docs page

[light thunder]

didn't they switch out apex for the chaos in 4.26?

[past stag]

yeah, i think yes

[nimble warren]

Yea but they removed it

In one of the previews

[tardy stump]

Hey, a question: Which one is faster when I don't care about array indexes? TArray::RemoveAll or TArray::RemoveAllSwap ?

[nimble warren]

Because it was laggy now there’s a Separate version with chaos 

[past stag]

I am not sure what project to start. I have an idea on my mind, but its pretty big

[modest trench]

Try making something smaller first?

[past stag]

Yeah, if i would know what

And also something that is fun to make

[inland aurora]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qusfgm8KKrA

I optimized the calculations

[past stag]

does unreal engine have IK?

[inland aurora]

yes

[past stag]

like buildin

I mean i can build one myself

[inland aurora]

what do you mean

[past stag]

like in Unity, so you can rotate bones so your characters head is facing towards object

[inland aurora]

do you mean Inverse Kinematic systems

[past stag]

yeah

[inland aurora]

yes it does

[past stag]

Thanks 🙂

[inland aurora]

If you wanna see some animation tips and tricks go check out locomotion system in marketplace

It's a nice way to see how animation system works in ue4 and what you can do with it

[past stag]

Okay.

[inland aurora]

Advanced Locomotion System V4

[past stag]

Are all of those Unreal Engine default enabled plugins necessary/useful)?

[inland aurora]

Not all of them

but it also depends on what you want to have in your project

[past stag]

because i dont know what some of them does, so then i dont know what to disable

there are clear ones like for apple, but some are that i dont know what they do

is there some list somewhere where is all default plugins and what they do?

[inland aurora]

I don't know, but it probably is

but maybe you focus on the wrong thing right now

Have you finished what you wanna do, and going to package your project right now and wanna get rid of unnecessary plugins?

[past stag]

😄 no

Do you know what to do with gamemodebase class? because i am not sure where to put those properties, because of no class inside the file

wait. it has the class in .h file

[hoary holly]

Might be far fetched

But has anyone been able to compile the chaos preview with the nvidia RTXGI branch?

[tender bluff]

what could be causing sparkly flickering when using ray tracing

i am so confused, i up the samples and it still happens!

[cursive coral]

Does anyone have any tips for level design for an open world game? Thanks

[rain crypt]

One of the texture maps doesn’t tile.

https://youtu.be/M2rOitk_I9g

[distant jewel]

Dumb question, can you create a class that contains actors of varying different types (like cube, cylinder, sphere)? I want to use "Get All Actors of Class" to spawn them into my level individually.

[gray kindle]

lads does anyone know why my lake fills up like that?

[devout bone]

Unreal take long time 2 load

[cursive coral]

I shall give that a go, I know the effect I want but I cant visualise it on my screen so this should help

[cursive coral]

Its quite funny actually because this channel is probably fed up of me asking water questions since it seems troublesome atm

Since there isnt many tutorials

But I can only think that either you havent enabled allow edit layers

Or

[gray kindle]

yeah every tutorial i see is a guy making basic river

or lake

on a flat surface

[cursive coral]

Nothing complex

They just drag it in and its instantly perfect

I always copy exact and it goes bizzare

I imagine you may have to increase water depth?

Does anyone know why my water doesnt change colour either?

I change all the colours of the material but the water remains dark blue?

[deft haven]

Does it take a lot of hours to learn unreal engine c++ and make games only with c++ if you already know all the essential parts of c++ likes classes arrays object oriented programming etc?

[cursive coral]

^ie😂

[gray kindle]

i tried a lot of things, none works. when i change the water depth it "leaks" but still doesnt do anything

seems like its broken tbh

[cursive coral]

Non of my settings do anything for water

I think it is just broke beyond repair at this point

The only thing I can think it change the boundary slightly

Yep, I am leaving my water as it is till they add stuff, at the moment I am just using it to help me not put buildings in my ocean😂

[distant jewel]

Nvmd Got it!

[gray kindle]

thats what happens when i change height 😄

i mean... yeah it is, but that was one of the key advertised features of 4.26

[plush yew]

so when I package and zip my project then unzip the files again, and open the uproject up, everything goes missing

does anyone know how to fix that?

[gray kindle]

i will just make a plane with a water material, will be easier

[cursive coral]

I just want a tropical beach with water

[plush yew]

like it saves the content, config, and uproject but when I open the project nothing comes up

[devout bone]

Unreal Engine won't start when I click launch

[cursive coral]

But I get an ocean that looks like it belongs on titan😂

[plush yew]

broooooo wtf

[gray kindle]

do u need to change colour?

of the ocean

[plush yew]

this is actually so fucked

[cursive coral]

You running it off an external hard drive

[devout bone]

No

[cursive coral]

Yeah, I have changed material colour but nothings changing

[gray kindle]

Thanks! i will check that out now

[devout bone]

On an internal hard drive

[cursive coral]

Do you have multiple harddrives? Ie:ssd and hdd

[devout bone]

No

[plush yew]

godddd

such a unique problem

[gray kindle]

i actually managed to change it before, let me see how i did it

[cursive coral]

I follow the tutorial but nothing changes, give it a go anyway and let me know.

[devout bone]

I only have a laptop

Is that bad

[cursive coral]

Im on a laptop dw

Its a gaming laptop

But its still a laptop

[devout bone]

When I click launch nothing happens

[plush yew]

is there currently a bug in UE where I can't package zip up my game

[cursive coral]

Not sure, I haven't got anywhere near that stage yet sorry

[cursive coral]

Have you tried right clicking and choosing rum

Run

[plush yew]

bro this is so cancerous there is literally no reason why it shouldnt work

[gray kindle]

are u changing absorption?

[cursive coral]

Yep

Also tried albdedo

[gray kindle]

i changed mine and it worked

[cursive coral]

Ive even tried in new projects

[devout bone]

Right click wat

[gray kindle]

maybe u messed up the master material for good xd

[cursive coral]

Does it save changes on the plugin not on the project?

[cursive coral]

Unreals desktop icon

[cursive coral]

I think I probably have😂

I ended up with pitch black water at one point

[devout bone]

You mean when you drop a pickle in the ocean?

Error

[cursive coral]

Thats unusual, what does a google search on the error code display?

[grim ore]

thats pretty common if you are installing it and dont pay attention to the pre req popup

just have to close it all down and try again

[thorn island]

greetings

[thorn island]

Any major differences between 4.20.x and 4.26

[distant jewel]

I've set up a 4 actors in a class and I'm trying to loop through and spawn each one but I'm not getting anything to happen

I'm assuming it's due to my Get All Actors Of Class

but not sure why...

Wait, I'm not doing anything once I call them. Double wait, I don't have any in the world. I'm trying to bring them in. I'm going to think about this some more.

[nova kernel]

quick question,
Is it worth building with "World Composition" for large maps, or will it be abandoned with the new UE5?
And are there any updates on any releases for UE5? or still no?

I dont want to use World Composition if it will be not worth it, though dont want to delay our project in development for something that might be updated in several months by now,

Suggestions? Ideas? info?

[thorn island]

What do you mean

[viscid tusk]

does anyone know how to fix the "An Unreal process has crashed" crash

[narrow plaza]

You need to pass the array from GetAll Actors of class into your For loop - or add them to the ShuffleArray - at the moment you wont get anything unless ShuffleArray is prepopulated with something

[plush yew]

@viscid tusk this is like asking people why your computer is blue screening

Is it frequent? Does it occur when you open a particular level/run any particular process? Try and single out the issue.

[viscid tusk]

it happens when i try to run pavlov. I think it might be confused because i recently upgraded my ram from 8 to 16.

it happens every time i try to run the game.

[distant jewel]

@narrow plaza Thanks duncan.

I think I made a mistake making when I added my Actors to a parent class I created. I have these cubes I'm using as placeholders that are different textures so I can tell them apart. They are labeled "Actor_A". "Actor_B" up to D. I put them all in a parent class and when I went to add them their names weren't there BUT "Actor_A_C" "Actor_B_C" etc etc was.

[plush yew]

sounds like something to do with this pavlov thing then. Idk I have never used it or know what it is

[arctic horizon]

pavlov is a game. This is probably the wrong server to ask about issues with specific games.

[distant jewel]

I'm using cubes as placeholders, each has their own actor BP, and I changed there class to all be something new I named Actor Array BP

Does anyone know why _C might have been added to their names generating an array of them?

Oh wait is that added automatically because its a class ?

[fierce tulip]

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/kw38lg/replica_a_mega_grant_recipient_2020/

^ fricking amazing

[gloomy gull]

wow

[proper perch]

Struggling with learning how to properly UV wrap in blender and be able to export mesh as fbx and import into UE4 without tangent/binormal errors. Anyone able to point me in the right direction?

[plush yew]

i hate blender with a flying spoon

but god do i love unreal engine

i wish i could skip past all of the blender stuff and just make the game D:

[dim arch]

you could use premade assets

[plush yew]

but than it wont be how i imagine it in my brain D:

i wish to make the sexy'est fighter ever

with a hint of pokemon U:

and sum yugimans too because wynaut

[gilded plinth]

hmm, dunno why this basic Q never occurred to me. Is there a way to set the game instance from a BP? Maybe in a construction script? Or does the game instance spawn before any of that?

i'm iterating on a few maps and they use different game instances. it's painful going into project settings to change every level

[dim arch]

the game instance class is set in project settings

[gilded plinth]

i know

But my Q is not asking where you set it

[dim arch]

you cant change it while the game is running

[gilded plinth]

it's can you set it elsewhere?

Roger, but is there maybe an editor hack or something to tie a game instance to a level?

so that once i hit play it uses x game instance

[dim arch]

so, you want to make an editor only script which checks which level you are launching into, and set the game instance accordingly?

[gilded plinth]

yup

that'd do it!

something of that sort

it's just for iterating because we're kinda building two games in one project right now

eventually we'll migrate out the second game

but right now we can't

[dim arch]

well, you could make a script to do that possibly, or just use the game instance that way it was intended

[gilded plinth]

how am i not using it the way it is intended?