ue4-general

[fierce tulip]

try !gameidea

[formal needle]

Hi ,when i try to install ue4.25.3 ,it say install failed a file access error occurred. error code : IS-MF01-1392-1392

anyone know how to fix?i have try search on google and youtube already cant find out solution

[amber holly]

Hello

I'm new here

[frank oar]

Kind of urgent question guys...

I have recently installed a new ssd to put my OS on. (Without realising that due to file paths nothing would work and seemingly need a reinstall)

I wanted to install unreal engine to see if i can at least open my projects but in the epic launcher it won't give me the option to download 4.24.2

[plush yew]

Hey, Does anyone know how i can fix this?

[frank oar]

Anyone know why this is ? (I have it installed on the original ssd which is still in the pc but its not detecting it to open files) so I am not sure why it it won't let me download 4.24.2 in the list (its doesn't even appear in the list of options to download)

(That was a continuation to my above question)

[plush yew]

Might be a good idea to transfer files u need onto a external and then factory reset

[frank oar]

@plush yew I have always had problems with project files after moving them and I am unsure of how to do it without causing issues/ corruptions. Copying and pasting is even a bad idea in my experience.

[plush yew]

If you lookup on youtube unreal has a feature called migrate and that seems to work for me

[frank oar]

@plush yew isn't that function for moving assets between projects, or projects into other projects ?

Sorry if that seems like a silly question, I have put a lot of work into my project and really don't want to mess it up.

Youtube only seems to have results for migrating assets (which i already know how to do)

[broken heath]

Sorry i thought it’s an old answered post

Is it o on a specific project or any

[ocean grove]

Hey so I'm trying to add a variable to an unpopulated array, and I'm not sure if anything is making it into the array. Do you need to include a save feature in order to check if variables are being appended?

Actor spawns, player presses button and holds. I'm interested in getting that hold value into an array.

[vague scaffold]

Is is OK to delete the files under the Game/Saved/Autosaves? It's become quite large.

[ocean grove]

@plush yew it looks like there is a set distance from camera that is not loading all the way

No idea how you could correct that, but maybe its a performance setting?

[frank oar]

I need to download unreal engine 4.24.2 but it is not in the drop downwjen I click the arrow for different versions. I get 4.24.3 and 4.23.1 but nothing in between...

Please haaaaaalp 😵🤯

[thick herald]

It will only let you install the latest version of any engine, as far as I know.

[stiff sail]

is there a event to tell when my grass is done loading in? so i can have my player on a empty black widget until its done

[left elk]

Has anyone ever attempted working with Unreal over Windows Remote Desktop connection? It appears to crash the remote machine in a repeatable way when otherwise there's no issue.

Supposedly some kind of issue with GPU/Hardware acceleration?

[grim ore]

@vague scaffold yes it is if your project is in a good state those are backups

[sonic quest]

Yeah! I do that occasionally. I didn't find the reason, but sometimes deleting those will reduce the number of shaders to compile.

[rocky radish]

why do you need 4.24.2 instead of 4.24.3?

[frank oar]

@rocky radish because a project i need to open is one i made in that specific version

[rocky radish]

you can still open it, the 4.24.3 is just a hotfix

it doesnt need conversion

[inland aurora]

Wasn't there, a node that was something like if actor is on the camera of the player controller?

[grim ore]

if you need a specific version that is not on the launcher you need to compile it from source

[frank oar]

In my experience in the past I have encountered problems when I open them in updated versions 😭 I'm just scared of ruining what I somehow got working by the skin of my teeth in the first place

[grim ore]

make a copy of the project and open the copy

[rocky radish]

a 4.x.x version rarely causes any issues compared to 4.x updates

for example, you may find issues converting 4.24 to 4.25 but not converting 4.24.2 to 4.24.3

[frank oar]

OK I will try it thank you @rocky radish and @grim ore

I have 4.24.2 installed on another ssd but today I changed my boot ssd to a new one and now none of the file paths work. Hence needing to re download unreal engine.

[grim ore]

you can run the editor directly from the engine folder

you can also find the unrealversionselector.exe file in your launcher folder, copy it into that engine folder, run it and it will associate 4.24 with that folder

[frank oar]

Where is that located @grim ore ? That would be incredibly helpful !

[grim ore]

I dunno its your machine. somewhere in your engine install folder is an engine folder then binaries then some platforms then ue4editor.exe

[frank oar]

@grim ore I found it with search!

So if I copy the 4th from the bottom into the folder where I have my projects saved it should associate them automatically ? Thank you

[grim ore]

no

ue4editor.exe is how you launch the editor, like hitting the launch button from the launcher. Unrealversionselector.exe is what says "Hey this folder with this engine should be registered with project files"

[ocean grove]

So I want accurate numbers for my players response time so I'm using a float variable, but I can't seem to figure out how to grab the maximum float value.

[grim ore]

if you have a float variable yo will always have 1 value, or is there more to that question

[frank oar]

@grim ore is this the UnrealVersionSelecor I need ? 3rd from the bottom

[grim ore]

yes, you would copy that into the engine folder where ue4editor.exe is and run it and it should say its going to associate it

[ocean grove]

Sorry I just crashed my UE hah

So I've got a variable that records button down time, I am then trying to take the maximum value recorded by that float variable and append it to an array, then set the hold time variable to zero to clear it out.

I'm trying to end up with an ordered array that will list the (a) Actor Name (b) Actor Index # (c) Actor Arrival Time (d) Input Key Down Time (e) Mic input timestamp / mic input.

So I figure the first place to start is getting the maximum value for the Input key down time and putting that in an array.

[grim ore]

well thats the confusion. max compared to what?

hold button -> get value -> compare to ?

[ocean grove]

Oh, just the last value recorded*

[grim ore]

then you store the last value recorded somewhere? if so compare to that and replace it or ignore it

[ocean grove]

Ok I think I get it, player hits button, timer increments and parallel to the timer incrementing I am having the previous value compared to the current and only keeping the larger until the player releases the button. I was thinking there might be a function I didn't know about like a find max or find last function.

[winter gale]

https://cutt.ly/ue4-tip-104

[grim ore]

well if you are comparing to values in an array then yes, but I thought it was just comparing to one value

[ocean grove]

#ue4-general message

I assumed my hold time was just a single variable that should only report the last value

but it gives me everything as it increments.

I assumed it would overwrite itself, but it seems to be appending itself?

[grim ore]

there are max nodes for looking at the highest value in an array

if that is what you want

if you just want how long its pressed for use an input action event. it has pressed and released, no need to check on tick

press button -> store the time. release button -> compare the current time to the stored time and get the difference

[ocean grove]

That seems more straight forward.

I'm going to try that! BRB

[marsh sparrow]

so trying to do my first package just for giggles.. build failes.. getting this.. no clue why

Stacktrace

ProcessResult.StdOut:   LogPhysicsCore: Error: PHYSX: (D:\Build\++Fortnite\Sync\Engine\Source\ThirdParty\PhysX3\PhysX_3.4\Source\PhysXCooking\src\Cooking.cpp 198) eINVALID_PARAMETER : Cooking::cookConvexMesh: user-provided convex mesh descriptor is invalid!```

error and the line right above it.. not sure if they are related

[grim ore]

did you try and open that mesh and resave it?

[marsh sparrow]

yup

i just read somewhere that says I need to remake the collision?

[grim ore]

sounds possible. you can open it up, go to the collision menu, remove the collision and add anew one

[marsh sparrow]

k

ill work on that

thx

k i did 2 of them.. let me see if they come off the error list

and success

neato...

[dawn gull]

am I not allowed to put foliage on a procedural mesh component?

Or actors?

[clever axle]

I haven't found anything good.. Is there a way to exclude unused assets in a packaged build?

[marsh sparrow]

go to package settings and click to find advanced settings and include only the maps you need to build

[west jay]

Can anyone help me with some flying?

[clever axle]

@marsh sparrow yes, I've seen that but I don't want to add everything by hand

[marsh sparrow]

when I added the maps.. it found the assets in those maps and only built those

[clever axle]

I read it packages everything that is used in a map

[marsh sparrow]

correct

is that not what you want?

[clever axle]

that is what I want but it also packages things that are in unused maps appearently

[marsh sparrow]

not for me

when I added just my 2 maps it didn't add anything else that was outside of it

[keen mauve]

i am having a really hard time trying to figure out how to make a pawn move using a player controller

[rigid marsh]

@west jay The 'Set Movement Mode' -> Flying/Walking only turns on/off the Gravity.
You can add a multiplier before the 'Add Movement Input' (i.e. Axis Input * some scalar) to control how fast you can ascend.
Then just add a -z force with another input if you want to fall faster.

[worldly lynx]

guys, do you recommend me to start to learn and work with Unity?i am learned so well unreal and my journey with unreal is continuing but I think as a programmer I need to learn unity too, what you think?

[fierce tulip]

sure, why not

[clever axle]

@keen mauve no progress?

[keen mauve]

have progress the functions fire now i just missed the Super::BeginPlay()

but now i am struggling to make the pawn move

[worldly lynx]

Does not simultaneous learning have a negative impact?

[keen mauve]

yes and no Farshad, how many programming langauge and APIs do you already know?

[worldly lynx]

C++ , javascript , php ,payton,blueprint scripting and etc but i i dont know UNITY still

and i dont know c# too

[keen mauve]

you KNOW them or you have worked with them

what is your proficiency level

[still schooner]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx9dHgcN0bE where can i get these blueprints like strain etc?

[keen mauve]

cause learning multiple langauges at the same time isn't that great if you are not very proficient in at least a few

[worldly lynx]

i am worked with them as good but i like c++ so i chosed unreal because of it 🙂

[west jay]

@rigid marsh Thanks, I fixed itz thats why i deleted the post

[keen mauve]

i find it hard to understand what you saying

[rigid marsh]

@west jay Ah cool, keep on at it then 🙂

[west jay]

Thx

[worldly lynx]

what is your suggest about me? do you think is good for me to start learning unity or I must just stick to unreal still

i want just have good progress in 2 langauges , C++ and in future c# , i want be a pro in this 2

[keen mauve]

hard to say, i am new to unreal this is a question you should answer yourself

[plush yew]

@worldly lynx its best to do one at a time, if you know more C++ then C# its best to go with unreal and from there go to unity but its all up to you and what you feel more right about if that makes sense

[worldly stump]

anyone has a guide on how to reset playerstart? Like all my players occupied all the playerstart

[worldly lynx]

i like unreal engine so much but in my country Job Positions for unity are several times then Unreal engine, so i must learn unity, i have to😩

just it scared me , because i think it can harm my ability wwith unreal

[brittle tundra]

Hello Guys, Since I Have changed my "Preview Rendering Level" on MacOS to iOS my project keeps crashing on startup do you know where to fix this?

[plush yew]

not exactly, learning 2 programming languages is a little hard mostly casue you may not remember most stuff when learning another one, but over time if you use both languages a lot or most of the time you will get the hang of it @worldly lynx

[clever axle]

@keen mauve have you done the AddControllerXInput like https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/API/Runtime/Engine/GameFramework/APawn/AddControllerYawInput/index.html ?

[keen mauve]

@clever axle i am not using a controller

does that make a difference

[clever axle]

@keen mauve not controller as in XBOX One Controller. This is about PlayerController

[keen mauve]

oh ok

lol

nvm i am being stupid

[frank oar]

Anyone here know much about pc's ?

Today I put in a new ssd and used the media creation tool from Microsoft to install the operating system onto it.

When I set it as the main boot ssd and powered on I noticed that it was now by default "C" drive.

I installed the epic launcher on it but in the library for unreal engine there is no projects saved (I have loads of projects on my pc)

Same with steam but I am guessing that in steams case I might need to reinstall all the games to fix the file paths.

I would be grateful for any tips...

[keen mauve]

so that is being called on the Pawn from the controller?

[clever axle]

Yes

[keen mauve]

no that doesn't move the pawn

[clever axle]

You can fetch the input on the pawn directly but I guess you already have it set up to do it in the controller so that's fine

@keen mauve wanna show some code?

[keen mauve]

sure what do you want to see?

[worn peak]

newbie question

why ue still uses the firstpersonChar like default pawn

[clever axle]

@keen mauve relevant code from your controller

[worn peak]

even after I switch it on the gameMode

to none

[keen mauve]

void ARTSPlayerController::SetupInputComponent() {
    Super::SetupInputComponent();

    bShowMouseCursor = true;

    InputComponent->BindAction(TEXT("LeftMouseButton"), IE_Pressed, this, &ARTSPlayerController::removeBlock);
    InputComponent->BindAction(TEXT("RightMouseButton"), IE_Pressed, this, &ARTSPlayerController::removeBlock);

    InputComponent->BindAxis(TEXT("MoveForward"), this, &ARTSPlayerController::MoveForward);
    InputComponent->BindAxis(TEXT("MoveRight"), this, &ARTSPlayerController::MoveRight);

    UE_LOG(LogTemp, Log, TEXT("Input Setup"));
}

void ARTSPlayerController::MoveRight(float speed) {
    if (speed) {
        FVector right = pawn->GetActorRightVector();
        UE_LOG(LogTemp, Log, TEXT("move right x: %f, y: %f, z: %f, speed: %f"), right.X, right.Y, right.Z, speed);
        pawn->AddControllerYawInput(speed);
        //pawn->AddMovementInput(right, speed, false);
    }
}

[marsh sparrow]

i think the cpp class default loads it

[keen mauve]

thats just the moveright but it should be the same for both

[worn peak]

if i switch to default pawn ue4 also continues to use firstPersonCharacter instead

[keen mauve]

prints out the correct rightvector and also the correct speed

do i have to do anything inside the pawn to make this work?

[clever axle]

@keen mauve maybe you possessed a different pawn than you might think

[keen mauve]

cause if i understand this correctly i dont put movement code in the pawn so that i can control this pawn with player controller or AI controller

[clever axle]

YawInput is mouse btw

[keen mauve]

@clever axle (didn't know about the mouse input but i use the mouse to point and click on tiles) i get the pawn from GetPawn()

[clever axle]

you're looking for AddMovementInput so that does seem to be correct. I would guess you are moving a different pawn than you might think

[keen mauve]

so i am setting the Pawn that i have possessed

void ARTSPlayerController::BeginPlayingState() {
    Super::BeginPlayingState();
    pawn = GetPawn();
    UE_LOG(LogTemp, Log, TEXT("pawn controller possessed?"));
}

[clever axle]

try GetPawn() directly in your MoveRight

[keen mauve]

i have done that too

same non result

[clever axle]

try this: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/API/Runtime/Engine/Kismet/UGameplayStatics/GetPlayerPawn/index.html

[keen mauve]

this isn't something i want to be doing

cause it might not be player0 that is posessing the pawn

i am building an asynchronous VR game where the player or the VR player can posses the same pawns at different times

[marsh sparrow]

are they on the same client

like split screen

[keen mauve]

yes

not split screen

[marsh sparrow]

k then player 0 doesn't make sense

lol

[keen mauve]

the one is in VR and the other on the pc

yes that is why i dont want to do that, i need to be able to get this pawn moving by just the controller

[marsh sparrow]

you probably need to assign one to one or ther other like player 0 = vr, etc and then check the controller on those players to see whos who

[keen mauve]

cause i need an AI controller to move it and the pc player controller to do it and also the vr player controller to do it

[marsh sparrow]

anyone use this https://github.com/ue4plugins/LoadingScreen

[keen mauve]

Running H:/games/UE_4.26/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool.exe Development Win64 -Project="H:/unreal/projects/underlord/underlord.uproject" -TargetType=Editor -Progress -NoEngineChanges -NoHotReloadFromIDE
@progress push 5%
@progress pop
Building underlordEditor...
Using Visual Studio 2019 14.28.29336 toolchain (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.28.29333) and Windows 10.0.18362.0 SDK (C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10).
Building 5 actions with 16 processes...
  @progress 'Compiling C++ source code...' 0%

i get this alot when opening the editor

and then it builds for what seems like for ever

or if its not building something its doing something else cause its stuck on that screen for a while

[grim ore]

are you using any C++ or C++ plugins? if so its making sure the module is up to date

[ornate forge]

What's Unreal's C++ version? C++11?

Seems to be C++14 actually, if this document is up to date: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/ProductionPipelines/DevelopmentSetup/CodingStandard/index.html

[tacit sonnet]

anyone played with .26's water yet ? ive been experiencing some serious ram usage from just 1 river actor

[grim ore]

@tame zephyr its relative but similar. the main issue is the editor might be playing it in a smaller window while your standalone is full screen so that comparison isnt valid

[marsh sparrow]

In the IDE this usually is a log that ultimately says.. compiling shaders.. but the progress bar for the editor doesn't indicate that..

[grim ore]

yep that would be fine. It should be better in packaged but not like 100% better dramatic change

[marsh sparrow]

Not yet, just did some cool clouds and sun stuff, i need to check it out to remake my lakes and rivers next though

[tacit sonnet]

for me it has been unusable so far. If i have a normal terrain it seems to work some of the time but as soon as you have any kind of heightmap data its all tits up from there. I deleted all my water objects and re opened the project and that made me able to recreate my rivers but then it ate all of my ram and my pc froze. not good so far

[marsh sparrow]

yuck. Well maybe I'll get to it next month LOL

and we can see whats up

just got a new rig.. so I've been trying to set it up all day

[frosty hollow]

Heyo i have a question

How hard would it be to learn BPs / C++ in ue, -- link any course that could help? or dm me them,
How much can bps do in a full fledge game,

[marsh sparrow]

not super hard.. they can do as much as you want them to do.. check udemy for a c++ ue course, learn some c++ basics first if you've never done it, mostly around pointers, etc and GL

🙂

[frosty hollow]

ah, i have been learning unity for the past 2 months ? but fore 2 years in my HS life i messed around with UE but never gave it my all, and the past 2 months on unity just has just felt like coming back to UE and seeing how it is,

[marsh sparrow]

i'd say.. pick one

Unity has its pluses, but for me, I felt I had to make everything even with all the store content where UE with a harder learning curve does most things just better

I spent 2 years in unity, and I'm one year into UE

[frosty hollow]

yeah ik that, just saying as in i dont know how i feel about unity, UE feels more fimilar to me but i never took it seriously

[marsh sparrow]

Take a udemy course, start small and dive in.

[frosty hollow]

the whole reason i went unity was for the UI tbh,

at first

UEs ui is the one thing i dont like just cause it looks bulky

you have any recommendations ?

[marsh sparrow]

well.. thats not the right link..

[frosty hollow]

lol

[marsh sparrow]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOVfF7PfLbRdVEm0hONTrNQ

this guy has a lot of easy good stuff

ui wise.. adjust the layout

🙂

learn it

LOL

[frosty hollow]

xD

[narrow seal]

sorry to jump in but his tutorials are amazing LOL

[frosty hollow]

i just wish it was more simple the ui i mean, if that makes since

but yeah true lool

guess ill have to sit down and give hima go

[marsh sparrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8n-u8eXv_4

🙂

[narrow seal]

I do have a question as well if anyone can answer

[frosty hollow]

@marsh sparrow https://www.udemy.com/course/unrealcourse/

[marsh sparrow]

nope

[frosty hollow]

dose this look like a decent coruse?

aight D:

[marsh sparrow]

it is and does...

but.. if you haven't done UE

I would find one that is single player first

one sec

ill link you

[frosty hollow]

kk thanks

[marsh sparrow]

https://www.udemy.com/course/unreal-engine-the-ultimate-game-developer-course/

Here is the one I started with

[narrow seal]

I've done that course it was good

[frosty hollow]

yay on sale to, aight ill go with this then

[frosty hollow]

ty

[marsh sparrow]

np

[marsh sparrow]

Whats your Q?

[narrow seal]

Sorry thinking of how I want to word I need help 😅

[marsh sparrow]

ha

k

[narrow seal]

I've been learning the engine for about a year and I've done tut after tut and bought stuff from the marketplace to learn how stuff was made but I feel I need more people to work with but 1 Idk how/where to ask and 2 I just feel like I'm lost in the sauce a little

[spare kernel]

@frosty hollow check Unreals learning center

it has some free courses also

https://learn.unrealengine.com

[frosty hollow]

aight

ill check there to

[narrow seal]

Sweet hope you enjoy the course I learned a lot from it

[spare kernel]

we need to link this more to people

https://www.thegames.dev/snaps/opera_4sy4Pt6e4R.png

ones who do everything in C++ or everything in BP 😄

[frosty hollow]

ty ty

o

[frosty hollow]

that looks like unity learn, will have to look at that to

[narrow seal]

😂 It was a good course but idk if many people saw it

[grim ore]

The gamedev.tv C++ course listed earlier is on the learn.unrealengine.com portal as a partner course FYI 😉

[marsh sparrow]

oh nice

[narrow seal]

Are there like tutors or people you could ask questions?

[marsh sparrow]

the udemy courses have teachers and communities you can ask questions to

also there is ... here.

[narrow seal]

lol sorry really new to discord actually it feels kinda awkward 😅

[inland aurora]

discord is easy to use

[marsh sparrow]

ever use aim, trillium, yahoo messenger, bboards, skype, slack, etc? Its just a chat app

[narrow seal]

Yeah I've used it to chat with friends a few times but I'm always nervous I might say something in the wrong place 😂

[grim ore]

you might. it happens. if you do I'm sure someone will mention it lol

[narrow seal]

LOL want to swap brains for just a day I'm sure I could finish my project in like 2 hours 😂 How's you learn so much about the engine

[grim ore]

using it

[narrow seal]

I could see how that would help

[narrow mauve]

easy question

[grim ore]

yep just used it whenever I could, even doing the same stuff over and over for muscle memory and just absorbing content wherever I could

[narrow mauve]

whats trhe command to enter IP to join sever

for whatever reason this basic question I cant find an answer on google lol

ah i got it

[graceful leaf]

Hello

[narrow seal]

no I get it Ik I won't know everything in just a year but I seems like the stuff I want to do with the engine I can't find the information anywhere or maybe I'm thinking about it wrong

[graceful leaf]

Is unreal engine good for beginners mainly for terrain and landscape design?

[grim ore]

it could be for a skilled user

[graceful leaf]

I’m looking to download it because unity and other programs won’t install on my Mac

[grim ore]

if they wont install then Unreal might not as well

Unity is generally lighter on resources and should work before unreal will

[graceful leaf]

Umm another problem

Wtf is happening

[turbid vigil]

do you know how i can reactivate paint tool in ue4? the purple circle isnt showing

[glad loom]

Hello, in widgets, how do I change the position of a text? There's not set position or anything like that

[grim ore]

change the position? like place it somewhere else? widgets positions are controlled by the parent

so fixed positions are in canvas panels, stacked are in layout panels, etc.

[glad loom]

I have a text in a canvas panel

[plush yew]

I've seen the brush disappear before, but usually comes back after relaunching the editor

[grim ore]

if the text is in a canvas panel then in the top right is the position settings for it, or you can drag it around

[glad loom]

I mean from blueprints, not in the editor

Sorry for not specifying

[grim ore]

get the text widget, get the canvas panel parent, set position.

[glad loom]

And how do I do that?
I have the CanvasPanel_0 and TextFood

I've tried this but for some reason it makes the text disappear

[grim ore]

render transform is not the position. again the parent controls the layout

get the text -> slot as canvas panel -> set position

or get the text -> get th parent slot -> cast to canvas panel -> set position

[glad loom]

Oh that worked, thank you very much!

[plush yew]

@turbid vigil The brush size is the radius in centimeters. So 1 cm is gonna be near invisible.

but you probably figured that out already

[turbid vigil]

yea i figured i forgot

haha thanks for replying tho

[plush yew]

<3

[glacial wyvern]

Is migrating bluepints between projects possible? ive never managed to get it to work

[grim ore]

depends on the project but sure, look at marketplace assets

[lucid grove]

Hello everyone

What could be the reason that AI Move To succeed without succeed?

[still moat]

Well yes but sort of, but the moment it has structs it in, good luck. I only have bad experiences doing it with structs

[glacial wyvern]

they .uassets for the blueprints show up in the files, but unreal never recognizes them.

[lucid grove]

Im blocking NPC by my player character - its not moving and cant reach destination, but instead of return Failed it returns Succeed

[grim ore]

are you using the migrate option from one project to another and are the versions the same?

@lucid grove depending on the node failed means cannot find path, you might need to check the movement result and see what it says or compare distance when it's done

[lucid grove]

On movement result (im using AI Move TO) its showing me succees

[plush yew]

@glacial wyvern try validating your contents folder and fix up redirectors before migrating.

[karmic ermine]

any good ways to make a huge open world map without purchasing software?

[lunar sundial]

Ok I fixed the previous error but I'm getting this now?

[broken heath]

Whats a 2k image resolution Thats suitable for games

Like 2k common game resolution

[steady owl]

2048x2048

[broken heath]

And if it has width to it?

Not a square ? Is it a bad habit for texture not to be a square

[steady owl]

2048 x 1024

Should always be power of 2

[grim ore]

yep stick to power of 2 if you can, else power of 2 on the other side like ^^

[steady owl]

To support texture streaming / mipmaps

[broken heath]

Oh so 2048 x 1024

[grim ore]

yes but not if you can help it

pack another texture in there

[steady owl]

But in most cases square should be fine

Things like tall flipbooks or skyboxes may need non square textures

[broken heath]

great thanks , was gunna use google result , 2560 x 1440 but appearently these are tvs

[grim ore]

nope that is desktop resolution

[steady owl]

That would be actual display resolution

[grim ore]

that is "2k" desktop

[steady owl]

Look up texel density

The texture size is unrelated to the display resolution

[broken heath]

I think 2048 is 1024 is good to pack my hand made textures to

I mean they mostly not square so having additional 1024 would be a waste right?

Like 2048 x 1024 instead of 2048 x 2048

[grim ore]

its more issues for stuff like mip mapping and such but depending on what this is for you should be fine. In the end it probably won't matter as long as they are all power of 2 as best as you can on each side

[broken heath]

Extra question, why games use opacity masks instead of just an image with alpha

Is it because of file size ?

[grim ore]

#graphics would have that answer

[broken heath]

Alright thanks alot

[stiff sail]

i have 2 tree actors that i can set on fire and spread by toggling particle systems, and calling the next actors fire event.
thing is. i dont want to cast to tree1 cast fail cast to tree2. and write everything double. is there a way i could use a single, non level, event for 2+ actors?

[gleaming narwhal]

@spare kernel Asset Manager with Ben Zeigler on Feb 11th 🤘

[spare kernel]

Nice @gleaming narwhal !

[flat axle]

Adding an additive box brush results in a subtract brush being pulled out. It still reads additive, but it has the wrong appearance. Does anyone know how to fix or what is causing this?

found it if anyone has same issue, there is an order option. to first and to last

[plush yew]

is it possible to export the morph targets from character creator 3 for the body into unreal engine without some crazy slip slapped other programs

im not sure and having trouble finding the answer as im trying to make a character creation systems

[gaunt hawk]

hi guys. i know this might be a simple question but how can i install the windows SDK

[fierce forge]

how i can make the cube to have a different texture on every face ?

[marsh sparrow]

heya, does anyone have how you add plugins to your project via rider or vs?

[flat axle]

@fierce forge while its a Box brush you need to put a different material on every face, then convert it into a static mesh. Then you can change each individual side. If you are importing it from another program, you need to make sure it has those properties before export/import.

[plush yew]

It's the order of the brushes created. If you cut and paste the subtraction brush, it will influence the new add brush because it will be re-added to the end of the order

about your question for bsp brushes

*geometry brushes now

[fierce forge]

@flat axle it's the cube from ue4, at the material view

[flat axle]

There is a static mesh cube, and a box brush cube

[fierce forge]

ok, how i can resolve this, this is a procedural mesh ?

[plush yew]

if you drop a geometry box brush into the scene, it can have separate materials per face (not the cube mesh!)

oh hmm... you have to replace your procedural generators mesh with a new mesh

[fierce forge]

?

i really need a procedural mesh for the generation

[plush yew]

how is your procedural mesh building into the world? A instanced static mesh or the procedural mesh nodes?

[fierce forge]

it have the uv from the ue4 cube

procedural mesh

not instanced

[plush yew]

might have to build a material that projects to each axis

[fierce forge]

how ?

[plush yew]

but i might have something ready, hang on

[fierce forge]

ok

[plush yew]

probably a long wait, i haven't opened this project in about a year

[fierce forge]

ok

[plush yew]

the project is almost open, i swear

[fierce forge]

ok =]

[gloomy gull]

You add it to ur projects plugin folder, then turn it on in thre uproj file or editor, and then u add the module to ur build dependencies

You need to regenerate after that

After the first step I mean

[marsh sparrow]

thx.. im in the #plugin-dev room.. since I found that after the question.

[plush yew]

@fierce forge I couldn't find the material so I'm just creating a new one. Almost done anyways.

[fierce forge]

ok

[gaunt hawk]

quick question, would anyone know what games can easily be modded for a beginner to learn modding which are free.

idk if that made sense

[fierce forge]

@plush yew i have this UV variable , is something that i can make with this for the uv to work, like every side to have a texture ?

i did in blender

i have the uv in blender

@plush yew it's not a simple mesh, it's a procedural mesh

this :

it is using the default ue4 cube uv coords

[pastel yarrow]

Can anyone help me with inventory blueprint, I have an issue that duplicates the array each time I open the menu?

[fierce forge]

it's like a mc chunk

[pastel yarrow]

You would have to export the obj with the uv map, then apply the textre, cuz the default cube in ue4 doesn't have the uv maps that u want to apply

[fierce forge]

🤦

there's no obj or fbx

it's a chunk randomly generated

[pastel yarrow]

the issue is with the uv maps of the mesh that is randomly generated

[fierce forge]

it is from the uv coords

every "cube" have this

[pastel yarrow]

No idea, I only work with obj, and custom uv maps, I would import a cube from blender with the correct uvmaps and apply the random generator, instead of the default cube

[fierce forge]

i don't use the default cube

it's just a preview

[pastel yarrow]

Yeah xD, I am kinda lost too

[fierce forge]

ok, so this is a mesh generated

[karmic ermine]

any good open world generators, i cant affort the huge $100+ atm, but i heard there was some little ones

[fierce forge]

:/

very different

=/ for the default cube works a bit

i made*

but how ?

ik how to do this

[plush yew]

my solution is kind of crude, but just take the APUV_mat_Inst and drop that into the material slot. If you open up APUV_mat_Inst you can slot in different textures for each face

hang on have to zip file

should merge into your content folder

@fierce forge

[fierce forge]

ok

[plush yew]

looks like this

not working with a regular cube UV wrap lol

just flat textures

[pastel yarrow]

I dont use blender but you have to save the uv maps on the obj and export it to ue4

remember to use the 2nd channel

[fierce forge]

=[

[plush yew]

i didn't even think about regular cubes once i started

oh that's weird

what engine version are you workin in

[fierce forge]

4.26

[plush yew]

mmm, this is 4.25. I would think it could merge cleanly

[fierce forge]

it is working for a normal cube

[plush yew]

i can make a tweak and you can try again

[fierce forge]

ok

[plush yew]

Thanks bro but I fixed it now 🙂

[fierce forge]

I used the cube from blender and it is working in ue4

The thing is that is a procedural mesh and I don't know to fit the texture

And every face to have a different texture

[plush yew]

feels like a personal attack

[fierce forge]

?

Wdym ?

[plush yew]

ok tried to fix it

i mayyyyyyy have tried sending that without actually saving the assets in ue4

the first time

[fierce forge]

I don't use any cube

@plush yew

It's a procedural mesh

It's a mesh made with blueprints

[fierce forge]

tnx, I will try it

[plush yew]

the cube you're using in blender, just export that out, import to ue4, then use it in your procedural mesh

[fierce forge]

You can't use a mesh in a procedural mesh

You need to make it in bp

[plush yew]

eh i'm not fluent in procedural mesh

[fierce forge]

I'm not using a instanced mesh

[plush yew]

I thought maybe it was stamping from a designated mesh

if the content zip works for you, then hurray

[fierce forge]

I will try it tomorrow, tnx

[plush yew]

ok just @ me if there's trouble

[fierce forge]

Ok

[wanton lotus]

Why have there been so many people lately trying to recreate minecraft or minecraft-like games? Always having trouble with some basic stuff too. Just use the free voxel plugin and set the render mode to "cubic" and you have minecraft in 10 seconds.

[fierce forge]

That's not what I want

And the free voxel plugin need c++ knowledge

[wanton lotus]

No need C++ knowledge, heh. It is as simple as using the landscape tool.

[fierce forge]

I want random generation

With chunks

[wanton lotus]

It does all that already. Leaps and bounds ahead of where you might get to in a year.

[fierce forge]

I made the random the generation, the chunks but I have this problem

[wanton lotus]

No point recreating the wheel.

[fierce forge]

?

[graceful leaf]

How do I install an Xcode thingy for unreal???

[wanton lotus]

Just check it out, it can do what you want more than likely. There are countless videos demonstrating all the different things it can generate, without C++ knowledge.

[graceful leaf]

Plz help

[wanton lotus]

Voxel Graphs are what can generate your random worlds, from infinite worlds to planets.

[graceful leaf]

Plzzzzz

Can any big brain mods help plz

[wanton lotus]

Your question is not a very common one, be patient.

[graceful leaf]

Sorry

[fierce forge]

Also it's limited

Like I can't add foliage

[wanton lotus]

That would be when you fork over the cash to get the pro version.

[fierce forge]

It's too much 300$

I'm a teenager and I get only 30$ a month

[graceful leaf]

Isn’t folage free in the collection part?

[wanton lotus]

Probably means you can't use the foliage painting tool with the voxel plugin, but it also won't work on procedural meshes.

[midnight escarp]

hey guys

i have noticed that when i import some normal map textures in to unreal, it automatically adjusts the compression settings to normal map. Does anyone know how Unreal knows whats a normal map and what isnt?

[pseudo pulsar]

Anyone know much about Texture2DArrays? I can't seem to find much info on the documentation for em.

[graceful leaf]

I fixed my problem. It was on the App Store 😂😂😂

[plush yew]

This exact setup is how I've done smooth progress bars and in 4.26 it's not working any ideas why? Do bound functions tick differently or st now?

apparently using a local variable is the problem not sure why

[wanton lotus]

Get rid of the local variable and instead for "Current" get the current value of your progress bar.

[plush yew]

yeah the code looks exactly the same I just used a regular variable instead of a local one, why did making the switch to local cause this issue?

[wanton lotus]

Because that local variable will be reset to default for every instance that is called "every tick"

You don't even need to store it in a separate variable though. Your progress bar's "value" is already the variable storing it.

The return node is essentially the set node for your progress bar's value.

[plush yew]

this seems like it would work but it doesnt. Even when I set the percent the bar still doesnt fill smoothly

[wanton lotus]

That is odd, that definitely should work.

[plush yew]

yeah it made sense to me I was excited to have a more optimal bar setup but its not working. its in my notes though maybe someone in the future will know whats up

[wanton lotus]

Oh well, another variable doesn't hurt much except maybe a few bytes, hehe.

[plush yew]

Hello, I'm pretty new to Unreal. I'm trying to make a Ammo bar where it changes color from blue to red when it reaches to 12 from 30. How do I do in this.

yeah I think of all the optimizations I've scraped for this one is one of the smallest but it's still gonna bug me now. It's more optimal to directly set HUD variables through code too, right? Like right now I have color bound to a variable so I assume that every tick it's checking the value of that variable whereas I could have it setup in my main code to just change the color at a certain trheshold

@plush yew I just set this up on my end for my stamina bar color

do you want the color to be gradual or instant?

Anything is fine for me, just do it for my project.

[wanton lotus]

Yeah, those bindings run every tick and check even when there is no change. Everyone in the #umg channel would be screaming at you for even using it, hehe. Event-driven is usually best, then you can use a timer/timeline to interp the progress bar smoothly.

[plush yew]

under bar color you can bind a new function and just do some offshoot of what I have in my screenshot there. Except I also just asked a question about the optimization of my approach

Sick I'll switch it over to be event driven. I've done it before but I haven't worked in UE4 since 4.26 came out so I'm a little rusty

[wicked fjord]

is it possible to print out the blueprint to PDF?

or to physical printer/plotter?

[fierce forge]

@plush yew i actually resolved it with the same material, tnx anyway

[stoic vapor]

Hello, I'm really new to unreal engine, is there a seperate channel for network replication?

[coarse turtle]

Is there anyway to apply weightmaps after importing the tiles?

[warped sluice]

how do you get the new water to work? I drag the lake onto the landscape but nothing happens

just no water at all, nothing

[coarse turtle]

When you create your landscape, make sure you check Edit Layers.

The water body with splines such as ocean, lake, you need to reset their location to 0.

[formal needle]

anyone know how to fix this?

[warped sluice]

ah okay. I had to re import the landscape, now it works

i dont think this is correct though xD

[hoary holly]

I want my texture to rotate, but this is occuring, anyone know how to fix?

[timber tulip]

Seems like it's trying to tile itself

If it's in 2D, just pull out one sprite and rotate that instead of a texture I'd say.

Unless I don't understand what's going on here.

oh, nvm

ignore that, I thought it was Unity. Don't know enough about UE to help ya there

[hoary holly]

Haha, it's all good. Thanks for the attempt though!

[plush yew]

What do you mean texture? To me that looks like an image inside of a widget

[hoary holly]

Yes, it's a material inside of a widget

[plush yew]

Well, thats going to be a little tough to be honest, if you want to rotate an image in the widget dont use a material for it, on the bottom of the widget bo there should be animations

And if its only for the material you have to do all that in the material not widgets @hoary holly

Thus why it might be tilling in the widget

[stark ledge]

Rotate the widget not the texture?

otherwise you will have to setup a circle mask in the material

[plush yew]

you mean image right? i dont think you can rotate a widget, but you can animate the image inside of the widget just add a keyframe at 0 then at whatever frame add another keyframe and add the rotation to that make it so it loops as well, then there you go, its an animation not anything else, and in the material you will have to do something different but i dont think it would show in the widget

[stark ledge]

ok I don't really know UI side of things sorry. WidgetTransform . Angle looks like it should work though.

[plush yew]

its all good, and yeah it should but what it looks like he wanted to use a material instead which to me doesn't really make sense

[hoary holly]

That's just the only way I knew, since there's a rotating feature in the material editor

[plush yew]

Hi guys! How to delete the first index from an array each tick until the last one?

[plush yew]

yeah sorry if i was being rude, but its best to just rotate the image in a widget instead of the material, the material is more used for objects not widgets unless you want to add a camera thingy for the material for like a mini map etc, but again its best just to animate the image in the widget

[hoary holly]

I’ll try it in the morning! Thanks

[broken heath]

Isnt there a remove index node ?

[plush yew]

yes but I want for instance to delete - 0 index, 1 index, 2,3,4....

[thin urchin]

Does anyone know how to package just the contents of a content only plugin you've made yourself?

[plush yew]

im not sure but youll probably have more luck in #packaging

[broken heath]

Hmm maybe set first index as a variable then - 1 each tick then bolean if length = 0 , stop

Not sure if that would do what u want, but just giving ideas

[plush yew]

I came up with this.I does not delete but work to me

[broken heath]

Great

[fierce summit]

Hey fellow peoples,
Does anyone knows when the chaos destruction will be available without building the engine? I saw something about it for the 4.26 but then in the patchnote it still says i need to build it

[keen mauve]

hello again fellow humans, newby question, how do i get rid of the lighting needs to be rebuilt in my game builds i build lighting only on production settings but once the game is built and i start the EXE i get that error again

[plush yew]

anyone having this problem?

[keen mauve]

i too am human 😛

i am using an InstancedStaticMeshComponent and some perlin noise to generate a map of 2d cubes when the game starts i dont konw if that has something to do with it

nvm thanks for the help 🙂

[silver crown]

Humans everywhere, it's crazy

[keen mauve]

i changed my map generator from static to stationary

[silver crown]

it is already

[keen mauve]

and the lighting issue vanished

[silver crown]

check the launcher

[fierce summit]

oh thanks ill check it out

[fierce summit]

if that's the center of the skybox there is probably a problem with the texture i think

[fierce tulip]

@hoary holly just set the texture to clamp. done.

[sly goblet]

Hello everyone! Has anyone tried Chaos vehicle? If yes, please tell your opinion? And, in chaos vehicle has been fixed this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMFrQ1gjx4o

[hoary holly]

@fierce tulip Thank you!

[honest vale]

@plush yew you just need to make your own sky cloud material

the default one is like that

at least on my end 😄

[teal tulip]

@sly goblet that video is from 8 days ago, there wasn't any update on it or even was officially released what you exactly expect ? That error is on physx too, to get proper vehicles you end faster getting a marketplace solution or making your own vehicle solution

[fathom heath]

I've been having a problem with unreal engine for a while on macs and today using quartz debugger I found it is updating the ui constantly. This is what I'm attibuting to the multiple second lag of mouse input within the blueprint editor (I'd assume there'd be lag within the viewport but having similar if not worse lag within the editor was an unfortunate surprise. I've attempted what I can to increase speeds and reduce lag, but to no avail. Any ideas?

[novel rose]

Does anyone know a more up to date solution for this issue? https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/33049/view.html I've been searching forums everywhere but there doesnt seem to be a fix

[sly goblet]

I meant is this PhysX strange solution fixed in chaos physics, not about when new chaos will fix that. And I understood your answer that chaos physics have this strange solution too?
Could you give me an advice to make car physics without this "bug"?
Sorry for bad english

[teal tulip]

you need to use sphereical traces from what I know, but is kinda complex you have to rety all by your own or edit the engine, if I remember correctly physx had a variable to change the wheels size but no idea abou chaos

you will end faster getting some marketplace item

and learning from it

or looking for a online guide about custom vehicle physics

[fathom heath]

I'm talking lag in the dozens of seconds. The engine responds, the mouse just takes its time

[fierce tulip]

might be better to post such things on the forums imho. better chance a ue4 dev might spot the post and take a look at it

[native tulip]

hello, how do i make ico files from png files?

[sly goblet]

ok, thanks

[silent oxide]

Heya was hoping someone might be able to help me understand. What does an owning actor mean? Is that a parent actor?

[teal tulip]

is the actor that spawned it or own it or control it on the game isn't the parent

could be but

[silent oxide]

Thank you!

[fathom heath]

use an online conversion tool

[native tulip]

theyre safe? @fathom heath

[fathom heath]

https://cloudconvert.com/ico-to-png

[native tulip]

thx

[fathom heath]

just want to bump this

[plush yew]

Has anyone tried to use the Export LOD option in realitycapture and import it to Unreal ?

[lucid grove]

Heya. Is there a way to force pawn ignore self navigation collision? It seems like a good way to made other characters avoid each other, but when you enable this option characters starts to struggle move on their own location cause they blocking them self.

I didnt like RVOAvoidance, so thats not the way

[thorny perch]

for testing purposes, can a server be packaged to run on a raspberry pi?

[wary wave]

not out of the box

[thorny perch]

thinking a good linuxdist and packing it for it

or maybe getting a cheapo chinese nuc is a better way? 🙂

can be had quite cheap with i5 and up

[pseudo yew]

ey guys, when I import my character from maya to unreal, I think I have everything done correctly but in unreal, my character's skeleton doesnt have the bones, only the mesh. As you can see, in Maya I also include the bones. Someone please help this sweaty kid

[balmy rain]

hey all, I´m having some trouble packaging my game for testing. When I package it, the level supposed to load doesn´t load. I tried checking "cook all". Also putting the levels in the include maps list doesn´t help. Its working fine in Editor and standalone mode... Any Ideas? Using Engine version 4.26

[fallen flower]

@balmy rain I assume you set it in Maps&Modes?

[balmy rain]

yes I did. Set my MainMenu Level as DEfault. But also tested setting my main level as default. Neither of it works unf...

Also not working with version 4.23... im trying to build a completely fresh project with both versions and see if this works...

[austere scroll]

Im trying to install the latest version but... this happened , i waited 10 minutes but nothing changed

[warm fractal]

hey, could someone give any help? my project crashes everytime I try to open my sequencer and the final line from crash log is
LogMovieScene: Warning: Removing null section from /Game/Phinx_Seq.Phinx_Seq:MovieScene_0.MovieSceneSkeletalAnimationTrack_19:Animation

[lucid grove]

Why some materials have this strange reaction to light? At evening small amount of my meshes have this "white" effect on them, like they have own brightness.

But whole scene looks ok, just those plants

sometimes i encounter some small meshes with same problem

[wanton lotus]

How in the hell did my project generate nearly 5gb of logs? Time to clean up some of this auto-generated crap.

[light thunder]

Wait till you discover the shader cache on your Users folder for all your deleted projects...that's a fun one

[wanton lotus]

AppData cache stuff? I hope it is in there since I got that stored on my external 😁

[light thunder]

Yep it's in local or roaming but yeah, I remember finding like 30 gb worth at one point

[wanton lotus]

I just symlinked that crap long ago, hehe.

[light thunder]

tricky part is I remember deleting it all and then when I opened up my project I had to recompile everything

[fierce summit]

i have installed 4.26 and all the necessary plugins but the fracture mode doesnt appear in my mode menu, anyone can help?

[light thunder]

let me be redundant and ask that you did enable them and restart right ?

[fierce summit]

yep

well just the editor

i see there is a little caution sign "beta" next to the plugin, should i enable beta features someewhere?

[zenith pebble]

Make sure that you go into the plugin settings and enable that they pop up on the menu bar

that same thing just caused me a whole lotta grief

[sly glade]

hello all - has there been some sort of change to the lighting between 4.24 and 4.26 ? (could be 4.25 too, just never used it). The same project seems just a bit brighter overall on 4.26.

[west jay]

Can anyone help me add flying, so that when I fly stamina also drains?

[sly glade]

(and that's not autoexposure as I have it off)

[dim remnant]

Greetings all.

[zenith pebble]

I've got an issue attempting to get Multi-User Editing to work, my friend and I are trying to work on a project simultaneously and are connected to the same VPN network and have both installed the plugin, but when I go to the session browser, I cannot view his session. The whole multi-user editing thing is rather confusing, can anyone help me?

[zenith pebble]

Hello

[fierce summit]

where are those plugin settings?

[zenith pebble]

Go to project settings > plugins > the plugin you are working with specifically > Enable Toolbar Button

[fierce summit]

oh well none of the chaos stuff appears there

[west jay]

omg i did by myself

nvm its bugged

how can I make it so a keyboard input cant be used if a boolean is set to true?

and then reuse it when that boolean is false

[fierce summit]

put a condition around the task that your input has to perform

[west jay]

with a sequence?

[tough pagoda]

The best explaining of unreal components.

[west jay]

for now I dont understand anything there

but thanks

[tough pagoda]

This is not a response for your question.

[west jay]

ik

[tough pagoda]

:3

[west jay]

i still dont understand anything

[tough pagoda]

What exactly?

[west jay]

why is there an order for things?

[tough pagoda]

Where? On the picture?

[west jay]

yeah

that implies thats how everything is supposed to go

in that order

and the component stuff

[grim ore]

hierarchy, not order

[tough pagoda]

This is the hierarchy of engine components and how they interact.

[west jay]

oh

[tough pagoda]

What need to do for, example, change actor location.

And so on.

[west jay]

hope ill get the hang of it

[tough pagoda]

Just learn useful stuff from tutorials.

Try to do something.

[west jay]

yeah im doing something

the problem is my something doesnt have a tutorial

[tough pagoda]

On Matthew's youtube channel you can find totorials about nodes and hot to interact.

[dim remnant]

I'm just starting out too so this discord is useful. Trying to get my head around 'next steps' once map is built but also need to continue to learn more about UE4, etc. Fun journey.

Is the Learn section pretty decent for UE4 or better on YouTube series from others?

[tough pagoda]

MultiSphereTraceByChannel. How to use and how is this working.

[rotund jacinth]

We recently moved our game to 4.26 (VR and desktop play). In 4.26 when we launch the game with -nohmd it crashes. Launching the game manually without that argument it runs normally. Did something change here?

[plush yew]

stuck with some issue there. I have a point light and rewind ability that spawns my copy and does exact what I did. everything works fine except a button press. I store it as everything - in an array. but as I pressed it - it stays pressed (cuz the last index has been set to true)and I can just come up to the point light and it automatically turns on 🙂 how to built the logic the way it will respond only when I press the button?

[tough pagoda]

We dunno your bps.

Debug.

Watch variable.

Debugging is your friend.

You can watch at variable value.

[boreal crown]

Has anyone tried playing ShooterGame with 4.26? There seems to be missing sounds, like footsteps. They're not even in the project anymore.

[tough pagoda]

ShooterGame. Your mean pre-made epic's project?

[boreal crown]

Mhm

Just downloaded it fresh.

[tough pagoda]

Project has only fire sound.

I don't like this sound, very loud.

[light thunder]

So why is this metal material so dark in my scene?

[wanton lotus]

lower its volume

[tough pagoda]

I know.

[rotund jacinth]

@light thunder Just looks like lighting to me

[tough pagoda]

Scene's lightning because?

[rotund jacinth]

everything is darker, look at the blue of the truck

much less light

likely your sidewalk albedo is too bright

[light thunder]

what would my sidewalk have to do with it? when I move it throughout the scene (away from the sidewalk) it doesn't seem to change

[rotund jacinth]

If your sidewalk albedo is too bright, and you adjusted your lighting so the sidewalk appeared correct, everything else is under lit

[boreal crown]

You're experiencing it too?

[tough pagoda]

This is pre-made project.

If I understand correctly your message.

[west jay]

Ok guys so here is my problem:
I have a stamina code that removes stamina when there is z x and y input and shift is pressed. I hooked up my flying script to it. Now it does remove stamina when flying is enabled, problem is when I press shift it doesnt count anymore, so how do I disable shift key when flying?

[boreal crown]

Yes, it's an Epic premade project. However in earlier versions (like 4.23) it has things like footstep sounds and breathing sounds

But in 4.26 they are missing

[tough pagoda]

Yes. I don't have any sounds. Only fire sound.

It's okay.

[grim juniper]

Probably little to no reflections

[tough pagoda]

Bruh...

[light thunder]

You mean reflection captures?

[grim juniper]

That'd be my guess

[rotund jacinth]

doesn't unreal engine have a material/lighting test object in the engine content?

[grim ore]

@west jay you wouldnt disable it, you would just ignore anything that happens when you press shift when flying. you can check for if you are flying after the shift event and do nothing if that is the goal

[rotund jacinth]

@light thunder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyq11xOp-B4

[light thunder]

oooo that looks helpful, thank you@

[west jay]

do I have to make a special boolean for that?

[rotund jacinth]

i didn't watch the vid but the setup in the pic looks good

[tough pagoda]

Just little time for googling man.

Just google and you will find so many useful stuff.

Really.

[west jay]

like this?

Yep, it works. Thank you

Although I do not understand. How does naming a boolean Ignore Input... work? its just something i randomly named. how does it know what to do

[grim ore]

you should have set up that boolean somewhere. How do you know you are flying?

[west jay]

isFlying, i set it up

[grim ore]

there you go

[west jay]

on the other hand, Ignore Input, I did nothing but hook it in the scrip

how does it know what to do

[grim ore]

how does what know what to do? ignore input?

[west jay]

yeah

how does it just ignore input

if i call it that

[grim ore]

it doesnt, that node does nothing

[west jay]

i see

oooh

so it just sends it to do nothing

thats all

[grim ore]

yes, that entire branch after the is flying? true does nothing

[west jay]

thats so cool

[grim ore]

input in -> is flying? if true then check for ignore input -> if true OR false do nothing

[west jay]

yeah, i did the same on "released"

and now it works like a charm

[grim ore]

shouldnt need to do anything other than the check for is flying on pressing shift

[west jay]

It checks when it is pressed, but it also checks when relesead

[grim ore]

ok

[lusty carbon]

Anyone ever had this crazy bug? Happens when I change map and go back to main map

[plush yew]

Guys how to record buttons I pressed (turn light on/off) for a spawned player character? It's gonna be my clone and it repeats what I've just done.

in my case I store booleans on an array and it turns on/off based on the last index, but I want my clone to turn the light only when I pressed it

[wary wave]

you'll need to start tracking timestamps

[shut minnow]

Anyone run into the problem of the blueprint right click not working, or it flashes up then a sec later goes out

Or the whole editor going black?

[west jay]

so ived managed to implement a new function into the code

feels good

now when I run out of stamina my character stop flying

[shut minnow]

Im on 4.25.2 @left plinth But yeah, I did a few restarts. It's getting annoying

[sonic glacier]

my dpi scaling is broken suddenly:

but not in the whole editor

[latent pivot]

sup. im pretty sure im doing something obviously wrong, so this should be a simple question. i've got some textures hooked up to a layer blend, and everything seems to be wired correctly. however when i go to preview the landscape texture, this is what i see:

heres the material

[latent pivot]

i needed to add some layer info

[next badger]

@hoary holly if you still not fixed the issue of rotation, you need to chnage the tiling settings in the texture from wrap to clamp

[dusky dawn]

hello guys i've been looking for a course for multiplayer production over unreal engine 4 for a long time, does anyone know a good course for it

I prefer to be from youtube

[latent pivot]

you'll need to pay for good courses. udemy has great unreal courses. they have a sale today, ends today (but they have sales very often)

[fierce tulip]

<_< guess you havent been on udemy a lot

they always have a sale

if you reset your cookies, the sale timer resets

because its fake

udemy sales is a hoax

[sonic glacier]

Any idea how i can fix this: https://youtu.be/4QK8HEJn2o0

(only in 4.26)

[short oar]

My ue4.26 only uses 20% gpu

anyway to fix it?

[grim ore]

when doing what? @short oar

[warm vector]

crap did not coppy screenshots

guys anyone using 4.26 and using the partical emitter ? im having troubles where its like verry dark. and lit mode is on
in wireframe i see this and in lit i see nothing 😒

[latent pivot]

yea, you might be right. but they have a lot of good content for very cheap

[wanton lotus]

Haha, reminds me of those penny bidding websites where you pay 75 cents to $1 per bid and the price of the auction goes up 1 cent and has a very short timer. You know those sites have gotta be "fake bidding" when the timer is about to expire and the price or bids accumulated still haven't reached a profitable threshold.

[inland aurora]

how do I fix this

[short oar]

Just playing the game in the editor, and it goes under 60 FPS

[grim ore]

it might be related to CPU usage causing that more than GPU at that point

[short oar]

my CPU is only at 17% usage

[grim ore]

uncap the frame rate then to see what its actually getting. t.maxfps 300 in the console and see what happens

[short oar]

I did that but still the same issue

[grim ore]

so even uncapped its getting uunder 60?

[short oar]

yes

[wanton lotus]

Try testing in standalone? Maybe a packaged version.

[grim ore]

sounds like project then, does a new level with just the floor get under 60?

[short oar]

no

[grim ore]

plus 17% cpu use isnt abnormal if you have multiple cores

[static merlin]

hello

[wanton lotus]

I just tested roughly 100 AI in game, all running some basic behavior tree to move and find/attack player, and I never went above 30% CPU usage.

[static merlin]

is there a channel where i can ask about water ?

[hot thistle]

Tap or bottle?

[static merlin]

or can i do it here too ?

i mean water like putting it in an area

[hot thistle]

Yea I know, sorry, bad joke

[static merlin]

no worrys it was funny

[wanton lotus]

#niagara falls is water, but that isn't the right channel for you.

Maybe, #level-design

[hot thistle]

You can ask here I guess, depending on your question is technical or graphical

[wanton lotus]

Or just ask here

[static merlin]

cause i have an area where i want there to be fluid but i dont understand how i can do that

?

[inland aurora]

I loaded my ue4, now I have problem with launching the project, I don't have local windows debugger

[modest agate]

hello and excuse me, I have created a Main Title menu before my game starts but when I click on Start Game all inputs are disabled and my character wont move nor can shoot

How can I fix that?

[plush yew]

hey guys

i enabled ray tracing

and i'm waiting for a long time

[grim ore]

@modest agate did you disable the input at all?

[plush yew]

for oppening it

[inland aurora]

so you remove the widget, the hud is still open

[grim ore]

@plush yew wait longer, it has to compile all the shaders

[plush yew]

okay

[modest agate]

so, I removed the widget but not the HUD, how I disable the HUD?

[inland aurora]

now that I saw ur code, I dont think it matters, but u do have set input mode ui only

u need to change it to game

[modest agate]

Set Input Mode Game?

[inland aurora]

it will be called something like that yeah

[modest agate]

oh, it works now

thank you!

[lusty carbon]

anyone ever had artifacts like these?

when switching maps

[inland aurora]

@plush yew then navmesh needs to be rebuilt

I have no idea what I am looking at @lusty carbon

I would imagine it's loading something, or you have draw distance low

is it fixed after few seconds

[lusty carbon]

It's turning my level into a mess. and no it's not fixed

[inland aurora]

and when you load it again, it's fixed?

you move levels in the gameplay? @plush yew

[upper heart]

Is there a console command to check input latency?

[inland aurora]

well, I think of 2 things then, maybe you need to open dynamic nav mesh, or u haven't set up a controller to the ai

most likely the second

recheck it -_-

debug your game -_-

@upper heart Ginputlatencytime? dont remember the name

[upper heart]

That is a variable yeah

Is there not a console command to view it like any other stat?

[winter gale]

https://cutt.ly/ue4-tip-105

[inland aurora]

I don't think I ever saw a console command that shows you lag on input, even when there was problems with ue4 and input lag

[hot thistle]

So I've worked on this for about a year, then took a year break cuz of life, but I want to start it up again.
Tho I am changing engine from RPG Maker to Unreal Engine 4, RM can't really climb to where I want it to be.
Does anybody have any tips / tricks for how I can remake this in Unreal properly? There really is a lack of 2d side-battling demos and tutorials.
https://www.deviantart.com/hermanjarl/art/Short-Battle-Preview-813002413

[boreal crown]

So in ShooterGame, Epics downloadable project, when you jump occasionally when you land the landing sound is played twice, and i cannot for the life of me find out why. Any ideas?

[ocean grove]

Do you bounce?

[boreal crown]

Nope, and this only occurs in my 4.26 version, not my 4.23 version.

This happens when im standing still and jumping on a flat surface.

[ocean grove]

Does it show it playing twice in debug?

I'm super new to UE so I'm probably the worst person to try and help you.

[boreal crown]

If i add a animnotify with a "jumpland" notification, it does show that it's landing twice when the sound plays twice.

otherwise it's just once

[ocean grove]

Wonder if its a physics thing?

[plush yew]

water body river.... any fix?

[rocky radish]

you need to set up editable layers in your landscape for the water system to work

[plush yew]

@rocky radish you mean this? if yes it was already ticked

[rocky radish]

you need to add the WaterBrushManager to one of the layers in your landscape

right click on the layer->add and select the brush manager that was created when you dragged the river to your level

@plush yew

[plush yew]

Oh yea I was trying to figure it out myself, it works now thx

[celest vapor]

How would I get the physics asset from a mesh from a character mesh?

[plush yew]

anyone here use unreal on linux and if so how does it fare?

[wanton lotus]

Lemme go check..... boots up the old linux server, remotes into windows machine with unreal installed.....
Works like a charm!

[plush yew]

lol

[wanton lotus]

On a more serious note. I am also wondering the same thing.

[rocky radish]

np

[plush yew]

its the one thing that stops me from ditching windows tbh, majority of the apps i use already work on linux etc

[thick herald]

I know a guy who works with Linux, seems okay.

plugins on the other hand... 😄

[plush yew]

how so?

just third party?

[wanton lotus]

I'd assume all the default engine plugins should work, but marketplace plugins, even if they say linux compatible, may run into problems.

[boreal crown]

Restarting the editor fixed my problem, annoying.

nvm, it's still playing the double landing

super annoying

[plush yew]

hi guys

i want to make :

when player touch the chair

the wood sound will play

[narrow mauve]

dafook...my player is in T Pose when play testing but the blueprint has him in his idel animatione

[glacial wyvern]

anyone know some nice free or cheap idle animations or poses for the ue4 skeleton?

[cerulean coral]

https://www.mixamo.com/#/?page=1&query=idle&type=Motion%2CMotionPack

Mixamo?

[plush yew]

?

[latent pivot]

any ideas why my character is not dropping a shadow?

i've got cast dynamic shadows on in the light source

[plush yew]

i believe shadows don't render when using ortho camera

[glacial wyvern]

for some reason buffer visualisation has messed up the lighiting in my scene

Just making a scene to showcase work and i want a black background, which is was before i checked through a couple of the buffer visualisations

and once i put it back to final image the backgound is now grey

really weird

[plush yew]

is anyone another around who's familiar with chaos detruction/psyiques systems in unreal engine

i have a question about the limitations of meshes or objects that said destruction can be applied to D:

[latent pivot]

thanks

[narrow plaza]

Unreal Engine is so much fun that it actually made me switch my main PC from Linux to Windows so I could use UE properly. My main concern was me not knowing soo many things and not wanting to deal with Linux incompatibilities on top of that. As I get better at UE I will definitely try the Linux version in the future.

[narrow jungle]

Hello! is this the right channel to ask for some unreal help?

[grim ore]

it's the general channel for general talk and general help about unreal engine

[narrow plaza]

On your chair properties, create an event 'On Hit'. This will create an event when (anything) hits the chair. From their, drag out and choose Play Sound 2D and you can choose a sound Cue to play

[soft kernel]

Hi all,

I'm really not sure where to post this, so I'm trying here.

I'm stuck in a project because of this chainlink.

UE 4.25.

I need to animate it like in this Inventor video.
https://youtu.be/3vyYLz1HvZ8?t=457

Every chain link is a single mesh in UE.

How would you guys progress here?

Is there a way to make this animation in Unreal or do I have to use an external program like Blender (alembic animation) ?

Thank you all in advance for suggestions/help.

[hidden sparrow]

Hey, how do I make my screen slowly turn black when I interact with something. Does anyone have an idea?

[grim ore]

you can use the camera fade nodes, or you can add a UI element over the screen and fade it to black

[quaint halo]

Anybody ever used https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/serpent-weapons?

[hidden sparrow]

Thanks, it worked

[sick escarp]

Anyone know if it's possible to represent a map through csv to import to a data table?

[grim ore]

yes and you can see how yourself if you want. make your struct, make your data table with some test data, right click it and at the top export out to CSV

for example ---,MemberVar_0,MemberVar_1,MemberVar_2 NewRow,"True","Test String","((1, ""Test1""),(2, ""Test2""),(0, ""Test0""))" NewRow_0,"False","Another String","((1, ""Map1""),(0, ""Map0""))"

the "((1, ""Test1""),(2, ""Test2""),(0, ""Test0""))" part is a map of int:string with 3 entries

[narrow jungle]

So I’ve been trying to import some UDIM textures, but the moment I bring the textures into the shader graph, unreal will freeze and crash. Ive completely removed the program and redownloaded everything but still get the same problem. Virtual textures are turned on in the settings, and ive tried different ways of assigning the udim textures but nothing works

Here's a video of the problem

[grim ore]

have you tried creating the texture sample node in the material, then selecting the texture from the drop down list in the details? not drag/drop

ugh and its osx so can't be much help debugging

[narrow jungle]

yeah mac really sucks buuuut it was free so ill take what i can get lol. And nope, lemme try that!

still crashes

[clear patrol]

No wonder I never see renders with actual characters because rigging them for UE4 is a pain

[gaunt hawk]

idk if this is a beginner question but is there a way to change the icons sizes?

[narrow mauve]

Anyone know what would cause a character to be stuck in a TPOSE? The animation BP looks fine and the character is in Idle...but when I play in editor hes just stuck in T Pose

[wanton lotus]

Did you set your mesh to use the animBP?

If that isn't it, confirm you chose the correct mesh. There could be a duplicate that uses a different skeleton.

[latent pivot]

sup. so the skeleton for a model that i have doesn't match an animation set that i bought. what tools can i use to retarget the bones?

[fierce tulip]

@latent pivot please dont cross-post questions in multiple channels. thanksies :)

[hardy granite]

oof it take so long

[pine pecan]

should i use UE4 4.25 or 4.26?

[weary basalt]

@unique kraken This isnt #ue4-general related, please post in #lounge

[unique kraken]

uh sure, i dont see why its not but k

[weary basalt]

Where does the code come from?

Is it a Shader?

[unique kraken]

from unity i guess and i want to understand and use it it unreal

dont see how thats not unreal related

[weary basalt]

Well specify that next time, you just posted random code from an engine that isnt UE...

lol

[unique kraken]

i asked for help understanding the code

[weary basalt]

Post the image again here, sorry for the confusion.

[unique kraken]

well as usual

trash discrod rly

[weary basalt]

...

[unique kraken]

not unexpected

[weary basalt]

Unfortunate that you think that given you werent specific enough...

[unique kraken]

i wanted to understand code, doesnt matter where its from, ofc i want to use it in ue4.
my god i see this for the dozenst time now a mod nit picking stuff like that

u know what

bbye

[weary basalt]

Cya

[unique kraken]

guess im going to ask in the unity discord, can be much worse of a discord then here

[weary basalt]

Ok we get it you dont like this Discord, leave if you arent happy or move on.

[narrow jungle]

Alrighty! forget udims! After much research I realized udims aren't great for games. So. If I have a mesh that is using the uv spaces 0,1 and 0,2, how do I assign a material to each channel? I connected a texcoord to my texture's uv and changed the coordinate index but it doesn't apply the texture to the second uv space

Excuse my unreal stupidity, I'm a film/animation guy struggling to get into unreal since film companies are starting to use it more 😭

[rancid lynx]

Is there a way to Disable Depenetration push from an actors static mesh ? Setting it to 0.0 sets it to full power default. .000001 basically works, but its still a little slippery.

[narrow jungle]

blagh, but i cant even use udims in unreal cause it always crashes

I just dont want to go back into maya, fix all of my uv's to only use 0,1 space, and re-texture 30+ models

[midnight root]

gah, how do I , to make it faster, easier, move character ( not where it should be) to clicked point on terrain, is there a way must be....? sigh

not in game, in editor

[narrow jungle]

Nah i have virtual textures turned on, yet it never works (i posted a video higher up in this chat showing the problem)

[plush yew]

for some reason my camera is stuck here and I have no idea how to get it back, any help? Thanks.

Is there a keybind set to this?

[spare kernel]

@plush yew that is a glitch in the editor, if you get it next time, resizing the viewport sometimes fixes it

basically its stuck on a drag and drop command

[narrow plaza]

Is there a built in function in Blueprints Array > String? (I have an Array of strings and want a comma separated string from all).

[spare kernel]

not built in as such no

[narrow plaza]

found it! - it is Join String Array (does the trick for me in my case)

[spare kernel]

ah damn i forgot about that

i do all string stuff in c++, cause i find it messy in BP

[narrow plaza]

yes, the low level stuff in BP is often overly tricky - but then I hate writing a function only to find a built in later on 🙂

[icy egret]

Someone I need help
Does someone know where is"how to make a system that player can shoot over the obstacles" tutorial?

I want to make hybrid cover system that use both cover and crouch

[spare kernel]

that is very game specific, there might be some YouTube tutorials

you want Cover firing in UE4

i personally have never seen one, it would be something i would implement myself

[icy egret]

I just need system that player can ride up (not vault, just match player's height) if there are obstacles, and shoot

[narrow plaza]

It might be easier to start with the standard FPS system and get that working first. Once you understand that, you can add the cover fire stuff later (a standard FPS will have bullets blocked by obstacles by default usually)

[icy egret]

sorry, it's TPS

[spare kernel]

yeah even so

[icy egret]

can even so?

[spare kernel]

when you aim the gun, you need to check for collisions

and adjust the players height

most cover walls in games are the same height

just tall enough to cover the hitbox

[icy egret]

I can imagine the system, but I can't make it
Should I do in AnimBP?

[spare kernel]

ideally, the easiest way is player knows they are behind an obstacle and crouching (some kinda of detection

then when you aim, you know you need to adjust, this will require some logic and some Animations for the correct height

ie either lift the hands up when firing

or life the body up

lift*

[icy egret]

yes, but I dk how to lift up
two bone IK? transform?

or something?

[spare kernel]

i would use a custom animation if all walls are the same height

otherwise the IK stuff will be quite a lot

[icy egret]

ummm

so, it'll be too complex?

[spare kernel]

as you would also need to rotate the mesh to aim properly, then you also need to deal with aim offsets whilst aiming the gune

[icy egret]

oh my mind find more easier way!
when crouching and you are near by obstacle, character will just stand up
it'll be easier and nice, won't it?

[meager frigate]

maan i wanna use the newer versions of unreal but anything after 4.24 crashes on me after a couple minutes. Only thing I could find was ray tracing might be causing but I've tried new projects with it turned off. Anyone heard of 4.25 and 4.26 crashing constantly for anyone?