ue4-general

[narrow mauve]

I did dabble in procedural geometry

to some minor effect....but it is far beyond my capabilities to get anything like this

[autumn grail]

is there a water swim volume integrated into the 4.26 water brushes?

[gritty spoke]

thanks

[kindred viper]

@narrow mauve is there any reason you are not using the volumetric cloud system?

I mean that looks like a nice cloud and all so I can see why you would for a specific look, but I wonder if its good enough to replicate it

[lilac wren]

@grim ore how do I add the ai to use the behavior tree and make it active

[grim ore]

you use the run behaviour tree node on the AI controller https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/ArtificialIntelligence/BehaviorTrees/BehaviorTreeQuickStart/#6-aicontrollersetup

[jaunty tree]

Hello

Anyone here?

[narrow mauve]

I can't control them the same as I can with meshes

[plush yew]

can I rename the new BT tasks from the task itself instead of going into the content browser?

[jaunty tree]

I'm a 3D artist.
Now i want to learn UE4

[plush yew]

also is there a way to organize BBkeys?

[jaunty tree]

How to start UE4

[grim ore]

@jaunty tree look at the pinned messages in this and other channel for tutorials

[jaunty tree]

What should i learn in ue4?

[jaunty tree]

As i can create scene in 3d modelling software

[lilac wren]

I did

@grim ore

[jaunty tree]

So is it important to learn creating scene in ue4?

[narrow mauve]

I did use the volumetric clouds when i first started but I can't get the level of freedom I need. I have a ton of atmospheric variables that drive the cloud and their structures and its very dependant upon it...the volumetric clouds also they look okay but they need a ton of work to match real life storm structure

[kindred viper]

yeah it looked a little better than the average vol cloud too

[plush yew]

@lilac wren is it on the ai controller?

[kindred viper]

a lot better in fact

[narrow mauve]

I understand shaders and how you could create different looks at varying heights etc;..but it's still not quite the same level of freedom and it looks a bit off. The volumetric clouds also seem to render in a way that always looks 'out of reality' (like you cant reach up and touch them)

[grim ore]

@lilac wren is this in the AI character or in the AI controller?

[lilac wren]

yes Im pretty sure

[plush yew]

then set the AI controller on the character

[grim ore]

is the AI character set to use this AI controller?

[plush yew]

under pawn im sure

[grim ore]

and is it set to auto possess the AI correctly

[lilac wren]

i don think so

[grim ore]

make sure those bottom 2 are correct and then see if the BT is running

[narrow mauve]

OH..and the meshes are more performant..especially if you have a lot of them because most of the time they are 'hidden' (occluded) behind towering clouds etc..and when you are under them anything above the base is occluded

[plush yew]

@lilac wren

here 😄

[lilac wren]

I dont see that menu anywhere

[grim ore]

in your AI character, details panel

[lilac wren]

wait i found it

[grim ore]

yep now see if the behaviour tree is showing action now under the debug drop down

[lilac wren]

its not

but I got this error message

[grim ore]

where is that at?

[lilac wren]

in the ai panel

[grim ore]

we would have to see more info, what bp this is is and what code is doing. Its saying you are doing something wrong but we dont know where or what

your trying to cast to a behaviour tree for some reason which is odd

[lilac wren]

the blue print is my zombie ai

[grim ore]

welp that error should have always been happening then if it was always in your zombie ai

[lilac wren]

so what should I do

[grim ore]

we dont know we literally cant see your code so we have no idea what is going on to suggest. You need to read the error and fix it, or show more of the problem

the eyeglass in that error takes you right to the problem

[lilac wren]

ik the eyeglass just takes me to the ai event graph

[grim ore]

yep it takes you right to the error

its also a warning so it shouldnt stop anything your just going to have stuff not work.

is your behaviour tree still not showing any debug objects?

[plush yew]

Hello guys, my friend has an issue when he works on his level, when he hits save and close the project and reopen it, the new changes are not there, how he can fix this problem?

[lilac wren]

yea its still inactive

i tried following this video and I copied pretty much all the code from it if you wanna see. Im using the twinstick pawn and hes using thirdperson

https://youtu.be/UmohrS-hh6c

[grim ore]

@lilac wren If your AI is in the level and using the correct BT, and the AI is set to be an AI when its in the world, and this item is in the world on start, then the BT should start running and it should show up in the debug window

if its not you might have to start stepping thru it again

[lilac wren]

but the behavior tree isint active

[plush yew]

anyone?

[grim ore]

I literally just made a new level, made a new BT without any code in it, made a new character, made a new ai controller, set the character details panel to that ai controller, dropped the AI character into the world, made the AI Character have Begin Play -> Run Behaviour Tree with my BT I made, hit play and

so one of those steps for you is not correct

[lilac wren]

ugh this is so hard

[grim ore]

it can be yes, it shouldnt be in this case its less than 10 steps just to get this part working

[lilac wren]

I think the problem is that. I changed "get player character." to "get player pawn" and it messed things up

I fixed that but its still messed up

but I think I found the problem

pog I fixed the error code but the behavior tree is still inactive

[gloomy ginkgo]

Can someone help me? I am trying to create a camera that changes its spring arm depending on my car's speed

[grim ore]

event tick -> get velocity of the actor -> map velocity to a range for the spring arm

[gloomy ginkgo]

when the car goes fast, spring arms length gets longer

I tried creating one but it did not work well

wait

[grim ore]

this is inside the vehicle templates car BP in the tick function.

the velocity of the car goes up from 0 to 1500 and as it goes up the target arm length goes from 600 (the default) to 1000

[near pine]

when my cinematic ends the objects are still there

wait i fixed it

nvm

[plush yew]

quick question, my colllaborator invited me to his project and I accepted but where I can see the project in the site?

[grim ore]

depends on the site. epic doesnt have anything they supply

[plush yew]

in github

[gloomy ginkgo]

late but thanks man!

[grim ore]

@plush yew in your main home page it should show your teams and your organizations on the left, with organizations being a drop down on the top. You might need to change to his organization if that is what he did

[plush yew]

I found it yeah, thank you

[maiden shadow]

Hey everyone, I'm new on this server, and I wanted to ask for help
I'm using Unreal Engine 4.26 (Chaos), and it keeps crashing every ten minutes because of "D3D11 device being lost", it's a very common problem as I noticed while browsing the Internet to find a solution, but none of them worked for me
I tried everything, and I have a good config for Unreal Engine, so I cannot find the origin of the problem, I have Direct3D11, it's compatible, but nothing is working

My config :
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.41 GHz
Geforce GTX 1060 8GB
16GB ram installed

Oh, and I'm on Windows 10 with the administrator account 🙂

[grim ore]

"D3D11 device being lost" can be many many reasons

mainly driver issues or hardware issues

[maiden shadow]

My drivers are all updated, and my hardware is fine I think

[grim ore]

I would look into slowing down your video card a bit to try and eliminate the hardware being the issue

[maiden shadow]

In Nvidia ? Everyone told me to put "High performance" everywhere 😅

[grim ore]

it could also just be your PC not capable of using the feature very well if its a feature that needs alot of performance

no you would want to look into using something like msi afterburner to lower the voltage and frequency that the GPU uses

[maiden shadow]

But he doesn't seem to have a problem

[grim ore]

your card for example might be using 1.2 volts and its just too much for it under load

[maiden shadow]

How do I do this ? It's an app ?

I'm not a professional in PC, I know the minimum x)

[grim ore]

yes look up msi afterburner and how to adjust your speeds/voltage. ITs fairly simple now a days you can just drag a slider down

[near pine]

why does this not work

[grim ore]

trying to let your GPU run slower and use less power is a good way to stop stressing it and see if thats the issue. Other than that, try other versions of the drivers (like the studio instead of game ready)

[modest agate]

is there a way to include some kind of documentation directly into VS?

[grim ore]

@near pine what part of that is not working?

[manic sluice]

Vector math question! Are these equivalent:

A = ( Up ^ A ) ^ Up```
and
```// Remove Z component and normalize
A.Z = 0;
A = A.GetSafeNormal()```

[near pine]

no interaction when i press e on it

[grim ore]

is the actor set to take input from the player?

[near pine]

yes

[grim ore]

then when you debug what does it show? what the execution flow

[near pine]

like when you press e on the door it prints

[manic sluice]

@near pine do you have something set to consume that input elsewhere?

[near pine]

it just does nothing

[manic sluice]

I've had that issue before

[near pine]

what do you mean

[grim ore]

if its showing nothing when you debug then that input is not getting to that actor

[carmine vortex]

Hey guys so I have this issue where I am using UE4 then after about 10-20 minutes whenever I right click in a BP to open the dropdown list, it will pop up and disappear. When the screen isn't maximized I can right click on it but the drop down screen goes black. Has anyone experienced this before and know any workarounds for this? I changed drivers from games ready to studio and the issue persists although I thought it was fixed

[manic sluice]

If you have that event somewhere else, when you click on the event there's an option "Consume Input". It needs to be disabled if you want other stuff to be able to respond to it

[near pine]

oh its enabled

ill try now

[carmine vortex]

https://youtu.be/H72xP-MZMr8 I tried making a video on it but the video shows that its visible but just keeps opening and closing

[manic sluice]

Yeah, I think it's enabled by default. Make sure you don't have any other blueprints set to consume it @near pine

[lucid grove]

I was always wonder is there a way to place actor blueprint in some sort of scope? Like i have Rain1 actor in my level and i want to see whats happening there. Sometimes it shows me, sometimes not.

[near pine]

wait i got another problem

the input just doesnt work

i did this to test input

and it doesnt print

wait

nvm

[grim ore]

@lucid grove shows you what its doing? the blueprint stuff?

[lucid grove]

yep

[grim ore]

if you open the BP there is a debug filter at the top thats lets you choose instances of that BP that are running

[lucid grove]

Thats hat i needed! Thank you

[calm hawk]

Heyo! I'm new to unreal and having some weird issues from imported geo that are hopefully a quick fix.... Cant figure out why all my imported plane geo is making these terracing lines under light. It looks fine with directional lights, but under point or rect lights, this terracing on the geo appears

[plush yew]

umm i’ve created a socket for a lamp wich is attaching to a chain. its get saved successfully. but when i head back and return to editor. its hidden. its reappearing when moving a little bit. new to unreal. :/

[manic sluice]

I believe the answer to this is that (Up ^ A) ^ Up is just a fancy way to set A.Z to 0...

[fierce forge]

how i can make a if node in the behaviour tree ?

[near pine]

ok this just doesnt work

like i go to the collision box

and i press e

and nothing happens

[manic sluice]

All of that looks correct @near pine -- so either the collision is not set up correctly, the actor isn't receiving the input, or something else is eating the input before it gets here

[near pine]

this is my collision

[fierce forge]

@near pine i don't think you can use a input from a simple actor

[near pine]

it worked in the guys tutorial

[fierce forge]

i just tried and it is not working for me

[near pine]

ok ill try doing the input from the player

[manic sluice]

@fierce forge @near pine -- to make a random actor receive input, you need to set it up to do so... it should be possible though-

as long as the player pawn or some other actor isn't eating it

[near pine]

oh

ok

i will try

[fierce forge]

@manic sluice i didn't ask

[near pine]

????

[fierce forge]

?

[near pine]

nvm

[fierce forge]

i don't need what he said, you need

[near pine]

ok

[manic sluice]

np, thought you might want to know since you ran the test

[fierce forge]

i want to know how to make a if node in a behaviour tree

[onyx raptor]

Hey community do someone know how to fix this issue:
the error from running Setup.bat
it's called an execption error
and each time you ran Setup.bat
it error'd out on a different file each time you ran it

I was running setup.bat on cmd for unreal engine sources and the error came out idk why

please fix it and respond

Thank you!

[grim beacon]

https://youtu.be/U94pwpZQsRY
Must watch

[hoary nacelle]

Hi! I have a problem with github
When i pull all my prjogect is overraid by the pull... and when i push my push overraid all the project of my team
What can i do to fix this problem?

On the other and, in which way can I return back to the vesion before the pull?

[grim ore]

@onyx raptor do you have the editor or visual studio already open? if not do you have a virus scanner running

[hoary nacelle]

overwrite*

[grim ore]

it sounds like you need to learn the basics of how git and source control works if that is the case

branches as well as push pull and commiting only changes

[onyx raptor]

no

[carmine vortex]

Anyone know whats going on with the drop down bug I posted earlier? It's visible to my mates but on my screen it blacks out

[onyx raptor]

And what do you mean editor

[grim ore]

unreal engine editor

[onyx raptor]

ok?

but

whats about the read only

does read only on that folder the UE_4.24.3 must be turned off

??

@grim ore

Couse if so i cant turn it off its like the issue that microsoft and windows cant fix it

so ya

[sterile wing]

Hey... so uh, there are LODs right, but how do you make a mesh disappear completely at a certain distance? Like culling or something

[grim beacon]

There should be a variable like maxdrawdistancesquared or something

Or maybe that was networking relate4d i dont completely remember

[sterile wing]

@grim beacon thanks I'll look into it

[hoary nacelle]

Hi! Ther's anyone who can halp me?

I have a problem with github
When i pull all my prjogect is overwrite by the pull... and when i push my push overwrite all the project of my team
What can i do to fix this problem?

On the other and, in which way can I return back to the vesion before the pull?

[buoyant zenith]

does anyone know how to bake out animation on a camera attached to a camera rig rail ? when the camera is parented to the rail it's in local space but I'm trying to bake the world space transforms...

[trail jay]

Hello guys, can we use "RendertoTexture_LevelBP" to bake lightmaps for static meshes so that we can use them in PlayCanvas?

[plush yew]

hi guys

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/591354879109365809/804826474737041437/MyProject3_-_Unreal_Editor_2021-01-30_00-23-14.mp4

in this video

when i attack cube with sword (at the end of video)

i want to do

where animation ands

character will stand there

how can i do it

[median hound]

force root lock, open up that sword swing animation then tick force root lock and hope it works thats all i got.

[lucid grove]

Anyone use here Save Extension?

[karmic ermine]

which collision setting would make it so players cant walk through trees

[plush yew]

how do i fix this? I messed around with

skyspheres and every new project has no skysphere anymore

[autumn grail]

Please someone know how to make the new water system swimmable?

[indigo cobalt]

Can someone help me with this blueprint, The player can only move sideways not up and down
https://i.gyazo.com/c5114a1dfddb1c92154e152752a4d6d1.png

[velvet loom]

Put a physics volume under it and turn it to a water volume and scale it to the right size

[autumn grail]

Dragons that's what i've done , i thought there is a better way to detect collision with waterBody to make it better

[indigo cobalt]

Anyone have a answer for my question?

[kindred viper]

@indigo cobalt probably need to inherit pawn rotation

[royal stirrup]

Damn, guys... Why angular limits on PhysicsConstrain component in blueprint doesn't work? What can be the reason? I'm copy pasted that component in new blueprint and it does work there.

[indigo cobalt]

How?
sorry its my first day

[wanton lotus]

Have you looked into using buoyancy component?

[autumn grail]

No

[indigo cobalt]

uhm, can someone help?

[wanton lotus]

It can detect the water in 4.26. I have tested by using 2 of them. For a human character, I put one at about chest height and that actually had buoyancy and made the character float, also did the initial test to change movement to swimming. The other one goes by their pelvis or knees, because if you have only one that detects the movement type change, when the buoyancy effect makes your character pop out of the water, it bugs out. So have it only leave swimming state when the lower buoyancy leaves the water.

Probably a better way to use the buoyancy component, but never found much info on it, just had to play around with it.

[autumn grail]

So it just make it floating? can't go below the water swimming?

[wanton lotus]

You can go below the water. Once you change to swimming state, you can do whatever. When character wants to move down, just give more force than the buoyancy and the character goes under water.

Or you can do no buoyancy and use it only to test if walking in water. Just some examples, basically use it to test for water instead of making physics volumes for every pool of water, heh.

[autumn grail]

yes

have you got a tutorial for activatin,g buoyancy?

[wanton lotus]

Nope, I just messed around with it like I mentioned.

[autumn grail]

ok

ty

[wild warren]

is it worth even trying to do multi user sessions? just seems like a really good way to lose progress

[wary wave]

I would recommend using version control and keeping people working separately

[idle mantle]

Hello I know UE4 don't accept "space" on the keyboard and ! but wondering if UE4 accept '
?
apostrophe I mean

[honest lily]

hi

how can i find the Parent: Begin Play?

[wary wave]

double click on it

[honest lily]

i mean how can i create the Parent: BeginPlay?

[wary wave]

right click on BeginPlay and there's an option to call the parent

[honest lily]

thats the problem i cant find it

[wild warren]

ill look into it, thanks

[wary wave]

CustomEvent_1 doesn't have an implementation in the parent class.

[honest lily]

so?

how can i do that

[stark marsh]

posting in here because level design chat is kinda dead

i want to create a temple level that will play like a zelda dungeon but it just ends up being boring boxes

[wary wave]

what are you actually trying to do? At the moment you're asking me how to call a function that doesn't exist, and that doesn't make sense?

[plush yew]

I think you can’t create parent from a custom event

[stark marsh]

just square or rectangular rooms i can't make interesting levels

[wary wave]

you can if it exists in the parent class

[wary wave]

Focus on the puzzles and worry about the specific layout later

[plush yew]

hes here every day asking us to design his whole game for him

[honest lily]

im making a pickup and equip weapon

[plush yew]

he probably watched 2 guides

[wary wave]

right.. but why do you want to call a parent function?

[plush yew]

I think that on yt there is a tutorial for everything in BP... C++ is kinda dead in yt tutorials

[wary wave]

I feel like you're missing something crucial somewhere

[honest lily]

i want the parent so my player would attach automatically the rifle

i mean im just testing it

[plush yew]

you dont parent the custom event, you parent the weapon

[honest lily]

?

i got some help from this guy

[plush yew]

theres about 300 rpg/fps tutorials that cover this topic tho

[lapis bronze]

[plush yew]

How hard would it be to animate my character in a video game?Would it be possible to MoCap her facial animations using Kinect ? I am trying to stay away from the uncanney valley so I am looking for a MoCap solution that would work with this kind of level of detail. Tried animating her by hand but it comes out awful. I’d like to know what the best solution would be. I know there is iClone as well but I’m not familiar with it.

[obtuse trail]

did you rig the character

[plush yew]

My goal is to have animations and facial expression similar to what Naughty Dog had in Uncharted 4 (not at the same level) since it helps a lot with the story dialogue delivery and emotion in the scene.

Yup

[obtuse trail]

as long as you have a bone structure you can use mocap animation

and you can transfer the data in maya, or i think unreal also lets you transfer data

[plush yew]

But no facial rig yet since I don’t have experience with facial animation I have only done basic movement. Is there a certain way the bones need to be rigged when working with MoCap?

[obtuse trail]

the mocap rig tends to be pretty basic

or at least mixamos rigs are really basic

are you only using unreal, or are you also usinng maya/ blender

[plush yew]

From what I’ve seen there are facial markers involved. That is why I was asking, they have to be related to something or is it just skin deforming and muscle linking ? That is what I am asking, do I need to worry about muscle details or it doesn’t matter unless I’d work with MoCap studio tech?

I am using Blender atm

With Unreal

[obtuse trail]

no, my school has a mocap lab and the rigs were just basic rigs

nothing fancy, though i did not get to use the face rig

[plush yew]

So I take it that if I want to have complex details those would be hand animated besides the basic mocap animations ?

For cutscenes I mean.

Like for facial skin muscle movement and other small details. I guess mocap won’t capture those at least not when working with basic Kinect sensors.

[obtuse trail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNK8S19OSmA&ab_channel=CGMatter

looks like deforming

[plush yew]

Stuff like this is what I want

Pretty realistic results with emotion conveying and expression

[forest phoenix]

I'm looking through tutorials on generating fog volumes and came across this. What is this node, and why can't I find it? Alternatively, what has it been replaced with, and why isn't it documented anywhere? Has it been replaced with RayMarchHeightMap? Its inputs and outputs are wildly different. Any ideas?

[plush yew]

most of that stuff is actually being created with a real person doing those expressions if that makes sense@plush yew

I’ve read a bit about it. It looks like unless I work more on the mesh facial details it won’t work. It is a bit more complicated as it requires accurate muscle movement so I need to add in more details. Currently what I have for my character is not as detailed and I have no skin deformation for the facial muscles as I have no idea how to do that. Looks like I need to study more and work a lot more than I thought.

[fierce tulip]

@forest phoenix custom code node.

might wanna ask in #graphics about it

[plush yew]

@plush yew you could animate it yourself but that would take time

[plush yew]

Which is why I think mocap is the answer but it looks like there is much more work needed for the mesh in order to pull something like that off.

yeah

[forest phoenix]

@fierce tulip Alright, that explains it. I'm left with no way of doing it then. Really annoying when there's no blueprint alternative in tutorials.

[obtuse trail]

also remember mocap data might not be perfect and you most likey will need to edit the animations

[plush yew]

I am thinking about buying a gdc subscription I be seen some studios share a lot of stuff about how they work and I remember naughty dog having some stuff presented in there as well. Sadly it’s not free to access from what I know.

[fierce tulip]

naughty's video about mocap is available on youtube if im correct

[plush yew]

I’ve seen a bit on it but they don’t share too much technical information about how they prepare the mesh for that level of detailed expressions

[elfin gate]

hoi folks i got a question is it possible to make a game with just blueprint?

[fierce tulip]

yes

[elfin gate]

just being sure thx 🙂

[royal stirrup]

Friends, what is the best way to make something like crane pulling something with a cable? with physics. I'm trying to make it with physicscinstrain component and pulling with linear motors, but it's not swinging at all that way.. Maybe there's a better way to implement such thing?

[obtuse trail]

yes it is possible, just frustrating because no one has tutorials on everything for blueprints

[fierce tulip]

you dont need tutorials on everything, you just need enough tutorials and documentation to understand it, and take it from there.

[elfin gate]

also another question what easier? rpg or fighting game?

[plush yew]

Just know that you still need to know some programming concepts behind you otherwise you won’t understand how to use the bp system or even what you need to use.

[obtuse trail]

i need tutorials on everything because i dont know what im doing 90% of the time

[fierce tulip]

both can be as easy and as hard as you design it

[elfin gate]

gotcha

[plush yew]

I’d recommend learning some c++ basics at least even if you decide to use bps.

[fierce tulip]

if you are just starting out, try a pinball or breakout game first

[obtuse trail]

the first thing i learned in bp was how to make a character grab a ledge...

[sweet axle]

Just keep adding stuff to the level. Keep decorating and playing around until you find a pattern with what you're putting in. When its just boxes all over it always feels boring. Maybe, i dont know.

[obtuse trail]

that was literally the first thing i did

[plush yew]

I recommend looking for Bucky’s c++ beginner tutorial series from New Boston. One of the best teachers on YouTube. You will easily understand most of the basics for the start if you have patience and you really want your game.

[sweet axle]

The first thing i did in bp was follow devsquads cod tut till about vid 7 and gave up.

[fierce tulip]

i recommend having fun, and start there :p

[plush yew]

Or that

[sweet axle]

I didnt give up on unreal and bp, i gave up on devsquad

Always having fun though🙂

[plush yew]

I’ve found something interesting https://youtu.be/oGDIMftV4ng

After all it looks like there is some technical stuff freely available on the subject thankfully.

[sweet axle]

Skipped through it quickly, will watch later but Wow! The shots with the wind on character is incredible. Thats some serious detail for a game.

[plush yew]

I finished the whole series start to finish a few days ago. Blew my mind.

[sweet axle]

I wonder if anyones ever thought about creating The already AAA Titles that need serious specs to run into AAA title that will run on low spec machines. Keep the game but just drop everything that isnt nececassy for AAA quality. If that makes sence.

[plush yew]

That is what actually inspired me to tell my own story through the medium. Even if it’s hard.

[sweet axle]

Oh wait, i just did. lol

[sweet axle]

To tell any story is hard already.

[plush yew]

They managed to make it run on ps4 hardware so it is a technical achievement in itself which shows that it is possible if you know what you’re doing to have a game run and look good on modest gaming setups.

[sweet axle]

Instead of a superhighquality game with max visuals make it exactly the same with csgo visuals for example.

[plush yew]

Of course, after seeing how much work is needed I am thinking about something more accessible and easy to create and focus on the other parts.

[sweet axle]

So know the game industries can score from ppl that buy the max and ppl that buy the standard

[sweet axle]

Do both

[proper quiver]

AnimationStateMachineGraph /Game/Operator/Unit/ABP_OP_Unit.ABP_OP_Unit:AnimGraph.AnimGraphNode_StateMachine_2.Standing has invalid SubGraph array entry at 8``` My editor is crashing with this error on every startup now. Besides reverting to an earlier version, what can I do? I don't want to redo everything I did yesterday. It seems like just one file has corrupted data (animation blueprint).

[velvet magnet]

"redo everything I did yesterday" not sure what you mean by that, if you saved your work and it's an editor issue you'll be fine no matter what happened

I guess you mean it's crashing only on the project you are working on

[proper quiver]

I'm at commit D which is corrupt and will crash on start. Commit A can still open. I lost work done in commit B, C, and D

[velvet magnet]

oh ok

[proper quiver]

culprit is a file in commit B

I think this is where someone tells me I should have used C++ and not blueprint

(but it's animation blueprint crashing so...)

[velvet magnet]

you could try to delete that bluprint .uasset

I would also go into the cpp file (EdGraph.cpp) and try and see if you can maybe turn off that loading part

[split vigil]

does anyone know why I get this like lines on the skin ? it goes away when i disable the normal map but even then the lines do not appear in the normal map

[velvet magnet]

I'm pretty sure it would probably break some other feature but it's worth a try at least

I have no clue reguarding the lines, could be LOD or something with triangles count idk

[split vigil]

hahaha alright thanks anyways man 😄

just kinda looks like it has some world space texture on it an idk why

[velvet magnet]

I sorta have a simalar issue on one of my projects so I'd be interested as well to see if somebody else has an answer

[split vigil]

ahh

XD

im using the

skin shader

from the docuementation

jethani skin mat

its alright I guess I'll try to figure it out

[split vigil]

her node is insane tho

i believe its my normal

XD

thanks

[lucid grove]

heya guys

ladys

i have problem with audio component

On the begin i set variables for this sounds to access them later

Then i fire them when i need them

All great

but the next time when i try to access them - i got error

UE telling that those components pending kill

But why? I didnt destroy them, or stopped them

[knotty heron]

Why can I not add a character movement component to my actor?

[tired escarp]

@split vigil holy shit

that skin work is good

[knotty heron]

@lucid grove maybe try using IsValid nodes? or your sounds might not be on loop

my only guesses

[lucid grove]

isvalid mode would just give me false result with nothing

problem was that Fade Out and Stop not actually fading or stopping sound but destroying it

Every day something new i guess

[knotty heron]

thats good to know

[plush yew]

Any good name idea for my RPG project??

[knotty heron]

RPG_Project

[plush yew]

No

nvm

[pallid eagle]

anybody able to help me out in #gameplay-ai ? Having trouble figuring out EQS

[tired escarp]

@plush yew what it about

that may help

[pallid eagle]

stuck trying to get my AI to work :(

and its because i didn't do something right with EQS

[spare kernel]

@pallid eagle if someone can answer your question they will. Be patient.

[plush yew]

RPG game

[spare kernel]

well RPG game is pretty generic

[tired escarp]

yes

RPG games could be cyberpunk like Dues Ex, or Cyberpunk 2077

[plush yew]

Done downloading the breadboys models

and with animations

[tired escarp]

Generic Fantasy like Skyrim

[plush yew]

time to make a youtube developing shitty content

[tired escarp]

Fantasy wit scifi elements like World of Warcraft

Dark Fantasy like Diablo, Grim Dawn, or Dark Souls

Horror like Bloodborne, Bioshock, or Shadow of The Colussus

Steampunk like Dishonored

Historical like the Assassins Creed series

Star Trek style Scifi like Mass Effect

Scifi Fantasy like The old Republic games

Comedy like Fable or Borderlands

also you have the arguement between turn based vs fluid realtime action combat vs combat that rewards learning its systems.

[plush yew]

My animations are goddamn cursed

[tired escarp]

also some games like Dishonored or Assassins Creed or Dues Ex favor a more stealth approach

also 3rd person vs top down vs 1st person

I guess what I am saying @plush yew

[sterile tulip]

guys

my third person camera is stuttering, it looks like my character gets stuck and ported back a little

[plush yew]

@tired escarp scroll down in #work-in-progress and watch my stupid devlog

[tired escarp]

is RPG is a genre with a wide variety of subgenres and settings

[sterile tulip]

Why does my OBS not work on UE4

[plush yew]

@tired escarp Animations are cursed lmao

[sterile tulip]

why does my third person camera stutter

the first person camera works fine

[plush yew]

TBH it looks like a car fucking someone from thirdpersonview lol

[sterile tulip]

It happened after I activated camera lag, I want to have the lag but why does it start stuttering after?

[plush yew]

i dont know

[modest agate]

@tired escarp there are still real rpg, the games you mentioned are rather openworld genre

[tired escarp]

yes like oldschool fallout, baldur's gate, and neverwinter nights

I loved Baldur's Gate as a kid

I played those games waaay too much

[plush yew]

Oh ok

[sterile tulip]

What are these inherit pitch,yaw,roll checkboxes doing?

[lilac wren]

is there something wrong with this blueprint becuase im trying to get playerlocation but its not following my player

[plush yew]

A blackboard?

Or a blueprint for the AI controller?

[lilac wren]

its a blueprint for the getplayerlocation

[plush yew]

Im good at AI controllers

I remember when I programmed my AI to follow the player but it followed it self

and my pc crashed

[lilac wren]

this is what my ai controller looks like

[plush yew]

You need "AI Move to"

[lilac wren]

where would I connect that too

call from actor?

[plush yew]

You need a new event named as "Event begin play". Search it in blueprints

[lilac wren]

okay I already have one\

but how do i hook that up

[plush yew]

the execution

[lilac wren]

I dont know how to do that

[plush yew]

@lilac wren here is a tutorial example but it has an AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJpfLkEsoek&t=544s

[lilac wren]

my pawn wasent in the right controller class but when I do that I get a error

[dim arch]

anyone have the 3dsmax-ue4 batch export script? seem slike the original mirror is down

[rough knoll]

is there anything built into the ue4.26 water system that puts up an invisible wall to stop people from going in water? kind of like a barrier where my black lines are

i know an invisible wall volume is possible, but i don't want a defined shape, i just want it to be up where the water meets the landscape

[placid jasper]

Anyone know how to fix/have the issue where you lose 10-15 fps while moving your cursor? I have no idea whats causing it because it happens on a blank project as well.

[royal stirrup]

guys, can please someone give me a advise how to implement the pulling and swinging rope with physics easiest way?

I tried to do it with physicsconstraint, but failed to make it work.

[shell compass]

Is there a way to simulate a long level load? I want to test my games performance while streaming in a level

Right now I plan to just duplicate an 8k texture 20 times and import them into my map as separate materials to load.

But that's not optimal. Takes up a lot of space on the disk, and once loaded into memory I suspect it'll load fast, so I'd have to restart the computer to try again

[shell compass]

Yeah my method didn't work at all. Loads almost instantly

[quick kelp]

@royal stirrup https://youtu.be/BT0jFArPtGM I’ve implemented rope swings in 2 different projects (one time for a piñata and another for a dog leash) and this is a good tutorial that helped me make both of these.

[hidden dagger]

hello i maybe it's easy and i dont know how to make it but always when i import an image into ue4 and use it as a button it gets pretty much destroyed

it looks like this for example

and this is the original

like do i really hvae to make it the exact same resolution as in the program i made the sword in?

For everyone having this problem as well just turn down the margins to 0 i just resolved it

[royal stirrup]

Hey, friend!) I saw this tutorial. The swinging rope by itself isn't hard. But I need to pull other bodies with it. Like a crane.

[mint thunder]

Hey guys quick question how do you change the materials inside a prefab blueprint?

[open root]

Hello guys. I would like to know If I can only build lighting for only one stream level. For instance Bake lighting for building interior in one stream level and leave trees and foliage in other level movable

[surreal nymph]

Hey, im verry new to ue and I was wondering: do I need to delete all non-used assets before packaging, or will ue just not use these?
In my case, I have assest from marketplace but I dont use them all and I want to make the package as small as possible, do I need to delete these

[slate thicket]

octane for ue 😬👍

[fierce tulip]

@surreal nymph i know there is an option to cook out anything not used, but as someone who barely packs projects I cant tell you the details

[surreal nymph]

Thx

[brittle tundra]

Hello guys as anyone succeeded in making the fluid sim work in 4.26... i just opened the fluid sim map in the water content... and nothing is moving.. I followed every instructions from:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHugDXx6c5c

[daring sequoia]

So like i wanna make a vr game but when i go to launch options my vr headset does not show up (it is connected to my computer) im on ue 4.26 btw

[drifting geode]

did you enable and allow the developer mode? also installed the ADB drivers?

[daring sequoia]

I anebled dev mode yes but ADB drives i dont know how do i install that?

[drifting geode]

https://developer.oculus.com/downloads/package/oculus-adb-drivers/

"right-click > Install the android_winusb.inf"

[daring sequoia]

Thank you👍

[lost mica]

Hey! Anyone got issues with UE4 editor and nvidia drivers 461.40 (latest)? Editor was freezing for me after few seconds of usage (CTRL+SHIFT+WINDOWS+B to reset gfx driver does unfreeze), I installed the previous driver version and that fixed it. Anyone else using this newest driver version? I tried both Studio and GameReady variants but same problem.

[open root]

delete intermediate and saved files

[dawn gull]

Is there a way that instead of putting stuff into the base color pin I can turn it into a float array? It's a heightmap

[split vigil]

does anyone know by any chance of a method to turn on precision UVs for mutiple meshes rather than doing it one by one in the static mesh editor

[feral grotto]

Hey, guys. Is there an opportunity to see blueprint animation called with custom event in the sequencer while scrubbing it? I know I can see it when I play\simulate the game but I need to see the result realtime in the editor while scrubbing sequencer

[sonic quest]

I assume, you can play with the water blueprints & find something related. Here's my idea.
Create a mask in your landscape where it goes below a given Z point & use that to spawn some static meshes which has collisions enabled.
And invisible.

I also think you can play with the water system & find the edge & spawn some meshes.
Either via blueprints or inside the material.

[violet cove]

Anyone know why all my lightmaps are solid blue in 4.24? https://i.imgur.com/EhEb5LP.png Its not a density issue, and they are all static meshes

I can change the lightmap res on a mesh and the density will show again, but after baking it will go back to solid blue https://i.imgur.com/JiGLgWM.png

[potent bridge]

So question/issue, I'm trying to make my AI move to random locations, which it does fine, but never plays the anim graph when moving, anyone know whats up with that?

[vague scaffold]

Does anyone know how to activate the SpeedTree assets from "A Boy And His Kite" so they animate inside the sequencer?

[lucid grove]

In terms of draw calls spline meshes working like foliage tool or as single meshes?

[plush yew]

how can i play particle effect in event graph ?

[bronze mango]

how do i make that my character walks in the way hes looking currently he can look in all ways but wasd is always the same direction

im using blueprints btw

[lilac wren]

I get a error code when I run this

can any of you see my error?

[plush yew]

would help if you show us the error code

[plush yew]

get blackboard doesnt work

what are you trying to do?

[lilac wren]

Im trying to have a ai follow my pawn

[plush yew]

where is that bp?

not sure why you need a target for your set value as boon

[lilac wren]

that blueprint is in aicontroller

should I set it as a object instead?

[plush yew]

nah bool is fine, its just I do all my checks in the BT instead

so i dont really cast to bp

[lilac wren]

oh ok

should I subsutute get black board to somthing else

[plush yew]

i think your target for bb is wrong, but dont quote me on that, maybe someone else could tell you how haha

i just do everything in BT since its a bit easier to manage for me

[lilac wren]

yea I have stuff in my bt aswell

[plush yew]

cant you cvast from ownercontroller?

and then just get the boolean value?

in a decorator

?

[wanton lotus]

Damn this crap! Removing an actor component should not remove the var references automatically!! Why can't it ask to be replaced by a new variable of the same type, just without the actor actually having the component attached? I remove a static component to create it dynamically and took me about an hour or so to realize all the vars connected to my select nodes were missing, haha.

[lilac wren]

can you zoom in i cant see that well

[plush yew]

make a decorator

perform conditioncheckai

then from ownercontroller cast to the aicontroller

then from ai controller get you boolean value

[lilac wren]

condition check isint a option on a decorator

[plush yew]

its under functions

override it

[coarse turtle]

Any idea what this means?

[wanton lotus]

Looks like the crash is caused by a marketplace asset, Ultra Dynamic Sky. Contact the creator, I am sure they would want to know that something they created can cause a crash and they should be willing to work with you to resolve it.

[lilac wren]

like this?

[coarse turtle]

Yes I will thanks

[wanton lotus]

Why you overriding a decorator just to return the value of a boolean stored in your blackboard? That decorator already exists. "Blackboard" based condition, or "CompareBBEntries".

[surreal prism]

What nodes can I use to get a random mix of pixels of both colors ?

[plush yew]

@lilac wren no get variable from the ai controller

make sure to make one tho

[lilac wren]

thyse still cant conect

[rain relic]

Hey, could someone help me pls? Weirdly my music is not captured by the cinematic sequencer... why is that? Version 4.26

[wanton lotus]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/events/1789649-inside-unreal-adding-mod-support-with-the-simple-ugc-plugin

[karmic ermine]

can i use the free locomotion pack for my game?

[wanton lotus]

You can use any free marketplace asset for any Unreal Engine created project.

[karmic ermine]

i saw this in the example level, and wondered why it wouldnt be stable

im not too experienced with animation and what not

[thick knoll]

are there any limitations to using UDIMs inside of UE4? -- more specifically for packaging to platforms from PC to Mobile

[little axle]

as working from home is a thing now. does anyone have good solutions for shared DDC?

[spare kernel]

there is not one really

DDC's are massive, when working remotely, we just build our DDC's locally

i have been working remotely for 3 years, just part of the job.

[glad loom]

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/862087/umgcombobox-increasing-the-spacingpadding-between.html any way to do this now?

[plush yew]

Does anyone know how much video files takes up performance?

[plush yew]

yes its always been there actually. if the link is what i think anyway it should be possible even in the older versions of unreal

[gray kindle]

any quick way to reduce GPU memory usage before rendering? turning off viewport does little

and im at 7.5/8 gb so its going to crash when i start to render

[plush yew]

i think theres a porformence thing somewhere to change graphic settings etc to suit it but it will change the renders quality, MathewW knows way more then me about that kind of stuff so haha hes like 1000x smarter then me

Hello guys, idk where to ask but I want to make when I am near to water fall to have a sound, I did this system but after time the sound stops, how I can make it to loop again and again

[gray kindle]

thanks, i actually turned off all the raytracing effects, scaled the image% to the minimum but it had no impact on memory at all 😦

[plush yew]

use collisions and make a function for the looping for certain animations etc

okay I am doing it now for water

when it has watefall

umm guys. having a little problem. i sculpted a statue in blender. and imported to UE. but surface materials not working correctly nor the mesh paint. scuplt has lot of vertices and faces tho. what should i do brodas. 😕

[spare sun]

@ebon linden would need a server for that. And transfers from locally saved player info are ill-advised since the files on the players' pcs can be edited by the players themselves. As a player you could cheat like 'I have everything and I completed the game 100%' and the server would have no way of knowing whether it's true due to it being a transfer.

In theory you just hook up a server with a db and let it sync and check player achievements. In practice you add a lot of code and do some refactoring to every single thing that needs to be synced once you go multiplayer, since players see others through the server's eyes.

[raw forum]

QUESTION: in order to display everything on the client, you need to duplicate it under the event?

[plush yew]

I found this option and it works, thanks man, I really didn't think that tit isd so simple, lol

[spare sun]

@plush yew material transfers are not a given, often you have to recreate them in unreal. As for vertices and faces - you need to retopo ur high poly and bake ur sculpt for a good normal map. If that's ur issue, at least - it's hard to guess without images 🤷

sure, but it's a lot of work

easier if you plan for multiplayer from the beginning

can be both depending on ur project structure, data transfer can be hard to comply to a database and the game can get so complicated that ur gonna get lost or easily lose sight of some things in terms of replication which would make it a mess

[raw forum]

why niagara effects are displayed only on the server?

[gleaming moon]

?

[wary wave]

Presumably because you haven't written any network code

[neon grove]

how can i add a bounded post process volume to a spline mesh?
like for example if i have a river spline mesh and whenever the camera goes under the water i want the post process to activate

[raw forum]

make duplicate on client ?

[obsidian nimbus]

desktop pollution

[wary wave]

that's the common way to do things, yeah

[karmic ermine]

couldnt i replicate?

but i do plan for the game to be singleplayer

for now

[spiral flint]

https://tenor.com/view/sonic-shadow-love-pog-big-chungus-gif-16580004

how do i make this in unreal

[coral shoal]

unreal engine (and many games published with it) has a bug where the mouse position gets offset when switching between fullscreen modes if you don't have your taskbar in the default position, i'm having major trouble finding it on the issue tracker though, does anyone know what im talking about?

The only clue is this dead link from 2016: https://unrealtournament.atlassian.net/browse/UT-5391 but that code doesnt show up anywhere else

[still schooner]

https://github.com/NvRTX/UnrealEngine/releases/tag/RTX_CAUSTICS_RC6 can anyone confirm that is this caustics with 4.26?

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Dr-SniperS#4352 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[waxen slate]

Hi there,

If there's someone who's planning to create games for just mobile platform (multiplayer) (Android/ios), would unity be a better option? All the big gaming titles (mobas) mobile legends, LOL Wild rift, etc are using Unity engine.

Does unreal have a better mobile toolkit? Or can we optimize games built using unreal for mobile, without compromising too much quality?

[gleaming lotus]

I'm trying to get arabic translations sorted for my game, for some reason the font defaults to this, even though I've got an arabic fallback font. Might be something to do with Right-to-left text?
Thanks in advance 🙂

[waxen slate]

90% of the assets in the marketplace are not designed for mobile platform. Hence, most of the plugins like Brushify etc won't work well on mobile.

[thorny sedge]

hey just wondering if anyone knows anything about converting game files to a newer engine version. Does anyone know any reason not to do this? Another question, when this happens, what happens if a feature has been deprecated since the engine version you used stuff like that? just any links to help or basic info would be cool thank u

[half bay]

heya 👋 in order to attach hair (hair cards), that wobbles when the character moves for example, to the character, does the hair need to have a skeleton and physics attached? or can it be a static mesh? ty 🙂

[dense knoll]

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00002ae0

atidxx64_7ffb0cf90000
atidxx64_7ffb0cf90000
atidxx64_7ffb0cf90000
atidxx64_7ffb0cf90000
atidxx64_7ffb0cf90000
atidxx64_7ffb0cf90000
atidxx64_7ffb0cf90000
atidxx64_7ffb0cf90000
atidxx64_7ffb0cf90000
atidxx64_7ffb0cf90000
atidxx64_7ffb0cf90000
atidxx64_7ffb0cf90000
atidxx64_7ffb0cf90000
atidxx64_7ffb0cf90000
atidxx64_7ffb0cf90000
kernel32
ntdll

[gleaming lotus]

@thorny sedge Its commonly suggested that if you're converting engine version you should stay away from the latest one has it tends to be a little bit buggy (I've found 4.26 has some annoying BP issues right now). If anything is deprecated it'll throw up a warning when you compile. Sometimes deprecated stuff still works in the latest ver

[dense knoll]

i keep crahsing

and cant find out how to fix this

[thorny sedge]

@gleaming lotus thank u!

[dense knoll]

UE4 keeps crashing the editor hwen i load my main project

the screen flickers and then the editor crashs

[mellow turret]

what plugin can I use to make a 2D game in unreal?

[dense knoll]

it wont open

editor just crashes

[spare kernel]

@dense knoll you have a broken blueprint

[median hound]

bro

[dense knoll]

How do i fix it

[velvet magnet]

@mellow turret just use a 2D game engine, it will be a lot easier than trying to do it in unreal

[dense knoll]

is there a way to repair?

[honest hawk]

Hey got this weird thing where I can’t edit my data table except for the row name. Any idea what it could be

[gritty spoke]

Any Idea why AI dont move (using AI MoveTo) in the editor when i use Play, but in the windows build they are moving? Navigation is builded.

[dense knoll]

UE4Editor.exe has triggered a breakpoint. occurred

GIsGPUCrashed = true;
if (Direct3DDevice)
{
HRESULT hRes = Direct3DDevice->GetDeviceRemovedReason();

        const TCHAR* Reason = TEXT("?");
        switch (hRes)
        {
        case DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG:            Reason = TEXT("HUNG"); break;
        case DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED:            Reason = TEXT("REMOVED"); break;
        case DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_RESET:            Reason = TEXT("RESET"); break;
        case DXGI_ERROR_DRIVER_INTERNAL_ERROR:    Reason = TEXT("INTERNAL_ERROR"); break;
        case DXGI_ERROR_INVALID_CALL:            Reason = TEXT("INVALID_CALL"); break;
        case S_OK:                                Reason = TEXT("S_OK"); break;
        }
        
        // We currently don't support removed devices because FTexture2DResource can't recreate its RHI resources from scratch.
        // We would also need to recreate the viewport swap chains from scratch.            
        UE_LOG(LogD3D11RHI, Fatal, TEXT("Unreal Engine is exiting due to D3D device being lost. (Error: 0x%X - '%s')"), hRes, Reason); 
    }
    else
    {
        UE_LOG(LogD3D11RHI, Fatal, TEXT("Unreal Engine is exiting due to D3D device being lost. D3D device was not available to assertain DXGI cause.")); Rhis is where the error was traced to
    }

thats the trigger that causes the error

it wasnt just a BP error

and the GPU shows a crash

[proper stump]

hey, now sure what to google to start research this one, i've got a cube in the scene, in case the user click on the cube, and drags the mouse to the left, i want to create a spring like gizmo originating from the cube to the mouse position.... any pointers? is this a widget scenario? is that a dynamic mesh?

[cosmic forge]

hi, I have 2 landscape components that stay with the checkerboard when I paint my 5th layer on them. No problem on components next to these two. https://i.imgur.com/IIkVsxj.png

[raw forum]

how create control point (marker) on minimap ue4

?

[spare kernel]

@raw forum that is a pretty vague question. You will likely not get any help. I suggest asking a proper question providing some more detail for an answer.

[crisp flame]

Whats the best practice when it comes to windowed sizes ?

[raw forum]

point on the map that is not visible

[crisp flame]

my game looks fine in 1920x1080 and other as long as its full screen

but in windowed mode, like 1280 on a 1920 os resolution stuff becomes hard to read

is that something to fight against or just accept ?

[spare kernel]

you on about widget stuff?

there is scaling options

[crisp flame]

oh that works fine

ah how do i explain it

[spare kernel]

maybe show it?

might be easier

[crisp flame]

actually scratch that, the window size where things become hard to make out is alot smaller than any pc monitor currently

[raw forum]

How create area markers on minimap ?

[dense knoll]

How do you fix UE4 BP file rrors causing the project not to load and how to fix GPU hang

[lilac wren]

does anyone know how to fix this error?

[spare sun]

@raw forum you get the vector from player to target. you normalize it. Said normalized vector you multiply by the minimap circle radius. At that position, offset by minimap pos, you draw the target marker above the minimap.

[raw forum]

ok thank

[lilac wren]

My pawn can now go thourgh object and I dont know how to change it back does anyone know what setting I might have changed

[spare kernel]

check the collisions on the object and the pawn

[lilac wren]

should I have generate ovelap events and Block all dynamic?

should the colission preset be block all dynamic

[tiny knoll]

does anyone have an good tutorial on how to make a physics based ik for vr in unreal engine?

[dense knoll]

yes

i updated my GPU driver

now i am getting this

[lilac wren]

for a ai should the colision preset be at pawn

[spare quarry]

Is there a way to integrate UE4's online subsytem on a dedicated server without paying steam api?

[deep mason]

I installed unreal today and when I lunch a project my machine crashes and I have to turn it off from the button.

My machine is a Ryzen 9, rtx3070 and 64gb ram.

[dense knoll]

Any way to fix ue4 crashing like this? log is up above

[broken heath]

I think 4.26 is very buggy , never had more crashes

[winter zenith]

Hey guys, I'm trying to setup lods for all my assets, I setup LODS using default settings like "SmallProp" etc. and using autocompute distances, although my distances are way too far, for example you have to be super far away for the LODs to actually start switching, how could I change the default autocompute distance setting?

[dense knoll]

im on 4.25

[broken heath]

4.25 was stable for me , so maybe re vertify the engine or is it related to a specific project ?

[dense knoll]

its only for my project

spesific*Gd

this is the crash log

[median hound]

if someones not gonna open the txt file its Unreal Engine is exiting due to D3D device being lost

[dense knoll]

that message isnt very helpful UE4

its only project spesific

[spare kernel]

@dense knoll laptop?

[dense knoll]

PC

the dying GPU is unlikely

[plush yew]

Which is the best way to learn ue programming? I know nothing about ue and know basic c++

[spare kernel]

yeah, try updating drivers, turn off power saving mode

[dense knoll]

this GPU is relitivly new

i did

[spare kernel]

try changing the TDR

[dense knoll]

i updated the drive

r

[spare kernel]

Download TDR Manipulator
Run the application and change the TdrDelay value to 10
Restart system```

[plush yew]

Can someone help me

[dense knoll]

im on a AMD GPU

[spare kernel]

ah

[dense knoll]

start with BP

[spare kernel]

should work the same tho

that is a windows csetting

setting*

[plush yew]

floats are more precise integers right? is there a reason not to just use floats tho?

[dense knoll]

this wasnt happening before

[spare kernel]

@plush yew https://learn.unrealengine.com

[dense knoll]

yesterday it worked perfectly fine

[spare kernel]

@dense knoll it is likely the GPU is turning off during shader compiling

[plush yew]

But i know basics of cpp. Also where do i go to learn? Any good resources?

[dense knoll]

#ue4-general message

[spare kernel]

@plush yew i gave you a link, https://learn.unrealengine.com/course/3750186?r=False&ts=637476309917989711 is a C++ UE4 course for free

[plush yew]

Ok i will check it out when i am free. Thanks.

[serene sorrel]

how stable is unreal engine ray tracing in 4.26

[dense knoll]

It didnt work

It just hund for longer

[lilac wren]

can someone help with having a ai damage my player

[dense knoll]

It gets really heavy whenever it first loads in

and the temp just increases by 2 C

[thorny sedge]

hey guys. I made a weapon and I want to reference it in another blueprint but the weapon is class "actor". Is there some way to cast to the weapon?

[dense knoll]

The editor still keeps crashing

[gaunt abyss]

I used to get that error with my old old GPU when I first started using UE4, pretty sure it was running out of video memory but in your case it could be something completely different

[dense knoll]

it only started doing this after i closed the editor last

[kindred viper]

Does anyone know if a Groom asset has to be on a skeletal mesh or can it be on a static mesh too?

[dense knoll]

ive also made a ton of optimizations to the game, its now not as intesive

[lilac wren]

Does anyone know how to fix the setting becuase my twinstick now goes through everything

[dapper quest]

you still here

[lilac wren]

is there a action to tell if ai is on the player

[gentle trout]

Hey guys i want to create a NPC with dialong and bottens , anyone can teach me?

[dense knoll]

i still am unable to open the project

at this point i have tried everything

Changing the TDR did absolutly nothing

[vestal goblet]

so um, i have a slight problem, the tutorial i'm following uses the static mesh for a cylinder which is supposed to be one of the engines default components but i don't have access to it, how can i get access to that mesh?

nevermind, i figured out a way

[fallow sail]

Do most people use C++ or Blueprints?

[wary wave]

Most people do use C++ or Blueprints

(one is not really a substitute for the other)

[random forum]

Prototype in Blueprints, move what is necessary for good optimization to C++ (imho)

[fallow sail]

oh I thought everyone just used C++

I'm new to UE and know how to code in Python. I have no clue how to use C++.

[velvet magnet]

Nativising blueprints is also an alternative to manual C++ optimization

Though it's not the best, if you are actually going for maximum performance it's usually better to write in C++

[gaunt abyss]

Blueprint nativization still has many problems and when it does work it's still slower than written C++

[velvet magnet]

oh really, I've never used it before

[velvet magnet]

if you already know python, C++ is quiet a step up but it's not too bad. Besides syntax, it works quiet similarly, but it's a more lower level language so some new concepts you'll have to learn include the concept of a toolchain (preprocessor/header tool, compiler, linker) pointers and objects in memory, namespaces, structures and unions, l/r functions

[fallow sail]

yeah the header files are very confusing

[velvet magnet]

I may be forgetting more things since there's so many nuianced things in c++ but thoose are the main pointers

yeah header files are annoying sometimes, most programmers used to working in higher level languages don't like dealing with them

and they also do slow down your workflow

before you work with header files you should probably understand the role of a toolchain so you understand how header files are processed

[lilac wren]

my editable text box just siwtiches to this and not my words is there a way to fix this

[velvet magnet]

when you say modern IDEs I'm assuming you are talking about Visual Studio/VS code right

[fallow sail]

https://tenor.com/view/kekw-kek-bttv-twitch-emote-gif-15123134

When your following a YT tutorial and your code compiles but the YouTuber's code doesn't

[plush yew]

Hi

Where is stocked project setting in folder project ?

I want to reset this 🙂

[ancient fiber]

i am once again asking if anyone knows how to get the Media player to recognize OBS virtual webcam - it's only detecting my real webcam and none of my virtual ones, and i need to get virtual ones for a project

[winter zenith]

how can I make it so the LODS go sooner?

[lilac wren]

can someone help me with having multible ai characters and them all following my player

[winter zenith]

like they go to the next lod when I'm farther

[sterile tulip]

That should be in the mesh settings

Double click on the mesh asset

[pseudo pulsar]

Is blueprint nativization destructive to your project; or does it only convert the built files?

[spare kernel]

it does not touch your blueprints

[sonic quest]

Guys, I have a question about material overriding. Here's my use case:

• There's a rock with all the material setup.
• Now, I need to add Virtual Texturing support.
• Right now, the user has to edit the main material & add a material function at the end.

Is there a way to do this without changing the material? I'm fine with any solution which uses Blueprints.

Actually, this is about extending a material. Not overriding.

[plush yew]

Are blueprints suited for long term projects? How Unreal fits for a low poly game that aims to be more accessible for more hardware? Is Godot lighter and capable or it is just too far behind in calculus (aka. performance)

Sorry I am very noob and I have this year (2021) of full free time and since I am a slow learner I want to optimize as much as I can to release a good free walking simulator in isometric view, It really scares me the idea of having to change a engine in the middle of the process, even if the art sets are the most slow thing to do.

[tardy cargo]

Hi guys! I have a problem. I was making my first game for a school competition and what I need help is with When I drag and drop the character from my assets, how can I fix the camera movement on him and not the default character.

Also I'm very new to UE so I don't know much about it...

[kindred viper]

@plush yew 1. Dont over optimise too early. 2. Yes its fine for long term projects. 3. Depends on your project whether Godot is a better suited engine.

[plush yew]

Ok here I go;

I was meaning optimization in the core of the engine itself. I mean: will an squared terrain with fauna e flora with animations and scripting happening (like birds catching fruits and eating them etc.) this kind of emulation is better in Unreal than Godot?
I really want a simple game in terms of shaders and stuff, just simple lights and models made with less polygons. I do not want fancy particles floating around a squared creature..

I just gave from the idea of open-source so considering taking a engine developed from 1998 feels a good option... but it is heavy anyway. Godot has 70mb or something.

I researched about performance in Vulkan vs. DirectX and it seems the Vulkan wins, is that true?

I wonder why people tend to create new software for doing the same tasks that some already do.

but then it is just my utopia of companies getting together and developing a single OS for a single hardware or at least a way small scope of hardware, to be more efficient.

It will be certain a discussion inside the game.

So any literature for a computer noob is appreciated as your opinion on the subject.

(I did not found a off-topic)

and by wanting a long-term project, is c++ a must? Because I feel I can bit some bits over the learncpp.com each day.

I really not rushing and not intending to do. But I do believe video-game as the best art expression invented until today. And by being an artist... I would try to stick with it, but I am really bad at logic so that is why so much anxiety over these things.

I can already feel the terror of blueprint gave up for GDScript later realizing that C# is more than a pitch and learning all my way to connect with Unity. 😫

ok I am being melancholy

uh and going for a Linux exclusive is too bad idea? I read that different distributions have different bugs so it narrows more the scope of people consuming the game, because I really do not feel installing Debian, Arch and other obscure Linux-modified-kernel and debugging all, since I barely understand what a {function} means.

There is any Wine or Juice for Windows to run Linux exclusives?

[lapis bronze]

no, you can make a full game in Blueprint. Several have been started & finished to RELEASE on console.

BP isnt free real estate though, you still need to know programming logic & basics if you want to get far.
Visual scripting is more approachable, but you need to have those problem solving skills

Short answer: Its what you do with the engine, not the engine itself.

[regal marsh]

Hi, guys, i have a problem, when UE4 start resetting audio device for some reason, it gets into DeadLock

I tried waiting, disabling and enabling audio devices

it's deadlocked for forever

It stops here

[plush yew]

#cpp ? @regal marsh

[trail kernel]

Hello, I am an indie dev and i am having some issues with Nvidia RTXGi. Has anyone here for access to RTX SDK??

[tardy cargo]

Guys please help me out...

[trail kernel]

Wat happened

[tardy cargo]

I can't fix the camera on a character which I drag and drop through the content browser. I'm very new to this.

[lusty carbon]

Getting this when trying to bake light. ?

[ebon kelp]

Yo guys quick question, it takes more then 10 seconds every time I delete or rename an object in my unreal scene its very slow, the scene it self runs at an easy 60+ fps. This happened after adding vertex color paint, I also deleted all the object that used vertex paint but that didn't help. Any help? Thanks!

[plush yew]

@ebon kelp it just takes long time deleting stuff in unreal

[ebon kelp]

But normally its always instead, I mean deleting an object in the scene not in the content folders.

[plush yew]

ahh

that I do not know 🙂

[ebon kelp]

Ait np!

[carmine portal]

is there any way to debug why "play in editor" would take 130 seconds

[wet schooner]

I got a strange.. question, I want to export objects I put together from unreal to blender is this possible

I want to block out a level with basic shapes in unreal

and then want to put it in blender to start making the assets for the level

nvm found it

https ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBPrpSsinTg if anyone else wants to do this

[plush yew]

Should I make a boxing game or a zombie survival game?

[tardy cargo]

A zombie survival if you intend to make an FPS game

[plush yew]

Then boxing game it is

[tardy cargo]

Good luck 👍

[plush yew]

Blow Punch or Death Blow?

[tardy cargo]

Death blow can be for KO

[plush yew]

Ok

[placid yarrow]

I'm having a weird problem with localization. I have a UDataAsset class called UQuestItem that had an FText variable "SortName." I decided I did not need it, so I deleted the variable from the UQuestItem class. However, in the localization dashboard, when I "GatherText," it still comes up with the values of the "SortName" variable in all of the UQuestItem child classes. Why is the localization looking at deleted variables, and how do I make it stop?

[shell compass]

Need your opinions, best place to store a function that loads a new level along with some fancy fading etc?

PlayerController? GameInstance? GameMode?

[plush yew]

@tardy cargo are there any boxer models you have that I can use?

hey guys here a tutorial about the big problem with indirect lights with modular assets https://youtu.be/2jYjbkWhk9U

[shell compass]

@plush yew Why not a zombie survival game where you play as a heavyweight boxer?

That sounds pretty unique

[plush yew]

Im trash in making FPS games

[shell compass]

Maybe make it like Surgeon Simulator in that you have to try to pick up canned food with your boxing gloves on

[tardy cargo]

Im sorry pal but i dont have any yet

You can try mixamo tho

[tardy cargo]

Don't say that. You just need more time to learn about it just like I need to.

[plush yew]

Ok then ima just make an FPS Wallrun game

[tardy cargo]

👍

Try mixamo.com for assets

I mean character assets

[plush yew]

Is this model cool? https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-blender-unreal-character-model-1465171

[tardy cargo]

Gimme a min I'll just check

[plush yew]

ok

[tardy cargo]

Cool? That's awesome!

[plush yew]

Then ill buy it

[tardy cargo]

👌

[charred portal]

Hi, can I ask what is happening with my terrain, and how can i fix it? And grass is disappearing on a higher slope.

[plush yew]

yo im new to ue4 and making games in general, this my first day, any tips?

[plush yew]

I have one tip: Use the marketplace for your game content

well is it even my game if i do that

[jade wadi]

I tried to build a mini game for android. While this i wanted to walk into an Car Interior... I Cant.... Its like an invisible wall... Any Suggestions ??

[spare sun]

haha this is the question everyone asks when using marketplace

[plush yew]

well

so like use free models

i cant fucking make models in maya or blender lol

[spare sun]

you can always pay for models

its just - do you really wanna spend time on modelling rocks

or would you rather model characters

[plush yew]

Hi
Where is stocked project setting in folder project ?
I want to reset this 🙂

@spare sun well ya see

i dont got money

LMAO

[jade wadi]

I want to walk into this interior... where can i set mesh walktrough able?

[spare sun]

then you better get to sculpting those rocks 😄

dw there's always free models available and you can use quixel

@jade wadi collision I suppose

[near pine]

how could i check if it is grounded using a boolean

[lucid grove]

Heya

Anyone had problem with plugin that dissapear?

I had Save Extension 1.4 that i installed manually and all was great

But today i have opened project and it said that i dont have this plugin installed

And it wasnt in list anymore

[jade wadi]

where do i find this

[jade wadi]

thanks ! ❤️

only got this...

[spare sun]

you have a static mesh selected, right?

[near pine]

anyone know how i could setup jump

because right now it lets me keep jumping

how would i only make it jump if its grounded

[left arrow]

Hey guys I need some help 🙂 I finished my first Environment Design in UE4 and now it says that the light needs to get rebuild. Should I only rebuild the light or should I just hit "Build" and build everything? Should I make a save before I do this? I dont want to lose everything

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: WRLD#1266 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[jade wadi]

its a blueprint. with alot of static meshes in it

[jade wadi]

u got time for a short meeting ?

[rich spoke]

What's happening in #mobile

[eternal scroll]

Pandemonium

[rich spoke]

Straight hell

[fresh minnow]

Something has gone wrong...

[dusky inlet]

<@&213101288538374145> mobile is hell

[lucid grove]

Ha-ha, that was fun

[ashen brook]

locked it until people calm down

[azure shore]

at least they had the decency to stick to one channel lmao

[livid hazel]

sorry but that was funny

[jovial musk]

Well that was an interesting event.

[eternal scroll]

What did he even ping. Everyone is locked down isn't it?

[lucid grove]

Never knew there could be so much activity

[azure shore]

probably just mass pinged instead of everyone ping

[faint cedar]

That's some funny shit

[cinder nest]

Really stupid. Take away that guy's mod powers.

[azure shore]

idk how I was pinged though Ive never used that channel

[dusky inlet]

you are telling me those aren't bots?

[jade wadi]

change build lighting quality

to medium

then hit build

[wooden grove]

Hilarious

[valid pewter]

Holy hell lol.

[trail kernel]

Hey can someone help me

[fathom lance]

he literally just did an @ everyone lol

[dawn gull]

yep :|

[steady owl]

how did he have permissions for that?

[proper torrent]

Wow

[faint cedar]

How many people are in this Discord nowadays?

[fathom lance]

I have no idea

[steady owl]

Did they forget to ban the @ everone in mobile?

[merry geode]

wtf happened on #mobile

[fathom lance]

You'd think that would have been disabled serverwide for normal roles

[proper torrent]

That's sucks

[steady owl]

RIP the guy looking for help in mobile before that ping 😄

[merry geode]

F

[fathom lance]

especially for a server with 10k+ people

[worn olive]

LOL

[fathom lance]

lol yeah

[proper torrent]

Lil

[faint cedar]

Isn't this server at 50k+m

[plush yew]

Some one clue me in, just got spammed with a load of crap

[faint cedar]

?

[fathom lance]

oh i have no idea i was just going off of online users

[wooden grove]

Yeah it happened once on PewDiePie's server before it went from yt members only to public. It was hell there.

[valid pewter]

It was all according to plan

[faint cedar]

Someone accidentally did a @everyone in mobile channel and it went off, pinging a gazillion people.

[compact thunder]

It was a moderator giving a warning to someone but accidentally pinging everyone

[plush yew]

Who tagged everyone

[worn olive]

did you just

[compact thunder]

At least that's what I saw from the notif

[worn olive]

ono

[fathom lance]

also the guy that did it has the muted role now lol

[trail kernel]

Does anyone have RTXGI SDK here??

[plush yew]

U can do everyone tag rn without issues

[dawn gull]

LOL i just realized it was Luos, he accidentally pinged when he warned

[trail kernel]

Im having werid issue eith it

[merry geode]

I would like to download it as well

[dusky inlet]

lmao

[ashen brook]

Sorry not-@-everyone, seems it was one of us mods who accidentally pinged everybody

[merry geode]

want to make some tests with the rtx card on UE4

[worn olive]

does that mean @ Here is still open?

[dawn gull]

luos

[wooden grove]

Petition to ban the mod who did it for 1 week

[plush yew]

Nah if it was a mistake

Why would u

[ashen brook]

no, the at-everyone and at-here tags are disabled from general use

[faint cedar]

Eh, no big deal, funniest thing to happen today.

[plush yew]

[merry geode]

ofc it was one of the mods, cuz we common members can't do it

[merry geode]

yeah

[vast anvil]

Week ban sounds harsh. He prob feels bad already

[plush yew]

its the purge when ever it did it

[wooden grove]

If I try to do @everyone it doesn't do anything because I have insufficient permissions.

[plush yew]

If someone makes a genuine mistake its not right to displine just tell em to ne careful

[ashen brook]

don't be mad 😄

we're sorry though

[wooden grove]

I'm memeing

[quartz pike]

Hey everyone, random question here and I don't know if this is the correct topic to put it in.

Just playing around in 4.26 and was wondering that with the new GPU lightmass and was thinking, doesn't ray tracing do this automatically? I'm still new to the whole process but I'm just wondering if the downside of raytracing is just how expensive it is compared to baking. Both are great just wanted to know some thoughts for people more in the game.

[worn olive]

wait, but the memeber that did @ everyone does not have the mod role

[faint cedar]

Why would you ban anyone? It was a happy accident lol

[finite grail]

guys, i have a doubt regarding unreal engine

[merry geode]

I don't know, pinging everyone is actually very funny

[valid pewter]

Everyone will remember this

[wild glacier]

CAOS

[plush yew]

@everyone shows but doesnt work tand

[merry geode]

yeah

@everyone

[plush yew]

It still shows blue

[merry geode]

we can't ping it

[faint cedar]

On an unrelated note, do you accept mod applications hah

[plush yew]

But doesnt tag

[ashen brook]

the member that tried to do it was not allowed to, but the mod who striked him for it used at-everyone in their strike reason

[granite magnet]

I mean if people are so pissed about everyone pings just mute them lol

[wooden grove]

@someone

[uncut trellis]

He justed pinged everyone lmao love it

[merry geode]

[plush yew]

Pings go boom

[valid pewter]

Ah yes, the brain is at it again.

[merry geode]

I think GPU Lightmass is only for baking, for static and stationary lights

ray tracing is real-time

[vast anvil]

Gpu lightmass is indeed for much faster baking of static lights

[merry geode]

yes exactly

instead of calculating the bake on the CPU, it uses the GPU

[quartz pike]

Just wondering what he benefits from each technique are, if say global illumination is better in ray tracing etc I know it all depends on the scene, just curious if anyone has played around

I installed my 3090 yesterday so it's really about pushing it as much as I can

[finite grail]

ahh..!!! anyone who help me? ping me in private

[merry geode]

@quartz pike if you want realtime Global Illumination, you can use SSGI (Screen Space GI) or RTGI (Ray-Traced GI)

baking is for static scenes

[quartz pike]

Thanks @merry geode for breaking it down man.

[merry geode]

both can be turned on inside project settings

no problem @quartz pike

I'm here for this kinda thing

[quartz pike]

I was just about to ask, could it be a combination of both?

[merry geode]

there is no reason to, cuz RTGI uses all the scene for GI, SSGI only what you see

and what you see is inside the scene RTGI is using to calculate

so RTGI have SSGI built-in

my time to ask for help xD

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/964049/ue4-ui-urgent-freeze-followed-by-system-crash-how.html

if anyone knows how to fix it

already tried unninstalling windows updates

but nothing works

my UE4 is freezed right now btw

[valid trail]

what just happend lol

[pine pecan]

discord in a nutshell

[valid trail]

lol

[charred portal]

Can i ask why grass disappear?

only on places where is little bit of slope

[kindred viper]

sorry wrong channel

[clear shard]

@charred portal Is that grass foliage? There is a settings for the max angle where foliage should still spawn

[charred portal]

@clear shard Its Landscape Grass Type and its spawns when camera is close to it