ue4-general

[winged pier]

let me give it a try

i think i know why actually

because it does work then

i recently made a model of an entire city but if the collission is set to simple

it will just be a box

i think i just need to set the collission to complex

[obsidian onyx]

100 percent from what i had before

[restive yarrow]

someone please let me know how i can get post process settings like this from my player camera manager

[gentle rivet]

Someone could give me a link to a tutorial guide to game with tanks, I plan to make a game where you drive separately (driver's seat) and shoot separately (shooter perspective), but this is not important yet. I just have been looking for a current tutorial for a few days that would explain how to create a game with driving mechanics, or maybe a whole tank right away... but i cant find good (or mby idk how it should looks like). I have almost no experience in EU 4 so I do not know where to start 😛

[leaden dust]

@gentle rivet if you want a simple tank then this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh7pDL8RFaI

@gentle rivet also, to be honest this tutorial isn't great

I would recommend watching some vehicle guides

and apply them to a tank by urself

[gentle rivet]

hm okay thx for the info

[fresh scaffold]

Looking for tutorials or resources that can help me snap sockets on objects for an in game builder. Any suggestions?

[ember quest]

Anyone downloaded new metahumans project? I want to know how much free space I need on my PC

[exotic thicket]

There's a few videos on building systems and such if you look up "ue4 building system" or something along those lines

[fierce tulip]

@ember quest about 5gb

[harsh sparrow]

guys please take a look at this short video,I've been looking for a fix to this problem for a few days now,but no result :(. I don't want the view of the game to be changed when I change the screen resolution.what should I do ? I'm targeting this game for mobiles and I don't want to use constraint aspect ratio as it adds black bars to screen. any help would be appreciated.

[wanton lotus]

Why must maps prevent you from adding the same key more than once? Can't it just throw an error when you compile and still have 2 identical keys? Adding keys to maps is so painful when you constantly need to select a unique key before adding a new one.

[drifting shale]

Hi

Are we allowed to remake really old games?

Should we obtain the license from the old developer/publisher?

[wanton lotus]

Sure, why not? Do you plan to sell it? Only when money is involved (or your game gets large enough) is when you may run into legal issues.

[drifting shale]

Yes I plan to sell it

[wanton lotus]

Then you may want to contact the original developer. If you are using it as inspiration to create your own fresh game, then you are all good.

[drifting shale]

Think of it like remaking GTA San Andreas and selling it..

[wanton lotus]

If you are going to make a 1 to 1 copy of it, then there will be legal issues when you want to sell it.

Nothing to stop you from taking the open-world GTA concept and using it for your own though.

[drifting shale]

Alright

[fierce tulip]

unless the gameplay element or other aspects are patented.

[wanton lotus]

Ah, yes. Good call. @drifting shale might want to also looks into any patents on gameplay mechanics. GTA is a big franchise and there may have been patents (243 of them) made regarding it.

That site required a trial to view those patents, removed the link.

[dusky inlet]

I feel this so hard. When I worked for articy I implemented a customization for a struct that of course also needed to support maps. By mistake I could add two of the same value due to the way the value was represented. When compiling it would remove the 2nd copy though. I left it as is because it seemed perfect to me lol

In my first larger Project in which I managed input state I had huge maps of states and bools to formulate action state logic, that was painful

[wanton lotus]

Yes, that is exactly how the engine should handle it. Compile and remove it for you or report error so user goes and removes it. I am almost thinking of removing maps just because they are difficult to setup in the editor. Arrays too, how they collapse the view when you add new items to it.

I had to give the users the option to use datatables just because they are easier to visually see your edits.

[exotic thicket]

makes me wonder what epic uses internally given how buggy some of the editors for data types are

[marble delta]

@wanton lotus Why would you want to generate a compile time error when the error can be prevented at input time? Should the UIMin/UIMax controls also let you input inappropriate numbers and then clamp them at compile time? Should blueprints allow connecting incompatible pins and then only warn you at compile time? The earlier that you can flag issues the better since the user will be closer to the headspace of the error. The whole point of a map is a 1 : 1 correspondence, a user should be directed to modifying the existing value.

[wanton lotus]

Okay, so I do a map of Enum to Whatever. You setup your Enum and then go to populate the map. Every new item will default to the first item in the Enum. If you setup that first item, you can never add another item to the map. This forces you to setup the initial enum last or not at all. If you choose not at all, this forces you to create a blank enum, which should not be needed.

This is the same for all types of maps. Forcing you to populate them in a specific order, not necessarily the order the user prefers.

Setting up an array or map in specific orders is a good thing as it can make searches more efficient.

I would rather I be allowed to make the map in the same order as my Enums, instead of being forced to create "workarounds"

[steady zodiac]

So I want to dynamically add a blueprint to an existing actor that displays a niagara system. Should the bp be an actor component or scene component?

[peak vigil]

Guys, when I open some meshes in Soul Calibur 6 with Umodel my Umodel crashed

It shows an error like this:
ERROR: Package "texture/nude_r016_momo_NORMAL.uasset": wrong name index 992968462
UnPackage::SerializeFName: pos=000AB13E <- UTexture2D::Serialize4 <- UTexture2D::Serialize <- LoadObject: Texture2D'nude_r016_momo_NORMAL.nude_r016_momo_NORMAL', pos=AB13E, ver=513/0 (unversioned), game=ue4.17 <- UObject::EndLoad <- LoadWholePackage: inner_r016_f_H_Hip.uasset <- CUmodelApp::ShowPackageUI <- Main: umodel_build=1504

[wanton lotus]

Take arrays for example. When I know I need that array to have 10 items, I can add all 10 at once, then set them up with them all expanded and not deal with the collapsing view after adding items.
For a map, you don't get that luxury. So really, the main problem is the view collapsing every time a new item is added.

I could deal with input prevention if the view would remain expanded for easier input.

[stiff verge]

if a render target is out of sight, is it cooking?

if I have two different render targets but they aren't visible at the same time.. is this heavier than having one?

[marble delta]

I see what you're saying. I agree that the Map Editor UI does leave something to be desired there. I'd prefer some sort of universal 'Unset' key option that works for all map types over an allowance for duplicated keys. I have also been annoyed at not being able to add multiple entries before configuring them.
Setting up a map in a specific order should be irrelevant to search efficiencies though. Assuming the hash is "good" the map will look basically the same regardless of order of element insertion.

[wanton lotus]

Render targets will always be rendering their target until you tell it not to.

[stiff verge]

so I could, based on player orientation, tell it to stop cooking

[wanton lotus]

Ah, yes, "unset" would be ideal.

[wanton lotus]

Yeah, basically you deactivate the camera tied to the render target.

[stiff verge]

great, at least it's possible

[wanton lotus]

The render target should still display the last texture the camera created, since that texture should still exist.

[stiff verge]

i wish I wasn't stuck in 4.19 for my trick to work.. I'm using render targets as portal in VR so I need stereo

oh that's even better if it displays the last texture created

[plush yew]

wow that was really cool

[wanton lotus]

You may even be able to use something like WasRecentlyRendered directly on the actor displaying the render target texture instead of testing player orientation.

[sterile tulip]

hello guys

I have downloaded this pack, however it is in the wrong version 4.25. I need it in 4.26 but I dont know how

[stiff verge]

@wanton lotus oh you mean.. if "a rock" was recently rendered in my view.. I disable something else that would be behind the character?

that's useful.. might be easier and strictly better as I wouldn't need some orientation range in which the target is disabled

[wanton lotus]

I mean the portal itself. Since the portal uses the render target texture right? If the portal is not being rendered, you can turn off the scene capture camera that supplies that portal with its texture.

[hearty walrus]

What's causing my terrain to look like this?

[wanton lotus]

So use WaRecentlyRendered on the portal actor. If it is false, you turn off its scene capture camera.

[stiff verge]

ahh so.. the camera tied to the render target portal could only be enabled when "WasRecentlyRendered" is True

makes sense yeah

i wonder if this is already implemented in the plugin I use

[wanton lotus]

Ah, yes, going that route works better. I was thinking opposite, hehe.

[stiff verge]

maybe the issue with this would be that there is a 1 frame delay until it's active?

[wanton lotus]

Possibly. If not, I'm sure the creator would love to make their plugin more efficient. Might as well ask them.

[stiff verge]

I posted twice on the github and got no response.. unfortunately it's an old project

I'm surprised that there is not a recent working plugin for this since it's such a simple and strong effect..

[wanton lotus]

I doubt anyone would ever notice a single frame, hehe

[stiff verge]

performance heavy but still..

[wanton lotus]

Oh wait, you did say VR, right? if framerate gets low, they may notice something

[stiff verge]

I spent 2-3 days looking around for solutions and the best I got was this.. that works in 4.19 and for some reason it's broken when I compile it.
https://github.com/FreetimeStudio/PortalPlugin

[wanton lotus]

But if framerate is low, they are puking before they notice that one frame off, haha.

[stiff verge]

yeah I hope I can get away with this

i mean.. this won't run on just any machine.. I have the control over which machine will play it since it's not for a game

[wanton lotus]

Gotcha, so no worries then.

[stiff verge]

to me atm the biggest barrier of entry is that older projects are often not supported in newer versions.. 😦

so much potential is lost over the years this way

[dark ridge]

Does anyone here operate Unreal Engine on a MacBook?

[dreamy lake]

Ever since I upgraded from 4.26 to 4.26.1 my editor has started making the popout menu see through - Highly frustrating, have to restart the editor each time it starts to do it - anyone else experiencing this, and anyone knows of any potential ways to fix it ?

[spare kernel]

Turn of animated menus and lock the windows task bar

are two common fixes

[brazen sail]

I am working on an animation blueprint, this is my code but every time i run the game it keeps giving me errors and the player movement animations are also not displayed

These are the errors

[wanton lotus]

Move the cast to your update event.

[brazen sail]

I did try that but then the execution flow stops after the casting

[wanton lotus]

Update event will trigger a few times before the begin play triggers. You can try saving the cast result to a variable, then in update check if variable is valid before setting those floats. Same thing though.

[rigid belfry]

how do i bind the event dispatcher "died" to this node? i want my gamemode to listen to this event and do stuff if "died" triggers

[wanton lotus]

Even better, use TryGetPawnOwner instead. Looks like you aren't getting anything specific from your character. Pawn will have those as well.

TryGetPawnOwner is a node specifically used in animation blueprints to get the owner of the animation blueprint.

[brazen sail]

tried that but no luck

When i connected IsValid to the rest of the code the execution flow stops at is Valid

Also dunno if this important but every time I select my animation blueprint it adds a " _c " at the end

[rigid belfry]

do widgets get constructed everytime i remove from parent? isn't there a better way to close a widget without losing previously stored variables?

[spare kernel]

set it invisible

[wanton lotus]

That bind node you would use in your game mode. In the screenshot, where you check the health, you want to call the dispatcher. And you can just call it right before you destroy actor.

[brazen sail]

The errors are gone but there are no visible animations being played for walking

[wanton lotus]

Not even an idle animation? TryGetPawnOwner is definitely the correct node to use.

[brazen sail]

Idle animation is playing

[dapper quest]

in version 5 is there an option to use controller for the editor

[wanton lotus]

You will need to check your blend space and make sure min/max values are correctly setup for your character's speed.

[wanton lotus]

Can also add a print string in the animBP update event to see what values you are getting.

[brazen sail]

I did a print String for the speed values and i am getting just 1 even when i'm moving

[wanton lotus]

Wait, you need to get vector length of the velocity, not forward vector. Current forward vector is normalized and will always return 1.

[plush yew]

im trying to reverse an anim montage using playing rate -1

but it doesnt work

any idea?

[brazen sail]

Oh thank you I completely missed that

Just went with the flow

[wanton lotus]

Did you set the time to start? Default is 0 and playing a montage in reverse from 0 will instantly complete it.

[plush yew]

that makes a lot of sense

[wanton lotus]

Plug montage sequence length into time to start.

[plush yew]

wrong node then?

[wanton lotus]

Ah, probably. Looks like that one is limited. No additional details to expose more pins?

Nvm, I see the details tab there

[plush yew]

yea I got the wrong one

idk why

this one better 😄

[wanton lotus]

Yeah, that is the robust one. Handle notifys too.

[plush yew]

whats the montage sequence length?

cant find it

[wanton lotus]

Make montage to play a variable and you can get it from that variable.

Then right before you play the montage, you can use a set node to set the appropriate montage.

[plush yew]

dont understand this part 😅

[wanton lotus]

Ah, wait, that starting position is normalized I think. Just set it to 1.0, which should represent the end of the montage.

[plush yew]

nope setting it to 1 doesnt work properly haha

starting position is the frames or seconds?

[wanton lotus]

Then it must be sequence length. I can help you setup the variable, will get you a screenshot, one moment.

[plush yew]

thanks 😄

[spare kernel]

playrate -1 reverses animation for me 🤷

[plush yew]

it does in the right node yea

[wanton lotus]

First, promote to variable:

Then setup looks something like this:

Use the set node to choose the montage instead of setting it directly in the play montage node. Play rate should be -1.0 of course, I forgot that. You could also utilize starting sections. Make one at the very end of the montage and give it a name, then use that name.

[spare kernel]

i just made a reverse montage and set the sequence to -1

works just as good

[plush yew]

@wanton lotus doesnt work for some reason haha

@spare kernel it kinda works but it plays to fast or something idk

[spare kernel]

-1 just plays at the same

i don't see speed differences

[plush yew]

ah no my bad wrong pin haha

[wanton lotus]

Double check it matches your other montages play rate

Ah, I was thinking other montage might have actually been set to 0.8 or something similar, hehe

[plush yew]

nah i plugged the node into playrate instead of starting pos on accident haha

but that works thanks 😄

[sterile lichen]

Is there any log or way to profile number of loaded assets (wold be happy to see a simple log of assets that gets loaded from disk when actor is spawned)
Asset map does not show all assets that are loaded when actor spawns and i don't see any place to enable logging to see each loaded asset

[lusty carbon]

I keep getting these pinkish walls in the bake, they are fully white and so is the floor

HDRI has no pink in it and this only happens on the walls.

[wanton lotus]

You just removed your other question, but I got a screenshot for you showing the options. I'm sure you know how to lock taskbar, but the other settings are advanced system settings in performance options.

[dreamy lake]

Yeah its already locked though, and windows arent animated - this only started happening in 4.26.1 though - havent experienced this at all before

[dense knoll]

How do you fix Translucent Materials screwing over other transparent materials

like a water plane

it hides clouds

and Particles render over the water

how do you prevent this?

[dreamy lake]

Thats Slashin8r will test those settings actually

[stiff verge]

That's my VR FPS counter displayed in headset for testing.. I'd like to round that to the units and have it flicker a bit less.. any tips?

by flciker I mean.. it looks like this atm.

[dreamy lake]

Truncate the value to round it down

then under class defaults set the tick interval to a number you desire, or create er a timer 🙂

[stiff verge]

I'd do it in python if I could.. I started unreal last week lol

I guess it was easy lol

so light green means float, teal means integer and pink is string?

could I replace the event tick for something that gets refreshed once per second?

[lusty carbon]

??

[dreamy lake]

That is correct 🙂

[dreamy lake]

And yeah you can, there are timer functions, one sec

If you use this here then you can designate which event it should use

[stiff verge]

so I think I,d need the event tick to get the actual time a frame needs to cool but I'd use the timer with the white inlet of the set node to only "bang" that info once a sec

[dreamy lake]

by selecting it here

Otherwise bind an event to a timer like this

you can use this to get the delta:

Which in this case is the same as In Delta Time

[stiff verge]

not sure how that gives me one refresh every second

[dreamy lake]

Set the time on Set Timer Event to 1 and then set it to Looping

[stiff verge]

ah wait.. could I launch the timer using the tick on start red thing?

[dreamy lake]

Wait

[stiff verge]

hmm I can't find the EventBeginPlay in this context

[dreamy lake]

Its called

event construct for widgets

[stiff verge]

ah ok and it's the same?

ohh it's when the widget is constructed..

[stiff verge]

not sure why they didn,t call this Creation.. instead of Construction lol

[dreamy lake]

I usually do this as well, so I can clear and invalidate the timer in case I need it to stop

Or, if you need to pause it etc.

[wanton lotus]

Probably due to programming syntax where people are used to Constructors.

[dreamy lake]

then you'll need a direct reference to it

[lucid grove]

Hey fellas

I know this might be generic question, but maybe you had same problem

So i have this simple scene view with only 80 fps (on gtx 3070)

And more complex this one with 120+

And i can find a reason whats killing it

[dreamy lake]

Have you tried checking shader complexity ?

[lucid grove]

yep, its ok

Moreover the second scene is more complicated

[lusty carbon]

Profile GPU

[lucid grove]

My first gues that its something behind it

[stiff verge]

not sure what the difference is between the red path and the white path

[dreamy lake]

AH yeah

so

[dreamy lake]

You cant do it like that

you have to create a new event

like I did

[stiff verge]

haha yeah I was just trying

[wanton lotus]

Infinite loop of timers, muahahahahaaa

[lucid grove]

Its kicking basebass for some reason, profile GPU does not lead me anywhere ):

[dreamy lake]

Construct only run once as well, and in this case you would call construct over and over, so it would recreate itself (if it was possible)

And the red path

[lusty carbon]

what's "kicking basepass""?

[dreamy lake]

Is binding your event to a function delegate

[stiff verge]

but how do I assign how this new event works?

[dreamy lake]

White one is execution flow

[lusty carbon]

I'd assume it's realtime shadows that cause this

[dreamy lake]

Assign how it works ? What do you mean ? - Like put logic in afterwards ?

[lucid grove]

dont know

[wanton lotus]

Using @dreamy lake's example, you just move your logic from Event Tick to MyEvent.

[stiff bane]

what node is this?

[grim ore]

Float (green) to string (dark pink)

[stiff verge]

hmm ok my issue is that I don't understand what an event is in this context

[dreamy lake]

Events are like an open function

[stiff verge]

to me, a custom event, unless you specifiy what it is.. it won't be anything no?

[stiff bane]

from float to string?

[dreamy lake]

Its essentially just a function

The name doesn't matter really

[stiff bane]

ye seem sthe right one thanks@grim ore 🙂

[stiff verge]

but the function is still empty

[wanton lotus]

You would put your own logic into it. Even if you made a new function, it would start out empty.

[dreamy lake]

This here will have MyEvent fire every 1 second - and print Hello

[stiff verge]

ohh the custom event is what will run (the white flow) when the timer is over?

so once the timer is done, it will print?

so I need this?

[dreamy lake]

The timer in this case is set to loop - So it'll fire the red string event every 1 second every time it fires off its timer event - it won't run the white line (execution node) again - it only does that once

Don't use the Delta from Event Tick

Use this instead

[stiff verge]

the way this custom event is connected to the timer is unintuitive to me because the event is in inlet.. not an outlet that's what confused me

[dreamy lake]

Other than that, then its correct 🙂

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[dreamy lake]

Yeah I get it, I think I spent like 2 years with unreal before I knew what the Delegate lines were for (red lines), or how they even worked lol

[stiff verge]

and you're saying I should use Get World delta seconds because this way I'm pulling this info rather than pushing it constantly

[dreamy lake]

I don't think (could be wrong here) that you can actually grab it from the tick function, since its not part of the execution flow (the white line) from tick itself.

Think of these events like functions, the Delta Time from Tick is an input coming from that function specificly, and you aren't using tick in this case to run your logic

So you would want to just grab the delta time from the getter instead

[stiff verge]

ah makes sense

it did work with the event tick

[dreamy lake]

Ah :p

[stiff verge]

but it makes more sense to use the get value

well thanks

[dreamy lake]

plus you could turn off tick in this case if you aren't going to use it to get slightly better performance, and just use the getter xD

\o/ - you're welcome 🙂

[stiff verge]

yeah

[dreamy lake]

Also

you should be able to convert int to text directly, instead of converting it back to a float, no ?

[stiff verge]

makes sense

the int back to float was added automatically because I didn't change the toText function

but there's one for ints

[dreamy lake]

Just in case you didn't want the decimals :p

[grim ore]

what you can also do is go right to text from the float ( and use the advanced options to limit the # of digits)

click the drop down on the To Text node

[stiff verge]

what I had at first was an update at every frame with the whole float and that just made the number harder to read

ohh wait I understand what you meant

you can convert a function node in some cases.. good to know

[timber steeple]

Hey guys quick doubt... Can I rig characters in blender and port it to unreal in fbx?

[stiff verge]

yeah

i know a good video for that workflow.. 1s

[dreamy lake]

I actually didn't know that

very good to know xD

[stiff verge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY4Q8cYBLP8 @timber steeple he covers many possible issues

[timber steeple]

@baron are you telling me?

Ok

Or is it good to learn unreal rigging

I learnt blender rigging a little

[stiff verge]

unreal has animations you can use with your characeters.. those will require your blender rig to be compatible

otherwise you can just do all your animations in blender and import them

[timber steeple]

Oho OK... Thanks so much

[stiff verge]

you're welcome.. I was at that step a week ago lol

I'd rather handle most of the creation in blender

if you have funky modifiers and other kind of animations you can export them to alembic to unreal and it works really well

how come the ground height in the default vr template is set to 280?

[timber steeple]

Hey I have a nice 2060 card. Nice recent computer 16gb ram. I am sure my computer can handle lot more than blender right

[stiff verge]

hmm that depends a lot

[timber steeple]

6gb card.

[stiff verge]

i mean for rendering with cycles.. blender would be heavier than a game engine in this case

but yeah you should be able to do stuff

[timber steeple]

But Better 10x than blender

[stiff verge]

blender is not necessarily lighter or easier than unreal it's different

[timber steeple]

I am saying it can handle lot more polygons easily right

[stiff verge]

it's not blender that sets the polygons.. it's what you do

[timber steeple]

That I understand

[stiff verge]

a 2060 is definitely a good starting point in 3d or game developping yeah

[timber steeple]

On the channel YT, I saw the creator telling, it can handle many more polygons...

I am expecting to create bigger scenes in unreal compared to blneder. With average poly cout...

Environments

[stiff verge]

they are completely different

blender is meant for offline rendering

even eevee gets slow when you tweak it to look better

slow compared to a game engine I mean

[timber steeple]

OK...

[stiff verge]

blender is much easier to learn and will give better results easily.. but it won't run like a game

[timber steeple]

Yeah I will model in blender sculpt in zbrush...

Lets say I have modeled some trees some grass....

[stiff verge]

you can sculpt in blender too btw.. depends on what you know best and currently use

[timber steeple]

When compared to blender... I will be able to handle more grass and trees in unreal right

[stiff verge]

like I said.. it depends because they are different

it depends what you're trying to do

[timber steeple]

animation....

not gaming

[stiff verge]

you should use eevee

[timber steeple]

but i dont think i can get so nice renders

photoreal...

[stiff verge]

that would be my best advice if you think cycles is too slow for you.. eevee will solve this.. but getting into unreal will be frustrating.. there are far fewer resources

i don't think unreal looks better than eevee.. idk

and cycles is slower to render.. but much much easier to get good results out of

[next badger]

EEVEE GI and lightmapping is um...

irradiance volumes do not blend between each other...why? just?

[timber steeple]

I dont agree

I think unreal can give photoreal renders in no time...

[next badger]

@timber steeple except...translucent objects

[stiff verge]

i had pretty bad results with translucent so far

@timber steeple unreal and eevee are comparable.. they need to be tweaked to fake a realistic results.. cycles is much much easier to learn at first but of course it's slower

cycles looks amazing right out of the box compared to unreal

[timber steeple]

Donno ....

[spare sun]

its true, Eevee feels lackluster in some areas. Irradiance volumes, particles, nishita sky & displacement support for example.

If you wanna go Cycles then by all means, its pretty good and all features are pretty much supported (aside from things like caustics for which you'd wanna use octane or similar). But between eevee and unreal i'd give unreal the edge simply due to its maturity.

[next badger]

why you keep comparing offline renderer to realtime?

[timber steeple]

I dont want to render so long

[next badger]

out of the box marmoset will tear any rendered like a rug

[timber steeple]

and if unreal can handle many more polys than blender... as the creator says...

I can create far more complex scenes in unreal than in blender...

is it not true?

[next badger]

no...i dont think blender has limitations here

[plush yew]

when I make a 'comment from selection' in BPs, how do I stop the comment stretching horizontally so that I could only see it if I max zoom out?

nvm worked it out

[timber steeple]

for a limited computer like mine(not so limited) unreal can handle more poly count than blender is this true?

What if i wanna use unreal only for rendering...

[main bolt]

Been trying to figure out why this isnt showing my stars would really like some help

[timber steeple]

Thanks for your supprot

[spare sun]

sure you can use unreal only for rendering

if you want to

[stiff verge]

I'd love to try that out eventually.. but I like how cycles look for animations

I'd like to try octane or redshift however

@timber steeple except for making games.. unreal won't allow anything that blender can't do in terms of making your animation look good

[lucid grove]

Hey, another simple question. With world composition - what happens with actors on it when they not loaded?

[timber steeple]

But it renders quickly right

Since it is real time...

and i can quickly do changes....

I think I will figure out ina week

Thanks

[stiff verge]

eevee also renders quickly

it depends how you want to work but.. cycles means you work less and the computer works for you in a way.. even if it takes a week to render every night

the thing with cycles is that it's very easy to get realistic lighting using just a HDRI.. shadows look so good

but yeah it's super slow

[violet sluice]

Hello, sorry for interrupting. I just join the discord server. I'm new on unreal engine. I'm using it a few months. I need help about save/load game. I did some blueprints it's working but i have some issues. Someone can help me who is prof. on unreal engine. I really need help. Thanks a lot.

[timber steeple]

Thanks for the inputs baron. Really helps!

[stiff verge]

you're welcome

[violet sluice]

thanks baron. Can you help me about it?

i need just a little bit help

[stiff verge]

i'm a unreal noob

[violet sluice]

i understand no problem 🙂 me too

[rigid belfry]

2. Be patient when asking for help.

what problem are you having?

[stiff verge]

yeah I'll probably learn from your question too haha

[sharp frigate]

Hello everyone , i am trying to freeze Player character in mid air for 5 seconds after begin play

any idea how i tried turning off gravity on mesh

didn't work

[hollow copper]

Bit of random screwing around with MetaHumans. I'm amazed at how straightforward to use this with LiveLink!

[violet sluice]

firstly, i wanna make a save system like save and continue game system. But when i save my character place doesn't save. i have to show my blueprints

to fix that

[wanton lotus]

Maybe custom time dilation then? Set it to 0 and then a timer sets it back to 1 after 5 seconds.

[sharp frigate]

^ haven't work with time dilation let me try ;D

[rigid belfry]

looks scuffed

i have no idea how metahumans works but i think the sensibility is too high and your mouth stays open too much

[plush yew]

i had the same problem you gotta set gravity scale to 0

im assuming its a character pawn

with the movement component

[sharp frigate]

while

it did

froze time

but i got stuck frozen

in time basically

[dense knoll]

How do you make a actual loading screen, The ASYNC loading plugin doesent allow for much customization so i made my own widget but am wondering how to get it to be a loading screen that shows up instead of a frozen game

[rigid belfry]

i have no other words to put this but, do you want to create something akin to jojo? where time stops for everybody but the player?

[sharp frigate]

Okay let me explain 😄 , When i load my Level my character fall out because of the level streaming delay it doesn't load the collision fast enough so i want the character to be frozen in air for a second to let the level load .

[plush yew]

just spawn it higher or later? 😛

anyway setting gravity scale turns off gravity for that npc

so just use that

[sharp frigate]

when gravity is off do i stay up in mid iar ?

air *

[kindred viper]

aye

[plush yew]

yea

[sharp frigate]

okay let me test this thanks

[plush yew]

thats how gravity works 😛

[kindred viper]

why not just load the character once yo know the level is loaded. There is an event for it

[rigid belfry]

have you read this? https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/SaveGame/index.html

[plush yew]

yea I feel like theres a better way haha

[sharp frigate]

Works !

Thank you so much

[sharp frigate]

i can show you how i save my character location but its not some advanced stuff

[wanton lotus]

Global time dilation freezes everything. I meant this one:

[plush yew]

slash you know of a good way to play anim montages from a behaviourtree?

im just using custom events right

or is that okay too?

[wanton lotus]

I use custom behavior tree tasks which then call custom events, so basically the same thing.

[plush yew]

yea thats how im doing it too thanks 😄

[wanton lotus]

Custom events are the only way I know of to run montages. You can also replicate the montages for multiplayer using custom events.

[plush yew]

not doing multiplayer

[wanton lotus]

Ah, then a lot less to worry about, hehe

[plush yew]

but doing montages for smaller less used animations is better then using an animbp right?

animbp's are more for movement and stuff?

[wanton lotus]

You can technically run everything in the animBP if you are creative with your transitions.

Then just have the game logic change the necessary variables to switch between states.

[plush yew]

seems like a pain haha

[wanton lotus]

All really depends on what you need to do. I tend to use montages for anything linked to a button press, except movement buttons.

[plush yew]

doing ai, so stuff like idling around and eating etc.

[wanton lotus]

Ah, yeah, you mentioned BT. AI I do basically everything but movement in montages, yes.

[plush yew]

ill keep doing it that way too then 😄

got it kinda figured out with blending etc

[wanton lotus]

Seem to have more control over it, so I like it that way.

[dense knoll]

How do you create a loading screen that is created when a map starts loading?

[crimson lake]

hey guys, quick question

is getting all actors from class

from a class that only has one actor

costly at all?

[dense knoll]

It may be more costly depending on how many actors of that class are found

if theres only one actor it will most likely be the same as Get Actor of class

[crimson lake]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkDg9GPpzXE

[crimson lake]

oh shit forgot that exists

thanks

[dense knoll]

I dont mean Stream loading

[crimson lake]

oo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON1_dEHoNDg

that's what you want

sorry

[plush yew]

whats that node called that gets everything in a sphere around you?

[wanton lotus]

If you need to use the "Get * of class" nodes often, make sure to save their results as a variable for later use so the node is actually only called once.

[wanton lotus]

sphere overlapping * (actors or components)

[dense knoll]

Async Loading screen sometimes crashes UE4, so im trying to get it to load a widget instead

[plush yew]

multisphere or sphereoverlap?

[wanton lotus]

multi if you need an array of results.

[crimson lake]

err, level streaming -> UI widget ; level stream done -> remove widget

[plush yew]

or spheretrace?

eek so many options

[earnest violet]

Hi guys! I got a quick question. Basically I have a ai character that has root motion animations of walking forward but it skips back to the beginning of the animation start every 2 secs. Should I be using In place or how do I get it to stop skipping? THX 🙂

[crimson lake]

Spheretrace by channel is what I use

[wanton lotus]

Honestly any of them will work, hehe

So many ways to do the same thing in programming

[plush yew]

multisphere gets ALL objects and spheretrace only gets the first one?

[wanton lotus]

Sphere overlapping will perform a sphere trace, so they are essentially the same

[crimson lake]

yes the first hit will get it

I suggest

you use sphere trace by channel

because then you can set a custom channel

if you want it to hit a certain object

and ignore all others

[plush yew]

ah yea

[earnest violet]

Hi guys! I got a quick question. Basically I have a ai character that has root motion animations of walking forward but it skips back to the beginning of the animation start every 2 secs. Should I be using In place or how do I get it to stop skipping? THX

[crimson lake]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/collision-filtering?sessionInvalidated=true

[plush yew]

then get the array and get a random hit from that I guess will work

[crimson lake]

err

[wanton lotus]

Yes, walking should be in-place and movement then controlled by controller input (whether it is player or ai controller).

[crimson lake]

what are you trying to achieve exactly

[plush yew]

get a bunch of poi's and choose a random one

for ai

[crimson lake]

oooo then

multi sphere trace

is the way to go

with channel

and set all the poi's to block that channel

[plush yew]

I see thanks 😄

[crimson lake]

got u ❤️

[plush yew]

what would I put in end? lol

[wanton lotus]

It can be the same as start.

[plush yew]

actor location is fine?

[wanton lotus]

Yeah, since that is where you want the radius to originate from.

[plush yew]

Something like this?

guess you can set a custom channel somehow 😛

cast failed hm

[plush yew]

lol one actor just refuses to participate

with the same bp and hbt and everything

they all go the same hit location

even tho its not synced

thats odd

[sly vine]

hey guys i really need help with my project

its started to get crash after i play , since then each time i start the project file

its get crash

[plush yew]

If I don’t want to use particularly complex physics and want to incorporate dynamic gravity so that my character can run on walls should I just do use pawn instead of character?

[kindred viper]

I'd use a regular pawn most of the time. If you want custom movement functionality it's often better to start from scratch than modify the CMC. But that being said, you can use it and save some coding. But tweaking with extra functionality might take more time than starting from a base.

[grim ore]

@sly vine you will need to install the editor symbuls for debugging and crash it again to get a real crash log, this log will not help. its in the launcher, the drop down next to launch,. and options

[sly vine]

thanks i will check it and i will report you thank a lot

[topaz tangle]

Is there a way to unpackage a game I made myself ages back?

I lost the project files for it and everything.. 2yrs of work down the drain, all I have left is a google drive link to the actual game package.

[robust oar]

tewst

oh hey

is it possible to code with visual studio code instead of visual studio 2019

visual studio 2019 is so heavy. even with my ryzen 2700x it takes alot of time

[sly vine]

@topaz tangle hey bro with my experience in unreal engine , you cannot restore packaged work .

you may get the models by using the umodel tool but nothing else.

[plush yew]

tomatos?

[spare sun]

@robust oar should work. Not sure whether it's gonna be faster though, ue4 codebase is.. huge.

[grim ore]

If VS is too heavy for you, look at Rider (its in beta right now) as an alternative. In the end tho VS is the suggested IDE for use with UE4 and Windows.

[marsh swallow]

has anyone worked with the water enough that they have created an in depth tutorial. I am having a few issues and I am not sure if they are limitations or not

mainly with the water and post processing underwater not being as wide as the water and the overlaps/collisions seems kinda.... weird.

[sly vine]

@grim ore problem solved once i installed the symbols thank a lot .

[dense girder]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/355382295613538305/810616180250640464/edfcf180deded04208ca5ed8418425e5.png

first ever creation

smile

[mortal cedar]

found a solution to hidden bones having no shadow. Attach an invisible egg to the head to act a dummy shadow. Hes now an egg head

[robust oar]

@spare sun The last word sums it up...so I guess I cant get around the load times 😅

[mortal cedar]

man without head has shadow. spooky 👻 .

[jolly oak]

Is there a way to mirror a camera view? I'm making a camera that projects onto a plane, but I want the image to be flipped, similar to how various phone's front cameras mirror the preview photo

[grim ore]

scale the plane in a negative direction should flip it

[jolly oak]

I'll try that out. Thanks!

[rigid belfry]

is there something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFXMW_UEDco but up to date?

[plush yew]

whats wrong here?

[grim ore]

not really but the concepts are still valid. learn.unrealengine.com would have updated content but I dont recall any "generic BP" courses @rigid belfry

[plush yew]

just spawns inside them

[grim ore]

if you are snapping, then you probably dont want any transform when you spawn it

[plush yew]

but its needs a transform to spawn

[lucid grove]

Hello @grim ore whats the most common reason that particles keeps visible even it they out of bounds?

[spare kernel]

@plush yew you can just split the transform pin

and leave nothing connect 😄

[spare kernel]

but you have not shown the issue

[plush yew]

still spawns up their ass lol

[spare kernel]

well what is your socket location?

draw a debugsphere on the socket location

[plush yew]

not there lol

[nimble moat]

Ive just enabled ray tracing for my project and upon restart the editor is pinning my cpu to 100% is this normal?

[spare kernel]

@nimble moat compiling shaders likely

[nimble moat]

Ah thanks

[spare kernel]

but your attaching it to self

not to the mesh

you want attachtocomponent

[plush yew]

ohh

[grim ore]

yep ^^ was just about to say that

[plush yew]

that works haha

thanks 😛

[wanton lotus]

No more crappy coffee?

[sly vine]

@grim ore i have another error while package my project (android)

Error: Shader compiler returned a non-zero error code (-1073740940).

[grim ore]

see if the output log shows the shader with the issue

[lucid grove]

I have bounds set to minimum to see if it works, but its still on the screen

Just notcied that ALL my particles is visible in editor no matter how far they are

[topaz tangle]

well if i cant recover it, is there a flight system similar to this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKyzth08cO0

that anyone has made

[grim ore]

are you trying to set the culling distance for the particles?

[sly vine]

nothing else just it

[grim ore]

thats weird

@lucid grove are you trying to set the area that the particles spawn in, or the culling distance?

[lucid grove]

Culling distance

[grim ore]

yep thats different, bound are the area it spawns in

[marsh swallow]

The post process on the water only seems to work inside this area. Is that resizeable? its not even the size of the ocean. lol

[true falcon]

do you have far water material? then it does cover your ocean. Try the tile size under water brush actor I think it is

[grim ore]

@lucid grove the LOD determines if its going to draw it or not. If you go into the particle in the world, go to the Rendering -> LOD section, then change the desired max draw distance you can set its max distance for drawing. Keep in mind this only works in simulate/play/game mode

[sterile tulip]

how do I move this wheel asset inside the blueprint

[marsh swallow]

i tried the far water material, but that seems more of a distance visual, rather than Colluision/underwater. Ill takea look at the tile size

[sterile tulip]

in transform there is only option to change scale

[true falcon]

you roll it there obvs

[lucid grove]

Got it, thank you

[grim ore]

you have to mak sure you test in (G)ame mode or in play tho, editor wont work

[sterile tulip]

how @true falcon

[true falcon]

No what I mean is that the part that's not covered by the underwater post process is probably the far water portion

[marsh swallow]

ohhh

gotcha. i had not set far water... i dont think

while i am liking a lot of the features of the water, there is a few limitations kind of irritating atm. i really should have read and tested a bit more before migrating to an experimental plugin.

😄

Found em!

[clever axle]

Is there a way to curve focus distance in sequencer?

[plush yew]

random behaviourtree task by setting random int right?

no idea why it doesnt work

[sharp frigate]

Hey anyone have suggestions ? Tried building lightning currently have 6200 only built 200 the rest are foliage

[true falcon]

I feel like the new water system is really really good. it's just that's a bit complicated atm so it's hard to know how to accomplish things. There's very few limitations afaik, except maybe world composition (but think someone worked around that)

[marsh swallow]

theres about 4-5 of them

all listed in the Deep Dive video

trust me, i cant complain about its blending and many other features. 😄 its fantastic

but i am having a hell of a time getting underwater/collisions to work at large scale on these maps.

[true falcon]

like what? I saw that but some things he said seems not correct and others there are workarounds for

awesome presentation though

[marsh swallow]

landscape has to be centered on the map

[marsh swallow]

and uniform scale otherwise the render targets do not work correctly

[sterile tulip]

how do I remove this white thing from my actor bp

[marsh swallow]

we use WC, so our landscape scale is 100x100xXXX depending

[true falcon]

I'll give you the landscale scale issues and some height limitations 🙂

[marsh swallow]

haha

which is mainly what i THINK my problems are here.

[plush yew]

ah I found out the problem

this bp always starts at 0

no idea why tho

[true falcon]

the biggest problem is having a landscape whose baseline is below the 50% height the ocean sits at. Can be fixed by raising it

[grim ore]

@sterile tulip that white thingy is an editor thingy that is tied to the default scene root. Replace it with a new scene root or something else. Its just to indicate where that item is in the editor

[plush yew]

got any idea mathew?

[true falcon]

like in world creator seafloor should be at like 40% range and land around 50%

[grim ore]

why what?

I mean your default in the blackboard is probably 0 right?

[marsh swallow]

So here is the other thing i noticed. Post Process Depth on the water. Only goes so far down. So to increase it, you have to adjust the Z scale of the WaterBody. Problem when you do that is the collision box goes upwards in scale

[plush yew]

idk theres no default

[marsh swallow]

so if you have water under landscape and you begin walking into it, you trigger the ActorBeginOverlap before actually touching the water

[plush yew]

but I guess int's always default to 0?

[marsh swallow]

So i am resizing the PostProcess incorrectly? or is that just a current "thing"

lol

[true falcon]

ugh, hmm, might be not finished :)) could you just set the size manually in blueprint?

[plush yew]

ugh how do I fix this

[marsh swallow]

well thats the weirdest part though. lol. There is NOTHING in the BP to set. lol

[true falcon]

but the ocean has an underwater post process. Just access that directly?'

[marsh swallow]

this whole system is built on a splineComponent

it does.

hmmmm, lemme see if its exposed to access

[true falcon]

it must have some logic to resize it after the curves etc. but probably only initially, should be settable later

esp on beginplay

[grim ore]

@plush yew the blackboard doesnt have a default?

it doesnt.. I literally never realized they dont lol

[plush yew]

dont think so, and even if it does it doesnt change they all do the same task first 😛

[grim ore]

might need to debug then on the return to see why its returning 0 or using 0 then. If its showing 0 then maybe some of your AI are skipping that task?

I guess technically there is nothing stopping you from making a task that is literally the first thing ran that initializes BB variables

[plush yew]

i guess it has to have a default value

wich is 0

[marsh swallow]

okay so with this setup. the landscape is CLOSE to center, and set to 100x100x100 and the WaterBody_Ocean Collision Extent is like 150K x 150K and its working.

[plush yew]

and on the very first frame

it chooses a task from int 0 1 or 2

[grim ore]

well yeah it has to have a default and it would be 0 yep

[marsh swallow]

However, from my testing, as soon as i set the landscape as it should be for 200x200x254.7 its going to break

[stiff verge]

I'm messing around with volumetric fog.. is tehre a way to have it only show within a cube?

[marsh swallow]

and post process will no longer work @true falcon

[plush yew]

int value == 0 1 or 2 etc

could just make a dummy task? lol

[grim ore]

to do what?

[plush yew]

to do nothing

[sterile tulip]

thanks

how do you disable motion blur for a single object

I want everything to produce motion blur except 1 object

[wanton lotus]

Yeah, just add a wait task somewhere and have that run when int is 0. Then never set it to 0 during runtime.

[plush yew]

yup thats what I did 😛

annoying tho

[wanton lotus]

BT/BB is pretty annoying until you get used to the little quirks like that, hehe

[marsh swallow]

Nevermind... this time it worked

[nimble moat]

Does anyone know if level sequence is tied to FPS? when my fps drops it throws the entire level sequencer out of sync?

[stiff verge]

hmm it shouldn't be

fps drop should skip frames and keep time constant, right?

otherwise the timeline would be all weird all the time

[wary wave]

guess it depends on what is getting out of sync

if you're getting really bad frame drops (let's say 1 second) and you have triggers set up to trigger at 1.05 seconds and another at 1.1 seconds, then both will be triggered at 2.0 seconds and bad things are gonna happen

[nimble moat]

@stiff verge thats what i thought too, but i just tested and found something out, it only goes out of sync when NOT in increments of 60, so if my fps is 60fps its fine, 120fps fine, 80fps completely out of sync and sluggish

[stiff verge]

weird

[pseudo bane]

Hey has anyone had issues with not being able to Add Content packs to projects in 4.26?

I'm trying to add a content pack to a project, but there arent any packages or features listed when i do. It still works in 4.25.4 for me...

Same when I start a new project, now I've lost all template options...

I was able to open the Archvis 4.26 template, and I've been working in that, so not sure why it suddenly disconnected or how to get those back?

[stray compass]

?

[wanton lotus]

Can anyone explain this to me? So I downloaded my latest marketplace update, but the projectiles don't work at first. Then all I do is compile and save a few of the core files and it suddenly works.

[spare kernel]

@topaz tangle use the job board to look for people. Check #instructions

[stiff verge]

pretty circle window... blocky shadow.. what's that?

[pseudo bane]

Does anyone know how to retrieve the 4.26 Template and FeaturePacks? I think when I updated to 4.26.1 they were somehow deleted because they're no longer in my EpicGames/UE_4.26 folder. Bizarre because when I first downloaded 4.26 I was able to launch an ArchVis template project, so at some point they vanished. I've already verified the 4.26.1 engine inthe Launcher

[stiff verge]

so even between 4.26 and 4.26.1 it's tricky to salvage assets? wow

[sharp sleet]

My doubt is that the circles hit box is not round

[pseudo bane]

I dont know, its gone tho

[pseudo bane]

I went to add a thirdperson template to it and there was nothing

[stiff verge]

@sharp sleet I just uploaded this as fbx to my scene.. how can I edit or even view the hit box? can't it just use the original geo?

[pseudo bane]

Then tried to start a new project and realized there were no tempaltes

[stiff verge]

hmm there are templates in 4.26.1

[sharp sleet]

Depends how the fbx is made...... you could try using blender to edit the circles hit box

[stiff verge]

i made the fbx using blender

[sharp sleet]

What did you do at the circle then

[sharp sleet]

I see. Did you try to rebuild the lighting?

[stiff verge]

yeah it's built using production quality

maybe there's a shadow resolution somewhere?

[nimble moat]

it's your lightmap resolution i believe

you need a correctly unwrapped lightmap and you can adjust its resolution accordingly in the engine

[stiff verge]

ohh there's a resolution setting there let me try

i changed it to 4k x 4k and it's still blocky so it's something else

[rigid belfry]

is there a way to see how a blueprint is executing its nodes?

[nimble moat]

print strings, thats how i do it

[stiff verge]

@rigid belfry you can add prints in the blueprint and you can also visualize data path while it's running if you keep the window open

[true falcon]

Hmm, weird, probably will need to do some debugging :/

[marsh swallow]

that time it worked btw. lol

but now lakes wont work. Time to play around and why that is. 😂

[true falcon]

lakes only work if the landscape you added is in the waterbrush layer

well, lakes will only subtract from that layer

[stiff verge]

@sharp sleet weird how the hand is fine.. so it's definitely related to the wall itself

[nimble moat]

can anyone point me in the right direction to turn off RTX in game? something the user can do

[vocal swift]

Hi, I have an issue with landscape splines not deforming the landscape at certain parts of the map, but when I come there and move them a bit or just click and look at them for a bit the landscape corrects itself. But when I Play in Editor it stays undeformed, and if I fix one and move over to the other place where this happens, once its fixed there it'll reappear somewhere else. Am I using too many splines? How do I fix this?

[devout thistle]

I was wondering where is the best place to start learning this from scratch? I have attempted learning UE at least 10 times in the past several years, along with several other engines. I keep coming back to the unreal engine.

[plush yew]

I like video, so YouTube and Udemy.

[devout thistle]

My hopping around has been my downfall. I should be able to so things by now. So I am starting from scratch.. "Hello World!" if you will.

[nimble moat]

UE4 infinite runner tutorial is really good

[rigid belfry]

learn.unrealengine.com

[plush yew]

@devout thistle Some of my best investments were $15 for a "C++ Beginner and Beyond" and $15 for a "Multiplayer Games in Unreal Engine" courses on Udemy

[devout thistle]

I am so mad right now... Thank you

[vocal swift]

I second this, made a solo gamejam game out of it

[devout thistle]

I learned C and C++ and several other languages when I first started. I need to relearn them cause I do not use them.

[rigid belfry]

i might consider the c++ course. i have never coded with c++ but i know c#. how beginner are we talking?

[dusky inlet]

@vocal swift haven't seen this before, might be related to the layer system?
Anybody here with more landscape experience wanting to weigh in? @noble finch (hope you don't mind me pinging you)

[plush yew]

It starts out very basic, and gets deep enough to inflict pain https://www.udemy.com/course/beginning-c-plus-plus-programming/

I'm happy with it

You'll probably be familiar with the first couple chapters since you have programming experience, but there's still a couple good C++ nuggets he touches on along the way

[waxen raven]

I'd only pay 10 but yeah, that dude is incredibly good at walking through it all.

[rigid belfry]

thanks. do you know if theres anything similiar related to blueprints? i've come to realize unreal works best when both c++ and bp are used togheter

[devout thistle]

I learned programming from https://www.wibit.net/

[waxen raven]

Honestly not as big of a fan of the Looman one though. At least from what I remember of it.

[plush yew]

Most video tutorials you'll find are on BP, I don't think you'll have trouble finding material on that.

But sorry no, I don't have any specific recommendations.

[devout thistle]

it was the only one I actually finished everything

as you can probably tell, I get distracted easily

[plush yew]

Actually I can say that this course https://www.udemy.com/course/unrealengine-cpp focuses on C++ development, but the author often implements things first in BP. That's all I can personally recommend, but like I mentioned, I doubt you'll have trouble finding resources for BP.

[waxen raven]

Honestly it can be hard to access a lot in BP, though Jeff T on Udemy has some bp multiplayer stuff.

[plush yew]

Yeah, this is the Tom Looman tutorial.

[devout thistle]

I have even considered doing an actual college program, just to keep me on track

[waxen raven]

I did the gamedev one on it, but you really need the C++ to go through that. It's a rough course no lie.

[plush yew]

UE is hard 😅

[devout thistle]

BP?

[plush yew]

Blueprint

[sleek spear]

i am trying to make the neo kinect plugin work with a mixamo skeletal mesh instead of the ue mannequin skeleton. how do i do that. or can i easily translate something that works with one skeleton to another?

[plush yew]

I'm not sure specifically, but I know "retargeting" is the search term if you want to share animations across different skeletal meshes

[drowsy compass]

Control + L isn't working for some reason. Any ideas?

[sleek spear]

@plush yew ok thanks, will check it out

[digital steeple]

Inside my char_bp i want to get the world.location of a diff BP. How do I directly communicate without using level.bp or line traces?

Wow nm I got it

[knotty heron]

can you not change this meshes material?

The material i choose in the index just turns out with the default mat

[vocal swift]

maybe try overwriting it by setting the intended material thru construction script or begin play

using the set material node

[deft raven]

Hi anyone know a tutorial for create a battle system like total war or even mount and blade, where the player control units of AI? And enemy AI attack with in groups?

[plush yew]

My understanding is that the main camera triggers volumes (post processing, audio, etc.) and I'm testing a camera positioned really far away...

I don't want to make my volumes huge in response to this decision — is there a way to set a different actor to trigger these volumes?? (I'm trying to avoid having to create custom events to enable volumes on player collider overlap, and am hoping I can just set a new default trigger actor.)

[elder moat]

hey y'all what do you think the best velocity for a bullet is? (I simply just want a bullet which keeps travelling in a straight line), currently it's just 3000 at the X but it makes it like go downwards instead of straight ahead

[wanton lotus]

Turn off the gravity in the projectile movement component.

[elder moat]

ohh alr

[wanton lotus]

Projectile Gravity Scale is what it is called specifically. Set it to 0.

[elder moat]

Alright, thanks

[wanton lotus]

If you do want gravity to affect it, you can keep it on and set velocity much higher. Bullet speed can vary between 600 and 5000 feet per second, which in UE terms is 18000 to 152000 cm per second.

[elder moat]

Ooo, alright, thanks

[plush yew]

doesnt really fast projectiles have issues not registering

theres a solution for that tho

[magic lantern]

Hello I have a problem with rotate system. I am using Blendspace 2d (not blendspace 1d) and controller yaw is off. When I am looking the charact from the front from the anathor side the character isn't turning to your camera view side it is glitching. But I want do same system with last of us. Viz when I am looking the character from any side character should turn to your camera view side slowly and with animation. But not automatically. It should rotate when I press w/a/s/d.

[vital plinth]

Hi there, Anyone know of a good way to seamlessly connect these edges together using unreals new mesh tools? Thanks in advance.

[timid spade]

what would i connect object to?

im trying to run an event in the widget that makes a loading circle appear for a second every time the user reloads

[grim ore]

you would connect the object to it

what is AmmoMagCounter

[thick nebula]

Hello guys!

I want to get more familiar with databases

And I wanted to ask you if I can use databases like these in a unreal project

[grim ore]

depends on the database and the skill of the programmer and how you want to "use it"

but yes is the general answer

[thick nebula]

Alright, cool ,thank you

[grim ore]

and that database would not be used in "unreal" but it would be on the server and that server would feed the data to unreal. seeing as how that is a wow database it would be used the same way wow uses it

[thick nebula]

yea

That's the goal

[brisk tide]

Hi all, might be a noob question 🙂 I have bought a 3D model tree in uasset format: https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/plant/flower/2021-pbr-common-rhododendron-collection

Now I copied the downloaded folder into my content folder. When I open my unreal and go to that folder in my Content browser, I see the mesh with all correct textures, but when I drag it onto my editor, it loses its textures. The same with its materials, when I open the folder, I see them properly. But as soon as click them, they are gone. What am I doing wrong?

[grim ore]

what does it look like when you double click on the mesh in the content browser

[plush yew]

Are the shaders Compiled?

[brisk tide]

it just goes grey

[grim ore]

show a screenshot of the mesh editor window, when you double click the mesh

[plush yew]

how complicated would it be to integrate the als v4 systems into a base unreal engine third person blueprint D:

[grim ore]

im betting the folder you put it in was not the same folder it was in the base project

[plush yew]

i cant seem to find any noteable tutorials on that

pom pom pom pompom

tomatos?

thats how this feels lol xD

[brisk tide]

ok, putting up a small video, 2 mins.

[grim ore]

you can just show the screenshot. Im guessing you need to re hook up all the connections if you didnt put it in the right place

[plush yew]

the als systems seem to have mostly the same bones with purple ik bones o-o;

to the base mannequin

[brisk tide]

Its in my content folder

for the current project I am workingon.

[plush yew]

@grim ore can I ask whats with the tomatos in your intro? 😛

[grim ore]

nothing special, just a random word

[plush yew]

wheres the audioclip from?

[grim ore]

one of my kids

[plush yew]

omg thats adorable

[grim ore]

none of those are the static mesh editor, the bush itself

[plush yew]

you really be here posting photos of your monitor 😛

[gleaming creek]

The "tomatoes" always sounds wrong to me because it's the American(?) pronunciation

[tardy basin]

use prt sc then ctrl+v to discord

[plush yew]

it still surprises me people dont know the printscreen button exists

[grim ore]

its weird but its possible they are not on discord on their computer

well I dont know why they broke but without seeing anything else I would guess they are not connected in the material for some reason (the textures are missing in there), or they are failing to compile for a different reason. none of those screenshots show the material or the mesh

[brisk tide]

Sorry about that

[plush yew]

oh um

nvm

[brisk tide]

I can see the materials as in the earlier screenshot, but when I click on them, they become grey.

[brisk tide]

ok 🙂

[median hound]

can skeletal meshes have complex collisions?

[plush yew]

Look at your Material slots mate

[brisk tide]

Yes, they are empty. I just copied the folder they gave into the content folder of my project. I guess thats not working.

This is what I got. Is there a way to import the uasset?

[grim ore]

so the folder they came from is not the same as the folder you are using?

and no you dont import uassets, if they were supplied like that what you did is what you would do. put them in your project in the same location they were provided, including folder name

otherwise the materials are probably still working they just all need to be fixed and hooked back up

did they come in just raw files or in a project as well?

[brisk tide]

Just raw files in a zip file

when unzipped, I got a folder "Content", that had this structure inside it. So I copied everything from there to my project content folder.

I guess rehooking might be the option as you said.

I will try that and see. Thanks for your patience 🙂

[grim ore]

so under content was more folders and you put those folders right into your content folder? is it just this one item in there or other items?

what you are suggesting sounds correct its weird that it would re assign it to the world grid material

[brisk tide]

Like this

[grim ore]

gotcha so yeah cgaxis_models_105_49 should be the folder that is in your project, which I see, but thats not the one you are showing with the issue

and there is nothing in the root directory above content right? in the cgaxis_models_etc... folder?

[brisk tide]

Now it's working 🙂 I deleted the folders from content browser, kept them back in and its fine now 🙂 No idea why though 🙂

[grim ore]

super weird

[dreamy sleet]

can someone help me with packaging my game

[brisk tide]

@grim ore thanks for giving your time! Now for the next part of adding simple wind to these 🙂

I did it before, so hopefully I can mange it

[timid spade]

basically i have a ui widget that contains progress bar that acts as a magazine on the ui. I have a function to make a loading circle become visible for a second then become invisible in the widget

im trying to call it when i do a reload but idk what to put in the object

[inner cloak]

Is is possible to set the near clipping on the editor Viewport

[grim ore]

@timid spade yep so what is AmmoMagCounter. what class or type

[inner cloak]

I think ue4 uses a cache folder .. but not 100% sure if you can get the image back that way

[grim ore]

@toxic ridge why do you assume the image is not on the machine anymore?

I could rename a .png to .txt and that doesnt mean the image is no longer there.

epic takes your source file, does voodoo magic to it, then stores it in a .uasset file for later use. the underlying data for the source file is still there in their custom format

[river patrol]

Looking for talent for a steam game. This game is breaking me. Anyone down to collaborate with me? You will get credited
And $2 dollars per thousand download

[grim ore]

please post in the job boards section @river patrol , there are pinned posts in each channel

[river patrol]

Ok thank you

I'm new to this

[inner cloak]

Oh, good point @grim ore

[river patrol]

I can't post to job board

This is my bomberman game

[random forum]

Anyone know how to make ONE window two content browsers?
I have three monitors and I want my 3rd to just be two content browsers side by side.

[peak vigil]

So, I've made some edits in the 3DS MAX with a mesh, but my edit doesn't shown in UE4 when I imported it, any suggestions?

[river patrol]

https://youtu.be/gNIr6uDLIO8

[inner cloak]

@random forum just open a new Content Browser

[grim ore]

@random forum snap them to the side in windows itself, you can have up to 4 open at a time

[random forum]

Thanks.

Jesus Christ that's going to save me so much fing time.

[grim ore]

@river patrol you can post, read the pinned messages

[inner cloak]

I have 3 screens .. and my middle one is a 4k TV .. 32 inches

[river patrol]

Who has been using Unreal the longest?

[grim ore]

welp I take that back, they removed the pinned messages and put them all into #instructions

[leaden dust]

tbh why would you use a 32 inch screen if you want to have 3 skins

[grim ore]

Tim Sweeney?

[leaden dust]

screens*

[grim ore]

I have a 32" as my main, then a 27 as a side for stuff like this, and a 27 vertical for code on the other side of the 32

[inner cloak]

Didnt Tim and his partner (forgot his name) start it together ?

[grim ore]

@toxic ridge yes, you can also export it out if you need the original file again

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: hanzmw97#6927 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[leaden dust]

why did he get a strike?

[wary wave]

spamming every channel

[leaden dust]

ah I see

he was doing that in other discords too

[inner cloak]

And yes, it was Tim Sweeney

Mark Rein came later i think

[random forum]

All hail Cedric 'Inoxx' Fiorentino, creator of... the legend...

FACING WORLDS

[crimson hornet]

Isn't that Unreal Tournament?

[wary wave]

first one, yes

I never liked that map

[regal abyss]

could someone guide me to where is the foliage setting to change the lightmap?

[crimson hornet]

Dude that rocket on the middle floor was so much fun though

[wary wave]

Redeemer

[crimson hornet]

And then sniping on the top was also cool

yeah

[wary wave]

you only needed a couple of good players and that map would be a permanent stalemate :/

[crimson hornet]

I actually never played it online, I just faced the AI

Anyways I need some help in Unreal. So I have a map where the water level goes up. How do I reset the water level when the character dies without restarting the game?

[wary wave]

undo whatever you do to make the water level raise

that's kind of an impossible question to answer

[crimson hornet]

I don't know my teacher just told me to do that and I am stuck on how to do it. I was wondering if there is a blueprint that can do that.

[pseudo bane]

Hey yeah I know, i used one to start a project with the ArchVis Template. Suddenly they're all gone!

[grim ore]

@toxic ridge right click the asset in your content browser -> asset actions -> export

@pseudo bane are your templates installed?

[pseudo bane]

Yeah they were, I know I used one to start a project

[grim ore]

were, not are. are they installed?

[pseudo bane]

I have the ArchVis project already going in 4.26

How can I check that

because I went to the UE_4.26 folder and they are gone now

[grim ore]

your library -> engine version -> drop down menu -> options

[wary wave]

whatever blueprint or whatever raises the water level - the answer is in your project, nobody here can help you with no information

[grim ore]

if you dont see them anymore, then uncheck it if its checked and apply then re check it to reinstall them

@toxic ridge no you only get what they support, you can change it outside of the engine if needed

[pseudo bane]

oh wonderful, is it possible they got deleted when I updated to 4.26.1

[grim ore]

yep, the engine does not store the source file

@pseudo bane possible yes but not likely

[crimson hornet]

This is how the player dies and how the water moves up

[wary wave]

you're using a timeline node; it literally has a 'reverse from end'

not sure why there are two timelines, but it's all there

[plush yew]

Haha I was just asking about source files and uassets, I think yesterday?

I guess it's not only me disoriented by the meta data showing the source path.

[inner cloak]

Is it possible to have a BP in a BP ?

[grim ore]

@toxic ridge yes

@inner cloak depending on the context yes? Actor blueprints can be use as an a child actor component (people seem to suggest not doing this, it can have issues). there are also blueprint components that you can create that are used just like other components

[inner cloak]

What i am trying to do is ... i have a House Mesh which is a BP and inside i want to add Door BP

I guess the door BP should be added at the map level then, right ?

[clear patrol]

When I heard "This" my mind was read to hear "This is a bucket"

[dim arch]

is there a console command to print current display resolution? need to do some vr debug

[plush yew]

Hello guys I have a little problem with my inventory, I did it when I hit I to have only UI enabled, but I want to "unpause" the game when I hit again I

but the second part doesn't work

this is the code

[plush yew]

guys do you know why when i am in the editor i have 120 fps but in game the fps are 30/45 ?

[calm pollen]

Can anyone explain what the "Object" part of a cast node is? I really dont quite understand what is supposed to go in there and its messing me up in many ways lol

[honest vale]

@plush yew different settings probably

@calm pollen it's the input parameter of the cast node

do you know what a cast is?

[restive yarrow]

Somebody please tell me how i can change post process settings of my player camera manager

[worthy orbit]

hello, my English is not the best, but whenever I tap the material below or want to drag it onto the 3D model, it disappears and does not calculate the shader. What can I do about it ?

[fierce tulip]

that often happens when the material is inported/put into the project wrong, and loses its connections with textures or other content inside the material.

[restive yarrow]

I need my player camera manager's camera to set its post process settings, how can i do that?

[leaden dust]

I was looking in #volunteer-projects for something to get better at programming but everyone seems to want to make a multiplayer game

[fierce tulip]

hehe

[leaden dust]

I guess I'll just have to git gud at networking

[ember mauve]

when i click to choose the parent socket it does not show the bone
if i dont do that fps camera doesnt feel real
plz help

[plush yew]

Would anyone know when MetaHuman will be released?

[true falcon]

in 2021

[plush yew]

I know for this year

[latent pivot]

so am i right to think that GPU lightmass is basically unusable? i cannot get it to look as good as rasterized static lighting no matter what i do

(this is with an outdoor environment)

[plush yew]

Hi everyone, I'm exporting a sequencer, in the scene I created there are 2 media textures, when I export the frame rates are unsynchronized, when I export only one screen the frame rate is correct. can someone help me?

in simple 1 screen good, 2 screen bad.

[worthy plaza]

Is possible to add a new layers to a downloaded lanscape?

[true falcon]

yes

[worthy orbit]

@fierce tulip and How can i Fix it?

[fierce tulip]

hard to tell with the little information given.
how did you import them into your project?
did you move them around in content browser or explorer?
how did you acquire the materials?
did you delete anything related to the materials?
did you fix or break redirectors.

[worthy orbit]

I got the one from the Epicgames store and didn't interrupt or delete it. I downloaded it and then opened it at Ue4

[fierce tulip]

id open the material and try to find out what is missing

[worthy orbit]

Many Thanks

[plush yew]

hello everyone

i have a problem with the dash ability of my character, when i press alt he does a dash and then there is a cooldown of 1 second before a sound play and he can use the dash again, but when i spam the dash button the sound repeat multiple time and the cooldown become longer, do you know how i can fix that?

this is the bp for the cooldown

[inner cloak]

How does one get a visual when doing a hit trace ?

[restive yarrow]

@inner cloak click draw debug type

then select for duration, or frame

[inner cloak]

lemme see if i find where that is

[inner cloak]

Ya, just saw it .. thanks for the help

[restive yarrow]

np

[inner cloak]

lol, the hittrace hits my bow and seems to be fired from behind me

ah, its coming from the follow cam .. duh !

[thick nebula]

guys, if you were a value that keeps track of seconds measured in miliseconds, 2 seconds(2000 miliseconds), that counts down towards 0 and resets in a loop, would you keep values in INT or FLOAT?

[inner cloak]

Float

[rancid python]

Anyone know if the multi user editor is just for lan or can I collaborate over the internet with friends

[inner cloak]

Anyone know of a tutorial for doing hit traces from the "nose" of the character ?

@rancid python last time i tried it i could not really use it, like 1-2 months ago. Working with my wife things kept disconnecting but i am not sure how improved it is now

I answered @thick nebula , do it with FLOAT

[rancid python]

@inner cloak I can’t even get my friend in my session. I’m hoping it’s just user error on my end

[plush yew]

Any way to bulk give a tag, to a lot of chosen actors?

[inner cloak]

@rancid python did you follow the tutorials to the letter ?

[rancid python]

Pretty much

[inner cloak]

Does it connect for a short ?

[rancid python]

The session never even shows up on his end

[inner cloak]

Does he have a firewall ? Did he open the proper ports on the router ?

[rancid python]

I know his firewalls are good cause checked that and didn’t know he had to do that

With the router

[inner cloak]

Hard to tell without more info

But my guess would be a firewall issue on his side .. like ports blocked

[rancid python]

Well when I had him pull it up it was checked to not be blocked by firewalls

[serene birch]

I don't think Epic has a "master server" to make that work

Make sure that all computers are connected to the same Local Area Network (LAN) or Virtual Private Network (VPN).

this seems like it only works for LAN

tried Hamachi to make a cheap virtual LAN between your two computers over the net?

[daring sequoia]

How do i unparent a object

[gleaming creek]

A Blueprint class? Reparent it to Actor (or Object)

[lusty carbon]

I need to rotate a WorldAlignedTexture - but can't use Custom Rotator with it. How to go about it?

[wanton lotus]

In case you don't know how to reparent a blueprint, you can find it in the File menu of the specific blueprint:

[sonic glacier]

I have a new bug with the ue4 editor (4.26.1), my drop down menus getting invisible after a while and I need to restart the editor.
is there a way to fix this, its very annoying!

[dim arch]

hi, anyone know the console command to save object positions in PIE after physics simulation?

[sonic cliff]

Hi guys, somebody know how to keyframe animate in sequencer the rotating movement component of an actor?

[dim arch]

nvm found it, keep simulation changes

[sonic cliff]

Where you found it?

[lunar depot]

ue5 might come in early march