ue4-general

[grim ore]

yep

its also not been updated past 4.19

[sterile tulip]

Will it have the features of 4.26? The new water and landmass plugin?

[wary wave]

doubt it

[timid spade]

is there procedural destruction in ue4?

[wary wave]

no

[timid spade]

damnnnn

so id have to make my own

[sterile tulip]

But I need the water plugin and the flex plugin in my project

and the landmass plugin

[grim ore]

then you need to learn C++ and edigrate it yourself

[sterile tulip]

is that hard to do

[grim ore]

if you have to ask, it is

[sterile tulip]

4.19 is like from 2018

Why are they not updating it

[grim ore]

email them and ask?

[wary wave]

should probably point out that the water isn't going to work with flex or anything either

[timid spade]

wait whats chaos destruction then? https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/InteractiveExperiences/Physics/ChaosPhysics/ChaosDestruction/ChaosDestructionOverview/index.html

[wary wave]

baked destruction

like Apex

[timid spade]

ah i see

[sterile tulip]

I wish UE5 would have its own Softbody

[digital anchor]

whats the usecase

should be possible in ue4

a weeks worth of effort if you know what you doin

[sterile tulip]

On a static mesh

I want softbody

And this softbody I want to attach to a vehicle

So I want the vehicle body to have softbody

Im trying to make vehicle collisions

[timid spade]

would it be possible to make my own procedural destruction

or is unreal unfit for something similar to r6s

https://gameworksdocs.nvidia.com/Blast/1.1/authoring_docs/BlastUe4_QuickStart.html is this the same thing as chaos?

[digital anchor]

yeah vehicle collisions with soft body is a much more complex thing lol

[sterile tulip]

How do other games use vehicle body damaging on collisions

Their vehicle body and doors get damaged and fly away on collisions

If its not softbody

[digital anchor]

maybe they do have soft body, plenty of games do

just a matter of implementing it

[sterile tulip]

do you think this is Softbody implemented?

[digital anchor]

from a quick google, people are mentioning that its not

and is pre-baked deformation

also, do you really want to compare your game with GTA 4? whatever they do you specifically want to NOT do

[sterile tulip]

Im trying to figure out how to implement softbody in UE.426

The Nvdia Flex 1.0 version has UE4.19 as prerequisite

But there is Nvidia Flex 1.2 version out

But they havent added below what version its running at

Only at Flex 1.0 its saying 4.19

oh nvm

It is for 1.2 I think

yea 4.19 is too old

wait

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOxNrkxo29s

He is using 4.20 + Flex

maybe it is running 4.19 and above

[digital anchor]

hes using 0lentos branch

hes a user here

[sterile tulip]

maybe it was just saying that 4.19 is the minimum

olentos branch?

[digital anchor]

https://github.com/0lento/UnrealEngine/tree/4.20-GameWorks

[sterile tulip]

I dont have my github linked yet

Whats the highest version flex can go

can you see on the link?

[digital anchor]

he updated to 4.20, you can update it to any version, but requires programming

[sterile tulip]

I only have blueprint, I havent used C++ before

[digital anchor]

i will be really honest just give up

there are many ways to make a car get destroyed, dont go with the hardest

[royal stirrup]

guys, can someone please help me with this one? What happening with textures here? If I open mesh it looks just fine, but in the scene it looks like that. Rebaking lighting doesn't solve the problem.

[digital anchor]

i assume the problem is that they are dark?

try adding a cubemap and reflection captures if thats the case

[royal stirrup]

I have one

[calm pollen]

anyone know when UE5 is coming out? Its this year right?

[fringe lynx]

yep

[grim ore]

well the Black Widow movie was supposed to come out this year as well and we will see how that goes lol

[calm pollen]

true lmao

[spare kernel]

i am sure Epic will announce when UE5 is coming

[sterile tulip]

I think they said early 2021 is preview build and end of 2021 is official build

[calm pollen]

alright thanks

does anyone know anything about sky boxes and stuff like that, im trying to change mine to look more cartoon-ish and im not really sure how that would work

[spare kernel]

last i heard was Spring

[calm pollen]

oh thats coming up, nice

[grim ore]

the learn tab on the launcher has a "Stylized Rendering" project you can look at

[calm pollen]

ok i will take a look, thank you

[drowsy cape]

Question, some simple car ai. just a straight road. All the cars need to do is stay in one lane. drive different speeds & brake to avoid a collision or overtake in another lane.

just use overlap events en move to new transforms or is ai & pathfinding a good solution for this? (Haven't used any ai pathfinding sofar)

[grim ore]

ai is probably not, there is a crown detour one but its not intended to keep in line but more funnel around places and such.

[drowsy cape]

yea that's kind of what I thought. Better to ask than don't use some build-in feature XD

[robust marten]

What is it called when you step out of shadows and into sunlight and the screen goes from dark to light? It takes like 8 seconds by default, I want to change that

[inner vine]

eye adaptation?

[grim ore]

Auto Exposure/eye adaptation

[robust marten]

Where is that setting found?

[inner vine]

iirc in your post process volume

[fleet beacon]

did anyone try to upgrade the Chromium Embedded framework for the Web browser plugin?

[grim ore]

^^ or default settings in the project settings

[robust marten]

thank you!

I found the setting in project settings but it's just a tick box, I can't control how long it takes?

[drowsy cape]

Oh, but am I right to assume that if I want other actors to move between the cars smoothly (changing environment.) Ai/pathfinding could be of use?

[sterile tulip]

I found a 4.23 build with flex integrated @digital anchor https://github.com/normalvector/ue4_mesh_deformation_toolkit

[grim ore]

@robust marten yes if you want to override settings other than on off and type its overriden in a post process volume under Exposure

[fallen zodiac]

i am new to ue4

how to i make an actor only expand on one side when making it bigger/smaller

instead of it expanding on both sides

[grim ore]

@drowsy cape AI might be able to be used for that yes

Scaling is from the root point/pivot point. You would need to adjust that in an external program or use another way depending on if you want it permanent or temporary

[fallen zodiac]

hm ok

[robust marten]

Sorry, me again, but which setting affects the speed auto exposure takes? I've tried allof them but none seem to really affect the speed. EDIT: I thought speed up was what affets the speed but speed down also needed to be changed, this solved it

[sterile tulip]

where do I find my UE4 install folder

[robust marten]

For the engine itself or your project

[sterile tulip]

The engine

[robust marten]

It'd be wherever you installed the launcher at, inside "games"

[inner vine]

If you don't remember where you installed it then you can click the arrow next to launch and select "create shortcut", then right click the shortcut in Windows and select "open location"

[scarlet birch]

While searching, I didn't see a lot of discussion on LiDAR in any particular channel. If there's a better channel for this please let me know. I'm looking for any recommendations on LiDAR solutions for high quality results, especially if they are significantly less costly than others I've found. Feel free to DM if you have particular knowledge or recommendations.

[inner vine]

What do you need it for? Is high accuracy absolutely required (engineering context) or do you mainly want a realistic look but it doesn't matter if it's a few millimeters off (game development context)?

[scarlet birch]

Accurate dimensions are essential.

[dim osprey]

Hi I get this ridiculous values (only widget project) what can I do?

[scarlet birch]

Exploring a concept for commercial use aimed at customers making high dollar purchasing decisions.

[inner vine]

In that case it's probably best to get a LIDAR system from a brand with a good reputation, even though they're quite expensive. There are affordable systems which have a good accuracy on paper, but their specs are generally determined in ideal situations and they usually don't even come close in a real-world scenario.

[scarlet birch]

Profile it, or maybe share more about the issue. There's very little anyone can tell from your resource usage in task-manager alone.

[dim osprey]

How can I profile it?

[rocky epoch]

#ue4-general message

Check my post for some performance and profiler info

[dim osprey]

I just have this black scene. And I only make widget

users cannot see this black scene too, they always see a widget

[inner vine]

@dim osprey also make sure you have a framerate limit set. If you have only widgets you should have a very light graphics load, but without a framerate limit the engine will still use all resources trying to render as many frames per second as it can.

Or enable vsync, that's probably better than a static framerate limit.

[dim osprey]

hold a sec I'm trying

[scarlet birch]

Is there even an issue?

[dim osprey]

No, I just made one big dark rectangle.

[scarlet birch]

Unless it becomes an issue with how the project runs I wouldn't waste any time on it at this point.

[dim osprey]

I enabled VSYNC, but on the right side. GPU is more high for a single widget app?

GPU is now %10

But is so high for a widget app. I don't making game btw. I'm just testing single widget application like .NET Forms etc.

[grim ore]

your assuming its high

your not just making a .net forms app, your using a high end game engine to render stuff as fast as it can to your screen.

[scarlet birch]

There's no reason to worry about it using available resources.

[inner vine]

UE has quite a bit of rendering overhead. You can turn off some features to reduce it a bit, but if it's at 10% usage it might not be worth the effort to optimize. I'm wondering why you use the unreal engine just for something equivalent to a .NET form though, seems quite inefficient.

[dim osprey]

I'm just making tests. I have an idea for some projects.

[scarlet birch]

Read the docs on profiling and watch the video linked above.

[grim ore]

drop the fps max to 1fps and your problem probably goes away 😉

[reef meadow]

Hi Guys,

I want to get access to Nvidia RTXGI for UE4.
My application for the program NVIDIA RTXGI SDK was approved, but I don't understand where to download plugin on GitHub.

Did anyone come across this?

[limber badge]

hello guys im kind of new to unreal engine and game dev in general, im trying to make a simple flag with cloth simulation, i followed along a youtube tutorial and manage to make everything ready, the only thing i dont know is how do i make a physics instance of the flag mesh, and do i need to rig the mesh with bones or not, thanks in advance

[calm pollen]

so you have a complete model of the flag right?

[limber badge]

yes

[calm pollen]

you could make a waving animation by adding bones and animating it? or do you want it to be effected by wind and stuff like that

[limber badge]

i kinda wanted it to be advanced

but for now anything helps

problem is i dont know how to add bones inside unreal engine

[calm pollen]

i wish i could help you from experience but i have none in implementing physics yet

watch this video tho it seems legit https://youtu.be/fIRIW00WgVI

[inner vine]

I haven't tried it with the new system yet, but with the old system your mesh needed at least one bone to set up cloth simulation. You don't need to set up any animations for it though.

[limber badge]

omg, i just had to enable skeletal mesh in the importing panel

thanks for the video migle, it solved my problem in the first 30 sec of video

[calm pollen]

good to hear lol 😁

[sonic cliff]

Hi! please help i am getting mad with this issue. Left is in movie render queue, Right is in sequencer render. Why leaves are disappearing??? is happenning in all shots. Only in movie render queue.

please i really need help i am trying to solve it all day

some brilliant mind could help me please

in some shots are there and in other are not and they are almost same geometry, same parameter settings

[plush yew]

Anyone else sometimes decide not to make/work on their game for a bit and "experiment" and see what mechanics they could make?

[sonic cliff]

Here you can see what i am talking about, and this only happens in movie render queue!!! When i export from sequencer it looks good

it sems like a problem of the leaves

because trunks are there

and in the picture before are casting shadows despite they are not visible

[grim ore]

is this 1 mesh with 2 materials or how is the foliage set up?

[sonic cliff]

is a mesh with 1 material for trunks, 1 for fruits, and other 4 for leaves variation

[grim ore]

so is this variation different from the other ones that are showing up?

[sonic cliff]

and trees are 3 mats, 1 for trunk, 1 for branch, other for leaves

no they are the same settings

and happens like individually meshes not between leaves variation you can see the picture above

[grim ore]

so in the first picture, side by side, the missing leaves on the bushes on the left those foliage instances are the same settings as the ones on the far right which look like they are there?

[sonic cliff]

Left render at right side of the image you can see all array is visible

and here lot of them disappeared

it depends on the shot also

yes exactly same settings

[grim ore]

yes so those are the same items, same foliage instances, same foliage instance actor, same level, same setting. You said its got variations so how is it using the variation?

[sonic cliff]

no sorry i have 4 meshes variation for the bushes

but they have same materials applied

same settings

also is happening to the trees of environment set pack of marketplace

Here you can see the bushes are visible, some trees are visibles, but trees at distance on the mountain are not

[grim ore]

so then for that missing first shot, the ones that are missing those meshes/foliage actors are the same as the ones that are showing up on the far right?

[sonic cliff]

same settings for the trees

same materials

[sonic cliff]

yes

[grim ore]

thats weird. I would think LOD could be an issue here but its hard to tell #graphics might know more, have you tried a simple material on the mesh temporarily. just like say a white color on the leaves part instead of what it has now, and see if it has the issue (can verify if its the material this way)

There is also this mentioning it happening due to the opacity settings on the material (the clip value) https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/architectural-and-design-visualization/1349958-why-does-my-foliage-almost-disappear-when-i-move-further-away

[sonic cliff]

will try changing to see if still happens but most probably it seems like some opacity mask problem but is weird cause the models are from unreal market pack and i didnt touch materials

[sonic cliff]

yes i have read this topic but mine are not disappiring at distance.. first shot you can see the ones on the back but not at front

[plush yew]

heyyy, does anyone know what these weird light artefacts are or what they're called? Not expecting solutions, just a general direction on what to look for would be nice!

[sonic cliff]

and why is this happening in movie render queue but not in editor and in sequencer render? what is the technical explanation for this? really weird

[wet schooner]

Is it possible to have dynamic lighting on a tree's leaves? Like say you have a bunch of planes with a alpha texture to make the parts you don't want transparent. When I use blend mode translucent in material settings it works but like there's no real lighting from what i can see

oh wait nvm it does but the normals are fucked i guess

huh it's not blender's fault but unreal

😩

[plush yew]

@maiden swift dont want it.

[maiden swift]

Then don't enter. 😄

[plush yew]

Okay 👍

[ocean maple]

@digital anchor Oh, here is a man of culture

[worn blade]

Ghost ping?

[ocean maple]

Nvm

[agile aurora]

my poem: compiling shaders 9324953492

[plush yew]

I don't think ghosts can ping.

[sly wagon]

my unreal exploded and crashed after I made it repeat apply damage on a timer event

i def did something wrong LOL

[agile aurora]

lmao

[hearty walrus]

what's JetBrains Resharper, anyway?

[ocean maple]

U code ur game x)

[agile aurora]

it sharpens your pencils

[ocean maple]

Nothing wrong x) xD XD

[maiden swift]

https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper-cpp/

[plush yew]

Can't save blueprints
Circular dependency
New version comes out
Nothing good, only some new toaster compatibility was added

[sly wagon]

yes hence me saying I did something wrong xd

[plush yew]

here's my haiku, submit it if you want the license

[hearty walrus]

oh

I don't use c++

[ocean maple]

xD XD

[robust marten]

Regarding Exposure, how would I make it so that getting up close on a wall that's in the shade doesn't make the screen go completely black?

[pliant condor]

me: sees news
also me: laughs in student liscence

[sly wagon]

that moment you smash 4 bugs at once within 10 mins

[robust marten]

Here's what I'm talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Pa7zRsGEk&feature=youtu.be

[sly wagon]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-yeah-cute-dance-gif-13942687

[tawdry python]

📣 Help JetBrains improve their upcoming Rider for Unreal Engine tool
Are you involved in game development with Unreal Engine, but you've never tried JetBrains Rider? If so, JetBrains invites you to take part in their Rider for Unreal Engine UX study. Participants will receive their choice of a $100 Amazon gift card or a JetBrains All Products pack subscription.
is this limited to people who never used Rider before?

it is worded as such but when I opened the link I didn't find anything that says that

[charred oxide]

Is there some where that i can ask for help withing? I'm some what new to UE4 and have a lighting problem.

[robust marten]

Same lol but go ahead and ask anything you want

[sterile tulip]

My sky is dark but my landscape is bright

Why is my landscape this bright

[plush yew]

dang

i cant think of a poem lmao

welp i give up wasnt gonna win this give away anyways

[meager stag]

Is it possible to somehow view in material editor what kind of parameter a node outputs? Like if its a float, etc.

[dense gorge]

A computable haiku is a novel idea but I have too immense of a backlog to add this to my 2021 book of work so catch y’all next year :l

[inner cloak]

Has someone ever seen the following issue ?

I would love to know how to fix it !

[plush yew]

Yeah just saw it.

[inner cloak]

@plush yew Was this a response for me ?

[sonic cliff]

Is it normal that movie render queue takes 12 minutes to warm up? im rendering cinematics. How to optimize render times?

to warmp up 60 frames

[plush yew]

Sometimes I talk to myself.

[next badger]

Rider includes the functions to work with ue4 specifically.

[wary jacinth]

Errors run rampant
Stack Overflow assist me;
Marked as duplicate.

[maiden swift]

Yes, but that's a separate app and it's not out yet. We linked to a UX study survey they're conducting, so I recommend joining if you're interested in giving them feedback.

It's in early preview right now.

[maiden swift]

I don't write C++, but I've heard promising things about Rider.

[sterile tulip]

How can I change the order of this

I want to move the light source down in the world outliner

[next badger]

@maiden swift I've tried it with ue4 source build and it didn't go well -_-

[forest tree]

What happened? It's been good to me

[haughty willow]

Could I ask for some help with importing please?

[charred oxide]

So I have some light and reflection bleeding through some of my walls. I'm unsure how to fix it so it doesn't happen.

Light is on the other side of the wall.

[fathom heath]

wtfff

[plush yew]

Have you ever tried pressing the Print Screen key?

[forest tree]

😆

That's pretty meta light and reflection bleeding

[gaunt abyss]

I've been using visual studio with ue4 for years, switched to Rider a month ago and now can't go back, it's lightyears ahead of VS in some cases

[charred oxide]

I was in a hurry

[forest tree]

Windows key + S

Even faster

[gaunt abyss]

What issues did you have, I'm using it just fine with a source build
Tried it with non-UE4 C++ apps and it works just fine for those as well

[charred oxide]

Considering I was in the process of leaving for work I can't exactly screen shot it and make the post here. Are you going to help with my problem.or talk shit?

[opaque lark]

guys im trying to open my proyect but it doesnt download more than 45% it just stays stucked, any tip or someone havinf this issue? i've been trying all day

[mortal cedar]

which channel should I ask questions about post process volume settings in? visual FX? or graphics?

[spare kernel]

#visual-fx @mortal cedar

[plush yew]

I think I will talk shit.

imagine coming to a discord where people take time out of their day to help others and answer their questions to the best of their ability and you get mad at them 😂

[wooden jacinth]

hey, can someone tell me how to make inverted cone particle?

[sterile tulip]

Make your building inside blender @charred oxide

Or other 3d softwares

[sharp kestrel]

Is there any way I can change my default code editor from VS to Atom?

[steel shell]

can i expand the navigation mesh to a whole landscape of 8x8 km?

when i make a volume it will take ages to process

i just want to be able to navigate on the whole landscape in vr

someone knows how i can achieve it?

[sly wagon]

how do I loop/repeat damage?

[plush yew]

pretty sure you can make it so it builds around you

the navmesh

[steel shell]

yeah that would be cool also

[sly wagon]

basically my void orb has a capsule that is suppose to deal X damage per second if you overlap it, ending when you end the overlap

but I cant get it figured out

currently it just applies the damage once if you overlap and thats it

I know I have to do something with Timers but I've been messing around with them and cant get it figured out : (

[frozen pond]

hi guys, not sure how to find it: i want to highlight road from player to target using particles, but no idea how to google it

[sharp kestrel]

Anyone know a way to make Atom my default code editor instead of Visual Studio?

[plush yew]

@sly wagon set a bool

then make a branch, if bool is true > delay > do damage

then on end overlap set bool to false

[next badger]

@gaunt abyss @forest tree It lagged like hell when i was writing the code (i'm talkign about coding in the custom build)

[sly wagon]

@plush yew a bool of what? Sorry I'm new to unreal ;.;

[plush yew]

just make a boolean variable and set it to true

[sly wagon]

currently this is what I have

if anything overlaps the capsule they take X damage

[plush yew]

yea just once

[sly wagon]

but I want it to be take X damage per second

[plush yew]

cause its one event

one tick, wich is when you overlap

[sly wagon]

so what do I do O. O

[next badger]

@plush yew generally game ready models are stitched already, if it's not some modular stuff

[plush yew]

you can set a boolean to true on begin overlap

and use that for your damage tick

[next badger]

damage on TICK?

[plush yew]

add a delay node ofcourse

[sly wagon]

no I dont want damage on tick

[next badger]

i hope that code taking deltas in account

[sly wagon]

damage per second

[plush yew]

on begin overlap set bool to true

then cast to your player, branch > if bool is true >delay 1 second > damage

[sly wagon]

a bOolEaN of what

[plush yew]

on end overlap set bool to false

[sly wagon]

im new to unreal

im confused

[next badger]

don;t use delays, use timers if you want to bruteforce it this way

[plush yew]

if you dont know what a boolean is man idk read some guides or something

[sly wagon]

you want me to make one or search for a specific one?

[next badger]

timers work in async thread

[plush yew]

more reliable?

i guess use a timer then 😛

[sly wagon]

I rather use timers tbh but idk how they work

it's what I've been messing with

[plush yew]

figure out what a boolean is first

[sly wagon]

its a true or false

but you can make them

and you're telling me to add one, so make one? idk xd

[plush yew]

yea so, on begin overlap set a boolean to true

if boolean is true do damage per second

[sly wagon]

ok

[plush yew]

if overlap ends set boolean to false

unless theres an overlap tick event

[next badger]

@plush yew Delay will Stall the thread, means all execution will be stopped there, but timed event will be spawned separately and wont affect currently executing thread

[plush yew]

hm okay never had issues with delay yet tho

[next badger]

async nodes have clock icons on them

[plush yew]

ah right I wondered what that was 😛

[next badger]

@plush yew my bad, timers may be sync too

[sharp kestrel]

Is there any way I can make other code editors like Atom be used as the default besides Visual Studio?

[plush yew]

no worries

[next badger]

@plush yew yep, so it seems, if timer set to 1/180s, and you have fps 60, it will burst events every frame by 3 events

only async tasks can be run at independent frequency

[plush yew]

no clue what youre talking about lmao

[next badger]

sorry, in short, use timers, they are better than delays

they still affected by FPS tho

[plush yew]

any leaks for ue5?

i see thanks 🙂

[gloomy kindle]

Hello guys, new to unreal here. I'm coming from 5 years of unity background and finally decided to drop it and switch to unreal, been using it for 2 weeks now. The question i have is - i really love blueprints (and i really don't like writing code) so will i be able to develop game from start to finish using only blueprints/event graphs?! or there are some things that must be coded no matter what?

[plush yew]

you can do everything by bllueprints.
i think you can even convert bp into cpp automatically.

always heard that you want a lil bit of both

code is generally speaking faster

but yea you can create a whole game with bp's

[fierce tulip]

you can convert to cpp if its becoming a bottleneck, but generally dont worry about it until you have to worry about it

[next badger]

most of the games would work completely fine w/o c++ if those games don't rely on complex networking

[gloomy kindle]

@plush yew Yeah, that's what i heard aswell, that's why i'm asking. as for speed, i have no problem there, i enjoy sitting back, relaxing and editing graphs at slow tempo. I'm just deciding if i should continue learning blueprints or if it's very necessary, bite frog and learn C++. I know little bit of C# but i was never a good programmer and used buggy unity addon for visual scripting which was very limited.

@fierce tulip Glad to hear that. I really vibed with blueprints.

[next badger]

you need c++ if:

• you want to use some plugin that has no BP hooks
• you want some complex networking stuff
• you want native input handling
• you want Slate UI (instead of UMG)
• you want Custom Shading model/Rendering
• probably more things i never did

[gloomy kindle]

Thank you for detailed reply. I've decided to continue using blueprints - probably more things i never did <- for this reason. Probably i won't do any of the listed things or other things, i'm just working on simple FP swordfighter game and mostly i'm fine with unreals default game feel.

[gleaming creek]

I'd say the main one is "you want to do a lot of work with lots of data"

[sharp kestrel]

Is there any way to get Atom to be the Code Source Editor?

[urban escarp]

can someone help me with unreal engine?

not sure why but the ball and axis lines are grey and untextured?

[half sorrel]

Is fortnite representative of how you can expect a unreal game to run, even if I spend time optimizing?

[gloomy kindle]

Not unless it's battle royale with 100 people. If low poly representative of the best unreal can offer is what you seek, "Ashen" is one of the most optimized games i've played for a while.

[half sorrel]

I'll have to try it. I've been trying games made in unreal and so far they all run worse than non unreal games. (For example warzone runs perfectly but fortnite runs pretty bad.) Although my hardware isn't the best.

[gloomy kindle]

@half sorrel Honestly, if warframe can't convince you, imo nothing will.

[half sorrel]

Warframe is unreal? I had no idea.

[gloomy kindle]

it's Evolution but it's very similar to unreal in terms of almost everything, unlike RE engine or CRYengine which are all different beasts.

[half sorrel]

Well then it doesn't make for a very good test lol.

[gloomy kindle]

well i'm trying hard to think of any good games on unreal but my head is all "ASHEN" "ASHEN" 😄

[half sorrel]

I'll try it.

[gloomy kindle]

Borderlands 3 is unreal but performance-wise, kinda meh

oh, i remember one, batman:arkham asylum was smoothest running best looking game for its time.

Soulcalibur 6 also very good example of well optimized game.

oh, also Code Vein, almost forgot about it.

[half sorrel]

I forgot boarderlands existed.

Thanks for the suggestions. I would have thought a game made by Epic would be the best optimized game lol.

[gloomy kindle]

well it's 100 player battle royale with shiny skins, it can't get worse than that. try Unreal Tournament if you want really good game made by epic.

[plush yew]

where go 2 disable this nonsense error reporting which fills up your entire screen?

lmso

what a waste you are

just dont reply?

makes no sense for the engine to fill up your entire window for it

i'm not concerned with the error

the problem is that the engine fills up my entire screen with this shit when it detects one little thing i dont need to bother with right now

mods ban soopnano for vulgarity thanks

armstrongr ftw

actually i dont think that would disable these though

that's for like, "rebuild light" messages . . .

these are unreal-engine notifications

i highly doubt that works armstrongr

that's for unreal launcher notifications, not ue4 notifications

i wont praise you for thinking you're smart for googling the keywords and posting that screenshot

cmon man, cmon

ponkiss

it's literally nothing the error that's making all that shit pop up

it's ridiculous and you're just a negative nasty person @plush yew

my game is on steam already so

i package it all the time, no need to be rude

i dont like your attitude and dont need your money

youre belittling me with "cmon mans"

[rancid lynx]

Can anyone link a good tutorial for cell shading like this ? I want the lighest weight version possible for VR games. is this a heavy effect? or pretty light for cpu ?

[median hound]

access errors r the easiest ur a bum for that

[gaunt abyss]

All 3 of you calm down!
First and last warning @plush yew @gloomy kindle @plush yew

[urban escarp]

how do i make unreal engine use my graphics card??

im trying to test my game and its lagging alot because it wont use my graphics card

[plush yew]

If you into Nvidia Control Pane, go to 3d settings, then global settings , swtich your gpu from onboard to nvidia

amd should be similar

[lucid grove]

Oh my, after moving my assets and organazing it - my map completly lost references and show ma half empty level

I have backup content folder, but seems like it doesnt have references files upthere

[rancid lynx]

99 percent white text, 1 percent video. i checked it. keepworking, it will be great eventually.

[buoyant granite]

:triangular_flag_on_post: DAVE DA GOAT#2196 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[rancid lynx]

your first goal may be showing "fun gameplay" , if you cant even show a 10 second example of "fun" well....

youtube music isnt gonna save ya

[digital anchor]

do you know hlsl programming?

[urban escarp]

I don't understand

[plush yew]

dont you have an nvidia control panel?

[urban escarp]

i do

[plush yew]

on your windows taskbar?

[urban escarp]

but i dont understand what setting to change

[lucid grove]

i was using ue move options and still this happen to me

is there a way to revert back?)

[plush yew]

is there anything in that list about your onboard vs nvidia graphics priority ?

[urban escarp]

no.

[plush yew]

check if you can find any info on that on your particular laptop

[urban escarp]

im using a tower

not a laptop

[plush yew]

yeah that looks good

[urban escarp]

yet when i click this

[plush yew]

turn vsync off probably

[urban escarp]

it lags alot

[plush yew]

on starter content right nothing fancy

[urban escarp]

on starter content

[plush yew]

ye hmm

[urban escarp]

like

9% gpu usage and 60 % cpu usage and 50% ram usage

[plush yew]

Go to the UWP settings app, then Graphics, then Advanced Settings, then browse for the UE4Editor.exe then choose the "Performance" option.

[urban escarp]

i dont understand why its lagging so heavily

[plush yew]

someone posted that online

whats your cpu anyway

[urban escarp]

8400

i5

that has absolutely nothing to do with it

i can run half life alyx on full graphics with 0 lag on 144 hz

[plush yew]

yeh

[urban escarp]

wtf is uwp

[plush yew]

idk what UWP refers to but that setting did help someone

do you have the nvidia fancier control panel maybe it's in there

where you can select applications and give them specific settings

[urban escarp]

i can

[plush yew]

see if u can set ue4.exe to performacne

[plush yew]

does nvidia's panel really look like that in 2020 on a 30xx??

[urban escarp]

oh its my steam vr lagging not unreal engine

[plush yew]

2021 lmap

[urban escarp]

it uses so much on steam vr fsr

the game window its self doesnt lag but the hmd does

whatever ill just deal with it i guess

so ive got my locomotion script done. how do i make movement faster

[mighty pagoda]

not sure if this is the best place to post this but here it goes. I'd like to break up my input into different modal sets. For example, a different set of input actions for "flying" and "walking". I'm finding unreal's API to be a little clunky in this respect. Would appreciate advice from anyone who's attempted to do something like this. How did it go? what do you recommend/discourage?

[fallen schooner]

How can I search a level for any actor with a particular component?

This is through the editor, rather than scripting.

I am placing components with some markup data in my scene and would like an easy way for team members to find it.

[gloomy kindle]

@mighty pagoda You mean you want for character to use for example "W" when on the ground to move forward but when in the air as nose tilt down?!

[lucid grove]

Hey guys i cant move my master material to other folder

When i move it - it still appear on old place and create new folder

but landscape still refereing to old one

same with textures from that landscape

when i move them to other place with ue - it makes a copy of it and keep old ones

ofc all material referes to old place

fix redirection not helpting

[leaden garnet]

Have you tried closing the project, re opening it, and then see if anything happens?

[lucid grove]

Last time i did it - half of my meshes dissapear from map 😄

So in the end:

1. I cant move materials and textures
2. Now i have copy of them and original ones
3. All BPs refering to old ones

Fix Up Redirections and restart not helping

4.25

and in addition to that

its telling that references is broken but i can access them by link its telling its broken

[mighty pagoda]

More or less. To be more specific, what I really want is for a whole class of input actions to not respond when the mode is incorrect. For instance, nothing in the "walk" set should fire if the "flying" set is active.

It's a cheap way of doing things, that doesn't involve complicated state machines for a player character.

And yes, you'd have multiple actions bound to the same keys, as you mentioned.

[urban escarp]

have i done something wrong here

its not letting me move in game

[woven bronze]

Does anyone know where i can find the chart that shows the order of objects spawning? Ex. (Controller, Pawn, Playerstate, etc)

tried looking online and couldn't find it

[plush yew]

why is it every time i open my project half my shit just dissapears?

[gloomy kindle]

@mighty pagoda Well, wouldn't creating 2 set of action key mappings in the same event handler connected to a bool which is turned on or off by "fly" key solve the problem? Even though axises are horizontal and vertical when u set, they're just scale of floats from -1 to +1 and that float data could be used for tilting aswell.

[plush yew]

its always asking me import stuff and then it wont work or whatever

or its just straight up missing and it breaks all my blueprints

look

its just fucking gone

ive had straight up actors disappear to

and my bp going, yo wtf its not working this thing doesnt exist anymore

[gloomy kindle]

@plush yew Make sure your project is created on healthy, non-protected drive. Also make sure to save on both fronts.

[plush yew]

again

wtf

[gloomy kindle]

Also don't straight up close the app after you save, sometimes even though you pressed save and it doesn't show any status, it needs to be updated.

[plush yew]

no it saved

cause my bp's are still there

like I had made a whole blueprint where it would find something and do walk to it and do something

and that actor dissapeared but the bp was still there

[gloomy kindle]

when u check the location of project, are base files still there?!

like meshes for actors.

[plush yew]

99% of it is there

but lots of times when I open a project

itll ask me to restore like 40 things

and then like 5 things cant be restored

[gloomy kindle]

First i would reinstall unreal just to be sure it's not corrupted installation. Then i would run full HDD scan, it might be the bad sectors.

[plush yew]

i reinstalled it maybe 2 days ago so that cant be it

could do a scan yea

altho its an ssd so i doubt its bad 😛

[gloomy kindle]

yah, on ssd that's highly unlikely

Have you tried changing location of project?

[plush yew]

not really no

[gloomy kindle]

Well give it a try, it might be as simple as location naming being too long for unreal parser to reach into, or having weird symbol in folder naming or something else, sometimes happens to me with games. Some locations are just cursed lol

[austere sonnet]

Guys I need some help. So me and my friends are using softether in an attempt to use multi user editing for our program on unreal. The problem is we are also at the same time trying to set up a source control with perforce with no luck. I was wondering if you guys have a guide or any tips to get that working. We have soft ether setup but we never even got to seeing each other's session when we tried to browse even if we all have the same project sent to each other on google drive. We at this point are really stuck.

[plush yew]

ill try thanks

thats unreal for you buggy

[sullen zodiac]

Hello Where can I find ue4 teacher/mentor?

https://tenor.com/view/travolta-teacher-lost-confused-pulp-fiction-gif-5411279

[vapid spoke]

Hi all,
I get a error message: BUILD ERROR: Missing precompiled manifest for 'EditorWidgets'.
Does anyone knows how to fix this problem?
I find a way but it does not work for me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/d7grqb/build_error_missing_precompiled_manifest_for/

[urban escarp]

How would i go about programming an ai in ue

[calm pollen]

just watch some tutorials, experiment by yourself, and ask any questions you have in here and you'll eventually get it 😁

[grim ore]

@urban escarp using the AI system built in, there are free courses on learn.unrealengine.com and their youtube. behaviour tree is the main system you want to explore

[urban escarp]

ok bet thanks

im programming a fnaf game so im not sure how to make the ai trigger a jumpscare animation

[grim ore]

@vapid spoke out of the box you should have no issue so you need to figure out which plugin or module is causing this

@urban escarp your ai would do whatever based on whatever triggers it.

[knotty heron]

Can an animation montage be too short to be blended in correctly?

[grim ore]

I would assume it could be based on your blending settings

I know I have had triggers miss on a montage if it was too far at the end on a blending looping montage

[knotty heron]

Yeah I think so but how would i change them

setting up a punching system

oh nevermind you can change them in the montage

[grim ore]

yeah I was going to say in the montage itself but I cant remember how to adjust the time between 2 seperate ones lol

[urban escarp]

how to i edit him to add ai

[grim ore]

watch the tutorials online and read the docs

learn the behaviour tree or just hard code events on what you want them to do

[tardy basin]

Does anyone know how many resources Casts use? Like really low intensity or what? I need to potentially do hundreds of casts in one frame for determining which gun I have equipped, as I will eventually have hundreds of guns

Basically I'm asking if it's safe to do a ton of casts and expect an extremely low procroessing time

[grim ore]

so...

first thing is if you have to do that, you might want to think about doing that

they are not very heavy, but your logic is flawed

[tardy basin]

How so

[grim ore]

why are you having to cast that many times is the question

then you learn about how inheritence works and interfaces

then you say why the hell was i trying to cast so many times

and problem solved

[tardy basin]

I'm sure there is an easier way to do this, but basically I need to get a reference to the current equipped gun, and casting to my gun parent actor, which every gun is a child of, is yeilding an error

[grim ore]

so it sounds like you have the inheritence part, the parent->child stuff

if they are all childs of a parent, then casting to the parent should be fine

[tardy basin]

That's what I thought would be the case as well, but even though the cast is considered successful, trying to do anything with it yields errors

[grim ore]

welp sounds like you need to debug whats going on and what you are trying to do. so what are you trying to do

[autumn grail]

Someone here is using the FBX exporter of BLENDER?

It makes my animations 100 times smaller

[grim ore]

yep change the scale on import, or adjust the output scale

[autumn grail]

I can't, because it says the bone is too small for creating physics asets

[grim ore]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/content-creation/2006-how-to-get-correct-scale-from-blender

fix it in blender then so its the correct scale

[autumn grail]

ty

[grim ore]

https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/animation/1658306-blender-imported-animation-is-smaller-than-the-mesh

[tardy basin]

I have a set of four guns, and I've successfully set it up so that scrolling the mouse wheel will move to the next gun. That works perfectly. However, the ammo values reset to defaults any time a return to a previously shot gun. For whatever reason, the stored ammo values are not being re added to the loaded ammo values, because the gun parent cast is not working

[grim ore]

show the code and the failure

[tardy basin]

Can I DM you

[grim ore]

and I am assuming the four guns are all childs of the parent gun class, and the ammo is a variable in the parent?

you can DM me but I dont have it on so it wont help

[tardy basin]

Correct

[tardy basin]

Don't have what on

[grim ore]

private messages

[tardy basin]

Oh I guess I'll send it here then

[grim ore]

well neither of those have to do with casting

[tardy basin]

essentially the error is from calling a varible to be changed with an invalid parent

because the cast returned an invalid value

[grim ore]

well are you connected to the cast failed or success output on the cast?

[tardy basin]

the blue lines are coming from a cast to the gun parent, abd i know the cast is successful

because there is a huge amount of script after the success node

[grim ore]

then the cast didnt return an invalid value if its success

[tardy basin]

thats what I thought would be the case

[grim ore]

so that says you have 8 child actors?

but you should have 4 guns

[tardy basin]

I have many guns, but 4 can be equipped at onces

based on their type

the blue node here going into the idValid is from the successful cast

isValid says its not valid

[autumn grail]

Its not working i'm becoming mad 🤯

[grim ore]

ok you need to start debugging probably

[tardy basin]

worming

[grim ore]

as a basic overview, you have a child actor existing in the world for each "weapon" the player has?

[tardy basin]

just one child actor exists in the world at any time'

but one should be enough for a successful parent cast, no?

[grim ore]

not trying to deduce that, your errors above show more than 1 child actor

[mellow turret]

is there a way to make a console command persist until I turn it off? I have to turn it on every time I PIE

[grim ore]

@mellow turret add an execute console command to your level blueprint on begin play to run that command for you

[tardy basin]

idk why thats the case, the player character has a gun with a child actor class and swapping just changes which child actor its set to

gun component*

[grim ore]

well thats what you need to figure out, thats probably part of the problem

so the player has just 1 child actor that you have on it at design time, and you never add any more?

[tardy basin]

correct

i only switch which gun actor is being used, i never add more

[grim ore]

how are you switching which gun actor is being used if you only have one?

[tardy basin]

wdym

i have many

heres the script

the set child actor class nodes

this works fine

[grim ore]

ok so your just changing the class, gotcha

[tardy basin]

yep

its so weird that the cast is marked successful yet gives me invalid actions

[grim ore]

well your cast is before your changing your class in the actor right?

I would guess its invalidating your previous reference since its not valid anymore

[tardy basin]

Oh yeah that's probably it

Im gonna try that

[grim ore]

this is where debugging can come in handy. you can breakpoint after the cast so you can see what is in GUN then breakpoint after your set child actor class so you can see what is in there afterwards

so you can see what is going into your set ammo nodes (the input target) and trace it back to when it goes bad

and it makes sense on why its going back to defaults since you never get to the "set to what it should be" part after you swap to the stored class (which uses its defaults)

[tardy basin]

I'll be back later, thanks for the help I believe it's going to work

[jaunty cedar]

I have a widget that opens a door. The door opening works over the network normally, but the widget can't make it happen. Which naturally makes sense because widgets don't replicate, so I changed it so that it calls an event on a replicated actor, that then checks for auth and calls an event in the server that multicasts. However this isn't working at all and that call isn't being made. Any way to get this working?

I just need the door to fling open for all players when the user does something on the widget.

[urban escarp]

im trying to move only a specific bone here

and the tutorials im looking at dont tell me how to freeze the rest of the bones into place

[grim ore]

@jaunty cedar widget on local player. local player does call to run on server, run on server runs on server and runs multicast event so everyone else gets it.

how are you doing the run on server and run multicast parts?

@urban escarp where are you trying to move that bone at? what part of the editor. and why are you trying to move it

[whole trout]

Is data structures and algorithms needed or useful for getting into ue ?

[grim ore]

depends on what you want to do in UE

[whole trout]

?

I want be a game programmer

[grim ore]

then yes you should learn them

[whole trout]

Before ue?

[jaunty cedar]

create widget from trigger, local player as owning player -> widget calls DoorResult on trigger when needed -> DoorResult checks auth, if auth calls DoorResult_Multicast, if not calls DoorResult_Server which then calls DoorResult_Multicast

[grim ore]

probably, depends on what you mean and such. its like learning math, you can learn it before or during as you need it. its helpful to know

@jaunty cedar so then when you press it, does it call the multicast from the client or the run on server version?

[jaunty cedar]

it calls the run on server, but then it never actually executes

[grim ore]

the run on server event or the door opening?

[jaunty cedar]

the run on server event

[grim ore]

and how do you verify that?

[jaunty cedar]

a bunch of prints lol

tis game jam quality debugging

[grim ore]

and does this item exist on the server?

where the code is being ran

[jaunty cedar]

the door trigger indeed does, and so does the door

[urban escarp]

nevermind im giving up

i spent an hour trying to make an animation from scratch and cant fucking edit it per frame

idk what im doing and tutorials show how to edit animations

not make them from scratch

[grim ore]

well thats not part of unreal engine is why

[jaunty cedar]

ohhh wait, okay, so now the door is basically non physical after it does it on server, so it looks like it is running since I can walk through it, but it just isn't making it to the clients as that change isn't showing up for the players. still weird that i'm not getting a Server: Opened in the corner with that print string

[grim ore]

@jaunty cedar that is super weird, I know its an odd test but have you tried just triggering it manually to see if it works? the same code basically in the player just to make sure the logic is right and its getting called on the server. this could eliminate the code as the issue

[urban escarp]

how the fuck am i supposed to make a new animation then

[grim ore]

you use the proper software for it, maya or blender or max or etc...

the same way anyone would normally make an animation

@jaunty cedar yeah that is super weird. do other print strings show up for the server?

[jaunty cedar]

yeah

[urban escarp]

great..

[grim ore]

I would have tried that as well with print strings lol

@urban escarp what did you expect to do? add something to the engine and be able to rig it? if so do the same thing in blender

[jaunty cedar]

nvm it was a fluke, i can no longer walk through the door on success

it's just not running on the server

[grim ore]

can you get that item to print anything on the server? even just like a begin play or a simple player tells it to

[jaunty cedar]

yeah

if i call something from begin play on the server then it works

and if i call the event for the door from beginplay

it works too

so it isn't the code on that end

[grim ore]

so are you sure this item exists at that point on the server?

[jaunty cedar]

yeah, if it exists at the start there's no reason it would be removed, there's nothing that destroys it etc

[grim ore]

well you say that but... ya know...

[jaunty cedar]

hold on

[grim ore]

can you get it to like print out when you enter the trigger area since thats what it is right?

[jaunty cedar]

the door opening replicated stuff works perfectly fine at that point

[timid spade]

is chaos destruction in ue4 similar to r6s?

[jaunty cedar]

it is just calling from widget that is giving me grief, but it's not like i'm directly calling the rpc from the widget or something

i'm calling the non replicated event which then calls the replicated ones, which works everywhere else

[jaunty cedar]

nah it gives you the tools to make that yourself more easily though

[timid spade]

How hard would it be

[calm pollen]

hey my touch screen just.. stopped working, i didnt change any code at all, it just doesnt read me mouse as an input and takes the cursor away, does anyone know whats going on?

[timid spade]

to build upon chaos

id have to touch into c++, correct?

[grim ore]

I would assume so yes, to expose anything to the editor atleast

[calm pollen]

the mouse still works for menus though wtf

[jaunty cedar]

so

hmm

trying to think of an appropriate workaround

[grim ore]

so the widget button press is calling what?

[grim ore]

well this is always called on the client so I wouldnt think you need the switch has at all

but the widget tells the trigger, which should be on the server, to run the command and its just not doing that part?

[jaunty cedar]

yeah

if i call it from the trigger itself it works

[grim ore]

but if you directly run that same command, the simonresult_s it works

[jaunty cedar]

yeah

also the trigger var is just passed from the trigger as self when the widget is created

like this, if it matters

[grim ore]

and SimonResult does get called on the client?

[jaunty cedar]

yep

[grim ore]

which print string comes after that? the MC or the SRV

[jaunty cedar]

i get "gonna srv", but never "simon server"

my output basically looks like
Client 3: Simon Client
Client 3: Gonna SRV
and then nothing else

but if i run it directly from the trigger itself I get the full list as expected through the server then through all clients in multicast

[grim ore]

how do you run it from the trigger?

[jaunty cedar]

just by calling simonresult

like i just throw a call to simonresult after adding it to the screen to test

[grim ore]

yeah but how. like on being play or a delay or your player calling it?

[jaunty cedar]

the player overlaps the trigger, the trigger creates the widget and then calls simonresult

in that order

[grim ore]

so the trigger is calling it in that case, gotcha... so weird

but if the trigger calls the exact same function but with the widget starting it, it fails

[jaunty cedar]

yeah

[grim ore]

and its the correct, client calling it and everything, not the server by accident

hmm

[jaunty cedar]

even stranger

i tried setting a variable called succeeded in my widget, then retrieving that after a few seconds on the trigger, then calling the simonresult if true

it recognizes it is true and does the other related action (plays audio cue)

but simonresult does not work

even if not passing in that value

[grim ore]

so the trigger -> widget, then the widget calling back to the trigger?

[jaunty cedar]

that's the normal way it is done, right

but if i flip it around

trigger creates widget -> trigger waits 12 seconds -> if widget has success value set true, run simonresult it still fails regardless

it always retrieves false, even if i set it to true regardless and let it sit

it cannot access the widget regardless

[grim ore]

so on your create widget code, you are restricting it to overlapping client only to create the widget right?

[jaunty cedar]

i get the controller of the pawn that touched the trigger, and use it as theowning player when i create the widget

[grim ore]

yes but thats being run on the server so it creates a widget for each client unless you run that code only on client

[jaunty cedar]

i know the widget doesn't show up for anyone else & that doesn't change whether the trigger is replicated or not

[grim ore]

no but you said your having an issue with that trigger the code is being called on finding the widget later?

[jaunty cedar]

ah yeah

right

[grim ore]

so as a trial, dont hook up the owning player on the create widget part and see what happens

[jaunty cedar]

no change

god damn i am getting very good at simon says from testing this repeatedly

okay

so i can get those functions to run now but that value is still always false

[grim ore]

yepo I can replicate it, and I understand why its not working but I dont understand why

[jaunty cedar]

i got the server to get to "gonna mc" but then it doesn't actually get to multicast anything

lmfao wtf is going on

[grim ore]

well the run on server only gets called if its the owning client calling it and I think thats the issue (but I dont know why its the issue)

debugging it is alls showing on the 2nd client as expected when testing, and breakpoints all work as expected it just fails on that part and i didnt want to break out visual studio to find out why lol

[jaunty cedar]

yeah like

i got it all working but that value is perma false regardless of what client is the owner etc

like

i have checked my code that value starts true and there is never any condition in which it can be false

[grim ore]

actually I see whats going on now but i dont now why and i dont know how to fix it

[jaunty cedar]

what is it?

alright i'm just gonna scrap this at this point and replace it with a static progress bar that the player has to wait for

this is a game jam and its over in 2 days and i don't even have menus or a connection screen or a finished level so imma just cut my losses and go

[grim ore]

"No owning connection for actor" is the issue in the output log

and after reading up on it, it makes sense

your trigger exists in the scene at design time right?

[jaunty cedar]

WAIT

yeah

hang on

cant i just

since it all runs on the server

[grim ore]

yep so your trigger cant call the code since it has no owner on the network

[jaunty cedar]

cant i just

call a run on server event when it overlaps

that sets the owner

to the player controller that touched it

[grim ore]

that was what I was going to be trying next lol

apparently most of this code should be running thru the player controller is the issue which i dunno its weird

yep

[jaunty cedar]

can i just do some shit like this

[grim ore]

that pretty much what I did on the overlap

and that lets client 2 overlap, only create the widget on his side, and then the button calls back to the trigger, and does the server call

without the set owner I get

which is what you ran into, the server call never gets called. so yeah setting an owner "works" but i dunno if thats the right answer lol

now with that said, 2 clients could both trigger the button seperately so... maybe

no... so only one of them can be the owner, after setting it the other client loses access to calling the event since its not the owner as expected

[jaunty cedar]

hang on

can i see your bp?

[grim ore]

"Any network traffic must go through an owning connection which is usually attached to a player controller.
Actors that aren't owned by any player just cannot send/receive network data."

is the key here

thats the blueprint trigger

I wonder what the proper way to do this would be lol

I guess for most of these it wont be an issue since the server would be running most of the code anyways on whatever happened

yep that makes sense, your just tryin to give life to something on the client side only is the issue that the server owns

[jaunty cedar]

TYSM man

it works now

[grim ore]

I guess maybe if you released ownership after handling this event it would be fine

[jaunty cedar]

i mean this is an event which literally can only happen once

[grim ore]

man this was a good problem, I dont know the proper way of handling this (maybe we did it?)

yep then in your case your good

[winged notch]

i'm trying to optimize my textures by channel packing and need to know for surface materials can you pack the X Y to RG and add Roughness to B and Metallic to A and still get proper normal mapping

[grim ore]

any action that I have done before has always come from the server handling it or the client handling it with something they did so this never came up

@winged notch better off asking in #graphics if you dont get a hit in here

[winged notch]

ok thanks

[grim ore]

I would assume you could? what would you be plugging into your base color for that material

your not plugging in RGB so you have to do something to get the B channel into the base color

[winged notch]

for color just a albedo map with RGB

[grim ore]

oh your saying can you use that as the normal map, the RG only?

[winged notch]

i tried to just add the RG with the add node and add blue with a 3 vector but normal mapping shows up weird

[grim ore]

ah ok so the issue is you dont add, you append

[winged notch]

ok giving it a try whey is that

[grim ore]

append is just the right now to add channels together

you can see the original on the left, then appending the R and G gets a result, then appending a 1 to the B gets me the same result as the original normal

https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/rendering/1408145-using-red-and-green-channels-as-normal-map-and-using-blue-as-mask

also there is apparently a node built in to do it for you as well (find the B/Z of the Normal with just RG) that I would assume works better than appeninding a flat value

man today has been nothing but learning new stuff

[winged notch]

it still cums out weird

[rancid lynx]

when i put this actor in the world, no cubes spawn, am i doing something wrong? the construction script shows one cube in the preview window, but not 100.

[winged notch]

sending screenshot

[grim ore]

maybe its your source channels then. you can see above that a normal with just the RG and a fake B worked

well what is the X of your actor in the world? if its 0 then your going to get something weird

[rancid lynx]

lmao X_x

yea

[grim ore]

Im guessing you want to get that X and Add your value from above (offset?)

[rancid lynx]

well , i place the actor not at 0 0 0 , in the map

each new block, offset by 75 yeA

[grim ore]

yeah add not multiply then

was gonna suggest they were just far off as the 2nd guess but the multiply by 0 would be an issue as well

[rancid lynx]

well, the actor isnt placed at zero zero zero, , for a moment i thought maybe it was, because the viewport showed the first block at zerozerozero

inside the blueprint

1 x 75 and 2x75 should be ok with multiplication i think right ?

i see one in the blueprint vluewport, but zero in the game world,

[grim ore]

well your taking that first number (say 75) then multiplying it by 100 or 200 or 173746565

thats HUGE

you want the first number, your offset (75 150 225 etc) added to your X

[rancid lynx]

i want the 5th block to be 5x75 off, this is just a performance tester

[grim ore]

yep your top is fine, the bottom from the objects X should be a simple add

[rancid lynx]

ok ty.

i never see a second block in the preview window. only 1 block

oh THAT X. now i understand.

thanks

too many X's on my screen. i missed that one

[grim ore]

ahhh

[winged notch]

I got it working thanks

[grim ore]

yay!

[rancid lynx]

me also . two quick fixes for Mat !

ok, the 100 blocks show up in the blueprint viewport, but not during gameplay? why would that be ?

"get location on self" should take in the location for where ever the actor is placed i guess

[grim ore]

yep it should

so is the add instance input in world or local space

if its in local that would make sense on why its wrong, you might just not need the left part

0 for y and z and just your offset (1x75, 2x75, etc) for the X

[rancid lynx]

correct. blueprint was adding worldspace to the local.

what the hell is that ? when the game loads, all 2000 blocks show correctly. after flying up the walls, blocks toggle invis and never return from any angle

sorry nevermind, its probably the floiage swap blueprint.

[tardy basin]

@grim ore The code works! thanks for the input

[dim arch]

is there a console command to disable/hide all debug nodes (linetraces etc)

[plush yew]

hi guys

when i change light

rotation

decals still same

nothing happenes

why ?

[cerulean sorrel]

I don’t understand blueprints I really don’t understand the logic of when to use what rip I will delete unreal unfortunately

[inner cloak]

Does anyone know how to fix the following issue ?

OMG .. found it

Grrr that file is locked

[manic aurora]

Has anyone run into an issue when trying to package a game of, ERROR: Unable to find target 'UE4Game' ?

running into it after I upgraded from 4.25 to 4.26

[inner cloak]

You have a copy of your 4.25 version ?

[manic aurora]

Unfortunately I don't, I had kept a copy of it and tested it for everything but packaging then thought oh this works and tossed it

Everything works if I migrate all the data to a new project, but that's a suboptimal solution with having to also move around version control

[inner cloak]

I'm not sure what you could do unfortunately, sorry

[manic aurora]

That's okay, thanks anyway! I posted this to the answerhub in hopes that a dev will see it there

[ivory stag]

Does anybody know if there is a way to put the real world in unreal engine?

I mean the complete planet not only a pear of brackets

[leaden dust]

using empty timelines in a sequence for the update pins safe?

[winged crypt]

@leaden dust pretty sure it would just fire off once if it's empty, why do you need empty timelines though?

[leaden dust]

I want them for the update pins

which works as a portable event tick

[inner cloak]

Looks like i lost 3 days work because of a lock file or something like that

[wary wave]

....or you could just use tick

[viral rivet]

Anyone had Problems With the automotive material pack and skeletal mesh ?

[gloomy kindle]

Have any of you guys here done procedural level generation via blueprints? how possible it is to do it without C++?

[wary wave]

a) Yes.
b) I think it really depends on what you're trying to achieve because there's a bajillion-and-five different ways to handle 'procedural level generation'

[sage perch]

Hi all. I just did this on the concole command as I was having problem with floating rocks with ProcuduralFoliage on 4.26.1 these cmd
removelandscapexyoffsets" and "grass.flushcache BUT NOW MY whole scene is slow as can be!! can reset this!!?

[gloomy kindle]

@wary wave Nothing complex as in minecraft - but more like room-based procedural generation, where rooms are handmade but content in them (enemy spawns, loot) are procedurally generated, then map is procedurally generated by these rooms attached to eachother, pretty much like ziggurat. I don't want to start working on it just to find out i have to learn C++ to finish it. Currently just making a To-Do list for my game and deciding on features and which would be possible by the blueprints alone.

[gilded lichen]

Hello, whats the best way to search for a key when making an input?

I cant remember if I did it before?

[gloomy kindle]

why not click that keyboard thingy to the left and press the key?

[gilded lichen]

??? What do you mean?

Like that

[gloomy kindle]

You want to search for the key u want to assign for equip/unequio right?!

[gilded lichen]

if so I do this, but I thought there was a way to do it easier

[gloomy kindle]

click on this and press the key

[plush yew]

yo

how do i add lua to my plug in code

[honest vale]

wat

[sterile tulip]

If you type ,,R Key,, it should show up I think @gilded lichen

[fresh plover]

is there a way to make the light more darker? it.s hurting my eyes

looks to bright

[broken heath]

@fresh plover bluelight filter

Im kidding ,yes theres couple of ways , one of which is setting the skylight intensity to lower values

[dense knoll]

Was there any major API changes to UE4.26 that would break a4.25 project if not able to be converted?

[tough solar]

Yes. And you right, the wording is pretty poor. We need people who have never tried Rider before.

[lament urchin]

Hello there, I have been having a major issue when opening an unreal engine project where it tells me that 'the following modules are missing. Would you like to rebuild them?' and if I press yes, it says 'compile failed. Please try to recompile from source'. However when I rebuild or compile the code from vs, it shows the same dialog bar. None of the help on online forums have been helping me and it is quite an important project. Thanks in advance

[zealous magnet]

Anyone ever had this?

Super annoying

[dense knoll]

UE4 Deletes your assets?

[zealous magnet]

Thankfully not

But the content browser is just bugged and empty like this

Does not even show folders

[elder moat]

does anybody know how to do knockback? eg when a character is hit or shot they move backwards slightly? I've tried using add force but that doesn't work.

[lament urchin]

AddImpulseAtLocation?

[elder moat]

I'll give this a go

[plush yew]

how do you disable ue4 notifications 4.26.0

[dense knoll]

I cant port my project over to UE4.26 for some reason

[lament urchin]

Hello there, I have been having a major issue when opening an unreal engine project where it tells me that 'the following modules are missing. Would you like to rebuild them?' and if I press yes, it says 'compile failed. Please try to recompile from source'. However when I rebuild or compile the code from vs, it shows the same dialog bar. None of the help on online forums have been helping me and it is quite an important project. Thanks in advance

[celest merlin]

What module does it say is missing?

[lament urchin]

It just says the name of my project

[celest merlin]

Maybe its a module you aree trying to use but are not including in the build?

If you added something recently, google it and see if you had to add that module

[lament urchin]

It was working perfectly fine for some reason this morning, but now it's not

Could it be a plugin I need to uninstall and reinstall?

[plush yew]

that's usually why i would see that type of error is from plugins

[lament urchin]

I have just removed the plugins from the launcher but it still hasn't worked :c

Any other ideas?

[tawdry python]

Awh 😢

[fringe pivot]

@zealous magnet you probably have an active filter, or that folder is actually empty

[sonic cliff]

Hi i would like to know how in this video of quixel he render a 240 frames shot in seconds... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iQJkSpOoOQ&ab_channel=Quixel

[stiff verge]

here's the same alembic model.. in blender and in ue.. why is the ue version all broken?

[sonic cliff]

I cannot get more than 2 frames per minute at 4k

and he do 240 frames at 5k in seconds..

[zealous magnet]

nope and nope

Notice how it's not displaying anything, not even folders in the sidebar. They would show when I have a filter on

[grim ore]

@sonic cliff your assuming that was real time, he probably just cut the video to not waste the viewers time

[sonic cliff]

check at 40:35 it seems like real time

[grim ore]

I have. what makes that seem like real time?

[sonic cliff]

when finish and restore the viewport dont seem like cut. But you probably right

[grim ore]

oh its very much a cut at 41:01

[sonic cliff]

yes at 41 yes

ok so that is

😆

[sonic cliff]

Remember this topic? Left is in movie render queue, Right is in sequencer render. Why leaves are disappearing??? is happenning in all shots. Only in movie render queue.

[woven urchin]

Hi everyone

[sonic cliff]

So i solved it deactivating Use LODZero in the games override setting in movie render queue

how it is possible?

[woven urchin]

I am tryong to gather informations about using unreal engine for game cinematic studio

does anyone have expiriance in this?

[sonic cliff]

i am doin cinematics

[woven urchin]

we talk to many time about that game engine based studios in future will win over Arnold render based studios

especialy after many saw ue5 cinematic

[sonic cliff]

for sure will win over in the future

just for the reason of render time

[woven urchin]

but as i am only one that work in movie and game in past 10 year, and all other in studio are from movie industry, thay are not that wiling to make that change or to thing more than just idea about i

[stiff verge]

yeah I feel good about game engines being used for archviz, animations.. vfx.. but we're still early

[grim ore]

@sonic cliff so unchecking use LOD Zero caused the issue? that is super weird

[woven urchin]

yea, render time, production time in global, cost of making as well (Arnold render farm cost about 50k-100k per month)

[sonic cliff]

Unchecking it SOLVED the issue

[grim ore]

sorry thats what I meant, early here.

[sonic cliff]

so is weird telling that use the highest quality LOD cause this issue

[woven urchin]

@sonic cliff You work in studio specify for cinematics or you work in game production studio in cinematic department?

[sonic cliff]

(Arnold render farm cost about 50k-100k per month)
really??

jeez

[grim ore]

Im, betting its not the lod0 that caused it but one of the other commands. CVarCommandLineArgs += TEXT("r.ForceLOD=0,r.SkeletalMeshLODBias=-10,r.ParticleLODBias=-10,foliage.DitheredLOD=0,foliage.ForceLOD=0");

[sonic cliff]

I am freelance right now

[grim ore]

are what it does under the hood when you check that

and two of those are foliage related

so if you get bored you could try just running those individual commands one at a time and see which caused it

[sonic cliff]

Thank you so much Mathew. i dont really understand any of this commands..

[grim ore]

yep I am trying to see if I can figure it out but I dont have the exact meshes you are using

[sonic cliff]

i can send you one of them

[grim ore]

if you got them from the marketplace you can tell me which ones

[woven urchin]

yea, not only it was expensive to get, but it need lot of expensive software to run. And it is not 1 software, you need licence for many of tham. I dont know exacly what prices are, but i think you get 10 arnold licence per 1 maya, and maya is 120 here, we need about 200 licence, that is 2.4k euro, than simulation cost about 10k in software, i think about 5k for other softwares... But eletricity... It is huge issue. it go so high if you dont use industrial eletric discount, it can go up to 60k...

so, few questions about cinematics. Does thay render only on one machine, or do you need some GPU render farm for final renders?

[sonic cliff]

the trees are from the marketplace from the environment set

[woven urchin]

and also, how does epic charge for UE4 renders. If i remember corectly, UE is free, but thay take percent of selling games that are made in Unreal

does thay have price model for people that do cinematics?

[grim ore]

its in the eula and license agreement

[stiff verge]

@woven urchin i'm curious too

[sonic cliff]

what you mean? (than simulation cost about 10k in software)

[sonic cliff]

i am doin in one machine and it takes 2-3 frames per minute at 4K with 8 samples antialiasing. And my PC is a bit old

[sonic cliff]

i think its also free

[grim ore]

if creating its free license, if publishing its 5% over a certain amount if making a game or interactive experience https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/faq

[civic mauve]

Hey guys, how you all doing? ,Actually, in my small level, i am getting some white flickering, it maybe because of the sky sphere, i noticed, let me send you a video, so that you can understand the problem and thank you

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FZp3BPdV_6NoIANRkS4-Prlt3ThoSVx1/view?usp=sharing

in this video you can see when i go through the door, there are some white flickering going on, and you can also notice that flickering in the side walls
and at first when i tries removing all the point lights, it still flickers. but then i removed the sky sphere, sky light and everything related to the sky and it got fixed but when i added that sky light and sky again, it starts to flicker again.
Please help me out.

[grim ore]

@civic mauve that would be one of the cullings doing that. basically nothing is there due to nothing being drawn due to it beind not visible. once you move quickly the renderer has to catch up. its a thing in almost all games unless you change some settings or prep your scene against it.

@sonic cliff so after testing its the dithered lod setting that is breaking it and I found a "fix" for it. IF you break dithered lod by setting it to -1 in your project before rendering you should be able to use that option (it just forces all of your models to be the highest quality at all times)

alternately you could use those as custom commands in the render queue and just not put in the dithered lod call